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Suggested changes at MOTD

Hello fellow motto contributor. Discussions arer still open on Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations#Suggested changes and still require further input especially on ideas 10-17. Please could you voice your opinion as this is going to be closed in early November. Please help out or even make any new idea suggestions. Simply south (talk) 15:16, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

This is a last call. Any opinions should be suggested by and including November 5th. See Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 2#Suggested Changes Simply south (talk) 21:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

November copy edit drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! 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)

St.philomena's

Dear User How did you know that the St.philomena's wikipedia page was being edited? and did someone ask you to monitor it? thankyou for doing so —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.27.196.125 (talk) 20:17, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

I am using a tool called Huggle. ~NerdyScienceDude 20:21, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

so it notifies you of changes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.27.196.125 (talk) 20:25, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes. It scans the recent changes feed. ~NerdyScienceDude 20:27, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

So you use this a lot?! did you ask for permission or did you just want to do it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.27.196.125 (talk) 20:37, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

I do use it a lot. All you need to use Huggle is to create an account, request for rollback permissions, install Huggle, and create your huggle.css page (click here to create) with enable=true. ~NerdyScienceDude 20:44, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Can the IP address be deleted from edited articles so that i can be left un identified? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemcouture (talk • contribs) 21:04, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Ok change of request can you delete this ip address 92.27.196.125 off the St.philomena's article "edit history". I believe that you would be far more able than me as you probably know how to manually delete things where as I haven't a clue! I would pay you if I could! Thankyou! hemcouture —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemcouture (talk • contribs) 21:35, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't have the power to revision delete your IP from the contribution list. You can ask an administrator to do it for you, but I don't think they will. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia! ~NerdyScienceDude 01:05, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Good or bad?

Did the changes I made to Red Bull Racing Team good or bad? Do you think its better with the car descriptions or season by seaso, and finaly, does it read like a news article? I would like your opinion. Thanks Nascar1996 03:43, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

I think it looks good with the season by season prose, and it does not read like a news article in my opinion. ~NerdyScienceDude 01:59, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

I believe it works better, too. The car by car didn't make that much sense in my opinion. I did it to this article because most of the others will take days to do, such as Hendrick Motorsports. Nascar1996 02:03, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

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HG vs. GLOO

What do you think is better: HG or GLOO? Wayne Olajuwon chat 23:23, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

I prefer using Huggle as it has more features. I use igloo when I'm on a Mac since Huggle won't work on a Mac. ~NerdyScienceDude 23:55, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Oh, okay. Wayne Olajuwon chat 00:18, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

stuff at ANI

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		For bringing that issue to ANI, you did well and it looks like the foundation is handling things.The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 00:02, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! ~NerdyScienceDude 00:04, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to add my personal thanks to the barnstar above. Your help was much appreciated. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 08:47, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome, Philippe. ~NerdyScienceDude 12:57, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

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What are you doing? What do you know about garrysmod? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Otis1017 (talk • contribs) 19:36, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

YouTube links are not to be used on Wikipedia. See WP:YOUTUBE for more information. ~NerdyScienceDude 19:45, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

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Confirmation Request

Hello NerdyScienceDude, I noticed a request at http://prototype.wikimedia.org/flaggedrevs/Wikipedia:Request_permissions Can you please confirm that you made this request. Thank you, --Alpha Quadrant ^talk 02:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Confirmed. ~NerdyScienceDude 02:16, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

 Done --Alpha Quadrant ^talk 02:20, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Formatting

Hello, when I was creating the newest section for the NASCAR portal, Portal:NASCAR/Championship standings, I wanted the third table to be below the others in the middle. However, it would squeeze inbetween the others. That table is hidden, and I was wondering if you would know how to fix it. Also, do you believe we should add colors to the tables that are similar to the portal colors? Thanks. Nascar1996 02:17, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Nevermind. I fixed the issue. Do you believe 2010 Price Chopper 400 is ready for GAN? If it is, why not you nominate it. I have two others (2010 Sylvania 300 & 2010 AAA 400) in the process. Nascar1996 14:15, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

I've nominated it. ~NerdyScienceDude 03:23, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

For the restrictor plate tracks (which has a lead change every lap), how would I write a good prose for them. Should I just ignore those races (except for the Daytona 500)? Nascar1996 17:51, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

You could write something similar to 2010 Coke Zero 400. ~NerdyScienceDude 18:06, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I may be able to do that for the 500, I'm not going to be able to finish this race. Nascar1996 18:10, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I may be able to finish it, after I double checked my scheduled. Nascar1996 18:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

OK. ~NerdyScienceDude 19:18, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

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		For the initiative you took a few days back with the report you filed. It's always touching when someone stops what they are doing to try to look out for someone else. Gives me hope for the human race. Thanks... for being you!!! ROBERTMFROMLI TALK/CNTRB 04:17, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! ~NerdyScienceDude 12:58, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

about your rollback

hey, what i said was in good faith...i meant to suggest editing at that point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by M.thoriyan (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia is not a forum for general discussion. Talk pages are for article collaboration, not for random comments. ~NerdyScienceDude 02:23, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE You rolled back this edit as "unhelpful". In my opinion, the text was poorly written POV, and I asked that future edits be discussed on the talk page before being added to the article. I don't claim to have perfect knowledge of WP practices, but I thought my edit was correct. Perhaps I could have discussed my reasoning on the talk page first, but I feel that the burden of proof should be on the editor trying to add controversial text. The automatic message you sent to my talk page telling me it was unhelpful was in itself quite unhelpful. What do you think I did wrong? Tdslk (talk) 03:58, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I was using igloo, which automatically leaves a templated warning on your talk page. It looked like blanking of sourced information and replacing it with information about condoms, which is something a vandal could do. I'll remove the warning from your talk page. ~NerdyScienceDude 13:04, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

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