User talk:Grahamwest

Sardinian people
Hi Grahamwest, it is nice to meet you. I feel you did a good job with the Sardinian people article. I like the way you split up sentences that were too long and complicated. When it comes to writing encyclopedia articles, it is best to keep sentences simple and prevent them from being overly wordy. When I read through the text, there were a few spelling and punctuation errors that I found. You can see the changes I made to the article here. One thing I would like to point out is the proper use of commas since there were a few sentences with missing commas.

Examples 1: Dependent clauses Here, the phrase "During the Middle Ages" is a dependent clause, which is dependent on the independent clause (that is, the rest of the sentence). If the dependent clause comes before the independent, there should be a comma to separate it. If the dependent clause comes after the rest of the sentence, then none is needed. Example: "The island was divided into four Giudicati during the Middle Ages." No comma is needed when this word order is preferred.
 * "During the Middle Ages , the island was divided into four 'Giudicati'... "

Example 2: commas to separate coordinating conjunctions There should be a comma to separate two independent clauses. Because the second independent clause could be considered its own independent sentence—"There are also minorities."—it deserves a comma to separate it from the first sentence.
 * "The vast majority of the Sardinians are Roman Catholic , but there are also minorities of atheists and agnostics."

If you have any more questions or need me to further clarify things, let me know. Other than that, things look good! I am grateful for your effort in helping us copy edit all these articles! Happy editing! -- Tea with toast  (talk)  02:32, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

GOCEinuse tag
Hi Graham

Can you please ensure you put the tag onto articles you are currently working on - it helps us identify them more quickly :¬)

I have added it for you. Chaosdruid (talk) 00:20, 13 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I've only been putting it on an article when I'm actively working on it. I was away for several days and it felt unfair to the page's normal contributors to have them not touch it for the best part of a week. The template also says to remove the tag if the page hasn't been edited in a few hours. New Apostolic Church is such a big article it's going to take several more sessions to finish. The smaller articles, they only needed done in one session so I just put the tag on, edited the page and removed the tag when done.


 * I understand and have removed the GOCE tag (I also discovered that the template notes recommend removal after 2 hours. That clearly does not cover larger articles like this as the one I did yesterday took 6.5 hours ! lol) - I would not want to step in to edit until you have finished with it :¬)
 * We have nearly cleared the March 2009 articles now so perhaps you could consider removing the "copyedit needed" part, as you are clearly going to go through it again shortly, which will remove it from the backlog pages.
 * Good luck with the next passes - I know how long they can seem when dealing with text like that!
 * Chaosdruid (talk) 00:11, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

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Can you help me to copy-edit Jayne Mansfield? The article has good information, but the copy is horrible. Aditya (talk • contribs) 12:26, 15 January 2012 (UTC)