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If you must contact me and it's important, please use Special:EmailUser/NYKevin in addition to or in place of this page. I have Wikipedia set up to notify me of changes here via email, but I don't 100% trust it.

A pie for you!

Happy semi-retirement! I guess you just had to improve Wikipedia a little more before you go for good. I trust that will never happen. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 13:18, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I have multiple papers due soon, though, so I might not be very responsive for the next week or so. --NYKevin @688, i.e. 15:31, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Template nomination

Thanks very much. I'm afraid I made the same mistake with Template:User morefart, nominated for deletion on the same day. ScottyBerg (talk) 18:22, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Keep in mind that you may withdraw your own nomination as long as it has not received any commentary. Just follow the instructions (yes it says "administrator instructions," but you don't have to be an administrator) and give an outcome of nomination withdrawn or something like that. --NYKevin @812, i.e. 18:29, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

I will, thanks. Have already nominated for MfD and withdrawn it, but I'll complete those steps. ScottyBerg (talk)

Significand copy edit

Hello NYKevin. This is in response to your request on the GOCE drive page. I thought you copy edit of Significand did improve the article quite a bit, and you caught all the major things, but there are a few things you could reconsider:

• Opening sentence was: "The significand (also coefficient or mantissa) is the part of a floating-point number that contains its significant digits." You changed it to "The significand (also coefficient or mantissa) is part of a floating-point number, consisting of its significant digits." The original definition is clear that the significand is the one and only part of the FP number that contains ..., while your change loses this.
• (By the way, in the next sentence, although a change along your lines is needed, shouldn't it say "be represented by"?)
• You changed some expressions of the form "with integer significand 12345" into the form "with an integer significand of 12345". This is a pity: in the original, "integer significand" and "12345" are in apposition, and that seems ideal for this purpose. "and" and "of" are redundant and a bit clunky.
• Original: "In describing binary floating-point types, the significand is characterised by a certain width in bits (binary digits)." Removing the opening clause from this cuts the reader loose from the context. Significands are not so characterised in other contexts than this one.

Hope this is useful. Best regards, --Stfg (talk) 09:47, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your advice, but I don't think I will make most of those changes:

• I think that's still clear, since it states that the significand consists of the significant digits, which presumably don't need to be stored twice.
• No, the whole point of floating point types is to represent fractional values (as well as very large/small integers). Using a fractional value in representing one would be a non-starter. The significand itself is always represented internally as an integer (well, if you want to get really technical, everything is represented as a string of bits... at least in practical computing); it represents a fraction if it's defined by the floating point type to have a decimal point at a specific place.
• Personally, I think my way is easier to read. The original felt overly technical.
• This information is also present at the end of the paragraph, so it hasn't been lost. However, it may be helpful to have it at the beginning as well, so I'll go and add it back now.

I do appreciate the time you spent on reviewing my edit, and if you disagree with me, please feel free to implement these changes yourself. --NYKevin @778, i.e. 17:40, 11 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

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Consensus

Hello. Please visit this section of the Ra.One talk page, and provide a consensus so as to decide the future of my proposition. I will be glad if you also mention some comments regarding how to approach this (undoubtedly) longer and more detailed review. Thank you. AnkitBhatt^WDF AnkitBhatt^WDF 16:48, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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GOCE drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive report GOCE November 2011 Backlog elimination drive progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We would like to thank all who participated in this drive. Here is the end-of-drive report. Participation There were 48 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 35 participated. Thank you to everyone who helped reduce the size of the backlog! Progress report During the drive, we reduced the backlog by 232 articles, or by about 6%. This is a two percent increase from our September drive, when we copy edited 4% of the backlog. We were successful in our primary goal of clearing the oldest three months—March, April, and May 2010—from the queue. Thanks to all who helped copy edit these difficult articles. Thus far we have reduced the copy edit backlog by 5086 articles, or by about 61%. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. Coordinator election The term of our second tranche of coordinators has run out, and we will be accepting nominations from December 5, 00:01 UTC to December 15, 23:59 UTC. If you or any other member of the Guild of Copy Editors wishes to be a coordinator, add your name to this page along with a statement describing why you believe you should be a coordinator for the Guild. You must be able to commit to a six month term. Thanks! Once again, thank you for participating in the Guild's November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Our next drive will be in January, and we hope to see you there! Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

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GOCE newsletter

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Elections are currently underway for our third tranche of Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, 16 December – 23:59 UTC, 31 December. All GOCE members, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are five candidates vying for four positions. Your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

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. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here 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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Help desk

Kevin, I'm sorry if I ruffled your feathers by coming across incorrectly on the help desk yesterday. I'm perfectly aware that HARM isn't policy, and have read COMPREHENSIVE; I know how the encyclopedia works. I agree with you 100% that the removal isn't supported by policy. What I was trying to say is that, when someone who claims to be (and we have little reason to doubt them) the sibling of a recent suicide victim posts a thread and asks for a small favour to ease their grief, words to the effect of "well, your brother's dead now so we can say what we like" aren't the most tactful. I hope that this clears things up. Regards, Brammers (talk/c) 17:43, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

And I'm sorry for snapping at you, I shouldn't have done so. I misinterpreted your comment as an appeal to offense ("your position is offensive, so it's wrong"), which irked me. I'll go and strike the rude parts of the comment now. --NYKevin @795, i.e. 18:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. That kind of argument crops up a lot, I find, and they bug me too. Have a good evening, and see you around on the wiki. Brammers (talk/c) 18:43, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

I really appreciate what you just did. Thank you. Von Restorff (talk) 18:12, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Rescue Template

Hey; as you'll now see from the tag at the top, I'm closing this TfD. Please do not make any more edits to it. Ironholds (talk) 05:30, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't notice the tag immediately, and at any rate, canvassing is a serious allegation, and I'm glad that we were able to resolve it so quickly. Hopefully this will mean less work for you as the closer, since you won't need to worry about that allegation (which, according to history, was present when the closing tag was added). I will, of course, refrain from editing it again. Thanks for closing, I know it won't be easy. --NYKevin @273, i.e. 05:33, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

That's okay; it's a big discussion, I understand how changes to individual bits of it can be missed :). Yeah, I'm probably going to spend half an hour sitting here scribbling with a bit o'paper. Ironholds (talk) 05:40, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

DRV

A notification that the Templates for Discussion discussion (oy, repetition) has been taken to a deletion review discussion. The Article Rescue Squadron was notified, and as notifications to previous involved parties isn't normal practise, I and a few ARS members agreed that, in the interests of transparency and fairness, we should let everyone know...hence this talkpage message ;).

If anyone has an issue with me sending these out, do drop me a note on my talkpage. Regards, Ironholds (talk) 10:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March copy edit drive

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GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs 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.

Stable, stability

Hi NYKevin,

thanks for your answer to my question. I think rather of a computer algorithm that reads the history of the article (i.e. the last 500 edits) and watch for the last 6 weeks the growth, the number of edits per week, the number of reverts, a minimal age of the article (others?). Then we give the factors a weight according to simple criteria and calculate a "stability"-meter. Has someone ever done such experiment?. --Best regards, Keysanger (what?) 10:20, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm not aware of such a thing. There might be something on the Toolserver, but that's having problems right now... --NYKevin @655, i.e. 14:43, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph 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. EdwardsBot (talk) 22:12, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Woodleigh School, North Yorkshire#Request for comment

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Woodleigh School, North Yorkshire#Request for comment. Yunshui 雲‍水 08:30, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Page appears to have gone? Is that per the rules? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonyinman (talk • contribs) 23:43, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

If you're talking about AFD, no, the page is not "gone". It will not be "gone" for five days, unless the community so obviously wants to get rid of it that it's not worth discussing for that long. If you want it kept, I recommend commenting at the AFD discussion. --NYKevin @034, i.e. 23:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

No - I don't want to get involved in this, thanks. isfutile:P (talk) 23:59, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May copy edit drive

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Re: RfD about redirect you changed

Thanks for the heads-up. I have no idea about what I was thinking, or why I sloppily only changed one of the possible redirs if it made sense. -- Kendrick7^talk 10:43, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

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 <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 14:38, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

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) 15:47, 3 June 2012 (UTC)