User:Gerrit-Jan Berendijk

Work done[edit]

Primary author or major contributor[edit]

Saturday (novel), brought from a bloated plot summary to its current state.
Oscar Wilde, from a POV mess to GA status.
Any Human Heart, brought from a bloated plot summary to its current state.
The Importance of Being Earnest, lots of work, particularly on the analytical sections:themes, dramatic analysis, critical reception.
The King's Speech, clean-up and tightening up all sections, wrote visuals, mise en scène and reception section. Images and boxes
Alexander Stoddart, from an 8 line stub to fleshed out article, seeking critical/biographical sources to finish.
Body of Lies (film), wrote from start class
The International (film), wrote from start class
Somewhere (film), wrote from stub
Paris Metro Line 12, tantalisingly close to GA status, this article is mostly based on a translation from French wikipedia.
Christopher Hitchens, organisation according to WP:SS, removing dodgy content.
De Profundis (letter), from a short stub to full article. Demanding topic, work continues.
Notorious (film)
Inception Wrote new sections on thematic and cinematic analysis. General copyedit. New structure to break longer sections
Match Point (2005). Most of the themes, music, production, reception sections. All the French stuff
The Great Stagnation It's about the current state of technology and its effect on Economic growth.

Reviewing[edit]

Translation[edit]

Paris Metro Line 12. My first lengthy translation attempt anywhere, it taught me something about both languages; notably railway jargon.

Courrier International. An interesting read and concept for a weekly paper. The French article is by no means perfect, but better share something with English readers.

Haussmann's renovation of Paris - Revisions to the entire article, for both better expression in English and closer to the meaning of the French original.

French constitutional law of 23 July 2008 - revised initial paragraphs of a poor/machine translation.

Copy-editing/clean-up[edit]

Note: For practical reasons I am now only occasionally recording especially demanding or interesting articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/September 2011 for my articles done during that month. I regularly pick up requests from Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests and make fixes in articles as I read them. Personal requests on my talk page are welcome.

Mantelpiece[edit]

		The Writer's Barnstar
		"For your many efforts:While you deserve this for your editing on many Wikipedia articles it is being awarded for your specific efforts on all things Wilde. Many kudos for your work" MarnetteD \| Talk 17:30, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks so much for taking on the currency war article. I was reluctant to ask for help from the guild, as I wouldnt even trust most econ PGs to understand that topic. Several of the sentences that might seem poorly phrased are probably the clearest way to concisely express the various nuances and interrelations without over simplifying or loosing NPOV. I thought a lot of information might be lost. But almost every change was an improvement. Probably you either really know your finance or you've been blessed with exceptional instincts. It was a real honour! FeydHuxtable (talk) 11:36, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For your work and attention to detail on Atlantis: The Lost Empire, I award you this barnstar. DrNegative (talk) 01:34, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

		Copy Editor's Barnstar
		I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. This barnstar is awarded to Ktlynch* for copy editing articles totalling over 40,000 words during the GOCE September copy edit drive. Thank you very much for your strong efforts!*- Dianna (talk)

The Beatles in India ‎[edit]

Thanks for your help in copy-editing The Beatles in India. Even 'minor' improvements are worthwhile, and some of yours weren't minor at all. After you edited it I made a few more changes, and moved some sentences for better flow.[1] I hope I haven't ruined it! ;) I'm going to double check some of the references, and will nominate it for FAC soon. Your contributions will help the article qualify. Will Beback talk 21:47, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For your sterling efforts with the BBC One article. Cloudbound (talk) 22:08, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

		Copy Editor's Barnstar
		I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. This barnstar is awarded to Ktlynch* for copy editing articles totalling over 40,000 words during the GOCE September copy edit drive. Thank you very much for your strong efforts!*- Dianna (talk)

		Leaderboard Award—5k articles—4th Place (tied)
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Ktlynch for copy editing two articles of 5000 words or more during the WP:GOCE September 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. -- Dianna (talk)

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	This barnstar is awarded to Ktlynch for copy editing articles totalling over 8,000 words during the November 2011 copy edit drive. Thanks so much for your help. --Dianna (talk) 15:59, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

		The Million Award
		For your contributions to bring Oscar Wilde (estimated annual readership: 1,675,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers. -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:48, 28 August 2013 (UTC)