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The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
For exceptional copyediting efforts during the May 2010 Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive, editing 34 articles with a combined total of 83,101 words, SMasters is presented with this exclusive, brilliant, Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star. Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work! --Diannaa TALK 04:18, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

We got Jimbo!

I invited Jimmy Wales to sign up, and he did! This will be very for exposure/participation. ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 10:58, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

WOW!! That is soooooo cool! Congrats! :-) - S Masters (talk) 15:35, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can muster to get it down to a manageable number. We've ambitiously set a goal of clearing all of 2008 from the backlog this month. In order to do that, we're going to need more participants. Is there anyone that you can invite or ask to participate with you? If so, we're offering an award to the person who brings in the most referrals. Just notify ɳorɑfʈ Talk! or Diannaa TALK of who your referrals are. Once again, thanks for your support! Diannaa TALK 16:18, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 14 June 2010

Reviewer rights

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Maedin\talk 06:44, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Would you like rollback as well? I imagine you could find it useful. Let me know! Maedin\talk 06:45, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Yes, I think rollback will be very useful as I'm monitoring a lot of articles. - S Masters (talk) 07:53, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
You're welcome! I read the project interview in the latest Signpost, and noticed you were lacking some user rights, :) Maedin\talk 08:11, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Great! I hope you enjoyed the article. Let me personally invite you to join the Guild of Copy Editors July Backlog Elimination Drive. And thanks again for all the rights! :-) - S Masters (talk) 08:30, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, I appreciate the invitation. Among university, a 110-mile relocation, and an extended visit from my family, it's likely that I will have little time for copyediting and my contribution would be paltry at best. However, may I ask if the Guild of Copyeditors places a high priority on not converting to US spellings inappropriately? I have noticed well-meaning (and experienced) copyeditors converting entire articles to North American orthography based on a word or two, and regardless of the article's scope or provenance. I hope that "familiarity with the MoS" includes recognition of and appropriate implementation of regional variations of English. For example, would an American copyeditor skip a British spelling-article if they are unfamiliar with British usage? In my experience, "drives" of this sort with awards at the end encourage editors to leave off such considerations. Which (if you couldn't tell!) concerns me a bit, :) Maedin\talk 08:54, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Good luck with all that! Yes, that's a good suggestion. Personally, I do not do these types of conversion. I can spell British, US and a combination of both (e.g. Australian), and all are acceptable to me. However, you do raise a good point and I will put together a guide that will be placed on GOCE's main page as a general policy for spelling. - S Masters (talk) 09:03, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Ooooh, thank you! That will be great! I don't think we should be shy about regional variations of English and should embrace them, instead of suppressing them through ignorance. (Although I have to admit that allowing SI units to be spelled in an American way (metres comes to mind) is a disgrace!) Enough ranting from me, thanks for the positive response, :) Maedin\talk 09:44, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Rollback granted

I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when using rollback:

  • The Rollback user right is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
  • Rollback can be used to revert vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
  • Rollback may be removed at any time.

If you no longer want rollback, then contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some information on how to use rollback, you can view this page. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, just leave me a message if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Maedin\talk 08:24, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! - S Masters (talk) 08:30, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 June 2010

RuneScape

What I added to the article RuneScape is in fact what many RuneScape players and others feel about the game. It is a legitimate criticism (the fact that it is repetitive, boring, and addicting) of the game, and a reception section should also present some negatives to balance out viewpoints. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.91.49.165 (talk) 17:58, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a forum for personal opinion. You need to back up your entry by quoting reliable sources. Please note the article policies on its talk page regarding no original research, neutral point of view and verifiability. - S Masters (talk) 18:17, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

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Also, are you excited for the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive in about a week? I can't believe Jimbo signed up! The Utahraptor Talk 20:53, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 28 June 2010

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