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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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Changing class assessments of other projects

Please do not change the class assessments of other WikiProjects to "list", as you did to the WP:ANIME'S banner on a number of anime character lists. This is entirely inappropriate and contrary to WP:ANIME prior consensus on how to assess character lists. —Farix (t | c) 22:54, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I really do apologize; I was unaware of the consensus. I did this only on the first few list articles that I have been tagging for the Fictional Character project, but after a few, I caught on to the trend and stopped doing it. Once again, I apologize for the inconvenience, and guarantee you that I meant no harm and am no longer doing it. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 22:56, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

fictional characters

I have got to tell you I got a lot of fictional characters on my watchlist. And while watching I notice you tag these characters with the WikiProject like you are some kind of a bot. What's your secret? :) Jhenderson 777 23:30, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Possibly by ignoring real life things that I should be doing ;). But honestly, I just have one edit frame open with the project banner to quickly copy, switch to the talk page of articles, and paste. Then figure out if they should go in Wikipedia:WikiProject Fictional characters/No real world content if they don't even have a sentence of real content. I'm just traveling through all of the categories under the fictional characters umbrella category. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 01:45, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Scapler, my experience is similar to Jhenderson777's.  :) I have a question for you: if I were to add one or more sentences of real world content to any articles on your extremely enormous "no real world content" list, would it be OK for me to remove them from the list? If so, you could double-check, and re-add any that are insufficient. 129.33.19.254 (talk) 21:25, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Feel free to remove any article from the list that has been improved or mistakenly been placed there; I don't pretend to own it; I merely want to make a reference for the project. Therefore, if an article now has real-world content, I welcome the help in taking it off the list. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 21:27, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Haywood and Mel By: Phillip Brown

Hi Scalper,

Your speedy delete tag was removed from Haywood and Mel By: Phillip Brown by the creator - I have added back a hoax tag. Acabashi (talk) 17:49, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Alright. Thank you for letting me know and for handling it. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 17:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Shaykh zain siddiqi

I've declined the speedy because the text appears to be freely available under GNU according to the site it's on. (I've got into the habit of looking at the bottom of pages to detect Wikipedia mirrors when checking copyvio AND notability...). How notable the subject is, and the reliability of the source as a reference for itself are another matter.... Peridon (talk) 19:48, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of List of Presidents of the United States who knew a language other than English for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of Presidents of the United States who knew a language other than English is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Presidents of the United States who knew a language other than English until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

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a request

Hey Scapler you seem to be good at tagging articles of projects and I say that as a compliment. So I am just requesting you to tag Spider-Man related articles with this work group I created a while back. Jhenderson 777 20:59, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

I have tagged all the articles in Category:Spider-Man; sorry for the delay; I have been experiencing computer problems as of late which are making large-scale editing difficult. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 06:18, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2011

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MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 03:08, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

no real world content

Since that page should have just about every fictional character there. I think we should also use that page to determine which characters on that page deserve there own article and if not where they should go. It's crazy how many stubs or uncited articles there are. If you don't mind I might could start a discussion on that page just about that. Jhenderson 777 17:07, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

That would be great. In fact, that is the whole reason I started that page in the first place, to decide which should be expanded and which should be merged. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 16:44, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

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

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That Other Page

Thank you for the chance to be mischievous. I... erm... took it for all it's worth. Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:04, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for all your work on the Governor's of Guam pages

I'm working my way through them and enjoying the read. Learning a lot also. Thank you so much for your work. Sprinkler21 (talk) 00:02, 13 June 2011 (UTC)Sprinkler21

GOCE elections

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

Elections are currently underway for our Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days and ends on June 30, 23:59 UTC. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! There is also a referendum to appoint a Coordinator Emeritus. Cast your vote today.

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DYK for William P. Cronan

The DYK project (nominate) 18:03, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

No worries about water world

I noticed the article was duplicative, in part, so I userfied. I have found and settled on one location. I am going to go offline until tommorow. Please don't do anything drastic I will reply to any questions first thing. Thanks. GeoBardRap 03:05, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

I apologize if anything I did appeared drastic. It may have been unorthodox, but everything appears fine now. It just set off some red flags to see multiple articles at new page patrol with duplicate content. Sorry for any trouble, good night, and happy editing. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 03:08, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!

And the cookies! SwimFellow (talk) 00:59, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Ivan Wettengel

The DYK project (nominate) 06:03, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Henry Louis Larsen

Hi-I notice you started an article about Henry Louis Larsen. I found a citation from Our Campaigns website. His wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Colorado Governor Elias Ammons and the brother of another Colorado governor Tellar Ammons. Thanks-RFD (talk) 23:29, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I believe I have a source on that somewhere. Unfortunately, the Ourcampaigns site is a wiki and not reliable itself. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 04:43, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for your work on the Henry Larsen article-RFD (talk) 19:50, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for yours as well. It has been a long time coming, but we finally have articles on all the Guamanian Governors. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 19:52, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Colonel Thomas H. Green

I came across US Army Colonel Thomas H. Green. He ran the day to day operations of the military government in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor. He enforced martial law in the Territory of Hawaii. Thanks as always-RFD (talk) 19:53, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Henry Louis Larsen

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

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".

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Whitespace

My edits usually should be reviewed. Sorry for mistaking '1' for a whitespace, not sure how it happend. Thank you for fixing it. AgadaUrbanit (talk)

Oh, it's no problem. Thanks for improving the article! :D. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 02:14, 5 July 2011 (UTC)


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Busybody.

Stop following my edits and being a busybody. I am adding factual information and removing non-factual information. There are not my opinions, they are facts. You are clearly monitoring this page to maintain a consistent image on it and assume anybody who changes things is biased. Miserlou (talk) 18:09, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

No sir, I am not; I am not following your edits, I can promise you that. I have never witnessed an edit of yours before today. Yes, I have Operation Anti-Security watchlisted, but that is it. Secondly, I am sure that I don't have to tell you that we run on verifiability and not on truth. What you added to the page may indeed be true, but you cannot just add it because it is. Making a link between two organizations because they share a name is inappropriate; if you add reliable sources that link then, then improving the article with them is great, but if you can't provide them, then saying there is a link is original research. Thirdly, removing sourced material from an article and stating that the source is wrong is not appropriate. I am also not assuming that you are biased, unlike you, I am assuming good faith. If you would care to bring it up on the talk page instead of accusing me of things and calling me names on my talk page, I would be happy to. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 18:47, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Operation Anti-Security

Materialscientist (talk) 00:04, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Edit warring

I have to say that your back-and-forth removal of a tag placed by 8digits on the Alan Grayson page is now edit warring, plan and simple. You keep removing the tag from the page and telling him to bring it to the talk page; I would urge you to do the same and bring it to the talk page. Now matter how right you may or may not be, edit warring by reverting a user five times is simply not acceptable. I have posted a similar message to his talk page as well. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 12:47, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Scapler. I found this message mistakenly placed on my talk page. I have no issues about the article to "bring to the talk page". Perhaps you meant someone else. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 17:53, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
There was no mistake, you and he keep simply undoing each others' edits; you are edit warring. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 18:01, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
When is an edit not an "edit war"? Xenophrenic (talk) 18:04, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
No answer for the simple question? That's what I thought. You see, your nonsensical statement, "I would urge you to do the same and bring it to the talk page," is misplaced. I have nothing to bring to the talk page. I have no issues with the article. It is the other editor that apparently has issues with that article, because he has tagged the article, but he refuses to identify what those issues might be. The placement of a template in the article, without explaining what the perceived issue is, is inappropriate - and that will result in the template being removed until the issue is explained. Oh, look, yet another editor has "edit warred" on that article! I'll let you go now so that you can warn them. Best regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 18:22, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
First, assume good faith of me please; I was in the middle of finishing an edit to an article and had every intention of answering your question the moment I finished which I am doing now. What I MEANT with the talk page comment was to bring a dispute to the talk page instead of simply constantly reverting, or even go talk to the user on his user talk page. Dispute resolution is always preferable to back and forth. I have no opinion as of now on the dispute between you two, but as to "when is an edit not an 'edit war'?", the answer is when it doesn't run afoul of WP:EDITWAR. Constant overriding of one another without discussion IS edit warring and should be halted and discussed instead. The new user who has overriden 8digits is not edit warring; he has only reverted him once whereas you have done it five times without ever talking to him directly. Please cool down for a second and step back from the situation. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 18:34, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. You say your comment on my talk page was meant to convey that I should bring a dispute to the talk page. That overlooks the obvious fact that I don't have a dispute to raise there. I'm not the editor claiming there is a problem, and then refusing to explain what that problem is so that it can be addressed by other editors. Your incorrect assertion that I have reverted an editor "without ever talking to him directly" reveals that you haven't read the edit summaries. Was that just an oversight on your part? Not only have I talked to him directly, (rem tag pending outline of specific concerns on the Talk page), but he has read my communications to him and even responded, (Please put in that outline of specific concerns on the Talk page or I am going to ask that this page be removed), nonsensical though his response may be. Since my edits have not run afoul of WP:EDITWAR, while 8digits' edits have, your message on my talk page was unproductive and unhelpful. Since you plead with me to assume good faith on your part, I'll assume your message on my talk page was inadvertantly placed due to misunderstanding of the situation, and not an intentional attempt at further disruption.
With that behind us, perhaps you would like to help address the original problem? An editor, 8digits, is repeatedly tagging a BLP article with a template indicating he feels it is written like an advertisement. I have reviewed that article, and I saw no indication that it is written like an advertisement. So I have requested that 8digits outline his specific concerns on the Talk page so that they can be addressed. AzureCitizen has also asked 8digits to please explain his concerns on the Talk page so that they can be addressed. 8digits has refused repeated requests to explain what his concerns are, and other editors can not read his mind, so his unexplained tagging has been reverted. 8digits' nonsensical edit summaries that request other editors to read his mind and transcribe his concerns on the Talk page for him appear to me to be tendentious editing. 8digits' certainly isn't being productive with his repeated tagging. Best regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 20:36, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Scapler. I've again removed your personal attack from an article talk page. The personal attack is unproductive, it does not improve the Wikipedia article, and it is against policy. I've read your comment; if you feel you need to further discuss something with me, please feel free to do so here or on my user talk page. Continued personal attacks will result in a complaint being filed at the appropriate administrator's noticeboard — something I'm sure we'd both rather avoid. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 18:52, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

It was nowhere near a personal attack and you know it. 8digits said that article had a tone of an advertisement (something that I don't agree with by the way) and you responded "The page also says he's a U.S. Representative in Florida. That also sounds very encyclopedic to me. I've waved my magic wand and instantly made all 'advertisement' leave the article. Our work here is done. Good job." I said that your tone was sarcastic and unhelpful. Please tell me how that is a personal attack. You seem so morally opposed to a real conversation with this user and so deaf to criticism that I don't know what to do. If you honestly think that what you said there was an earnest attempt to handle a content dispute then go ahead and post something on the admin's noticeboard. I still think that you have been needlessly combative throughout this whole ordeal and will not be strong-armed into not telling you when are being uncivil. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 20:06, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for this edit. That was more than civil of you, and is definitely a turn onto the higher road. However, I respectfully disagree with you that referring to your fellow editors as children, sarcastic, unhelpfully getting into "pissing matches" instead of fixing the article, etc., is not a personal attack. WP:CIVIL, one of Wikipedia's 5 core policies, says otherwise. Granted, I've heard worse — and I'd really feel silly griping about just that on an admin board when I know you were just expressing frustration — but I raised the issue more to emphasize a point: You are expressing your frustration at the wrong editor.
Yes, "8digits" said the article had the tone of an advertisement. Yes, I did respond — but not how you say I did. You seem to have forgotten that the first four times 8digits made that assertion, I responded by requesting that he outline his specific concerns so that they could be addressed. Each time I did, he responded with an increasingly more nonsensical response, and refused to explain his concerns. When he finally went to the article talk page and posted something, again he refused to explain his concerns. I am not, as you have misperceived, "morally opposed to a real conversation with this user"; I am opposed to non-conversations and trolling. I'm also opposed to holding a conversation with myself. When 8digits decides to finally express a serious concern that is actionable, I'll be right there to address the concern. Until then I'll continue to respond to him in-kind, and I'll continue to boggle at you in disbelief when ever you instruct me to "fix the article" (when you know very well I see nothing to be fixed) or "bring the dispute to the talk page" (when you know very well that I have no dispute to bring anywhere). I have no quarrel with you, Scapler, and I realize that you were just trying to help with your suggestions — but directing those suggestions to me did not, and still do not, make any sense. You've explained why you were frustrated; now you know the source of my frustration.
  • "If you honestly think that what you said there was an earnest attempt to handle a content dispute..."
Attempt to handle a content dispute? Not sure where you got that idea. I have yet to see a "content dispute". When I see nonsensical suggestions to delete the whole article, except for the birthdate, I respond in-kind. If an actual dispute is ever defined, then it will be addressed appropriately. (I'm not holding my breath.) Finally, I apologize if my communications with you have been less than clear or amicable; that wasn't my intent. Regards, Xenophrenic (talk) 23:03, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
I admit that wording like "children" and "pissing match" were not appropriate to use, and I have removed them entirely from the talk page and focused more on the issue, namely that 8digits is not being specific enough for any concerns he may have to be addressed. Those particular portions of my comment that I removed were born out of frustration, which I say as an explanation and not as an excuse. I still take some issue with your wording in response to him, but I think that this was born out of similar frustration on your part toward him. 8digits is indeed being unresponsive to attempts to get him to engage in a dialogue of his issues, and you are not and were not ever the issue. I only entered into the issue after seeing back-and-forth on my watchlist on the Alan Grayson article (an article that I only watchlisted at all because it related to Daniel Webster (Florida politician), which I had a hand in editing) and sincerely only wanted to help resolve what seemed like an escalating situation. I truly apologize for taking an unbecoming tone at times and make no excuses for it. It was only after re-reading my comment on the talk page that I later saw that some of my remarks were, in fact, uncivil at times. I once again apologize for that. Further, after a quick perusing of your recent edits and talk page conversations (something I prefer to do with any editor that I engage in conversation with, so as to see where they may be coming from) you look like an excellent content editor who indeed strives for compromise in edit disputes, and commend you for that. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 23:30, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

LulzSec

Can you add this vector logo to the LulzSec page: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4roq9s

Im not able to upload images since my account is new. The current vector logo is really bad.

Thanks!

--Remotetv (talk) 04:03, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

I am afraid that I am not comfortable downloading a file from SendSpace on the request of someone that I do not know. However, if you wait four days then you yourself will be autoconfirmed and be able to upload the file yourself. What are your complaints about the quality of the current vector logo exactly? かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 16:03, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

If you view the current logo at 2000px, it looks distorted: http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Lulz_Security.svg/2000px-Lulz_Security.svg.png

I've had this account more than 4 days and Im not able to upload.

I uploaded it to imgh.us for you: http://imgh.us/lulll.svg

--Remotetv (talk) 17:10, 7 August 2011 (UTC)\

You must make ten edits as well to be considered autoconfirmed. As to the picture, is it merely the size/resolution that you consider a problem? In that case, I am afraid there is nothing that we can do. The LulzSec logo is being used under a claim of copyright fairuse and thus has to be lower quality so long as it is still usable. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 17:15, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

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.

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Help please

Hi. I am Jivesh. I edit strictly Beyonce-related articles on Wikipedia. I was wondering if you could do a copy-edit of 1+1 (song) for me? Please reply on my talk-page. Waiting in anticipation. Jivesh • Talk2Me 11:48, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

DYK notice

Just FYI, as far as I can tell this was not "re-adding". According to your contribs, you had not added it in the first place. rʨanaɢ (talk) 15:07, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

If not, then it was simply a result of my unfamiliarity with the new DYK submission process. I created the separate template, but guess that I never completed the process by adding the template to the submission page. If you look at the submission page however, you will find that it was created on that date. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 15:20, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I know it was created on that date; I was just pointing out that, as you suspect, the reason it didn't appear on T:TDYK was because you hadn't completed the last step. rʨanaɢ (talk) 17:33, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much for pointing it out to me. Though apparently it takes some getting used to, the new format seems like quite an improvement in functionality. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 17:36, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Ahmed al-Senussi

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:03, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Occupy wall street

I invite you to explain a few things in the talk section of Ocuppy wall street-Alleged excessive use of force part. If you dont respond within few days I will undo your editing. Mrwho00tm (talk) 16:09, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Absolutely. I will head over there right now. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 17:42, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2011

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MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 07:46, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Hurricane Center

Hello Scalper. I see you immediately reverted the sentence about the $50 million national hurricane research center, with the edit summary "Source has nothing to do with the statement it is sourcing. That makes this a controversial unsourced opinion." The sourced link can be seen here. At the start, it mentions the $50 million national hurricane research center was spawned by the bill, and near the bottom of the first page, it says that Grayson thinks the project will create new jobs right away. So I'm a little puzzled as your edit summary that the source has nothing to do with the statement it is sourcing. There might be a better way to word it, but clearly there is a connection. Are we looking at the same source cite? Do you see something differently when you click on the link? Regards, AzureCitizen (talk) 02:36, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

I see the problem now. Because the reference name that you gave was already used by another in the article, the footnote actually linked here to an unrelated story. I have reverted my edit and fixed the syntax so that the reference pointed to the correct place. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 02:53, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
I didn't notice that - it wasn't my edit to begin with either - I just saw the material had been deleted, followed the http link for the source, and then was unable to understand why it had been removed. Now it all makes sense; good job. AzureCitizen (talk) 02:57, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Wow - I also overlooked the ref-name duplication. When I verified the cited source, I simply did a cut&paste of the URL into another window, and it obviously brought up the correct article. I never thought to check the already existing reference name. Thanks for the fix, Xenophrenic (talk) 03:08, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
No problem. Sorry that I failed to check the actual url. I suppose we all made undue assumptions, but at least it is fixed now. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 13:18, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

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Hey, I reverted your edit of the addition of the members of the NTC. This was for a couple reasons. One, because of the nature of Translating names from arabic to english, these articles might never be created with those specific names. Also, none of the articles have been created yet, so there wasn't really any rush at this point to add them. I would suggest that you create the specific articles for each person first and then add them to the template as the pages are created.Jeancey (talk) 14:18, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

I know all too well of the nature of transliteration of Arabic. Quite frankly, the source for the names of the NTC members comes from this Christian Science Monitor article. Looking at names of people who have been translated elsewhere, it uses a non-standard translation convention. However, I have found no other source that translates many of these names to English at all. Have you seen any? Also, fair enough on the redlink issue. I hope to create some of these articles soon, but the transliteration issue creates problems there as well. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 14:26, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

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This image's description is incomplete. I wonder if you can fix it. Thanks, George Ho (talk) 05:04, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for pointing that out. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 06:03, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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