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Editing news 2021 #1
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Reply tool
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The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.
- The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
- It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.
Research notes:
- As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
- There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[1]
- The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[2] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
A large A/B test will start soon.[3] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.
New discussion tool
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The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[4] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.
Next: Notifications
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
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The Cleanup Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 19:01, 15 February 2021 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 4th Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting 2 long articles during the GOCE March 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:56, 5 April 2021 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 3rd Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 11,882 words – during the GOCE March 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:56, 5 April 2021 (UTC) |
The Copy Editor's 10K Star | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copy-editing at least one individual article of more than 10,000 words during the most recent Guild of Copy Editors' Drive or Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:56, 5 April 2021 (UTC) |
The (old school) League of Copy Editors Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copy edits totaling over 30,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:56, 5 April 2021 (UTC) |
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Precious anniversary
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:40, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
Your expertise?
Hi Lfstevens apologies for reaching out here. I'm a researcher studying & starting to contribute to WikiMed. I'm particularly interested in the work on the [Burden of Disease Study]. noticed you've contributed to the section "Results" - can I email you a few questions on that or post them here?
Thanks for considering! --Whiskiz (talk) 10:30, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
- Flattered that you ask. I have 0 medical expertise. I copyedit and add reliably sourced facts that interest me. 19:23, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
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Turtle FA
Hello, would you like to join us for turtle? LittleJerry (talk) 19:19, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Early vehicles pwr
Template:Early vehicles pwr has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:38, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
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Missing cites in Empowerment evaluation
The article has quite a few errors in citations, most seem to be originating from your edits back in 2013. The article uses the following short cites, but there is no corresponding source is listed in the bibliography:
- Fetterman 2005, pp. 98-107 and Fetterman 2005, pp. 107-121. --> a typo in year? (err in orig. fixed)
- Fetterman 2001, p. 113. --> a typo in year? (err in orig. Is it 2001a or 2001b? not fixed.)
- Wandersman et al. 2000 (didn't see a 2000. there was a 2004/2005 mismatch. fixed.)
- Imm, Chinman & Wandersman 2006 (err in orig. no fix.)
- Fisher et al. 2006. (ditto)
- Sabo 2001. (ditto)
- Miller & Campbell 2006. (fixed)
- Smith 2007 (Fixed)
Can you please add? Also, suggest installing a script to highlight such errors in the future. All you need to do is copy and paste importScript('User:Svick/HarvErrors.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Svick/HarvErrors.js]]
to your common.js page. Thanks, Renata (talk) 02:01, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Scuba skills
Thanks for your efforts in copy editing Scuba skills, they have helped improve the article. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 05:21, 18 May 2021 (UTC) - Thanks for noticing! Lfstevens (talk) 05:42, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 1st Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting 162 articles during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:07, 4 June 2021 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 1st Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting 116,144 total words during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:07, 4 June 2021 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 1st Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting 6 long articles during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:07, 4 June 2021 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 4th Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 11,801 words – during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:07, 4 June 2021 (UTC) |
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This barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 23:07, 4 June 2021 (UTC) |
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Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
- Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
- The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
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June 2021
Your edit to DeepSpeed has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 14:47, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
References inadvertently mangled
This edit mangles the references in the lead section of the article. I suspect whatever tool you were using doesn't always work properly. I've cleaned this up, but not checked your other contribs. 81.187.27.126 (talk) 21:38, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry for the trouble and thanks for noticing. In future, if I break something, LMK and I'll happily fix it. No need to trouble yourself.
GOCE June 2021 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors June 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, our first newsletter of 2021, which is a brief update of Guild activities since December 2020. To unsubscribe, follow the link at the bottom of this box. Current events
Election time: Voting in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 16 June and will conclude at the end of the month. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Have your say and show support here. June Blitz: Our June copy-editing blitz is underway and will conclude on 26 June. Drive and blitz reports
January Drive: 28 editors completed 324 copy edits totalling 714,902 words. At the end of the drive, the backlog had reached a record low of 52 articles. (full results) February Blitz: 15 editors completed 48 copy edits totalling 142,788 words. (full results) March Drive: 29 editors completed 215 copy edits totalling 407,736 words. (full results) April Blitz: 12 editors completed 23 copy edits totalling 56,574 words. (full results) May Drive: 29 editors completed 356 copy edits totalling 479,013 words. (full results) Other news
Progress report: as of 26 June, GOCE participants had completed 343 Requests since 1 January. The backlog has fluctuated but remained in control, with a low of 52 tagged articles at the end of January and a high of 620 articles in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu and Twofingered Typist, and from member Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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We seem to be copyediting the same article
Hey Lfstevens, it seems we're both working on List of fictional presidents of the United States (K–M). Seeing as you started copyediting before I did, could I just take credit for §L and let you do the rest? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:29, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
- As you like. Happy to retire and let you have it.
- Understood; I'll finish it up. If you could remove the {{cleanup tense}} template on other articles before starting so that it's removed from the backlog I think we can avoid future mixups. Feel free to claim credit for §K.
—Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:36, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
- Understood; I'll finish it up. If you could remove the {{cleanup tense}} template on other articles before starting so that it's removed from the backlog I think we can avoid future mixups. Feel free to claim credit for §K.
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Number of articles for July GOCE copy editing drive
On the July 2021 GOCE copy editing drive page you have 11 articles listed in your detailed entry but have claimed 33 on the leaderboard. In the past you have done quite a bit of off-the-books copy editing. What is the situation here? What should the score be? Dhtwiki (talk) 04:42, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- Wow. I must have been really tired when I did that update. My number is of course 11. I also did several hundred shorties, but I don't count them. Lfstevens (talk) 07:39, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
Small Modular Reactors
Hi I was wondering if you could help me remove the template message on Small modular reactors. I am new to Wikipedia and want to improve the page on SMRs. I was wondering if you could help me figure out what needs to be done in a specific section of the lead article and how the template message can be removed. ScientistBuilder (talk) 19:54, 5 August 2021 (UTC)ScientistBuilderScientistBuilder (talk) 19:54, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting 33,161 total words during the GOCE July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:46, 6 August 2021 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place | |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 5th Place | |
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Hi there, just wondering - what's the point of all the non-breaking spaces? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:37, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
- Used a utility to clean up references. It put them in. I don't know why and it makes no sense. Sorry.
Indirect land use change impacts of biofuels
Indirect land use change impacts of biofuels has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:44, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info.
"Tahreek Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah ( TLY ) party" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Tahreek Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah ( TLY ) party. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 September 13#Tahreek Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah ( TLY ) party until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Regards, SONIC678 03:23, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
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Uyghur genocide
Just FYI there are discretionary sanctions on the Uyghur genocide so I would resist reverting if I were you. I would also go back and take a look at your edits, its pretty sloppy work... You appear to have search-replaced detainees with internees including in a quote among other things. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 04:58, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
You should also stop referring to edits like the above and [5][6][7][8][9][10][11] as copy edits (ce) in edit summaries as these edits go way far beyond copy edits. Those are serious and major edits to those articles. In some cases they’re basically cleanup level re-writes. You can’t call that ce anymore. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 05:08, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the feedback. I have actually never done an actual revert in >10 years.
- You did an “actual revert” yesterday [12] (or today depending on where you live). Congratulations. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:31, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
- By "revert", I mean "clicked the revert button". Didn't do that.
- Thats not what we here on wikipedia mean by WP:REVERT. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 18:10, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
- By "revert", I mean "clicked the revert button". Didn't do that.
- You did an “actual revert” yesterday [12] (or today depending on where you live). Congratulations. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:31, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
— Mikehawk10 (talk) 01:46, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
Bad edits...
Lfstevens... We just talked about this... To me this[13] looks like a sloppy error ridden edit with the misleading edit summary “CE” For example you changed "In October 2020, more countries at the UN joined the condemnation of China over human rights abuses in Xinjiang with German Ambassador Christoph Heusgen speaking on behalf of the group.” to "In October 2020, more countries joined the UN's condemnation. German Ambassador Christoph Heusgen spoke on behalf of the group” despite that being inaccurate and clearly not supported by the source. WP:CIR, if you cant make good edits you shouldn’t be editing... Horse Eye's Back (talk) 08:09, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
- I'm completely missing what you're complaining about.
- The UN never condemned anything, they aren’t joining the UN’s condemnation they’re joining a condemnation made at the UN. You completely missing this is why I linked WP:CIR. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 18:09, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Can you please be more specific about your objections? I made many changes and can't even tell which one(s) you're objecting to. Alternatively, instead of reverting a bunch of innocuous improvements because you object to one you find objectionable, either fix the issue or let me know about and I will do so. I'm not fighting you. I'm trying to turn a steaming pile into something that ordinary folks might find informative. I've only just begun.... Lfstevens (talk) 06:23, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
- I have been more specific in our discussion on your talk page, please respond there. If you’re suggesting that you’ve only just begun disrupting wikipedia I would caution you, that will likely lead to a block or a ban. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 16:01, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
- Have a great life. I'm done trying to collaborate with you. Lfstevens (talk) 17:48, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thats a shame, just FYI my door is always open to collaboration and I think you could be a great editor if you slowed down and focused less on quantity and more on quality. If you introduce errors along with innocuous improvements the page is poorer for your attention. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 00:00, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
- Have a great life. I'm done trying to collaborate with you. Lfstevens (talk) 17:48, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
September 2021 Guild of Copy Editors newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021. Current and upcoming events
September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Drive and Blitz reports
June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Continued use of misleading edit summaries
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to use edit summaries that are misleading, intentionally or not, as you did at SoftBank Group, you may be blocked from editing. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 23:58, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
September drive bling
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The Modest Barnstar | |
This barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:21, 4 October 2021 (UTC) |
Request for a more through copy edit
Hi, thanks a lot for your copyedit in SpaceX Starship! Since I am pretty new to wikipedia, I don't really have a lot of skill at copyediting, so your future help on the article is greatly appriciated! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 03:11, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
- My pleasure! Lfstevens (talk) 19:27, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 03:39, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
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Photovoltaic power station
I have started an individual good article reassessment of Photovoltaic power station which was rated "good" in 2013 and I think it needs modernizing. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
November drive bling
The Cleanup Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens 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 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:42, 3 December 2021 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place | |
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December 2021 GOCE Newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021. Current and upcoming events
Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now! Drive and Blitz reports
September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. Other news
It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community. Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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COVID-19 pandemic
Hi, I wanted to thank you for your c/e of the article, I realize its a long article, should any updates be needed I would respond immediately, thank you again--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:35, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you
...for the comments on the COVID-19 pandemic article (I'm going thru each comment), your c/e was outstanding, all who worked on this article, are in your debt,--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 03:40, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for noticing. Lfstevens (talk) 05:53, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
- I've started on your recommendations[14], BTW will the article get one of these [15]?....thank you as always, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:06, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
- I usually don't, but you can add if you want. Lfstevens (talk) 00:50, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- thank you, Merry Christmas!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:36, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- I usually don't, but you can add if you want. Lfstevens (talk) 00:50, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- I've started on your recommendations[14], BTW will the article get one of these [15]?....thank you as always, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:06, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
GOCE c/e request
Hi Lfstevens, I noticed you've accepted the GOCE c/e request for this article and have done some work on it but you haven't updated its status. I also see that article has been extensively edited in the last day or so. If that editing is causing problems, maybe the request should be declined. Please let us know your intentions about the request. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 08:58, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:23, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Thoughts on SpaceX Starship now?
Hi, I remember you as a copyeditor for the article when it is nominated for GAN, and I think you would love to copyedit the article now. It is expanded, tightened, and written in summary style, and probably much easier to copyedit than the last time. Thanks a lot in advance! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 09:25, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
- I would like to. In the middle of another project right now. I'll try to get to it. Lfstevens (talk) 19:26, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! Don't feel rushed, you have plenty of time. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 01:50, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
- Finished. LMK if more is needed or if any errors need to be corrected. Merry XMAS. Lfstevens (talk) 16:50, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- Same to you. Thanks a lot for your work on the article! CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 16:51, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- Finished. LMK if more is needed or if any errors need to be corrected. Merry XMAS. Lfstevens (talk) 16:50, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! Don't feel rushed, you have plenty of time. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 01:50, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
Nice work at Applications of artificial intelligence! Girth Summit (blether) 17:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC) |
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Please don't label substantive changes as "copy edits"
You have labeled most of your edits to Student loans in the United States as "copy edits" but many of them are much more substantive and have changed the meaning of the article and its contents. Please don't do that; provide meaningful explanations of your changes. And please consider making them in much smaller chunks so they're easier for other editors to understand and follow. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 06:12, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for noticing. Please let me know of any inappropriate edits and I am happy to correct them. This article was in grievous shape when I began, so I confess to being bold with my edits. Lfstevens (talk) 07:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
One-shot learning
Hi and thanks for creating the above disambiguation page, however it points to only one extant Wikipedia page and is likely to be tagged for deletion under WP:G14, if you intend to create any or all of the red-linked articles that would be great although another new page reviewer may come along and tag it. Josey Wales Parley 22:22, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for noticing. I made the change based on the talk page, which objected to the original name. I don't know whether those editors are interested in adding the related pages. If it dies, so be it. Lfstevens (talk) 22:57, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
January 2022 GOCE drive awards
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
This barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 5th Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting 9 articles during the GOCE January 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting 29,864 total words during the GOCE January 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 2nd Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting 3 long articles during the GOCE January 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC) |
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Thermoelectric generators/electrothermal actuators
Template:Thermoelectric generators/electrothermal actuators has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 16:18, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
A barnstar for your efforts
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COVID-19 Barnstar | |
Awarded for efforts in expanding and verifying articles related to COVID-19. Awarded by Cdjp1 (talk) 8 March 2022 (UTC) |
@Cdjp1 Thanks for noticing! Lfstevens (talk) 19:50, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
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March drive bling
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place | |
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copyediting 1 long article during the GOCE March 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:40, 2 April 2022 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
This barnstar is awarded to Lfstevens for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2022 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 20:40, 2 April 2022 (UTC) |
FAR for Hawksbill sea turtle
I have nominated Hawksbill sea turtle for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. OnlyFixingProse (talk) 05:50, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of SkyDrive (eVTOL)
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Precious anniversary
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GOCE April 2022 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021. Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators. January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details) February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details) March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details) April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now! Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Carbon capture and storage
I have reverted your addition to Carbon capture and storage because much of the content was either a direct copy or close paraphrasing of this site which you gave as a source. I assume that this was inadvertent as you appear to have been here a while and have a reasonable edit count. Because of this I have avoided the formal drama of a copy-vio process but I would be interested in knowing why and how this happened. Regards Velella Velella Talk 21:45, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for noticing. Checked my edit here and it found no significant problems. Can you suggest changes that would allow the material in? Lfstevens (talk) 22:34, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- Your additions includes The water flows through a series of exponentially-growing enclosures the source says The water flows through a series of exponentially-growing enclosures.
- Your addition says “The resulting dried, salty, carbon-rich biomass is buried 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) underground, where it remains sequestered indefinitely and the source says and then this dried, salty, carbon-rich biomass is sent to a shallow desert grave, some 1 to 4 m (3 to 13 ft) under the surface, where it remains effectively sequestered for thousands of years. There are others. The source appears to be parroting a press release and I would not regard it as reliable in any sense. It fails to explain the supposed change in acidity. Statements such as while a team of bio-prospectors starts filtering through samples of thousands of local strains of algae, selecting the ones that best fit the company's criteria. Thus, there are no introduced species, and the algae is already well adapted to the local climate and conditions simply don't add up. Algae travel as spores through the air and colonise any water bodies they find. Whatever is put in the ponds initially will soon be overwhelmed by local invasive species. This doesn't negate the potential effectiveness of the system it just flags up probable pseudo-science writing to make something seem more than it is. The there is the quality of the writing - The water flows through a series of exponentially-growing enclosures - really?. The algae may grow exponentially for a while , but the enclosures certainly don't. In my view it is a puff piece and should be ignored until something more reliable such an article in "Nature" or even "New Scientist" comes along. Regards Velella Velella Talk 22:52, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- So you have a second concern about the source? While the New Atlas article makes lots of claims about wonderfulness, the WP article did not. I can tweak the language, but that pub is cited many times across WP. Perhaps you want to raise the subject of NA re WP:RS elsewhere, rather than picking on one example. Lfstevens (talk) 23:19, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- Revision:
- Algae captures carbon more efficiently than plants, because its entire surface is dedicated to photosynthesis, and wastes no resources creating roots and other non-photosynthesizing material. It proliferates rapidly given the right conditions. Facilities are sited on ocean-adjacent desert land. The target algae species is selected from among local strains, without introducing potentially invasive species. Pumps bring seawater into a series of containers and ponds from shore. "Upwelling" water is prefered, because it is cold and nutrient-rich. Pumping accounts for most of the system's required (solar-powered) energy.
- Revision:
- So you have a second concern about the source? While the New Atlas article makes lots of claims about wonderfulness, the WP article did not. I can tweak the language, but that pub is cited many times across WP. Perhaps you want to raise the subject of NA re WP:RS elsewhere, rather than picking on one example. Lfstevens (talk) 23:19, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
- The seawater flows through a series of progressively larger enclosures. A small amount of algae added to the first enclosure multiplies to fill eventually four . Mature algae is filtered from the largest ponds and dried. The resulting salty, carbon-rich biomass is dried and buried underground, where it remains sequestered indefinitely. The nutrient-free, less acidic seawater is returned to the ocean, with improved sequestration capacity. ( acidifies seawater and its removal has the reverse effect.) Lfstevens (talk)
- This particular article remains, in my view, a puff piece. The scientific writing is poor, there is no explanation of the basis for the pH change claimed and your suggested revisions are also very close paraphrasing. The website may be generally reliable, I have no view on that, but this article is poor. If this is a radical and new approach, then reliable sources will cover it in due course and they may be quoted at that time. I would suggest waiting until "Nature" or "The Times" or "The Guardian" review the system and use them as the appropriate source. Velella Velella Talk 15:15, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
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