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Hello SMasters, my name is Rahul, and I came across your name on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. For the past couple of months, I have been working on Kareena Kapoor's article in my sandbox. After a long and exhausting schedule of editing, I have finally managed to finish, and I am planning on nominating the article for a FAC. However, before doing so, I am looking for a couple of editors that can help me with copyediting the article. Would you be able to help me with this? I would greatly appreciate if you could. Regards -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 02:43, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I will be happy to help you. I am busy this week, but I can help starting from next week. Before you take it to FA, you might also want to get a PR done first. Cheers. - S Masters (talk) 02:48, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks buddy! I am also planning on having a PR done for the article, however, I would be doing this after the article has gone through a couple of copyedits by other users. When you are copyediting the article, please do it in my sandbox as that is the version that I am planning on nominating for a FAC. I will be uploading my version on the main article in the coming weeks. Once again, thanks for your help with this. :) Regards -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 02:55, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

No probs. Catch you next week when I start work on this. - S Masters (talk) 04:14, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I have uploaded my sandbox version on the main article... so you can basically edit it over there now. (P.S. Don't worry. I'll add an edit request for the article.) Cheers -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 03:19, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

OK, thank you. - S Masters (talk) 06:24, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Your work on the article is much appreciated. Thanks a lot :) BTW buddy what did you think of the article? Apart from the copyediting, were there any other aspects that you wish the article could improve on. For e.g., were there some parts that you found unclear/should be expanded, etc? -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 16:28, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Hey there buddy, would you like to comment at Wikipedia:Peer review/Kareena Kapoor/archive2? Share your inputs on it please so that any discrepancies can be eliminated. Thanks -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 16:47, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. Been really busy in RL. I can't think of anything to add. It all seems fine to me. If I have time, I will try to do the PR, but I can't promise anything. However, I will certainly help with any fixes after the PR is completed. - S Masters (talk) 06:57, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Backlog Elimination Drive Has Begun

Hello, I just wanted to take a moment and announce that the July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive has started, and will run for a month. Thanks for signing up. There's a special prize for most edits on the first day, in case you've got high ambitions. Enjoy! ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! 04:02, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Graphs

Hi, can you do graphs that floor at 6000 articles, instead of just below the current number? This will show people actual progress towards the goal. ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! 15:15, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

OK sure, I will update it. - S Masters (talk) 16:44, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Hey, thanks. I wonder how it would look with the entire 30 days in the field, and a line that slowly graphs its way across? Then you'd get a steeper (albeit shorter) line that shows drops more dramatically. BTW, I love the "Get rewarded" talk page notice you put up. I'm going to recommend everyone do it for the next drive. ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! 23:39, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Sure, no problems. I've done it. Yes, I think the omboxes do help. They appear in quite a few pages including the members' directory and the main copyedit cat page. :-) - S Masters (talk) 03:10, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

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a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia

Hey there, just a minor note that imho this doesn't qualify as a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Not a big deal either way though, but some might take issue at having their well-intentioned edits labeled and reverted as vandalism. --78.34.242.151 (talk) 09:52, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

As I mentioned on the talk page of the person making the change, the change fails to comply with Wikipedia:LEAD#First_sentence. It may not be intended vandalism, but it was certainly not constructive. I have now changed the opening sentence to comply with established policies. - S Masters (talk) 02:21, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Reminder

Hi! This message is just a friendly reminder that you signed up to participate in the GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive. I noticed that you haven't logged a single copy edit yet. We'd love to see you participate! The drive runs three more weeks so there's still plenty of time to earn barnstars. Thanks! --Diannaa ^(Talk) 22:12, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Diannaa, sorry, been really busy in RL. Will be starting my edits this weekend. By the way, if you send out more official notices from GOCE, can you please use the talk template for GOCE? You can find it here. It highlights the Guild better and also acts as an ad for visitors to a person's talk page. Thanks. - S Masters (talk) 02:24, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi! I am glad you will have time to participate. And thanks for the tip about the template for GOCE mailouts. It's really nice! I will use it for future messages. --Diannaa ^(Talk) 02:34, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Talk archive navigation

Hey there. I was looking at your talk page archives and noticed there was no way to navigate between archives; you have to come back here to access the previous archive. I would like to suggest something. To make navigation easier, you could put {{talkarchivenav}} on each of your talk page archives, making it easier to navigate between them. The Utahraptor ^Talk/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 19:46, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the tip! I was searching for how to do this as it was a real pain for me to navigate, but I could not seem to find the answer. :-) – S Masters (talk) 01:37, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

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No problem. The Utahraptor ^Talk/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 19:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Paul the Octopus

On July 11, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Paul the Octopus, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 12:02, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Mani the Parakeet

On July 11, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mani the Parakeet, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.