User talk:Lippmare
HI! Lippmare (talk) 21:05, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
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[edit]Rebecca, Yes, I'm happy to help you. I see that you have access to a lot of tutorials on Wikipedia, and that you have started simple editing. I would point out that when you leave a comment on a talk page, you should sign the comment by leaving four tildes (~~~~) at the end. This will generate your user name and the time and date. If you will look at my talk page, you will see where a bot has signed your comment for you. However, getting in the habit of signing your comments will show courtesy to other editors. I'm usually on-line more than one time a day, and I'll try to respond quickly to any questions. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia. -- Donald Albury 22:11, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Just a note to say hello. I see that you have made a few grammar corrections in articles. Just remember that if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my talk page (I am usually active on Wikipedia at least a couple of times a day). If you are using IRC, just ask on #wikipedia-en-classroom. -- Donald Albury 11:29, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Article choice
[edit]I've taken a look at State bar association (notice the capitalization, Wikipedia is picky about capitalization in article titles). I think it can be expanded, but it is sort of sandwiched in between Bar association and the articles about various state bar associations. I notice that there are no articles for the bar associations in over half the states. Oh my, now I see Bar (law). I expect that State bar association will be more interesting than an article about one state's bar association. You should keep in mind as you work how the article fits in with Bar association, Bar (law) and the articles on the bar in the several states. Something else to think about is how the article relates to the bar associations in US commonwealths and territories (i,e, Puerto Rico Bar Association). You should start looking for sources. If you are going to have trouble finding reliable sources, you want to know as soon as possible. However, I don't think that will a problem on this topic. Books and scholarly journals are usually the most reliable sources, but on-line sources that support major points can be helpful to readers who don't have access to large college/university libraries, or, in this case, to law libraries. I hope my thoughts here are helpful. -- Donald Albury 22:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Your Question
[edit]In answer to your question, I would do a bit of research to see if you can find a least four good sources about an individual state, and if you can't, go ahead with the broader term. Henni2me (talk) 17:17, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, if your article has expanded five-fold, I would go ahead and nominate it for DYK. Head over to the did you know page and scan through the process and look at the suggestions on how to write a hook. Once you think you've got one, head over to the DYK template talk page and add your hook in the current nominations section.
Also, your idea of adding a paragraph here and there sounds good; it is definitely a good way to improve Wikipedia and learn a lot in the process! I'd run it by Cindy just to make sure she doesn't want you to keep working on the same article first. Good luck! Henni2me (talk) 00:24, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry to disappoint you, but you did not expand the article five-fold within five days. Please see Wikipedia:Did you know/Additional rules for more on how the rules are interpreted. I think it was perhaps asking too much to expect a new editor to negotiate the requirements for DYK on his or her first article. I might add that my first self-nomination for DYK was rejected, and that was years ago when the criteria were much less detailed. In any case, what is important is what you learn from this process (and, of course, how you do in your course). -- Donald Albury 13:44, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Citing sources
[edit]Rebecca, the Wikipedia guideline for citing sources is at Wikipedia:Citing sources. You can also enter the shortcut WP:CITE in in the search box to get there. Don't worry about mastering all the stuff in the guideline, at least for now. Citations in the text of an article are placed inside the wiki markup <ref> ... </ref>. You will also need the template {{reflist}} near the end of the article, in a section named ==Notes== or ==Citations==. The double dash (==) creates the section header in the displayed text.
The citation itself can take different forms. If you want to cite a page on the Internet a single time, place the URL plus some plain text name for the site inside square brackets (i.e., [URL name]). If you want to cite the same web page more than once, you can define a named ref that allows cites after the first one to be abbreviated. I'll let that go for now rather than try to cover too much. For print works you can follow a citation style that you are comfortable with: MLA, Harvard, etc. If you have such citations, you need to put the bibliographic information in a section I call ==References==, although I have seen ==Bibliography==. Take a look at a relatively small article I've recently completed, New Georgia, Liberia, and then open it for editing. Look at what the wiki code does.
Don't worry too much about getting everything right at first. As long as you provide enough information to identify your sources, other editors will help with the formatting. You may also notice the various templates available for formatting citations. Don't worry about them for now. It is perfectly acceptable to format citations by hand. In fact, I do not use the templates at all. While they help to impose a uniformity on citation style, they are not intuitive, and are difficult to work with in edit mode.
I hope that gives you a start. Ask any questions you may have and I will try my best to answer them. -- Donald Albury 22:31, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
And I will brag just a little. It looks like New Georgia, Liberia will be on the main page tomorrow afternoon in the Did you know ... section. -- Donald Albury 22:50, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Budget and Accounting Act
[edit]I was just looking at Budget and Accounting Act. Looks good. There are some formatting issues that I will help you with. One thing, for now. You have expanded the article by about 3 1/2 times in 4 days. If you expand an existing article at least 5x within 5 days, it is eligible for the Did You Know section on the Main Page. If you can add more to the article today, say by filling in the General Accounting Office section to at least the size of the Bureau of the Budget section, the article should be eligible for DYK. Unfortunately, I think that would have to done by this afternoon.
Something else, were you aware of Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (Good-McCormack Act)? It is unsourced, newer than Budget and Accounting Act, and there has been a proposal to merge it into Budget and Accounting Act sitting on the page for a couple of years (apparently the merge proposal was never added to Budget and Accounting Act). I'll take care of it. -- Donald Albury 12:54, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
I just made some changes to the formatting in the article. Specifically, citations should immediately follow punctuation (usually a period at the end of a sentence). There should never be a space before <ref> and there should always be a space after </ref>. We use straight-up quote marks (") for both opening and closing quotes in Wikipedia. For block quotes it is usually best to use the {{quote}} template. Finally, I reworded the sentence about the term of the Comptroller General to eliminate the pronoun. While gender-neutral language is recommended in Wikipedia, the pronoun "it" is not appropriate for a person. Keep up the good work. -- Donald Albury 12:34, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
- I apologize for not being in touch. I've been distracted off-wiki. I'm sorry to say that you did not expand the article five-fold within five days. Article size and expansion for DYK purposes is measured on prose text, which does not include infoboxes, headings, formatting, citations, references or any of the items found at the bottom of an article. How much more do you expect to do on the article? I'll keep an eye on the article. -- Donald Albury 02:42, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Checking in
[edit]How are you doing? I see that you are still working on your article. If you are interested in getting feedback from uninvolved editors, you can try at Wikipedia:Requests for feedback. You might also ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Law. I can't guarantee that you will get a response from either source, but it wouldn't hurt to try. -- Donald Albury 12:25, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Just checking with you again. I corrected the links I left in my last post (sorry about that). The article looks fine. If you are interested in soliciting comments from other users, you can still try those links. -- Donald Albury 00:48, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive newsletter
[edit]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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GOCE drive newsletter
[edit]| Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors
The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their November 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles (and specifically will be targeting the oldest three months), as we want to copy edit as many of these as possible. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. |
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GOCE newsletter
[edit]Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report
[edit]| Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report
We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report.
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On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus). |
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GOCE March copy edit drive
[edit]| Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors
The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their March 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:43, 20 February 2012 (UTC) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
GOCE March drive newsletter
[edit] Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update
 Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk)To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
GOCE March drive wrap-up
[edit]| Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months. Progress report During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk)To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
GOCE May copy edit drive
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GOCE May mid-drive newsletter
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
 Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles. Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg >>> Sign up now <<<
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GOCE May drive wrap-up
[edit]| Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 15:41, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
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GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive
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GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter
[edit]| Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 25 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—May, June, and July 2011—by about 40%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 264 articles so far, to around 2500 articles. Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, your best copy-editing work of the month will be eligible for fabulous prizes! See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Sign up now <<<
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GOCE July drive wrap-up
[edit]| Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
Participation: Out of 45 people who signed up this drive, 31 have copy-edited at least one article. Lfstevens continues to carry most of the weight, having edited 360 articles and over a quarter of a million words already. Thanks to all who have participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, will be available early in August here. Progress report: We are once again very close to achieving in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog. Only 35 such articles remain at press time. The total backlog currently sits at under 2400 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We are just two articles away from completing all requests made before July 2012 (both are in progress). Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, you'll be able to submit your best copy-editing work for palaver, praise, and prizes. See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:06, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
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GOCE news and September drive invitation
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GOCE September activities
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GOCE mid-drive newsletter
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
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GOCE September 2012 drive wrap-up
[edit]| Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
Participation: Out of 41 people who signed up this drive, 28 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing July, August, September and October 2011 from the backlog. This means that, for the first time since the drives began, the backlog is less than a year. At least 677 tagged articles were copy edited, although 365 new ones were added during the month. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2341 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 54 requests outstanding before September 2012 as well as eight of those made in September. Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the August 2012 competition, and prizes will be issued soon. The September 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The October 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 23:43, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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GOCE fall newsletter
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GOCE November 2012 copy edit drive update
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
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GOCE November drive wrap-up
[edit]| Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 38 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy-edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. All the barnstars have now been distributed. Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing November and December 2011 from the backlog. For the first time since the drives began, the backlog consists only of articles tagged in the current year. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2690 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 56 requests outstanding before November 2012 as well as eight of those made in November. Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the October 2012 competition, and prizes have been issued. The November 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The December 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our fourth tranche of Guild coordinators will expire at the end of December. Nominations are open for the fifth tranche of coordinators, who will serve from 1 January to 30 June 2013. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 20:54, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
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