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51		Pjanoo (talk)	Add sources
609		Volvo Modular engine (talk)	Add sources
28		BCPA Flight 304 (talk)	Add sources
899		BBC Radio 1 (talk)	Add sources
66		BBC Radio Wales (talk)	Add sources
1,522		Bill Bixby (talk)	Add sources
198		History of ballooning (talk)	Cleanup
1,088		Lili Taylor (talk)	Cleanup
121		Mark Goudeau (talk)	Cleanup
168		Gravitation (manga) (talk)	Expand
175		BSH Hausgeräte (talk)	Expand
3,371		Namibia (talk)	Expand
199		Clinton Foundation–State Department controversy (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
113		May to December (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
53		Stepping Out (play) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
108		Discrimination towards non-binary gender persons (talk)	Merge
315		Piste (talk)	Merge
294		Open-source model (talk)	Merge
291		David Nalbandian (talk)	Wikify
25		Impact (TV programme) (talk)	Wikify
1		Franklin Robbins (talk)	Wikify
4		1999 attack on Israeli Consulate in Berlin (talk)	Orphan
2		Reef Life Survey (talk)	Orphan
2		Georgios Kourtoglou (talk)	Orphan
38		Charge-depleting (talk)	Stub
78		Trinidadians (talk)	Stub
81		Presumed Innocent (novel) (talk)	Stub
11		Jon Beckwith (talk)	Stub
18		Shelley, West Yorkshire (talk)	Stub
42		Les Belles-sœurs (talk)	Stub

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful! >>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<< Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating! September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words). October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page. Housekeeping note: we do not send a newsletter before 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, Corinne and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<<

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22		Recreational diver training (talk)	Add sources
2,625		CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (talk)	Add sources
17		Technical Diving International (talk)	Add sources
171		Legal aspects of transgenderism (talk)	Add sources
58		Admiralty House, London (talk)	Add sources
6,125		Gwyneth Paltrow (talk)	Add sources
3,204		DisplayPort (talk)	Cleanup
23		Françoise Dürr (talk)	Cleanup
295		University of Louisiana at Lafayette (talk)	Cleanup
1,032		Educational attainment in the United States (talk)	Expand
7		Eurocops (talk)	Expand
267		Saturation diving (talk)	Expand
335		Honda R engine (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
130		Volvo 440/460 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
137		Volvo 300 Series (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
365		Collision avoidance system (talk)	Merge
2,262		USB 3.0 (talk)	Merge
746		Vocal folds (talk)	Merge
1,532		R. L. Stine (talk)	Wikify
138		Alan Sked (talk)	Wikify
37		The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (talk)	Wikify
15		HowNutsAreTheDutch (talk)	Orphan
3		Dobox (talk)	Orphan
2		Robert R. Bergstrom (talk)	Orphan
12		Tony Travers (talk)	Stub
10		Henry L. Jackson (talk)	Stub
29		Gwendolyn Watts (talk)	Stub
48		Thumbprint sign (talk)	Stub
2		Per Brinck (talk)	Stub
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All the best for 2017!

Hello Ukexpat,
Enjoy the Winter Solstice and the Christmas and holiday season.
Thank you for all your good work during 2016 in maintaining, improving and expanding Wikipedia.
All the best for 2017! Cheers, — Gareth Griffith-Jones | The Welsh | Buzzard |  16:31, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you and the same to you too!--ukexpat (talk) 02:02, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

Hello Ukexpat. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.

• Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
• You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
• Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
• Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.

The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:19, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Kudpung กุดผึ้ง. --ukexpat (talk) 20:53, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Page mover granted

Hello, Ukexpat. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, and move subpages when moving the parent page(s).

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:

• Wikipedia:Requested moves
• Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, simply request so here. Thank you, and happy editing! — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:27, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

P.S. I'm not sure if I know you that well, but with your clean block record and clear status as a trusted user, I'm surprised you haven't just thrown yourself into the lion's den yet. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 20:37, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Coffee. Haven't got time for RFA at the moment. Looking for a job! --ukexpat (talk) 20:56, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

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493		IOPS (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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340		Medical equipment (talk)	Merge
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10		Clive Coleman (talk)	Wikify
30		Jury sequestration (talk)	Wikify
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2		Leon Monde (talk)	Orphan
32		Alex Bailin (talk)	Orphan
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4		Küçükyalı (talk)	Stub
565		The Layover (film) (talk)	Stub
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734		Vendée Globe (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
527		Long-term effects of alcohol consumption (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
111		Management of dehydration (talk)	Merge
43		Year Five (talk)	Merge
1,092		USB 3.1 (talk)	Merge
209		Jackie Kay (talk)	Wikify
20		Stephen Venables (talk)	Wikify
57		Colin Thubron (talk)	Wikify
8		Vishveshwarya Institute of Technology (talk)	Orphan
4		Bola Akindele (talk)	Orphan
11		Chronic endothelial injury hypothesis (talk)	Orphan
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85		Fran Brill (talk)	Stub
63		Paul Angelis (talk)	Stub
11		Martin King (actor) (talk)	Stub
10		Death of a Dissident (talk)	Stub
16		KROX-FM (talk)	Stub

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55		Information sharing (talk)	Merge
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11		Keep Indy Indie (talk)	Wikify
529		Canceled Apollo missions (talk)	Wikify
2		Lilly Marks (talk)	Orphan
13		Portfolio diet (talk)	Orphan
9		Camera eats first (talk)	Orphan
19		Elizabeth Gloster (talk)	Stub
14		For the Love of Ada (film) (talk)	Stub
58		Graal (compiler) (talk)	Stub
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New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello Ukexpat,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 816 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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231		Trekkie (talk)	Cleanup
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803		Hazard symbol (talk)	Merge
238		Professional Children's School (talk)	Wikify
799		Joan Plowright (talk)	Wikify
26		Impact (TV programme) (talk)	Wikify
9		Emma Baker (talk)	Orphan
4		Unison Healthcare Group (talk)	Orphan
2		Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály (talk)	Orphan
15		Stormbringer (novel) (talk)	Stub
7		Ingrid Simler (talk)	Stub
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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

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Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the February 2017 GOCE newsletter. The Guild has been busy since the last time your coordinators sent out a newsletter! >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< December blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 December; the themes were Requests and eliminating the November 2015 backlog. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine editors completed 29 articles. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all who took part. January drive: The January drive was a great success. We set out to remove December 2015 and January and February 2016 from our backlog (195 articles), and by 22 January we had cleared those and had to add a third month (March 2016). At the end of the month we had almost cleared out that last month as well, for a total of 180 old articles removed from the backlog! We reduced our overall backlog by 337 articles, to a low of 1,465 articles, our second-lowest month-end total ever. We also handled all of the remaining requests from December 2016. Officially, 19 editors recorded 337 copy edits (over 679,000 words). February blitz: The one-week February blitz, focusing on the remaining March 2016 backlog and January 2017 requests, ran from 12 to 18 February. Seven editors reduced the total in those two backlog segments from 32 to 10 articles, leaving us in good shape going in to the March drive. Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 stepped aside as lead coordinator, remaining as coordinator and allowing Miniapolis to be the lead, and Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators. Thanks to all who participated! Speaking of coordinators, congratulations to Jonesey95 on their well-deserved induction into the Guild of Copy Editors Hall of Fame. The plaque reads: "For dedicated service as lead coordinator (2014, 1 July – 31 December 2015 and all of 2016) and coordinator (1 January – 30 June 2015 and 1 January – 30 June 2017); exceptional template-creation work (considerably streamlining project administration), and their emphasis on keeping the GOCE a drama-free zone." Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before 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: Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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New Page Review - newsletter No.3

Hello Ukexpat,

Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.

Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 816 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.

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