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GOCE June 2015 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2015 News

May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's backlog-reduction drive. Of the 38 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, and we got within 50 articles of our all-time low in the backlog. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Coordinator elections: Nominations are open through June 15 for GOCE coordinators, with voting from June 16–30. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Biblioworm and Philg88.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:08, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted that edit because...

It didn't look constructive. Sorry for the inconvenience!--Quantum Particles (talk) 16:18, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV Issue

Can you please help me identify where Seifu Mikael has NPov issues and help me on how to resolve it? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zemen2zemen (talk • contribs) 13:46, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I posted some specific PoV examples on the article's talk page, Zemen2zemen. The more pressing issue, after reviewing the article, is the lack of sources given the amount of information. fds^Talk 18:03, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you User:Fdssdf. Please excuse my ignorance on editing in the wiki pages. I am putting up more sources supporting the article. Most of the stories about the historic individual were lost during the second world war and many of his relatives were executed during the communist regime. But thankfully, I am coming by good deal of information scattered around in different books,personal memoirs, official letters and old, dated press pictures I have succeeded buying through online auctions. Once again, thanks for your support and your energy in helping make wiki a perfect place for knowledge.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Zemen2zemen (talk • contribs) 19:18, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good! fds^Talk 22:12, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thanks for the constructive ideas you left me to remove parts of the Seifu Mikael article to create balance and unbiased views. Please let me know if it needs more work. I have also invited some historians to put their perspective. Cheers

WP:en passeth away, long live Simple English

A thought: With so many people wanting to 'improve' WP articles in various ways, we will simply end up transforming WP:en into WP:simple. Hey, if you like that idea, why not go after 'latterly'?

Yes, that is snide, but I'm seeing a real problem with the homogenization and rendering of WP into some thin tasteless broth. One person doesn't like some too-high-class word, another doesn't like complex phrasing, another doesn't like some old convention, another substitutes a simpler word (that may no longer match the intended meaning), another doesn't like euphemisms, and onward we go into the mist. This worries me so. Shenme (talk) 01:50, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Shenme. The reason for my recent edits removing "passed away" and its derivatives is that they are named explicitly by Wikipedia as words to avoid. My opinion on the phrase is that it's ambiguous. If you disagree with my edits, you are free to revert them or to re-cast the phrases into something else. fds^Talk 02:08, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]