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GOCE 2018 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2018 Annual Report Our 2018 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; Annual leaderboard; Plans for 2019. – Your project 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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Review Request

Hi Thinker78,

Please excuse any potential canvassing, but I read your comments on the Mark Dice talk page, and I'm wondering if you might be willing to take a look at the second AfD of the article about me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Waugh, which I feel was the subject of a deliberate take-down by Wikipedia editing group "Art + Feminism" because my gender and race do not serve their quotas of representation on Wikipedia. The two most notable sources for the article in question had already been vetted in a previous AfD as having satisfied the notability requirement before the second AfD. Thank you, Jesse — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jessewaugh (talk • contribs) 16:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Jessewaugh I don't understand what's your request if it's been deleted for a year. I looked for sources and, at least in the news, I failed to find practically anything. I usually put the threshold for notability in at least three reliable sources that are independent of the subject, and cover the subject in detail. Thinker78 (talk) 22:49, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

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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MOS:BIO

There is no discussion going on re "notable" verses "notability" in this guideline. Please start one per WP:BRD. – S. Rich (talk) 04:42, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Srich32977, the WP:BRD explanatory supplement says that the person reverting may begin a discussion, it doesn't say "should". But it does state, "Discuss the contribution, and the reasons for the contribution, on the article's talk page with the person who reverted your contribution. Don't restore your changes or engage in back-and-forth reverting." In addition, WP:WPEDIT states, "Minor edits to existing pages, such as formatting changes, grammatical improvement and uncontentious clarification, may be made by any editor at any time. However, changes that would alter the substance of policy or guidelines should normally be announced on the appropriate talk page first. The change may be implemented if no objection is made to it or if discussion shows that there is consensus for the change." Thinker78 (talk) 03:29, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

YOU referred to a "pending discussion". But no discussion ensued, even after I extended an invitation to open one, so I reverted your Bold edit. In any event, a discussion is now open. I look forward to your comments. – S. Rich (talk) 04:01, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Srich32977 Yes, "pending discussion" because a discussion was due by the initiating editor because the edit was contentious. When you make an edit to a policy or guideline, if someone reverts you, that means your edit was and is contentious, and it needs to be discussed before being added again. Editors making edits in policies and guidelines should not revert a revert, but instead discuss it in the talk page. Thinker78 (talk) 04:11, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

The BRD supplement suggests discussing the concern on the article talk page, which is why I asked you to open the discussion. At that point you could have opened the discussion (in which case I would have responded). OR – the other choice – you could leave my edit as-is, without discussion (and all would be fine and dandy). When you did not accept my invitation I hoped you'd allow me to re-revert without discussion. Since Eppstein has reverted I've opened the discussion about this serious editing issue. (Please join in.) BTW: I don't know what you mean by "contentious edit". We improve WP via WP:CONSENSUS and these discussions are part of the process. – S. Rich (talk) 04:44, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2019. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 16 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. June Blitz: Our June blitz will soon be upon us; it will begin at 00:01 on 16 June (UTC) and will close at 23:59 on 22 June (UTC). The themes are "nature and the environment" and all requests. March Drive: Thanks to everyone for their work in March's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from 182 of the articles tagged in our original target months October and November 2018, and the month finished with 64 target articles remaining from November and 811 in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 22 requests for copyedit in March; the month ended with 34 requests pending. Of the 32 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the April Blitz; the blitz ran from 14 to 20 April (UTC) inclusive and the themes were Sports and Entertainment. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 04:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 267 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 605 articles. May Drive: During the May Backlog Elimination Drive, Guild copy-editors removed copyedit tags from 191 of the 192 articles tagged in our original target months of November and December 2018, and January 2019 was added on 22 May. We finished the month with 81 target articles remaining and a record low of 598 articles in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 24 requests for copyedit during the May drive, and the month ended with 35 requests pending. Of the 26 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available 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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accusations re: "common sense"

With regards to your edit summary that says, "Fourthords, have some common sense", the English Wikipedia policy on personal attacks instructs all editors to "Comment on content, not on the contributor." — Fourthords | =Λ= | 15:17, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

It is not a personal attack. I was instead simply asking you to have some common sense before removing content that is obviously relevant. Didn't intend to offend. Cheers! Thinker78 (talk) 15:34, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

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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Honeywell Lead section

Hello Thinker78, I've been working on factual updates to the Honeywell article, and I'd like to get another pair of eyes on it. I have a COI with Honeywell, so I'm refraining from editing directly, but I saw you have helped my former colleague FacultiesIntact, with Honeywell in the past. If you have time, could you check out my proposed updates for the lead? I'd really appreciate it.--Chefmikesf (talk) 22:58, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

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Reverting your reversions

Your reversion on the page Marc Dutroux was this morning reverted and lots more was also removed. This was done by the user Toddy1. I don't know why it was reverted because all the information had sources backing it up. I came across this article early this morning and decided to read it later but when I came to it, the majority of the article had been removed. I figured I shouldn't go and revert it back myself because I don't have a lot of edits. I'm also wondering why this guy would do that? It seems strange to remove so much of an article that has been there for a while, especially after so little discussion on the talk page. The article is a pretty controversial subject. TagPro129 (talk) 12:49, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

@TagPro129: Thanks for the tip. You can watch previous versions in the "view history" tab.--Thinker78 (talk) 03:12, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

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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Marc Dutroux

Hello, could you please reinstate the section "deaths of potential witnesses" in the Marc Dutroux article? Also all of the rest of the article before the revision of Toddy1 was all sourced. I put a lot of time into gathering sources in French, German, Dutch and English (reliable ones) in order to paint the whole picture of the trial. Please help me to reinstate my work. Marc Dutroux was officially in court convited not only with his wife but also with Michel Lièvre and at least one other accomplice was officially named in court documents (Bernard Weinstein) but was already dead at the trial so not convicted with Dutroux. It is horrid that Dutroux is constantly painted as a lone serial killer even though he was clearly involved in the crime scene of Belgium. The people in Belgium know that he was part of a network but outside of Belgium there is near to no knowledge on the case. This must be changed. Especially considering that Dutroux will be eligible for parole soon. Thanks, --Sparrow (麻雀) 🐧 09:41, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

I did manually revert it and saved the code so that it won't take as much time the next time around. Nevermind so. And thanks for editing to keep the list of dead witnesses in the article...--Sparrow (麻雀) 🐧 10:14, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

@Sparrow (麻雀): I was planning in doing some work and restoring some info with more sources. Be sure to read the talk page regarding your edits and the policy they are bringing forth (WP:EXTRAORDINARY). You might say that it is not extraordinary, but if another editor believes it is, then the onus is on you to follow said policy, specially if there is consensus about it. I know it is not a good feeling when you put a lot of work in something and another editor undoes your work. Be strong!--Thinker78 (talk) 03:22, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

I have sourced everything with reliable newspaper articles. Everything written in the article is publicly accessible. I do agree that the subheadings are too long. And probably the style in general could be improved. But the content itself is solid. And everything is sourced well. I don't know why you put that heading in the article. Why does it need to state that the content is disputed? The Dutroux case is an obvious example of a criminal enterprise subverting the European political sphere. It should be in everyone's interested to make that known and avoid such things from happening in the future.--Sparrow (麻雀) 🐧 05:41, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Ummmm, evidently the article is in a dispute. Other editors are disputing with you the factual accuracy of the content. You say one thing, the other editors say another thing, and this is called a dispute. I share your feelings regarding the Dutroux case very much, but Wikipedia is WP:NOTFORUM.--Thinker78 (talk) 03:03, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Tank Girl

Hi Thinker78. You may recall you got in touch with me on my talk page last May asking if I was still offering barnstars to translate any good or featured articles I had written into another language. Specifically you said you were thinking of translating Tank Girl (film) into Spanish. While the offer over at the Reward Board has recently expired, I just thought I'd contact you once to let you know I would still honour the original offer if you translated it (or any other article I have written) at any point in the future. One barnstar for translation, another for successful nomination to FA. Or if you prefer I could review any two peer reviews or good or featured article nominations of your choice. Have a nice day. Damien Linnane (talk) 12:15, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

North Potomac

Thank you for reviewing North Potomac, Maryland. I will eventually submit it for GA review. If you think anything obvious that it needs, please do not hesitate to let me know. I will use North Potomac as a "template" to upgrade another CDP—Travilah, Maryland. TwoScars (talk) 17:27, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report Our 2019 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Overview of Backlog-reduction progress (a record low backlog!); Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page; Automated archiving of requests; Membership news and results of elections; Annual leaderboard; Plans for 2020. – Your Guild coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:10, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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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Rape in Islamic Law

I just noticed that you have previously taken interest in the article Rape in Islamic law. Would you consider joining the discussion between me and Vice regent? We could do with third opinions. I would not have bothered you if the discussion had made some sort of headway or if it was being solved at DRN. I opened a discussion at the dispute resolution noticeboard but it does not seem to be receiving attention from the moderators. Here is the link to the discussion at the dispute resolution noticeboard.[1] Perhaps you could contribute on Talk:Rape in Islamic law. Mcphurphy (talk) 12:02, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Sorry @Mcphurphy:, I have been very busy and can't do it for some time. I see there is a very long conversation, maybe in December I may be able to do it. Thinker78 (talk) 00:04, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter

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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Rape in Islamic Law

Thank you for reaching out! I am honored at the opportunity and will take part soon! I hope we can all manage to come to an agreement. Zurkhardo (talk) 07:20, 9 December 2020 (UTC) Zurkhardo (talk) 07:29, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

About your request regarding Rape in Islamic Law

Greetings, you recently requeted my aid in judging a dispute about the mentioned article, right? I read myself into various debates, but they all seem to be several months old. Which dispute exactly should have an overview about?--VenusFeuerFalle (talk) 19:19, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi, @VenusFeuerFalle:. I think it would be good starting with the Marital rape in lead section request. And it would be great if you could add something regarding rape of unbelievers in Islamic law, historically and currently. Thanks!--Thinker78 (talk) 19:41, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

I do not have a lot of material regarding this subject ready. I would need to do much research a about this matter. My first impressions are, that the term "Rape" has no direct equivalent in Sharia terminology and maybe the article should be changed into something like "illicit Sex in Islamic law"? But I do not want to "open a fuss" about this. My interests are usually the belief in spirits, demons and conceptions of God in Middle East, but my Study subject requires much about Middle Eastern history, society and religions. Nevertheless, there is not much about specific legal actions such as rape. When I find something accidently, I want to add my acquired knowledge (as long as I keep editing) here. But I do not have the current knowledge nor the time to make contributions in this matter. Still, thanks for asking me.--VenusFeuerFalle (talk) 00:36, 20 December 2020 (UTC)