User talk:J4Editor

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GOCE drive page
Hello J4Editor. Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for joining the GOCE drive. You'll see that I've altered your word count and removed the entry you've put on the leaderboard, as these were incorrect. As it's nearly 01:00 where I live now, I'll wait till the new day before explaining more fully, but please don't worry for now. Only, please would you not edit the leaderboard for the time being, as you have misunderstood how it works. Best, --Stfg (talk) 00:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Good morning! About the word count, I think you might have got the article size in bytes rather than words. The tool you need is the one described in WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives. To get the word count, I used the Dr_PDA tool on the article as it was before your copy edit. As there was some bulleted text there which Dr_PDA didn't take into account, I copied that bit into a word processor and used its word-count tool to get the number of bulleted words and added them in. I've also now put you at the right place on the leaderboard. There's a note about this on the drive talk page, as lots of people had difficulty with the leaderboard last night.


 * Please don't be discouraged by this. You did a great copy edit, and I hope you'll feel like doing more. By the way, when you do, don't forget to remove the "copy edit tag" (the line at the top of the article that reads " "). I've done it for you on the US recession page. If I can help you with any of this stuff, just ask. Best regards, --Stfg (talk) 11:05, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello Stfg. Thanks for the tips, etc. I did attempt - several times, several ways - to get the prosesize tool to work, but still no "Page size" option in my Toolbox area on any page. So I tried the old "copy & paste to a text document and run wordcount" ploy - anyway that's the story. I tried on both Safari & Mozilla, re-cached, etc. Any further hints?

I will try to tackle some more articles. By the way, that article on the Recession was, shall we say, "ambitious yet tortured" might partly describe it. As a noob here, I don't want to sound brash, but the very first sentence in the "Background" section was a ludicrous, quite inaccurate statement. I noticed that the further I went in the article, the more jumbled was the grammar, the structure of argument, and the sense of meaning. But it's FREE, right? That's one reason I did not remove the "copy edit tag" at the top; didn't know if I was qualified to do so. But I shall soldier on, emboldened by your encouragement. Thx! --J4Editor


 * Re the Prose size tool, I'm a little puzzled because there appear to be no files with a name like User:J4Editor/somename.js (where somename is the name of the skin you're using). In the course of trying to set it up, you should have found yourself creating one.


 * Yes, we see a lot of that kind of article here -- you'll find many that are much worse than that. With decent articles, we try to help people "say what they mean and mean what they say", but when articles say silly things in silly ways, of course we try to improve them as they need. You did the right kinds of thing, I thought, and you're certainly qualified to remove those tags when you're as thorough as that. Best, --Stfg (talk) 15:31, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

2007–present recession in the United States [Your copyedit]
I'm currently doing a look-behind on the copyedit you did on this article. Please take this with a heaping tablespoonful of humility: I think you missed a lot. I'm not going to make a big hullabaloo about it right now, but why don't you go back, and read the article a bit more carefully? Things like "Alan Greenspan single-handedly caused the recession."? ......and read even farther down.........there're some pretty wonky statements, many of which are either totally unsourced, grossly prejudicial or just plain non-encyclopedic in nature. Remember: Be bold! Bddmagic (talk) 14:51, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Technically, this is the quote: "He was the person responsible for the housing bubble in the US."...and yes, a statement he had made is sourced just after that sentence.....fine. But there's still no proof offered in the article that Alan Greenspan caused the recession (and, that's a pretty un-encyclopedic remark to make about something so nebulous as causes of a recession). Bddmagic (talk) 14:59, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and, I think I should clarify: I'm a HUGE believer in Assume Good Faith.Bddmagic (talk) 15:40, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Prose size script
Hi, J4Editor, and thank you for your interest in helping out with copy edits. I have taken the liberty of editing your vector.js, and hopefully it will work now. You should see a link in the "toolbox" menu on the left of your screen for page size. You may have to refresh your cache. Hope this helps! Sincerely, -- Dianna (talk) 02:58, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

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