User talk:Tdslk

January 2020 GOCE drive bling

		The (old school) League of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 30,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 16:47, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 41 articles during the GOCE January 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 16:47, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 26,285 total words during the GOCE January 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 16:47, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting six old articles during the GOCE January 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 16:47, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020 GOCE blitz bling

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE February 2020 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 17:40, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

a kitten for you!

A Kitten For You! Thanks. Msangjunboon2018 (talk) 18:10, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Gnawa Music

Hi! I just wanted to apologize for undoing your edit on Gnawa Music. This sounds so fake, but I genuinely don't know how that happened - I think I accidentally clicked the undo button when I was trying to click the thank button, funnily enough. Thanks for changing it back, and thanks for your contribution to that article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noahfgodard (talk • contribs) 04:15, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

No problem! I've done things like that myself. Glad you appreciated the edits. Cheers, Tdslk (talk) 05:22, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 translation project

Just in case you're interested: Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Translation Task Force. Stay safe, ---Another Believer _(Talk) 21:22, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Another Believer. Very interesting! I don't trust myself to work on something like this in another language, but I would happily copy edit anything in English if the project needs it. I hope all is well with you, Tdslk (talk) 14:57, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020 GOCE drive bling

		The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 117 articles during the GOCE March 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 129,695 total words during the GOCE March 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting three long articles during the GOCE March 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 45 old articles during the GOCE March 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for helping to reduce the copy-editing backlog by 75% in one month – and for running the barnstar script! – Reidgreg (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

Thanks for the thanks! 😀 The4lines (talk) 02:35, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

April 2020 GOCE blitz bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2020 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 20:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Article needing copy edit but no tag

Hey Tdslk! Now that the drive is underway I'm thinking of clearing the backlog from the earliest entries again. What caught my eye was Gaza War (2008–2009), but I can't find the copyedit template anywhere on there. What should I do? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:10, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Tenryuu. While the vast majority of our articles have a copy edit tag, the rarely used tag "awkward" also adds articles to the backlog. In this case, the tag was added after the sentence: "Hamas refrained from rocket fire at Israel for 14 months in accordance with its early-2005 undertaking, until IDF naval shelling hit a Gaza beach, all but wiping out a local Gazan family on 10 June 2006." My guess is that the editor didn't like the phrasing "all but wiping out." If you could figure out a way to rephrase that so it has a more encyclopedic tone, you can give yourself the credit for 36 words and 1 article. You might look at the cited article to see exactly how many members of the family were killed, and insert that information in place of the awkward phrase. Regards, Tdslk (talk) 03:20, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the info! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:57, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Friendly Competition

Hi:

We both appear to be dealing with the editors on either side of a friendly competition. One, with whom you have been dealing, seems to have much better editing skills and perhaps "gets" the message that the editing comes first. The other's almost passive-aggressive responses to my suggestions etc...are pissing me off. I have made one more attempt to make the point; after that I have no idea what to do. He certainly should not be editing GOCE requests. We live in hope, I guess. Stay safe. Cheers Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:58, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Twofingered Typist, I agree with you, and I think you should take this to the coordinators page so we can have an official discussion. Regards, Tdslk (talk) 22:38, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

It really wasn’t a friendly competition. The other editor seemed to think it was, but it really wasn’t. I was just doing my thing. Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 (talk) (Origin of the username) 17:17, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Question about editing articles for GOCE drives

Hello, I was working on copy editing the Eutretauranosuchus article for the May 2020 Drive. I took a break for a couple of days and returned to see you had finished the copy edit. Would it be acceptable for me to also move the article from Working to Completed on my section of the Drive page? I am new to Wikipedia, so perhaps I am in a bit over my head participating in a drive at this point. Regardless, thank you for finishing the copy edit. I overestimated the work that needed to be done and thought the article was going to need to be largely rewritten. Airyairy (talk) 20:32, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Airyairy! Welcome to editing Wikipedia and to the Guild! My apologies for not noticing that you had been working on the article. Please go ahead and give yourself credit on the Drive page for having finished the article!

There are two different ways members of the Guild can signal that they are working on an article. The first is to add the tag {{GOCE in use}} to the top of the page. Note that this should only be left up while you are actively editing a page, and is optional. I only use it when I am editing a very large page or one that is being currently (within the past few hours) edited by others. More practical in this case would be to remove the copy edit tag as soon as you start on the page. Then it would not be listed in the articles needing copy editing category. If you do this, be sure that you do finish editing the article. If you can't please add the tag back so that others can finish the job.

In terms of the amount of work to be done, no article on Wikipedia is ever truly finished! If you can see ways to improve the article further, please make them! When we are working on articles from the backlog at the Guild, it's a gray area how much work should be done before we can remove the tag. We try as best we can to correct all spelling, formatting, and grammatical errors and reasonably improve the flow of the writing. In the case of Eutretauranosuchus, the article was a bit technical, and could still probably be improved to make it more accessible to readers, although there is only so much given the scientific subject matter. However, the writing, even before copy editing, was in better shape overall than average for articles with a copy edit tag. (For an example of a really rough article, check out, say, Thamarankottai.)

Thanks again for your participation, and let me know if you have any further questions! Regards, Tdslk (talk) 00:34, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Tdslk, for your response. I wasn't sure when to remove the copy edit tag or when to use the {{GOCE in use}} tag. I did want to improve the flow and accessibility of Eutretauranosuchus more, but due to the paywalled nature of many of the sources, I couldn't help but feel an editor with a background in paleontology or a related field would be required for much of that task.

I appreciate that you allowed me to take credit for the copy edit! I'll see what I can do about Thamarankottai if someone hasn't gotten to it first. Airyairy (talk) 22:02, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020 GOCE drive bling

		The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Star
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 13:50, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 1st Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 87 articles during the GOCE May 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 13:50, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 59,184 total words during the GOCE May 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 13:50, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 2nd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 48 old articles during the GOCE May 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 13:50, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

And thanks for awarding the barnstars! – Reidgreg (talk) 13:50, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Barnstar

Hey Tdslk, this just a question out of curiosity, in the May copy editing drive my I copy edited three articles with total 2555 words however I received the minor barnstar, after reading the barmstars page I found out that the minor barnstar is for copy edits between 1 to 1999 words, kindly explain. Antila ✉ 16:32, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Antila, the barnstar word count levels for blitzes (one week long) and drives (one month long) are different. The drive barnstars start with "Minor" at 1 to 4,000 words. Thank you for participating! – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:32, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

June 2020 GOCE blitz bling

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2020 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 17:41, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

July 2020 GOCE drive bling

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 60,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:13, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for giving out the rest of the barnstars! – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:13, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020 GOCE blitz bling

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE August 2020 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 14:59, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

September 2020 GOCE drive bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:38, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting six articles during the GOCE September 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:44, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

October 2020 GOCE blitz award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2020 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:57, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for your work on the article Sukuma people (although I do somewhat miss the table of medicinal animals, you're probably right that it's too detailed for here).Ingratis (talk) 18:45, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

GOCE November drive barnstars

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:29, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 11 articles during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:29, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting two old articles during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:29, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

আপনার জন্য একটি পদক!

	অনুলিপি সম্পাদকের পদক
	This is for your extraordinary contributions in Paschimbhag copperplate inscription. ধন্যবাদ (Thank you). Regards AdiBhai (talk) 04:35, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Btw, how and why the Wikilove tool generated Bengali headings even in English Wikipedia? AdiBhai (talk) 04:38, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but it's fun to get something in a non-Latin script! Cheers, Tdslk (talk) 04:48, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020 GOCE Blitz Barnstar

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE December 2020 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:06, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject GOCE is under-construction at bnwiki!

Hello, Tdlsk bhai! It's me, Meghmollar2017, whom you helped in Paschimbhag copperplate inscription. You will be very happy to learn that Bengali Wikipedia has reached the milestone of 100,000 articles on 25 December. Now, we are planning to make the encyclopedia more admissible to the learners through GOCE (inspired by the enwiki project). But it is still under development. And I wish special help from you (if you are not busy) in this regard.

Today, I need your urgent help about the progress chart. I noticed the enwiki GOCE progress chart showing the number of articles. How are they counted? I need the articles in bnwiki to be counted by tomorrow, the last day of the year. Hope you can help. Regards. Meghmollar2017 • Talk • 13:54, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Meghmollar2017! It is really cool that Bengali Wikipedia is making a group like the GOCE! The number of articles in the progress chart comes from the number of articles that are in Category:All articles needing copy edit. This consists of all articles that have a copy edit tag. Does the Bengali Wikipedia have an equivalent tag? Tdslk (talk) 15:51, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

We have both the template and the category. But both of them need to be modified. Thank you, bhai. :) Meghmollar2017 • Talk • 16:42, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

You're welcome! Let me know if you have any more questions. Cheers, Tdslk (talk) 20:52, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year and Happy New Decade! Thank you for the help. The system is working properly and the article number (198) is logged for the first time. May be, the articles are not tagged properly and thus the article count is very low. So we are planning to deliver the first newsletter by the first week of January informing users about the guild and its system. However, we are also planning to launch quality improvement branch as a part of the guild to destub the important (A rated) articles. Is there any association like this in enwiki? We also wish your valuable suggestion that we can follow as our system is under construction. Regards Meghmollar2017 • Talk • 02:37, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

• Wordcount: Hello! I had a question about Backlog Elimination Drives and Blitzes that is how the total wordcount is counted. Is it the whole "wordcount of an article (after copyediting)"? That would mean the bigger the article, the more your earnings! Meghmollar2017 • Talk • 14:09, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
  • You count the words before editing. And yes, the bigger the article, the higher the word count for the drive or blitz. More important than the word count, however, is doing a good job with the copy edit. We would rather see a great job on a short article than a poor job on a long article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:00, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I see! Thank you, @Jonesey95:. And congratulations to Tdslk bhai on the introduction into the GOCE Hall of Fame. You guys are awesome. :) Meghmollar2017 • Talk • 16:53, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Induction into the Guild of Copy Editors Hall of Fame

Congratulations on your induction into the Guild of Copy Editors Hall of Fame! Over the ten years of the guild's existence, just eight editors have been awarded this honor. You were nominated by Reidgreg, whose description of your contributions read as follows:

For long and distinguished service: ten years with the Guild and nine consecutive terms as Coordinator (since July 2016), quality copy-editing, gnomishly updating drive statistics, guiding new members, helping to keep this "favorite corner of the Wikipedia community" a drama-free zone, and so much more. I feel that it is more than warranted to recognize this dedication and nominate Tdslk to be inducted into the illustrious ranks of the GOCE Hall of Fame.

Thank you for your service over the years. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:16, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

There's the userbox {{User GOCE Hall of Fame}} for bragging rights. Cheers! – Reidgreg (talk) 17:37, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

GOCE January 2021 Drive bling

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:42, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors February 2021 Blitz Barnstar

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE February 2021 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:49, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

copy editing template

Can you take a look at the article Tove Meyer, if it is in good shape, then you can remove the copy edit tag. I have asked User:Utopes for help [1] but the user seem to be inactive. --Vannucci (talk) 09:34, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

July drive bling

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 17 articles during the GOCE July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:35, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 12 old articles during the GOCE July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:35, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:35, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

August 2021 GOCE blitz award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE August 2021 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:30, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

September drive bling

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 8,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:29, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

October 2021 GOCE blitz award

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2021 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:21, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

November drive bling

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:38, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 6 articles during the GOCE November 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:38, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 4 old articles during the GOCE November 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:38, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Translation issue

Perhaps you would know how to find where a question like this would be answered. I know it's about a month old but I'm behind reading the Help Desk archives and I like to see if there's a way to answer questions that didn't get a response.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:57, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Vchimpanzee: I'm afraid I don't know. The focus of the question is about attributions for tools and whatnot, and I don't know much about that. Cheers, Tdslk (talk) 02:43, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

January 2022 GOCE drive awards

		The (old school) League of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 30,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 12 articles during the GOCE January 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 2 long articles during the GOCE January 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 10,068 words – during the GOCE January 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

March drive bling

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copyediting 7 articles during the GOCE March 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:18, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:18, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

May drive bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 02:31, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

July drive bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:24, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

September drive bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:38, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Hope all is well with you and the family! Miniapolis 19:38, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

November drive bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 21:03, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

GOCE request for Sustainability

Hi Tdslk, I hope you're well. I hope you don't mind me asking but do you wish to continue copy-editing sustainability? Please let us know, either here or at the Requests page, thanks and cheers, Baffle☿gab 18:40, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the push, Baffle. Real life keeps piling up, but I'll set aside the time to finish it in the next 24 hours. Tdslk (talk) 06:48, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

No worries, real life must come before the 'pedia. I'll amend my note on the page in case anyone is wondering. Thanks and cheers, Baffle☿gab 20:34, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Real life just laughed at my optimism. Gimme another few days... Tdslk (talk) 02:53, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

July 2023 GOCE drive award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 22:22, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

September 2023 GOCE drive award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 10:06, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

November 2023 GOCE drive award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2023 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:20, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

International Women’s Day Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, Sunday, March 10

OJMCHE

The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE), in partnership with social practice artist Shoshana Gugenheim and as part of the Art+Feminism Project, will host an International Women's Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to edit and/or create Wikipedia articles for Jewish women artists. The event will be held at the museum on Sunday, March 10 from 11am-3pm PDT. Pre-registration is preferred but not required. Members of the public are invited to come to the museum to learn about the editing process, its history, its impact, and how to do it. We aim to collaboratively edit/enter Jewish women artists into the canon. An experienced regional Wikipedian will provided will be on site to teach, support, and guide the process. Participants can select artists ahead of time or on site. Please visit this link to RSVP and the Wikipedia meetup page for more information. Thanks!

Art+Feminism

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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Introduction Membership news, obituary and election results Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page Closing words – Your Guild coordinators: Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

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March 2024 GOCE drive award

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 07:45, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

July 2024 GOCE drive award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Tdslk for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 23:32, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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