Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/March 2018

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It seems like the # of articles for that month dropped quite precipitously over the last day or 2, without many articles showing up on the complete lists. Any idea what's happening? (Or am I just losing it?) Lfstevens (talk) 21:39, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks as always for your help, Lfstevens. I don't know what you mean by "precipitously", but the June-through-August numbers (I'm working on June) don't look out of line to me. I remove the {{copy edit}} tag when I start a copyedit to avoid edit conflicts, and you'd see whatever article I'm {{working}} on in my section on the drive page. Maybe it's just one of those things :-). All the best, Miniapolis 23:30, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Only 6 left for June! – Reidgreg (talk) 02:52, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

But the last few are always the toughest :-). All the best, Miniapolis 14:55, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Mint-wigris

Has anyone else looked at Mint-wigris (tagged August 2017)? It's about a physics unification theory apparently called WIGRIS. MINT-Wigris seems to be the title of a book about it. A primary editor of the article has the same initials as the author of this book. It doesn't seem to be widely known outside of Germany, I couldn't find many online resources, and it doesn't have an article at de.wikipedia, though the author does (de:Gudrun Kalmbach). A lot of the references seem to be connected and I'm not sure how notable it is. I'm thinking it should be declined for copy edit and tagged {{Expert needed|Physics}}. It's already tagged for {{one source}}. – Reidgreg (talk) 23:21, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

The article also has unencyclopedic writing, e.g. "I suggest that no direct proofs for non-observable energies are possible." It definitely needs a physics expert to determine if this is a legitimate topic or something written by a crank. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:59, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Okay, done. – Reidgreg (talk) 16:37, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

My article count did not update

I finished an article, followed the instructions, but the article and total word count did not update. Is it supposed to update automatically after I change to "complete"? Is there something I did wrong? Thinker78 (talk) 11:01, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi Thinker. The count doesn't automatically update, you need to do the update yourself each time you enter a new article as completed. (There is a script that is used to calculate everyone's results at the end of the month, but it's not used on a day-by-day basis.) I hope that answers your question. Cheers, Tdslk (talk) 12:26, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

BTW: It is not required that you update your totals for every completed copy edit. This is just a way of making it easier for other editors to see your progress, the overall progress, and to update the leaderboard. At the end of the month, it also makes gives us something to check the drive script's totals against as an error-check. – Reidgreg (talk) 15:34, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Last call

The March copy editing drive has ended. Please make any final edits to your article lists and the leaderboard (it is not updated automatically) in the next 24 hours or so. It is OK to edit your section of the page, or the leaderboard, even though the page is archived.

Barnstars will be distributed in the next few days. Thanks to everyone who participated. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:40, 1 April 2018 (UTC)