User talk:Twofingered Typist/Archives/2016/April

GOCE drive bookkeeping

Hi again, TT, and thanks very much for all your help in the March drive. A request, though; please record your articles in the format at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/March 2016#Totals. We generate the barnstar table with a VBScript which is a bit tetchy about extraneous data (like extra parentheses) and wiki markup (like bolding), so cleaning up the data to run the script is time-consuming when there's a lot of extra stuff. Simply using *O (for old articles) or *R (for request articles) ensures that you get the 50-percent credit. Thanks again and all the best, Miniapolis 14:09, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

My sincere apologies, I should have read the instructions more carefully after I discovered that articles other than those in the three monthly sections could be included! I have fixed the format for the GOCE requests.Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:24, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, and no apologies needed; WP is complicated :-). All the best, Miniapolis 22:47, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

March 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Drive Barnstar

		The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
		This barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words during the GOCE March 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:30, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting 70 articles during the GOCE March 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:30, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting 129,440 total words during the GOCE March 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:30, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting eight long articles during the GOCE March 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:30, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting 56 old articles during the GOCE March 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:30, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 16,054 words – during the GOCE March 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:30, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter March drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 28 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April blitz: The one-week April blitz, again targeting our long requests list, will run from April 17–23. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the requests page. Sign up here! May drive: The month-long May backlog-reduction drive, with extra credit for articles tagged in March, April, and May 2015, and all request articles, begins May 1. 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 Jonesey95, Miniapolis, and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/New Wave of British Heavy Metal/archive1

I started the procedure to have the New Wave of British Heavy Metal article promoted to WP:FA. Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/New Wave of British Heavy Metal/archive1 needs discussants. Since you were the WP:GOCE reviewer, I am hoping you might give some comments. Lewismaster (talk) 08:42, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise for peer review

Notifying as you were the Guild of Copy Editors participant for the article.

I've listed The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise for peer review.

Comments would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise/archive1.

Thank you for your time,

— Cirt (talk) 23:24, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Re: Kyo Kusanagi

Thanks for the copyedit as usual. Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 18:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

April 2016 GOCE blitz award

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copy edits totaling over 30,000 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)

Question about archiving references

Thank you again for the c/e of "No Time for It". I have a brief and probably stupid and obvious question about archiving references through Wayback Machine. I have used the site a lot when I first started out revising and expanding articles on here and I did not have any problems using it, but lately I have been getting a lot of error messages when trying to archive newer links. I know not all websites are archivable, but I have received error messages when attempting to preserve sites that I know should be able to work.

At best, I can archive one or two links at a time before I get stuck with a wall of error messages. I was wondering if you ever ran across this problem and if you have any advice about it. I have been working on a few articles and would like to archive all the references where applicable, but I am just having a lot of difficulty doing so. I apologize for the long post. Aoba47 (talk) 21:09, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

@Aoba: I just tried archiving reference #5 from the article and everything was fine. My suspicion, given how fast the counter for the number of archived pages increases, is that the site is crazy busy and just can't deal with the demand. I have had experiences similar to those you describe, although I have never tried to archive one article's citations one after another. (I only do one to point out to a requester that URLs should be archived and provide details how to do it.) If you don't already, you might try backing right out of the site and then loading it again after each page you archive to see if that helps. Sorry I can't be of more help. 21:55, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. I usually just wait until the end and archive everything, which is probably a really bad habit. Aoba47 (talk) 04:39, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Twofingered Typist,

I noticed that you're active at the copyeditors guild and I was wondering if you can check out a draft of a section I've been working on: User:EtienneDolet/Talat_Pasha. My main concern is that it is too long. I really don't want any information being removed because every single sentence is pertinent and relevant. But if you can make some sentences shorter and less verbose, I'd appreciate it. You're welcome to work on my userpage. By the way, if you're not able to copyedit it, I understand. Just let me know. Thanks, Étienne Dolet (talk) 23:18, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Anurag Kashyap

Hi, I just wanted to ask you about the c.e tag you have placed on this article. I feel the article is reasonably well written for a GA standard and doesn't really require a major copy-edit. Yashthepunisher (talk) 02:47, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

@Yashthepunisher - The section on his personal life caught my attention - it was a mess and certainly not of GA quality. I have done a copy edit and removed the article's c/e tag. I realize that I should have just tagged the section itself. Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:11, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the copyedit. It might have been overlooked during its GA review. Cheers! Yashthepunisher (talk) 02:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)