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GOCE Year-end Report

Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report.

Highlights

Membership grows to 503 editors
2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives
Our encounter with Jimbo Wales
Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned
Report on our inaugural elections
Guild Plans for 2011
New barnstars introduced
Requests page improved
Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive!

Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011!
– Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors by SMasters (talk) 07:12, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Re:Iowa class battleship

		The WikiChevrons
		Thank you for the copy edit of the article, Wi2g. I can do a lot a things with articles on Wikipedia, but employing proper spelling and grammar is not one of them :) At any rate, for your assistance in helping the article Iowa-class battleship by copy editing it and thereby helping me move it one step closer to FA-class again I hereby award you the WikiChevrons. Thank you for you help. Sincerely, TomStar81 (Talk) 06:19, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Requests page archive

Hi, wi2g, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you so much for joining the Guild of Copy Editors. I have had a quick look at your work and I am impressed. I just wanted to let you know that items in the request page archive are sorted by the date that they are first requested, so you will find Iowa class battleship in the December 2010 archive. It was first requested on December 19. All you will have to do is add your name and the date the edit is completed, if the article already appears in the archive. I hope you enjoyed editing the article. See you soon, --Diannaa ^(Talk) 06:23, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

By the way, you get credit for two 5k articles if your article is 10,000 words. So I have corrected the information on the drive leader board. --Diannaa ^(Talk) 17:58, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive news

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats.

Participation

So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now.

Progress report

We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal.

Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa ^(Talk), The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}, and Tea with toast (Talk)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 21:12, 16 January 2011 (UTC).

January barnstar

		Copy Editor's Barnstar
		I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. This barnstar is awarded to Wi2g* for copy editing articles totalling over 40,000 words in the January GOCE Backlog elimination drive. Your contributions are greatly appreciated!*--Diannaa ^(Talk) 17:54, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

The 10k Copy Edit Barnstar

Awarded to Wi2g for the following amazing copy editing:

10,572 words Iowa class battleship

during the Guild of Copy Editors' January 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive. – SMasters (talk) 11:05, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.

Statistics

54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated.
One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%.
Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue.
Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here.

Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March.

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 16:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC).

Thank you

		The Modest Barnstar
		Thanks for your recent contributions! Mike Restivo (talk) 19:17, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Pseudo-Cushing's syndrome

You tagged Pseudo-Cushing's syndrome with a contradiction. I'm guessing you are concerned about the "Investigations" section which suggests that both Pseudo-Cushing's and Cushing's will have "loss of diurnal variation". Correct? Resolving the contradiction is difficult for me, a non-medical person, because the "Investigations" section itself is vague. So I'm guessing that it means "consider Pseudo-Cushing's if you see any of these signs or symptoms". Setting my ignorance aside, could you explain the contradiction more in Talk:Pseudo-Cushing's syndrome? It will help other editors figure out what to do. Thanks. --S. Rich (talk) 06:52, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Horse stuff

Hi Wi2g, wanted to give you a thanks and a pat on the back for your work on the horse articles and especially for the challenge of creating the new ones we need. I appreciate that you are adding good sources too. I have a couple tips: 1) Go easy on the "see alsos" I too used to like to add a lot of them, but wiki MOS technically says a see also section should be confined mostly to related links that are NOT mentioned anywhere in the article text. So I've really cut back on them. 2) When adding cateories, don't include both a parent and child category. (In other words, hardly ANYTHING will go into the big parent category:horse) Also, in categorizing horse articles, it will either be categorized as "breed" or a "type" but very seldom both. A "type" is something like filly, colt, gelding, feral horse (generic overview article) and things that just are not "breeds." I fixed the ones that I spotted to need fixing. 3) Just because in infobox has a spot, don't feel obligated to add stuff to it, we can fill them out later. Otherwise, good work. I'd also encourage you to use our GA and FA articles as examples -- we have listed at Portal:Horses -- you can click on the "archive/nominations" link to view the whole list. Or feel free to ask me or Dana boomer questions -- Dana has created a lot of the good and featured breed articles. More than I, actually. Ealdgyth is also really good, especially on sourcing format. For photos in commons, User:Pitke is your person, Pitke created a lot of the categories in Commons, and if something exists, that is the person who will know! Montanabw^(talk) 06:53, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

March 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive

Hi. On behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors, I am inviting you to sign up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive. Win a barnstar! It's fun. --Diannaa ^(Talk) 01:34, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

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