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Hello. Help add caption for image article Maureen Wroblewitz. Thank you. Pv sindhu (talk) 01:48, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
- Pv sindhu — Done. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 01:58, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
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GOCE 2018 Annual Report
Guild of Copy Editors 2018 Annual Report
 Our 2018 Annual Report is now ready for review.
Highlights:
– Your project coordinators:
Miniapolis, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk.
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March GOCE newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors March 2019 Newsletter
 Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2018. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2019, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from all of the articles tagged in our original target months of June, July and August 2018, and by 24 January we ran out of articles. After adding September, we finished the month with 8 target articles remaining and 842 left in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 48 requests for copyedit in January. Of the 31 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 32 copyedits, including 15 requests. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 23:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 108 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 851 articles. March Drive: The month-long March drive is now underway; the target months are October and November 2018. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 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. 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.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Redirects
I largely reverted your changes to
Srleffler Why did you waste your time reverting the links? The corrected links weren't "broken" either. Redirects are ugly and cause problems for people such as I who make use of tooltip previews while reading articles. I wish editors like you would find more productive things to do, notwithstanding bureaucratic nonsense like
- I reverted your edit, because it did more harm than good. Redirects are beneficial. They should not be arbitrarily bypassed. The guideline I linked to explains why in some detail. I'm asking you to stop this counterproductive pattern of editing.
- Much of your edit was either nonproductive or slightly harmful. Capitalalizing template names and changing "accessdate" to "access-date" is at least nonproductive. Removing spaces before the template parameter separators is slightly harmful, since it causes word wraps in the edit window to occur at less convenient places in the text. Reformatting a reference template that has been laid out with one parameter per line so that it all jumbles together inline is slightly harmful. If you're adding material to an article, feel free to format the text in the edit window as you prefer. Going through articles reformatting the text other people have written to fit your preferences is not a positive way to contribute to the encyclopedia. --Srleffler (talk) 22:54, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
- Srleffler Since it is possible to use external scripts to make routine edits, thereby bringing uniformity to the wiki syntax with little effort, it is neither productive nor "nonproductive" to do the things to which you object, especially when I'm editing an article primarily for bad punctuation grammar, etc. Further, "... nonproductive or slightly harmful. ... did more harm than good ..." are your personal opinions, not borne out in fact. If you're not currently using Navigation popups and the Syntax highlighter features, I suggest you turn them on in your Preferences (under "Gadgets") and learn to use them, instead of complaining. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 21:39, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
- It quickly becomes nonproductive if everyone does it. If more users were doing what you are doing, you would find many people would be running scripts that undo the changes yours makes. Running a script that automates imposing personal preferences for cosmetic appearance of wikitext is a bad idea.--Srleffler (talk) 03:11, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- Srleffler Since it is possible to use external scripts to make routine edits, thereby bringing uniformity to the wiki syntax with little effort, it is neither productive nor "nonproductive" to do the things to which you object, especially when I'm editing an article primarily for bad punctuation grammar, etc. Further, "... nonproductive or slightly harmful. ... did more harm than good ..." are your personal opinions, not borne out in fact. If you're not currently using Navigation popups and the Syntax highlighter features, I suggest you turn them on in your Preferences (under "Gadgets") and learn to use them, instead of complaining. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 21:39, 20 May 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.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:29, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
BLP allegations
Hi, with this edit you added unsourced allegations to the talk page of a living person – I've removed them as required by
- dave souza — Exactly how did I disparage Michael E. Mann by recounting some actual events — not allegations — of recent history? You're using Wikipedia to promote your extremely biased point of view, which, as you well know, is against the rules. Don't pee on our shoes and then tell us it's raining. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 18:21, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
- You must produce reliable sources to support your edits. It's straightforward. — Niche-gamer 21:51, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
- Niche-gamer — Not for talk page discussions, I don't. Why are you rushing to dave souza's aid, anyway? — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 22:56, 17 September 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.
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.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:58, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Help
Hello. Help copy edit and improve the article Akane Yamaguchi. Thanks you very much. 14.162.146.38 (talk) 02:49, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
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wikitidy
Hi- I see that some of your edit summaries mention a tool called "wikitidy". I am not familiar with this tool and I searched the wikipedia and user name spaces and found no reference to it. Is this something that is available for other users to use? Thanks. --rogerd (talk) 22:44, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
- rogerd — It's still an experimental bit of external code, meant to help with tedious, repetitive edits. If it were an airplane, it would be equivalent to the Wright Flyer, definitely not yet ready for prime-time. I often need to manually fix what the code "fixed". — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 00:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
- I appreciate that wikitidy is something that you are developing but please make sure that what it does is correct and not just making cosmetic edits for the sake of it; e.g. this edit to D. C. Fontana apart from the obvious error of removing the space after every occurrence of the word 'but' made cosmetic changes like file -> File and cite -> Cite when the syntax works regardless of case and/or many gadgets like Citoid and RefToolbar insert citations with a lower case 'c' anyway. Nthep (talk) 13:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
- Nthep — if the space after instances of "but" disappeared, that was due to a messed-up manual edit; conjunctions should be preceded by a comma in most instances, and that's what I was trying to fix. Maybe I was doing it too late in the evening, when I should have been sleeping. Thanks for catching that. As for capitalising templates, that's not a "cosmetic change" as you call it, but just a side effect of how the script works. I have not seen any instance in Wikipedia where template names expressly use a lowercase initial letter: by uniformly capitalising the first letter of templates, it makes find-and-replace operations algorithmically simpler and roughly twice as fast. Moreover, the result does no harm, doesn't increase the byte count, and is invisible to the reader. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 16:46, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
- It wasn't me caught the "but" errors. There probably aren't any templates that expressly use a lowercase initial letter but that's not the point, most templates are happily rendered with either a lower or uppercase initial letter and changing it for the sake of it can be considered controversial because (per WP:COSMETICBOT) "they clutter page histories, watchlists, and/or the recent changes feed with edits that are not worth the time spent reviewing them". The same applies to changing "|accessdate" to "|access-date", the two are aliases for each other and either is perfectly acceptable, so why waste time making changes like that when there are more worthwhile things that the script could do? Nthep (talk) 17:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)]
- It wasn't me caught the "but" errors. There probably aren't any templates that expressly use a lowercase initial letter but that's not the point, most templates are happily rendered with either a lower or uppercase initial letter and changing it for the sake of it can be considered controversial because (per
- Nthep — if the space after instances of "but" disappeared, that was due to a messed-up manual edit; conjunctions should be preceded by a comma in most instances, and that's what I was trying to fix. Maybe I was doing it too late in the evening, when I should have been sleeping. Thanks for catching that. As for capitalising templates, that's not a "cosmetic change" as you call it, but just a side effect of how the script works. I have not seen any instance in Wikipedia where template names expressly use a lowercase initial letter: by uniformly capitalising the first letter of templates, it makes find-and-replace operations algorithmically simpler and roughly twice as fast. Moreover, the result does no harm, doesn't increase the byte count, and is invisible to the reader. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 16:46, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
Re indirect links
With your recent edit to
- J. Johnson — Because many of the indirect links (redirects) "cascade through" into the list of transcluded templates when editing articles, with the resultant clutter making it considerably more difficult to tell which templates are the real link and which are aliases of templates. On occasion I've spent hours trying to find offending templates containing errors to correct them. The problem can be minimised for editors if a bit of care is taken while creating and editing templates to use direct links instead of redirects. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 21:52, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for the explanation. ♦ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:49, 30 November 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. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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