User talk:Miniapolis/Archives/2012/October

Will you mentor me?

You're mentoring users for copyediting. & that's totally my area. I noticed you love horses & so do I. It's kinda hard to find horse-lovers. So we kinda have something in common. Also, i've been looking forever for someone to adopt me in the Adopt-a-user program & I don't think you're a part of it. But, you're the only suitable user for me so far. So, even though you're not part of the program would you be willing to "adopt" me too? You really don't have to & don't feel obligated to say yes, just let me know. You can check out my userpage here and you can drop me a note here. Again thanks! Lopezjaylo98 (talk) 18:56, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

I'll be glad to, and left a note on your talk page. All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 20:47, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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GOCE September 2012 drive barnstars

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		This barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 30 articles to a cumulative total of 98,349 words during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for your outstanding contribution. --Stfg (talk) 11:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of 5k articles edited – 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 5 articles of 5000 words or more during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 11:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of oldest-category articles – 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 22 articles from the oldest monthly copyedit categories during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 11:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of words edited – 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing articles to a total of 62,458 words during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 11:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award – Number of articles edited – Equal 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Award is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 30 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 GOCE drive. Congratulations on winning this prestigious award. Thank you for your efforts. --Stfg (talk) 11:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (capitalization)

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GOCE September 2012 drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 41 people who signed up this drive, 28 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing July, August, September and October 2011 from the backlog. This means that, for the first time since the drives began, the backlog is less than a year. At least 677 tagged articles were copy edited, although 365 new ones were added during the month. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2341 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 54 requests outstanding before September 2012 as well as eight of those made in September. Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the August 2012 competition, and prizes will be issued soon. The September 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The October 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 23:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Miniapolis. You have new messages at Jethro B's talk page.
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Please comment on Talk:MassResistance

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WikiWomen's Collaborative

WikiWomen Unite!

Hi Miniapolis! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative. As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by: Liking the WikiWomen's Collaborative on Facebook and share your tips, projects, and connect with other WikiWomen Join the conversation on our Twitter feed Reading and writing for our blog channel We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can get involved! Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 00:59, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style

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Hi Miniapolis, thanks for your remarks. I put an answer and questions on my talk page:http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User_talk:Mljmeerman Basically I need some advise on what to include as references, as I hardly have any! Rgds Michael Mljmeerman (talk) 16:59, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

The Last Weekend (British series)

Hello. You recently approved The Last Weekend (British series) at AFC. However, the plot section was actually copied from the series's introduction, presumably written by the production company, as seen here. Please be careful to review AFC drafts for copyright violations in the future--it's an issue particularly because so many of them are promotional, and often contain content copied straight from a company's website. Thanks. wctaiwan (talk) 03:02, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that; I got focused on the size of the backlog and will take more time on each article in the future. Miniapolis (talk) 13:41, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi. Actually, pasting into Google is what I do... When I see stuff that seems suspicious (generally overly dramatic and promotional in tone), I'd just take a small chunk and paste it into Google. Usually the rest of the article comes right out. :) I think there was a bot that would patrol new articles for copyvios, but I'm not sure if it's still functioning. Don't feel too bad about it though, I made the same mistake right after I notified you about it. >< Teaches one not to get too confident, doesn't it? wctaiwan (talk) 13:57, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Sure teaches me to slow down :-); I was zooming in on sources and not paying enough attention to content. Thanks again and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 14:01, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Review of Zee 24 Ghante Chhattisgarh

Dear Miniapolis,

                 Thanks for your time for reviewing my article. 

coming straight to the point, i have done every thing to authenticate the article facts. Mentioned all possible sources, but still my article is being rejected.

I am not able to understand your review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vikassharma2512 (talk • contribs) 05:15, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Although the article also needs work in other areas (formatting and copyediting), the first thing I checked was its references. Wikipedia requires an article about a company to have significant coverage (more than one passing mention) in reliable, independent, secondary sources. All the article's references now are press releases, self-published or mentions on websites devoted to advertising. Please try to include significant mention of the channel in newspaper coverage, for example (something more than a channel listing), to indicate its notability for inclusion. I hope this helps. Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 14:19, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports

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Hello

Hi there! I just wanted to let you know I replied to your message on Talk:Fox_News_Channel regarding inclusion of the channel's schedule. I would appreciate it if you could take the time to reply and let me know what you think. Thanks. --Seahorseruler ^{(Talk Page) (Contribs) (Report a Vandal)} 01:34, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks; I'd removed it from my watchlist. All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 03:10, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

MIniap please advise

Miniapolis, Can you please help me understand why my article is again declined. I added newspaper references and upon reading the guidelines for notable Basketball Players...there were 3 catergories, and he fell under 1 of them.

(Iknowball 20:50, 14 October 2012 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iknowball (talk • contribs)

Glad to help. First, I trust that you have read the biographies of living persons policy and the conflict-of-interest guideline. While you're right that the article's subject meets the sport-specific guidelines (which in my view differ too much from the general notability guidelines, but that's irrelevant), I don't think it's ready for the following reasons:

• It violates the neutral point of view policy, one of WP's fundamental principles.
• The article's citation style is inadequate for a BLP. The sourcing requirements for BLPs are stricter than those for other types of articles, and require inline citations for all claims which can be challenged.

WP:Writing better articles has good general information. If you rewrite the article from a neutral, encyclopedic point of view and use inline citations to indicate notability and verify any claims made, it will stand a better chance. All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 16:09, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Miniapolis,

Thanks so much for your feed back. I will thoroughly read the guidelines and make changes to my article and site it correctly. If you don't mind, I will send it to you for a quick review so you can tell me what you think.

Thanks (Iknowball 08:02, 16 October 2012 (UTC))

Please comment on Talk:Three Kingdoms

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Page Curation newsletter - closing up!

Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:31, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Mineapolis, I made quite a few changes. Would you mind having a look? thnks Mljmeerman (talk) 15:39, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

GOCE fall newsletter

Fall Events from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events: The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best October copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC). Voting is in progress for the September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not. NEW!! In the week from Sunday 21 October to Saturday 27 October, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} belonging to selected project(s). For the first blitz, we'll start with WikiProject Olympics and WikiProject Albums and add more Projects to the blitz as we clear them. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded. November 2012 Backlog elimination drive is 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). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in 2011 and to complete all requests placed before the end of October. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Blitz sign-up <<<         >>> Drive sign-up <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 19:22, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Brihat Jataka

Greetings Miniapolis. This article of mine was declined by you on 15th Oct. 2012. I have since added citations to reliable secondary/tertiary sources and thus established the notability of the book, Brihat Jataka. Please do not tell me that you don’t re-review the article you have once reviewed. Regards.Soni Ruchi (talk) 02:59, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

No, I won't tell you that :-). I'll take another look at it today. All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 13:16, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

I left an additional comment. All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 14:00, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision

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Zee 24 Ghante Chhattisgarh

hey hii

       I don't understand who is gonna publish about a news channel, other than advertising agency or the agency itself.

Could you please help in understanding what exactly will satisfy the requirement of wikipedia and i would be able to successfully create a page on wiki.

regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vikassharma2512 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Please read What counts as a reliable source, Notability ("if no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, then it should not have a separate article") and Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion. As I mentioned above, acceptable sources for this type of article would be newspaper stories (not just channel listings). All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 14:35, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject:Articles for Creation October - November 2012 Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
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Please comment on Talk:John Cassian

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Independiente's second FAC

Hey. as you copyedited the article Independiente (Ricardo Arjona album), I'd be amazingly glad if you take a quick look at several prose comments left at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Independiente (Ricardo Arjona album)/archive2 and give me a hand fixing them :) I will tahnk you a thousand times if you help me. [Note: a commenter said that of his/her comments, "some are nitpicking", so i just need helping the ones that really look lik a problem.] — ΛΧΣ21™ 00:57, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Glad to help; I left a note on WP:Penguin's talk page, and will address their concerns tomorrow. Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis (talk) 01:13, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I have tried to fix some of them by now, but I am quite sure that he'll leave more comments :) Thank you again for all your help. — ΛΧΣ21™ 02:04, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Seafood

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GOCE October 2012 Blitz Barnstar

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing articles with a total of 19,232 words during the Guild of Copy Editors October 2012 Copy Editing Blitz. Your longest article had more words in it than anyone else's entire word count! Thank you for your contribution. --Stfg (talk) 14:30, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Glad the other articles were shorter :-). Thanks! Miniapolis (talk) 14:59, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Common English usage misconceptions

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