User talk:Thnidu

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Wikipeda favicon for desktop[edit]

File:Wikipedia W favicon on white background.png, with a solid white background instead of the transparent background of the official version. I use it for the Wikipedia shortcut on my desktop, as it's much easier to see than the standard one on transparent background. Available on Commons for anyone to use.

Not under any copyright, but note potential trademark limitations.

My involvements[edit]

MEMOS TO SELF[edit]

Done Learn about AWB.
Broad Universe Wikipedia Project
Articles with the {{copy edit}} tag on are different from requests. You did the right thing by removing the tag, and nothing else needs doing. By the way, requests are sections within Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests, not subpages of it, so a search like that would never work. You can see all requests (as opposed to tagged articles) by going to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests and doing a text search. Hope this helps. --Stfg (talk) 09:55, 1 February 2014 (UTC) (source)Reply[reply]
Wikipedia:Tools#Finding the responsible user
- WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article
- Soxred93's Article Blamer – similar to WikiBlame, identifies revisions that added given text
- User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase

Archive[edit]

I've moved most old sections of my Talk page to User talk:Thnidu/Archive. 130424. 140202. 141128. 150222.

GOCE July 2013 barnstar[edit]

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded for participation in the WP:GOCE July 2013 copy edit drive. Thank you for taking part! Diannaa (talk) 23:35, 5 August 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Diannaa: Oo! Oo! My first! I'm so excited! :-D No irony, no sarcasm here: I really am pleased. Thank you. --Thnidu (talk) 04:33, 6 August 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Neat page bookmarks[edit]

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

Earthsea[edit]

Thanks for recent work at Earthsea and Ursula K. Le Guin.

FYI, my today revision --as of 22:00 UTC-- of the fantasy series article Earthsea is scrutable if you break the history in two after my first two edits [1] [2]. In particular, section 4 history is inscrutable as a whole, because of spacing changes. While I skimmed some of the sources in refs 7-18, I didn't do much for the article but expand them. More attention to content is needed, perhaps best after improvement of the two film adaptation articles. --P64 (talk) 21:48, 13 August 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@P64: My word! Thank you! — Thoughts, some less useful than others.

Hmm... We don't have a template for "creative franchise", and in any case the multiple switches for sections that do or don't apply in different cases would be mind-boggling.
(Definitely less useful) You changed "catalogued" to the American spelling "cataloged", but Earthsea § Radio has the British spelling "dramatisation". I'm not saying to change it back, but how far is local-variety-of-English consistency supposed to go?

Consistency in variety of English should be imposed at the article level. The same goes for the format of dates and the possibly distinct format of retrieved/archived dates. So a section on British adaptation(s) of a work, within an article where American English and date format are generally used, should use American dramatization and, say, premiered May 29. --P64 (talk) 17:23, 16 August 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

.... No more for now. I probably won't be able to do more on this till late next week. --Thnidu (talk) 01:05, 14 August 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

April 2016 GOCE blitz award[edit]

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Thnidu for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE April 2016 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:06, 25 April 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For fantastic copyediting of Patidar reservation agitation. It will be very helpful in attaining GA status. Regards, Nizil (talk) 06:03, 16 August 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Happy International Translation Day[edit]

Not a barnstar, but a token of my appreciation nonetheless. Happy International Translation Day (September 30)!

Link to Sandra Boynton's cartoon in Klingon for International Translation Day

Best, Doreva Dorevabelfiore (talk) 20:28, 2 October 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you from the Fresh Air Archive 2016 Edit-a-thon at WHYY[edit]

Dear Mark, Thanks for helping us out with Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/Fresh_Air_Archive_2016 at WHYY! Best, Dorevabelfiore (talk) 23:04, 11 October 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]

"Translationese" template[edit]

Thnidu, I re-posted a proposal for a "translationese" template at the Village Pump Proposals section. I mentioned your name and gave the example you had quoted previously. As you may remember I proposed such a template a month ago, but the proposal was archived after a tepid reaction saying that such templates already existed in the form of the templates {{Cleanup translation}} and {{Rough translation}}. In my new post I tried to explain why those were not actually filling the need. -Wwallacee (talk) 09:08, 1 February 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thnidu, thanks for your comments on the Village Pump a few weeks ago about Translationese. Unfortunately I had to put down Wikipedia for a few weeks there and I didn't get to push the discussion further. I myself don't know how to create a template, but I think a link to that Village Pump discussion could be helpful (for example in the Talk pages of culprit articles) if you want to keep this issue alive. The link is here. - Wwallacee (talk) 09:28, 4 April 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

COOKIES[edit]

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		User:Iamiyouareyou has given you some cookies! Reason: For fixing the fucked grammar on the Fuck page! Horray!

A page you started (Filiative nomen) has been reviewed![edit]

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Steven Brust - Cracks and Shards[edit]

I'm not sure if this is an appropriate use of a wikipedia talk page or not, but are you the guy who used to run that site? Is it still hosted anywhere? Is there a better way to get in touch with you than through this page? Phyrkrakr (talk) 16:56, 18 October 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Phyrkrakr, yes, no, and yes. 2) It was lost when my ISP was bought by another one. I've been gathering bits of it out of archives and my own files but have never found the spoons, time, and concentration to re-create it. 3) Via gmail with my name as given on my user page, minus the spaces. Thnidu (talk) 20:02, 18 October 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]

June 2018 GOCE newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News

Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days.

Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed.

March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words).

April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words).

May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words).

Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June.

June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place in mid-June.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk.

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June 2018: Archiving talk page items[edit]

Hello. It appears your talk page is becoming quite lengthy and is in need of archiving. According to Wikipedia's user talk page guidelines; "Large talk pages become difficult to read, strain the limits of older browsers, and load slowly over slow internet connections. As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 KB or has multiple resolved or stale discussions." - this talk page is 122.8 KB. See Help:Archiving a talk page for instructions on how to manually archive your talk page, or to arrange for automatic archiving using a bot. If you have any questions, place a {{help me}} notice on your talk page, or go to the help desk. Thank you. --Jax 0677 (talk) 06:50, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

whom[edit]

Hi, I noticed you made this edit a few years ago. I feel like I've seen the word whom appear increasingly more in articles over the years (even when not following a preposition, though this is not an example of that), and have been trying to figure out if it's just my growing (not that I ever didn't dislike it) hatred for the word making (due to almost entirely being used to be "correct" and as a status symbol when what is correct is what people actually use, making every sentence that I see it in feel irritatingly formal and snobbish) it bother me more, or if it's been increasingly added to pages as "corrections" to older versions. Anyway, I was wondering if there is any Wikipedia guideline on whether whom should be used, if you think whom has increased its appearance due to changes to older sentences that didn't use it or if it's just me being weird, and what would happen if I started removing instances of whom (especially those not following a preposition, where the use is even more unnatural to modern English speakers), theoretically (would I just be undone?), to make articles sound less snobbish, and if you have any defense of whom that could make me start liking its presence on articles more. Dayshade (talk) 16:15, 10 June 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Dayshade Sorry to be so late with this reply. I'm really not sure. I think the Teahouse (abbreviated link: WP:TH) would be the right place to ask, or at least to start asking. (But see below.*)

I'm a linguist, retired, and I have a very good sense of English grammar. I made the edit you refer to because the page said

...spoken as a native language by about 66,000 people, 45,000 of which reside on the Faroe Islands and 21,000 in other areas, mainly Denmark.

But "which" is for things, not people. The relative pronoun for persons is "who", objective case "whom", possessive "whose" (sometimes also used for possessive of things: "a country whose people enjoy...").

What you say about "whom" fading away in general usage as the object of a verb matches my perceptions. I'd venture a guess that that's due in part to the limited number of prepositions, as opposed to the essentially limitless vocabulary of verbs: people continually see and maybe hear "to whom", "for whom" (± "the bell tolls"), "from whom", "with whom", and so on, establishing these short, distinctive sequences as units in their minds, perhaps idioms. (Compare: what word do you expect after "As far __" at the beginning of a sentence? Yup, those three words are part of an idiomatic expression, all right.) But neither you nor I are familiar with all the range of styles and dialects of English.

* It seems that I'm giving you an answer after all. I urge you not to go around changing "whom" to "who" as the object of a verb. Both are correct— one in traditional and formal grammar, one in colloquial use, and Wikipedia has plenty of room for different styles of writing. For that matter, are you sure that direct-object "who" is falling out of use outside the US?

And I believe this official policy, a decision of the Arbitration Committee, has a direct bearing on your question:

Optional styles. When either of two styles are acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change. For example, with respect to British spelling as opposed to American spelling it would be acceptable to change from American spelling to British spelling if the article concerned a British subject. Revert warring over optional styles is unacceptable; if the article is colour rather than color, it would be wrong to switch simply to change styles as both are acceptable.

Passed 12 to 0 (with 1 abstention) at 16:05, 14 June 2009 (UTC).

--Thnidu (talk) 21:34, 28 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for the response. In my dialect, the word "whom" is always avoided (unless someone is taught to and wants to use it), so that thing-person distinction has broken down, except somewhat in the subject case. So "of which" in that Faroese example sounds perfectly fine to me, but I can live with it staying if it sounds wrong (without being taught as wrong!) to a lot of folk. Similarly to yours, whose is extended to non-people. whom is sometimes heard after prepositions (but things like "to who" are more common) so I can also accept it as a natural form not caused by snobbery. I've spoken to a few English people and they seem to have a similar experience to me where whom is not used naturally but might be used by some after being taught (which is a concept that disgusts me). I'd not be surprised if it was naturally used from childhood in a few dialects, but this seems to be rare. I am inclined to agree with your suggestion, but many of the instances of whom are from "corrections" to older edits with who. How does the suggestion apply to reverting earlier edits where an instance of who was changed to an unnatural instance of whom? Take a look at this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romulan&diff=443014356&oldid=442346289 The form that most speakers would use was changed to the highly unnatural form of "whom they resemble and with whom they share a common ancestry." The idea of someone using without being taught to is honestly laughable to me, particularly because of the avoidance of ending a sentence with a preposition, a very common and natural tendency in English that is avoided in some "formal" writing for no valid reason. I reverted it, but now have been reverted by someone else who called my edit disruptive. Which perhaps isn't wrong, but suggests the original edit was more disruptive. Does the age of the edit to change the natural form to an unnatural one matter? Dayshade (talk) 14:22, 7 August 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

blocked[edit]

This blocked user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Thnidu (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 174.201.20.197 . I'm thnidu, real name Mark A. Mandel. I'm sitting in a public place attending a meeting (the Rotunda in Philadelphia), and was trying to find an answer to a friend's question. In looking for an answer, I saw that the displayed text included a string "[citation needed]". I tried to edit to correct it to the cn template but was hit in the face with the block notice. I request that this block be cancelled.
I don't know whether the offending whatever-it-is is in the wifi here, or the data, or in a security app on my phone (AVH) that I have recently been advised to delete, and probably will, and which I may have accidentally fat-fingered in trying to survive the deluge of interrupting ads that are currently appearing.
You can look at my contribution history. I've been on Wikipedia for 13 years and 25 days, and editing since
Special:Contributions/Thnidu&dir=prev&target=Thnidu late 2005. I have seldom been involved in conflicts or edit wars.
I have logged out, as that seems to be the only way I can post here, and if there's a way to email this message I don't know what it is. -- Mark A. Mandel 174.201.20.197 (talk) 01:28, 6 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only. That IP address is not blocked. Additionally, your account is not blocked either. If you are unable to edit, please exactly follow the instructions which appear when you attempt to do so. Yamla (talk) 10:42, 6 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired.

December 2018 GOCE newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz (results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits.

For the September drive (results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits.

Our October blitz (results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits.

For the November drive (results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles.

The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now!

Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations, so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk.

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GOCE 2018 Annual Report[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors 2018 Annual Report

Our 2018 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

Overview of Backlog-reduction progress;
Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page;
Membership news and results of elections;
Annual leaderboard;
Plans for 2019.

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Have you ever considered coming to WisCon?[edit]

I've enjoyed your efforts to polish the Ursula LeGuin article over the years, and some of your other work as well; and suspect you might enjoy yourself a great deal. I'm delighted to say that I met and talked to Ursula at a couple of the three WisCons she attended over the years (once at her own expense[!]). --Orange Mike | Talk 02:31, 22 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Orangemike: Thank you for your praise! I'd love to go to WisCon, but I'm retired and on a very limited income, and hence have cut down hard on my spending. :-(

Would that I had met her too! --Thnidu (talk) 17:06, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Any good fan-run SF convention is a marvelous occasion to meet and talk to the members of this strange sub-set of humanity we call science fiction fandom. WisCon, being WisCon, is probably the single best place in the world to meet feminist SF readers, critics, writers, editors and scholars from all over the planet. Japanese scholar who was also the first woman in Japan to do cosplay? Yup. The Tiptree Award, Broad Universe, the Carl Brandon Society? All came out of panel discussions at WisCon. Janitor working on his MLS in Library Science? Old regular, got his degree now, has had books published. Pioneers of GLBT SF publishing? See them regularly. Pagan priestess who works for a union? Long-time attendee. Dominatrices? I can name two or three who are regulars. Xena impersonator? Invited to stop by, had a hoot. Mixed-race feminist prison guard from Alabama? Comes whenever she can. Harvard grad student doing a study of fannish cultural history? Got her business card on my desk as I type this. Hippie preacher-turned-Quaker and union activist? Every year since WisCon II. Hugo winners? Everywhere from the huckster's room to the podium to the hospitality suite. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:18, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

"Dit"[edit]

A couple of years ago in the Talk:Canadian French page, you asked about "dit" (as in Father Fabien Martin dit Barnabé in the Louis Riel page). I did not see an answer to that question here since that date, so I venture to post this, hoping you will still find it useful (possibly for that Template:French-Canadian name). You can loosely translate the meaning as "called": ie. what someone is commonly called by, a nickname used instead of the baptismal name to clarify the surname. Literally, "dit" translates as "said". To the best of my knowledge (not all that extensive), that usage is unique to the French Métis culture. (And btw can I say that I really resonate with your taste in SF/F?) - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 (talk) 15:39, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

My apologies, I missed Bearcat's edit of 3 September 2016 on the talk page. His take on it is better than mine. Glad someone came up with it at the time. - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 (talk) 17:05, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Tenebris: I can't find any mention of Bearcat on the Canadian French Talk page or in the history of either the article or the talk page. Are you thinking of another page or user? --Thnidu (talk) 17:32, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Just the wrong page. The discussion they're talking about (which I remember, because I was literally just rereading it the other day) was actually on Talk:Louis Riel. To be clear, Tenebris isn't actually correct that it's unique to Métis culture — it was obviously very common there, because Métis culture obviously derives in part from French Canadian culture, but it was a pretty common feature of French Canadian and Acadian culture as well (and it's not unknown even in France.) Bearcat (talk) 17:37, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Bearcat: Merci pour votre clarification. :-) --Thnidu (talk) 17:48, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

As Bearcat says (thanks!). I had originally run across the request on the linked page, but forgot about the extended Riel discussion. As to the amendment, I had thought I was pretty familiar with the Québec / New Brunswick backroads. Never having run into it, I assumed it was unique to St Boniface and that part of Manitoba. I should know by now that not-encountered is not the same as does-not-exist (qv black swan theory). - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 (talk) 17:59, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It definitely faded as a naming practice much earlier in Eastern Canada than it did in Métis country, so you wouldn't necessarily have encountered it much in the backroads of Quebec or New Brunswick. If you do genealogical research that gets you to pre-conquest New France or Acadia, however, then you'll definitely see it happen a lot more. Bearcat (talk) 18:30, 12 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Noted, and again thanks for the expansion of information. I don't do genealogical research -- came at this from a different angle -- and honestly I never would have thought to wonder.

Incidentally, as a truly tangential note not relating to the primary discussion at all -- except, maybe, in having missed in this example that absence of information is itself information -- I realised that the only reason I posted here at all was because (due to overlooking a different set of posts) I found a distinct hole where I could maybe contribute. Without that mistake, I would never have posted here and quite probably at all on this or any of the related talk pages. For the most part, I find that other people are already saying what I would have said, and I don't have a topic-related drum to beat: so I don't post very much at all compared to the amount I read. (I also find that my IP number changes fairly frequently.) Thus I remained completely invisible to you (and others) ... until I posted here. I mention this simply because I have noticed that quite a few (other) users tend to assume that IPs only ever swing in to drop isolated and uncontexted comments, which is one of the factors leading to the perception of IPs being somehow "lesser" than registered members.

Neither of you have shown any sign of that. I simply write it here so that others, reading your talk page, might see things from a different light. This tendency in WP society is a general concern of mine, especially in light of the original pillars. In practice, I notice it can make it very difficult for newer or less assertive would-be editors not to be dismissed out of hand. (Stepping down off the soapbox now ...) - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 (talk) 03:13, 19 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

March GOCE newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2019 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2018. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2019, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from all of the articles tagged in our original target months of June, July and August 2018, and by 24 January we ran out of articles. After adding September, we finished the month with 8 target articles remaining and 842 left in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 48 requests for copyedit in January. Of the 31 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 32 copyedits, including 15 requests. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: As of 23:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 108 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 851 articles.

March Drive: The month-long March drive is now underway; the target months are October and November 2018. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here!

Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk.

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GOCE June newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2019 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2019. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below.

Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 16 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

June Blitz: Our June blitz will soon be upon us; it will begin at 00:01 on 16 June (UTC) and will close at 23:59 on 22 June (UTC). The themes are "nature and the environment" and all requests.

March Drive: Thanks to everyone for their work in March's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from 182 of the articles tagged in our original target months October and November 2018, and the month finished with 64 target articles remaining from November and 811 in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 22 requests for copyedit in March; the month ended with 34 requests pending. Of the 32 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the April Blitz; the blitz ran from 14 to 20 April (UTC) inclusive and the themes were Sports and Entertainment. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: As of 04:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 267 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 605 articles.

May Drive: During the May Backlog Elimination Drive, Guild copy-editors removed copyedit tags from 191 of the 192 articles tagged in our original target months of November and December 2018, and January 2019 was added on 22 May. We finished the month with 81 target articles remaining and a record low of 598 articles in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 24 requests for copyedit during the May drive, and the month ended with 35 requests pending. Of the 26 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk.

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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages![edit]

Hello, Thnidu. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by MrClog (talk) 23:13, 14 July 2019 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).Reply[reply]

Did you get the advice you needed?[edit]

I am way behind looking at the Teahouse archives but I found this.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:28, 15 July 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vchimpanzee: No, I don't think I did. A month and a half of plenty of time for my memory to decay. --Thnidu (talk) 23:56, 2 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Scrolling while editing on mobile device[edit]

Ask User:Cullen328 what WP:Editing on mobile devices# Scrolling means. "similarly default"? What will the effect be? --Thnidu (talk) 23:50, 2 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, Thnidu. That section on scrolling is almost incomprehensible to me, and I do not use any CSS tricks or anything like that. I do 98% of my editing on a fairly new Google Pixel 2XL, using the misnamed "desktop" site on my phone all the time, except for a few minutes every few months when I try the mobile site. If this is referring to automatic scrolling, I rarely see that. On the other hand, I scroll up and down with a single finger and use two fingers to expand and contract my view constantly. It is like second nature to me, and I barely even think about it. Despite the fact that I have a variety of vision problems, some dating back to birth or early childhood, and others as a result of the aging process (I am 67), I have no major vision problems editing on my smartphone. The only things I use my desktop computer for are sophisticated image editing and uploading non-free images to Wikipedia. I take lots of photos on my phone and can crop and process my own photos on my phone and then upload them to Wikimedia Commons using their Android app, which is greatly improved in the last year or so. I think of my phone as a miniature desktop computer and use it that way daily, and it works just fine for me the vast majority of the time. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:24, 3 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

By the way, I just noticed on your user page that your PhD thesis was on American Sign Language. I have been married for 38 years (in a few days) to a deaf woman who lost her hearing gradually over many years in childhood and adolescence due to progressive nerve deafness. She is fluent in ASL after studying it in college. Her parents were in denial. Because she is an excellent lip reader, my ASL skills are not great. But all respect to you for your academic work. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 01:59, 3 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

September 2019 GOCE Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors September 2019 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2019.

June election: Reidgreg was chosen as lead coordinator, and is being assisted by Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk, and first-time coordinator Twofingered Typist. Jonesey95 took a respite after serving for six years. Thanks to everyone who participated!

June Blitz: From 16 to 22 June, we copy edited articles on the themes of nature and the environment along with requests. 12 participating editors completed 35 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

July Drive: The year's fourth backlog-elimination drive was a great success, clearing all articles tagged in January and February, and bringing the copy-editing backlog to a low of five months and a record low of 585 articles while also completing 48 requests. Of the 30 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, a participation level last matched in May 2015. Final results and awards are listed here.

August Blitz: From 18 to 24 August, we copy edited articles tagged in March 2019 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: As of 03:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 413 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stood at 599 articles, close to our record month-end low of 585.

Requests page: We are experimenting with automated archiving of copy edit requests; a discussion on REQ Talk (permalinked) initiated by Bobbychan193 has resulted in Zhuyifei1999 writing a bot script for the Guild. Testing is now underway and is expected to be completed by 3 October; for this reason, no manual archiving of requests should be done until the testing period is over. We will then assess the bot's performance and discuss whether to make this arrangement permanent.

September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

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GOCE December 2019 Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2019 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December 2019 GOCE newsletter, an update of Guild happenings since the September edition. Our Annual Report should be ready in late January.

Election time: Nominations for the election of a new tranche of Guild coordinators to serve for the first half of 2020 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself!

September Drive: Of the thirty-two editors who signed up, twenty-three editors copy edited at least one article; they completed 39 requests and removed 138 articles from the backlog, bringing the backlog to a low of 519 articles.

October Blitz: This event ran from 13 to 19 October, with themes of science, technology and transport articles tagged for copy edit, and Requests. Sixteen editors helped remove 29 articles from the backlog and completed 23 requests.

November Drive: Of the twenty-eight editors who signed up for this event, twenty editors completed at least one copy edit; they completed 29 requests and removed 133 articles from the backlog.

Our December Blitz will run from 15 to 21 December. Sign up now!

Progress report: From September to November 2019, GOCE copy editors processed 154 requests. Over the same period, the backlog of articles tagged for copy editing was reduced by 41% to an all-time low of 479 articles.

Request archiving: The archiving of completed requests has now been automated. Thanks to Zhuyifei1999 and Bobbychan193, YiFeiBot is now archiving the Requests page. Archiving occurs around 24 hours after a user's signature and one of the templates {{Done}}, {{Withdrawn}} or {{Declined}} are placed below the request. The bot uses the Guild's standard "purpose codes" to determine the way it should archive each request so it's important to use the correct codes and templates.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

>>> Sign up for the December blitz! <<<

>>> Participate in the Coordinator elections! <<<

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WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report

Our 2019 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

Overview of Backlog-reduction progress (a record low backlog!);
Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page;
Automated archiving of requests;
Membership news and results of elections;
Annual leaderboard;
Plans for 2020.

– Your Guild coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

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GOCE March newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate.

January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here.

March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now!

Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone!

Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist

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GOCE June newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC.

Current events

Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests.

Drive and blitz reports

March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020.

Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.

Current and upcoming events

September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today!

Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

Drive and Blitz reports

June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above).

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

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December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.

Current and upcoming events

Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now.

Drive and Blitz reports

September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive.

October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz.

November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests.

Other news

Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above).

Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Seasonal tidings and cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

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Disambiguation link notification for March 7[edit]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Gender binary, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Binary.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:36, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

For any human who may happen to read this note, that was deliberate. Here's the context:

Gender binary (also known as gender binarism, binarism, or ambiguously genderism) [...] is the classification of gender into two distinct, opposite forms of masculine and feminine, whether by social system or cultural belief.^[A]

^[A] In this context the word "binary" often functions as a noun, unlike most other uses of the word, where it is an adjective.

--Thnidu (talk) 05:37, 21 March 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Fun tip[edit]

Regarding your arrows pointing right, or up, to the Babel boxes on your user page, depending if you're on mobile or not, you could try this:

Wikipedia:Babel

en-us
-N

This user is a native speaker of American English.

eo-3

Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per alta aŭ flua nivelo de Esperanto.

fr-2

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

la-2

Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest.

Search user languages

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Languages I've worked with in recent years* include Thai, Tagalog, Pashto, Tigrinya, Moroccan Berber, Yoruba, Bengali, Tamil, and Urdu. I also developed and maintained the LDC's Language Resource Wiki.

* But do not speak or write; those are over here ⇒up there ⇑

Try viewing this both on mobile and on desktop view. Cheers! Mathglot (talk) 05:23, 15 June 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks. Later today, when I'm more awake. Thnidu (talk) 10:53, 15 June 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

GOCE June 2021 newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2021 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, our first newsletter of 2021, which is a brief update of Guild activities since December 2020. To unsubscribe, follow the link at the bottom of this box.

Current events

Election time: Voting in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 16 June and will conclude at the end of the month. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Have your say and show support here.

June Blitz: Our June copy-editing blitz is underway and will conclude on 26 June.

Drive and blitz reports

January Drive: 28 editors completed 324 copy edits totalling 714,902 words. At the end of the drive, the backlog had reached a record low of 52 articles. (full results)

February Blitz: 15 editors completed 48 copy edits totalling 142,788 words. (full results)

March Drive: 29 editors completed 215 copy edits totalling 407,736 words. (full results)

April Blitz: 12 editors completed 23 copy edits totalling 56,574 words. (full results)

May Drive: 29 editors completed 356 copy edits totalling 479,013 words. (full results)

Other news

Progress report: as of 26 June, GOCE participants had completed 343 Requests since 1 January. The backlog has fluctuated but remained in control, with a low of 52 tagged articles at the end of January and a high of 620 articles in mid-June.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu and Twofingered Typist, and from member Reidgreg.

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September 2021 Guild of Copy Editors newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021.

Current and upcoming events

September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today!

Drive and Blitz reports

June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis.

New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive).

Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above).

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis.

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December 2021 GOCE Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021.

Current and upcoming events

Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now!

Drive and Blitz reports

September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

Other news

It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community.

Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above).

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis.

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GOCE April 2022 newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021.

Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators.

January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details)

February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details)

March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details)

April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now!

Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu

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June GOCE newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2022 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June 2022 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since April 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Blitz: of the 16 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, 12 completed at least one copy-edit, and between them removed 21 articles from the copy-editing backlog. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 27 editors signed up for our May Backlog Elimination Drive; of these, 20 copy-edited at least one article. 144 articles were copy-edited, and 88 articles from our target months August and September 2021 were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: our June Copy Editing Blitz, starting at 00:01, 19 June and closing at 00:59, 25 June (UTC), will focus on articles tagged for copy edit in September and October 2021, and requests from March, April and May 2022. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 07:12, 14 June 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 209 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,404 articles.

Election news: Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators continues until 23:50 on 15 June (UTC), after which, voting will commence until 23:59, 30 June (UTC). All Wikipedians in good standing (active and not blocked, banned, or under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:39, 14 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors' October 2022 newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors October 2022 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up for our July Backlog Elimination Drive, 18 copy-edited, between them, 116 articles. Barnstars awarded are noted here.

Blitz: Participants in our August Copy Editing Blitz copy-edited 51,074 words in 17 articles. Of the 15 editors who signed up, 11 claimed at least one copy-edit. Barnstars awarded are noted here.

Drive: Forty-one editors took part in our September Backlog Elimination Drive; between them they copy-edited 199 articles. Barnstars awards are noted here.

Blitz: Our October Copy Editing Blitz begins on 16 October at 00:01 (UTC) and will end on 22 October at 23:59 (UTC). Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 19:57, 12 October 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 303 requests for copy edit – including withdrawn and declined ones – since 1 January. At the time of writing, there are 77 requests awaiting attention and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,759. We always need more active, skilled copyeditors – particularly for requests – so please get involved if you can.

Election news: In our mid-year election, serving coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tenryuu were returned for another term, and were joined by new coordinator Zippybonzo. No lead coordinator was elected for this half-year. Jonesey95, a long-serving coordinator and lead, was elected as coordinator emeritus; we thank them for their service. Thank you to everyone who took part. Our next election of coordinators takes place throughout December. If you'd like to help out at the GOCE, please consider nominating yourself or other suitable editors (with their permission, of course!). It's your Guild, after all!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tenryuu and Zippybonzo.

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Baffle☿gab 03:08, 14 October 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Translation[edit]

Hello! Strange request here, but an article about me and my Wikipedia work has been promoted to Good article status at English Wikipedia and nominated for similar status at Spanish Wikipedia. I'm curious if you have any interest in translating the entry for Esperanto Wikipedia or other projects?

Figured I'd ask since your profile suggests you do translation work. Either way, happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:44, 8 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since October. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Blitz: Our October Copy Editing Blitz focused on July and August 2022 request months; and articles tagged for c/e in December 2021 and January 2022. Seventeen of those who signed up claimed at least one copy-edit, and between them copy-edited forty-six articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: In the November Backlog Elimination Drive, thirty editors signed up, twenty-two of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Both target months—December 2021 and January 2022—were cleared, and February was added to the target months. Sixteen requests were copy-edited and 239 articles were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Our seven-day-long December 2022 Copy Editing Blitz begins on 17 December at 00:01 (UTC)*. It will focus on articles tagged for copy-edit in February 2022, and pending requests from September and October. Barnstars awarded will be available here.

Progress report: As of 22:40, 8 December 2022, GOCE copyeditors have processed 357 requests since 1 January, there were seventy-four requests outstanding and the backlog stands at 1,791 articles. We always need skilled copy-editors; please help out if you can.

Election news: Nomination of candidates for the GOCE's Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2023 is open and continues until 23:59 on 15 December. Voting begins at 00:01 on 16 December and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. Coordinators serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on June 30. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, please nominate yourself or any editor you consider suitable—with their permission, of course!. It's your Guild and it doesn't coordinate itself.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers and best seasonal wishes from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu, and Zippybonzo.

*All times and dates on this newsletter are UTC.
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Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:26, 9 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter error[edit]

The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:31, 9 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Happy New Year, Thnidu![edit]

Happy New Year!

Thnidu,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 21:44, 31 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 21:44, 31 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report

Our 2022 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

Overview of Backlog-reduction progress
Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page
Membership news and results of elections
Closing words

– Your Guild coordinators: Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the March 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December and our Annual Report for 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members, including those who have signed up for our current March Backlog Elimination Drive. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC).

Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: Sign up now for our month-long March Backlog Elimination Drive. Barnstars awarded will be posted here after the drive closes.

Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 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 Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo.

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