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New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
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(t · c) buidhe 21:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors October 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up for our July Backlog Elimination Drive, 18 copy-edited, between them, 116 articles. Barnstars awarded are noted here. Blitz: Participants in our August Copy Editing Blitz copy-edited 51,074 words in 17 articles. Of the 15 editors who signed up, 11 claimed at least one copy-edit. Barnstars awarded are noted here. Drive: Forty-one editors took part in our September Backlog Elimination Drive; between them they copy-edited 199 articles. Barnstars awards are noted here. Blitz: Our October Copy Editing Blitz begins on 16 October at 00:01 (UTC) and will end on 22 October at 23:59 (UTC). Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 19:57, 12 October 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 303 requests for copy edit – including withdrawn and declined ones – since 1 January. At the time of writing, there are 77 requests awaiting attention and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,759. We always need more active, skilled copyeditors – particularly for requests – so please get involved if you can. Election news: In our mid-year election, serving coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tenryuu were returned for another term, and were joined by new coordinator Zippybonzo. No lead coordinator was elected for this half-year. Jonesey95, a long-serving coordinator and lead, was elected as coordinator emeritus; we thank them for their service. Thank you to everyone who took part. Our next election of coordinators takes place throughout December. If you'd like to help out at the GOCE, please consider nominating yourself or other suitable editors (with their permission, of course!). It's your Guild, after all! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tenryuu and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Baffle☿gab 03:07, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Paul W,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

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Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

Hi, I see you’re a member of WP:COMPANIES.. I posted some updates to fix incorrect information about the financials for LMAX Group. The corrections are here: Talk:LMAX Group#Correction needed: Net Income, GBP for financials. I am a paid consultant for the company. Thanks. Sunshine0826 (talk) 18:30, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for starting Private members' club, I've long been frustrated as gentleman's clubs isn't quite what they are but they aren't social, sporting or working clubs either! No Swan So Fine (talk) 12:30, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I had a similar frustration - I didn't feel that social clubs quite fitted (too many working mens' clubs and similar ventures got lumped into it). Paul W (talk) 12:45, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to our latest newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since October. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Blitz: Our October Copy Editing Blitz focused on July and August 2022 request months; and articles tagged for c/e in December 2021 and January 2022. Seventeen of those who signed up claimed at least one copy-edit, and between them copy-edited forty-six articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: In the November Backlog Elimination Drive, thirty editors signed up, twenty-two of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Both target months—December 2021 and January 2022—were cleared, and February was added to the target months. Sixteen requests were copy-edited and 239 articles were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our seven-day-long December 2022 Copy Editing Blitz begins on 17 December at 00:01 (UTC)*. It will focus on articles tagged for copy-edit in February 2022, and pending requests from September and October. Barnstars awarded will be available here. Progress report: As of 22:40, 8 December 2022, GOCE copyeditors have processed 357 requests since 1 January, there were seventy-four requests outstanding and the backlog stands at 1,791 articles. We always need skilled copy-editors; please help out if you can. Election news: Nomination of candidates for the GOCE's Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2023 is open and continues until 23:59 on 15 December. Voting begins at 00:01 on 16 December and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. Coordinators serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on June 30. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, please nominate yourself or any editor you consider suitable—with their permission, of course!. It's your Guild and it doesn't coordinate itself. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers and best seasonal wishes from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu, and Zippybonzo. *All times and dates on this newsletter are UTC. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:26, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The GOCE December 2022 newsletter, as sent on 9 December, contains an erroneous start date for our December Blitz. The Blitz will start on 11 December rather than on 17 December, as stated in the newsletter. I'm sorry for the mistake and for disrupting your talk page; thanks for your understanding. Sent by Baffle gab1978 via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Sorry for bothering you: I've decided to leave you a message, since you originally reviewed and accepted my article when it was still a draft.

Given the recent fixes and updates by me and other users, do you think the page is ready to be "upgraded" to a C rating on the quality scale? Rater suggests so, but before I proceed, I want to get your opinion, too.

~~~~ Oltrepier (talk) 16:01, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have rated it C. Paul W (talk) 21:56, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thank you very much, then!

~~~~ Oltrepier (talk) 16:09, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

		The New Page Patroller's Barnstar
		For over 100 article reviews during 2022. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:27, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Paul W,

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

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Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

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Sent by Baffle gab1978 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:30, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paul. I wonder if I can borrow your perspective as a Brit? In short, I haven't yet created a new page but have tinkered and edited pages of various business people and politicians over the years. I have an interest in politics and saw this chap giving an interview to TV outside Parliament in London when Boris Johnson resigned. I took a snap and when I got back and Googled him, I saw he didn't have a Wiki page, but a fairly substantial public profile (been on BBC News multiple times, written articles for The Times etc) - so thought I'd take him on as my first page creation project! It transpires he has a fairly similar background to you (former government advisor, now a PR guy!).

I've been struggling however and I think it's potentially partially down to the reviewers looking at it through an American lens (for example, one said that PR Week was not a legitimate and impartial source - but you might have a different perspective? I don't know as I'm not in the industry, but it looks like a legitimate source backed by a renowned publisher).

Here's the draft: Draft:Leon Emirali.

I've researched the subject fairly extensively, made multiple edits to my draft, but am running out of steam. I feel like given your background you might have either come across this chap or have a definitive view on whether this is worthy of approval, or if I a, best to move onto the next subject (ideally politicians and business leaders in the UK as that's where my interest lies - if you have any ideas, I'm all ears).

Anyway, hope you can help. Be good to get your perspective on this given your background.

All the very best.

JF. JoinFluffy250 (talk) 20:54, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, JoinFluffy250. I have replied in the relevant section on your talk page. Best wishes Paul W (talk) 11:28, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Really appreciate your feedback and improvements. JoinFluffy250 (talk) 12:05, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry Paul - me again. This is a query about how the AfC function works rather than a request, but does your editing of the draft now mean you wouldn't be able to accept or decline the draft as you're a page patroller? Thanks for bearing with me. JF. JoinFluffy250 (talk) 12:47, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In NPP work we are essentially checking that work is suitable and can remain in mainspace. Once an article has been draftified and/or goes to AfC and I have edited it, I think it needs another editor to look at it (I don't want to be seen to be marking my own homework!). Paul W (talk) 15:37, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paul. Hope life has been kind since we interacted last month! I logged on today to make a few edits elsewhere on other pages and was surprised to see that the page you kindly helped me with creating still hasn't been looked at. Is that normal? I don't know whether your status has changed and you're able to approve/reject yourself, if you feel so inclined? Perhaps I'm just impatient, but keen to know whether my first page attempt is worth or not. All the best, JF. JoinFluffy250 (talk) 18:56, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

AfC articles can sometimes take several weeks to get a review - editors will often pick one to review at random, rather then reviewing them oldest first. As I said, I don't want to be marking my own homework, so I'd prefer someone else reviewed it. (If you are still looking for business subjects to cover, it might be worth looking at FTSE-listed UK companies to see if their CEOs or chairmen are sufficiently notable - I've contributed to a few biographies of living people (BLPs) in the construction sector over the years..... Best wishes. Paul W (talk) 19:13, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Paul. That's a good idea! Will browse the FTSE. JF JoinFluffy250 (talk) 19:35, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nicosia Mall, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:40, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		After draftifying Nicosia Mall you stuck around to fix the issues in the article even though you seemingly have no particular motivation for doing so. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:47, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw the recent improvements you did on the Jack London article. May I suggest you review this recent edit which added a whole bunch of unreferenced awards and honors? (I'm trying to avoid article editing these days, or I'd revert it myself.) We've been through this before with that article -- what awards can be sourced are generally "best member of our little club"-type awards that we generally don't include.

Thanks. --Nat Gertler (talk) 15:54, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I contemplated putting an 'unreferenced section' notice at the top, but I find that often just gets ignored. Best to delete them lock, stock and barrel and see if some sourced honours eventually get inserted. Paul W (talk) 17:21, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you check the talk page, there was a list of awards that a WP:PAID editor recommended, each with a source... but those sources were generally press releases, and the awards local or specific-group-based in nature (alumni awards, club awards, etc.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:29, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think we should be ruthless on reliability of sources (press releases and club websites, etc are not generally reliable sources) and focus only on significant awards (state, national or international recognition, maybe?). Paul W (talk) 17:44, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Press releases are WP:SPS -- reliable for non-controversial, non-aggrandizing statements about whoever releases them. So if the Arachnid Club put out a press release declaring that they named Spider-Man their dude of the year, then we can accept as fact that Spider-Man is the Arachnid Club's dude of the year. (We would not accept the same statement in a press release issued by Spider-Man, as that would be aggrandizing.) What they aren't is an indication of WP:DUE; we generally need third-party sources to indicate that a fact is worth including in the article. With awards, you can use a rule of thumb that if we have an article on the award, then the award is significant enough that it should be on the recipients page even if we don't have a third party source mentioning the award being bestowed on the subject; if Terror of Tiny Town won the Oscar for Best All-Little People Musical Western, that should be mentioned in the article even if for some reason it can only be sourced to the Oscar website. But the same does not hold true for the Arachnid Club Dude of the Year, as you can tell by that red link. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:27, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paul W, it's nice to meet you. I have opened a discussion at Talk:FGS Global in an effort to update the article following a merger, but seem to have lost the interest of the community. I found that you are a member of WP:LONDON and thought you might be willing to weigh in, or make the updates if you feel they are appropriate. I have not done so myself due to my conflict of interest. Thanks for your time, Charlotte at FGS (talk) 09:49, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Replied via the Talk:FGS Global page after adding the FGS merger details. A citation needs to be added re the shareholders. Regards. Paul W (talk) 11:50, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December and our Annual Report for 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members, including those who have signed up for our current March Backlog Elimination Drive. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up now for our month-long March Backlog Elimination Drive. Barnstars awarded will be posted here after the drive closes. Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Tom Booth (footballer, born 2004), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here. Blitz: Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo. *All times and dates in this newsletter are in UTC, and may significantly vary from your local time. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Sent by Baffle gab1978 using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:38, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Paul. As the declared COI editor for Tetragon Financial Group, I have posted an edit request to update and change the article for accuracy and clarity. Given your active participation in WikiProject:Companies and previous helpful edits on company pages, would you mind taking a look and facilitating these changes? Thank you, CC for Tetragon (talk) 19:47, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Paul W (talk) 20:11, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paul W, thank you for implementing my edit request for the Tetragon Financial Group page! CC for Tetragon (talk) 07:53, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paul W, thanks again for your help in updating the Tetragon Financial Group article. If you have more time, could you take a look at the tag there and see if it's still warranted? Thanks again! CC for Tetragon (talk) 07:48, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, Paul W. I have a new request at Talk:FGS Global and was hoping you might take a look. Thanks again for your assistance! Charlotte at FGS (talk) 08:42, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Paul W (talk) 14:34, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Paul W,

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

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Indian Super League, remaining part has several space/comma/grammar errors. Besides, see also has multiple overlinks. I tried but its locked and users careless, act as private article. Many thanks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1161570920 93.140.148.242 (talk) 10:30, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. David Thomsen: Prolific Wikipedian and Guild member David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) died in November 2022. He was a regular copy editor who took part in many of our Drives and Blitzes. An obituary was published in the mid-July issue of The Signpost. Tributes can be left on David's talk page. Election news: In our mid-year Election of Coordinators, Dhtwiki was chosen as lead coordinator, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo continue as assistant coordinators, and Baffle gab1978 stepped down from the role. If you're interested in helping out at the GOCE, please consider nominating yourself for our next election in December; it's your WikiProject and it doesn't organize itself! June Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our June Copy Editing Blitz, 12 copy-edited at least one article. 70,035 words comprising 26 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are here. July Drive: 34 of the 51 editors who took part in our July Backlog Elimination Drive copy-edited at least one article. They edited 276 articles and 683,633 words between them. Barnstars awarded are here. August Blitz: In our August Copy Editing Blitz, 13 of the 16 editors who signed up worked on at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 79,608 words comprising 57 articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. September Drive: Sign up here for our month-long September Backlog Elimination Drive, which is now underway. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 14:29, 9 September 2023 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have processed 245 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,066. 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 Paul W:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

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There is a backlog of over 2000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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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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	For your work on Raymond Allen Hare getting it out of draft stage - it's efforts like that which make Wikipedia far more welcoming to first time editors. Chapeau! Goldsztajn (talk) 10:56, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your copyedits to my draft article Draft:Kerissa Khan. Is the draft ready to be published? As you saw, I added a "statement of interest" at the top - link to the specific edit - in order that it can be referenced in a specific box on the talkpage by the draft's reviewer (I did the same when I wrote a previous article, see: Talk:Solaris_(solar_power). Ennegma (talk) 12:24, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ennegma. I think the article needs to be fleshed out a bit more to give some details of Khan's employment history since graduating. I see from her LinkedIn profile (not a reliable source) that she worked at Safran for over seven years - if this and other details (dates, plus some clarification over the chronology of full-time roles, voluntary roles, etc) can be sourced elsewhere, I think it will be good to go. Also citing her as the youngest RAeS Council member begs the question 'how old' (year of birth?). Paul W (talk) 13:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello user:Paul W. I too had looked at the LinkedIn profile, for other possible places to find references, but didn't find any publicly available sources for previous jobs [like Safran] other than "self-published" (like this https://twitter.com/kerissa_k/status/1020010424954163200 ) or things which were re-publications of the same text used in footnotes I have already used. I also would have liked to add more biographical details but, other than the consistently referenced fact about 'youngest', I did find in the Newsday article that "she did not reveal her age". If that's the case, then I think it's fair the biography article can use the referenced statement of "youngest council member" without also having to pry into personal details she doesn't wish to share. I would like to add more but as I've said in the "statement of interests" I've never yet talked the subject of this biography directly. Perhaps once the article is "up" then it would be possible for me to request more references, including a portrait photograph. But meanwhile, I know it's not a long or big article - but I believe that Wikipedia's minimum criteria are met already with this biography. She is the holder of an important position in her field, with matching footnotes. I don't think that the lack of detail of her earlier career or her age is an impediment to this being a valid "stub" sized article in its current state. Do you agree? Ennegma (talk) 14:05, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

After a bit of expansion, I have approved and published the article as a stub. Paul W (talk) 14:53, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. Now that it is public, it possible to request sources for other biographical details. Ennegma (talk) 15:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, Ennegma. In seeking additional information, remember verifiability: that "other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source": any portrait photo will normally need a Creative Commons license. Paul W (talk) 15:13, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi sir @Paul W, Hope your doing good, If Possible can you please copyedit and review this draft article Draft:Sreshth Movies. Sorry for bothering you, Thanks in advance ~~ Nss999 (talk) 16:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nss999. I have done a quick copy edit. However, I don't have sufficient knowledge of Indian cinema and media to be able to adequately review the article and the reliability of its sources. Paul W (talk) 17:46, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Paul W,

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.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

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