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Operation Ladbroke
Thanks for doing a cop edit of Operation Ladbroke, I have made some very minor changes but happy with what you have changed. Jim Sweeney (talk) 21:24, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

GOCE July drive check
Hi

I was just looking through the article to see who had copy-edited it, as there was no signature on the requests page next to "done", and noticed you were on the GOCE drive. I have checked it and found a few problems.


 * Commas were inside links - eg Article, instead of Article, (I have fixed them )
 * Hyphens, dashes, etc. There are scripts you can add to your user pages to assist, though reading MoS and trying the exercises on the How to copy edit page may give more insight into particular Wiki nuances. (I have run a script on the article )
 * Copy-editing is not editing. When copyediting is is best to change things less than more. Re-writing a whole section can be more time-consuming than it warrants, it may also cause problems later on: for example, where context has been changed, or where parts are removed that are necessary to the "full picture".


 * Some observations on edits:
 * "The units' represented ..." - probably should be "The units represented ...
 * "Roughly forty thousand foreign nationals ... no more than 18,000 " - You changed 40,000 -> forty thousand, why would you not change both?
 * "... premier created an Operation X tasked ..." - the 'an' implies there were more, there are two separate but related items ∴ "... premier created Operation X, tasked ...." It is still wrong though as, much more importantly you have combined two separate items, the unit, "Section X", and the operation , "Operation X":
 * "He created section X in the Soviet Union's military structure to head the operation, coined Operation X" - here the proper noun name of the operation should be in caps. A check should also be made to see if the correct tile was "Section X" or "X".


 * "When the ships did finally leave" - here you added finally, possibly adding OR in. Was there any delay which the "finally" implies?
 * "their journeys were extremely slow" - you added "s were" making it plural. Did you know that there were more than one journey?
 * Why did you change this quote to a non-quote? was there something inherently wrong with the text? was it a request from the editors of the page?
 * Historian Hugh Thomas comments "had they been able to purchase and transport good arms from US, British, and French manufacturers, the socialist and republican members of the Spanish government might have tried to cut themselves loose from Stalin".[1]"
 * "... was unsuccessful." -> "was also a misstep." - why? That it was unsuccessful is the outcome, whereas a misstep does not convey the outcome.
 * "On 7 March, the Nationalists" - Here you changed it from a specific group, the Nationalists, to the part of the general population who had nationalistic feelings, "On 7 March, Nationalists launched" - also a similar change from "with the Western powers" -> " with Western powers" as the first means France and Britain and your edit could mean Belgium, The Netherlands or even America.

I do not know how experienced an editor (or copy-editor) you are, but it might be worth your while considering the exercises on the "How to copy edit" page I mentioned above.

Please do not think these are meant to criticise, rather they are given with the intention of helping you improve your editing. You may benefit from reading the MOS. I keep a version of it open in a separate tab in my browser when copy-editing so that I can quickly reference it (and sometimes when the workload is high I use a separate browser on my second monitor just for MoS pages!). If you have any queries do not hesitate to get in touch. Chaosdruid (talk) 01:55, 11 July 2011 (UTC)


 * It is not a problem at all, I signed up as a checker for the GOCE drive and checking is what we do. I thought it was really brave of you to tackle an article that big and that intricate.
 * The journeys point - "Three friends go on a journey across Africa" implies that they travelled together and that is the thing that makes it a singular journey rather than plural. Without a source to hand it is impossible to say whether they travelled together or not or what amount of time was spent together; for example, one may have been ill in bed for a day or two, while the other two carried on on foot, once recovered he takes a river raft to meet them further down stream. Does that mean that we should now write "Three friends go on journeys across Africa"?
 * With regard to the article quality you are right that rewriting does help an article though, as copy-editors, it is often best to not change an article too much. It is something I have a problem with also as I always find myself wanting to rewrite as well as copyedit. I started to put notes onto the article talk pages (e.g. here and here) regarding points that had come up during the copyedit that I felt were possibly out of a copy-editors remit. We can only copy-edit our own ways, so don't take my comments too much to heart on that matter :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 14:40, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Thomas the Slav
Hello! I've replied to your questions at my talk page. Cheers, Constantine  ✍  11:55, 18 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello again! Sorry for the delay, I was without an internet connection for several days. I've kept most of your edits, barring a few style changes and a couple rewrites in the usual trouble-spots in the "Background and motives" section. If you have time, have another look. Even if you can't, thanks a million for your effort, the improvement is visible. Cheers, Constantine  ✍  13:51, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas!
Apologies, slight technical problem in the Christmas Cheer Distribution Network Automated Felicitations System (no electricity) meant a small delay in getting my greetings out this year ... Chaosdruid (talk) 17:10, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

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