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WikiProject Wikify March Mini Drive
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GOCE drive
Hi Gofigure41. Pleased to meet you and thanks for taking part in the drive. Just a couple of things: you'll see that I've amended the format of your section on the drive page. The format we use shows the history of your completed articles and the one you're working on now. I've also supplied the word counts for both BT and micobicides, getting them from the DrPDA tool. I suspect you're using a tool that counts other things like perhaps quotations and references, as your word counts are rather high. I hope that's all right.

I haven't gone through the BT article in deatil, but I did notice a couple of things. Firstly, we don't put a header like "Overview" at the top of the lead section. Secondly, the right way to get those superscripted "citation needed" things is to use the Citation needed template by typing. This is better because it puts the article in categories where it's marked for the right kinds of cleanup. The wiki software does the superscripting automatically.

Last, and I hope you'll forgive me for this too, I've removed the GOCEreviewed tag you put on the talk page of Almogavars. You didn't remove the copy edit from the article itself, actually, so no harm was done, but when we decline to copy edit an article, we're leaving it to fester, so to speak, so we should only do it when the article is not worth copy editing at all at this stage. In my judgement, we could do some good on that one, so we shouldn't set it aside.

I hope this is all right. If you want any of it clarified, or if I can help you in any other way, please let me know. Best regards, --Stfg (talk) 21:52, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Absolutely -- thank you! I am admittedly a newbie and these are all helpful comments.  Sometimes it is hard to find the right template, but I'm learning.   And correct, I could not get the DrPDA tool to work -- any tips on how to get that to work on Windows7?  I left a message for the Wikiproject director asking for help on that but I think she is probably really busy.  Gofigure41 23:03, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * She has replied, actually. (Dianna replies on her own talk page, so when you leave a message there you need to watchlist it so as to see the reply). Anyway, what you need to do is replace the line currently in your vector.js with the following text, and then refresh your cache:

importScript('User:Dr_pda/prosesize.js'); //User:Dr_pda/prosesize.js


 * That ought to do it, but if not, let me know and I'll have another look. Best, --Stfg (talk) 23:28, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Got it! Brilliant.  Thanks so much!!
 * Excellent! Glad to be of help. --Stfg (talk) 19:27, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Potential problem on Microbicides article
Hi again. Unfortunately, because you're editing it in your own user space, someone took the GOCEinuse off the article after a day, and now User:Miniapolis has started on it too. I'm going to put a note on their page too, and leave you to agree what you wanna do. Best, --Stfg (talk) 19:35, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi! Please continue copyediting the microbicides article; I didn't know anyone was working on it. Have fun and all the best,  Miniapolis  ( talk ) 20:46, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Miniapolis. Actually, Gofigure41, I see you're working busily on Almagovars at present, so I've asked Miniapolis to take over the Microbicides, if you wouldn't mind. I will start a new section in a few minutes, because there's a problem with cutting and pasting between your space and mainspace like this. --Stfg (talk) 21:15, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Your modus operandi
Hello Gofigure41. There is a problem when you put a GOCEinuse tag on an article, then copy it into your userspace to work on there, presumably planning to copy the result back to mainspace. Inuse tags are only supposed to be left on an article for at most a few hours unless the page concerned is being actively worked on. When you work in your userspace, other editors and bots won't be aware of that and may remove the inuse tag, as happened with the Microbicides. Then other editors may edit again, and when you paste your work back to mainspace, you'll overwrite theirs.

In fact you already have this problem in a very small way at Almogavars. In the history, you can see that, two days ago, an IP editor went into the mainspace version of the article and added some information about the word in other languages. This isn't in your userspace version.

The work you're doing on Almogavars looks promising to me, so I think you need not hesitate to work in mainspace, section by section. What I believe you need to do now, while the GOCEinuse banner is still present, is to move your work into the mainspace article ASAP. You'll need re-incorporate the work the IP did the other day, but fortunately it's only small and nothing else has been done on the article since you copied it.

I'm watching a film at home this evening but will check back here from time to time in case any assistance is needed. Good luck, --Stfg (talk) 21:41, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the feedback. When I first tackled this page, I was really frustrated with some edits and was afraid I might lose a bunch of the copy.  I'm a bit better now at some of my wiki markup and so will do as you suggest today.  Thanks so much again for your patience.   Gofigure41 17:16, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

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Flint, Michigan
Hi. You asked me about the links to old sports teams. The key page about linking is Manual of Style/Linking and the advice about over- and under-linking is in its section Overlinking and underlinking. Overlinking is the more common problem on Wikipedia, because historically more links were encouraged than are today. Articles about places often have a high level of wikilinking, as each thing of local interest gets its mention. I never worry about this; provided the links aren't vanity or promotional, they do no real harm (in my view; others may disagree). I would leave them linked and wouldn't put citation needed on each one, but you could put at the top of that section if you wanted. By the way, there's no harm in the redlinks -- they might stimulate someone to write the desired article.

As you invited any other comments, I did take a quick look at the diff resulting from your edits, (and thought you did a great job). There is still a little overlinking in the article. Links to words like "household", for example, hardly ever need linking. Some terms, like "poverty line" might need linking from some kinds of article (e.g. about economics of employment), but not here. The criterion for general terms like these is whether the link is going to help anyone understand the article.

I see you've picked up a lot of templates already, but here's another set. Where the article said "Some scholars consider ...", which you amended to "... is considered by some ...", your addition of citation needed was good. Another thing you can do with this kind of thing is to place template Who right after the word "some". Other good templates used in a similar way are which?, when, As of? (N.B. As of is different!) and the more generalized Clarify, which has a very useful "post-text=" parameter. They all take a "date=" parameter. Best, Simon. --Stfg (talk) 15:07, 14 March 2012 (UTC)


 * P.S. I've updated your word count and put your 5k+ article on the leaderboard. The DrPDA word count tool fails to count text in lists and tables -- OK when it's just a list of names and whatnot, but annoying when it's real text deserving copy editing. I just pasted the uncounted text into Word and used its word count tool to get the extra count. --Stfg (talk) 15:29, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

June 2012 Wikification Drive
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July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Wikipedia pages
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My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at the University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Endometriosis. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance. Hydra Rain (talk) 12:37, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

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Edits in broken English
Hi, as someone who has contributed to discussion of the page Almogavars, you might be interested in a discussion that is taking place at Influences on the Spanish language. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 18:47, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

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