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WP:UCGA

This looks like a good merge to me. Btw, can you watchlist Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Good articles/GA nominees task force/GAC backlog elimination drive if you haven't done so? The reason is that I will be on a trans-pacific flight on the day the drive ends. I will be out of contact and can't overlook the end of this drive. Your job is really simple, just keep an eye on the page and answer issues raised in the process. If you got some free time, feel free to check if the articles approved in this drive met the GA criteria. Some people are not familiar with the GA process and may have promoted some aritlces (i.e. Union Pacific Railroad) even when it doesnt qualify according to GA standards.

To improve efficency during the check, place a  Done when you read the article and felt that it met the standard. Place  Question: if there're doubts about the review and/or the article. If it's obvious that it fails, place  Not done.

P.S. I'll add my name to WP:WPGA

OhanaUnited 14:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

It's been on my watchlist since I joined the drive. The only issue is that I'm not online on Sundays. I work 12 hours Sunday and may be on later that night, but it's not for sure. I can start it Monday. Lara♥Love 14:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Arts Club of Chicago GA

This user helped promote Arts Club of Chicago to good article status.

No problem. Good work, and thanks. I didn't really do anything with the article, however. So I don't feel right about taking credit for anything on my userpage. I'll add it to my review page, however. Lara♥Love 04:40, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

You're being watched!

- And yes, when Husond offers to nom you, I'm co-nomming. You can't weasel your way out of it. Ever :P Giggy 00:59, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Good times. Thanks for the heads up. I'll shall head to AfD forthwith. :p Lara♥Love 04:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

You might like this WikiProject

Hi! I ran across your user name from reading an RFA discussion. I saw on your user page that you're a fan of Y&R, so you might be interested in joining the WikiProject on soap operas. If you ever need help on a soap-related article, or if you just want to chat about the stories, leave me a note on my talk page! Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 09:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

re Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Lyrl

I note you have made some comments in the "Neutral" discussion section, but it hasn't been formatted as a !vote. Do you intend it to be, since I like inflating my edit count by updating tallies of RfA's I have voted on... ;~) Seriously, if it was intended as a Neutral you may wish to ensure your comment is counted. LessHeard vanU 20:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Smile!

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Your comment on my talk page.

I notice that you have left a comment on my discussion page. Like all editors who feel the need to emote, I will need to know your curriculum vitae before I can approve the comment. I will also need your modus operandi, your nom de plume and a burrito. A really big burrito. the_undertow 03:29, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment

Thank you for your kind comments on my RfA, which was successful. Lyrl _C 01:13, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

SixString1965

Thank you for reporting user SixString1965, likely to be May Pang in disguise! I appreciate your efforts to keep her from revising history. Layla12275 05:18, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. Lara♥Love 05:20, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Just so you all know, I am not May Pang (nor do I wish to be) I am removing wrongful information and disgusting chatter about May that is LIBELOUS. If you don't believe me, I would be more than welcome to speak through conventional email or by telephone about this situation and legal process that it can take (including the book picture posted without permission).24.168.81.111 06:18, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

But you are edit warring - discuss the changes you want on Talk, don't just repeatedly revert. And if you (24.168 etc) are SixString1965 as the above comment suggests, you should not be editing during your block. Tvoz |talk 06:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Read Fair use. And you are not only removing content you believe to be libelous, you are altering unsourced information, wording it as fact. Although you may know it to be true, without sources it is considered original research. Rather than mass deleting content and/or blanking pages, it is more appropriate to talk constructively about such issues on the talk page, without also mass deleting content from that page. Regards, Lara♥Love 06:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd also add that according to the First Amendment (apologies to anyone in this conversation who is not American; I don't mean to come off as ethnocentric--but since Pang is American I am assuming she is referring to American law), any opinion in print is not libel. Libel is false information that is presented as fact. Most of what you refer to as "disgusting chatter" is merely opinion, and is perfectly allowable, whether you agree with those opinions or not. And repeated thanks to LaraLove for the tremendous help. Layla12275 06:58, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, libel is defined on Misplaced Pages as a "harmful statement in a fixed medium, especially writing but also a picture, sign, or electronic broadcast". However, the information s/he continually attempts to remove is sourced. Therefore, if there was an issue of libel, it would be to the source, not Misplaced Pages for quoting it. Lara♥Love 13:35, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Well said; thanks, Lara. Layla12275 23:21, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Ouch

Thanks for being bold and removing the "Completed" notice from some of the letters in the What's Been Done So Far section of the assessment drive. I've noticed some of those sections were getting out of hand, but apparently no one cleaned them up like I thought would happen. It looks like we've still got a long way to go. Psychless 18:03, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

GAC backlog elimination drive

		The Good Article Medal of Merit
		Thank you for your participation in the GAC backlog elimination drive! Epbr123 21:30, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Richard Hawes

Thanks for your cleanup efforts on Richard Hawes. At the time I wrote most of that article, I wasn't aware of the policy you cite, and when I became aware of it, I forgot to go back and change it there. The editor who promoted the article to GA suggested that I should make an FA run with it. What's your opinion? Does it have a chance of becoming FA? I'm really hoping to include it as a supporting article to a featured topic on the Confederate government of Kentucky (current FA nominee) and George W. Johnson (Civil War) (current GA.) Acdixon 11:53, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not totally sure. I didn't read the article, I only scanned it as part of a quality check from the backlog elimination drive. I've got somewhere around 450 articles to check, so I don't completely read them. Additionally, I work with GAs and rarely venture over to reviewing FAs, so I'm not entirely sure what to look for. However, for all the things I've checked and assuming the prose is brilliant, it should do fine. The brilliant prose is important. Make sure you've got that. Lara♥Love 13:27, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Portal:Environment

I know you usually hang around in GA taskforces and not portals. I just hope if you can take a quick look at the portal and give some comments at Misplaced Pages:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Environment to see if the portal satisifies the featured portal requirements. OhanaUnited 14:31, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Honestly, I didn't even know what a portal was until last night. I have no idea what the criteria are for that. User:Jayron32 works with FAs. I stick to GA with few exceptions. Lara♥Love 14:34, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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Elvis Presley clean up - Notes

Thanks for clean up of retrieval dates. Just wondered: did you notice any other problems, inconsistencies with the notes? May be I could address these - the article is up for a Featured Article nomination soon. Rikstar 08:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh, no. No. That article isn't even up to GA standards right now. If I wasn't an Elvis fan, I would have delisted it already. There are so many issues, but I plan to fix all of them today, but do not go to FA right now. I'm sorry, but you did not get a quality review for GA. Either that, or it's drastically changed since it was listed.

Either way. It's my project for today. It should be beyond GA when I'm done with it. The things I plan to correct, as I posted here, are: Dates need to be linked for user preferences. The placement of punctuation in relation to closing quotations needs to be corrected per WP:PUNC. Placement of inline citations needs to be corrected. Article needs additional wikification. Prose and use of punctuation needs to be corrected in places. Use of dashes needs to be corrected per WP:DASH. Fair use rationales for copyrighted images need to be corrected per WP:FURG. Image of stamp (I have that stamp!... getting side-tracked) and boxed quote need to be moved to avoid sandwiching text between images per WP:MOS. Redlink ISBNs need to be corrected. References need to be correctly formatted. Lara♥Love 13:53, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Wow... It's your project for today, and however long you need, to whip the thing into shape. Much appreciate your efforts. I didn't have anything to do with the whole GA thing 'cause it's all a bit beyond me (as is FA nomination); I just put "the meat on the bones", so to speak, after drastic editing (with others) of the sorry version that got put up for FA last year. I'll peruse your edits carefully, with a view to learnin' from ya. Once again, thank you so much! (I've got that stamp, too...) Rikstar 18:11, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. I've been doing GA for some time now. That project is my passion, so it's no trouble at all. Especially for an article about Elvis. I checked your userpage and found it interesting that you've participated in the parapsychology article. Ever since I did the copy-edit for that article, I keep "bumping" into people, so to speak, involved with it. Lara♥Love 20:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Another Wow...Thanks Laralove for all the observations thus far and ahead of time for help with the project. If there is anything I can do to help - let me know. --Northmeister 19:47, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Crowded House

Hey Lara, how's it going? Someone's just passed Crowded House to GA with a very brief explanation, I was wondering if you agreed with the assessment. There are huge swathes of the article without citation which I think needs to be fixed before I would have passed it myself. I didn't want to put it up at WP:GA/R minutes after it'd been promoted, but I may have to. I'd be very interested in your opinion. Cheers! The Rambling Man 12:18, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

It is in need of some additional citation, though it's not too bad. However, there are some typos, an out of place --> in the text, dashes are misplaced, and the image gallery has to go. Fair use doesn't cover album covers for any article other than the article on that album. So that goes for the album cover above the gallery as well. The logo also needs an expanded fair use rationale. I'd bring the issues up on the talk page. It just got passed, so the custodians should be around. If they don't want to make the changes (which I doubt will be the case), then delist it. Lara♥Love 13:53, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, all good points, most them I brought up when asked for an informal review. Most worrying really is the fair use on the album covers. I'll work with the main editor as he seems very keen and understands my reservations on its premature promotion. Thanks for the once-over. The Rambling Man 13:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Lara♥Love 13:57, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Bobby Eaton GA Review

Hi, some days ago you started reviewing Bobby Eaton to see if it was GA worthy or not, the comments you've made have been acted upon and there's even been some copyediting done by someone not directly involved with the Bobby Eaton article so I was hoping you could give it another look since the GA review is still pending. Thanks in advance MPJ-DK 14:04, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh. I apologize. I failed to add that to my list and I totally forgot about it. I am so sorry about that. It will be taken care of today. Lara♥Love 14:07, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll give a look Lara. The Rambling Man 14:57, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. You're the best. Lara♥Love 15:05, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

You are very welcome! The Rambling Man 15:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC)