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Backlog Elimination Drive Has Begun
Hello, I just wanted to take a moment and announce that the July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive has started, and will run for a month. Thanks for signing up. There's a special prize for most edits on the first day, in case you've got high ambitions. Enjoy! ɳorɑfʈ Talk! 04:15, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
GOCE Newsletter
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 Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now passed the halfway point, so here's an update. Progress Report - Progress toward the targets has been good. 751 articles out of the approximately 1,600 we would like to get completed by the end of the month were done by July 15, so we will be very close to meeting the target for volume. However, we would like to clear all of the 2008 articles from the backlog, and there are still 892 left to do. Please consider choosing one of these older articles when looking for something to copy edit. If we focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue. Participation Report - 95 people signed up for the July drive. This is a great result compared to May, when we had 36. However, in May only one person that signed up didn't do any copy edits, and in July only 59 of the 95 have posted any copy edits on the big board. The task may seem insurmountable but please remember that if all 95 participants copy edit just one article a day from now until the end of the month, we will eliminate 1,300 more articles from the backlog. So please consider participating at whatever level you can! All contributions are appreciated. This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa (Talk), S Masters (talk), and The Raptor Let's talk. |
Barnstar
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The Clean-up Barnstar | |
| This Clean-up barnstar is awarded to Cymru.lass for copy editing articles totalling 14,543 combined words during the Guild of Copy Editors May and July 2010 backlog drives. Your contributions are appreciated!--Diannaa (Talk) 17:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC) |
GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up
| Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody!
Coordinator: ɳorɑfʈ Talk! Co-coordinators: Diannaa TALK and S Masters (talk) | Newsletter by: The Raptor You rang?/My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions |
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Those edits
OH yes, I did immediately ask at the Infobox character talk page and a friend whether my reversion was justified. At the moment we're trying to track templates using multiple unlabelled fields and keep them to a bare minimum of quick essentials for understanding the character. I was debating whether "family" counted, or significant others, in the same way Buffy's powers might. My feeling is that it might matter for Dawn, but does it deserve infobox-level weight on Buffy's page? Riley? Joyce? That Joyce is Buffy's mother -- her entire function on the show -- should be something attended to in the lead, and which comes over in every section of prose in the article. I am not sure. I don't mean to be draconian. Apologies if this comes over a little stream-of-consciousness: I'm currently whisky-in-hand.~ZytheTalk to me! 19:03, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- I think we're on the same page. Bear with the following example. For me, I read the Laurie Strode article and I think to myself that the only key information re: family is who her brother is, killer Michael Myers. On evaluation, many of the Halloween movies lynch on the fact that the main character is Laurie's daughter, so perhaps she should have mention. And in the Halloween H20 retcon, her son is played by a notable actor and is important if only as a retcon of the previous daughter character. Instead, I go there, and every so often I find an editor has added the sister, Unnamed Father, Unnamed mother (original), Mother's name (remakes), etc. etc. and it's all unnecessary. Or on Donna Noble, under species, there was listed this long and confusing narrative explaining she started human and became a "Human/Time Lord Metacrisis", whatever that means, so it was easiest just to remove the field altogether. If it's not clear-cut, it's a matter for the prose of the article, I feel. So my take is, and I think this is the consensus on Template talk:Infobox character, is that scarce, important facts go in the infobox (especially the kind that would requite awkward wording to squeeze into a summary style plot) and for everything else, the maxim should be less is more. What are your thoughts? Maybe as Wikipedians we should go towards writing a WP:essay on the matter.~ZytheTalk to me! 19:15, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- Big Buffy fan, don't worry. Well, the husband isn't important -- he's less than a ghost in the series. We can infer from her having daughters and there being no mention of immaculate conception that there is a father. Buffy and Dawn are her daughters, and that is her tether within the universe of the show to notability, so I think for a character like Joyce who has no powers, credo or greater role maybe it's okay. After all, her role is MOTHER and A NICE LADY in the series; that her role is defined as such should be found, made part of the article's Lead section, and discussed further in a Development section. I also think it might be crucial information for Dawn that she's Buffy's sister, but then again, that invites us to add Hank, Joyce, her wishy-washy Key status, all that jazz, into the infobox: instead, "was introduced in the season five premiere as Buffy's never heretofore seen sister" might cover that nicely in the Lead. The surname, a big part of the infobox, and a picture of the actress (Yes! Pictures have a deductive purpose, woo!) should clue us in that she's a relation of Buffy's; it's not too much to ask the reader's eye to wander to the prose.~ZytheTalk to me! 19:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- Tell you what. I'll give heads up tomorrow a that talk page, maybe those experienced editors will want to give their own heads up on the matter. Someone draft it. Someone rewrite it. Someone rewrite it. Then put it up. Because it's gonna take ages anyway there's no urgency, just yet.~ZytheTalk to me! 20:11, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- Big Buffy fan, don't worry. Well, the husband isn't important -- he's less than a ghost in the series. We can infer from her having daughters and there being no mention of immaculate conception that there is a father. Buffy and Dawn are her daughters, and that is her tether within the universe of the show to notability, so I think for a character like Joyce who has no powers, credo or greater role maybe it's okay. After all, her role is MOTHER and A NICE LADY in the series; that her role is defined as such should be found, made part of the article's Lead section, and discussed further in a Development section. I also think it might be crucial information for Dawn that she's Buffy's sister, but then again, that invites us to add Hank, Joyce, her wishy-washy Key status, all that jazz, into the infobox: instead, "was introduced in the season five premiere as Buffy's never heretofore seen sister" might cover that nicely in the Lead. The surname, a big part of the infobox, and a picture of the actress (Yes! Pictures have a deductive purpose, woo!) should clue us in that she's a relation of Buffy's; it's not too much to ask the reader's eye to wander to the prose.~ZytheTalk to me! 19:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Long time no see
Just dropping by to say howdy; how are you? Salvio Let's talk 'bout it! 22:40, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
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Your editor review
Have you considered transcluding the review either onto WP:ER or the archives? I think that's part of the reason why you haven't been reviewed in over a month now. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 04:19, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
- Oh, whoopsie! Forgot to do that! Thank you
--- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 14:30, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hi cymru.lass; I see you tagged Siliguri Institute Of Technology for speedy per A7. However, that's a school and schools are not eligible under A7. I tried to see if it gets zapped per G11, as it seems blatantly promotional... Just to let you know. Cheers. Salvio Let's talk 'bout it! 11:12, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
- Whoops, I did not know that! Thanks for letting me know --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 16:19, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
- No problem: that's one of the common errors we all made.
A7 is not for schools or softwares... - That said, you're doing a jolly god job at tagging new pages for speedy and that was your only error, as far as I could see! Salvio Let's talk 'bout it! 16:24, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
- Well, that's good. I keep feeling like I'm making some major screw-up whenever I tag something... Then again, it's probably just me!
--- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 17:07, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
- Well, that's good. I keep feeling like I'm making some major screw-up whenever I tag something... Then again, it's probably just me!
- No problem: that's one of the common errors we all made.
Speedy deletion contested: Clarence Bass
Hello Cymru.lass, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Clarence Bass, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article makes a credible assertion of importance or significance, sufficient to pass A7. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Netalarmtalk 19:46, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
- All right, thanks for letting me know! --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 19:48, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
- Just a note, you can try WP:PROD or WP:AFD to delete that article if you believe it meets the criteria. I've done a quick review of it, and it appears that most of the references are weak primary sources or promotional/spammy in nature. Netalarmtalk 05:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
- I won't right now because it has an {{underconstruction}} banner on it, but if, in a few days, it still hasn't improved its sources, etc. I will use prod or AfD. --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 15:33, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
- Just a note, you can try WP:PROD or WP:AFD to delete that article if you believe it meets the criteria. I've done a quick review of it, and it appears that most of the references are weak primary sources or promotional/spammy in nature. Netalarmtalk 05:00, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
from David A. Gross, movie review intelligence
Hi Cymru, thanks for your note on my talk page. I appreciate the heads up about all the great things on Wikipdia, including all the ways to help. As you can probably imagine, at the moment I'm a little disappointed that my request to have a link on the page for Movie Review Intelligence was denied, due to conflict of interest. I'm not sure I understand the rationale, since there's no way to abuse such a link -- it's simply there for readers' edification, should they want to use it -- but I respect it. Anyway, Wikipedia seems like a great place and it's wonderful that many great people such as yourself are enthusiastic about helping. Thanks again for your note. Dagrossla (talk) 20:51, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Wikify Drive
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Talkback
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- Once again, cymru (can I call you cymru?). Salvio Let's talk 'bout it! 19:58, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
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