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Welcome

Hello, Braincricket, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! — Sumsum2010 (talk) 22:34, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Punctuation in article titles?

If there is a "?" or a "!" in the title of a work of art, such as a novel or film, should I include that punctuation in the article title itself?

In short, generally, yes. For more detail, see Wikipedia:Article titles, especially Wikipedia:Article titles#Special characters--SPhilbrickT 02:20, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Found it at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (article titles). Thanks! Braincricket (talk) 04:17, 18 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A tool for finding the right category

This is a newbie question: are there any handy tools for searching through categories? So far, I have been doing all my "searching" manually, by browsing through Special:Categories or Portal:Contents/Categories, which is a real pain. Is there a better way to find the category I'm looking for? Thanks. Braincricket (talk) 08:49, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can always try a Google search. For more precise searching, you can go to Special:Search (which is one of the "Special" pages -- a link to Special pages is in the bottom of the Toolbox over in the far left side of the page), put in the term that you want, click the Advanced button, then unclick the checkbox next to "Article" and check the box next to "Category", which will search for your term only in categories. I hope that helps. :) If you'd like any further help, contact me on my user talk page or put a {{help me}} template up on your own user talk page and someone will be along to help you. :) Banaticus (talk) 09:19, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism?

Hey helpful editor, I was doing my rounds wikifying and ran across an article that is a blatant copy-and-paste job from a page on another website. The article Human rights in Mauritania cites this page a total of 84 times! So I checked it out: it is a report written by the U.S. Department of State. I skimmed WP:PD and I think because it is a work of the Federal Government it is not eligible for copyright protection. But still, the whole paper, verbatim? Isn't that frowned upon? What is to be done? Maybe a {{proposed deletion}}, or a {{db-copyvio}}? Or maybe something less drastic, like proposing a major re-write/restructuring on the article's talk page? The editor who did the copy-and-pasting was at least forthright in saying that the content was just a dump from a US Govt report. Thanks for the advice. Braincricket (talk) 07:01, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If the source is public domain, the article is not eligible for speedy deletion as copyright violation. Proposed deletion would be unwise as well: It's better to have a bad-written article about a notable subject than no article at all because the former invites people to work on it. I would suggest you list it at Wikipedia:Copyright problems to get input whether it's really public domain and if it is, tag it accordingly, for example with {{rewrite}}. Regards SoWhy 07:30, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Public Policy Initiative Recruiting Assessors for Spring

Hi Braincricket,
I saw that you are in the Wikification Leaderboard of February 2011 and I would like to ask you if you want to participate in an initiative [Public Policy Initiative (PPI)] carried out by Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy. If you are interested in research and want to experiment with article assessment or just want to help out, please, join our group of assessors because we really need your help. If you have questions or need more information, please check out the discussion on the assessment tab and the WPUSPP Assessment department, or contact ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk · contribs), who is the Research Analyst for the project. Also, if you know valuable and trusted editors who are expert in USPP and/or articles assessment, please invite them to participate to this project. The work to be done is not so much, and will start next spring. Your help would be much needed and greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance and all the best. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:28, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback Dashboard task force

Hi Braincricket,

Since you were a part of the WikiGuides project, I thought I'd give you a heads-up about a new way you can help/mentor newbies on en.wiki: we've recently released a feature called the Feedback Dashboard, a queue that updates in real time with feedback and editing questions from new registered contributors who have attempted to make at least one edit. Steven Walling and I are putting together a task force for experienced Wikipedians who might be interested in monitoring the queue and responding to the feedback: details are here at Wikipedia:Feedback Dashboard. Please sign up if you're interested in helping out! Thanks, Maryana (WMF) (talk) 22:00, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vampire bat CE

Thank you for copyediting the Common vampire bat article. Is there more work to be done? I'm told that the lede paragraph needs copyediting. LittleJerry (talk) 03:20, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey LittleJerry (talk). Ya I'm pretty much done—I went through all the sections and did my best to improve the grammar, flow, etc. I didn't touch the lead section at all, as the GA discussion on Talk:Common Vampire Bat indicated that it should be left for last so that it can accurately summarize the content of the rest of the article. There was only one more thing I wanted to do, that is using this reference to add some info and formalize the tone of the Feeding section. I'll look over it later tonight and tweak a sentence or two, then slap a GOCE stamp on the talk page. You've done a lot of great work on the article; it's been my pleasure to help out. Cheers. Braincricket (talk) 00:48, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I did add in more lines in the lead section so it can cover more of the article. I think it is ready for a CE. LittleJerry (talk) 04:10, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Voorhees Middle School

Hi. Regarding your nomination of Voorhees Middle School for speedy deletion as non-notable (WP:CSD#A7), you should be aware that schools are explicitly exempt from deletion by this category. If you still believe it should be deleted, you should use WP:AFD. Stephen! Coming... 09:55, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! I did not know that—thanks for telling me. Braincricket (talk) 09:58, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

tutorials

Thanks for your kind note. Yes, I must review them all. I've "Comma workshop" and "Amiguity" pages in mind, too. Tony (talk) 08:58, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Naruto Uzumaki

Thanks for your edits at Naruto Uzumaki. The article needs some copy-edit, but I'm mainly concerned about the reception section's context. Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 02:04, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! It will be another couple days before I am completely finished. I'll leave some comments on Talk:Naruto Uzumaki if I have any questions, and I'll let you know what I think about the Reception section. FYI: I have neither seen the anime nor read the manga, so you will be getting the opinion of a "general reader". Peace. Braincricket (talk) 03:12, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I that's better so that the general reader fully understands it. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 11:57, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the comments in the article's talk page. Already responded to them. Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 14:49, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

Elections are currently underway for our third tranche of Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, 16 December – 23:59 UTC, 31 December. All GOCE members, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are five candidates vying for four positions. Your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 10:24, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Wilhelmina Will (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Good tidings to you and your kin! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 09:35, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How do I avoid a lame edit war?

Here's the story. I was going through the Wikify back log when I came across this article. I wasn't able to wikify it, so instead I tagged it with three templates: conflict-of-interst, no-lead, and jargon, which I hoped would inform readers and attract other (more experienced) editors to address the problems. After some more thought, I convinced myself that the article wasn't notable and that the main contributor was using Wikipedia as a soapbox to promote and lend credibility to the subject of the article—so I PROD'd it. The main contributor reverted the PROD (which is fine) and wrote a rather scathing response on the talk page. I tried to be as civil as I could in my response, and explained my reasons for tagging and proposing deletion. Then I nominated the article for deletion, and the main contributor responded by removing my three tags.

I stand by my reasons for nominating it for deletion, and I'll accept (and learn from) whatever they decide at AfD. But even if it's not deleted, I think the tags I put up are appropriate and may eventually help improve the quality of the article. I would like to put the tags back up and add a {{WikiProject Psychology}} template the talk page, because if the article isn't deleted then they could really help it in the long run. But the main contributor seems to think he owns the article, and I think whatever I do will just be reverted.

I appreciate his position—I would be pissed too if someone PROD'd my article. But I would like to think I could count to ten and provide a civil and rational argument in favor of its being kept. Anyway, how do I avoid an edit war? Should I just let AfD run its course and leave this one alone? I would appreciate another opinion, as it is just me and the main contributor at odds right now. I am trying to see this as an opportunity to learn something about conflict resolution and Wikipedia policy. Am I just insane? Thanks. Braincricket (talk) 23:44, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Having only glanced at the situation briefly I can whole heartedly state that the way you portray the situation above it seems clear that you are doing things the correct way... but I will look into the specifics that you mention in detail shortly. The only thing you might have considered, in addition to the steps taken above, would have been to request a third opinion prior to the AFD nomination. Now that AFD is open you will essentially be getting many third-opinions, and those should include comments on what tags or what further improvements should be made to the article if it is kept. If nothing else, I for one thank you for your maturity in handling this. Regards,  7  04:47, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't know I could have requested a third opinion—I'll be sure to take advantage of that if I get myself into a similar situation in the future. Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. Braincricket (talk) 05:01, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report

We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report.

Highlights
  • Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261
  • Report on coordinators' elections
  • Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives
  • Guild Plans for 2012
  • Requests page report
  • Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive!


Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here
On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012!
– Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:58, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Re:Your copy edit request at the GOCE (Jailhouse Rock)

Thanks for the copy-editing, now I'll work in that over-detailed plot section.--GDuwenTell me! 16:56, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

My heartfelt thanks go to you. Much appreciated work. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 08:22, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again. Jivesh1205 (Talk) 05:41, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

I was wondering if you would be able to copy-edit We Found Love (video) to FA standard please? I have listed it officially here. Thanks. Calvin • Watch n' Learn 06:14, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Calvin999, I am flattered by the request, but I am fairly new to copy editing and an FA might be a little beyond me. If you want a real bang up job, you're better off asking one of the coordinators at the Guild. I see you put the article in the queue, so someone should be getting to it. We have a drive going on, by the way, if you're interested in getting some practice and helping out. Best regards. Braincricket (talk) 15:24, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Okay thanks. Calvin • Watch n' Learn 15:41, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Codex Zacynthius

Thank you very much. English is my third language and editing on wikipedia is my way for improving of my English. Unfortunately it is very difficult to find user who will copyedit my articles. Thank you very much. Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 02:39, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Roman Dacia

Hi. Am I right in thinking it's complete now, and I can archive it? Best, Simon. --Stfg (talk) 10:47, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copy-edit

Hey do you accept requests? Best, Jonayo! Selena 4 ever 01:02, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yo Jona! Sorry, but I'm not accepting personal requests. If you list the article on WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests then I or another editor will get to it. Cheers. Braincricket (talk) 00:16, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply. Best, Jonayo! Selena 4 ever 00:17, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

D&D copyedits

Hey, thanks for taking a look at these articles! Are you a fan too, or do you just happen to be picking articles on a similar theme? I know that User:Torchiest was doing copyedits on D&D articles last year for the GOCE. BOZ (talk) 01:26, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the kind words! Ya, I started playing a Paladin with the 4th ed. rules about a year ago, but I just moved to a new city and haven't yet found a group to play with here. The January drive is winding down and I've been using CatScan to find sci-fi and fantasy related articles. Right now I am picking through The Orcs of Thar before moving on to Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game. I don't play the card game but I love H. P. Lovecraft. Best regards. Braincricket (talk) 01:45, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Well, great, enjoy! I've been trying to chonicle the history of the game, so hopefully you will learn plenty as you read through the articles. I will also mention that I started a Facebook group for disucssing the upcoming 5th edition, if you are interested in that. BOZ (talk) 03:16, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please be more careful

Hi Braincricket. I just reverted this edit where you changed "passed away" to "died" because it was part of a quotation. Please be more careful, or teach your script to ignore anything inside a {{quotation}} template. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 03:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very sorry about that. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I had been looking out for quotations, but apparently not hard enough. I'll be more careful in the future. Regards. Braincricket (talk) 05:22, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Euphemism

Hello! Saw your edit of "died" over "passed away" on Balgandharva (film). Does this WP:EUPHEMISM apply for plot stories also? Like of films or novels or likewise? These are stories and we dont tell the actual facts (even if the film is based on some real-life incident). This figure of speech in the plot summary like sections can be used to present the way it is shown in the film. Why do we have to used "died" in it? What do you think? -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 06:38, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Animeshkulkarni! There have been two discussions about this here and here. One of the arguments against using "passed away" is that it has non-neutral, peaceful, sad, or spiritual connotations. For example, the Buddha "passed away" but Adolf Hitler "died". I haven't seen Balgandharva, but you're saying that those peaceful or tragic connotations are appropriate when talking about Narayan's daughter? If so, why not just add a little more detail to make it explicit: "She died peacefully in her bed", or "...his daughter died. Despite his overwhelming emotional loss, he went ahead with the performance..." I think by avoiding the use of "passed away" in that manner, you could actually add clarity and depth to the plot summary. :-)
Another argument against using "passed away" is that it could introduce ambiguity in certain contexts, especially if the reader is not fluent in English. For example, "to pass away" also means "to move on" or "to depart". So one could interpret the sentence as "On the opening of his play, his daughter moved away (to a different city)." It makes sense in context, because that could cause Narayan emotional distress if he were close with his daughter; having never seen the film, and as a still-learning English speaker, one might (mistakenly) think that was what the sentence meant. By using "died", you make it very clear what you mean.
Well, that's my opinion. If you still think that "passed away" would do better in the article, then by all means go for it. But I think the plot summary could be even better if you used "died" and elaborated on those ideas which "passed away" only implies. What do you think? Best Regards. Braincricket (talk) 09:05, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Declination edits

Hi:

You used AWB to make some edits to the Declination article. Mostly, you changed ordinal numbers in dates to cardinal ones, e.g. you changed February 5th to February 5.

But in most of the English-speaking world, ordinal numbers are preferred in this context. Today's date, written by anyone in Britain, India, etc., is February 5th, or 5th February.

When I first came to North America from Britain, I was surprised to see cardinal numbers used. For the first 30+ years of my life, I had never encountered them used this way.

Wikipedia is supposed to be international. Usage that is accepted anywhere is accepted here. Right?

DOwenWilliams (talk) 19:30, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey DOwenWilliams! Thanks for bringing this to my attention—it is possible to make a lot of mistakes very quickly with AWB. I appreciate that in your experience you've used ordinals to write dates, but I'm not sure if I would agree that most of the English-speaking world uses them in that way, and that was not my experience when I studied in London. At any rate, the Wikipedia Manual of Style states that Wikipedia does not use ordinals for dates. The Chicago Manual of Style states "When specific dates are expressed, cardinal numbers are used, although these may be pronounced as ordinals."[1] Ordinals are used if the day is mentioned without the month or year (in which case it is usually spelled out), e.g. "On November 5, McManus declared victory. By the twenty-fifth, most of his supporters had deserted him."[1] The BBC News website uses cardinal numbers for their dates, as does Al Jazeera English and The Times of India. I was just trying to conform to the Wikipedia MoS for the sake of consistency across the encyclopedia. If you think the MoS "Dates and numbers" section should be amended, you can always discuss it on the talk page (someone already brought it up in this section). Best regards. Braincricket (talk) 23:35, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  1. ^ a b The Chicago Manual of Style (15 ed.). Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. 2003. p. 389. ISBN 0226104036.
Admittedly, it is nearly 40 years since I lived in England, and usage there may have (certainly has, in other contexts) changed since then. I looked up the Wikipedia article on Calendar date, and was told that using cardinal numbers in dates is a common, but far from universal, usage in British English. Okay. Maybe so. But, even if cardinals are common, ordinals are certainly accepted, so in the interest of universal acceptability, surely they should be accepted in Wikipedia too.
Incidentally, I doubt that many Brits would let their use of English be dictated by anything called the "Chicago Manual of Style", even if it does have an office in London. It probably includes such barbarisms as saying the the comma a few words back should be inside the quotation marks! Such abuse would make any educated Briton cringe.
I edited another article this afternoon, and used the spelling "metre". Then I noticed that elsewhere in the same article someone had put "meter". A bit of research showed me that "metre" (meaning a unit of distance) is correct even in the United States, but "meter", in that sense, is not accepted in many other countries. So what should Wikipedia do? My own feeling is that we should accept anything that is regarded as correct anywhere. If an author uses "metre" or "meter", or even both in the same sentence, we should just accept what he writes, without correcting it. That's the general attitude here in Canada, where I now live, where U.S. and British usages are both generally employed. Usage diversity enriches Canadian English. It would similarly enrich Wikipedia.
DOwenWilliams (talk) 00:24, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Haha, you got me with the Chicago MoS—unfortunately that's the only style guide I have sitting around the house at the moment. You'll be glad to know that WP uses the logical quotation (British) style! As for metre vs. meter and other spelling differences, the rule of thumb is to retain the original variety and to remain consistent within the article. There are templates you can add to the talk page so editors know which spellings should be used. So you're right, when there is no "correct" way of writing something, we should embrace diversity. I still think there is consensus that dates should be cardinals, unless you are talking about non-specific dates (e.g. "the first of the month"). I'll stop by the library tomorrow and see if I can pick up The Oxford Guide to Style. Cheers. :-) Braincricket (talk) 00:53, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 10:23, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE March copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their March 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:29, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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February 2012 wikification drive!

The Iron Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying 13 articles during the February Drive, i hereby award you the Iron Wikification Barnstar. Good job! benzband (talk) 19:41, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Wikify March Mini Drive

Delivered by benzband (talk) on behalf of WikiProject Wikify 18:35, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit

This may be a bit rude of me, but since you did such a good job copyediting the Ba'ath Party article, I wondered if you could take a quick look at the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region article – its a DYK nominee. --TIAYN (talk) 16:11, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey TIAYN! I am flattered, and I would be happy to take a look at your new article. I have been on a little wikibreak, so give me a few days to get back into the swing of things. Best regards. Braincricket (talk) 20:31, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks :) --TIAYN (talk) 22:14, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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Invitation to the April Wikification Drive

GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive
GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter.

Participation

Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months.

Progress report

During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.

When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators.

Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May.

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GOCE May copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their May 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg.

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GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Template:J

Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles.

Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg

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June 2012 Wikification Drive

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GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago.

Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg

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Thanks Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:00, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I thought the general fix suggested by AWB was appropriate, but I will leave it as is. Cheers. Braincricket (talk) 17:58, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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It seems you are using old settings and thus you get exception messages. Please delete old settings and download latest version from http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:53, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Legal outsourcing article

Thanks for correcting the typos in my edits to the article on Legal outsourcing. Are there any changes you would like to see , in terms of the writing style? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Virtualpractice (talk • contribs) 04:38, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! This is actually the first time someone has not complained about my use of AWB. Ha! I'd be happy to help clean up the formatting and layout of the article, and maybe do some light copy editing. You can check out the diff afterward to get an idea of the sort of changes I made. I think your contributions to the article so far have been really positive, especially your addition of about ten new footnotes. If you're concerned about your writing style, you might want to read User:Tony1/How to improve your writing—it's a tremendous resource. Regards. Braincricket (talk) 05:15, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for your help. I think the "Issues of confidentiality and attorney–client privilege" should be merged with the criticism section.It feels apropriate . I am going to begin merging them . Tell me if there is any objection. Virtualpractice (talk) 04:12, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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