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GOCE drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 backlog elimination drive
 
 
GOCE January 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter.

Participation

45 people signed up for this drive this time; of these, 35 participated. This is similar to the number of editors who helped out in November. Thanks to all who participated! Barnstars will be distributed in the near future.

Progress report

Recent drives have been focusing on the oldest three months in the backlog. During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—July, August, and September 2010—from the queue, and there are less than 300 articles remaining from 2010. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.

When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators.

Thank you for participating in the January 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy edit drive will be in March.

Your drive coordinators – The Utahraptor talk, S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), Stfg (Talk), Sp33dyphil (talk), and Dank (talk)

GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update
 

 
GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far.

Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers.

Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk)

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March Mini Wikification Awards!

  The Bronze Wikification Barnstar
The Bronze Wikification Barnstar is given to Miniapolis for wikifying 15 articles during the March Mini Drive. Keep it up! :-) benzband (talk) 13:35, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Rajneesh movement

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Re: Croatia–Hungary relations

Hi! Thanks for copyediting the Croatia–Hungary relations article. I appreciate it very much!--Tomobe03 (talk) 07:05, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Glad to help; your articles are very good. All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 12:45, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Iraq history

I just added the correct link, the link with was not a redirect. Nothing problematic :) Keep up the good work? --TIAYN (talk) 14:39, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Okay, but I don't knowingly link to redirects; I checked the page's current title before linking. All the best, Miniapolis (talk) 17:38, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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GOCE March barnstars

  The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia   
This fabulous barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing articles totalling over 80,000 words during the GOCE March copy edit drive. Your skills are greatly appreciated. Dianna (talk) 01:39, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
  Leaderboard Award—Number of Words—2nd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 69,273 words during the WP:GOCE March copy edit drive. Thank you so much for your contributions to the project. – Dianna (talk) 01:39, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
  Leaderboard Award—Number of Articles of over 5,000 Words—2nd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing six articles of over 5,000 words during the WP:GOCE March copy edit drive. Good job! – Dianna (talk) 01:39, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
  Leaderboard Award—Number of Articles—5th Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for copy editing 31 articles during the WP:GOCE March copy edit drive. Thank you for your contributions – Dianna (talk) 01:39, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
  The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar
This special Barnstar is awarded to Miniapolis for valiantly copy editing Monster (manga) during the WP:GOCE March copy edit drive. Thanks for tackling this major project. Dianna (talk) 01:39, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to the April Wikification Drive

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GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive
 
 
GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter.

Participation

Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months.

Progress report

During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.

When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators.

Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May.

Your drive coordinators – Dianna (Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk)

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GOCE May copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their May 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg.

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Seamus (dog)

Seamus (dog), an article which is part of WikiProject animal rights has been proposed for deletion. Feel free to join the discussion. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seamus (dog) (2nd nomination) HHIAdm (talk) 03:43, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

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