User talk:FeanorStar7/Archive 2

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Hi FeanorStar7, i need your email because i want to know the source of an information in an article of yours... my email is: arecardo@yahoo.com... pls. send me your email, subject: FeanorStar7... please consider this request very important...

Lawrence

HI FeanorStar7, I am not sure how to email you so I use this page. The Roy Gordon Lawrence article, if you check the news articles, they say that in 2004 Lawrecne was 46, so that makes his year of birth 1958 if I did the math right. So I am not used to wikipedia and do not know where it should be added. Perhaps you can do that. keep up the good work! Thanks. WM.

my email is williamo@remax.net

Wilhelm Meyer (aus Speyer) was my great-grandfather. Do you have any further info on him or was it all from the reference book? Thank You, sophrief@yahoo.com

Library, Archives, and Web 2.0 Research Guide Template

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DC Meetup on May 17th

Your help is needed in planning Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4! Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated. The Placebo Effect (talk) 19:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Special Award

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		I hereby award The Special Barnstar to you for your great contributions to the first half of WikiProject Biography Spring 2008 Assessment Drive. Keep doing well in second half of it. :) Solar-Poseidon 22:17, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4

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Wikipedia meetup

As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4.

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Richard of Fournival

I note the "linking" of Jordanus de Nemore to "R de F". I was going to leave that until a page on R de F could be written (it's on my to-do list), unless you want to do it!!. Unfortunately again there is likely to be little more than a stub, since his Biblionomia is about all that survives -- other than the fact that we have been able to identify some of his books which have lasted through to the 21st century. Anyway, thanks for the work on J de N.Ron B. Thomson (talk) 15:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• • Thanks for the heads up. I am often consulting the LC catalogue! Remember me to Frank Mantello. Actually I have on my shelf -- if I ever get to it -- a fair amount on Richard, including a rare facsimile of the Biblionomia published in South Africa, of all places. I'll get to it this summer.Ron B. Thomson (talk) 18:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

DC Meetup

You're welcome; hopefully we'll have a chance to talk more at the next meetup - looking at your user page, it looks like you're doing some interesting things. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 12:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I replied via email

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Bio tags

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AfD nomination of Jerome Lulling

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August DC Meetup

Greetings! We're working out the details about the next DC Meetup sometime this month and would love your opinion. Please check it out at Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 5 and spread the word. Staeiou (talk) 18:17, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Your question about dates in biographies

Thanks for your question on my talk page about dates in the two biographies you mentioned. But I'm afraid I can't help at all -- I myself am equally confused. I've put a few questions on the talk pages of User:Tony1 and User:Lightmouse and they might be able to help out, but I can't. Good luck! Timothy Perper (talk) 14:32, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Cui bono?

Ceteris paribus the use of idem, eadem, ibidem and loco citato is unlikely to aid readers. GraecumLatinum est, non legitur. Regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:47, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Dashes

I'm unclear why you are changing correct endashes to HTML endashes, with your edit summaries of "layout", sample here. This endash – and this endash – result in the same endash (please view in edit mode); it's not necessary to change a correct endash to an HTML endash. See WP:DASH and Dash for more detail. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 08:09, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure you understood. At Ima Hogg, for example, you changed an endash to an endash; no change. Just a real endash was changed to an HTML endash. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 08:22, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

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You're invited...

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Hovhannes Katchaznouni

Hello, I want to merge a section of this article into another bigger that is already made called The ARF Has Nothing To Do Anymore (book). Please could you give advice to the talk page, its controversial content which in my opinion has to be separated from the original biography of the man. --Vitilsky (talk) 11:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Sven Maes

If you can locate a reference for his birth date that would be good, but what we have is not positive. I retrieved the date from another wiki article where there was no reference provided. There is nothing from a reputable source that I can find. This, as it turns out, is why I've got him in the category. E_dog95' ^{Hi '} 11:53, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorting

Cats sort on unaccented version of the names. Rich Farmbrough, 13:14 5 October 2008 (UTC).

adding birth cats

Hi - looks like you've been really busy! Thanks! If you're using this list it would be great if you removed batches you've gone through adding cats to, so that it's clear what's been done. Dsp13 (talk) 20:27, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I'd envisaging removing them all - i.e. those with added birth cats (e.g. 1950 births) and those with year of birth missing (living people) cats, and red links (which are just pages deleted for some reason since March) - so that the only pages left are those which are incompletely categorized.Dsp13 (talk) 10:26, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

If you do want to leave pages you've cateorized as year of birth missing, maybe when you get to the end of a batch you could mark the ones left as having been categorised in this way - e.g. Batch XX 'only year of birth missing (living people) remaining' or whatever - just so people who come to the page will know the status of the different batches there. What do you think? (I've asked the same question to User:EmanWilm, whose also been having a go at these pages & thinks similarly to you on this one) Dsp13 (talk) 23:35, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Johann Friedrich Doles

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Possible DC Meetup

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woodie guthrie piping mistake

Just to let you know I was just reapplying your fix, but you beat me too it :) LeeVJ (talk) 02:02, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Your fix

Thanks for this [1]. My error, LOL. Bearian (talk) 15:24, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Alphabetization and collation

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DC Meetup Events: You're invited!

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Listas Parameter

Last December you replaced the listas parameter of a few talk pages with ">". Why did you do this? I am correcting them but will undo my corrections if there was a good reason for what you did.

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For right now I am just fixing the ones whose listas is between 9 and A. Later I will look at the ones whose listas is after Z. I will leave the other 600,000 to others after there are no articles without the listas parameter.

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Location change (and reservations made) for DC meetup

I stopped by TGI Friday's this evening and was less than impressed. They apparently don't take reservations, except perhaps if you call 24 hours ahead of time. The staff was not so helpful, and the menu has hardly anything vegetarian which is an issue for some people.

So, I checked out the Bertucci's pizza/Italian place across the street (21st & I St NW). Their staff couldn't have been more helpful, and think it will be fairly quiet so we will be able to hear each other. So, reservations are made for Bertucci's at 5pm on Saturday. --Aude (talk) 02:41, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009

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LOC

Good seeing you today at DC7 and catching up, Peter. As per our discussion, LOC on Saturday (June 13) works for my friend Emily and I, and we are very excited to come check out the library. Again --- I greatly appreciate the invitation. We're both looking forward to it! What time works best for you? --rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 01:21, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Sounds great. Let's say noon, at the fountain. Is MZMcBride the mysterious friend :-). Was s(he) at DC7?--rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 03:29, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Re: DC meetup, etc.

Hey there. Great to meet you too. A tour of the Library of Congress sounds great. Let me know the specific details (where to meet, when) sometime this week. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:41, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

blp=no

Hi. Great work in Wikipedia:Uncategorized biographies of living people/BLPPotential. I would like to make only one comment. Instead of tagging with blp0no, just remove the blp parameter. blp has to be yes or not exist. Yobot and Listasbot are removing it. Thanks! Magioladitis (talk) 09:08, 29 June 2009 (UTC) As I have noticed AWB+KingbotK changes |living= from yes to no but doesnät remove blp=no. I will report that. Other problems are because the yob-yod categories were added inn the article after it was tagged. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:21, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

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Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16

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David Ferriero

Will you consider watchlisting David Ferriero and New York Public Library (NYPL)? I'm not sure what to make of unanticipated criticism of what I wrote about a living person in 2008. As you may know, Ferriero has been nominated to become the 10th Archivist of the United States. I'm puzzled by the complaint that the article appeared to have been drafted with an overly favorable bias; and I don't know how best to respond to the implied criticism of the NYPL article as well.

I recognize that Wikipedia's article about NYPL does fail to address the extraordinary changes in corporate culture which have been implemented during Ferriero's tenure; and by implication, I see how this points to a significant flaw in the Ferriero article.

I understand the problem, but I don't know what to do about it. I admit frankly that this is a little bit beyond my ability. --Tenmei (talk) 14:41, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Just FYI.....

DC 8 (talk)

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update

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Linking placenames

Hi, noticed this edit to Joe Chadbourne. Please could you point me to where in the MoS it says placenames shouldn't be linked? seems crazy to me. thanks, Struway2 (talk) 17:47, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Don't have a problem with delinking England, or other major places, but I don't see how the MoS requires the removal of links to a subject's birthplace where it isn't a well-known place. When reading a biographical article, I often click on the birthplace, not necessarily to read the whole article, but just to find out where the place is. Removing such links strikes me as not particularly helpful. Matter of taste, I suppose. thanks for your prompt reply, cheers, Struway2 (talk) 18:12, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, September 26

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Missed you this past meetup, peter! How've you been? Let's get together soon --- gotta catch up on your research projects/tell you about some of mine. Talking to Bruce (BRG) also about getting together; we've seemed to have formed a clique (Schumin too). Hope things down at the LoC are going well also.--rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 23:48, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

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DC Meetup #9

Sorry I can't make the LOC tour that day, but look forward to seeing you at dinner. Take care! rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 22:42, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Question from Ched

At this point I may be putting the cart before the horse, but I had a question. It's been quite a few years since I was in DC; are we permitted to bring cameras into the LOC? Thanks. — Ched :  ?  13:54, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thank you for all the work you put into making the LOC tour at the DC Meetup a great experience! Doc2234 (talk) 04:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

+1 --MZMcBride (talk) 04:11, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I concur. @harej 04:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Fun. :) —Emufarmers^(T/C) 05:01, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

The tour was very interesting, I will definitely be back to see more. MBisanz ^talk 09:02, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Brendan Burke

Noticed you tagged Brendan Burke's talk page with "Scope" templates. Someone else tagged the article page with "Speedy delete". I've copyedited that article. Any interest in helping keep the article alive?  _{Guy M | Talk}  13:03, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Greetings, I have just uploaded to Wiki-Commons a photo-image (Byrd_Antarctic_Expedition-II_3c.jpg) of a US 3c postage stamp commemorating Admiral Byrd's Expeditions to the Antarctic. It is an engraved stamp, issued in 1934, the year of Byrd's last expedition to the Antarctic and has remarkable detail, depicting a map and Byrd's various trips about the globe.

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DC10 Meetup

Hey -- just created a page for DC10, hope you can make it, and will you help me spread it around? Also, not really a bot-guy, but I think people have used bots in the past to spread meetup info around. Know anything about this?--rocketrye12 ^{talk/contribs} 15:40, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Meetup/DC_10#People_probably_attending_a_2:30_Air-Space_Museum_pre-dinner_tour

Check out the new things that the Smithsonian is offering us! Sadads (talk) 15:40, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Spem in alium

Greetings! Glad to see you're still editing; some of us are persistent, no?

I just noticed this inline comment you left. Spem in alium is for "only" 40 voices; Rossetto's motet is for 50. That's why I said "only a handful of larger compositions are known..." -- I can only think of two: the one by Striggio (written about in detail in an issue of JAMS about three years ago) and the Baroque-era piece by Biber. I think I ran across another one somewhere along the line, but can't at the moment recall the composer. All the best, Antandrus (talk) 01:08, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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Dermatology

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GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody! Stats If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the May 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, your word totals are cumulative for barnstars (not the leaderboard). Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars. GOCE backlog elimination drive chart up to 31 July Eight people will receive The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Barnstar (100,000+ words): Chaosdruid, Diannaa, Ericleb01, Lfstevens, Shimeru, S Masters, The Utahraptor, and Torchiest. Bullock and Slon02 will receive The Order of the Superior Scribe (80,000+). The Barnstar of Diligence (60,000+) goes to Derild4921, GaryColemanFan, kojozone, and Mlpearc. The Modern Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar (40,000+) goes to A. Parrot, AirplanePro, Auntieruth55, Bejinhan, David Rush, and mono. Nobody will receive The Old School League of Copy Editors award (30,000+). The Tireless Contributor Barnstar (20,000+) goes to Backtable, Cindamuse, dtgriffith, Duff, e. ripley, Laurinavicius, NerdyScienceDude, and TEK. The Cleanup Barnstar (12,000+) goes to Brickie, Casliber, cymru lass, December21st2012Freak, Nolelover, TheTito, Whoosit, and YellowMonkey. The Working Man's Barnstar (8,000+) goes to Bsherr, Duchess of Bathwick, HELLKNOWZ, Mabeenot, noraft, Pyfan, and Richard asr. The Modest Barnstar (4,000+) goes to Adrian J. Hunter, Airplaneman, Annalise, Camerafiend, Cricket02, Fetchcomms, Gosox5555, LeonidasSpartan, Paulmnguyen, Piotrus, SuperHamster, Taelus, and TPW. Gold Star Award Gold Star Award Leaderboard Articles Words 5k+ Articles 1. Diannaa (248) Shimeru (200,392) Shimeru/Ericleb01 (13) 2. Slon02 (157) Diannaa (164,960) Chaosdruid (8) 3. GaryColemanFan (101) Chaosdruid (130,630) Derild4921 (7) 4. Torchiest (100) The Utahraptor (117,347) GaryColemanFan/Slon02 (6) 5. Shimeru (80) Ericleb01 (114,893) Bejinhan/The Utahraptor (5) Coordinator: ɳorɑfʈ Talk! Co-coordinators: Diannaa TALK and S Masters (talk) | Newsletter by: The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions

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Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 11

Hey, just in case you missed it, there is an oppurtunity to get a free dinner this Tuesday August 11 and a chance to meet and hang out talk about Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy and WP:GLAM/SI. Sorry that this is so late in the game, I was hoping the e-mail would be a better form of contact for active members (if you want to get on the e-mail list send me an User e-mail ). Hope that you can attend, User:Sadads (talk)11:48, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Just to clarify, I meant Tuesday August 10, I had it correct on the meetup page,Sadads (talk) 02:47, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Invitation

There are currently 2,860 articles in the backlog. You can help us! Join the September 2010 drive today!

The Guild of Copy-Editors – September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invite you to participate in the September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September at 23:59 (UTC). The goals for this drive are to eliminate 2008 from the queue and to reduce the backlog to fewer than 5,000 articles. Sign-up has already begun at the September drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page. Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GoCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive! — ɳorɑfʈ Talk! and S Masters (talk).

DC Meetup #12

An off-wiki discussion is taking place concerning DC Meetup #12. Watch this page for announcements.
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William Yelverton

Back in August you made this edit unfortunately DNB article is about a man with the same name who lived in a different century from the Wikipedia article. -- PBS (talk) 05:33, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Ah! it was the neighbouring article "Yelverton, William Charles" that you were looking for. I'll fix it. -- PBS (talk) 05:36, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia DC Meetup, October 23

You are invited to Wikipedia DC Meetup #12 on Saturday, October 23, 6pm at Bertucci's in Foggy Bottom. Special guests at this meetup will include Wikimedia CTO Danese Cooper, other Wikimedia technical staff and volunteer developers who will be in DC for Hack-A-Ton DC. Please RSVP on the meetup page.

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GOCE copy edit drive

Greetings, the Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue. Sign-up has already begun at the November drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page. Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants, some of which are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive! — The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

Wikipedia DC Meetup 13

You are invited to Wikipedia DC Meetup #13 on Wednesday, November 17, from 7 to 9 pm, location to be determined (but near a Metro station in DC).

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November 2010 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! GOCE November 2010 backlog elimination drive progress graphs We have reached the midway point in our backlog elimination drive, so here is an update. Participation report — The November drive has 53 participants at this point. We had 77 participants in the September drive. In July, 95 people signed up for the drive, and in May we had 36. If you are not participating, it is not too late to join! Progress report — The drive is quite successful so far, as we have already almost reached our target of a 10% reduction in the number of articles in the backlog. We are doing very well at keeping our Requests page clear, as those articles count double for word count for this drive. Please keep in mind the possibility of removing other tags when you are finished with an article. If the article no longer needs {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, or other similar maintenance tags, please remove them, as this will make the tasks of other WikiProjects easier to complete. Thanks very much for participating in the Drive, and see you at the finish line! Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

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Project banner

Please don't use the old project banner {{WP Ireland}} as you have been doing to tag Irish articles but instead use the more modern {{WikiProject Ireland}}. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 02:49, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Theobaldo Gatti

Hi. I see (via Fanchon Moreau) you are embarking on an article about Theobaldo Gatti. Which sources are you going to use? Perhaps I can help? Regards. --Kleinzach 11:27, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

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Invitation to particpate in the December 2010 Wikification Drive

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GOCE elections

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

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November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated. Stats GOCE November 2010 backlog elimination drive graphs 58 people signed up for this drive. Of these, 48 people participated in the drive. Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%. 49 awards will go out to 33 of 48 participants. Check out the complete list of barnstar winners here. Barnstars If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Our next drive is scheduled for January 2011. In the meantime, please consider helping out at the Wikification drive or any of the other places where help with backlogs is needed. Thank you for participating in the last 2010 backlog elimination drive! We look forward to seeing you in January! Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

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Project tagging for American football players

FeanorStar7, hello. I've noticed you've been doing some project tagging for American football biography articles. Wikipedia:WikiProject American football is intended primarily to cover core concepts of the sport like touchdown. If a person played or coached college football they should be tagged with {{WikiProject College football}}. If they played or coached in the NFL, they should be tagged with {{WikiProject National Football League}}. Only if a person did not play or coach in either college football or the NFL or are most notable for their participation in some other league or level should they be tagged with {{WikiProject American football}}. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:36, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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GOCE Year-end Report

Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 503 editors 2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives Our encounter with Jimbo Wales Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned Report on our inaugural elections Guild Plans for 2011 New barnstars introduced Requests page improved Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011! – Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, FeanorStar7/Archive 2! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 16:08, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to the Project! Please let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.--Kumioko (talk) 02:10, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiXDC: Wikipedia 10th Birthday!

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

You are invited to WikiXDC, a special meetup event and celebration on Saturday, January 22 hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration in downtown Washington, D.C.

• Date: January 22, 2011 (tentatively 9:30 AM - 5 PM)
• Location: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), downtown building, Pennsylvania Avenue & 7th St NW.
• Description: There will be a behind-the-scenes tour of the National Archives and you will learn more about what NARA does. We will also have a mini-film screening featuring FedFlix videos along with a special message from Jimmy Wales. In the afternoon, there will be lightning talks by Wikimedians (signup to speak), wiki-trivia, and cupcakes to celebrate!
• Details & RSVP: Details about the event are on our Washington, DC tenwiki page.

Please RSVP soon as possible, as there likely will be a cap on number of attendees that NARA can accommodate.

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New Years Message for WikiProject United States

With the first of what I hope will be monthly newsletters I again want to welcome you to the project and hope that as we all work together through the year we can expand the project, create missing articles and generally improve the pedia thought mutual cooperation and support. Now that we have a project and a solid pool of willing members I wanted to strike while the iron is hot and solicite help in doing a few things that I believe is a good next step in solidifiing the project. I have outlined a few suggestions where you can help with on the projects talk page. This includes but is not limited too updating Portal:United States, assessing the remaining US related articles that haven't been assessed, eliminating the Unrefernced BLP's and others. If you have other suggestions or are interested in doing other things feel free. I just wanted to offer a few suggestions were additional help is needed. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments or suggestions or you can always post something on the projects talk page. If you do not want to recieve a monthly message please put an * before your name on the members page.--Kumioko (talk) 03:20, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive news

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats. Participation GOCE January 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. Progress report We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal. Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success! Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), The UtahraptorTalk to me, and Tea with toast (Talk)

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February 2011 Wikification Drive

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WikiProject Wikify's Coordinator Election

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The Wikifier, WikiProject Wikify's First Newsletter (January 2011)

The Wikifier Your Wikification Newsletter – Volume I, Issue I, January 2011 From the editor • General news Membership • December drive results To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Welcome to WikiProject Wikify's first newsletter! This newsletter will be published every two months, right before the start of the upcoming drive. February's Drive is projected to be a huge success, with announcements posted at The Signpost and Community Portal. Participants will be rewarded with barnstars. Sign up if you have not already! Project Coordinator elections are still open until February 1, 2011. Happy Wikifying, The coordinators of The Wikifier: Mono (talk) and Sumsum2010·T·C·Review me!

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The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive has begun!

Get going! The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive has begun. Please get started, as the drive aims to wikify over 2,000 articles this month. We're going to need all the firepower we can get, so please remind your friends to join up as well. In case you didn't know, wikification is fairly simple: just add wiki markup, links, and similar formatting. Thanks for joining; we're looking forward to an exciting time this month! Regards, Guoguo12 (talk · contribs), Mono (talk · contribs), Nolelover (talk · contribs), and Sumsum2010 (talk · contribs).

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New WikiProject United States Newsletter: February 2011 edition

Starting with the February 2011 issue WikiProject United States has established a newsletter to inform anyone interested in United States related topics of the latest changes. This newsletter will not only discuss issues relating to WikiProject United States but also:

1. Portal:United States
2. the United States Wikipedians Noticeboard
3. the United States Wikipedians collaboration of the Month - The collaboration article for February is Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
4. and changes to Wikipolicy, events and other things that may be of interest to you.

You may read or assist in writing the newsletter, subscribe, unsubscribe or change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you by following this link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page or the Newsletters talk page. --Kumioko (talk) 20:44, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated. Statistics 54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated. One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%. Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue. Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here. Barnstars If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March. Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

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The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive Needs Your Help!

Please help! The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive is almost complete. Please help, as the backlog is still very large. Still exceeding 20,000 articles! The goal is 18,000 or less. Lets see if we can do it! We're going to need all the firepower we can get, so please remind your friends to help as well.Thank you for all your help thus far! Regards, Guoguo12 (talk · contribs), Mono (talk · contribs), Nolelover (talk · contribs), Sumsum2010 (talk · contribs), and WikiCopter (talk · contribs).

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Wikimania 2012 bid, DC chapter & next meetup!

1. At WikiXDC in January, User:Harej proposed that DC submit a bid to host Wikimania 2012. A bid and organizing committee is being formed and seeks additional volunteers to help. Please look at our bid page and sign up if you want to help out. You can also signup for the bid team's email list.
2. To support the Wikimania bid, more events like WikiXDC, and outreach activities like collaborations with the Smithsonian (ongoing) and National Archives, there also has been discussion of forming Wikimedia DC, as an official Wikimedia chapter. You can express interest and contribute to chapter discussions on the Wikimedia DC Meta-Wiki pages.
3. To discuss all this and meet up with special guest, Dutch Wikipedian User:Kim Bruning, there will be a meetup, Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 16 this Tuesday at 7pm, at Capitol City Brewery, Metro Center. There will be a pre-meetup Wikimania team meeting at 6pm at the same location.

Apologies for the short notice for this meetup, but let's discuss when, where & what for DC Meetup #17. Also, if you haven't yet, please join wikimedia-dc mailing list to stay informed. Cheers, User:Aude (talk)

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WikiProject Wikify's March Mini Drive

WikiProject Wikify's March Mini! Hello, I thought you would be interested in the March Mini, a coordinated effort by WikiProject Wikify members to eliminate the 2008 backlog of articles tagged with {{wikify}} and/or {{dead end}}. Come join in the fun! There are only three prizes to be won, including a special barnstar created just for this drive! Regards, WikiProject Wikify

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Could you please place the authority control template with the other metadata, immediately before the persondata, rather than between the external links and the navboxes? It looks odd if placed before succession boxes per Template talk:Authority control#Placement/formatting. Thanks. DrKiernan (talk) 19:35, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

I think a bot could come along later and remove those double returns. Is there a way of coding a space into the template itself? DrKiernan (talk) 11:58, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

April 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The April 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
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DC Meetup: May 7 @ Tenleytown Library

The next DC Wikimedia meetup is scheduled for Saturday, May 7, 3:30-5:30 pm at the Tenleytown Library (adjacent to the Tenleytown Metro Station, Red Line), followed by dinner & socializing at some nearby place.

This is the first official meeting of our proposed Wikimedia DC chapter, with discussion of bylaws and next steps. Other agenda items include, update everyone on our successful Wikimania bid and next steps in the planning process, discuss upcoming activities that we want to do over the summer and fall, and more.

Please RSVP here and see a list of additional tentatively planned meetups & activities for late May & June on the Wikipedia:Meetup/DC page.

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GOCE drive newsletter

The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:20, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

May 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The May 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
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Merge of Subartu (Amarna letters corpus)

Hi there. You proposed a merge, but you did not tag the target article, nor did you start discussion, as instructed in Help:Merge, so no one can know why the merge was suggested, nor can anyone comment on the subject. Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 15:48, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

The Wikifier: March 2011

The Wikifier Your Wikification Newsletter – Volume I, Issue II, March 2011 From the editor • General news Membership • February drive results To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Hello Wikifiers! Sorry this Newsletter is late, It should have gone out a month ago. I've been very busy in real life and didn't have time to get over to the newsletter. In this edition of the Newsletter, we have an editorial written by our new executive coordinator; Guoguo12. Guoguo12 has succeeded Mono due to an indefinite wikibreak. We also have the results of the February and March Mini drives. Happy Wikifying, Sumsum2010, the assistant coordinator of WikiProject Wikify

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Drusilla

I tried to sort this out a while ago. I've replied on the talk page. I think that this and the other article on another Drusilla is a mess. I think without a copy of Roller we have a problem. Dougweller (talk) 17:51, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Project tags

Hello! Please don't remove the WikiProject Greece tag on articles that are related to Ancient Greeks. Of course you can add the Classical Greece and Rome tag, but please also retain the WPGR tag, as these articles remain within the project's scope. Best regards, Constantine ✍ 22:05, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

June 2011 Wikification Drive

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Past House Reading Clerks

Hi. Hope you're well. I was looking at our article on House Reading Clerks and I was trying to find a definitive list of past Clerks. I searched around for a bit, but couldn't find anything readily available. I assume that the Library of Congress has a compiled list buried within it somewhere. Do you know who/where I could ask about such a thing? I'm more than happy to head down there as necessary, but I'm not really sure where to go if I do. Any help would be great and much appreciated. --MZMcBride (talk) 06:23, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

June 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

The June 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
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GOCE elections

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US National Archives collaboration

United States National Archives WikiProject

Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts. There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

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Louis Spohr article

LOUIS SPOHR article - Life section There is only one footnote among many paragraphs. Looking thru the history, it seems that many Anons have added here and there but Editors MDCollins, Kanx1976, HIS33407district61, FeanorStar7, and Beannaithe are at least (hopefully) still around to add footnotes to this section where they contributed? I don't have access to the biographical books - I've been to the library today and have the latest edition of the New Grove entry on Spohr, and the article in the International Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians 11th edition - but can't correlate every line from these, nor would I want to edit what is most probably verifiable information from the references noted if they could simply be properly attributed. Any hope on you guys coming back and "finishing the job"? I'll note this on the user pages of the above. HammerFilmFan (talk) 23:13, 1 July 2011 (UTC) HammerFilmFan — Preceding unsigned comment added by HammerFilmFan (talk • contribs)

GOCE drive invitation

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". >>> Sign-up now <<<

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Smithsonian Archives of American Art Backstage Pass

Archives of American Art Backstage Pass! - You are invited!

The Smithsonian is hosting its first Backstage Pass at the Archives of American Art on Friday, July 29. 10 Wikimedians will experience the behind the scenes aspects of archiving the world's largest collection of documents and photographs related to American art. After a complimentary lunch, an edit-a-thon will take place and prizes will be awarded. Followed by an evening happy hour. We hope you'll participate! SarahStierch (talk) 14:15, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

GLAM-Wiki Baltimore meetup

You are invited to the first Wikipedia Baltimore meetup on Saturday, July 23, 10:00am-12:30pm at the Walters Art Museum. Come meet Wikimedians, learn about GLAM-Wiki partnerships, get involved, and discuss future wiki outreach and activities in the Baltimore area!

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The WikiProject National Archives Newsletter

The first ever WikiProject National Archives newsletter has been published. Please read on to find out what we're up to and how to help out! There are many opportunities for getting more involved. Dominic·t 21:23, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

The WikiProject National Archives Newsletter July 2011 News Featured article contest This week, our first multilingual featured article contest was announced. We are aiming to improve the articles on the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, or Bill of Rights to featured or good status in English and other languages. Prizes for winners will be a gift package from the National Archives including a book of your choice or a tote bag, and other swag, plus, of course, a special barnstar. August 6 backstage pass Plans are in the works for a meetup and backstage pass event at the National Archives II facility in College Park, MD. There will be a regular social meetup, a discussion with Dominic about WP:NARA, a tour of the building by NARA staff, and then time for a scanathon and editathon in the research rooms and library until the building closes at 5 pm. Keep your schedules open! From our recent uploads: ...see more. Special requests: This section includes special requests from the NARA staff: Archival Recovery Team The National Archives' Archival Recovery Team (ART) is a team of law enforcement agents and archivists who investigate NARA's lost and stolen documents. They have received media attention ([2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]) and would like to request an article be written for the team, if Wikipedians deem it notable. It is hoped that making more information about the group available on Wikipedia will increase public awareness of the documents they are seeking to recover. Ongoing Today's Document challenge The Today's Document challenge is an opportunity for Wikipedians to get their work related to National Archives holdings spotlighted on Archives.gov and the National Archives' tumblr. Each day the National Archives selects a document related to the day's date to showcase. The goal is to get articles related to the selected documents on the main page in ""Did You Know...?" the same day that the National Archives features the document. Alternatively, other appropriate articles related to National Archives holdings not already selected will be used for new documents of the day by NARA staff and posted to their tumblr. Wikisource WP:NARA has a sister WikiProject on Wikisource, WS:NARA. On Wikisource, editors transcribe, proofread, and arrange documents. This helps to make little-known documents more discoverable, or well-known documents more searchable, and improves accessibility. See the files being worked on. If you are new to Wikisource and would like to participate, there are experienced Wikisourcerors willing to be mentors. New contributions A list of some recent contributions to the project: Wikipedia District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (Fetchcomms) Court of the Patriarchs (CutOffTies) Opposition to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom (Fetchcomms) Wikisource1 Memorial of Queen Liliuokalani in relation to the Crown lands of Hawaii Petition from women of Brookline Resolutions of the Joint Committee on the Washington Monument H. R. 4982 A Petition For Universal Suffrage Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine Alexander Hamilton's commission to take rank as Colonel 1Credit goes to Prosody, Theornamentalist, Inductiveload, Digipoke, George Orwell III, Kathleen.wright5, BirgitteSB, and Zhaladshar Tools Archives.gov grabber (Slakr) Future plans Major image contribution The National Archives has hundreds of thousands of digitized documents in its holdings. We are working on a bulk upload to Commons of one particular cache of about 123,000 TIFF master files in the next few days! Once uploaded, these will require a massive community effort to help categorize the files on Commons and add them to articles on Wikipedia or transcribe them on Wikisource. Inclusion in the online catalog We are currently working on a system for including links to pages on Wikimedia projects in the National Archives online catalog. The Wikimedia projects are hosting an increasing number of transcriptions of National Archives documents and high-quality image and video files that are not available through NARA's own site. Links to these Wikimedia pages in the documents' actual catalog records will benefit the end user by providing them access to further resources about the documents, and they will also demonstrate the National Archives commitment to supporting Wikimedians' efforts. To stop receiving this newsletter, please remove your name from the list.

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DC Meetup, July 29

DC Meetup 21 - Who should come? You should. Really.
	DC MEETUP 21 is July 29! This meet up will involve Wikipedians from the area as well as Wiki-loving GLAM professionals. See you Friday! SarahStierch (talk) 16:32, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

DC-area Meetup, Saturday, August 6

National Archives Backstage Pass - Who should come? You should. Really.
	On Saturday, August 6, the National Archives is hosting a Wikipedia meetup, backstage pass tour, and edit-a-thon in College Park, Maryland. Meet staff and fellow Wikipedians, go behind the scenes at the National Archives, help digitize documents, and edit together! Dominic·t 21:22, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

I need your email

Hi FeanorStar7, my email is: arecardo@yahoo.com can you pls. send me your email, subject: FeanorStar7... i need to know how you corroborated an information in one of your articles, concerning a relative of mine... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.233.136.111 (talk) 16:03, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. >>> Sign up now <<<

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Talk:Nedd Willard

What does "listas" mean? In puzzlement, I am your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 02:27, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

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You're invited! Wikimedia DC Annual Membership Meeting

DC Meetup 23 & Annual Membership Meeting

Wikimedia District of Columbia, the newest officially recognized chapter, is holding its Annual Membership Meeting at 1pm on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library. Agenda items include: election of the Board of Directors for the next two years approval of a budget for the 2011-2012 fiscal year report on the activities and accomplishments of the past year social gathering afterwards at a nearby restaurant Candidate nominations are open until 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, September 24. We encourage you to consider being a candidate. (see see candidate instructions) The meeting is open to both the general public and members from within the DC-MD-VA-WV-DE region and beyond. We encourage everyone to attend! You may join the chapter at the meeting or online.

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DC-area Meetup, Saturday, October 8

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	You are invited to the National Archives in College Park for a special backstage pass and scanathon meetup with Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, on Saturday, October 8. Go behind the scenes and into the stacks at the National Archives, help digitize documents, and edit together! Free catered lunch provided! Dominic·t 16:10, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

prioity in WikiProject Biography

FYI... the "priority" tag in WikiProject Biography hasn't been used in a couple of years, so you don't need to add it. It has been replaced by the different work group priority tags. Bgwhite (talk) 07:08, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

No problem. You are not the only person who still added it. Old habits die hard. You might want to consider adding politician-work-group and the other work groups to your templates. I usually add politician-priority=low and sports-priority=low to the vast majority too.

I noticed you have "Clearing the backlog of articles without listas and living parameters" on your user page. I cleared out living in Aprilish. Listas is almost finished. I do the "weird" ones (Arabic, Asian, Icelandic, etc) manually and then I have a bot do the easy ones. I should have it finished by next week. Happy Gnoming!!!! Bgwhite (talk) 07:23, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

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Re: H.C. Wolfart

Hey, just wondering where that 1943 birth year came from. Thanks. Interlaker (talk) 20:40, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

No Longer A Stub

I am afraid that I have expanded Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany a lot, thus I do not think the article was still Stub-class.Heinrich ⅩⅦ von Bayern (talk) 16:28, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography tags

I see you love to update the bio banner. Thank you. It is a full-time job. Could you please also add the work-group parameter to the banner. I usually add the work group priority tag to politicians and sports people as I can usually figure them out easily. By adding the work-group parameter, that is one less thing somebody else has to come by and add. Bgwhite (talk) 18:56, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their November 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles (and specifically will be targeting the oldest three months), as we want to copy edit as many of these as possible. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. >>> Sign up now <<<

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Wikipedia Loves Libraries DC & edit-a-thon
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Otium

How do I go about getting Otium reassessed to possible B-Class and getting a higher assessment of "importance"?--Doug Coldwell ^talk 16:02, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Fine Art Edit-a-Thon & DC Meetup 26!

Fine Art Edit-a-Thon & Meetup - Who should come? You should. Really.

FINE ART EDIT-A-THON & DC MEETUP 26 is December 17! The Edit-a-Thon will cover fine art subjects from the Federal Art Project and the meet up will involve Wikipedians from the area as well as Wiki-loving GLAM professionals. You don't have to attend both to attend one (but we hope you do!) Click the link above and sign up & spread the word! See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 15:46, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

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Golding Bird authority control

I am not quite sure what the authority control template you added is meant to do for the article, but the link to Worldcat is returning a 404 error. I have no idea how to fix the template to point to the correct link other than to delete it altogether. SpinningSpark 11:56, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

I have to say I am entirely pissed at having to fight through template code and learn yet another template format in order to correct a simple error I could have fixed in 10 seconds if it had been in plain markup. However, I have actually got to the bottom of this - it is a problem with leading zeroes. LCC does not mind them, but WorldCat needs them removed. I very nearly removed this out of hand as you succeeded in putting a dead link into an article that had this very day been promoted to FA after months of effort. If a template isn't working properly and you don't know how to fix it then you really shouldn't be using it. You probably now need to go and remove the leading zeroes from a whole bunch of other edits you have made - or else fix the template so it does not pass them to Worldcat. SpinningSpark 13:56, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography banner

I've asked before. Please also assess and add the appropriate work-group parameter to the Biography banner. If you don't, the talk pages still are in tracking categories that I have to finish off later. So, you are wasting time if you don't assess and add work-group.

Don't worry on the assessment. It is very subjective. Hand out stubs and starts. If you feel it is above a start, handout a C and don't worry about Bs. You have to spend time on if it is a B or not. I rarely hand out Bs and only if I know the primary editor... Some editors do great work all the time.

Have you thought about working with AWB. It helps you work faster. I have two AWB windows open, one for the talk page and the other for the main article. Bgwhite (talk) 19:48, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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Nomination of Aimal Qazi for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Aimal Qazi is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Information sought

Hello! I wonder if I may bother you for a little information on a point that puzzles me? You have recently added a line to the article on Thomas Beecham containing links to an American Congress site and to OCCL. The former lists some tangential information (Grove entry, already cited earlier in the article) and the latter links to a blank page. I was wondering what the purpose of this is. It isn't of grave import, as the line is discreetly tucked away and won't distract the reader, but I should nonetheless be interested to understand what it is meant to do. Grateful if you could spare a moment to elucidate. Regards. – Tim riley (talk) 10:56, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. That's most interesting. Ought we editors of biographies to be adding such things ourselves, or is it better left to the experts? It appears to be a lot of work for you looking each catalogue code number up for each article. En passant, while you are taking up the matter of adjusting the relevant template, I wonder if the link from it ought to point to Wikipedia:Authority control rather than Authority control? I read the latter before bothering you with my query, but found myself none the wiser. A link to the former might make things clearer for any other lay person who clicked on it. Regards. – Tim riley (talk) 11:19, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Basic question...

...I've been meaning to ask for a while. What's "authority control" in a wiki context? I've seen it on a few articles, and was wondering what it meant! Hchc2009 (talk) 09:15, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Cheers, Hchc2009 (talk) 09:32, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

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You're invited: Smithsonian Institution Women in Science Edit-a-Thon!

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GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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A smile for you You’ve just received a random act of kindness! 66.87.0.87 (talk) 21:32, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

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You're invited! New England Wikimedia General Meeting

	New England Wikimedia General Meeting
	The New England Wikimedia General Meeting will be a large-scale meetup of all Wikimedians (and friends) from the New England area in order to discuss regional coordination and possible formalization of our community (i.e., a chapter). Come hang out with other Wikimedians, learn more about ongoing activities, and help plan for the future! Potential topics: What is a Wikimedia chapter and should we work towards one? Planning of regular Boston meetups (any other New England cities?) Planning for upcoming coordinated events (Wikipedia Love Libraries, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiknic, etc.) Outreach to universities (WikiProject Academical Village) and cultural institutions (GLAM) Wikimania DC is this summer. Your ideas!
	Sunday, April 22 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM	Conference Room C06, Johnson Building, Boston Public Library—Central Library 700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116
Please sign up here: Wikipedia:Meetup/New England!

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