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August GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors August 2018 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the August 2018 GOCE newsletter. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Guild's June election; your new and returning coordinators are listed below. The next election will occur in December 2018; all Wikipedia editors in good standing may take part. Our June blitz focused on Requests and articles tagged for copy edit in October 2017. Of the eleven people who signed up, eight editors recorded a total of 28 copy edits, including 3 articles of more than 10,000 words. Complete results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the seventeen people who signed up, thirteen editors completed 194 copy edits, successfully removing all articles tagged in the last three months of 2017. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are here. The August blitz will run for one week, from 19 to 25 August. Sign up now! 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, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the August blitz! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Heey how are you. Which pages have you worked on lately Hurungudo (talk) 09:37, 17 August 2018 (UTC) Since your last reviews, you havent taken a look at my recent work... you my mentor remember Mono Mukundu, New Reserve Bank Tower, Blessing Mashangwa, George Munengwa. I want to keep improving — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hurungudo (talk • contribs) 09:46, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Question re. amaBhungane (Q23927926)

Would you mind relaying a request for help to Wikipedia:Teahouse? I don't recall having heard of them before, and I'm confused about the best way to request help of this nature.

Regarding the tone of the article, I changed "proudly proclaim" to "claim" in the third sentence, but I'm pressed for time and would prefer not to have to work a lot more on this right now.

A search for "amaBhungane" within Wikipedia before I created the article produced many matches, being citations to news reports they had filed that had been quoted in a number of articles. This confirms, I think, my previous assessment of notability.

I started working on this article July 24 immediately after an interview I got with Stefaans Brümmer, one of the managing partners of amaBhungane. I currently live in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, and scheduled a couple of extra days in Cape Town after Wikimania 2018, July 18-22. Their "pre-conference", July 18, included an invitation-only sub-conference on "Decolonizing the Internet", to which I was explicitly not invited as a white male ;-) This article on amaBhungane seems to be a contribution to that decolonization, but the preparation of it has been delayed from July 24 until today by the pressure of other work.

I heard about amaBhungane on June 13 from a Paul Kumleben, a South African currently associated with the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute; I met him in a conference in Orlando, Florida, USA, organized by the Institute for Nonprofit News. Kumleben said that on a budget of less than USD700,000 per year, amaBunghane had produced investigative journalism reports that had made a substantive contribution to the sequence of events that forced the resignation of President Zuma earlier this year. Sadly, I had misspelled "amaBhungane" in my notes and was not able to find them on the web -- until Wikimania, where I met a South African woman, who took me to their offices on July 23. At that point I was able to get an interview with Brümmer the next day.

In sum, I hope these comments help establish the notability of amaBhungane while also supporting my request for help in editing from other quarters: I've had the information needed produce this article since July 24 and only today was able to create the time required to post something on this. I suspect that people with Wikipedia:Teahouse will be better able to do a better job than I could of fixing the problems you see and expanding the article appropriately -- while also allowing me to focus on other priorities.

Thanks for your many contributions to making human knowledge more accessible to all. DavidMCEddy (talk) 19:49, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

@DavidMCEddy:So you have a bit of a two part question, so I will answer in two parts. As for the teahouse, simply go to [[1]] and click the blue "ask a question" button. The guides should help you out from there (I havnt really used the teahouse much, so there isnt much more I can say). As for your article, its less about what it says, and more about what it doesn't say. The article, in some ways, seems to be a list of the achievements of the organization. This is fine, but it would be best to balance this out, adding a history section, a controversy section (if relevant), or other sections on the style and method of publication would help a lot. You may find it helpful to look at more mature articles for examples, such as The New York Times. If you need a little more guidance, feel free to ask. Xevus11 (talk) 21:31, 21 August 2018 (UTC)