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Happy editing! Cheers, sawyer / talk 03:52, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Cellina Starfire, I hope you are doing fine in this new year. I found you on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/List of participants and now I am here to request you to take part in this small task if you are interested in any way. The task here is to put in the template by replacing the exsting format, like I did it here: here. Thank you. Keep contributing!! 456legendtalk 10:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Cellina Starfire, I saw the seeking adoption tag on your page. Was the request specifically for improving the Andrea Bocelli article, or are you looking for guidance on other areas of Wikipedia too? Jay 💬 07:09, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd love help with both. Learning more about Wikipedia in general will help me improve the Andrea Bocelli article, and it can help me in the future, too! (School has been taking my time lately, so I haven't edited much currently... I would love to get back to it sometime, though!) > Cellina Starfire: talk? 17:33, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As you are already into typo correction and copyediting, going through the articles from Category:Wikipedia pages needing cleanup can help you get into other aspects of article writing. The target is to fix the problem in the article for which it is tagged, and then remove the tag, so it doesn't show up as problematic any more. The same editor may not be able to fix all problems, but may do what they are comfortable with. For reference, WP:CLEANUPTAG has a list that articles are tagged with. Jay 💬 08:16, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome Cellina Starfire!

Sm8900 (talk) 16:08, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there @Cellina Starfire, would you still like to be adopted? I'd love to help you out! Please reply with a ping (@Mseingth2133444) if yes. Mseingth2133444 (talk/contribs) 00:17, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mseingth2133444 I would still like to be adopted, yes! I've been random article patrolling lately, just trying to get used to editing and to learn by doing. I hope to reach the point where I can improve articles to featured level, and having an experienced editor to help me learn how to do that would be ideal.

(Fun thing: you have "444" in your username, which is my lucky number. If that's not a good sign, I don't know what is, lol.) > Cellina Starfire: talk? 01:54, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done @Cellina Starfire see message below. Mseingth2133444 (talk/contribs) 15:05, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Tesseractic! I see that you have expressed an interest in being adopted by an experienced editor. I accept your request, being an experienced editor myself. Whether you want to learn about wiki markup, find something to do, or just talk to somebody, I'm the one you can talk to - just leave a message on my talk page. Good luck with Wikipedia! Mseingth2133444 (talk/contribs) 15:05, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cellina Starfire By the way, I'm currently working on an adoption course, so please be patient. I will let you know when I have it done. Mseingth2133444 (talk/contribs) 00:18, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A new chapter for my WIP adoption course is out. Check it out here: User:Mseingth2133444/Adoption Course/Intro Mseingth2133444 (talk/contribs) 00:56, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello fellow grad student, thanks for signing my guestbook! Let me know if you ever make your own, or have any questions I can try to help with. Have a great day! GeogSage (⚔Chat?⚔) 06:06, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll certainly look into making a guestbook! The master page makes it so easy to find other guestbooks to sign :] > Cellina Starfire: talk? 03:56, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thanks for signing my guestbook! Myrealnamm (💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 15:25, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... to WP:QAI! I see that you just started and are interested in music, - best wishes. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:16, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Gerda! I am new to Wikipedia, yes, but article improvement is a goal of mine anyway, so I figured I'd join the group so I can learn more. Andrea Bocelli's article will be featured one of these days if I have anything to do with it...! > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 23:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great plan. List reviews on the project, please! And review, to get the feeling for what will be needed. - Today I see Marian Anderson as my top story (by NBC, 1939), and below (on my talk) three people with raised arms, - and the place is the cherry blossom in Frauenstein. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:51, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relief: the last of six RD articles in one week is now on the Main page - yesterday I went to a great recital with many anti-war songs by Jewish composers whose music was banned by the Nazis. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:00, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for improving the project's quality and welcoming new users in April! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:03, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm CanonNi. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Violin Concerto in A minor (Bach)—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 03:30, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That contribution was completely legitimate - the man who analyzed the piece had the last name "Butt". I reverted a past edit because they assumed the same thing as you. > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 03:33, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @CanonNi to ensure you see this so I can revert safely. This one was a vandalism false alarm. > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 03:49, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that, please revert then. It was my mistake, I saw a edit replacing "But some" with "Butt" and reverted. Sorry! If you wish, you can remove the warning. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 03:52, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I totally understand the mistake - thanks! > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 03:54, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for improving articles in May! - Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (DYK) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old (OTD). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:15, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

per the scords:

I MADE 444 EDITS AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS CRAPPY T-SHIRT

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LOL, love it! I will wear it with pride. > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 14:41, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Tesseractic! I noticed you posted a request for a GA mentor, and I can answer that! I mostly have experience with video game-related articles but have also reviewed biographies. Would you like to pick a good article nominee to get experience with or would you like me to put together a list of some that might be good to start with?

P.S. I'm also always available on the Wikimedia Discord under the same name ~Adam ^{(talk · contribs)} 22:41, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A list of GANs that I could review would be nice. I'll make sure to message you here or on Discord if I have any questions! Thanks, > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 16:55, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I have a shortlist of articles I picked from the GAN list. Before reviewing, if you haven't already, familiarize yourself with the GA criteria and the reviewing instructions. One of my favorite essays on Wikipedia is "What the Good article criteria are not", which I also recommend reading -- it gives some pointers on how to interpret the GA criteria and warns against common pitfalls (especially being overly strict in a review); of course, it's just an essay.

All that said, I chose some articles from the Music and Video games sections which you indicated are areas you edit in/are interested in. There is only one nominated chemistry article, and I also chose not to list any science articles, since these have additional considerations to review, primarily the use of technical language and jargon, and how the article reads to a broad audience. Music and video games shouldn't really have this problem (to the same extent)! I gave some ideas of why I chose certain articles and some possible cons to each. In general, I avoided inexperienced nominators, very new nominations, and articles that were too long (in my opinion). Ideal articles for your first couple reviews are already well-written and relatively short, with not many sources to check.

Music

• Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)
  • Experienced nominator who seems responsive during reviews (although their first language is not English), relatively short prose, sources look like they're on the web, no image copyright to check
  • Medium number of sources to check, requires special attention for BLP, somewhat inconvenient sectioning,
• Mai Fujisawa
  • Incredibly short article (one of the shortest noms I've seen), nominator is experienced and active in peer reviews (and responsive in previous GAs),
  • Would not recommend because it's so short that it won't be a great learning experience, and there are some considerations like broadness that will stand out more as well. Maybe pick up another short nomination in addition to this if you can (just picking one at random from the Songs section, maybe Pero Dile or Follow Me (Zoey 101))

Video games

• Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
  • Medium-short article, only 42 citations, nominator has many GAs and reviews in this topic area, at a glance appears like a reasonably high-quality article, it follows a very standard article layout for video games
• Fallout Online
  • Very few sources to check (24) and almost all are on the web, prose looks high quality at a glance, nominator has a history of excellent articles and seems responsive during reviews
  • Medium length of prose (not bad)

Feel free to open a review for one of these and let me know, or ask me if you have any questions first. You can also just ignore these and pick any open nominee on the list, but keep in mind the reasons I picked these (I don't think there was any Italian music in there, but I could have missed one!) . I can always answer questions or provide a second opinion during the review process as well.

P.S. I almost forgot! GANReviewTool is an incredibly helpful script to automate this process and I would highly suggest installing it! Review the passing instructions to make sure you know what steps the script takes on your behalf. ~Adam ^{(talk · contribs)} 22:14, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cecelia Hall looks like a good article to review! I've installed GANReviewTool and I'll definitely be reading that essay!

Thanks so much for the recommendations - I will look into the review tomorrow, most likely. > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 00:08, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Turkish lira banknote Hello, Tesseractic. The article for improvement of the week is: National economy (Turkey) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: State of emergency • Sun Management Center Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 10 June 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Field hockey stick and ball Hello, Tesseractic. The article for improvement of the week is: Sports equipment Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: National economy (Turkey) • State of emergency Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 June 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

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Thank you for improving article quality in June and for welcoming new users! - Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:21, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Breaking wave Hello, Tesseractic. The article for improvement of the week is: Breaking wave Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sports equipment • National economy (Turkey) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 June 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, a group of planar walking mechanisms Hello, Tesseractic. The article for improvement of the week is: Mechanism (engineering) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Breaking wave • Sports equipment Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Ambush of Polish partisans against Russian forces during the January Uprising, 1863 Hello, Tesseractic. The article for improvement of the week is: Ambush Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Applied science • Mechanism (engineering) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 July 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

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Cape of Good Hope (left) and Cape Hangklip (right) in South Africa Hello, Tesseractic. The article for improvement of the week is: Cape (geography) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Ambush • Applied science Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 July 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

You must be have been assigned to me recently. I do apologize for my abrupt resignation as a mentor. I will always answer any questions you may have about Wikipedia but I feel as though I can not encourage editing the way I wish I could anymore. I can not throw my support behind this encyclopedia so long as it allows racial bias to guide its policies. There are phenomenal people here that I have grown to love and care for greatly. I will continue to do that. Good luck to you and I wish you all the best. Thank you for editing. --ARoseWolf 18:31, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry you've had that experience, but I understand it. I've been getting burnt out lately (with other things), but I hope to have the energy to edit again soon.

When/if I find the energy to edit regularly again, I'll gladly ask you questions! > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 23:27, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Calder's Flamingo in Chicago Hello, Tesseractic. The article for improvement of the week is: List of public art in Chicago Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cape (geography) • Ambush Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Smiling woman Hello, Tesseractic. The article for improvement of the week is: Happiness Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: List of public art in Chicago • Cape (geography) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

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A fictional social network diagram Hello, Tesseractic. The article for improvement of the week is: Social experiment Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Happiness • List of public art in Chicago Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 August 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

It would seem you are the first to edit my own user page. I tip my hat to you for catching the typo. If you have interests in film articles, we shall talk. Paleface Jack (talk) 04:33, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a wonder where executive dysfunction can take someone - it seems that today, it was your user page!

Sadly, I don't have much interest in film articles... music and science articles are more my thing, though my edits are only at surface level of late. I do hope to gain the time and experience to edit more substantially... one of these days, when college isn't taking up all of my precious focus. > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 04:52, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

understandable. I am here if you need to talk or find something interesting. Paleface Jack (talk) 15:47, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Considering you want more experiance, I have some ideas to help you with that.--Paleface Jack (talk) 01:21, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What are you thinking? I'm certainly interested. > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 20:56, 25 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I think the writing was on the wall, but I can't do the adoption thing anymore. I just don't have the time commitment. If you'd like, I can add to my adoption course in case you adopt any users in the future. Regards, thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 01:48, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I had a feeling, and that's alright. I haven't been the most active anyway.
If you could add me to your course, that would be great. I'd love to train new users once I am more available to do so. > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 23:54, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's publicly available at User:TheTechie/Adoption Course. While I will not be able to adopt anyone, please feel free to suggest new lessons to add anytime on my talk page. TheTechie@enwiki (she/they | talk) 03:51, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for improving articles in November! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:25, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Tesseractic! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:47, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, I stumbled across your page as I was cleaning up incoming redirects and links and noticed you had a todo list for an article for this. As you can see at A Family Christmas (Bocelli album) - the article exists now :) If you'd like to jump in and help expand it, you are more than welcome :) Especially the reception section could use some additional details of the charts of the album. Raladic (talk) 06:57, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you kindly! I'll see about helping, but I am quite busy with college as of late. Maybe I'll have to throw more things into the Andrea Bocelli Coalition page... I didn't expect anyone else to go through my list, so I've left it unattended for a while. It's much appreciated! ☆ > Tesseractic: talk? ✎ 03:15, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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2025 opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had). Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) - How are you? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:39, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for improving article quality in February! - I pointed at a composer yesterday, as the main page had. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:22, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and a soprano today whose performance impressed me. (didn't notice that a new day had begun) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:53, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2025 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2025 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, Wracking stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and IQR and WikiEditor5678910 were newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 55 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive 33 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 611,404 words in 237 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 14 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 10 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 46,749 words in 18 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 47 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive. 28 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 479,172 words in 207 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 13 to 19 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 9:45, 12 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 89 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,264 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, IQR, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and WikiEditor5678910. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It started today on Monday June 16 and will run until Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help make the content produced as diverse and broad as possible! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:07, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2025 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2025 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Hall of Fame: Congratulations to Dhtwiki for their well-deserved addition to the Hall of Fame last month, and thanks to GoldRomean for the nomination. Election news: Voting in the mid-year coordinator election ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. April Blitz: 14 of the 25 editors who signed up for the April 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 92,769 words in 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. May Drive: 31 of the 54 editors who signed up for the May 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited 384,392 words in 216 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. June Blitz: 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 26,652 words in 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. July Drive: Our July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive will begin on 1 July and finish on 31 July. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 02:30, 30 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 148 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,270 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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