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GOCE drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE January 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation 45 people signed up for this drive this time; of these, 35 participated. This is similar to the number of editors who helped out in November. Thanks to all who participated! Barnstars will be distributed in the near future. Progress report Recent drives have been focusing on the oldest three months in the backlog. During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—July, August, and September 2010—from the queue, and there are less than 300 articles remaining from 2010. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the January 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy edit drive will be in March. Your drive coordinators – The Utahraptor talk, S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), Stfg (Talk), Sp33dyphil (talk), and Dank (talk)

GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Recall procedure

Hi there. I have chosen you as one of the editors who may request my resignation as part of my my recall procedure. Could you have a look, and confirm whether you're happy being on the list? Thanks. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 17:08, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that's fine. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 10:32, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

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Great Wagner Conductors

Demiurge 1000, you removed the bibliographic references I'd inserted to Jonathan Brown's new book on Great Wagner Conductors on the basis that this was advertising or soapboxing. I wholeheartedly support the Wikipedia policy on advertising, but my intention in inserting the references to this book was to enrich the pages concerned. It is a serious, scholarly book, with separate extensively researched chapters for 23 Wagner conductors and a discography for each one. I had wanted to insert a specific reference, for example in the case of Artur Bodanzky to say that "Chapter 14 is devoted to Bodanzky; includes discography", but found that the fields of the Wiki bibliography template did not include provision for such a comment to be added. Brown's book is precisely the sort of reference that a Wikipedia reader would like to find in the bibliography/references/further reading sections of the webpages of the 23 conductors and related pages, and I would respectfully ask you to reconsider, and also advise how to insert the specific chapter reference which would make it clear why the book is relevant on the various conductor pages. The structure of the webpages differs, in some cases (Wagner's own page being a case in point)the heading is 'other sources', and a new book is not strictly a source that has been used, but this occurs under a higher level heading 'Sources and further reading', and the insertion is certainly relevant as an item for further reading.Nosnibor (talk) 11:18, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for not getting back to you sooner.

Unfortunately Wikipedia is not very friendly to this sort of addition - see for example WP:BOOKSPAM which seems to be against it. Really the best way of regarding the "Further reading" (and similar) sections is the equivalent of a university reading list. The best university reading lists do not include every single book (or academic journal entry) that happens to have a section relating to the topic, but instead have what the academic staff regard as the most significant published material on the topic and best overall treatments of the topic.

The guidelines of inclusion of material under "See also" say that it should be what "editors recommend". You are indeed an editor, and you probably know more about Wagnerian conductors than I do, but I think that editor recommendation should be wider than just one editor noting that a book contains a chapter that relates to the topic. So I don't see that your adding this book to more than twenty topics in one day, is appropriate.

Of course, it's possible that the book in question is the best work on a particular topic; or that it's the best book overall on the whole range of topics. But, as you say, it's a new book, so that's yet to be determined. Is it a notable book, by Wikipedia's standards? If so, and if you have no connection at all with the author, his family or the publisher, then you should consider creating an article about it on Wikipedia. Read WP:42 first, then go to WP:AFC. If it's not a notable book, and if you're the only editor that personally considers it's the best source on these topics - then I disagree, and it shouldn't be included. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 11:49, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your measured reply, and apologies for not replying sooner, I have been away. Some of the 23 conductors covered in the book (viz. Bodanzky, Coates) have no monograph written about them at all, so would surely be of interest to people wanting to know more. However, your advice is well taken and good suggestion about an article. But at this stage seems best to wait to see how this new book is received.80.229.167.4 (talk) 08:19, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Singapore Sister

Hello. If you think this is good faith, you're mistaken. Check the contribs again. Thanks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 13:01, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Heh, had to look three times before I saw it. (First time around I was looking at the edit summaries, second time the edits themselves). Lucky no-one tries to troll me that way, they'd be wasting their time because I would never notice! Actually, maybe that means they already are ... oh dear. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 11:49, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive

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Amy Cuddy

She is clearly notable (per awards and coverage) and passes GNG. If you want me to I'll create the article for you (attributing the writing to you) without using AFC.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 20:44, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for this extremely fast feedback. (You'd be surprised at the number of times I ask wikiprojects for help with things like this, and get no response at all.) Based on your recommendation, I've boldly created it at Amy Cuddy. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:01, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

science desk

Please do not delete my question. I am not asking for treatment of a medical condition. I do not suffer from migraines. The article on that subject does not indicate where the pain from them occurs other than saying they are unilateral. I am looking for a description of the pain. μηδείς (talk) 22:21, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

I think what you posted on the reference desk should not have been posted there. I will continue to think that. However, your request here has been entirely polite, and I have no intention of edit-warring your comments off the reference desk just because I am personally certain they should not be there. I think that's the end of my involvement in it, so I wish you well. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 22:29, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your very civil response. Please note I didn't start the thread, nor did I ask for a diagnosis or a treatment. It's truly just a matter of curiosity on my point. μηδείς (talk) 23:19, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you! Happy to help. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 16:02, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Copyedit

Hi Demiurge, just a head's up, but I just put up an article at the GOCE request page, if you're interested. It's about the leader of a UFO cult, you might find it interesting. No problem if you don't have time. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 17:12, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi Mark, thanks for the note - another interesting one! Looks like Maryana has already taken it though, so I'll leave it for now. (Incidentally, might be worth noting at the GOCE Requests page that the request is being worked on.) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 16:02, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

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Responding to your message to me. Even though I am 11, I am not new to Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maniandram01 (talk • contribs) 13:25, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

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IRC boot tools used to suppress criticism?

Demiurge1000, what is your position on IRC boot tools being used to suppress valid criticism of Wikipedia? -- 2001:558:1400:A:DC07:3F1:E7BE:21B6 (talk) 17:06, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

My "position" is that use of "IRC boot tools" to suppress valid criticism of Wikipedia would be about as effective as making a point by pasting sections of articles about pornographic movies into a discussion where people were asking for help on a completely unrelated topic. In other words, almost totally ineffective.

That's because there are better places for valid criticism of both Wikipedia and pornographic movies, and few or none of those places are susceptible to the effects of "IRC boot tools". --Demiurge1000 (talk) 17:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

WP: PERM

Hi! I see that you have undone a  Not done NAC at WP: PERM. I just wanted to let you know that I am allowed to make these closures, as I am a trainee clerk under Armbrust and BWilkins. I try and limit it to users who I feel will not get rollback and get the borderline cases handled by admins. Best, Electriccatfish2 (talk) 19:53, 13 July 2012 (UTC).