User talk:TitanAndromeda/Archive 2019

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Welcome to the Guild of Copy Editors

Hi, TitanAndromeda! Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for your interest in copy editing! I see that your account is new so I'm assuming you are a new editor.

Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was a tough article to copy edit. Really, as you've noted, it needs a lot of translation and citation work before it can have a proper copy edit, but it doesn't hurt to clean it up and it can be good practise to work on problematic articles like that. A couple other copy editors have made additional changes, which you can review from that article's history. (One thing I noticed was that Syngman Rhee's name was also spelled Lee Seung-man and Rhee Syng-man; I changed them to the linked spelling for consistency and to avoid confusion.)

Please have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/How to for links to some useful guidelines and help files on copy editing at Wikipedia. I particularly found Tony1's tutorials helpful.

We have developed a particular house style at Wikipedia, described in detail in our Manual of Style (MOS). Copy editors are expected to know more about the MOS than the average editor. Don't try to memorize it, but familiarize yourself with it so that you can refer to it when you run into something you're unsure about. (If you get stumped, you can ask at the GOCE talk pages.) Writing for encyclopedic tone can take a little getting used to.

If you're still interested in copy editing, I'd invite you to join our May copy-editing drive which runs until the end of the month.

If you have any questions, please put {{ping|Reidgreg}} in your reply so that I get a notification. Thanks again for your contributions and happy editing! – Reidgreg (talk) 12:12, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

@Reidgreg: thank you so much for your welcome and advice. I will absolutely take a look at the MOS and how-to page that you linked. Hopefully those will help me to make some positive contributions to the backlog of articles needing copy edits. And I will definitely look into helping with the drive for this month. TitanAndromeda (talk) 21:10, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Mainline/regional consolidation

I am curious to know exactly what made your opinion on the mainline/regional consolidation change? Just curious. Blissfield101 (talk) 21:14, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

@Blissfield101: Reading points made by those in opposition to the proposal introduced enough uncertainty on my part that I'm much more undecided on the issue than before. OhanaUnited's pointing out that Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge's flights are marketed differently gave me pause to consider that there are tangible differences between the way mainline and regional flights are operated. And SportingFlyer's point that merging mainline and regional destinations eliminates information that could be useful for non-travel purposes is compelling to me as well. While most travelers don't notice the difference, decisions to use regional carriers for routes versus mainline affect many aspects of the airline industry from fleet decision to gate allocation, so having a sense of which destinations are served by regionals could have encyclopedic value in this regard. All of this led me to realize that I hadn't fully considered the issue and can really see either side.

While you're here, I'd like to briefly address what brought me to that discussion in the first place, which was noticing your merging edits. While I stand by my statement at that discussion that your initial round of edits conformed to WP:BOLD, I was concerned to see you responding to reversions with reverts of your own while a discussion was ongoing and consensus hadn't been determined. If I were in your position I would have refrained from re-reverting since you were attempting to change what had been a longstanding implicit consensus. That being said, I appreciate that you have suspended further edits until consensus is determined. It does look increasingly likely that the consensus will be for the status quo, but we'll see how things play out. In the meantime, I'll continue to keep an eye on this discussion. TitanAndromeda 22:08, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2019. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 16 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: Our June blitz will soon be upon us; it will begin at 00:01 on 16 June (UTC) and will close at 23:59 on 22 June (UTC). The themes are "nature and the environment" and all requests. March Drive: Thanks to everyone for their work in March's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from 182 of the articles tagged in our original target months October and November 2018, and the month finished with 64 target articles remaining from November and 811 in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 22 requests for copyedit in March; the month ended with 34 requests pending. Of the 32 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the April Blitz; the blitz ran from 14 to 20 April (UTC) inclusive and the themes were Sports and Entertainment. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 04:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 267 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 605 articles. May Drive: During the May Backlog Elimination Drive, Guild copy-editors removed copyedit tags from 191 of the 192 articles tagged in our original target months of November and December 2018, and January 2019 was added on 22 May. We finished the month with 81 target articles remaining and a record low of 598 articles in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 24 requests for copyedit during the May drive, and the month ended with 35 requests pending. Of the 26 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:30, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Belated apology

In regards to the Privacy and blockchain article edit. Was not sure what to put in. I just thought there was no need for the commenting out part when(at least to me) not enough editing was done to the article. That being said, I have been wrong before. At any rate, now the article looks fine, so I most likely won't do much editing to it.

Alvin Seville (talk) 23:57, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

September 2019 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2019. June election: Reidgreg was chosen as lead coordinator, and is being assisted by Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk, and first-time coordinator Twofingered Typist. Jonesey95 took a respite after serving for six years. Thanks to everyone who participated! June Blitz: From 16 to 22 June, we copy edited articles on the themes of nature and the environment along with requests. 12 participating editors completed 35 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: The year's fourth backlog-elimination drive was a great success, clearing all articles tagged in January and February, and bringing the copy-editing backlog to a low of five months and a record low of 585 articles while also completing 48 requests. Of the 30 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, a participation level last matched in May 2015. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 18 to 24 August, we copy edited articles tagged in March 2019 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 03:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 413 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stood at 599 articles, close to our record month-end low of 585. Requests page: We are experimenting with automated archiving of copy edit requests; a discussion on REQ Talk (permalinked) initiated by Bobbychan193 has resulted in Zhuyifei1999 writing a bot script for the Guild. Testing is now underway and is expected to be completed by 3 October; for this reason, no manual archiving of requests should be done until the testing period is over. We will then assess the bot's performance and discuss whether to make this arrangement permanent. September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:58, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

GOCE December 2019 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December 2019 GOCE newsletter, an update of Guild happenings since the September edition. Our Annual Report should be ready in late January. Election time: Nominations for the election of a new tranche of Guild coordinators to serve for the first half of 2020 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! September Drive: Of the thirty-two editors who signed up, twenty-three editors copy edited at least one article; they completed 39 requests and removed 138 articles from the backlog, bringing the backlog to a low of 519 articles. October Blitz: This event ran from 13 to 19 October, with themes of science, technology and transport articles tagged for copy edit, and Requests. Sixteen editors helped remove 29 articles from the backlog and completed 23 requests. November Drive: Of the twenty-eight editors who signed up for this event, twenty editors completed at least one copy edit; they completed 29 requests and removed 133 articles from the backlog. Our December Blitz will run from 15 to 21 December. Sign up now! Progress report: From September to November 2019, GOCE copy editors processed 154 requests. Over the same period, the backlog of articles tagged for copy editing was reduced by 41% to an all-time low of 479 articles. Request archiving: The archiving of completed requests has now been automated. Thanks to Zhuyifei1999 and Bobbychan193, YiFeiBot is now archiving the Requests page. Archiving occurs around 24 hours after a user's signature and one of the templates {{Done}}, {{Withdrawn}} or {{Declined}} are placed below the request. The bot uses the Guild's standard "purpose codes" to determine the way it should archive each request so it's important to use the correct codes and templates. 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, Miniapolis, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. >>> Sign up for the December blitz! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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