User talk:Mabuska/Archive 42019/December

GOCE December 2019 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December 2019 GOCE newsletter, an update of Guild happenings since the September edition. Our Annual Report should be ready in late January. Election time: Nominations for the election of a new tranche of Guild coordinators to serve for the first half of 2020 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself! September Drive: Of the thirty-two editors who signed up, twenty-three editors copy edited at least one article; they completed 39 requests and removed 138 articles from the backlog, bringing the backlog to a low of 519 articles. October Blitz: This event ran from 13 to 19 October, with themes of science, technology and transport articles tagged for copy edit, and Requests. Sixteen editors helped remove 29 articles from the backlog and completed 23 requests. November Drive: Of the twenty-eight editors who signed up for this event, twenty editors completed at least one copy edit; they completed 29 requests and removed 133 articles from the backlog. Our December Blitz will run from 15 to 21 December. Sign up now! Progress report: From September to November 2019, GOCE copy editors processed 154 requests. Over the same period, the backlog of articles tagged for copy editing was reduced by 41% to an all-time low of 479 articles. Request archiving: The archiving of completed requests has now been automated. Thanks to Zhuyifei1999 and Bobbychan193, YiFeiBot is now archiving the Requests page. Archiving occurs around 24 hours after a user's signature and one of the templates {{Done}}, {{Withdrawn}} or {{Declined}} are placed below the request. The bot uses the Guild's standard "purpose codes" to determine the way it should archive each request so it's important to use the correct codes and templates. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. >>> Sign up for the December blitz! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Marble Arch Cave classification

Hi Mabuska, I hope you're well. A few years ago (2011) you reviewed and classified the article for Marble Arch Caves. I was wondering whether you fancied running your eye over it again? I would post on WP:NIR, but it doesn't seem to be that active these days... Fattonyni (talk) 10:57, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

I'll see if I can find time later this month, well what's left of it anyways. Mabuska ^(talk) 22:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

This user is a proud native citizen of Northern Ireland

There is no such thing as a citizen of Northern Ireland!

"Northern Ireland is part of the UK. As stated in the Belfast Agreement(external link opens in a new window / tab), also known as the Good Friday Agreement, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Ireland recognise the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both, as they may so choose, and accordingly confirm that their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship is accepted by both Governments and would not be affected by any future change in the status of Northern Ireland."

(Reference: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/about-northern-ireland#toc-2) Ériugena (talk) 21:12, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Whilst this is obviously patronising Irish republican trolling I'll oblige a response: it's my democratic right to identify as what I wish. You no doubt believe you are a citizen of a state spanning the whole of Ireland that doesn't actually exist. That is your right. If I wanted to call myself a citizen of Cloud Cuckooland I'll do so.

Also look up the definition of citizen. Look at the second definition and extend that to a country or region. So yeah I can and am a citizen of Northern Ireland.

Good day, and good bye, this discussion on my talk page is now Finito Benito. Slán! Mabuska ^(talk) 22:04, 23 December 2019 (UTC)