Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Copy Edit of the Month/May 2013


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The GOCE May Copy Edit of the Month is a two stage event. Submissions for the contest will run from 00:00 on 1 May 2013 (UTC) until 23:59 on 31 May 2013 (UTC). All submissions must be from copy edits that occur during the month of May. Voting on submissions will run from 00:00 on 1 June 2013 (UTC) until 23:59 on 30 June 2013 (UTC).


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Stfg (talk)

 * Jacob Obrecht (diff)

Discussion

 * Did you select this article out of personal interest, or was it random? —Torchiest talkedits 14:25, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Personal interest. I went to the article for Obrecht's dates, saw that it needed some work, and did some :) --Stfg (talk) 15:58, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Scott Martin

 * Unified login/Finalisation

Discussion

 * Did you select this article out of personal interest, or was it random? —Torchiest talkedits 14:25, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Dementia13 (talk)

 * Progressive rock

Support

 * 1) Nice work!  GabeMc  (talk&#124;contribs)  23:48, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) Is the most expanded article by far. Good job! ~ Anastasia  (talk) 02:59, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) There are some great edits on this page (and I wish I would have remembered to give you a run for your money with this) but your edits clearly are the most expansive and precise this month (with continued effort through June, as well). Job well done.  czar   &middot;   &middot;  04:48, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Did you select this article out of personal interest, or was it random? —Torchiest talkedits 14:25, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * During the drives, I look for articles in which I have some kind of interest. This was one where I could have thrown it back as not ready for copy edit, but it was a subject of interest and was so poorly sourced and full of OR that I grabbed some references and did the cleanup myself. I'm actually still working on it, but the "diff" link I gave represents the point where it was complete from a copy editing standpoint. Dementia13 (talk) 00:42, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comments. I typically don't expand during copy edits, I often cut 20-40% from a page. And I did take the chainsaw to this, but I also dug in with the research. That stretches the definition of "copy edit," but in terms of article improvement, it's a big difference. I put it in for GAN yesterday, and a reviewer has already jumped on it. I'm hoping to get it to FA. Dementia13 (talk) 15:45, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

 * Rolf Köhler (diff)

Discussion

 * Did you select this article out of personal interest, or was it random? —Torchiest talkedits 14:25, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It was a random selection; I was skimming the category for articles which need copyediting, to find a candidate, and this one looked promising. I do sort of feel an obligatory tie to it, since the subject of the article is from a country that runs largely in my father's bloodline. Trout me, and then just trout me, till I can get my troutifaction! (talk) 08:09, 3 June 2013 (UTC)


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