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Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: The Guild needs coordinators! If you'd like to help out, you may nominate yourself or any suitable editor—with their permission—for the Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2024. Nominations will close at 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). Voting begins immediately after the close of nominations and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under current sanctions) are eligible, and self-nominations are welcome. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Our December Copy Editing Blitz will run from 10 to 16 December. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles. Other news: Our Annual Report for 2023 is planned for release in the new year. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Hello, InterstellarGamer12321. Thank you for your work on Mie 2nd district. MPGuy2824, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

the mentioned source says that a different person won in 2021

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-MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:46, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MPGuy2824: thank you for leaving me a message about this problem. I did not actually create the article; I only redirected it to where the district was mentioned in List of districts of the House of Representatives of Japan. Please contact User:ギルディアス156世 who actually created the article and added the source. InterstellarGamer12321 (talk | contribs) 09:37, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping. Sorry, the software automatically sends it to the page creator even though in this case you just created it as a redirect. I've pinged the relevant user on the article's talk page. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:35, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi InterstellarGamer12321, I've seen a comment about rejection of the Zdenko_Domancic page due to lack of references. Though there are 12 references with publicly available interviews from different countries and different publication, news and media houses. Additionally there are 4 books written about subject and a documentary short film that is listed in publications, all created and published from independent authors. Not sure what more is needed to get this article published. I've read recommendations and guidelines for BLP and reliable sources, and seemed to me that was followed. Thanks NoErr (talk) 18:28, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@NoErr: in a WP:BLP article sourcing requirements are also about the amount of unreferenced content in the article. The referencing requirements are much stricter for BLPs, with all statements and claims needing to be sourced, which basically means you should put one inline citation at the end of each sentence ideally. Currently, several paragraphs are completely unreferenced and inline citations should be added to them or they should be removed if they are unverifiable. The references you currently have in the article are likely enough to establish notability, but I decline on the basis of the amount of unsourced information, not the lack of notability. InterstellarGamer12321 (talk | contribs) 22:48, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, InterstellarGamer12321. Thank you for your work on TOI-1136. SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Hello my friend! Good day to you. Thanks for creating the article, I have marked it as reviewed. Have a blessed day!

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 05:55, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, welcome, welcome InterstellarGamer12321! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)15:38, 2 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

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		This award is given in recognition to InterstellarGamer12321 for collecting more than 50 points during the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 22:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		This award is given in recognition to InterstellarGamer12321 for collecting at least 7 points during each week of the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 23:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! how are you. I wanted to ask your opinion on how to make this page better to fix it basically. Tiwalola Olanubi

If you could look at it at a free time.

Thank you always. Olakunle Rufai (talk) 11:22, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Olakunle Rufai: thank you for asking me about how to improve this article. First, I think it is important to fix the issue raised by the maintenance tag; the article is written in a similar format to a CV or resumé instead of like an encyclopaedic article, doing little more than listing his achievements and what he was doing at certain points in time. Try to improve the prose and maintain neutrality to achieve this. Secondly, this is only a minor concern but many of the sources used are mainly describing the companies he is part of or awards rather than Olanubi himself; add more references which describe him and moreover have significant coverage of him, while also being reliable and independent of the subject or any awards he has won. InterstellarGamer12321 (talk | contribs) 12:29, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is quite insightful. Thank you for your help Olakunle Rufai (talk) 09:05, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, InterstellarGamer12321. Thank you for your work on 35 Leonis. SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Good day! Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia by writing this article. I have marked the article as reviewed. Have a wonderful and blessed day for you and your family!

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 00:44, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SunDawn: thank you! InterstellarGamer12321 (talk | contribs) 11:10, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello InterstellarGamer12321,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

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