User talk:Der Elbenkoenig

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Love Pistols
I like your work on Love Pistols, it really needed your help. --Ettrig (talk) 20:19, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Here's a kitten for no reason at all. (I was just trying out the "WikiLove" feature.)

Vancemiller 23:18, 3 October 2011 (UTC) 
 * Thanks br-u-o-u-o-ēacg Der Elbenkoenig (talk) 14:36, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Hog Island sheep
Regards, SunCreator (talk) 18:16, 22 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Good call on taking the initiative and redirecting Hog Island Sheep. Also good call on contacting the article creator User:Steven Walling. If you get either Steven or User:Dana boomer working with you, they will help tremendously. Both of them helping is like striking gold. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 00:38, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Copy Edits

 * Hog Island Sheep -> Hog Island sheep; the name of an animal breed is not itself a title and shouldn't be capitalized.
 * Talking about a group or collective, like a breed, is tricky when it involves singular and plural verbs, pronouns, etc. For example, "Hog Island sheep are (plural) a breed(singular)..." and you need to make sure that whatever noun is the subject of the sentence agrees with the grammatical number of the associated verb.
 * {http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hog_Island_sheep&diff=460698608&oldid=460365065} Page numbers should be separated by a dash, not a hyphen; when only a year is given, the parameter should be labeled "year" rather than "date"; "important" is not spelled "importent".
 * Alt text needs to describe the image, not just simply restate what it is a picture of in a couple of words.
 * "X did this, doing this..." often sounds better than "X did this, and thus did this..."

Hog Island Sheep GAN
I've taken on the GAN. A couple of minor issues, but this looks pretty good right now. Please note that while I have offered to do a copyedit myself, you should feel free to seek the advice of others, (especially on the issue of dashes, which I see are being talked about already), since I'm not an experienced CE.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  16:37, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Dashes are easily sorted out, I'll look at that now. Malleus Fatuorum 22:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

I have a question. The article says "Lambs are born with spotted or speckled fleece; about 90% of adults' fleece is white and 10% black", but what does that mean? Does it mean that the adult sheep are also spotted or speckled in those percentages, or that 90% of adults have white fleece and 10% have black fleece? The picture seems to show a pretty much black sheep so far as I can tell. Malleus Fatuorum 22:23, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I believe 90% of adults have white fleece, not that 10% of each adult's fleece is black. Does "90% of adults have white fleece and 10% black" work better? Der Elbenkoenig (talk) 03:55, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

PROMOTED - I've closed the GAN as promoted. Congratulations, and kudos to both of you.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  14:24, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

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