User talk:Twofingered Typist/Archives/2020/December

GOCE November drive barnstars

		The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
		This barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:28, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting 30 articles during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:28, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting 83,828 total words during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:28, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting six long articles during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:28, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting five old articles during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:28, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 14,713 words – during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:28, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now. Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive. October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz. November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests. Other news Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above). Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Seasonal tidings and cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:47, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thank you for taking the time to copyedit Paper Mario: The Origami King! I really appreciate your work! Le Panini [🥪] 17:22, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

@Le Panini: Thanks! You're very welcome. Twofingered Typist (talk) 18:41, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020

Hi Twofingered Typist! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Chandrapur University that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 15:38, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

@Kj cheetham: Thanks, I know what a minor edit is, but I have no idea what you're talking about. Twofingered Typist (talk) 15:43, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi, as an example, this change shouldn't have been marked as minor, as in my view it's more than just fixing a typo or a simple grammar fix. -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:00, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

@Kj cheetham: Sorry, I fail to see where the meaning has been changed. There were dozens of wording changes. Please be specific.

Something for you

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		For your tireless contributions to copyediting quality articles. I really appreciate your copyediting some of my successful FAC articles, namely Style (Taylor Swift song) and 1989 (Taylor Swift album). HĐ (talk) 16:44, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I am inclined to present you with another barnstar, for your relentless diligence with copyediting, perhaps one of the more mundane tasks that hardly any editor is willing to do. Thank you for your service, and I hope my "presents" will let you know that your work is very much appreciated, HĐ (talk) 16:44, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

HĐ Thank you! So unexpected but greatly appreciated. Happy Holidays and stay safe. Twofingered Typist (talk) 16:47, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Beaver

Can you please do a copyedit. Its an emergency. LittleJerry (talk) 15:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

@LittleJerry: There is an extremely long backlog list of requests we're working on at the GOCE. May I ask what the emergency is? Twofingered Typist (talk) 15:39, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Its almost at the end of FAC and all of a sudden I got an oppose based on prose and MOS. LittleJerry (talk) 16:27, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

@LittleJerry: Okay. I'll try to have a look at it when I'm finished the articled I'm now working on. Twofingered Typist (talk) 16:59, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

When you have the time. Can you take a look at the "Environmental effects" section since I expanded it. LittleJerry (talk) 23:22, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

@LittleJerry: Done. Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:58, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020 GOCE Blitz Barnstar

		The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Twofingered Typist for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE December 2020 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:06, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Thanks for your neverending assistance to articles I tend to expand.

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