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		Leaderboard Award—5k articles—3rd Place (tied)
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Basalisk for copy editing five articles of 5000 words or more during the GOCE November copy edit drive. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk)

		Leaderboard Award—Word Count—3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Basalisk for copy editing articles totalling 61441 words during the GOCE November copy edit drive. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk)

		Leaderboard Award—Number of articles—2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Basalisk for copy editing 44 articles during the GOCE November copy edit drive. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk)

		The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar
		For the following amazing copy editing: List of Imortal episodes (16,596 words) during the November 2011 backlog elimination drive. --Dianna (talk)

		Special Barnstar: Largest Single Article
		This Special barnstar is awarded to Basalisk for courageously editing the largest single article during the Guild of Copy Editors' November 2011 backlog elimination drive – List of Imortal episodes (16,596 words). Your contributions are highly appreciated! – Dianna (talk)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is awarded to Basalisk for copy editing articles totalling 61441 words during the GOCE November copy edit drive. Thank you for your efforts. -- Dianna (talk)

Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 backlog elimination drive Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation 45 people signed up for this drive this time; of these, 35 participated. This is similar to the number of editors who helped out in November. Thanks to all who participated! Barnstars will be distributed in the near future. Progress report Recent drives have been focusing on the oldest three months in the backlog. During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—July, August, and September 2010—from the queue, and there are less than 300 articles remaining from 2010. 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 January 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy edit drive will be in March. Your drive coordinators – The Utahraptor talk, S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), Stfg (Talk), Sp33dyphil (talk), and Dank (talk)

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update 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.

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I have created a list and i have included ur name in it. I hope u dont mind that. You can view it over Here! Yasht101 :) 04:59, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Basalisk, just so you know, I'm removing the IP Block Exemption I gave you some time ago, as it looks like the blocks that were affecting you previously have since expired. You should not have any difficulty editing, but if you do, please send me an email or post an unblock request here and I or another checkuser will look into it. Happy editing! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 03:17, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm back in the UK now editing from my home IP address, so there shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for helping me out. Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 07:09, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive 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) 21:53, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Easter! Hope your day is great! Yasht101 11:51, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I checked several places. Why do you assume that "unaggressive"is not a word? See, e.g., http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/unaggressive P0M (talk) 01:14, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Basically, I'd never heard it before and I just used my browser spell checker to make a final decision (it flagged it up). I didn't think it a controversial change, but if you really want just change it back. That said, if you really want to use a single adjective then perhaps "docile" or "passive" is better; I still think "unagressive" sounds a bit odd. Regards Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 11:55, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(Unindent to avoid cutting across the above question.) The spiders described as "unagressive" are anything but docile. They will not be pushed around. Neither are they passive. They react to what they perceive as aggression on the part of others by fighting back. I believe the intent of the article was to allay the fears of people who might imagine that these spiders would "come after them" for no good reason.

Cows are unaggressive. Most of the time they are also docile and passive. But that does not mean that they won't become very dangerous to human beings if they are guarding a new calf. A neighbor had a cow that was attacked by a dog that somebody had permitted to run free. The dog grabbed the cow by the nose and would not let go. The cow dragged the dog into a pond and finished it off there. I would not call that cow aggressive.

I suppose there may be a legitimate question whenever an animal defends itself. Some tarantulas, e.g., members of the genus Avicularia, are docile to the point that I have to wonder how they survive in the wild. But people who keep them as pets sometimes manage to get bitten somehow. Other animals are more proactive and will make a big threat display, or even move forward to defend a territory. Except for situations of male competitions for sexual access to females, it is hard to think of situations in which animals "go after" something if they aren't trying to secure something to eat. "Aggression" involves stepping in to go on the attack, I think. Defense is when somebody breaks down my door and I hit him. Aggression is when I go across the street and hit somebody just because I feel like it. P0M (talk) 21:50, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I don't think very many people would regard the Australian funnel web spiders as "peaceable" either. They want to be left alone, and they will insist on it by going to war.P0M (talk) 21:53, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever. Like I said, I didn't think it was that controversial. If you feel so strongly about it then change it back, no worries. Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 02:26, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for including this character too - User:RUCloseYet? - there is no other way that he could possibly have known about the image that he used; I commented there [1] btw...Modernist (talk) 13:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Basalisk - I hope you didn't get the wrong impression. I feel that the polarization of many disputes on Wikipedia is often a cause of strife (agh!), I like to try to give an outsider's perspective sometimes. As I've said, I think the use of that image is highly communicative. Best, —MistyMorn (talk) 19:17, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No of course not, I appreciated your reasonable input. Just thought I'd try and explain my position a little more, as I felt the point I was trying to make was being chronically missed. Thanks for calming things down a bit. Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 19:22, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That was my intention and I've got the page on my watchlist. I thought about this quite a bit and I feel your position is a very reasonable one, as the picture sends a valid message. I do think a more explanatory caption could help silence criticism. Best, —MistyMorn (talk) 19:48, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Imo, the best thing is for both of us to back off now, as we've said we will do, and leave the question to others. Best, —MistyMorn (talk) 20:04, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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