User talk:Tarheel95/April 2012

GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months. Progress report During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot (talk) 22:21, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

CVU Academy

Hello there! Your input is request at Wikipedia talk:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy. You had commented on the re-formatting discussion at WP:CVU but have yet to comment on the progress done to implement a major change discussed during the reformatting discussion, namely the training for new anti-vandals. Any input would be appreciated, thank you. Cheers! Achowat (talk) 19:28, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

CVU Task Force

A discussion that you might be able to add an expert opinion on is happening at WT:CVU#Task Force. Cheers! Achowat (talk) 19:23, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their May 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. 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: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot (talk) 18:54, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Page Edits

Hi Tarheel,

Quick question. I've made several edits to Wikipedia articles over the last few years, almost all of them are small edits to grammatical, spelling, dates, glaring errors, etc (things of that nature). Just now I made an edit to Attleboro High School page, however this was a humorous (IE counterproductive) edit, basically to test who's monitoring the edits I make.

My question is, being this was the first time I noticed that I received a message pertaining to an edit I made, were all of my previous edits accepted (not reverted) by monitors such as yourself?

Thanks, my apologies if this was not the correct forum for questions like this. Chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.60.29 (talk) 02:39, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

• I've just started using a new software for "Vandalism detection" and had meant to label your edit as one made in good faith. Just disregard my message, I apologize for the Snafu. Thanks, Tarheel95 (Sprechen) 02:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
  • To answer your question, anyone can make instant changes to almost any page on the wiki, it just so happened the edit you made fit the criteria for the queue I was watching for malicious edits. Your edit, while "counterproductive" was not 'vandalism' and thus, I assumed good faith and reverted the edit. With the human error mentioned above, you got a message similar to the one delivered to 'vandals' as a mistake. Again, disregard that message as your edit was in good faith. I hope this answers your question. Tarheel95 (Sprechen) 03:21, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

stub tags

Please take care not to add a {{stub}} to an article like Béatrice Vialle which already has a specific stub tag (it just wastes other editors' time). Please also remember that all stub tags should go after everything else except inter-language links (WP:ORDER): if you head for the right place to put it you're more likely to spot the existing one which makes the new one unnecessary. Thanks. PamD 08:53, 28 April 2012 (UTC)