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May drive bling
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 1 long article during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:55, 4 June 2021 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 5th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 5 old articles during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:55, 4 June 2021 (UTC) |
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:55, 4 June 2021 (UTC) |
@Miniapolis: Thanks for awarding the barnstars! I'm still not in a place where I feel like I can be counted upon to keep apprised of talk pages and to help put out fires when they spark up, so I'm not going to nominate myself for coordinator this time.
Meaningless milestone: This drive puts me at just over 2 million words (without bonuses) copy edited on drives and blitzes. – Reidgreg (talk) 11:57, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
- I understand about the coordinator thang. Running the guild has become increasingly complicated, and I'd love to get rid of the blitzes; the people who like them don't put them on. Congrats on the word count, and I'm impressed with the bookkeeping . All the best, Miniapolis 13:34, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
Canadian Idiot
Good morning:
Just a quick note to let you know I finished a copy edit on "Canadian Idiot". I wanted to make sure it was ready for July 1st.
One suggestion: why not add Weird Al's portrait to the article? It would fit on the left side of the Composition section without disrupting the layout.
Hope all is well with you.
Twofingered Typist (talk) 15:48, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Twofingered Typist: Thanks! I was hoping to use a picture of him performing the song if I could get a RSS to justify a fair use rationale, but haven't managed it yet, and hadn't considered an alternative. Will check for free pictures. – Reidgreg (talk) 16:19, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Reidgreg: The pic you found rounds the article off nicely! Cheers. TfT
A barnstar
The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
Thank you for your help during Parliament Hill's GAN and checking and rechecking the article for things I missed. Aknell4 (talk · contribs) 13:06, 10 June 2021 (UTC) |
@Aknell4: Hooray! Thanks, and you're welcome! It's nice to see more of these vital articles go up to GA. Congrats on your first GA! – Reidgreg (talk) 13:22, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
Parliament Hill has been nominated for Did You Know
Question about Parliament Hill DYK
Hi Reidgreg,
Thanks for your help on Parliament Hill's GAN and DYK.
The DYK passed and is on WP:DYKNA. Given that this should be posted around Canada Day, should I make a new section under Special occasion holding area for July 2nd to put it in, or should I put it under either 1st or 3rd July. I don't really want to put it on 3 July, as Yoninah hooks will be placed there, but I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on this.
Many thanks, Aknell4 (talk · contribs) 16:17, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Aknell4: I'd say to put it on 1 July and let the promoters (the editors who assemble hooks into sets) distribute them for balance. The last I heard was that it was probably okay to run with 1 or 2 Canada-related hooks per set, which would distribute the 6 hooks over 2 days (give or take). I looked at the queue and there was one set with two New York City hooks, so that seems to be acceptable. Wherever you decide to place it, there will likely be a discussion when the 1 July hooks start moving into the prep area (WP:DYKQ), which will happen around 26 June. – Reidgreg (talk) 19:00, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Help need with a quotation as a DYK hook
You seem to be a well educated person when it comes to a quotation as a DYK hook. I am struggling at Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Dunn (sports executive) and need outside help. Thanks in advance if you can help. Flibirigit (talk) 14:31, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
June blitz bling
The Minor Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2021 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 02:44, 29 June 2021 (UTC) |
DYK for Canadian Idiot
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
DYK for Parliament Hill
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Canadian Comedy Award drafts
@Fishhead2100: I was thinking I ought to finally publish the rest of those drafts on the Canadian Comedy Awards, year by year (linked here). After reviewing the DYK rules, I'm convinced that they won't collectively qualify (after discounting the overlap in the prose, they aren't all long enough, and some are high on primary sources). If you'd like to do a DYK for some of the better ones and can see the nomination(s) through, I've got plenty of DYK credits that you can use. – Reidgreg (talk) 20:13, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
- I looked at a couple of the other drafts and they are fine. What about the most awards and most nominations tables? Is that something needs to be kept? Award articles may not be heavily sourced, but as long as there a sufficient amount of sources, there should be no problems. The category system is something I like. The template is good to have. I've never done a DYK before. I've never bothered looking at how to do one. The way you have the sources is not incorrect. I personally put them through out the article. Finally, we can slowly start moving the articles into mainspace if they are ready. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 03:05, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Fishhead2100: Thanks for replying, I'm glad you're still interested in this. I'm not against the most win tables but I felt they were problematic to source and maintain (they're pretty good about crediting everyone who wins for Best TV Writer but they don't do that for Best Improv Troupe and it can be difficult to verify who was in a troupe for a particular year or for a particular production). There was a most awards section which I pulled from the main article and preserved at Talk:Canadian_Comedy_Awards#Lists_of_most_wins. For the drafts, I tried to mention in the lead the nomination leaders for live/tv/film and most wins for each year. I guess that was my compromise, to show the significant leaders for that year while trying not to have so much detail that someone deletes it as trivia. I'll check over the drafts some more and remove the notices I placed at the top. – Reidgreg (talk) 15:24, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, if the layout of the nominee/winner tables is good, we should cut down the overlinking. – Reidgreg (talk) 15:35, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
- I can't remember which award article I originally saw it in, but there are other award articles that do this sort of thing with total wins and nominations. I randomly checked 34th Primetime Emmy Awards. They have a total nominations and wins based on whatever. It wasn't sourced. In fact, there is only one source in the article. It will be fine unsourced here. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 04:22, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- I feel it's alright to use the awards table itself for that, if it's straightforward (simply counting them). If I go the DYK route, they're a little more concerned about sourcing for (1) verifiability and (2) to establish notability. I think maybe five of these aren't sourced well enough for notability as a stand-alone article, so maybe better to not do DYK and avoid that scrutiny, at least for those five. – Reidgreg (talk) 12:18, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Fishhead2100: I created a ceremonies table/list at Draft:List of Canadian Comedy Awards ceremonies. Unless you have any objections, I'm going to start moving them to mainspace. – Reidgreg (talk) 11:59, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- In the template of all the award stuff, I fixed the ceremony years. It was incorrect. Discontinued categories are missing from the template. I seen one that was awarded once. It would be redundant to have an article for it. I added missing venues where I could. A few are missing. Put — in place of yes, no, and N/A in the ceremonies table. Better that way. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 20:23, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Fishhead2100: Are those London venues verifiable? (You didn't add sources/citations.) For the Template {{Canadian Comedy Awards}}, the footnote at the bottom explains that the year is the year of eligibility for works, not the actual year of the ceremony. That is a bit confusing. I based it on {{Academy Awards}}, as with much of this. If you like showing the year of the ceremony, I'm cool with that, and it probably makes more sense; we just have to change the footnote to match. The mdash on the table, while I agree it looks better, is a bit ambiguous. For the festivals, we know that there definitely were or definitely weren't festivals for some of those years (but may not have the dates). I think we also know that it definitely wasn't televised some years (though some may have been streamed). For the festivals, how about retaining the hyphens but adding a footnote for those two years in London that the festival was held but the dates are unclear? I think it works for the blank Artist of the Year cells, before that award was given. – Reidgreg (talk) 21:15, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- The articles can explain the time frame. The year of the ceremony held is how it goes. The problem with these awards is that it's harder to find sources. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 00:38, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, I've held onto these for a couple years hoping to find more sources but haven't had much luck. With the future of the awards uncertain, it seems like it's time to publish with what we've got. I worked on the footnotes for the list and added some citation needed templates. – Reidgreg (talk) 09:16, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Fishhead2100: All published. I think I'm going to forego the DYKs. I don't think I'll be able to see the nomination through or respond to the extra scrutiny it would bring. – Reidgreg (talk) 12:13, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
- It didn't get much coverage which is unfortunate. It should have. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 08:06, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
- The articles can explain the time frame. The year of the ceremony held is how it goes. The problem with these awards is that it's harder to find sources. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 00:38, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Fishhead2100: Are those London venues verifiable? (You didn't add sources/citations.) For the Template {{Canadian Comedy Awards}}, the footnote at the bottom explains that the year is the year of eligibility for works, not the actual year of the ceremony. That is a bit confusing. I based it on {{Academy Awards}}, as with much of this. If you like showing the year of the ceremony, I'm cool with that, and it probably makes more sense; we just have to change the footnote to match. The mdash on the table, while I agree it looks better, is a bit ambiguous. For the festivals, we know that there definitely were or definitely weren't festivals for some of those years (but may not have the dates). I think we also know that it definitely wasn't televised some years (though some may have been streamed). For the festivals, how about retaining the hyphens but adding a footnote for those two years in London that the festival was held but the dates are unclear? I think it works for the blank Artist of the Year cells, before that award was given. – Reidgreg (talk) 21:15, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- In the template of all the award stuff, I fixed the ceremony years. It was incorrect. Discontinued categories are missing from the template. I seen one that was awarded once. It would be redundant to have an article for it. I added missing venues where I could. A few are missing. Put — in place of yes, no, and N/A in the ceremonies table. Better that way. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 20:23, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Fishhead2100: I created a ceremonies table/list at Draft:List of Canadian Comedy Awards ceremonies. Unless you have any objections, I'm going to start moving them to mainspace. – Reidgreg (talk) 11:59, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
- I feel it's alright to use the awards table itself for that, if it's straightforward (simply counting them). If I go the DYK route, they're a little more concerned about sourcing for (1) verifiability and (2) to establish notability. I think maybe five of these aren't sourced well enough for notability as a stand-alone article, so maybe better to not do DYK and avoid that scrutiny, at least for those five. – Reidgreg (talk) 12:18, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
- I can't remember which award article I originally saw it in, but there are other award articles that do this sort of thing with total wins and nominations. I randomly checked 34th Primetime Emmy Awards. They have a total nominations and wins based on whatever. It wasn't sourced. In fact, there is only one source in the article. It will be fine unsourced here. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 04:22, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
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- This was for an error in a mass mailing; there proved to be an unpaired html tag which affected the formatting of subsequent talk page messages. – Reidgreg (talk) 10:08, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
DYK for Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
—valereee (talk) 12:02, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
DYK for A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer
—valereee (talk) 12:03, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
July drive bling
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 8,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:49, 6 August 2021 (UTC) |
Reward
Short Description Barnstar | ||
Thanks for taking on the reward board task and helping good articles live up to their moniker by adding short descriptions for them! {{u|Sdkb}} talk 03:25, 2 September 2021 (UTC) |
No talkback templates please
In case you missed it, this,
is at the top of my talk page. Please respect the request. SpinningSpark 18:56, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
- @Spinningspark: My apologies about that, I entirely failed to notice it. Feel free to WP:TROUT me (for this and matters mentioned on the article talk page). I AGF that you have best interests with that GA. I just didn't want it to get to an edit war with the reverting (especially when there were other editors involved), you hadn't responded to my ping opening discussion, and talkback is standard practice for a failure to discuss situation. Feel free to remove the ugly talkback notice if you haven't already done so, and thanks for replying on the article talk page. Will continue there. – Reidgreg (talk) 23:32, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The BLP Barnstar | ||
For your work in Vinoj P. Selvam, finding sources and copyediting for accuracy and neutrality – SVcode(Talk) 18:22, 5 September 2021 (UTC) |
Hero – Gayab Mode On
Hello Reidgreg I hope you're doing well. I came across your edit on Hero. A humble thanks that you cropped the plot so well, following the relevant policy. Thanks, stay safe.--C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 07:20, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
- @C1K98V: You're welcome, and thanks for catching my wikicode error in the article! I do a lot of plot summarizing with the Guild of Copy Editors and some have called it my specialty. I've been doing plot summaries as a hobby for more than 30 years, at one page, one paragraph or one sentence, so I guess that adds up to something like a skill. This one was a doozy, taking 12,000 words down to under 500, for a show I've never seen, and I'm reasonably happy with the result and feel that the article is better off for it. Hopefully nobody will complain that I "gutted" their work. Cheers! – Reidgreg (talk) 12:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Citation Barnstar | |
For finding some sources to help me out with the Development section in Slime Rancher. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#0001 18:01, 23 September 2021 (UTC) |
- Thanks for the barnstar Blaze, that's a new one for my collection! – Reidgreg (talk) 22:49, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
Ziddi Dil Maane Na
Hello Reidgreg, I hope you're doing well. The meaning of the series states "The Stubborn Heart Doesn't Agree", It's a new series, and I added the title poster in it. But here also the plot seems to be excessive as it's just a beginning of the series. Can you consider working on it. Thanks, stay safe.--C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 03:08, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
- @C1K98V: I did copyedit and cleanup, and reduced the plot 1400 → 300 words, which seems about right. Though it may have to be periodically trimmed if it continues to accumulate while more episodes are broadcast. If you want, you can just tag these sort of articles with {{copy edit}} or {{long plot}} to flag them for attention. The copy edit backlog is about five months, which isn't bad if it's not urgent. – Reidgreg (talk) 05:04, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
- I'm fascinated by your work. Amazing, how come. How do you do these? Please teach me. Thanks. --C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 05:39, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
- @C1K98V: Well, I've had a lot of practice. In my younger days I was a Trekkie (I'm published in a series of massive multi-author works of Star Trek commentary), and I could discuss just about any of the most trivial aspects of the franchise with folks on the Internet. That meant having to summarize the episodes at different levels of detail, with the focus on different subjects -- summarizing a season for just one character, or for a particular alien species, or for instances of the use of the term "quadrant". Pretty crazy, right? But back then just about everyone on the internet was a Trekkie and it was easy to get drawn into really trivial discussions.
- A few tips if you want to cut plots down: Check the character/cast list and focus on the main characters. If a character is only mentioned by name once, they probably aren't important enough to be mentioned at all. Similarly with storylines; if a plot thread doesn't affect the overall plot arc of the season, it can probably be cut. With this one as an example, I pretty much focused on the main characters and cut out any externalities and details that didn't really affect things. Like at the beginning, it isn't necessary to know that Karan was chasing a pickpocket when Monami assumed he was a bully/thug/gangster. All the details about Sid and Mrs Batra weren't really important, just mention that she sees him as a surrogate for her son and later gets him the job at the canteen. It helps to have a thesaurus handy to find the right word that can replace several others. Copy editing techniques can also be used to keep the word count down.
- I think I did that summary in a single pass... but then the show hasn't been on that long so there really wasn't an enormous amount of plot, just a lot of words. And that isn't necessarily a bad working stage for an article; I find it's usually best to first go broad and get all the details, then trim it down afterwards. If you want to do this sort of editing, there are currently over six thousand articles in Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention, so plenty to do! – Reidgreg (talk) 14:14, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
- I'm fascinated by your work. Amazing, how come. How do you do these? Please teach me. Thanks. --C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 05:39, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
DYK for Canadian Police and Peace Officers' Memorial
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
September drive bling
The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:54, 4 October 2021 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 5th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 9 articles during the GOCE September 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:54, 4 October 2021 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 31,426 total words during the GOCE September 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:54, 4 October 2021 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 3 long articles during the GOCE September 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:54, 4 October 2021 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 9 old articles during the GOCE September 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:54, 4 October 2021 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 4th Place | ||
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 11,724 words – during the GOCE September 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:54, 4 October 2021 (UTC) |
Thanks! – Reidgreg (talk) 20:57, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Brief absence
FYI, I was off for a few days from 1 October, when Google Chrome did some kind of hurried update to address an undisclosed vulnerability. That made it impossible for certain platforms to access Wikipedia and a number of other websites. I've completed a long-overdue OS upgrade and hope that this will be stable enough for at least another year (until the next "security upgrade" locks me out). – Reidgreg (talk) 20:55, 4 October 2021 (UTC)