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Thanks for the copy edits

Thanks for the copy edits. I notice that you are adding articles to the February blitz page that were not listed on the Guild of Copy Editors' Requests page. Only articles from the Requests page count for the blitz this month. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:47, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the copy edit

Thank you so much for the copy edit you have done in "Habits (Tove Lo song)". --Paparazzzi (talk) 20:15, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you again!

Thanks for the copy edit you have done in the article "Love Ballad". --Paparazzzi (talk) 01:39, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

GOCE February blitz

		The (old school) League of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to MediaKill13 for copy edits totaling over 15,000 words during the GOCE February 2016 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:49, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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Egg-xactly what the day calls for, of course! Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 23:13, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

March 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Drive Barnstar

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to MediaKill13 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:40, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the copy edit

Thank you for the copy edit of Unorthodox Jukebox, nice work. However by putting some "quotes" back you reverted some of the issues that the article had with copy violations regarding sources. It's ok I will fix it. Thank you once again. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 13:07, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

April 2016 GOCE blitz award

		The (old school) League of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to MediaKill13 for copy edits totaling over 15,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE April 2016 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:06, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

May 2016 drive barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to MediaKill13 for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:15, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes! May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography. Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! 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 and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:02, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

A request

Hello MediaKill13. I see that you are part of the Guild of Copy Editors. I hope that you can help me copyedit one sentence (LOL) that someone told me was awkward. Here it is: Professional wrestlers perform as characters, wrestling in choreographed matches as part of scripted storylines. Thank you. starship.paint ~ KO 08:56, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

There's nothing grammatically wrong with it, but maybe you can replace the 'wrestling' with 'where they wrestle' or split the sentence into two, something along the lines of 'Professional wrestlers usually perform in choreographed matches. They take on the roles of characters in scripted storylines.' This sounds more awkward to me though; your version made perfect sense to me when I first read it! MediaKill13 (talk) 12:37, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you MediaKill13, I will consider all the options! Have a nice day! starship.paint ~ KO 13:17, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

June blitz

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to MediaKill13 for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE June 2016 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:51, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

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Ryan White article reverted

Good evening,

I am the expert in Ryan White. This article includes several errors of fact lifted from outdated sources. Often the sources offered include dead links. And the writers aren't familiar with the history of the civil rights movement, the 1973 Rehabilitation Act or public health. One user chose to reference a recent quote by Donald Trump that has been publicly refuted by Jeanne White-Ginder. To leave the article with its current errors and omissions would be to support misinformation.

Now what prompted you to revert the article and remove my corrections without doing any research to verify the veracity of my edits? --SpiderWebb2 (talk • contribs) 00:12, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

@SpiderWebb2: Hey, please remember to sign next time. I'm not saying that what you added was wrong, it was probably right. But you didn't add your own sources to prove that it was. The article is featured; if you're going to make massive changes to it then you'll need to cite your sources, otherwise the article will lose quality and may get demoted from featured status. Thanks, MediaKill13 (talk) 21:23, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Correcting a poorly written article with factual errors and weak sources appears more difficult than posting such a bad article in the first place.

Western Middle School was and is located in Russiaville, not Kokomo. (I made this correction). Easily searchable, but also in Ryan's book Ryan White My Own Story.

Hamilton Heights High School was and is located in Arcadia, not Cicero (I made this correction). Easily searchable, but also in Ryan's book Ryan White My Own Story.

It is incorrect that 90% of hemophiliacs were infected with HIV between 1979-1984. The best estimate indicates that 90% of severe Hemophiliacs (those with less than 4% of the normal levels of the protein Factor 8 in their blood system) who infused regularly with Factor 8 blood concentrates were infected with HIV and/or Hepatitis C. Those who used cryo blood products were far less likely to be infected with blood products. The cryo products were pooled from far fewer donors per unit. Plasma for Factor 8 products was often collected from state prison systems. State prisons systems also had very high rates of Hepatitis infections.

Out of the entire population of hemophiliacs in the United States about 60% were infected with HIV and or Hepatitis C. Furthermore the rate of infection of HIV by Leukemia patients who received blood products was far greater than hemophiliacs or those who received plasma or whole blood transfusions.

Ryan White first came to the attention of the local and national media when his mother was involved in a class action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies that provided the tainted products. Mrs. White-Ginder also went to the local newspaper the Kokomo Tribune to set up a fund to help her and her family. Mrs. White-Ginder's employer didn't offer compensation for time lost from work to care for a dependent child.

This article and many of the articles cited are in error when they describe it as a long legal battle with the school system. It was actually a really short legal process and a long administrative process. The 1973 Rehabilitation Act was amended to to include an administrative appeal. The entire point was to keep cases out of the federal court system while satisfying the due process standard of the constitution. Ryan was permitted to return to school after a third party arbitrator determined that he posed no risk and should be permitted to return to school. A parent's group filed an injunction and attempted to sue both Ryan and the school if he was permitted to attend. They lost their case and a cash bond.

Kimberly Bergalis was not a prominent advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS. Ms. Bergalis sued her dentist who she claimed intentionally infected her and several other patients with HIV. The dentist died of AIDS before he could be questioned. It was her contention that mandatory testing should be implemented to prevent HIV infected medical professions from practicing. CBS's 60 Minutes did a report claiming that Ms. Bergalis had far more sexual experience than she had claimed and it was more likely that she had been infected through sexual intercourse and not intentionally by her dentist. These claims could not be substantiated. But under Wikipedia standards that would be fine to write here as long as you can provide a link to CBS and the original story.

Earvin Johnson was not a contemporary of Ryan's as a public advocate for people living with HIV/AIDs. Ryan died years before Johnson tested positive with HIV and spoke a single positive word about people living with the disease.

The French had isolated the virus and called it LAV before Dr. Robert Gallo's lab isolated the virus. In fact it was later found that Gallo had isolated the exact same virus. His lab had been contaminated. Both researchers had been sharing materials. A legal challenge against Gallo went before the courts and charges of academic dishonesty levelled preventing any lab from developing an adequate test and being awarded further research grants to work towards therapeutic treatments and testing kits.

Donald Trump did not pay for Ryan's medical and travel expenses. Everything that has come out of the Republican Party's presidential candidate gets refuted. Mrs. White-Ginder has publicly confirmed that Trump never provided such support. He gave Michael Jackson a ride into Indiana on his plane after Ryan had died. That's it!

Whether or not the general public knew much about AIDS in 1985 is completely irrelevant. They also didn't understand influenza, measles, Parkinson's disease or MS. They still don't really understand Ebola, SARS, MERS or Zika. By 1985-1986 the medical science community actually knew far more about HIV/AIDS than they did many other diseases. Paige Rawl from Indianapolis, Indiana went through many of the same problems as Ryan at her middle school just in the last decade. The young woman is an advocate for those living with HIV and is now a student at Butler University. Rawl's father infected her mother who passed on the virus to her.

I don't really care if you would be citizen journalists and editors want to delete my corrections. You are copying and pasting quotes and references without ever learning the subject matter. Whereas I have worked professionally in the media for over twenty years.

To allow these errors to remain is a detriment to society. It is spreading misinformation and creating the kind of society that allows someone like Donald Trump to be considered a serious candidate for president.

So either make an effort to verify what I have written or take down this horrible and misleading article. I'm not giving away professional journalism with proper academic citations for free. --SpiderWebb2 (talk • contribs) 02:12, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Hey.First of all, a reminder. Please sign your posts on talk pages by either typing these ( ~~~~ ), or clicking the "sign your posts on talk pages" below the save page, preview and changes buttons, or click this or ) located above the edit window. Also, to preserve the flow of conversation, add your message to the same section. Having said that, I once again repeat that I am not saying that what you added was wrong. Rolling back 14 revisions of a page is not something I take lightly. I checked for the difference between your and an IP's changes and the last accepted version by User:Indyguy. I only found two claims that were verifiable, while the rest were unsourced. After reverting, I immediately went back to the article and added the sourced material that got reverted. You can confirm if and when I did this if you go to this history. You make many claims about the veracity of what you added, but Wikipedia editors are not obliged to provide citations to claims you made. If you read WP:BURDEN, it clearly states that the burden of verifying information lies with the editor who adds it. This basically means that when you make a claim, you must research on it, and no one else. Then you'll provide inline citations to verify it. The rules are tedious and lengthy, I know, but they're necessary. A lot of the people who read Wikipedia do so because they don't have the time to do research for themselves, so we have to prove it. You gave statistics. Cite where they came from. You said that Mrs. White-Ginder has publicly confirmed that Trump never provided such support. Give us the newspaper article where that came from. I can firmly assure you that if you do this, no one will dream of removing your content, unless they're vandals . Happy editing! MediaKill13 (talk) 05:06, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

B.S.

See above.

A crap article is being allowed to stay and spread misinformation. Don't care about signing my posts and such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpiderWebb2 (talk • contribs) 16:32, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

@SpiderWebb2: Don't worry, it's been signed by a bot. Like I'll keep saying, if you think the article is crap, go write what's true, and prove it. When you say that you're not giving away academic citations for free, then you may be misunderstanding the purpose of Wikipedia. No contributor who provided the countless citations on Wikipedia was paid. I personally wasn't, and I've provided quite a number. This is a volunteer project, and we're all working towards the same goal. You need to ask yourself if you are too. MediaKill13 (talk) 19:48, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC). 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 Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the July Drive! <<<

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Problem

Hello I am in wikipedia for more than 30 days and have over 500 edits then why I am not given extended confirmed right?Nepali keto62 _{Questions?!?!?} 15:20, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

@Nepali keto62: You already have extended confirmed rights. To check your rights, go to your contributions (there is a link at the top of the page) then scroll down until you see a bar saying "subpages, user rights, edit count" etc then click user rights. You will see "extended confirmed user" next to your name. Alternatively, you can go to my sandbox at User:MediaKill13/sandbox then click the link written "To check user rights" then type your name in the box. MediaKill13 (talk) 07:51, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Ok I got it. Do you have another sandbox that shows edit counts of a user like in User:MediaKill13/sandbox(that shows rights) ?Nepali keto62 _{Questions?!?!?} 08:09, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

@Nepali keto62: I haven't created such a link yet, but if you go to your contributions, the 'edit count' link will be at the bottom of the page. This will take you to a page called "X's tools" where you can see your edit statistics. MediaKill13 (talk) 10:13, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

 Thanks—Nepali keto62 _{Questions?!?!?} 10:21, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 Drive Barnstars

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to MediaKill13 for copy edits totaling over 8,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:43, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia Supreme Court

I wouldn't be terribly worried about that. Although I am 1 for 2 at ANI over the past month, so no qualms about going that route if need be.

I do plan on opening an RfC as was suggested. I don't see anything being resolved with a local consensus. I may work that up tonight if time permits. For now it's off to the hardware store. Renovations await! All the best. TimothyJosephWood 17:44, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

I do support opening an RFC immediately, only that I don't know how to do it myself . But anyway, assuming that this case blows out into something unpleasant, I reiterate that I do not want to practice my legal skills in said Supreme Court. Also, if the page is subjected to some nasty form of protection, I won't like it. And I don't want to get topic banned, since this is one area where I do a lot of editing. MediaKill13 (talk) 06:10, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Those types of sanctions generally only happen when someone violates policy, has policy explained to them, and then disregards and continues to violate it. Moreso, it usually takes multiple warnings and egregious violations. At any rate, if you'd done something wrong I'd be the first to warn you, agree with me or not. TimothyJosephWood 10:50, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News

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DYK for Devonshire White Paper

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October 2016 GOCE blitz award

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to MediaKill13 for copy edits totaling over 10,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE October 2016 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:00, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

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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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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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March drive bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to MediaKill13 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:22, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

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GOCE July 2017 drive bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to MediaKill13 for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 12:21, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

You were just shy of the next barnstar, so you've got a nice rollover for the drive in September! – Reidgreg (talk) 12:21, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Treaty of Pontotoc. Thanks! Legacypac (talk) 10:46, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News

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. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< 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. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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GOCE February 2018 news

Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). 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 Reidgreg. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Thanks!

I know this is coming obscenely late, but thanks for that ! Two years ago I didn't bother checking my talk page and with time, I forgot about your comment. Anyway, happy editing carreer and see you at the Guild! ;) Double Plus Ungood (talk) 03:31, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:MOS:SEEALSO listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:MOS:SEEALSO. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:MOS:SEEALSO redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 21:49, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

June 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days. Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed. March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words). April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words). May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words). Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk. >>> Participate in the June elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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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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AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

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This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

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The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
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• Page improvers
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For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

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December 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition. Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz (results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits. For the September drive (results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits. Our October blitz (results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits. For the November drive (results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles. The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now! Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 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! 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 December blitz! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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