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GOCE drive news
Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive
 Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats. 
 So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now.
We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal. Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success! Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), The UtahraptorTalk to me, and Tea with toast (Talk) |
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Not a parody
I've changed your hoax tag to a non-notable - the outfit does exist. Peridon (talk) 21:21, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
TB
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 02:54, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Again ^ Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 02:59, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
166.109.239.25
I undid his "hi" earlier today then he redid it to say "hi i am bob :)" a few hours later... that IP was banned for a year, that ban ended a month ago, i think it needs to be banned permanently, that IP has contributed NOTHING of consequence. I dont know Wikipedia laws or anything, maybe you might.--Billy Nair (talk) 21:19, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- oh, this was on the Thoth page.
- That makes sense. I guess the best thing is to add another warning on the talk page and eventually someone else will see they need another ban, i'll let them deal with it--Billy Nair (talk) 22:46, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- oh, this was on the Thoth page.
January barnstar
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The Modest Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to A. Parrot for copy editing articles totalling over 4000 words in the January GOCE Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Diannaa (Talk) 17:07, 4 February 2011 (UTC) |
GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion
| Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive
Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.
If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March. Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk) |
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DYK for Egyptian temple
 | On 9 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Egyptian temple, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that ancient Egyptian temples contain architectural elements that symbolize houses, hills, tombs, marshes, and guard towers? 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. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:04, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- Spectacular! How could such a gap have lasted so long?--Wetman (talk) 04:19, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- I saw your response on Wetman's page. Some former members (like me) discovered that there were topics -- like Ethiopia -- in worse need of attention. Had I not moved on, articles like Yekatit 12, Battle of Wayna Daga, & 1960 Ethiopian coup attempt would likely never have been written. Maybe some day, either when Ethiopian topics have more & better contributors, or I tire of writing about them, I will return to Egypt-related topics. But until then, please keep a watch over that corner of Wikipedia for those of us who can't. -- llywrch (talk) 22:45, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Why did you remove that title from DAFT? 173.26.237.244 (talk) 03:10, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
GOCE / Mid-drive newsletter
| Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.
 So far, 79 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 64 have participated. Interest is high due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page, and many new and first-time copy editors have joined us for the drive. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. We have assisted in the promotion of seven articles to Good article status so far this month.
We have already achieved our target of reducing the overall backlog by 10%; however, we have more work to do with the 2009 backlog. We have almost eliminated May 2009 and we only have some 700 articles left from 2009. It is excellent progress, so let's concentrate our fire power on the remaining months from 2009. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!
The UtahraptorTalk to me has decided to step down from his position as project coordinator due to real-life issues. Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk) and Tea with toast (Talk) |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 04:37, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
To be absolutely frank, all I have to say about you and that article is ‘Terrific work!’ Best wishes Ian Spackman (talk) 16:59, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil
Hi, Parrot. I answered your comments in Maria Amélia's FAC nomination page. Please respond once you have time. Also, your support of oppose to the article nomination would be welcome. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 19:55, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Heehee
Raul knew about it. I was keeping an eye on some of the joke pages to ensure nominations were closed, things reverted back to normal. Was going to remove the tag at midnite (UTC) but you beat me to it. =) CycloneGU (talk) 00:35, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive newsletter
| Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating in the March 2011 drive! This newsletter summarizes the March drive and other recent events.
There were 99 signups for the drive; of these, 70 participated. Interest was high mainly due to a link to our event from the Watchlist page. We had a record-breaking 84 articles listed on the Requests page in March; 11 of these have been promoted to Good article status so far. Several of our recent efforts have received Featured Article status as well, and the GOCE is becoming a solid resource for the Wikipedia community. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.
Remarkable progress was made in reducing the backlog this month, as we now have fewer than 500 articles remaining from 2009. We are well under the 4,000-article mark for the total number remaining in the queue. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 53% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their April drive has started.
On March 21, SMasters appointed Chaosdruid (talk) and Torchiest (talk) as Guild coordinators to serve in place of The Utahraptor, who recently stepped down. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. Your drive coordinators – S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk) and Tea with toast (Talk) |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 14:30, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
March barnstar
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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
| This barnstar is awarded to A. Parrot for copy editing articles totalling 8644 words in the March GOCE copy edit drive. Thank you very much for participating. Diannaa (Talk) 04:24, 3 April 2011 (UTC) |
Economy of Iran FAC
I think that if you really wanted to promote this article to FA as you say you do, you could list the issue exhaustively and I could try to make the necessary modification. It could be done quickly.
- I see. Just you know: I know this article well and know all (almost) sources of information as well. This to say that this part (of sourcing) should be instantaneous. In fact you can find them listed in most specialized articles already. What is needed is a quick copy editing afterwards :)
Congratulations!
Thanks for the message, and congratulations :-) It was a pleasure to review. and it's a really important contribution to our (not that great) Egyptology coverage. By the way - how much have you heard about the work we've been doing with the British Museum? There's got to be a reasonable chance that we'll end up working with them on something egypt-related sometime, would that be of any interest to you? The Land (talk) 09:38, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil
Hello, Parrot. Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil has been successfully promoted and is now a Featured Article. That would'nt have been possible if you had not taken your time to to review it and give your full support. I really appreciate that and I came here to let you know it. I mean it.
I'd like to make a comment about something else, if you don't mind. I saw the thread you created in the FAC talk page and I believe you should review articles that either you are interested in the subject or that you have somekind of knowledge on the subject. There is no need to suffer so much and review 10 articls because 10 editors reviewed your FAC. Wikipedia is supposed to be fun... in a serious place. But still fun. Not a pain in the ass. You're doing great and I think you should keep like that.
I'm leaving Wikipedia now, as I had some issues with an editor in the FAC of Maria Amélia which made me grow tired of this website. However, I don't want that to happen to another editors. Find frieds here, people who can back you up when you need or else, you'll be crushed when you face a clique. But I wish good luck and I hope you continue doing a great work as you have so far. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 12:31, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Yales Classical studies
Technically, it's a book series, and normally I would use the "series" field (as in here), however, in the cases where the volumes in a series do not have individual titles and do not form a clear multivolume work, the journal template seems appropriate (it's a much more frequent situation in the hard science than the humanities), at least, it fits the bibliographic data in a more natural way than the book one. I've seen that later volumes have separate titles, and for those I'd happily use the book format (especially as they have ISBNs, but even then it can get fuzzy, and in biology, many book series are still formatted as if they were journals). It's a bit of a judgement call, but I think the logic is sound. Circéus (talk) 17:02, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
James A. Garfield
Could you, A. Parrot, copy edit the James A. Garfield article for GA review? Thanks. Cmguy777 (talk) 00:41, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
- That is fine. Thanks for response and looking at the article. Cmguy777 (talk) 02:13, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
A. Parrot, why is it that you always seem to reject or revert my submissions for Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles? I've had lots of good ideas, and I hope it isn't anything personal. 173.26.222.97 (talk) 00:02, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive newsletter
The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 06:57, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
ANI
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Ironholds (talk) 19:18, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Nagore
Hi Parrot, Nagore Dargah page carried few images of the dargah. please bring that in the new merged article. Wasifwasif (talk) 12:05, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive newsletter
| Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors May 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating!
 There were 63 signups for the drive; of these, 45 participated. Although we did not award a bonus for articles from the Requests page this drive, we are not experiencing lengthy delays in getting the articles processed. Many thanks to editors who have been helping out at the Requests page and by copy editing articles from the backlog.
During the month of May we reduced the backlog by approximately 10%, and made remarkable progress on eliminating articles tagged from 2009. There are now only 15 articles left, down from the 415 that were present when the drive started. Since our backlog drives began in May 2010 with 8,323 articles, we have cleared more than 54% of the backlog. A complete list of results and barnstars awarded can be found here. Barnstars will be distributed over the next week. If you enjoyed participating in our event, you may also like to join the Wikification drives, which are held on alternate months to our drives. Their June drive has started.
The six-month term for our first tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the second 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. Please feel free to contact any coordinator if you have any questions or need assistance. Your project coordinators are S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), Tea with toast (Talk), Chaosdruid (talk), and Torchiest (talk). |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 08:16, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
May barnstar
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The Modest Barnstar | |
| This Modest barnstar is awarded to A. Parrot for copy edits of over 4,000 words in the May 2011 copy edit drive. Thank you for your participation! Diannaa (Talk) 01:24, 5 June 2011 (UTC) |
Seems to be Ank or Ankt (Anouke). link and link ... g.search anouke ... hope this helps ya ... --J. D. Redding 12:45, 8 June 2011 (UTC) (UTC) ps., Dictionary of Ancient Deities By Patricia Turner, Charles Russell Coulter seems to cite it, but it's a new book [2001], so it could be a source ... pps. could be related to Anuket (match the Name in hieroglyphs with this).
Merger discussion on Ptolemaic Egypt
See Talk:History of Ptolemaic Egypt#Proposed merger to Ptolemaic Kingdom - any comments? Needs some help, I figure gradually transferring stuff (with a wikilink in the edit summary) is the way to do it. Dougweller (talk) 12:46, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
GOCE elections
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
 Elections are currently underway for our Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days and ends on June 30, 23:59 UTC. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! There is also a referendum to appoint a Coordinator Emeritus. Cast your vote today. |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:39, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive invitation
| Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. 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". |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 08:42, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Pylons
With regards to referring to the towers of Church architecture as "pylons"...... well, in general, I wouldn't. But somebody added that to one of the articles. I think I moved it to somewhere more appropriate. I'll look into the history of those edits and find out where it came from, originally. Amandajm (talk) 15:20, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
Main page appearance
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on August 2, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 2, 2011. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article directors Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 20:26, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Egyptian temples were built for the official worship of the gods and commemoration of pharaohs in ancient Egypt. Within them the Egyptians performed the central functions of Egyptian religion: giving offerings to the gods, reenacting their mythological interactions through festivals, and warding off the forces of chaos. These rituals were seen as necessary for the gods to continue to uphold the divine order of the universe. Most of the populace was forbidden from entering temples' most sacred areas, but temples were still important religious sites for all classes of Egyptians. Temples are among the largest and most enduring examples of Egyptian architecture, with their elements arranged and decorated according to complex patterns of religious symbolism. A large temple owned sizable tracts of land and employed thousands of laymen to supply its needs. Some temples have become world-famous tourist attractions that contribute significantly to the modern Egyptian economy. Egyptologists continue to study the surviving temples, as they are invaluable sources of information about ancient Egyptian society. (more...)
GOCE drive report
Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive report
 Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Here is your end-of-drive report.
50 people signed up for the drive, of which 39 participated. Thanks to all who copy edited articles and helped us reduce the backlogs in both the total articles and requests. We offered a bonus for copy edits from the Requests page, and have been somewhat successful in reducing that backlog, as a record 89 new requests were received in the month of July.
During the month of July we reduced the backlog by 338 articles, or by about 8.5%. We did not reach our goal of a 10% reduction, but we came close, and did very well considering the small size of the group participating. Since our Backlog elimination drives began in May 2010, we have reduced the backlog by 4,708 articles. End-of-drive results can be found here. We will be handing out barnstars within the next week or two.
Please remember that the GOCE Requests page is receiving a high number of requests, with the number of August requests already above three per day. Any assistance to help keep the backlog down would be greatly appreciated. Our next drive will be in September. We hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 16:35, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive newsletter
| 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. |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 15:56, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Could you take a look at the latest edits on the Hemen article? The very latest edits by Drift chambers are just peculiar. It renders the article pretty illegible I think. I do not want to get into edit warring or anything like that. Seems like (s)he doesn't really want to listen to much constructive criticism? - Anneke --AB (talk) 17:43, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
- I did some editing to clean it up. :-) --AB (talk) 18:41, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive update
 Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.
We have had 55 people sign up for this drive so far, and 31 have participated. If you have signed up but have not yet copy edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! It's not too late to join the drive if you have not already done so. Another great way to help out is to watch-list the Coordinators talk page and participate in the ongoing development of the Guild.
So far, we have reduced the backlog by 75 articles, or about 19% of our goal. We have also cleared January 2010 off of the queue and are close to clearing off February and March. If each participant were to copy edit two articles from February and March 2010, they would be completely eliminated from the queue.
Several concerns have been brought up this drive about the usage of rollover words. Rollover words only count if they're from the previous drive. For example, if you received 1,000 rollover words in March and didn't participate in May, your rollover words return to zero. This is to encourage participation in multiple consecutive drives. Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:25, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Denyen
I'll look at it tomorrow, certainly the authorhouse and iuniverse stuff has to go, there is a huge amount of it on Wikipedia. On other issue, do you think it's worth replying at Talk:Great Pyramid of Giza? Dougweller (talk) 21:05, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
- The problem may be a)that this is someone bringing something off-wiki here, b)the IP could be anyone here, and c)a lot of the stuff is buried in the archives so you can't see the whole context. I struck through the boring part. I also think that there was a least borderline BLP violation there about Romer. Dougweller (talk) 05:13, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
September barnstar
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The Cleanup Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to A. Parrot for copy editing articles totalling over 12,000 words during the GOCE September copy edit drive! Your contributions are greatly appreciated. Dianna (talk) 05:17, 2 October 2011 (UTC) |
GOCE drive newsletter
| Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive report
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We would like to thank all who participated in this drive. Here is the end-of-drive report.
There were 58 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 42 participated. This is a slight increase from the July 2011 drive participation, where 39 out of 50 people that signed up participated. Thank you to everyone!
During the drive, we reduced the backlog by 146 articles, or by about 4%. Overall we did well, especially considering the exceptionally large number of articles that were tagged during September. Thus far we have reduced the copy edit backlog by 4854 articles, or by about 58%. If we keep up our current rate of copy editing, the backlog should be reduced by 65–70% by the end of this year. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. Barnstars will be handed out this week. Once again, thank you for participating in the Guild's September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Our next drive will be in November, and we hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 04:12, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive newsletter
| 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. |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 00:36, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Names of God (Egypt)
I have changed the category to Names of God in Ancient Egyptian religion now. Is that okay? Wiki-uk (talk) 08:48, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- Shall we remove the category completely then? For me it would be no problem, I was just diffusing the 'Names of God' category. Please confirm. Wiki-uk (talk) 18:02, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- Done. Wiki-uk (talk) 18:09, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
A tool for you!
Hi A. Parrot! I see that you are an copyeditor, and thought that you might appreciate some help with finding and eliminating multiple links (or wikification) from the article on which you are working.
I case you're not aware, all you need to do is install the following script:
importScript('User:Ucucha/duplinks.js');
onto Special:MyPage/skin.js, and you'll find a clickable link called "Highlight duplicate links" in your toolbox section of the page (probably in the left hand column). It can be found both in normal view mode and edit mode. Press on it, and away you go! Have fun! --Sp33dyphil © • © 09:25, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
I see you were involved in a discussion of Wheres Dan's edits at Denyen, perhaps you could keep an eye on this while I'm on a wikibreak? I've made some comments at the talk page. Also just reverted an edit of his elsewhere based on a book written for Sunday Schools. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 10:17, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive newsletter
| Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive update
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 46 people sign up for this drive so far, and 28 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 joined, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We are making great progress in our goal of clearing out the oldest articles (April, May, and June 2010) from the queue. There are 122 articles left in those categories, which compares very favorably with the 281 that were present at the close of the September drive. We have reduced the 2010 backlog by 184 articles so far. Coordinator elections: The term of our second tranche of coordinators will be running out at the end of the year, and we will be accepting nominations for new coordinators early in December. The election will likely run in the last two weeks of December. Please consider helping out by nominating yourself or someone else in the Guild as one of our coordinators. The commitment is for a six-month term. Thanks. Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 00:03, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for clearing that up!
Thanks for clearing up that little kerfuffle at Akhenaten. I don't know if you remember me, but our paths crossed a year or so ago--if I recall correctly--when we were both working on cleaning up some mess somewhere. It worked well then and it worked well today (I still love your username) and I just wanted to say Hello. Thanks again for the help. — UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 03:46, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
GOCE November barnstar
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| This barnstar is awarded to A. Parrot for copy editing articles totalling over 12,000 words during the November 2011 copy edit drive. Your work is appreciated. Dianna (talk) 16:06, 4 December 2011 (UTC) |
Brief comment
The pharaoh Ahmose I Chronology is not 100% secure but it probably dates to the mid-or early 16th century BCE. He could have taken power...perhaps not at 1550 BC but perhaps 1539 BC if Thutmose II had a reign of only 3 years. Some people claim that the Thera tsunami is referred to in a stela dating to his reign...but it may just be a metaphorical description of the damage that the Hyksos caused to Egypt instead as you can see in a long book review written here on Kim Ryholt's book on the Second Intermediate Period. The thing is Thutmose III's accession is accepted to be in 1479 BC based on lunar dates and there is not much leeway to date Ahmose's time-line much before 1539 BC, I would think. Egyptian chronology is still not settled now that Horemheb's true length has been dated to 14 years and 1 month (not 27 or 28 years) based on a large cache of wine dockets found in his VOK tomb which date to Year 13 and 14 of his reign. (see Jacobus Van Dijk, New Evidence on the Length of the Reign of Horemheb, JARCE 44 (2008) pp.193-200) It is Ay's reign that is now a problem--he could have ruled longer than 4 years--as most of his monuments were destroyed by Horemheb when the latter king came to power. Manetho's supposed figure of 14 years and 1 month for Horemheb which was amended to 4 yrs and 1 month is likely to be attributed to Horemheb. Ay seems to have been missed by Manetho. Ay's tomb too was defaced by Horemheb's agents. Sorry but I'm not very active at wikipedia nowadays. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 02:38, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry: I meant to say above that "Manetho's figure [in his Epitome] of 14 years and 1 month for Horemheb which was amended to 4 yrs and 1 month [and re-ascribed by Egyptologists to Ay based on a Year 4 stela dated to Ay's reign] is likely to be attributed to Horemheb" himself based on the cache of Year 13 and 14 wine dockets found in Horemheb's VOK tomb. I have read Van Dijk's paper and virtually all scholars today accept its conclusions that Horemheb had a short 14 year reign and not a long 27-28 year reign. It also perfectly explains many things--the lack of clear unambiguous higher dates for Horemheb beyond a Year 13 wine docket previously found in his Memphis (non-royal) tomb--and especially the unfinished state of this king's royal VOK tomb. In contrast, Seti I had a reign of about 11 years and finished his tomb within this time-frame--but Horemheb had to devote the first few years of his reign to sorting out the corruption that was endemic among Egypt's state officers that Akhenaten created in his centralised state and the chaos he caused in his attacks on the Amun priestshood. He could only devote more time to his tomb later...but Horemheb died before finishing his own funerary tomb just like Tutankhamun. Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 10:32, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Prince Thutmose was a Crown Prince?
It was Aidan Dodson who gave the information that Prince Thutmose was the Crown Prince of Amenhotep III in a 1990 JEA article. And this was from an inscribed document--the sarcophagus of Thutmose's cat which titled Prince Thutmose: "Crown Prince, Overseer of the Priests of Upper and Lower Egypt, High Priest of Ptah in Memphis and Sm-priest (of Ptah)." (not me or Dodson...who merely did the translation) So now a Crown Prince is not a Crown Prince and we are not supposed to believe the ancient Egyptians' words? Why would Prince Thutmose lie about this detail and inscribe it on such a minor item as his cat's sarcophagus? I find this somewhat puzzling. It seems more reasonable that Akhenaten was not originally Amenhotep III's intended heir but when Akhenaten's elder brother--Prince Thutmose--died, the king and Queen Tiye had to groom him for the throne but he had certain unorthodox ideas (for an Egyptian) about being pharaoh such as the idea of there being 1 supreme god and Egypt underwent a tumultuous 17 years under his rule which ended in near chaos. It was Tutankhamun, Ay and Horemheb who had to deal with his overcentralisation tendencies that led to massive corruption among a small number of state officials and a struggling state economy. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 03:50, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the information. I was wondering where the Quirke source came from. Personally, you know my views here but its not a biggie. I just have to follow Dodson's translation of the cat sarcophagus and firmly believe he was Amenhotep III's crown prince for a while. But your new title for Prince Thutmose is fine here. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 05:58, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
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Is the message you left at User talk:Guentherj77 a template? Looks useful. Dougweller (talk) 07:38, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
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Note that it's in blue! It was recreated but as an entirely different article on the book by that name. And still copyvio! I deleted the copyvio & found a source which wasn't exactly kind about it, but it was the first source that came up. Dougweller (talk) 10:25, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
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Always great to see the list go down. :)--Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:44, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Looking for Anything Picture-wise for Your Ancient Egyptian Articles?
Hello there -- long time no speak! Sorry, have been busy with a number of things for a while, and have not been very active here since helping to bring the Rosetta Stone up to Featured status last year.
Business will take me to Cambridge, U.K. next week, and am planning on visiting the extensive Ancient Egyptian collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum while there and I plan on bringing my camera along (assuming non-flash photography is allowed). Is there anything you will like me to be on the look-out for to help illustrate any of the articles you have an interest in?
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To answer your question on Kingdom of Blambangan speedy decline...
...well, it doesn't. At least, not by the time you got to it. =^_^=
I just checked the history of the article. What happened is that the author had replaced the {{db-nocontent}} template with, well, content, and then user:SDPatrolBot came in and put the template back. Repeat once, when the original author had ganked it again. So here, the author solved the problem, and in my opinion he was right, to remove an A3 speedy - though, the bot felt otherwise, evidently.
So long and short, I was right the first time, but the later replacement may be just a bug in the bot's reflex actions. Not sure how to fix that, as such a fix, from my perspective, could be overridden by filling the article with nothing more than gibberish. Then again, I'm not a coder.... --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 18:58, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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GOCE March drive wrap-up
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It's a pair of pliers, so you can remove the pole from your ass. Way to go! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.71.214.6 (talk) 06:19, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Pronunciation of Anubis
I looked up the pronunciation of Anubis online and I get \ə-ˈnü-bəs, -ˈnyü-\ according to Merriam-Webster Anubis. On the page for Anubis the pronunciation is given as /ʌˈnuːbʌs/. Should that be /əˈnuːbəs/ or is that the same somehow? Or are the print and online versions not in agreement with each other? Just curious. :-) --AB (talk) 01:56, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- No, you're right, it should be /əˈnuːbəs/. I'll change it. I just slightly misread the pronunciation guide at the front of the dictionary, which gives IPA conversions. (Webster's uses one symbol, "ə", for both sounds, but it says that their "ə" translates to IPA's "ʌ" when stressed and to IPA's "ə" when unstressed. Languages are complicated.) A. Parrot (talk) 03:17, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking into that. I couldn't tell :-). Languages are complicated and so are some of these systems for representing words (like IPA, MdC, etc. --AB (talk) 04:57, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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High Priest of Ra
hallo, I saw you changed High Priest of Re to High Priest of Ra. I wonder whether High Priest at Heliopolis is even better. At Heliopolis Ra and Atum where worshipped and there are titles for the high priest at this place indeed confirming that the high priest there was for Ra AND Atum. bw -- Udimu (talk) 09:11, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
- (answer to your reply on my page): the word by word translation of the title high priest of Amun is indeed: first god's servant of Amun, so highpriest of Amun comes very close. The main title of the high priest at Heliopolis is great one of the seers (wr mA.w), so the name of the deity does not even appear within the high priest title. However, the title great one of the seers has various variations, including: great one of the seers in Heliopolis, , great one of the seers in the temple of Re or great one of the seers of Re-Atum in Heliopolis. best wishes -- Udimu (talk) 18:53, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
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Egyptian pantheon
Hello Parrot, from what you told me, I gather that you are the specialist of Egyptian religion around here. Well I noticed a ca. +8500 signs edit on the article Egyptian pantheon immediatly reverted by ClueBot NG, the bot having interpreted it as vandalism. I had a look at it and it is not so clear, it seems to a genuine addition to the article. Rather than putting back the edit myself, I thought it would be better if you, who knows about egyptian religion, find the edit to be indeed vandalism or not. (I am really not sure). Iry-Hor (talk) 21:02, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
GOCE May drive wrap-up
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Hi!^^ Thank you SO much for help! Phew, wut a hard work for me... -.- But itz still fun and I´m happy about any help. Thx. Greetz;--Nephiliskos (talk) 17:39, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
- It´s finally finished now. Might satisfy you. Greetz;--Nephiliskos (talk) 08:16, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
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GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive
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The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their July 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on July 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on July 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to eliminate the articles tagged in April, May and June 2011 from the queue and to complete all requests placed before the end of June. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 6 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in April–June 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – 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) 18:40, 21 June 2012 (UTC) |
Osiris image at myth article
Thanks, that is a good suggestion, I'll look to see if there is a good place in those articles. _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 23:02, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter
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
| 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) 23:45, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your review of the Olmec colossal heads FAC, for ironing out all those typos, and for your support. All the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 07:01, 13 August 2012 (UTC) |
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GOCE news and September drive invitation
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GOCE mid-drive newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
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TFA
I like Osiris myth and suggested it for TFA, please feel free to join the discussion, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:14, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Precious
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Egyptian temple and myth |
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Page Curation newsletter
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GOCE September 2012 drive wrap-up
| 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) 23:25, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, can you answer the question about the hieroglyphs? Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:30, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
For Egyptian mythology and more:
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| Thank you for your contributions to maat, particularly your work on Egyptian mythology and numerous related articles. Your prose is beautiful and your research extensive. Love, groupuscule (talk) 01:59, 22 October 2012 (UTC) |
The Expert Barnstar
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The Expert Barnstar | |
| I hereby award you the Expert Barnstar for your outstanding contributions to Ancient Egypt-related topics. This award is given to a few people who are regarded experts in one or several particular fields. Congrats and keep up your excellent work :)!--Tomcat (7) 20:21, 8 November 2012 (UTC) |
Infobox vs Hierobox
Sorry for spamming your talkpage, I think it is time we revert all pharaoh pages using hieroboxes to standard infoboxes. I have explained why in the project talk page, in particular, I found ways to do add as many names, translations and transliterations in the standard infobox as required, see e.g. Khasekhemwy. This is important as it was the sole serious argument for using hieroboxes. Tell me what you think. Iry-Hor (talk) 20:12, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
GOCE November 2012 copy edit drive update
Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
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Metternich stela
Hi. You'd mentioned that you were looking for someone in NYC to take a picture of the Metternich stela for the corresponding article. I visited the Met and took a few pictures of it, but the quality is not great. The lightning in the display room is rather dim and the stela is inside a plexiglass case that causes reflections. If you really want them, I could upload them, but it seems to me that an argument could be made that some of the images here, for example, could be used under the PD-Art rules, since the three-dimensional texture is minor, especially for the pictures of the hieroglyphic text. It might also be possible to consult with the Met staff about the copyright status of the pictures. - Eb.hoop (talk) 23:46, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
- I uploaded the clearest of my pictures of the stela here. If you want to use it, please go ahead. Otherwise, I'll go ahead and delete it in a few days. - Eb.hoop (talk) 04:10, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Senor Cuete
I can check the sources on Tuesday. Serendipodous 20:48, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
- I've placed an order for them at the British Library but unfortunately they're stored offsite and I won't have access to them for at least 48 hours. Serendipodous 12:20, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
- Ok, I've made the revision. Unless Cuete has another issue to resolve, you're set, dude. Serendipodous 14:56, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
I just wanna say
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RICK ROLLED |
| You've got Rick Rolled! TheFunnyguy9000 (talk) 00:31, 1 December 2012 (UTC) |
GOCE November drive wrap-up
| 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) 20:51, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
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David Rohl and Sheshonk IV
Any chance you could comment on Rohl's post at Talk:Sheshonk IV? Another view would be helpful. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 22:02, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
GOCE mid-December newsletter
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O.K Dear But do not delete Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi and upload his foto as under
Thanks Sir Protect Mujeeb Zafar Anwar Hameedi from fake and il-legal editors from english wikipedia like .... you know better sir :) Your friend ! --Hasbi syed (talk) 03:51, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contribution. Could you please return to the article Hildegard Neumann and format your reference correctly. The instructions are at WP:CITE. Thanks. I've removed your edit for now. Thank you. Fylbecatulous talk 14:41, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
OK, I will try, although I used the same method before. 172.14.56.129 (talk) 05:54, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks, I have made a user contribution name and will try again on it.
Hello. I noticed your work at Talk:Luise Brunner and Talk:Anna Friederike Mathilde Klein. you have enough information for a full article, you can submit it at WP:Articles for creation, although at the moment the pages you've created about Brunner and Klein don't look like viable articles. If you were a registered user I would suggest that you move these articles to a user subpage, but I'm not sure that unregistered accounts are allowed to have their own user pages. In any case, these articles shouldn't be on talk pages. Maybe it would be best for you to work on the articles in a Wikipedia sandbox and keep copies of your work on your computer until you're ready to submit an article for creation.
If any of what I just said is confusing, you can follow the links I gave above or ask
Requesting help with print sources
Would you be able to help with the DYK review for Horus Sa? The article is using a bunch of online sources that appear to be much less substantial than they claim to be (and statements by the article's nominator compound my discomfort), and I'm getting almost no Google hits for the existence of Horus Sa. As a result, I'm starting to wonder if it might be an elaborate hoax, and it would greatly helpful to have input from someone with FA-writing experience, since I'm guessing that you'd have access to relevant print sources. Nyttend (talk) 14:06, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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Seasons greetings to you and yours
Dougweller (talk) 14:18, 25 December 2012 (UTC)