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Just an idea
Since the GOCE is quite capable of keeping the copy edit tags under the age of a year, I was wondering if it would be possible to give certain drives or blitzes a "theme" of sorts. Better put, I'd like to see the efforts of a drive be redirected to slighly abandoned projects, to see if we can reduce their burden and maybe motivate a couple of people to start working on them in the long run? Some examples would be the (nearly) inactive projects, like those of smaller countries (I've been working on Belgium for a while now and it's a great example: some activity, but slow progress). Just my two cents, as I think it would give some of these projects a needed jumpstart :) Keep up the good work and see you in the next drive! Mathijsvs (talk) 20:40, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, we've been doing themes for the blitzes, and I welcome more ideas for them. The original plan was to focus on individual WikiProjects and clear out their tags. But we've been trying different stuff each time. The plan for the April blitz at this point is to have a go at the newest tags, rather than the oldest. See here for the discussion, but also check the blitz archives to see the other themes we've tried so far. —Torchiest talkedits 22:40, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
A GOCE barnstar for you!
The Modest Barnstar | ||
I award this barnstar to Torchiest for copy editing nine articles for a total of 4665 words in the GOCE March copy edit drive. Thanks for participating! --BDD (talk) 17:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC) |
GOCE barnstars
I gave barnstars to those editors I was assigned leaderboard awards to, as well as to Memento mori. I also worked on the {{GOCE Silver Star Award}} so it's somewhat more useful :-). All the best, Miniapolis 23:15, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
- Sorry I missed your note on the coordinators' talk page about distributing the barnstars. Hope I didn't mess you up too much! All the best, Miniapolis 01:12, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Haha, no worries. I thought it would be easier to divide it that way; since the word count awards are easier to crank out, I thought I'd take a double load and do just those. We can do it the same way next time, now that we're on the same page. Cheers. :) —Torchiest talkedits 01:16, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
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GOCE April 2013 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors March 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
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Question
Hi Torchiest,
For the April Blitz, only articles that are copy edited between April 15–21 count, right?
Thanks,
Gold Standard 21:57, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, that's right. The blitzes are shorter, more experimental drives where we are trying different themes. —Torchiest talkedits 01:10, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2013
The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 6, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2013
Previous issue | Index | Next issue
Project At a Glance
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Ghostzilla
- Ghostzilla (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I have reverted your changes at that article since this product is abandoned and discontinued. Or do I miss any current news? mabdul 18:22, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, my thought process on this was that even though it is no longer maintained or updated, it still exists. Just like a book written decades ago is still described with the present tense, even if the author is dead and it's out of print. —Torchiest talkedits 14:20, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
Copy edit request
If you can't do this I understand but I'm wondering if you could copy edit Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes. I've been reading up on its FAC and there have been some prose problems raised so I just wanna get them addressed. GamerPro64 16:56, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
- Sure, I'll try to go over it later today. —Tourchiest talkedits 17:32, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
- Well, I started working on it, but honestly, the plot section is utterly confusing. I've never played any of the Chrono Trigger games, and I can't figure out what is happening. The first paragraph of the plot section introduces a ton of names and locations, but doesn't really explain what most of them are. The characters section has a similar problem. If the article is going to pass FAC, it needs to be a lot clearer for someone who doesn't know the game. The gameplay section also needs to be expanded some, I think. —Torchiest talkedits 02:08, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- I finished. The rest of the article is in good shape, but those sections need to be rewritten for clarity by someone familiar with the plot of the game. Sorry I can't help more with that part. —Torchiest talkedits 02:14, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- That can be a problem since the game was never really released. So its hard getting clarity for it. GamerPro64 04:24, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, I got the impression that a more or less complete version of it leaked. —Torchiest talkedits 04:47, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes but I've never really played it myself. And even though its been said there's a version you can play from start to end I don't know where to find it. GamerPro64 05:25, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, I got the impression that a more or less complete version of it leaked. —Torchiest talkedits 04:47, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- That can be a problem since the game was never really released. So its hard getting clarity for it. GamerPro64 04:24, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
GOCE
Thank you very much for taking the time to review some of my GOCE contributions. If it's not too much trouble, could you give me some brief feedback on what improvements from my part need most attention? I appreciate it! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 18:16, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- Sure. Most of the errors I've seen regard confusion about the use of italics. You should not italicize company names, but you should italicize works such as books, movies, and TV shows. For individual TV episodes, or articles or essays in larger works, use quotation marks. The biggest problem I've seen so far was in Swami Abhayananda, where you left a huge quotation that covered a lot of tangential ground. I cut almost all of it. In Injimedu, you left in some fairly significant grammatical problems. See what I fixed here. The first sentence was pretty confusing. Also avoid leaving phrases like "630 years ago", since that depends on when it was written. I changed it to the approximate year. I also tend to clean up references and remove silly stuff if it is unreferenced, such as things being the highest statues on hills and such. You tagged them, which is fine. —Torchiest talkedits 22:29, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. Your comments are invaluable. Yes, that contained some bizarre writing, I have to say. I won't be participating in any future drives, just editing the occasional article I stumble upon that needs urgent care. Cheers! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 23:14, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
F&L checks
Hi. I took pity on you and chipped in with a few checks, but ... Yes, many editors would have done better copy edits, but in all the articles I looked at, I felt that he left them better than he found them -- often considerably better. He was particularly good at removing puffery and promotion. I don't feel we really need to slog through all 135, do we? Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 14:05, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, you're probably right. We've checked just over a third and have found four that were problematic, and even those were relatively easily fixed. I'm willing to be done with the whole thing. —Torchiest talkedits 15:00, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
- Sorry to interfere, but perhaps a word with Ryan Vesey is in order? Tell me if I'm out of place. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:03, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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Thank you for your help! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC) |
Thanks so much for that! I hope you'll reconsider quitting the drives. You were a big contributor last time around, and definitely a net positive. Cheers. —Torchiest talkedits 02:27, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
- Maybe one day! :) FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 10:38, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
HighBeam for D&D articles (part 6d)
And here we are, however many months later, finally wrapping up all the D&D video games. I think this topic area, by far, had the most hits from HighBeam when it comes to D&D. Bio articles also got a lot of hits, but I don't think there are anywhere near as many as what we had for VGs. I spent quite a bit of time going through the remaining categories to see what I could find hits on, so it is up to you how much more work you are going to be willing to do as far as continuing on.
After the punishment I gave you with all the hits for the first NWN, this one should hopefully be a relative breeze. :) On previous articles that were already GA's, you didn't find much usable info, so there might not be much to do here either. Still, if you check, you never know what you will find.
Neverwinter Nights 2 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer [17] [18] [19]
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir [20] [21] [22]
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate [23]
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DYK for Sexplosion!
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