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The Founder's Barnstar

For support during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, Jimbo Wales is presented with this exclusive Founder's Barnstar. --Diannaa (Talk) 18:02, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Here is what I've got cooked up for Jimbo.Or have you already got one going? Comments, suggestions, improvements? Regards, --Diannaa ^(Talk) 18:02, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

That looks great! Who says you can't do barnstars? LOL. Fantastic effort, I love it. - S Masters (talk) 02:54, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

I am going to go ahead and deliver it now. BTW, could you deliver the rest of my barnstars, please? It's creepy to have to do my own. Thanks. --Diannaa ^(Talk) 17:38, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Done. Congrats and thanks for all your hard work and leadership. Let me know if I missed out any barnstars. :-) - S Masters (talk) 18:00, 2 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! Stats If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the May 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, your word totals are cumulative for barnstars (not the leaderboard). Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars. GOCE backlog elimination drive chart up to 31 July Eight people will receive The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Barnstar (100,000+ words): Chaosdruid, Diannaa, Ericleb01, Lfstevens, Shimeru, S Masters, The Utahraptor, and Torchiest. Bullock and Slon02 will receive The Order of the Superior Scribe (80,000+). The Barnstar of Diligence (60,000+) goes to Derild4921, GaryColemanFan, kojozone, and Mlpearc. The Modern Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar (40,000+) goes to A. Parrot, AirplanePro, Auntieruth55, Bejinhan, David Rush, and mono. Nobody will receive The Old School League of Copy Editors award (30,000+). The Tireless Contributor Barnstar (20,000+) goes to Backtable, Cindamuse, dtgriffith, Duff, e. ripley, Laurinavicius, NerdyScienceDude, and TEK. The Cleanup Barnstar (12,000+) goes to Brickie, Casliber, cymru lass, December21st2012Freak, Nolelover, TheTito, Whoosit, and YellowMonkey. The Working Man's Barnstar (8,000+) goes to Bsherr, Duchess of Bathwick, HELLKNOWZ, Mabeenot, noraft, Pyfan, and Richard asr. The Modest Barnstar (4,000+) goes to Adrian J. Hunter, Airplaneman, Annalise, Camerafiend, Cricket02, Fetchcomms, Gosox5555, LeonidasSpartan, Paulmnguyen, Piotrus, SuperHamster, Taelus, and TPW. Gold Star Award Gold Star Award Leaderboard Articles Words 5k+ Articles 1. Diannaa (248) Shimeru (200,392) Shimeru/Ericleb01 (13) 2. Slon02 (157) Diannaa (164,960) Chaosdruid (8) 3. GaryColemanFan (101) Chaosdruid (130,630) Derild4921 (7) 4. Torchiest (100) The Utahraptor (117,347) GaryColemanFan/Slon02 (6) 5. Shimeru (80) Ericleb01 (114,893) Bejinhan/The Utahraptor (5) 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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I don't know buddy. There is currently a problem with the Bollywood Hungama image licence and it is currently being discussed on Commons. I don't want this problem to affect the FAC process. The images can be still used though we are discussing on their uploading process as it currently takes forever. What is your opinion on this? Should we wait? -- Bollywood Dreamz ^talk 18:37, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Another co-coordinator

Ocean Shores wants to be a co-coordinator for the September GOCE backlog elimination drive. Do you think we should make them one? The Raptor ^{You rang?}/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 13:36, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

I have no issues with it but can you please check with ɳorɑfʈ and Diannaa if she's around? Thanks. –S Masters (talk) 13:40, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

I've already sent a message to Noraft, and yes, I'll send a message to Diannaa. The Raptor ^{You rang?}/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 13:42, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

• Noraft has responded. He said that Ocean Shores will be our new spot checker; that is, Ocean Shores will be in charge of making sure all copy edits are good. We didn't stress that much in the last two drives, and I think it's about time we implement it. The Raptor ^{You rang?}/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 01:09, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Excellent idea! I fully support this. - S Masters (talk) 09:17, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Notice

Hi. Your input on the length of the Catholic Church article would be welcome at Talk:Catholic Church#Long_version.   — Jeff G.  ツ 21:24, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

I have seen the discussion there and unfortunately, I do not know enough about the history of the article to be able to make any useful comments. But thanks for thinking of me. Cheers. - S Masters (talk) 14:41, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome.   — Jeff G.  ツ 17:52, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

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Barnstar

		Wikipedia Motivation Award
		For your ongoing work with the GOCE Backlog Elimination Drives. You deserve it. Esprit15d • talk • contribs 16:40, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! This is very thoughtful of you. Hope you will join us for the next drive. :-) - S Masters (talk) 16:48, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Help Pls - Copy Edit

Hi SMasters, I have created a article titled National Waterway 4 (NW-4). I have just posted a Draft article on WP. User:Sodabottle has suggested copy edit for improving the article. I'm also working on the copy editing part. As you are a experienced member of Copy Editors Team, I request Copy Edit for the Article as well as requesting you to provide your valuable Comments / Feedback to improve the article. With the Response i'll focus on 5 Other National Waterways in India. ---Raj 6644(தமிழன்) 09:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I am currently extremely busy in RL, and do not have much time. I will try to look at it over the weekend if I can. If it is very urgent, you might want to put in a note at the request page of the Guild of Copy Editors. Cheers. - S Masters (talk) 09:15, 13 August 2010 (UTC).

Ok Fine SMasters. Go ahead. If u find some good time. Pls do copy edit. Have a good day! --Raj 6644(தமிழன்) 09:30, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Invitation

I'm not signing my posts. Is that ok? Ocean Shores 17:03, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it's OK if you want. I have moved all the names to the bottom. It shows that we are a team and looks better. But when I did this, I broke the layout on the left and I'm not sure how to fix it as my original template had the logo on the right. That makes it much easier to style. Can you help fix it? Thanks so much for all your help. - S Masters (talk) 17:09, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

You mean you want the sidebar on the right? It looks fine on the left. Also, I changed the en dash to an em dash. Is that grammatically correct? Ocean Shores 17:16, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and I won't be posting the newsletter to those who are retired. Ocean Shores 17:21, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

How can you tell if they have retired? - S Masters (talk) 17:38, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

The "retired" template. Ocean Shores 17:55, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

I may need assistants, as this is taking much longer than I anticipated. Ocean Shores 17:55, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Might need a WikiBreak, too...

R  Done

S  Done. If you're kind enough to help me, please use this:

== GOCE Invitation ==

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/September 2010/Newsletter 1}}

Thanks!

Update

I'm done with the category. I'll start on the list (hopefully) tomorrow or Tuesday. I'd really appreciate it if you could help me. Thanks! Ocean Shores 22:20, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I was already in bed when you wrote earlier and now I am back at work with a busy schedule this week. I will try to help but are you not using a bot to send these? It will take forever to do 300+ individually. - S Masters (talk) 03:11, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

I guess it wouldn't make much of a difference, but can the bot spot duplicates? Ocean Shores 03:21, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

GOCE is currently using MessageDeliveryBot to deliver our newsletters, like the last one. - S Masters (talk) 03:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC)