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Thank you for being willing to serve as a Coordinator for the Guild of Copy Editors! Your contributions have already been valuable, and I look forward to more goodness.
You are welcome to place Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Coordinators/Userbox on your user page, if that is the sort of thing you are into.
Please remember that, as the main Coordinators page states, we are "responsible for maintaining the Guild's internal structure and processes. [We] do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers." We operate by (sometimes presumed) consensus and do our best to check in with one another before taking an action that another coordinator might reasonably revert. I think you'll fit right in.
Please take a look at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Coordinators/Task list, which I try to keep tidy. You are always welcome to jump in and do any of those tasks. Thanks again for being willing to serve. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:27, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
The Guidence Barnstar | ||
Dear Reidgreg, Thank you very much for your polite, prompt, detailed and uncondescending assistance proffered to a brash newbie. It is much appreciated. I strongly suspect that I am far from the first to receive this unassuming support. It helps make Wikipedia the kind of place that people want to come back to. With kind regards Simon Gog the Mild (talk) 13:46, 9 January 2018 (UTC) |
@Gog the Mild: thanks for the barnstar and the kind words! I'm a brash newcomer as a Guild Coordinator and it's nice to get recognition for helping someone only a few days after taking office. I don't mind taking a little time to help someone who's making an effort, and I'm sure any investment in aid and encouragement will payoff many times over through your contributions. Happy editing! – Reidgreg (talk) 18:18, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I am about to make some drastic changes to this, so I thought it best to run them past someone more experienced that me. You may want to undo some or all of them and/or advise me on a different approach. Background: I am a retired college principal with a lot of experience of continuous assessment. Both at national development level in the UK and at delivery level. I could probably write a passable, if unreferenced article on it off the top of my head. (He wrote immodestly.) This article started as a harmless stub, then Jaminem made their one and only edit "here". It is rambling, opinionated, unreferenced, often off topic tosh. The only way I can see of saving what should be a moderately important topic is to delete it entirely. Obviously with an explanation on the talk page. So I am going to; but if I am getting in a bit deep, feel free to drag me out. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:00, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
I'm converting a glossary to templates and was wondering if you knew a way to suppress the anchor links made by {{term}}? The glossary has 370 terms but about 50 of them are alternate names. I'd like those alternate names to have anchor links at the main term where the definition is, so the reader won't have to jump up and down in the glossary. Do you know if this is possible or if there's a workaround to achieve this? Would appreciate any advice. Thanks. – Reidgreg (talk) 18:08, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
{{term|foo|noid=yes}}
{{defn|1={{crossref|selfref=no|See {{gli|phu}}.}}}}
{{term|phu|content={{anchor|foo}}phu}}
{{defn|1={{ghat|Also ''foo''.}} Definition here.}}
noid
is a presently non-existent parameter for anchor ID suppression? I.e., such that the anchor for foo goes to the phu entry? — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 18:34, 9 January 2018 (UTC)Test block of existing code options:
Pure templates | Templates and HTML | Templates and wikimarkup |
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FAIL: duplicate IDs. | WORKS: IDs both only in phu entry. |
FAIL: indented term (the ; causesgeneration of <dl> even though one's already there). |
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 18:35, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
<dt>...</dt>
instead of {{Term}}
, for the foo entry. I could also hack the {{Term}}
template to have an option for suppressing the ID. However, I don't really see the point of this. Why not just link directly to the phu entry? I don't know what {{Glossary link}}
custom template you are or will be using (i.e., your equivalent of {{Cuegloss}}
). Supposing it were {{Quuxgloss}}
, you could just do: {{quuxgloss|phu|foo}}
. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 18:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)PS: Not doing it the {{quuxgloss|phu|foo}}
way will also produce incorrect hover text; when you mouse over it, the tooltip will say "See entry at Glossary of quux terms § foo" but will actually take you to the phu entry which may be confusing to readers even with {{ghat|Also ''foo''.}}
as a hatnote in the phu entry. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 19:06, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Reidgreg, I reverted your edits, on Punto music. You basically halfed the article, when several editors have commented it a actual reflection of the Punto music. On the morrow.. scope_creep (talk) 00:18, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 04:22, 8 February 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 27 articles during the GOCE January 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 04:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 80,271 total words during the GOCE January 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 04:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 9 long articles during the GOCE January 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 04:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 27 old articles during the GOCE January 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 04:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 22,305 words – during the GOCE January 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 04:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC) |
The Copy Editor's 10K Star | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy-editing at least one individual article of more than 10,000 words during the most recent Guild of Copy Editors' Drive or Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 04:19, 8 February 2018 (UTC) |
An editor who copy edits an individual article of more than 10,000 words that does not make it to the leaderboard in the "my longest article" category will receive The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar.) All five editors who did 10k articles received leaderboard awards. After those five editors, the next-biggest article was 6.500 words, so nobody earned a 10k Award. – Reidgreg (talk) 14:25, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
I replied to you there. LovelyGirl7 talk 04:55, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE February 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News
Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). 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, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
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Earlier conversation from User talk:Sifr4:
Thanks for updating the article Canadian Comedy Awards. I've been trying to put together sources to update and standardize the article, but I'm honestly a bit confused about the status of the Awards over the last couple years and whether canadiancomedy.ca or canadiancomedyawards.org is the official site. It'd help me a great deal if you could direct me to any reliable secondary sources on the subject, such as industry publications. – Reidgreg (talk) 15:12, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Reidgreg, thanks for contacting me and for the offer of help. The CCAs went through a transition period in the past few years as control over the trademark reverted from a licensee back to the trademark holder. The official site is canadiancomedyawards.org. The old domain - canadiancomedy.ca - was left with the previous licensee who allowed the domain registration to expire. The company that then poached the domain (presumably also the domain host) decided to leave the content up on it. I am in the midst of trying to get them to remove that content since they are infringing on the trademark. I don't have any sources at all for this change. There are no industry publications for the comedy industry in Canada and I know of no publications that provide news on domain name changes or instances of trademarks reverted back from licensee to trademark holders.
I will add a conflict of interest declaration to my user talk page so everything is above-board and nobody thinks I'm being sneaky. Thanks for the advice. sifr4 (talk) 19:12, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi! I really appreciate your copyediting efforts on the Laff-a-Lympics article. However, I'm a bit confused where you got the titles "Alaska and Tahiti" and "The Old West and Holland" in this edit. I have not seen any sources which call the episodes that, and I've seen both of those episodes and neither of them take place in those (first) locations. Thanks, Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 23:14, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Please look at this and then the most recent edit summary. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:04, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 27 articles during the GOCE March 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 3rd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 67,551 total words during the GOCE March 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 6 long articles during the GOCE March 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 2nd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 27 old articles during the GOCE March 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 15,504 words – during the GOCE March 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC) |
The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC) |
Hi Reidgreg:
How on earth did you find these - Marlins Man and Pierre Coupey?? Are you following me around? :) Twofingered Typist (talk) 18:58, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
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The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 15:46, 22 April 2018 (UTC) |
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
Hey Reidgreg, thanks again for your help with the Canadian Comedy Awards page a few months ago. And congrats on all your Barnstar awards! We just announced our nominees in the 18th CCAs and I was wondering when might be a good time to make additions to that page. If your offer of help is still available. sifr4 (talk) 00:29, 25 April 2018 (UTC) |
The WikiChevrons | ||
On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons for your efforts during the April 2018 MILHIST Backlog Drive. Thank you for your contributions. AustralianRupert (talk) 09:14, 4 May 2018 (UTC) |
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Danzig Street shooting you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Barkeep49 -- Barkeep49 (talk) 23:41, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
The article Danzig Street shooting you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Danzig Street shooting for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Barkeep49 -- Barkeep49 (talk) 21:01, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Reidgreg. I saw your edit summary , but don't know what it means. Could you explain? --Ronz (talk) 16:20, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
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This section was created in response to a post at User talk:Kelisi#Edits to Bruce McArthur. That post is reproduced here:
Thank-you very much for your recent edits to Bruce McArthur! I have comments on a few of your choices. BTW, I'd wanted to avoid being overly formal with the language and was trying to stick with plain English for the average reader.
- strangling →
throttling. I feel that strangling might be an easier word for most readers. because her data were academicHere I felt data is used as a mass noun and unquantifiable (like water), and that treating it as a singular works better. told him that that was no place to be gayI'll think about a rephrase to avoid that that.- who → whom. There is a movement in plain English to do away with whom. I don't particularly care for that, but it apparently confuses some readers.
- I don't think there's any reason to replace html entities (eg: –) with unicode characters.
- excavating at 3 properties →
three. Normally small numbers are expressed as words instead of numerals. One of the exceptions to this is when numbers may be compared, in which case numbers should all be in the same format (words or numerals). That paragraph has other numbers (30, 75, 100) which the 3 could be compared to. So I feel it's better to have it as a numeral. most prolific known serial killer. You removed a hyphen in most-prolific. This is a compound modifier and MOS recommends hyphenating these for clarity. I feel the hyphenated version is less demanding on the reader. Serial killer might also be hyphenated but I think most readers are familiar with that term. It may be more obvious withmale sex workerwhich is ambiguous without the hyphen. (Is it a male prostitute, or a "worker" who is of the "male sex"?) amyl nitrate -Should this read "nitrite"?-One source saysto possess amyl nitrates or "poppers,"anothertook poppers, amyl nitrate,though I see the Wikipedia article says it belongs to a class called "alkyl nitrites" which I take to be an over-encompassing chemical group.- cafe →
caféI would rather not use accents on loanwords. I don't believe there is any confusion to what a cafe (unaccented) is.- f-- fa-ots →
fucking fagots. The Bowdlerism is part of a published quote and I feel that it should be reproduced as published.Also thanks for a lot of the useful linking you added! – Reidgreg (talk) 16:46, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
There were good reasons for these edits. To begin with, there is no dumbing down on WP. So simplifying the English is not something that we do here. "Plain English", we are told, means avoiding needlessly complex diction and suchlike. So I will always, for instance, edit some questionable wording such as "The river begins at its source in the Poconos" to read "The river rises in the Poconos." I will also avoid writing snotty-sounding things like "The town is situated approximately 10 km from the urban centre in its immediate proximity", because of course it will do to write "The town lies roughly 10 km from the nearby city."
Anyway, thank you for making this into a proper article. Kelisi (talk) 17:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Your wording falsely implies that nobody knew that Faizi and Kayhan had gone missing until the police identified the link in 2013. That's not accurate in the slightest — we Toronto queers already knew about all three men, and were already screaming to the police that there was a common link between them, long before the police announcement. The LGBT community in Toronto very definitely was already raising the alarm that there was a link between the three cases long before the police admitted it — trust me, I was there. Bearcat (talk) 18:27, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
By June 2013 the task force had identified two other missing persons cases linked by geography and lifestyle, those of Abdulbasir "Basir" Faizi and Majeed "Hamid" Kayhan.is acceptable? – Reidgreg (talk) 13:06, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
On 25 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Danzig Street shooting, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Toronto's worst mass shooting was committed by teenagers at a block party? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Danzig Street shooting. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Danzig Street shooting), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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I think Jonesey95 wants a break as lead coordinator; if you're willing to be the lead coordinator (it's not hard), I'll be happy to continue as coordinator. Or whatever; I just want a place to play :-). All the best, Miniapolis 23:44, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
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This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 3 June 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 2nd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 34 articles during the GOCE May 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 3 June 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 2nd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 54,315 total words during the GOCE May 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 3 June 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting four long articles during the GOCE May 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 3 June 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 15,524 words – during the GOCE May 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 3 June 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 29 old articles during the GOCE May 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:06, 4 June 2018 (UTC) |
@Jonesey95: Thanks! But, er, you missed {{subst:GOCE award|award=old|place=1|number=29}} I probably overcomplicated by drawing, but what can I say? I like to share. – Reidgreg (talk) 01:15, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
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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. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. |
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Hello, Reidgreg. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Lucie Poitras".
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Hello! Your submission of Bruce McArthur at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:02, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Reidgreg:
Wow, that nomination came out of left field! Thank you! I think we can blame the stats on our lousy winters! I do enjoy (most) copy editing and hope to be able to continue for many years to come.
Thanks again!
Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:55, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
On 19 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Death of Alloura Wells, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the deaths of Alloura Wells and Tess Richey, reported one day apart, renewed fears of a serial killer in Toronto's gay village? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Death of Alloura Wells), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 19 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Murder of Tess Richey, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the deaths of Alloura Wells and Tess Richey, reported one day apart, renewed fears of a serial killer in Toronto's gay village? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Murder of Tess Richey), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 19 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the deaths of Alloura Wells and Tess Richey, reported one day apart, renewed fears of a serial killer in Toronto's gay village? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:39, 25 June 2018 (UTC) |
The Copy Editor's 10K Star | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy-editing at least one individual article of more than 10,000 words during the most recent Guild of Copy Editors' Drive or Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:39, 25 June 2018 (UTC) |
Sorry, we do not talk about flags. --Caminoderoma (talk) 00:36, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
If you can not give us 3O please tell us. The dispute is if "British Volunteers" could be in belligerent, or not in the Infobox military conflict. Please read about the British intervention in Spanish America and Neutrality Act of 1819 about unrecognized states. here Thanks--Caminoderoma (talk) 03:31, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Name of the ship | Number of men | Chileans | British /North Americans | |
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O'Higgins | 92 | 0 | 92 | |
Lautaro | 99 | 43 | 56 | |
Independecia | 49 | 15 | 34 | |
Total of shipman | 240 | 58 | 182 | |
Total of officers | 32 | 5 | 27 | |
Commander-in-Chief: Thomas Cochrane | ||||
@Caminoderoma: I'd say to wait a week to see if this gets any traction at Milhist. If that doesn't provide useful input, then you could file a Wikipedia:Requests for comment. If you do so, be sure that you succinctly state the issue. – Reidgreg (talk) 01:04, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi there! As you were so active in the World Contest, you might be interested in August's Monthly achievement initiative.--Ipigott (talk) 15:43, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
Sorry about that! I did notice that there was an editing conflict when I went to save my changes. I think you had made your edits while I was already working on the page. I typically check on the pages' talk and edit history before making large edits, but I don't recall seeing any evidence that you had already started working.
Good work on the drive by the way. You have done a lot more than I have.
Triangleman3 (talk) 20:59, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your response and the effort you took for citing your opinion in Talk:Saudi_Arabia#Consistency. However, the dispute was between two competing versions. so since we and Oxfordlaw reached a dead end, I am asking for your opinion, should we separate every kingdom into its own section, for Kindah, Lihyan, Dilmun, Thamud as in here, or lumped together under pre-Islamic era section with a narrative ? Which one is more preferable? Nabataeus (talk) 17:45, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 3rd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 31 articles during the GOCE July 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:02, 5 August 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 3rd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 71,908 total words during the GOCE July 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:02, 5 August 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 2nd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 6 long articles during the GOCE July 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:02, 5 August 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 31 old articles during the GOCE July 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:02, 5 August 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 3rd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 10,054 words – during the GOCE July 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:02, 5 August 2018 (UTC) |
The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 14:02, 5 August 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors August 2018 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the August 2018 GOCE newsletter. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Guild's June election; your new and returning coordinators are listed below. The next election will occur in December 2018; all Wikipedia editors in good standing may take part. Our June blitz focused on Requests and articles tagged for copy edit in October 2017. Of the eleven people who signed up, eight editors recorded a total of 28 copy edits, including 3 articles of more than 10,000 words. Complete results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the seventeen people who signed up, thirteen editors completed 194 copy edits, successfully removing all articles tagged in the last three months of 2017. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are here. The August blitz will run for one week, from 19 to 25 August. Sign up now! 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. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:25, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Reidgreg, thank you for your note about Equestria. I like what you did, and I think we dodged a potential edit conflict since I was out of editing mode at the time. I am about to jump back in, so I will change the "under construction" message at the top to the "in use" one (I might be in editing mode for a few hours). Thank you for coordinating the blitz—it is my first time participating in one, and I'm excited to see how it goes! Romhilde (talk) 03:14, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar | |
Thank you for the recent DYK review. But the reason why I'm awarding you this barnstar is because I looked into the recent outstanding contributions you've done in other areas of this encyclopedia. I noticed you didn't have this barnstar, so now you can add it to your collection! Happy editing, MX (✉ • ✎) 15:56, 23 August 2018 (UTC) |
@MX: thanks! I do like to collect barnstars – I'm also looking forward to completing my set of Guild of Copy Editors barnstars next week. Reviewing is new for me, I've been a bit worried about it but DYK has been a good experience. Although the rules/instructions are absurdly long, everybody's been helpful and open-minded. I've just got to be careful not to overextend myself with the other chainsaws I'm juggling. – Reidgreg (talk) 22:22, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Thank you much again for giving a detailed third opinion on Akaike information criterion. I was really glad to get the issue resolved. Additionally, you recommended that the lead note that AIC was formulated by Hirotugu Akaike: I made a relevant edit two weeks ago, and it has held so far, which I take to indicate general acceptance. Offering appreciative and good wishes, SolidPhase (talk) 17:55, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
The Minor Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE August 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:34, 27 August 2018 (UTC) |
You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.
Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!
Bkissin (talk) 21:42, 3 September 2018 (UTC)Hi Reidgreg, after I finished editing Electroless nickel plating for our September drive, I realized that the sections Characteristics and Types may have been taken originally from a copyrighted website. I am concerned that I unknowingly edited a copyright violation, turning it into a close paraphrase.
Should these two sections have been tagged per WP:COPYVIO? If so, I'd rather revert my edits and tag the sections. What confuses me is whether this website copied Wikipedia or Wikipedia copied the website.
The list of advantages in the original article is nearly an exact copy and paste, and by this edit even more had been subsequently copied. It seems unlikely that a business would claim text from Wikipedia as their marketing material-but not impossible. I appreciate the guidance. Romhilde (talk) 05:33, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the copyedit in Date Masamune. If there's something that worries me though is that the lead is now one paragraph only which tends to go against guidelines. Maybe could the lead be divided into two paragraphs? Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 21:06, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, would you mind taking another look at your recent edit of Development communication? Something seems to have gone amiss. Thanks, Jessicapierce (talk) 02:37, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi - just wanted to say thank you so much for looking over the Gaya article and adding your copy edits. I've learnt a lot by looking at your improvements. In particular, I didn't know to make the distinction between hyphens and en dashes (so I've been back to make a few corrections for this in the other articles I worked on in the September GOCE Drive); and I wasn't able at the time to find the right conversion template, converting in the right direction, for some of the distances and heights. All very good to know, and I'm very glad to have been pointed in the right direction. Great also to see the final touches that make all the difference now in the layout and wording. I really appreciate the guidance and the learning curve - thanks again! FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 16:05, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 5th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 18 articles during the GOCE September 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:53, 4 October 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 41,557 total words during the GOCE September 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:53, 4 October 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 2nd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 2 long articles during the GOCE September 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:53, 4 October 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 18 old articles during the GOCE September 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:53, 4 October 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 3rd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 8,707 words – during the GOCE September 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:53, 4 October 2018 (UTC) |
The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:53, 4 October 2018 (UTC) |
I know we haven't spoken about this in a number of months, but if look at the bottom of my talk page, I have someone up my ass about references. They are annoying me about source. Have you by chance found any references for the 1st Canadian Comedy Awards? I've have been searching and still can't find any outside of the official website. We can use it, but I want more secondary sources. Ping me in this conversation so I can get notified of your response. Thanks. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 00:23, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
The Guidance Barnstar | ||
For your excellent guidance and firm reviews during October Blitz 2018, which helped me to learn better copyediting and stay motivated, I award you the Guidance Barnstar as a token of respect. Suman chowdhury 22 (talk) 06:42, 21 October 2018 (UTC) |
I very much enjoyed working on the blitz this month. I'd like to tackle one of the longer articles on the requests page. However, the ones I am most interested in are articles whose recent contributors are trying to get their article to FA or GA status. I am not sufficiently confident in my skills to attempt these. I think the only way to learn, though, is to go in and edit and then have a more experienced copyeditor check the work thoroughly (and "nitpick"). Or, maybe there's another better way to learn? Do you have any suggestions on either how to go about learning or a recommendation of a more experienced copy editor to copy edit my copy edits? PopularOutcasttalk2me! 13:32, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for you help with the Canadian Comedy Awards. Hopefully we can get other years done. Again, let me know what I can help with with anything you are specifically working on when it comes to the Canadian Comedy Awards. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 02:28, 22 October 2018 (UTC) |
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 10,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 21:02, 22 October 2018 (UTC) |
Thanks for your valuable inputs Reidgreg. I must admit, I admire your knowledge, humility, and the way of teaching. I went through each and every point of your note and checked the diffs between versions. I am glad that I learned so much from one of the best Wikipedians.
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@Suman chowdhury 22: wow, thanks! Don't feel that you have to memorize everything from every MOS page, by the way. I do a lot of cleanup that isn't required. Even good articles only have to comply with the MOS for punctuation, grammar, layout and lead. If you can get most of the basics or main-page MOS, that's great. Just knowing the guidelines are there and where to find them helps, and you can refer to them depending on the needs of the article, like reviewing MOS:TV when copy editing a television article. Thanks for the rasgulla, and happy editing! – Reidgreg (talk) 12:54, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
Dear Reidgreg, first of all thank you for copyediting that article. I think that it is part of his surname now, because in the media they often present him as Nemanja Todorović Štiplija, Nemanja Štiplija or Mr. Štiplija. So I think that you could say that Štiplija is a part of his name, but Todorović is definitely his surname.VuXman talk 08:24, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
No problem. Thanks. Eurohunter (talk) 16:09, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello again! I have a question about the word count for the article Sensual Phrase, which I've just started to tackle in the November Drive.
The word counting script initially didn't pick up the contents of Section 2, "Characters", because of the section layout. I pasted it into a Word document and got a count of 1554 words. The first thing I've done is reformat that section into subsections, replacing the initial semicolon before each character name with the triple dash, and removing the indenting. The word count script now picks up those 1554 words and includes them in the total count. I was just wondering if it's alright to use that updated total in my article list (8978 words as opposed to the initial 7424). No problem at all if not, but so much the better if so!
Another thing I'm not sure about is how to tackle the formatting of the long string of episodes in Section 4. Maybe they can stay in the current format, maybe a table would be better. Or can I nest them with four dashes as per MOS:SECTIONS? Grateful for any quick counsel!
By way of quick update, I had occasion to use the double pushpin map template fix from San Javier, Murcia (above) in a second October Blitz article on the same region - quite pleasing to have something to copy! You were right, it is very clever. Good to know about, too. – FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 20:27, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello Reidgreg,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 3rd Canadian Comedy Awards for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.
Meatsgains(talk) 02:46, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
The Barnstar Barnstar | ||
By the authority invested in me by me I hereby award you the Barnstar Barnstar in recognition of your diligence over an extended period in identifying good work in others and encouraging it by the timely but discerning bestowal of barnstars. Long may you continue to award deserved barnstars. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:48, 11 November 2018 (UTC) |
@Gog the Mild: thanks! That was unexpected! I've added it to my awards page with a better introduction. – Reidgreg (talk) 18:20, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Reidgreg. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Dear Reidgreg, I'm sorry about being late in getting back to you, but thank you so much for the Bronze Star! Much appreciated! Cheers!--A.S. Brown (talk) 23:56, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
copy edit gnome
Thank you for quality articles such as Danzig Street shooting, Martha Chaves and Rebecca Jamieson, for coordinating project GOCE, for reviewing, for typo team help and "amazing fluff-trimming", looking for "clarity, consistency, conciseness, tone, minor layout and linking, reduced overlong plots" - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:27, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
Both flags given, and thanks for all you do; until now, I think Jonesey and I were the only GOCE regulars with WP:MMS. All the best, Miniapolis 01:28, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi Reidgreg. I used to be part of the Guild of Copy Editors, though really did very little. As you are one of the co-ordinators, I thought I'd ask you for some assistance. Some very negative words have been added to Jim Longley recently -- like "allegedly corrupt" and "abscond" -- and some claims I know to be untrue, but difficult to verify. Given that I know Jim, I do not want to edit too much of that article myself. As you'll see on the Talk page I have requested a discussion about how to improve the article.
Would you be able to comment on the Talk page and/or make any edits you think appropriate to bring the article more in line with guidelines on NPOV and biographies? – Matthew C. Clarke 23:23, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 05:57, 3 December 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 25 articles during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 05:57, 3 December 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 2nd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 62,776 total words during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 05:57, 3 December 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 6 long articles during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 05:57, 3 December 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 25 old articles during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 05:57, 3 December 2018 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 1st Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 21,867 words – during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 05:57, 3 December 2018 (UTC) |
The Teamwork Barnstar | ||
It is with great pleasure that I award this barnstar jointly and severally to Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk. It has been earned by the serene grace with which these editors guide GOCE through the choppy waters of Wikipedia while no doubt paddling like crazy beneath the surface. Both the paddling and the calm are much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:21, 3 December 2018 (UTC) |
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. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:05, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello Reidgreg: I looked at the inline citation 56, which is a bing search on the topic of modularity for transformer fire barriers. Modularity itself is already described on Wikipedia. But as this concerns transformer fire barriers, currently, this is only available from purpose-made product manufacturers, 5 vendors, by my count. This means that in terms of links that are available to back up the fact that the concept exists and that people are devising products purposely to offer this feature, it is not possible to insert a link without having it viewed as blatant advertising. Any thoughts on how to deal with that other than to suggest to do an online search?--Achim Hering (talk) 17:25, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
The Lord is my shepherd, - I think the redirect and possibly the DAB should be in sentence case. Thanks for making them. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:55, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
In titles of English-language works, every word except for definite and indefinite articles, short coordinating conjunctions, and short prepositions is capitalized. MOS:MUSICCAPS says something similar, and adds
Exceptions are not made to mimic logo/cover stylization, even if such mimicry is common in the music press.So that would have it as "The Lord is My Shepherd". I decided to go with that for The Lord is My Shepherd (disambiguation), anticipating that it would mainly be a list of works. That guideline suggests the Rutter work might be moved to this capitalization, but I didn't feel strongly about it.
Hello Editor,
I wanted to update you regarding the yet-to-commence December Blitz. Out of the 13 articles tagged with "copyedit" in May 2018, I have dealt with 6 of them: Hwangbo, Wu Sangui, Luca Pignatelli, Zdravko Mlinar, International mobile remittance, 2018 cricket pitch fixing and betting scandal.
I will be completing Hitori Kumagai and Belen Rodriguez, leaving us with 5 articles for May 2018. Maybe we can proceed to June 2018 articles in the upcoming blitz.
Hi @Reidgreg:Reidgreg, there is a draft in AfC that I have worked on over the last few days - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Kalynn_Campbell. This draft was already present on Wikipedia, but lacked proper referencing and formatting. I have worked on both aspects and also checked on the references, wherein I discovered that each of them is from an independent source - they have been written by someone for the person in question. There were some blogs and personal website mentioned in the original draft, all of which I have removed bearing in mind the guidelines. I would be grateful if you could take a look and revert with feedback as to what more can be done to ensure its approval by the review committee. Thanks in advance, Vinvibes (talk) 20:05, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hi! Thank you for sharing your feedback on my COI edit requests over at Stash. I've replied to your comments and revised and would love your thoughts if you have a moment. Thank you again! Mary Gaulke (talk) 01:42, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE December 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:41, 24 December 2018 (UTC) |
The Copy Editor's 10K Star | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy-editing at least one individual article of more than 10,000 words during the most recent Guild of Copy Editors' Drive or Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:41, 24 December 2018 (UTC) |
They all look pretty damn good to me. To be honest, I don't really "curate" the Genie Awards articles all that actively — apart from getting them upgraded to ensure that they were all complete (some of the ones for the 1990s in particular spent years listing only the "big six" categories while ignoring everything else, until I was able to locate the right sources to upgrade them) and properly formatted, I haven't put that much energy into actually adding very much content to them beyond that. I know it may seem like it, because I'm close to the only person who has bothered to do much of anything to them at all this decade, but I don't own the articles or anything — once I was sure they had all the nominees listed, I concentrated more of my energy on getting redlinked films in place at least as stubs (even if it isn't always possible to write much more than a stub) than I did on expanding the ceremony articles very much further. So any work you want to do in helping to improve the Genie/CSA articles further is most welcome. Bearcat (talk) 21:04, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
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