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GOCE drive news[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats.

Participation

So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now.

Progress report

We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal.

Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa ^(Talk), The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}, and Tea with toast (Talk)

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Friends of the Five Creeks[edit]

Take another look, there is multiple non trivial media coverage of the subject, see the talk page. Also you did not do the AfD correctly/completely. You need to create a page for discussion and add it to the AfD list.Thisbites (talk) 01:27, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Take another look, I added a lot of content, the AfD is really unnecessary at this point.Thisbites (talk) 07:02, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I prodded it, not AfD'd it. You really need to read the explanation more thoroughly, as this likely will go to AfD.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 13:59, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's not going, you took it there, and you edited the nom after starting it, you can't do that.Thisbites (talk) 04:37, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

you should stop the afd, you clearly made a mistake in judgment, let me get it to dyk alreadyThisbites (talk) 10:32, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Changing an AfD nomination after people have given opinions[edit]

Hi,

In this change you have changed your rationale for an AfD after people have committed their comments. This is strictly against the guideline of WP:TPO. I assume this was a one-off mistake and so need not take the matter any further if you revert your changes immediately. Thanks, Fæ (talk) 21:51, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

First I would like to thank you for assuming good faith in writing to me. That is very refreshing. That said. I read every drop of the policy you sent me, and it really didn't apply to anything I've ever done here at wikipedia, so I was at a loss as to its relevance to why you wanted me to revert my comments at the AfD, but to quote the summary of the policy at the top of the section, it says "Never edit or move someone's comment to change its meaning, even on your own talk page. Striking text constitutes a change in meaning, and should only be done by the user or someone acting at their explicit request." AfD doesn't take place on a talk page, so it automatically doesn't apply. But even if I did, I have not touched anyone else's comments at all. I have only modified my own comments ("the user"). Regardless, I'm not really taking this matter personally. Best wishes on your future edits.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 22:06, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Talkback[edit]

Hello, Esprit15d. You have new messages at Fæ's talk page.
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Ambiguity in your comment on the Sedra Bistodeau AfD[edit]

"there are only two major sources listed in the article, and one is the New York Times article, which only mentions her in passing. The article itself is about fiddling festivals."

In that AfD discussion, people have been dismayingly inattentive to both the article text and the relevant guideline. So you might forgive me for my inference that your "article itself" referred to Sedra Bistodeau, not to the NYT article about fiddling festivals. In particular, I was thrown off by your use of an "intensive pronoun", which is ordinarily used to add emphasis. Adding emphasis can be used to imply referential distinction. I.e., I read you as saying, in effect, "... one is the New York Times article, which only mentions her in passing. The article is about fiddling festivals." Think about it: the only reason to add emphasis to the second use of "article" in the above is to distinguish your referent from "the New York Times article." Which (in context AfD) leaves only one other possibile referent for "article itself": the Wikipedia article about Sedra Bistodeau. That's what I was reacting to, when I said you'd made two errors of fact. But on further reflection, it seems more likely that you just made a kind of grammatical error. And since you're a Copy Editors Guild member, I figured you'd want to know. By the way, if you want to correct it now, please don't do it in the comment you made -- people showing up later won't notice your change, and will wonder what I'm reacting to. Or if you do change it, consider marking it as "~~article itself~~ NYT article [sorry for the misunderstanding, Yakushima]" or something like that. Yakushima (talk) 03:11, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just finished watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory, and I literally, involuntarily read this message in the voice of Sheldon.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 14:03, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I resent that remark. You can mollify me now only by sending me one of those Modern Language Association t-shirts: "Is 'anal-retentive' hyphenated?" Yakushima (talk) 15:07, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was just kidding. I apologize. Anyway, can't do wikipedia much this week 'cause I'm swamped. For that reason, I withdrew my vote.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 17:49, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was also just kidding. Even though I have no sense of humor. Yakushima (talk) 15:41, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback[edit]

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GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.

Statistics

54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated.
One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%.
Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue.
Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here.

Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March.

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

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Your recent edits to Sheldon Cooper[edit]

Recent edits that you made to Sheldon Cooper resulted in the creation of two orphaned references, S03E01 and S04E03. AnomieBOT has just "fixed" one.[1] Could you please check to make sure that it's the correct reference and finish the other? I was going to delete the second but it's probably a better idea to add the reference that you intended and I don't know what it is so I can't. Thanks. --AussieLegend (talk) 07:54, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I got interrupted and haven't had a chance to come back to the article. But I will go and fix it now.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 13:45, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Russell Brand[edit]

Hi Esprit15 I reverted your edit because it seems to me that saying "Brand revealed that he and Morgan got into a row following Brand's controversial turn as the host of the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards (which the men co-wrote), and Morgan wouldn't return to the show" is potentially quite contentious in a BLP article, and really needs a source. Hope you agree. Alistair Stevenson (talk) 01:40, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I will add a reference. I was in the process of doing so when you reverted the edit.--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 01:41, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that then, best to add the reference at the same time but I admit I Twinkled the edit without checking it was from a trustworthy contributor like yourself. Feel free to undo my revert once you're ready with your cite. All the best. Alistair Stevenson (talk) 01:44, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wow, and you're an administrator as well. I do sincerely apologise, Esprit. Alistair Stevenson (talk) 01:47, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, don't feel bad. You were just doing your job :) --Esprit15d • talk • contribs 01:49, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for File:Russell Brand as Aldous Snow.jpg[edit]

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Barnstar thing-a-ma-bob[edit]

		The Excellent User Page Award
		I like some of the work you have done in creating your user page, so I stole some of them. In payback I award you this nice little barnstar Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 19:41, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:New Picture (10).png[edit]

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Thanks for uploading File:New Picture (10).png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude2 (talk) 05:19, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter[edit]

The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive

The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive.

Awards and barnstars
A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.

We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:19, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Non-free commercial logo[edit]

Template:Non-free commercial logo has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 16:23, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]