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GOCE Barnstars

		The USA Barnstar of National Merit
		This barnstar has been awarded for improvement of the article Asian Americans in arts and entertainment. We at WikiProject Asian Americans look forward to your continued effort in improving that, and other articles related to Asian Americans.RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:00, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Misplaced Pages
		For copy editing more than 80,000 credited words in the July 2012 drive, it is my pleasure to welcome you to The Order of the Superior Scribe of Misplaced Pages. Well done! —Torchiest edits 01:15, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

		Copy Editor's Barnstar
		I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. For copy editing a total of 56,154 words during the July 2011 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog elimination drive, you get the modern Guild of Copy Editors barnstar.The Utahraptor/Contribs 23:18, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award-Number of Articles-5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Aichikawa for copy editing 29 articles during the WP:GOCE July 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for your participation! The Utahraptor/Contribs 23:18, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award—5K Articles—4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Aichikawa for copy editing 2 articles of 5,000 words or more during the WP:GOCE July 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for your participation! The Utahraptor/Contribs 23:18, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	This barnstar is awarded to Aichikawa for copy editing articles totalling 7,912 words in the May GOCE copy edit drive. Thank you very much for participating. Chaosdruid (talk) 14:43, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is awarded to Aichikawa for copy editing articles totalling over 60,000 words in the January GOCE Backlog elimination drive. Your contributions are greatly appreciated! -- Diannaa 17:57, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award–Article Count–Fifth Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Aichikawa for copy editing 55 articles during the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your efforts. – SMasters (talk) 07:11, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

		Copy Editor's Barnstar
		I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. This Barnstar is presented to Aickikawa for efforts during the November Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you for participating!-Diannaa 23:57, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award—Number of Articles—Fourth Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Aichi for copy editing 78 articles during the WP:GOCE November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. – Diannaa 18:44, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award—Word Count—Fifth Place
		This belated Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Aichikawa for copy editing 71,600 words during the WP:GOCE November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, which should have been the 5th place on the leaderboard. Thank you so much for your efforts. – SMasters (talk) 07:49, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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Go-ongers

Never do this again. You completely destroyed the formatting of the entire article, removed a ton of Japanese text for no reason only to put it in a section at the bottom of the article for reasons I don't understand, which included removing nearly every instance of {{Nihongo}} on the article and put the items in {{nihongo}} in the wrong order. I've undone everything you've done to the article because, to put it bluntly, you fucked it up big time.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 02:59, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Ryulong. No person who is not familiar with at least 2nd year Japanese can get through this article or want to go NEART it. (Even someone who has will want to be paid to read it.) The translations break down any kind of flow in reading. It is sloppy writing. I think other editors would agree with me on this. Are you paid by Bandai, the Monbusho or something? And even if you were, What's with the rudeness?Aichikawa (talk) 19:07, 5 October 2009 (UTC)AIchikawa

There are no translations in this article. It's all the Japanese text that is directly related to the text of the article. This includes character names, item names, robot names, etc. I was rude because you clearly knew what you were doing, you completely disrupted the formatting of the page, and you do not know how the templates that are used work. You do not take every single instance of Japanese text and remove it to a section at the bottom of an article, and then just leave the romanized versions of that text in the article. Before you do this to another article, read WP:MOS-JA.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 21:56, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

The only thing that might be done is to change most of them to {{nihongo2}} to remove most of the little question marks. Other than that, all the Japanese needs to remain, as Ryūlóng stated, per WP:MOS-JA. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:39, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. The format gives you 3+ pronunciations/translations for every proper noun in the story. Formatting does not equal writing. --Aichikawa (talk) 20:44, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Tim Zagat

Hi, I like your changes to the writing of Tim Zagat, generally, since it improved the flow of the writing, and it reads better. I appreciate your revision in this regard. Generally try to use inline references; single-pointer references are better than nothing, but inline references are preferred. Click to edit this text here, and you can see the basic reference template (copy it and paste it to your text processor; and use it in future). Just fill in the spaces to the right of the = sign with the proper sources (such as urls, title, author's name, publication, etc.) Also, one other thing: (some in Misplaced Pages feel the NNDB source is not ideal and should be avoided.) About removing chunks of the "close call" -- why did you do this? I know what happened at the movie theater that night -- I was Zagat's rescuer -- but he never bothered to thank me even though I risked my life to save his. Just letting you know that the details of the encounter are accurate. And keep up the good work!.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:13, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

If you use the same reference again, you don't have to put the whole thing in; just do this:--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:23, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Notice the slanted line to the right of the word here; that slanted line is important.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:23, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Here's a long shell in case you ever need it:

Good luck!--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:23, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Generally, I like your writing choices in Tim Zagat, as I said.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

About the incident: in the Paramount movie way back in 1989, in the middle of Dances With Wolves, I heard a fight break out. I looked to my left and saw somebody tall (the movie theater was dark) apparently having a fistfight. I had no idea that it was a knifing (the thought hadn't even occurred to me -- again, everything happened suddenly). There were (I think) two aisles in the theater -- a left side aisle, and a right-side aisle, if one is facing the screen. I had been sitting with my fiancee across the right-side aisle from Zagat (Zagat had been sitting on the right-side aisle, but on the left side of this aisle). I helped break up the apparent fistfight by coming from behind the closest person (apparently the probably drug-addicted guy stabbing Zagat) and wrapped my arms around him, and locking my wrists, immobilizing him. This technique had been done to me when I was at Andover, during a basketball game -- a smaller kid had immobilized me using the same technique. So, the big guy and me are kind of locked together, vertically, with me from behind him, hugging his backside, with wrists locked, and I locked in his large arms. He couldn't move his arms. So, the fistfight stopped. I had hoped other moviegoers would help me subdue either of the two parties (since I thought the other guy was party to the fistfight too), but nobody helped, the picture kept rolling, and I realized I had wrapped my arms around a burly big guy who was perhaps 6 inches taller than me, and the two of us (me and the attacker) wobbled towards the front of the movie theater in a kind of weird dance. I was afraid to let him go (otherwise he might wrestle me or hit me and he'd probably be able to beat me pretty badly because of the size difference) so I really didn't know what to do. We wobbled almost to the front of the screen, perhaps for twenty seconds or so. I looked at other movie goers faces (I could see them from the light from the picture) and they gaped, confused. Sometime during the struggle my glasses fell off. I said "please help me get this guy" but they just sat there. Then, the drug-addicted guy yelled "LET ME GO!" and it was such a loud, guttural cry, that it scared me even more, and -- I let him go. I was intimidated. LUCKILY for me, the homeless guy ran out, across the front of the screen, to the basement exit (on the left most side of the screen). If he had wanted to, he could have turned around and stabbed me and I'd be dead. (And you wouldn't be reading this.) I found my glasses somehow (or somebody handed them to me? I don't remember now) and I tried to watch the rest of the movie, with broken glasses (bent frames). After the movie ended, exiting the movie theater, a lawyer took my name down; a few weeks later a lawyer's assistant took a detailed statement from me about the incident. A few weeks after that, I got a call from a lawyer saying what had happened -- knifing, semi-famous person (who?) Zagat (who?) the guy who does the restaurant reviews (oh, Zagat) that the attacker got caught (3 days later).--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

So, putting things together, perhaps the reason nobody helped me was perhaps they saw the knife (it wasn't recovered from the theater apparently) and I didn't see the knife, which perhaps the homeless guy had been holding the entire time we were wobbling to the screen. Sheesh. So, I got even more scared in retrospect. A few years past that, I phoned Zagat, who put me on hold for the longest time; when I finally got through, he said "I don't want to talk about it" and hung up on me. No thank you. No nothing. No acknowledgement. Zilch. So, it's always bothered me that perhaps I risked my life to save an ungrateful guy (or do I deserve any sympathy here? since I didn't know that I had been risking my life?). And all I wanted from Zagat was some kind of thank you, but in time, in my own way, through studying philosophy (like Spinoza) I see it's all cause-and-effect, and I forgive everybody, although it still irks me that I never got a "thank you".--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

But, the reason for the overly detailed description was to possibly get Zagat to read the account. He'd know I was right, since all the details matched up. The newspaper didn't record exactly where he had been sitting -- I knew. So, I figured that the only person who would know that my account was accurate was Zagat himself.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

So, sometimes I suspect, with (1) your interest in this not super-famous person, when most people are not interested, and (2) your writing skill (Zagat's a competent writer from editing the restaurant guides with pithy synopses) and (3) your interest in Misplaced Pages seems to have begun after my revisions of the TZ Misplaced Pages article, and (4) Zagat hadn't wanted to rehash the account (perhaps it was a painful memory?) and you, with your edits, are also reducing the description. These four things, taken together, make me wonder whether you and Zagat are the same person.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

But that was my motivation for being overly detailed; I encourage you to put the detailed account back in. :)--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

But all this stuff is highly interesting to me, since I had been working on a book at the time, but reading heavily into philosophy. I'm a handyman, but I've also been a market researcher. The thinking, over time, led me to write a book about preventing terrorism, which I'm not allowed to tout in Misplaced Pages (and I believe in Misplaced Pages's rules) but if you're half smart, by googling my last name (sulcer), it's easily found on Amazon. And I offer free pdf copies to anybody who emails me (my email is on my user page). But, seen in a different light, the whole incident, in my mind, was terrorism. The attacker was a terrorist. Moviegoers not responding -- that's related (fear of "getting involved"); drugs, or lack thereof (which may have caused the weird guy to go nuts -- possibly a drug-addicted guy needing more drugs, not getting any, and getting angry about it) which leads to all sorts of interesting conclusions, if you think about it. But, in a weird way, the incident was helpful for me, in the sense that it was one of many events in my life which helped crystallize my thinking about an important topic.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Best,

tom--Tomwsulcer (talk) 17:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

homosexual v. gay

Thanks for taking the time to write to me about this usage. I have not a deep level of knowledge on the subject matter, and appreciate the feedback, and the fact that you have had an opportunity to look over the article since its clean-up. Regards, --Diannaa (talk) 22:07, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

I likewise appreciate the feedback, but have no clue what you are talking about. Rich Farmbrough, 21:36, 20 January 2010 (UTC).

Bridget Irish

In response to your question from a few weeks ago, the article deleted per AFD consensus; if you want it restored, you have to write a draft in userspace that demonstrates that an article that complies with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines can be written on the subject (e.g. verifiability, notability), and then present it at WP:DRV. Maxim_(talk) 21:13, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Spot check of Greg and Karen DeSanto

Hello, I spot-checked the article Greg and Karen DeSanto and found several minor flaws which I corrected. In a list, you add commas after all list items except for the last. For example, you would write: "Tom, Jane, Joe, and Bill ran in the race." not "Tom, Jane, Joe and Bill ran in the race." The other issue (very minor) is you don't include the period at the end of a sentence in an italicized section (like book title Star Saves the Circus). You can look at this diff to see what changes I made. Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:26, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Wishing you all the very best for the season. Thanks for all your help and support this year. Merry Christmas and may Santa be good to you! – SMasters (talk) 04:30, 24 December 2010 (UTC) Click to play!

Edmund Ser, Malaysian Fashion Designer

Hi, came across your interest in fashion in the Guild. Would like to ask for your help to copy edit an article about a Malaysian Fashion Designer, Edmund Ser. It is a biography about his early life, how he achieved his success and such. http://en.wikipedia.org/Edmund_Ser Thank you! Asiareports (talk) 04:14, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Malaysian Fashion Designer

Hi, came across your interest in fashion in the Guild. Would like to ask for your help to copy edit an article about a Malaysian Fashion Designer, Edmund Ser. It is a biography about his early life, how he achieved his success and such. http://en.wikipedia.org/Edmund_Ser Thank you! Asiareports (talk) 04:15, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

GOCE requests page

Hi

Can you please restrict yourself to putting "working" on only one article at a time please.

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 15:34, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

You can either leave it and the Gnomes will come out after dark and deal with it, or you can delete it and add it to the archive.

TO add it to the archive, you erase that section, go to the archive page, edit the month section (that it was posted as a request) and hopefully someone will have put your name underneath the article link with a single gap between the requesting editors name and your name. In that gap you put the date you finished the copyedit, in this case July 05, and then save. The parameters you need to update are (in bold):

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|Article link
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|User that copyedited ''']'''

|Notes (for GA etc.)

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Chaosdruid (talk) 20:18, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Please try and remember to update the requests archive page once you have deleted the article from the requests page (see instructions above: "go to the archive page"). Chaosdruid (talk) 03:22, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank You!

Many Thanks for helping. Wish all the best for you!--George  05:35, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Human rights in Egypt under the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

Thanks in advance for your help copy editing of the article. I have another request though. I was hoping that you will try to expand the "Virginity testing" section. thanks :-) -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 07:24, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your notice :-) Loai was just released few hours ago but he still could go back. Rasha still could go to jail. But I will work on updating the article in the next few days. Thanks again for you help copy editing of the article. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 01:14, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Ramy Fakhry was killed by the army but there has been other but they are nameless and not enough on them; you can read the EL for more info. I wish I had the time to work on the article but Im super busy organizing with some activists in Egypt plus work and school so I looking for someone to help me with any of the articles about the Egyptian revolution so please let me know if you are free and can help with any of them -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 06:12, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

This Is It

Thanks for doing another copyedit. But I've kinda thrown in towel with trying it for FA. Crystal Clear x3 03:45, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

GOCE May-July numbers

Matter resolved, hopefully to your satisfaction :¬)

Please try and ensure that you keep the drive page totals up-to-date, completing them two months later is not really a satisfactory situation. What would have happened if you were in the top 5 on the leaderboard? We would have had to start taking awards away from people!

We do appreciate that problems can occur without warning though, as I found out when my motherboard blew up leaving me without a computer for six weeks. Chaosdruid (talk) 14:28, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

May awards (a little belatedly)

All's well that ends well :¬) I have also updated your roll-over total on the July drive page. Chaosdruid (talk) 14:43, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

S&M

Thanks for c/e S&M, leave me a message on my talk page when you have finished :). Calvin • 00:59, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Act on National Flag and Anthem (Japan)

I thank you for making copyedits to this article; I also answered some of the questions you had in the article. User:Zscout370 19:34, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

I was still copyediting but that's fine. So you'll see some more queries. Things I needed further clarification that couldn't be put into a one-word edit recommendation:

1) "Provisions of the flag" section, last sentence. Could we have examples of the shades of red that they named?

2)"Kimigayo" before 1999 section, towards the end: There is mention of an unpopular 1869 version of the anthem. a) Could we have some description of it and explanation perhaps of why it was unpopular? b) the reference attributed there, a Japan Online article, doesn't tell you so you need new references.

3) "Party Positions: The Democratic Party of Japan": "that the bill would cause further divisions among society and the public schools". Did you mean "that the bill would cause further divisions BETWEEN society and the public schools" or just "further divisions within society"?

4) "Reactions: International": I really feel that we could use some specific examples here otherwise everything seems based on rumor.

--Aichikawa (talk) 15:27, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

The shades of red are listed at the Flag of Japan article from the various sources; I only wanted to cover here what was mentioned in the law itself. The link is above the text.

Brought over reasons why, mostly lacked a certain tone to it.

Parts of society believed the schools are not teaching the children to be good citizens and to be good Japanese.

I own the sources used in the article and I been trying really hard to find anything from the countries involved. User:Zscout370 17:33, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

I'll try to help with the last point this week.--Aichikawa (talk) 14:43, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for butting in :¬)

I have removed the article from the GOCE requests page. I realise that there may be a few points still to answer, but 1, 2 and 4 are editing rather than copy-editing. Also the archive has already been filled in as completed on 9 August.

Can I also point out that it might be better to leave this sort of thing on the article talk page? There are two reasons for this - 1. They can be addressed by editors other than just the two that know about this discussion thread, as regular editors of the page will not know about it, and 2. If anyone comes along to do an FAR/GAR or peer review, they can see your notes and check to see if they have been addressed. Chaosdruid (talk) 10:21, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Considering that this article is pretty much a one-man show (me) everything here was addressed. User:Zscout370 11:28, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

You just put "Talk:" in front of the article title.

I normally make a section with a GOCE title, such as this one. Chaosdruid (talk) 20:42, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Kidel by Simon Keitch.jpg

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Dead link in article 'Golbarg Bashi'

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Kitten

What a nice surprise! Thank you! I'm glad I could help. INeverCry 21:40, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Newark notables and lack of sources

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Patrik-Ian Polk

Hi. Thanks for contributing to the GOCE drive. I've just checked Patrik-Ian Polk, which you recently copy edited, and found a few more things that needed doing to it. Please would you take a look at my further copy edit. A couple of key points there are: we generally try to neutralise puffery, conceit and other flowery language. Unsubstantiated boasts are best removed altogether. We only use family names after the first occurrence, and it's good to use "he", "him", "his", rather than the actual name where it's clear who we're referring to, to avoid monotony. Kind regards, --Stfg (talk) 23:41, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

I agree your additional changes were merited, and now I know abut the preference for using the third person but I also did alot of copyediting. Who gets credit for editing this, thanks--Aichikawa (talk) 17:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

You absolutely get the credit. My work was part of the routine reviewing we do on drives, which isn't to claim credit, and not intended to detract from your contribution. I hope the comments were useful. Regards, --Stfg (talk) 19:59, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

They totally were. thanks!--Aichikawa (talk) 17:32, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Use of GOCEinuse

Hi. Please put {{GOCEinuse}} on articles only when you plan to start work on them immediately, and not just to reserve them for later editing, as you appear to have done at Tiger from Tjampa and Teardrops... Doing that may have the result of delaying the copy edit of those articles, if someone else was ready to do them. Thanks. --Stfg (talk) 13:40, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, won't do again (sheepish smile icon here)--Aichikawa (talk) 13:51, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

No worries. Take your pick from Template:Smiley3. --Stfg (talk) 14:05, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

PPACA edit

I am confused by your addition of "the speed of" to the PPACA lead. I skimmed the citations and didn't find where it is mentioned, and I don't know how laws have "speed". Please clarify. Thanks.Thomas Pain 67 (talk) 15:28, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Okay, will put up back up soon. --Aichikawa (talk) 16:09, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Joan Juliet Buck

Just because you do not like someone politics does not merit the materials removal, it just speaks badly of you. http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard&pe=1&#Joan_Juliet_Buck IPWAI (talk) 07:39, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Aichikawa. I've responded to your post on my talk page. Scolaire (talk) 19:10, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

HA Schult

As you are a professional artist and seem to have much experience in writing articles, may I ask you for a third opinion on Talk:HA Schult? There is a content dispute on HA Schult. One editor frequently removes what I have written, although I think that all was well sourced. Here are some diffs: Wikiwiserick (talk) 20:42, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 drive barnstars!

		Leaderboard Award—2nd Place, Number of Articles
		For copy editing 51 total articles, I present you with this GOCE silver star award. Excellent work! —Torchiest edits 01:15, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award—5th Place, Total Words
		For copy editing 60,269 total words, have another GOCE silver star award. Nicely done! —Torchiest edits 01:15, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award—4th Place, 5k+ Articles
		For copy editing two 5k articles, here is your third GOCE silver star award. Way to go! —Torchiest edits 01:15, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

		Leaderboard Award—3rd Place, Oldest Articles
		Finally, for knocking out 23 of the oldest articles in the backlog, enjoy your fourth GOCE silver star. Thanks so much for all your hard work! —Torchiest edits 01:15, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

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Joan Juliet Buck

You are not allowed to delete properly sourced information, like you are doing here. 78.100.53.5 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:09, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm supposed to take you seriously? You're an anonymous IP address.--Aichikawa (talk) 12:47, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Joan Juliet Buck

I added another reference — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.133.214.66 (talk) 19:44, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Obviously you have more sockets — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.133.214.66 (talk) 07:52, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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Hi

I am afraid I am not around much until the beginning of February, but after a quick look at the article, there are a few things that may be easily fixed. If I was to prepare an article for GA status, I would go through the GA & FA checklists and try and get it a little higher than the GA minimum. It is easy to see what is required to take it from a GA to an FA and to put some of those things in here can only aid in gaining a GA.

For example, take one thing which often crops up, images and the "alt=" parameter. At GA an image is required to have the alt= parameter present, but not completed, while at FA it is to be completed. It is easy enough to fill it in while add the alt= param.

Some ref material:

• Misplaced Pages:Good article criteria - What is expected
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After looking at these, the next step is doing a thorough copy-edit against MoS. Always try and use the project specific for additional criteria and variations to MoS. Here it would be the biographies MoS (link above).

If you are new to GA nominations, take a look at my first attempt (Talk:Belitung_shipwreck#GA_Review), and rest assured that it is normal to have that sort of attention to detail from the reviewer - especially if you get a good one!

I will try and give it a more thorough going over tonight or tomorrow, and probably do a copyedit, though I am a little rusty so it may be a little slow :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 21:11, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much, Chaosdruid!! You get a cat;)--Aichik (talk) 21:15, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Apologies - An unfortunate RL event took me away for a while, but if you still want me to I could give it a going over tonight. Chaosdruid (talk) 12:03, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

No worries. I haven't had time to even read your links. You know what, I'd appreciate you two cents on this instead.

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GOCE blitz

Hi Aichik. I'm very sorry, but the February blitz is for requests, not tagged articles. Analytical feminism and Anna Banana don't qualify for it, I'm afraid. --Stfg (talk) 08:59, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

No prob. Will know for next time! Thanks, Stfg for your work--Aichik (talk) 22:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Care To Explain + Watch Your Tone

Don't adopt this tone with me. How can removing sourced material be justified as constructive? Should I assume that according to you, far too many people are inspired by Beyonce and you are just removing the least famous ones just to overlong list of singers influenced by her? Jivesh1205 (Talk) 19:11, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

You are bringing up the past, and you're a rabid fan so there's no chance of reasoning with you so I won't try, thanks.--Aichik (talk) 19:20, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Rabid fan? Really? And how should I categorize you? As a pressed hater? Jivesh1205 (Talk) 19:23, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

P>S Watch your tone and selection of words. I am not your relative. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 19:25, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

No, You watch YOUR tone, you misogynist. "I am not your relative." Like I was saying I was? Your user page is a religious shrine to Beyoncé, a rich pop star for whom you work for free, thus rabid fandom. As for calling me a hater, you really need to read more, and stop staring at American pop stars boobs all day.--Aichik (talk) 19:31, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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