User talk:Exobiotic

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for cleaning up and translating the oldest entry at WP:PNT. Much appreciated. Lectonar (talk) 07:14, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

June blitz bling

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:38, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Kliszów copy edit

Hi Exobiotic, welcome to the Guild of Copy Editors (GOCE). I'm Baffle gab1978, a GOCE project coordinator. Thank you for your work on the copy-edit request for Battle of Kliszów; if you plan to continue your c/e, please let us know on the Requests page (REQ) here. If you don't want to continue, please mark the request {{partly done}} so we can give you joint credit credit in our archive and someone else can pick up the c/e. If you've any questions, you can ask at the Guild's Requests talk page. Thanks for your understanding. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 00:22, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thanks for the follow up! I marked it as partly done. Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 03:09, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexander Alejandro: Hi, Exobiotic, thanks for your work so far on the c/e for this article. I will be reviewing the article for GA, but don't intend to begin the process until the copy editing is done. Can you please let me know on my talk page when you have finished? Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 07:53, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I got as far as I could with it; I would keep it on the requests page and hopefully someone else will take it up. You could try to find someone at WP:WikiProject Military history who has more subject expertise. Good work so far, and good luck! Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 12:10, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Amitchell125:, I'm continuing this c/e, which has been straightforward so far and hopefully will continue thus. I'll be finished in a few days and I'll indicate in my edit summary when I'm done. I'm posting here to avoid splitting the discussion; Exobiotic I hope you don't mind me posting here! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 01:06, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've now finished my copy-edit; the GA nomination can proceed. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 02:57, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

July 2023 GOCE drive awards

		The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 21:06, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copyediting 18 articles during the GOCE July 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 21:06, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copyediting 18 old articles during the GOCE July 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 21:06, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

September 2023 GOCE drive awards

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:58, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copyediting 11 old articles during the GOCE September 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:58, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chart making tools

From c:Commons:Chart and graph resources#Convert data to SVG charts and graphs is this:

Convert data to SVG charts and graphs:

c:User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG: Overview description and list of chart types
c:Category:SVG diagrams created with spreadsheet: charts created using the spreadsheets

I can see uses for a single chart of deaths both on and off Wikipedia. --Timeshifter (talk) 05:01, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'm busy today and won't be able to get to it for at least 6 hours. I made a chart without the numbers on top of the bars in Canva and was going to add them using gimp, but this looks like a much better solution. Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 14:22, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Great! The charts keep being deleted by one person with the same bogus reason. See diff. I think some people just don't want people to see that far more Palestinian civilians have been killed over time than Israeli civilians. Removing the charts for that reason violates WP:NPOV and is an example of WP:Systemic bias. See:

2023 Israel–Hamas war#Context of the Israeli occupation

--Timeshifter (talk) 06:16, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Someone made a combined chart, and put it in the article. See diff. See:

--Timeshifter (talk) 16:28, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October blitz bling

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2023 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling

Hi! I saw you had added the Meitei transliteration of Kangleipak in the article Manipur. The spelling is actually wrong. The correct spelling is ꯀꯪꯂꯩꯄꯥꯛ. If you had relied on Google Translate, then please be aware that Google Translate for Meitei language is good only in translation, but not in transliteration. And there's a wikipedia rule called WP:NOINDIC, suggesting not to add Indian scripts in lead as much as possible. In case if you want to remove the text, please do not remove the entire information but make sure to restore the previous Latin alphabet spelling version. Thank you! Haoreima (talk) 13:08, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for correcting that! My main concern was removing the unusual Latin formatting; I can revert to that. Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 13:38, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November 2023 GOCE drive award

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:46, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

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March 2024 GOCE drive awards

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 07:53, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Exobiotic for copyediting 8 old articles during the GOCE March 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 07:53, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors 2024 Annual Report

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Translation of Jean-Mohammed Abd-el-Jalil bibliography

You're right that it needs to be translated. I'll take a look at it more closely later; my only remark is that I copied it from the compendium published by Institut Catholique de Paris after his death. None of his writings have been translated into English (aside from the Arberry translation of his critical edition, which isn't exactly "his writings") so my question would be how this translation ought to be done in light of this fact. M.A.Spinn (talk) 19:03, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mean the titles, just the text of the citations themselves, like "éd. et trad." should probably be "ed. and translated", etc. I'd do it myself but I'm not familiar with all the French abbreviations. Exobiotic 💬 ✒️ 19:52, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah after double-checking that makes sense. I'll take care of that! M.A.Spinn (talk) 19:55, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors' June 2025 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2025 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors – December 2025 Newsletter

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