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A dummy edit is a slight change in an article's wikitext that has no effect on the rendered page but allows you to save a useful edit summary. This is like a SMS (Short Message Service).

To make a "dummy edit" just make a slight non-rendering change to the page, fill out the edit summary with your short message including this tag: ] (include the four square brackets), and save your change. (Note that a null edit does not modify the wikitext and does not allow you to leave an edit summary.)

Uses for dummy edits:

• Correcting a previous edit summary
• Repairing insufficient attribution for copy-and-pasted Misplaced Pages content
• Addressing an accidental use of rollback
• Providing a note, from a user while logged-in, that notes an edit performed while logged out
• Sending brief messages regarding editing issues
• Providing proof of activity from time to time by a dormant but not dead user
• Prompting a bot to re-examine a page

An editor thinks something might be wrong with this page. They can't be bothered to fix it, but can rest assured that they've done their encyclopedic duty by sticking on a tag. Please allow this tag to languish indefinitely at the top of the page, since nobody knows exactly what the tagging editor was worked up about.

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Hi

No idea lol! I spent a good twenty minutes looking around but there doesn't seem to be much about it anywhere...I will look again in a little while as I have a copyedit to do on a rather large article :¬)

Thanks for the Nice, I thought you might like this to go with your biscuit stash , Chaosdruid (talk)

"First they came…"

is a famous statement attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. The text of the quotation is usually presented roughly as follows:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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Grammar: western Europe or Western Europe

Re: Belgium At least the Guardian newspaper gets it right, not to mention the BBC. They don't use obsolete Cold War nomenclature. Francis Hannaway 12:35, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

I think its more an issue of two countries seperated by a common language. see or see Buster Seven Talk 16:56, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

FYI

Armbrust (talk · contribs) has just recently made his 100,000th edit. 188.36.180.2 (talk) 22:00, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up but I use WP:EDITS to make the 100K determination. Right now the count is 93537. I'm sure 100000 will happen soon.Buster Seven Talk 00:05, 29 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. >>> Sign up now <<<

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 00:48, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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Re: Survivor South Pacific

Re your message: I don't mind at all. I tend to make typos and get wordy/redundant from time to time so I'm glad that somebody cleans up my mess. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:33, 3 November 2011 (UTC)