User talk:Queenmomcat/Archive 2

Nice edit summary
Is it dinner time? ChildofMidnight (talk) 01:04, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It is now! (my husband reassures me that dinner will be in about 10 minutes) Glad you were amused. Queenmomcat (talk) 02:18, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

The Magician's Nephew
Hello there, good of you to do some copy editing on the above article which is of great value to increasing its caliber. I think however, it might be worth revisiting the edits made to produce the following paragraph, even if just as an exercise:

"It frequently makes use of humour; this perhaps reflects the sense of looking back at an earlier part of the century with affection, and Lewis as a middle aged man recalling his childhood during the time when the book is set. Humorous exchanges also take place between Narnian animals."

This would be perfect, but it looses the detail about the good old days and school, which is implicit in your edit, but pretty much explicit in the actual book and rather more so in the published reference the passage is based on. Have a look here and see if you agree:

http://books.google.com/books?id=xKETrdJdz6IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=C.+S.+Lewis+in+Context&as_brr=3#PPA174,M1

It might seem a little like splitting hairs to pursue this, but I see you are doing a lot of copy editing, and I think this is a valuable exercise for a copy editor on Wikipedia to undertake, even if you decide to leave your edit as is in the final analysis. Mesmacat (talk) 08:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Better? Queenmomcat (talk) 13:31, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you Mesmacat (talk) 14:43, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Pkharmat issue
Dear Queenmomcat, Thank you heartily for you edits on Pkharmat page. I just want to inform you that there is a little mistake maybe. Maybe its done by the reason of low quality of old text. Anyway, Turpal is a free being as you know, in your edit you mentioned that Pkharmat captured it. Maybe I misunderstand because I'm not good on english, if "Pkharmat captured Turpal" means that after this Turpal lost its freedom than we have a mistake. Turpal came on his own will to help Pkharmat and was free after this event however Pkharmat was banished for his disobidience by god of thunders Sela. Of course a horse cant decide to help someone but it's a legend. I dont know how to edit it in true way, I would be so happy if you help me. Sincerely Nakh 04:28, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for letting me know of my error--I'll try to correct it now; I'll be away from a computer for a few days, but let me know if I get it right. Did Turpal allow Pkharmat to ride it? Queenmomcat (talk) 12:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

reverted the use of pled back to pleaded
I reverted you change of pleaded to pled in List of Bosnian genocide prosecutions. I had never seen pled before! But on looking it up in an online dictionary it seems that it is a US and Scottish term. So I think it should remain as "pleaded" (National verities of English). -- PBS (talk) 10:22, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * US and Scottish? That's interesting. (Really!) Thank you for letting me know, in any case; I think you're right that either one is correct.

Proposed deletion of Living in Conflict and Knowledge Based Healthcare Delivery


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 * Appears to violate WP:SYNTHESIS and WP:NPOV.

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Copyedit Backlog Elimination Drive
Hi, as a member of the Guild of Copy Editors you're hereby notified of and invited to participate in the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2010. Please help us eliminate the 8,000+ copyedit backlog! Participating editors will receive barnstars and other awards, according to their level of participation. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 00:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll see what I can do. Queenmomcat (talk) 00:51, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Grab some glory, and a barnstar
Hi, I'd like to invite you to participate in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. In May, about 30 editors helped remove the tag from 1175 articles. The backlog is still over 7500 articles, and extends back to the beginning of 2008! We really need your help to reduce it. Copyediting just a couple articles can qualify you for a barnstar. Serious copyeditors can win prestigious and exclusive rewards. See the event page for more information. And thanks for your consideration. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 15:17, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * ...again, I'll see what I can do, and keep an eye on the copyeditors page for appropriate information.

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up
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ZBS Media
Hi Queenmomcat - this is my first attempt at 'talk' so hope I've done it right :) Always glad to meet another Jack Flanders fan :) I plan on adding quite a lot of Jack content over the coming weeks in a fairly incremental and haphazard fashion - feel free to let me know if I'm making mistakes. Thanks :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grokuk (talk • contribs) 13:54, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * So far so good; I'm never sure whether it's better to reply where the comment was made or over on the other person's page, myself. I'm watching a lot of the ZBS pages, and thinking of writing something for Saratoga Springs.

Nawang Gombu
I noticed you touched this article doing some "copyediting" but you're not signed up for the drive. Are you interested in working on that article, or collaborating on the copyedit? -Paulmnguyen (talk) 00:49, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ...er, sure I'll officially sign up now. And I wouldn't mind collaborating on the article specifically; is there anything in particular I can do? as you may notice from my 'contributions' page, I tend to make one or two edits to an article then move on. Queenmomcat (talk) 16:30, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds great! Except macwhiz dropped a gocereviewed tag on it because of BLP sourcing issues on this article.
 * For me, I usually dive into a slow read of the article, tossing in commas or fixing comma splices and changing things to active voice. If there is major work to do rewriting it, I'll take a step back from the copyediting and fix those things and then go back. The problem is that by that point, I've gotten too close to the content to be able to focus on the mechanics alone, so it takes another pair of eyes (at least) to polish it up. Of course, that process could work the other way around. :)
 * Also, I was just thinking - maybe you could target those pages with the copyedit-section tag - the section in need of work is likely short and your brief attention might actually complete all that the article needs, in terms of stylistic or mechanical corrections. Just a thought...
 * Finally, a quick glance through some copyeditors' user pages indicates that there are at least a handful of librarians interested in this sort of work on Wikipedia - that's pretty cool, but I'm curious - how did you get started or what motivates you to continue helping out?
 * -Paulmnguyen (talk) 00:25, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * (shrugs) So I move on to the myriad other articles that need work, and come back if/when the tag's removed. Thank you for the advice; I do see a lot of articles that I think need work (tagged thus or not) and have always been shy about just diving in and correcting them. (It took me two years before writing my own first article.) Why did I start? probably for much the same reason that the other librarians did: I looked something up for a patron, and the article was riddled with typographical and grammatical errors; I thought "I could do better than that!"

Wow
Wow. That's amazing! 97.60% of edits to article and having over 10,000 edits? That's dedication to improving articles! ;) Derild  49  21  ☼  23:48, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * (amused, ironic) Why, thank you! A lot of them are fairly noncontroversial minor typo corrections--hardly anyone ever notices those, so I fly under most editors' radar. Saves me from a lot of wankfests and edit wars. Queenmomcat (talk) 23:57, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

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Images on Amb (princely state)
Dear Queenmomcat, thank you for correcting spelling mistakes on Amb (princely state) page. The problem with your edits is that, now the images cannot be viewed because you changed the file name of 3 images. I know they contain spelling mistakes but the files were uploaded that way, think of way to correct the spellings and view the images as well. For now kindly revert your changes regarding those three images, which cannot be viewed. Other than that, job well done. cheers!Wikitanoli (talk) 23:09, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh dear! I do apologize--I've been avoiding "spell checking" image names for that very reason--but thank you for letting me know. Did you change it back, or would you like me to do so? Queenmomcat (talk) 23:53, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Premature copyedit template removal
Thanks for all your copyediting work. Unfortunately, an article from which you recently removed the "copyedit" template — Mahwelereng — still had a good number of spelling and grammatical errors remaining after your visit, enough that I think your removal of the "copyedit" template was rather hasty. There's absolutely no problem in doing partial/quick copyedits, of course! But if you remove the copyedit template, please first be quite thorough in your inspection of the article and do make sure the need for copyediting has been largely taken care of. Thanks! In this case, I restored the template and did some follow-up edits of my own. Again, thanks for all your hard work. Just wanted to encourage you to be a little more thorough or else leave the template removal for future editors who can double-check your work. AtticusX (talk) 13:06, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the additional copyedits at Mahwelereng. Well done. AtticusX (talk) 20:20, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Phew; thank you for coming back to reassure me. You were absolutely correct, though--it was nowhere near done.

Raj Thackeray
Hello,

Thank you for your edit to this article. The article still needs a lot of restructuring work (for example, most of the article is in one section about controversies/agitations) but you seem to have addressed most of the CE issues. I'll try to find time to work on this.

Cheers, S Pat   talk 05:06, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you; I don't know enough about him to add information (just enough to rearrange for grammatical purposes), or I'd help there.

Glawackus Doubt
Hi, I'm a Spanish user who is editing Glawackus in the Spanish wikipedia.

In the article appears an English expression "when World War II was in the wings", that I can't translate.

I've seen that you has contributed to this article. Could you tell me the date on which the quote has spoken or the translation into Spanish of that expression? Thanks Paladium1 (talk) 09:56, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not a particularly common expression in English either, don't worry there! I don't know when the quote was said/printed, but the figurative meaning of "in the wings" in the quote in Glawackus is "about to happen"; the literal meaning comes from stage productions, during which the performers about to appear on stage would be waiting "in the wings", or just off stage out of sight of the audience. I wouldn't be surprised if there was something similar in Spanish. Does this help?


 * (for which see here: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/waiting+in+the+wings.html)

Queenmomcat (talk) 12:04, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Yeah! helped me a lot. I Had put instead: Ongoing. I have other questions, how do you translate this sentence?: "It [the name] caught on like magic", like: "el nombre capturaba la magia"?, and these verses: "Say did the fearless hunters, Pick up the beastly spoor, While Trekking Through the Jungle, With steps alert and sure?". thanks Paladium1 (talk) 12:02, 12 November 2010 (UTC).
 * In fairness, WWII already was "ongoing" in Europe at the time; U.S. involvement just hadn't begun yet. As for "caught on", it's another colloquial expression, meaning something like "became widely accepted", but that makes for a rather stiff translation. How about "The name appeared, as if by magic."?


 * The doggerel is a bit harder (for me anyway!) to translate; it's in "poetic" rather than standard English--prosaically it means "The brave hunters unhesitatingly trailed the terrifying beast's trail through thickets. Hmm. Let me think about this... Queenmomcat (talk) 12:40, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

November 2010 backlog elimination drive update
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Appreciation
Thank you for your contributions. ResearchRave (talk) 10:41, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
 * (flattered, curious) Thank you; it's always nice to know someone noticed, as I do tend to fly under the radar; what brought me to your attention? Queenmomcat (talk) 13:12, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
 * your work on one of the articles I created. And also your work in general. ResearchRave (talk) 10:09, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Yerida
Thank you for you edits, they were very helpful and did not change the intent of the text. Pini00001 (talk) 19:21, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for letting me know! I'm always glad to hear I've improved the article without impinging on the author's intent. Queenmomcat (talk) 20:13, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Drive – Final push
Greetings GOCE Backlog elimination drive participant, We are now coming up to the last few days of the drive, the last for 2010. Currently, it looks like we will achieve our target for reducing the backlog by 10%, however, we still have huge numbers for 2009. We have 55 participants in this drive. If everyone just clears 2 articles each, we will reduce the backlog by a further 110 articles. If everyone can just do 3 articles, we will hit 165. If you have yet to work on any articles and have rollover words, remember that you do need to copyedit at least a couple of articles in this drive for your previous rollover to be valid for the next drive. There are many very small articles that will take less than 5-10 minutes to copyedit. Use CatScan to find them. Let's all concentrate our firepower on the first three months of 2009 as we approach the end of this final drive for the year. Thank you once again for participating, and see you at the finish line! – SMasters (talk) 04:04, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

You are awesome!
I was following up on some of the articles I tagged last week and noticed that you'd done a bunch of copyedits on them. Thank you so much for your awesome work! --rahaeli (talk) 07:33, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
 * (twists toes in rug shyly) Thank you; I was beginning to feel like King Canute sweeping back the tide, and it's nice to know that someone thought I did it right.

MKA
Merci. Takabeg (talk) 01:12, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * De rien/You're welcome! (It was interesting learning more about one of the great figures in modern Turkish history.) Queenmomcat (talk) 01:17, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Invitation
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 * Thank you for prompting me; (amused) I was wondering how I was going to get my Wikipedia fix until the next Great Copyedit Drive.

GOCE elections
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The December 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive Needs Your Help!
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GOCE Year-end Report
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