User talk:Jay8g
A kitten for you!
Jay8g (talk) 04:04, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Slades Ferry Bridge revert
No offense intended, as you've definitely been doing a lot of good stuff around various articles. I just feel that the image is already pretty much at the limit for any detail to be seen w/o clicking on it. - Denimadept (talk) 05:34, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
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Re this message, a little context would have helped. I can only assume that you refer to File:Edward Elgar statue.png, but that was not an upload - it was an undelete. Well, I suppose it was but way back in 2004 when image use and WikiCommons was quite different! violet/riga [talk] 00:10, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Upload your free media to Commons, please!
Thanks for the information regarding the above, I will do so in future
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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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Transfers to Commons
Hi there. I'm not going to be a douche and fail all of your transfers, but you really should go back and add categories to all of the files you moved to Commons. This will make it easier for other projects to find and use these files. I did one for you here an an example. Thanks, Sven Manguard Wha? 01:08, 1 September 2011 (UTC) Sorry. Thanks for the help :Jay8g Hi!- I am... -What I do... WASH- BRIDGE- WPWA - MFIC- WPIM 01:10, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Just thought I'd let you know that you tagged the file for deletion, but never actually listed it at WP:PUF. Regards. — ξxplicit 00:22, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
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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 |
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A cup of tea for you!
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October 2011 Wikification drive
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SuggestBot request, and frequency
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I noticed you asked for some suggestions over on User:SuggestBot/Requests. Normally I don't send them to users who have also signed up to receive suggestions at regular intervals. Poking around in the history of your user talk page I noticed you requested them once a day, which we currently don't support as we don't have the computing resources to do it. We do have an unpublished feature of allowing you to get them once a week though (just set the parameter to "once a week" or "weekly"). Let me know if there's anything. Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 03:06, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
September barnstar
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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 |
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Invitation to join the January 2012 Move to Commons Drive
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| Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors
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A tool for you!
Hi Jay8g! 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 © • © 09:26, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
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| 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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GOCE November barnstar
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GOCE drive newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive report
 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.
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!
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.
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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Possibly unfree File:Regina airport, 1940.jpg
Thank you for your message. Actually the copyright law which is applicable here is that of Canada, not the USA. It is that copyright for anonymous works is fifty years from publication or 75 years from creation. Masalai (talk) 03:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
"[C]hange the license": Alas, after a dire health crisis from which I am thank heaven gradually recovering, I cannot recall how to do so! But thank you for your advice. Masalai (talk) 04:00, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report
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GOCE barnstar, January 2012 drive
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| This barnstar is awarded to Jay8g for editing 3 articles for an overall total of 4347 words during the January 2012 GOCE drive. Thank you for participating! --Stfg (talk) 12:08, 3 February 2012 (UTC) |
Photo of 'Bayonet Tony' Bıddle, 1942
Hi Jay8g.
I received a message about your comment "Current license doubtful but likely PD USGov."
I'm a single-time contributor to wiki, so please excuse my lack of expertise in use of the wiki vernacular.
Re: The photo... I obtained the photo (and the permission to use it) from Frank Trzaska, Webmaster/Owner of the Military Knives Website (at http://www.usmilitaryknives.com/scan56.JPG) on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:25:08 -0500. I have the original e-message exchange between us, if you would like to see it. At the time I submitted the article about my father, James M. Masters, Sr., wiki editor USMC Sgt Robert P Lemiszki guided me and eventually approved my submission. What can I do to persuade you of the photo's 'licence' authenticity?
Jim 'Champ' Masters (catidaki.adam@gmail.com)