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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)
[edit]The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television). Legobot (talk) 04:29, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News
[edit]Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News
  Hello copy editors! Welcome to the December 2017 GOCE newsletter, which contains nine months(!) of updates. The Guild has been busy and successful; your diligent efforts in 2017 has brought the backlog of articles requiring copy edit to below 1,000 articles for the first time. Thanks to all editors who have contributed their time and energy to help make this happen. Our copy-editing drives (month-long backlog-reduction drives held in odd-numbered months) and blitzes (week-long themed editing in even-numbered months) have been very successful this year. March drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2016 from our backlog and all February 2017 Requests (a total of 304 articles). By the end of the month, all but 22 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 28 who signed up, 22 editors recorded 257 copy edits (439,952 words). (These numbers do not always make sense when you compare them to the overall reduction in the backlog, because not all editors record every copy edit on the drive page.) April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 April; the theme was Requests. Of the 15 who signed up, 9 editors completed 43 articles (81,822 words). May drive: The goals were to remove July, August, and September 2016 from the backlog and to complete all March 2017 Requests (a total of 300 articles). By the end of the month, we had reduced our overall backlog to an all-time low of 1,388 articles. Of the 28 who signed up, 17 editors completed 187 articles (321,810 words). June blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 18 through 24 June; the theme was Requests. Of the 16 who signed up, 9 editors completed 28 copy edits (117,089 words). 2017 Coordinator elections: In June, coordinators for the second half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 moved back into the lead coordinator position, with Miniapolis stepping down to remain as coordinator; Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators, and Keira1996 rejoined after an extended absence. Thanks to all who participated! July drive: We set out to remove August, September, October, and November 2016 from the backlog and to complete all May and June 2017 Requests (a total of 242 articles). The drive was an enormous success, and the target was nearly achieved within three weeks, so that December 2016 was added to the "old articles" list used as a goal for the drive. By the end of the month, only three articles from 2016 remained, and for the second drive in a row, the backlog was reduced to a new all-time low, this time to 1,363 articles. Of the 33 who signed up, 21 editors completed 337 articles (556,482 words). August blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 20 through 26 August; the theme was biographical articles tagged for copy editing for more than six months (47 articles). Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors completed 38 copy edits (42,589 words). September drive: The goals were to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all August 2017 Requests (a total of 338 articles). Of the 19 who signed up, 14 editors completed 121 copy edits (267,227 words). October blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 22 through 28 October; the theme was Requests. Of the 14 who signed up, 8 editors completed 20 articles (55,642 words). November drive: We set out again to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all October 2017 Requests (a total of 207 articles). By the end of the month, these goals were reached and the backlog shrank to its lowest total ever, 997 articles, the first time it had fallen under one thousand (click on the graph above to see this amazing feat in graphical form). It was also the first time that the oldest copy-edit tag was less than eight months old. Of the 25 who signed up, 16 editors completed 159 articles (285,929 words). 2018 Coordinator elections: Voting is open for the election of coordinators for the first half of 2018. Please visit the election page to vote between now and December 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Thanks for participating! Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before (or after) every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist. 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 Keira1996. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:04, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
Stanley Cup playoffs
[edit]Hello and thank you for adding detail to the Stanley Cup playoff articles. Several of us have been following up by fixing the wikilinks. Please can you check that we've got the right player in each case? It can be difficult for a non-expert to resolve names such as Alain Côté, Stéphane Richer, Ron Wilson or Greg Adams where there were multiple players active in that era. Thanks, Certes (talk) 13:11, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hi @Certes: Insofar as I am able to recognize a name that associates with more than one hockey player, I will attempt to disambiguate it myself. I will keep the names you've given in a list to refer to. Thanks for the difficult disambiguation work you've been doing. I know it is not as easy as you sometimes make it look. Cheers. Fdssdf (talk) 14:52, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
- Dabfix can make the job easier. That tool shows links to disambiguation pages in red. Clicking on them gives you a list of possibilities, which usually contains the correct target. Often it's as easy as scrolling down to Sports and picking "John Doe (ice hockey)" with a quick check that he was born in the right era. Occasionally it's harder - I eventually worked out that the 1985 Stanley Cup playoffs featured two different Ron Wilsons - and that's where we'd value your expertise. Certes (talk) 15:05, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
- @Certes: Thanks for the link! I'll look into it today. Cheers. Fdssdf (talk) 20:30, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
- Dabfix can make the job easier. That tool shows links to disambiguation pages in red. Clicking on them gives you a list of possibilities, which usually contains the correct target. Often it's as easy as scrolling down to Sports and picking "John Doe (ice hockey)" with a quick check that he was born in the right era. Occasionally it's harder - I eventually worked out that the 1985 Stanley Cup playoffs featured two different Ron Wilsons - and that's where we'd value your expertise. Certes (talk) 15:05, 23 December 2017 (UTC)