User talk:Plesiosaur in Paris

Copy edit drive
Hi, Plesiosaur in Paris. Thank you for your interest in participating in the Guild of Copy Editors July copy edit drive. In reviewing your edits to the article Abbreviation, the work you have done seems to consist mostly of adding links to the article rather than improving the grammar, punctuation, and prose. Some of the links are actually inappropriate. We no longer link to common terms, and some of the links you added go to disambiguation pages rather than encyclopedia articles. For example, the link you added to the word omission goes to a disambiguation page and therefore should not have been added. You have not actually done any edits to the prose on that article at all, and therefore it should not have been included in your drive totals. I am going to remove it from your drive totals and put the copy edit tag back on the article. Also, the actual word count for that article was 1888 words, not 2905 as shown on the drive page. The second article you listed was Science outreach. This one was listed with a word count of 1290, but the actual word count when you started was only 840 words. You can get accurate word counts using a script. Instructions for its installation appear on the drive main page. In addition to the Drive main page, which gives instructions for drive participation, I think you might benefit from reading our step-by-step guide to copy editing. Thank you very much for your interest in participating. If you have any questions, please post a message at my talk page. --Dianna (talk) 03:15, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

I am very sorry for the inconvenience, Diannaa. I have removed myself from the copy edit drive until I better understand the rules better.

Copyediting drive
I'm not sure why you removed my contributions to this month's drive without comment. If you have any particular reasons why these should not be included, please let me know. Otherwise, kindly reinstate. Cheers, -- Ohconfucius  ¡digame! 03:13, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

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