User talk:Moralis/Archive 2

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optional question at your RFA

Hi Moralis. I've asked a question at your RFA that you may choose to answer. I'm being a bit of a trouble-maker by asking it, but please be assured that my intentions are good. (I will be !voting support regardless.) Bucketsofg 01:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for that message on top of your RfA. Errabee 09:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Teenagers Single

Can I ask why this was removed? It was properly sourced.... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TeamOverload (talk • contribs) 13:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC).

Re: Teenagers

I guess I see where you are coming from, it's just that many of us have known AbsolutePunk to be a reliable source. I will await official confirmation before re-adding it though. TeamOverload 19:56, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

The original mediator got WHAT?

<kerblink> --Kim Bruning 22:20, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Bluefield

I'm not sure if my block is lifted or not, but it is letting me add a comment on your talk page, so I'll take this opportunity to say my piece while I can. I will state unequivocally that I haven't left any anonymous comments on your page or on any other users page as far as I can recall. In terms of being blocked in the past, that may be a result of me using my laptop at a public library and at my school. I know I have never personally been blocked or banned before as Bluefield or in any other manner. I apologize again for posting the picture on the other editor's page, but my frustration got the best of me. I will say that I don't believe that act in any way detracts from my editing disagreements with the other editor, and that I still believe he had displayed "ownership" over the entires, but I will not be engaging in any more dialogue with him on the matter. Have a good weekend. --Bluefield 20:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Eugene Ionesco

I did not revive the mediation, as it was not dormant. I'm afraid that obviously you can't take over this mediation, since you've expressed views on it.--R613vlu 21:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I have since turned over the mediation to Editor Assistance. However, the mediation was in fact dormant- it had been over a month since there was any active discussion on the case page or on the talk page. Furthermore, the only view I expressed was the opinion that Wikipedia policy supports your position, which is an acceptable comment for a mediator to make according to WP:MedCab. While I don't understand your reasoning in reopening the discussion, I realize that it's now active again and I hope you find an acceptable mediator soon. --Moralis (talk) 21:07, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Please feel free to say on the mediation itself "Wikipedia policy supports your position". That would be helpful.--R613vlu 21:16, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

New userbox

I saw that your user page links to Universal Life Church. I just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know that I created a new userbox that you can add to your user page should you wish. {{User:Green Joe/ULC}} is the template to add. GreenJoe 19:41, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Your RfA

I have looked over the RfA and I understand the genesis of the format, but that does not make it any less objectionable. I cannot in good faith support such a procedurally deviant nomination. Admins are first and foremost executors of community consensus. Andre (talk) 21:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:MCR

Hello Moralis, you are a very active contributor to WP:MCR and I would value your opinion and possibly help with the project. I think it is time that we step it up and really get out there as a project and edit some articles. I have started a topic for a revamp for the project at here. Not many people are active within the project and I think we should try and change that and try and become more organized. Any help is appreciated!  Orfen ^{User Talk} | _Contribs 23:41, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Simply not angry

Hi there as you know I posted the following to your RfA and I post a copy of it here to reiterate that I am not simply not angry with you in the slightest. My !vote is always made with consideration towards all of the candidate's attributes - including but not limited to his or her edits. Please don't ever feel that you need to come out swinging with me (in terms of rebuttal of assumed anger on my part) because that is not the case nor will it ever be so. Indeed as my previous registered edits will show - if you gain adminship even though I Opposed, I will be one of the first to congratulate you - and wish you good luck.
(herewith my comment posted from your RfA) ... *Quick return - Not sure where you are picking up that I am angry with you. Nothing is further from the truth. I just wanted to ask you a facts question directly - to confirm for myself that you probably couldn't provide any facts. I appreciate that you are getting harrangued from several quarters but I can assure that I have absolutely no hositility towards you - but as you say you are probably being reactionary and that says a lot more about your candidacy than your lack of any proof regarding anon IP edits. --VS ^talk 01:41, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:Teenagers Single

I do understand how you are fed up and annoyed with removing the information. I myself am always reluctant to add new singles that are not sourced and I have frequently had to revert it. While a source that can be traced back to My Chemical Romance or the label would be better, WP:RS states: "Reliable sources are credible published materials with a reliable publication process; their authors are generally regarded as trustworthy, or are authoritative in relation to the subject at hand." Also at WP:V#SELF: "Self-published material may be acceptable when produced by a well-known, professional researcher (scholarly or non-scholarly) in a relevant field." Unless I am very much mistaken I would say the information now falls underneath these two policies as neither source is un-reliable, just not direct information from the band or label. Before no reliable sources could be found but now these sources are starting to pop up and that is why the information was sourced and now being added. If you disagree and truly believe that the sources are unreliable due to it not being from the band I am willing to revert the information with you but sources are now available and being added and that was the reason I have now become one of those that are adding the information. I apologize though if I have gotten you annoyed or something to that effect as I felt the time was right and sources were now available and while the sources may not be from the band or label they aren't necessarily un-reliable by the policies.  Orfen ^{User Talk} | _Contribs 21:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

While the radio website may not source where there information is from, I did some snooping around and on this page there seems to be notablity and a certain trustworthyness in the website. Also if you snoop around their articles they source a lot of different places such as Billboard.com and while no specific article on "Teenagers" can be found I think with them sourcing their information in other articles and with the page provided it makes them trustworthy. Regardless if we decide to keep the information or not the single is at least said to be released in the next couple of days so we'll know for sure when we get a release.  Orfen ^{User Talk} | _Contribs 21:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Watchlist your archives too?

Well, now I've seen a good reason to add archives to your watchlist. (mentioned here) I'm off to watchlist mine.   BTW: By means of that round-about circuit I ended up back at your RfA, though I ended up !opining 'neutral' - I have to admire someone who didn't flee the masses! (messes?) Shenme 20:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Antioxidant article mediation

Hi Moralis

You don't have a usable email where I would have preferred sending this note privately – it's ok if you want to extract it from your talk page and carry on via Wikipedia email with me.

I stepped back from the mediation because it was stalled by Tim's heavy-handed position. One can see from his history on the Antioxidant article and discussion not only that he is intelligent and very dedicated to this topic, but also obstinate, opinionated far beyond reason, close-minded and self-appointed dictator of the article. He is both arrogant and naïve, making reasoned discussion with him frustrating and unproductive.

You can see from his latest Compromise Version: 1) he abandons literature where positive effects of antioxidant supplements were found in large disease or aging studies (because he obviously has unreasonable bias against stating beneficial effects), 2) he uses confusing description and bad writing; and 3) he reverses mediated paragraphs back to the position he wants.

I could itemize several mis-statements and jabs he has made about me, but find it negative, futile and a diversion to argue these. Tim seems to have endless time and relentless tactics to drive across his wishes. It is an unpleasant experience to collaborate with him.

As mediator, you have a role to help establish balanced information for the layperson reader – the main goal, I believe. You should not have to read the meta-analysis (as Tim wishes for his snowjob tactics), but rather browse the revised text as what you, your parents or any curious encyclopedia user of average intelligence would want to take away from this article.

It may still be a difficult task to determine what is best for the article, in which case you might call in a second administrator for another opinion.

My final points are simple:

1) the “old” clinical trials (1990s to 2006 are not really old, but Tim wishes to dismiss them for this reason) I cited in disease-specific positive results from using supplements are like investments paid and still at work in our behalf as tax-payers by the NIH and FDA who regulate and approve such multi-million dollar research. In other words, when completed and published, those studies are our government's best statements about what science has learned from clinical trials. They cannot be ignored; 2) Without stating these results as I've tried to do in an easy-to-read fashion, the article conspicuously omits what nearly everyone in the public believes – antioxidant supplementation works – let's at least give some examples from the published research; 3) the JAMA meta-analysis is subject to far more criticism than most publications receive – it is worthwhile to state this because it was a news jolt that shocked the public.

Below is another revision of my last offering for this mediation. Kind Regards -- Paul

Revised section

These harmful effects may also be seen in non-smokers, as a recent meta-analysis including data from approximately 230,000 patients indicated that β-carotene, vitamin A or vitamin E supplementation was associated with increased mortality, but saw no significant effect from vitamin C.[132] Conclusions from this study, however, have been questioned due to the wide heterogeneity of patients already ill with varied diseases studied in different trial designs, treatment dosages and durations[1].

Also, the results of this meta-analysis are inconsistent with large studies such as the SU.VI.MAX trial showing no positive or negative effects of antioxidant supplementation on cause-all mortality[112][135] and with numerous clinical trials demonstrating that antioxidant supplementation improved conditions against a variety of diseases, aging and morbidity. The following are a few examples among many published reports:

• malnourishment in children[2]
• cancer[3][4]
• vascular disease[5]
• immune deficiency[6]
• stroke[7]
• age-related dementia[8]
• aging[9]

Other literature showing lowered disease risk resulting from antioxidant supplementation is summarized in [10]). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Paul144 (talk • contribs) 14:38, 17 April 2007 (UTC).

Incredible that the brazen Tim would ignore your message that you are away from the mediation for a few days and take matters into his own hands by re-inserting the text he wants back into the Antioxidant article[11], without final input from you or another administrator/mediator or me. His action today makes my point: this man can't keep his fingers off the keyboard, behaving like a vane egotist and reckless despot within a community of collaboration. He ought to be blocked for a month or longer. --Paul144 20:50, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Adminship nomination

On this occasion, your request for adminship nomination was not successful. I hope that you will continue your useful work on Wikipedia and perhaps consider standing again in future. Remember, many users who opposed your nomination are simply keen to see more of your contributions! Warofdreams talk 17:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to see that didn't go through. Most people seemed supportive and I'll expect that if you try again with more editing experience on this account you will have fewer problems. Perhaps you could find a Good Article you are interested in and try to bring it up to FA? On the mediation, I don't think this is going to go any further, judging from Paul's comments above. Thanks for your efforts in this one, but I'm not all that surprised it didn't come to a conclusion, as it was a particularly technical dispute between two editors with very different points of view! If you need any advice on biochemistry-related subjects or need any admin tasks done in the future, please don't hesitate to get in touch. TimVickers 18:19, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry bout your RfA :[ mcr616 _Speak! 21:52, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Commiserations Moralis - but I do hope you are enjoying your two day break. I look forward to seeing your continuing edits and your candidature for RfA in the near to medium future. Best wishes --VS ^talk 21:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• I hope you have a nice break, I wish you the best of luck with any further RfA's you make in the future. Camaron1 | Chris 18:49, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

My Chemical Newsletter

WikiProject My Chemical Romance Newsletter Issue 001 – May 2007
My Chemical News Congratulations to Mikey and Alicia Way who got married backstage at the Las Vegas show in March!! MCR has started the 3rd leg of their Black Parade tour. Their supporting act for this leg is Muse. The tour is currently scheduled to end in mid-May. MCR's 4th single off The Black Parade, Teenagers, was pushed back. It will now be released May 1st. Mikey will be taking time off the tour for a honeymoon. His replacement will be Matt Cortez. Cortez will play bass for the rest of the US and Canada shows. It was recently confirmed by guitarist Ray Toro that MCR will headline the Projekt Revolution tour, along with Linkin Park, HIM, Saosin, and other yet to be announced bands. Project News The POV problem has ended at The Black Parade. Teenagers was recently confirmed to be the 4th single off The Black Parade. Orfen proposed a major revamping of the project which was carried out by multiple members of the project. For further news and information please visit the project talk page. Member News Moralis was recently nominated for adminship. Cianjg joined the project.	Collaboration Of The Month The current article of the month is The Black Parade. Please help out as much as you can! From the Editors If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject My Chemical Romance. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy! Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! Contributors to this Issue mcr616 Speak!  Orfen User Talk | Contribs
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Clear Consensus?

Please, explain how six editors arguing for exclusion of Non-Christians and six editors arguing for inclusion represents a clear consensus for inclusion? Cleo123 07:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for having taken the time out from your other wikipedia activities and external life to try to mediate the discussion. I regret that you found the situation to be not significantly improved by your efforts, but I honestly cannot believe that your mediation can be in any way faulted for that. I had earlier given a barnstar to recognize the efforts of the previous mediator, which the party who started the headline immediately above this one chose to interpret as an attempt at bribery, so I cannot see myself doing so again, lest it be "interpreted" by that party again. But I believe I and several others are grateful for your efforts, and did want to thank you for your work. I wish you the best good fortune regarding your further activities here and in life in general. Also, if you believe I could ever in any way assist you in some matter relating to wikipedia, I would be honored to do so. Thanks again. John Carter 14:07, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks for dropping by and getting a taste of this madness. Glad you had the sense to get out with your sanity intact. Nick Graves 14:57, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

"As opposed to some of us," Carter said, conspicuously drooling on the keys while typing. :) John Carter 15:00, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Why ask questions if you don't want answers?

I find it interesting that you requested that this discussion "move forward." You specifically said:

"Further discussion, if you folks want to come to a conclusion rather than arguing forever, should focus on whether the list should include former Christians, or only current Christians. I think the question at hand can be best presented like this:"

"Is this a list of notable Christians who became Christian by conversion or a list of notable people who have become Christian by conversion?"

"Please refrain from arguing the same tired points for the rest of eternity. I can't mediate between parties who aren't willing to move forward. There is still a good argument for the exclusion of non-Christians as a whole, but really, can we leave the Dylan thing alone and focus on the big picture? --Moralis (talk) 20:36, 12 June 2007 (UTC)"

And you went on to say this:

"By this, I meant that those who seem to believe that the list should exclude people who are no longer Christian should feel free to pursue that argument in a way that does not involve WP:BLP, as their opinion is still equally valid and this discussion is far from complete. --Moralis (talk) 21:25, 12 June 2007 (UTC)"

What I find so interesting is that I tried to present my argument as to why those who are no longer Christian should not be on this list. How do you come to make a somewhat outrageous comment like:

"Cleo and Bus stop, you two are indeed very loud, but talking a lot does not mean that there are any more of you."?

Did you not want either of us to participate at all? Did you not really want to hear my reasons why the article should only contain those who are presently Christian? If not, then why did you ask that I explain that point of view?

Bus stop 18:07, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom

I have submitted a report on User:Bus stop on the ArbCom page here. As an individual who was involved in this debate, your participation would be appreciated. Thanks. Drumpler 17:30, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

And he changes the page the way he likes it -- when mediation hasn't even been resolved

AND NOW HE EDITS THE PAGE THE WAY HE LIKES IT BEFORE OFFICIAL ARBITRATION WAS RENDERED!!!!!!! I think this is PROOF ENOUGH of his attitude towards Wikipedia. He's right, everyone else is wrong, and he's going to do WHAT HE LIKES even before any decisions have been made. I think that alone proves my point. JAF1970 23:21, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Moralis. I realize JAF's comment above is several days out of date now, but I'm a little disappointed in the lack of response by any mediators past the first couple of comments in this issue. Since the argument between JAF and me continued and escalated within the mediation page as well as on article talk pages, I came to the conclusion that he was unwilling to mediate (he has flatly denied that he did anything wrong, except to be "a little gruff" with me). As such, I've filed a request for arbitration and have included more than 30 diff-links as evidence that he has been uncivil toward me and, quite possibly, broken multiple WP policies.

JAF's accusation that I broke mediation turns out to have been unfounded - another user outside of our dispute (User:Andrevan) came in and removed two sections of the article while I was offline (traveling), but JAF brought the accusation against me in several different places in the exact same way as above, and he has thus far refused to acknowledge his mistake at all, much less apologize for it or change his behavior.

Anyway, thank you for helping. I definitely welcome more involvement in the issue - I want to get it resolved so we can clean up the mess on several article talks and get back to normal editing. Given how things have gone recently, I have no confidence that things won't just blow up again the next time I make an edit he disagrees with. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 22:44, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

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Notifiying about a vote

Hello. The article Stereotypes of whites, which you helped writing, is being nominated for deletion. If you want, you could state your opinion here. Thank you. M.V.E.i. 21:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors roll call

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Cactions tool

Moralis, just to inform you, I've released a long-overdue upgrade to the cactions tool, which you should be able to see already (Ctrl-F5 if not). The tool should still work just as before, although you will need to update your JS to the new configuration system to keep the original tabs functionality; see User:Haza-w/Caction tool for the documentation. If you find any bugs or have any queries or feature requests, please get in touch. Thanks, and enjoy! haz (talk) 20:26, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

+Rollbacker

 Done per your request. Enjoy using huggle, and make sure you read WP:ROLLBACK before using it Fritzpoll (talk) 09:00, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Copyeditor!

I am in need of copyediting help quite soon on 2008 Belgian Grand Prix, an article currently on a GAR hold. If there is any way as an independent editor you could help out on said page, I would reward you handsomely... Apterygial (talk) 12:58, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Thanks for helping on the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix article, which helped make it a Good Article! Apterygial talkstalkinsane idea 06:50, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

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Economic history of China (Pre-1911) copyedit request

Article with lots of information. I(Creator)'m interested in promoting it to GA status. Can you help copyedit it? Thanks.Teeninvestor (talk) 21:49, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

NEW CATEGORY PAGE

Hello Washington-user!! What do you think of this category?
Either on a scale of 1-10 or with commentary.
Let me know through the "Special:EmailUser/" section. #TTiT# 11:20, 14 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by The-Traveller-in-Tacoma (talk • contribs)

Welcome back

Welcome back Moralis, I was wondering what happened to you, it has been almost a year. Camaron · Christopher · talk 21:43, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Re: Corselet

I think that your recent edit to Corselet improved the page significantly; I did not realize that there was that much room for improvement in the article. Personally, I think that the current revision is very acceptable (but of course I thought the same thing about the old revision). Mario777Zelda (talk) 02:14, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

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homosexual v. gay

Hi Moralis. Your user boxes rock. Just wanted to call to your attention the preferred use of "gay and lesbian" over "homosexual". This is in regard to your changes to the Madeline Davis entry. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:IDENTITY#IdentitySee and http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gays-anatomy/200810/the-terms-homosexual-and-the-n-word. Thanks--Aichikawa (talk) 19:16, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Grab some glory, and a barnstar

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Gatchaman

Hi

Cna I just point out that I had done that article a few hours before you [12] and the copyedit required tag had been removed ? [13]

How did you get to do the edit - was the list of March 2008 articles not updated ? It seems that you replaced the "copyedit required" part of the tag with a date of 2008 ?

Chaosdruid (talk) 21:16, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Lol - ok m8 - if you have had it there for four hours and it is one of the earliest (ie March 2008 etc) it is always best to refresh the history first to check no-one else has worked on it - I did a similar thing a few weeks ago - no harm done :¬)

Chaosdruid (talk) 21:30, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

disruption

i am not disrupting it YOU ARE

I have to warn that Richhno to stay away from my project, Vanity Kills.

Please do not bother me (or any other team member) with this crap again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.144.9.235 (talk) 09:36, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Template

Before I continue, does Template:Membership/Mexico look about right? --Moralis (talk) 03:42, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

It looks perfect. Now while I did remove some of the optional parameters (since I doubt Mexico will ever join the African Union =D) this however isn't really necessary as long as a membership or pre-membership date is not provided. So it is perfect. :) Keep up the good work and let me know if you run into problems. -- とある白い猫 ^chi? 08:47, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

"Long and undeveloped"

That description was actually meant to apply to that section of the street, not the whole street. But ... I of course defer to someone who's actually been there, vs. me, who has to go with Street View.

That view was perhaps what I based that on. I realize there are houses on the west side but ... the point is that the view from them is, significantly, blocked by trees. The idea is that that section of street would be a perfect section of street to park a car if you wanted to tell a story about your son not being there when you came back from your trip to get the gas your car allegedly ran out of with an extremely low likelihood of anyone seeing anything that would contradict, or tend to contradict, your account.

Do you have any ideas for better wording? Daniel Case (talk) 00:28, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

June 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days. Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed. March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words). April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words). May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words). Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk. >>> Participate in the June elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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English words and Latin transliterations - not the same thing

hey, Im alex who recently erased those 'words' from several articles about cities in my country.

could I please know the reason why you are reverting the changes?

purpose of my edits is simple. transliterations into Latin taken foriegn languages are not English words. example.

city Львів (Ukrainian lang), English name - Lviv (based on https://geonames.usgs.gov/) Russian name - Львов. transliteration into Latin (Latin, not into English) of this Russian word is Lvov. Chinese name - 利沃夫. transliteration into Latin (Latin, not into English) of this Chinese word is Lìwòfū.

by removing my edit, you claim that Liwofu is an English word. transliterations are not English words. it distores the spelling between a language pair, for example Ukrainian-English, it is just incorrect to put one more or two+ more languages in between.

Example. Washington. in Ukrainian it is Вашингтон. so if i transliterate that Ukrainian word into Latin(!) it will be Vashynhton. is Vashynhton an English word for the US capital? no. its not a word. same applies to those examples i erase. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.200.143.183 (talk) 21:12, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

PS: based on the US gov. body there 3 types of geonames in general

Kiev (Conventional - C) Kyiv (Approved - N) Kief (Variant - V)

for those articles where i was removing latin transliterations presented as english words, none of those latin transliterations is (Conventional - C) form.

My edit to Owen's Defence

Didn't think this would be controversial. In chess, the sides are White and Black, and so the squares are called light and dark to prevent confusion. The sentence referred to a "white bishop" when from context, "light-squared bishop" was clearly meant. I don't have the book in question, but even if it actually uses "white", the correct terminology should be used to make the sentence easy to understand for others who don't possess this book. 2.24.119.42 (talk) 20:06, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

@2.24.119.42: A fair perspective, I suppose. Sorry you got caught in my BS filter. To be honest, it only struck me as a test edit because it was one word from an unregistered user with no contribution history, and because the existing word 'white' made perfect sense to me at first glance. Thank you for being diplomatic about this. I've restored your edit. --Moralis (talk) 20:16, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Xavi

Hi, I had listed sources for the correct way to write his name, according to Catalan naming customs. User:Mattythewhite had initially reverted them, claiming they were unsourced -- which they indeed weren't. However, I couldn't respond on his talk page, because ip-users are barred from editing/adding replies there. I did add the sources in the comments to the edit, but they were lost apparently, which makes it difficult for third parties to grasp what the reason for the edit was. The new revert was followed with the comment that Xavier is Spanish. So is Carles Puigdemont, but they're bot Catalan and the latter's name is written correctly (thus my reference to his Wikipedia page), while Xavier's isn't. It helps checking the respective Catalan wikipedia pages, because others like Carles Puyol are also listed incorrectly on English wikipedia.

Here are the sources for my name edit:

• Sportschau, [FIFA WC 2014 squad profile]
• Goal.com, [Euro 2008 Legends: Xavier Hernández]
• Ran (Sportsendung), [Datencenter: Xavi]
• SB Nation, [Getting to know Xavi Hernández]
• RTL (French radio), [Xavi: l'étoile file sans éclat]
• beIN Sports, [Xavi has left the greatest possible legacy]
• FAZ, [Das demütige Genie]
• Zeit, [Xavi, das Genie mit dem Dackelblick]
  

Cheers.--141.88.239.237 (talk) 13:17, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

@141.88.239.237:

Those look like decent enough sources to me, but I can't find them anywhere in your edit history, and the existing sources all have his name without the article. If you'd like to change it, make sure to cite those sources. You'll probably find it easiest to use Template:Cite web.

On the other hand, the existing sources, which have his name without the article, include FIFA. I have no dog in this fight, but if it turns out to be contentious, take it to the article's talk page. At any rate, your edits were reverted because you were altering a biography of a living person without citing sources, and for no other reason. If you repeat the change with a valid source, and the change isn't controversial among others who work on the article, fair enough.

Incidentally, the style guide does not mandate inserting an article between family names, and plenty of people don't use one. We aren't going to add an article to a person's name which they don't use themselves. --Moralis (talk) 13:06, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

August GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors August 2018 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the August 2018 GOCE newsletter. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Guild's June election; your new and returning coordinators are listed below. The next election will occur in December 2018; all Wikipedia editors in good standing may take part. Our June blitz focused on Requests and articles tagged for copy edit in October 2017. Of the eleven people who signed up, eight editors recorded a total of 28 copy edits, including 3 articles of more than 10,000 words. Complete results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the seventeen people who signed up, thirteen editors completed 194 copy edits, successfully removing all articles tagged in the last three months of 2017. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are here. The August blitz will run for one week, from 19 to 25 August. Sign up now! 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, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the August blitz! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition. Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz (results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits. For the September drive (results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits. Our October blitz (results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits. For the November drive (results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles. The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now! Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 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! 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, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. >>> 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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March GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2018. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2019, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from all of the articles tagged in our original target months of June, July and August 2018, and by 24 January we ran out of articles. After adding September, we finished the month with 8 target articles remaining and 842 left in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 48 requests for copyedit in January. Of the 31 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 32 copyedits, including 15 requests. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 23:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 108 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 851 articles. March Drive: The month-long March drive is now underway; the target months are October and November 2018. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. 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, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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September 2019 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2019. June election: Reidgreg was chosen as lead coordinator, and is being assisted by Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk, and first-time coordinator Twofingered Typist. Jonesey95 took a respite after serving for six years. Thanks to everyone who participated! June Blitz: From 16 to 22 June, we copy edited articles on the themes of nature and the environment along with requests. 12 participating editors completed 35 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: The year's fourth backlog-elimination drive was a great success, clearing all articles tagged in January and February, and bringing the copy-editing backlog to a low of five months and a record low of 585 articles while also completing 48 requests. Of the 30 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, a participation level last matched in May 2015. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 18 to 24 August, we copy edited articles tagged in March 2019 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 03:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 413 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stood at 599 articles, close to our record month-end low of 585. Requests page: We are experimenting with automated archiving of copy edit requests; a discussion on REQ Talk (permalinked) initiated by Bobbychan193 has resulted in Zhuyifei1999 writing a bot script for the Guild. Testing is now underway and is expected to be completed by 3 October; for this reason, no manual archiving of requests should be done until the testing period is over. We will then assess the bot's performance and discuss whether to make this arrangement permanent. September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! 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, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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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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GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here. March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now! Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. 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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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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Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). 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, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now. Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive. October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz. November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests. Other news Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above). Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Seasonal tidings and cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: May 2021

WikiProject Scouting | May 2021 Notes for May: Please go and "watch" this page: Article alerts. You will quickly see if any issues arise. Here is a list of other pages to watch as well: Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Watch Congratulations to our Barnstar awardees! Interested in coordinating a zoom meeting? Please let us know. Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications

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GOCE June 2021 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, our first newsletter of 2021, which is a brief update of Guild activities since December 2020. To unsubscribe, follow the link at the bottom of this box. Current events Election time: Voting in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 16 June and will conclude at the end of the month. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Have your say and show support here. June Blitz: Our June copy-editing blitz is underway and will conclude on 26 June. Drive and blitz reports January Drive: 28 editors completed 324 copy edits totalling 714,902 words. At the end of the drive, the backlog had reached a record low of 52 articles. (full results) February Blitz: 15 editors completed 48 copy edits totalling 142,788 words. (full results) March Drive: 29 editors completed 215 copy edits totalling 407,736 words. (full results) April Blitz: 12 editors completed 23 copy edits totalling 56,574 words. (full results) May Drive: 29 editors completed 356 copy edits totalling 479,013 words. (full results) Other news Progress report: as of 26 June, GOCE participants had completed 343 Requests since 1 January. The backlog has fluctuated but remained in control, with a low of 52 tagged articles at the end of January and a high of 620 articles in mid-June. 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, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu and Twofingered Typist, and from member Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: July 2021

WikiProject Scouting | July 2021 Things to watch for: New: Newest articles Alert: Article alerts Continuing: To do Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications

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September 2021 Guild of Copy Editors newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). 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, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: October 2021

WikiProject Scouting | October 2021 It is with sadness that we note the passing of Jim Howes. Throughout his life, Jim worked to make the world a better place. WikiProject Scouting now has no administrators listed as willing to help the WikiProject. If you are an administrator and are willing to help, please let us know here. Things to watch for: New: Newest articles Alert: Article alerts Continuing: To do Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications

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December 2021 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now! Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. Other news It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community. Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above). 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, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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GOCE April 2022 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021. Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators. January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details) February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details) March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details) April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now! Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months. 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, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: May 2022

WikiProject Scouting | May 2022 Notes for May: Please go and "watch" this page: Article alerts. You will quickly see if any issues arise. Here is a list of other pages to watch as well: Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Watch Congratulations to our Barnstar awardees! We want to develop a featured portal, look here if you want to help. Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications

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June GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2022 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since April 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Blitz: of the 16 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, 12 completed at least one copy-edit, and between them removed 21 articles from the copy-editing backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 27 editors signed up for our May Backlog Elimination Drive; of these, 20 copy-edited at least one article. 144 articles were copy-edited, and 88 articles from our target months August and September 2021 were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: our June Copy Editing Blitz, starting at 00:01, 19 June and closing at 00:59, 25 June (UTC), will focus on articles tagged for copy edit in September and October 2021, and requests from March, April and May 2022. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 07:12, 14 June 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 209 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,404 articles. Election news: Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators continues until 23:50 on 15 June (UTC), after which, voting will commence until 23:59, 30 June (UTC). All Wikipedians in good standing (active and not blocked, banned, or under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. 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, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: July 2022

WikiProject Scouting | June 2022 Notes for June: Hey! Hey! We have updated Portal:Scouting/Recognized content, go give it a look! Congratulations to our Barnstar awardees! We still want to develop a featured portal, look here if you want to help. Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications | watch

--evrik ^(talk) 22:13, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: August 2022

WikiProject Scouting | August 2022 Notes for August: Happy Scout Scarf Day! You wearing your neckerchief today? We are working to develop a featured portal, look here if you want to help. These three articles are our top candidates to work up into Good Articles. Gilwell Park Girl Guides World Organization of the Scout Movement Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications | watch

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Guild of Copy Editors' October 2022 newsletter

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.

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter

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.

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2022 Newsletter error

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)

WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: January 2023

WikiProject Scouting | January 2023 Notes for January: We are working to develop a featured portal, look here if you want to help. These three articles are our top candidates to work up into Good Articles. Gilwell Park Girl Guides World Organization of the Scout Movement Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage | Help us plan future events Become a member | Opt-out of notifications | watch

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Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2022 Annual Report Our 2022 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Overview of Backlog-reduction progress Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page Membership news and results of elections Closing words – Your Guild coordinators: Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter

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.