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GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Irish language names.

My apologies that I use Irish langauge names. I will from now try and use English names but I just tend to write the information using Irish names, but I have no trouble with you changing it to English once I am done. As long as you can try to put the Irish language translation bedside the names where necessary. Iamdmonah (talk) 18:07, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Please note this is not me being deliberately disruptive. Apologies again. Iamdmonah (talk) 18:08, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

If the person or place already has an article then we do not need to add their Irish name afterwards in brackets for if a reader wants to find out more about them or the place they can click into that article where it's lede should have such information. If it doesn't have an article then it does no harm adding it. The point is to make articles easy to read without lots of different language names, words and bracketed information added in every sentence.especially if an article already exists detailing it.

It would be greatly appreciated if you did it yourself. Apologies accepted on this.

Though please use academic sources not webpages of dubious reliability. Mabuska ^(talk) 19:08, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

And in regards to page numbers I mean sources you use like Foster. Mabuska ^(talk) 19:32, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

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Irish language names (again)

What was the problem with the name Donal Cam O Sullivan Beara on the page Dursey Massacre? It was the English language name. And what did you mean when you said I "piped it"? Please, just for future reference. Iamdmonah (talk) 14:07, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

A pipe link is were you alter the name of the link to be displayed using a | . I.e. [[WP:Pipelink|This is an example]] whereas [[WP:Easter]] is unpiped. The problem was you needlessy but on purposely added the Gaelic pipelink. Mabuska ^(talk) 15:49, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

I see. I have always spelled Dónal with the 'O fada' or síneadh fada. I wrote the name myself with that spelling, adding the link (which came up without me changing the spelling) without paying attention to the way it was spelt on the article. It was unintentional. I was not ignoring your advice or wikipedia guidelines but I can see where you are coming from. Thank you. Iamdmonah (talk) 17:44, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

As you may have noticed there are a lot of articles with instances were the policy needs to be implemented however one can't do it all so it helps if editors when adding in new ones know the policy to help prevent an ever-increasing burden. Mabuska ^(talk) 19:31, 26 June 2020 (UTC)