User talk:Readingpro256

GAN reviews
Hello. It is very unusual for an editor with only 25 edits, and only 4 edits to mainspace, to feel comfortable taking on a GAN review. May I ask what, if any, previous accounts you have? &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:44, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Talk:Ariana Grande/GA4


The page Talk:Ariana Grande/GA4 has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done for the following reason:

"G6 - see Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations"

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GOCE Drive – Koskull family article
Hello there, Readingpro256. I saw your recent edit to Koskull family, and I thank you for fixing the bits that I missed. Especially that one awkwardly constructed phrase, "the other would keep the other side". I had tried to think of another word to replace that second "other", but I was unable to think of the word. How I did not think of the word "opposite", I will never know, but I am glad that you did.

I also inspected the edit history and saw that you made several excellent edits to the article before I started editing it, and that you mentioned the "guild drive" in your edit summaries. I checked this against your articles list on the GOCE May 2024 Drive page, and it seems that both you and I have claimed the article Koskull family for the GOCE May 2024 Drive. The drive FAQs page states that if two editors have both worked on the same article for a drive, each editor may claim 50% of the word count. I have adjusted the totals in my article list accordingly, and I trust that you will adjust your totals in like fashion.

In the future we can avoid this mildly inconvenient situation by checking the edit history before selecting an article for the drive (which I forgot to do in this case), and once that has been done, by replacing the article's "copy edit" tag with an "in use" tag before beginning the editing process (which you seem to have forgotten in this case). If you formally join the GOCE, then you will be entitled to use the   template; otherwise you may use the generic    template.

Thank you for your contributions to Wikpedia, and keep up the good work!

Kind regards,

SmileySnail (talk) 06:15, 28 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for pointing out the "in use" tags. I will adjust the word totals. Readingpro256 talk to me contribs 15:18, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
 * No problem; I am happy to help. Also, there is something I forgot to explain in my last message.
 * I noticed that we had different totals for the same article. The prosesize tool does not properly parse some kinds of text, such as tables, lists, and mathematical notation. Some kinds of text in list form are non-copyeditable (Table of Contents, References, See also, Further reading). Other lists, – such as the Notable individuals section in the Koskull family article) – can and should be copyedited (I replaced misused hyphens in that list with en dashes), and should be counted. That being said, the correct word count for the article is 1946, and each of us gets 973 of those words.
 * For future reference, know that prosesize highlights in yellow everything that it counts, so you can easily see if it left out something. In this case you can copy and paste the article into a word processor and remove everything that is truly non-copyeditable to get the true word count. More information on this can be found in the GOCE drive instructions and the prosesize documentation.
 * I'm sorry I forgot to explain this last night.
 * Kind regards,
 * SmileySnail (talk) 22:18, 28 May 2024 (UTC)