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Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter
edit| Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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CS1 error on Kris Allen
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- A bare URL error. References show this error when one of the URL-containing parameters cannot be paired with an associated title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)
Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 09:28, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for July 23
editAn automated process has detected that when you recently edited Nellie Bowles, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page The Free Press.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:12, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Can Wikipedia block Angie's list for spam?
editAngie's list has a "homeadvisor" website with a fake-business listing.
The fake-business listing is https://www.homeadvisor.com/rated.GrizzlyBearHandyman.27455136.html
I hate the construction industry, and Angie knows that. Angie is still spamming me, Timothy_Treadwell, and John_"Grizzly"_Adams with her list.
Why is Angie's list a trusted source? 71.198.140.17 (talk) 01:42, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hey there, no idea. I would maybe ask at WP:TEA. They might be able to point you in a better direction. Snowman304|talk 05:56, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for July 30
editAn automated process has detected that when you recently edited Autofellatio, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page CBC.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 20:57, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for August 12
editAn automated process has detected that when you recently edited Adam Smoluk, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Executive.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 20:30, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Ref request
editHey, if you have the time/interest could you take a look at the refs on Roger Woodward? I just came across it and it's a mess... could probably all be sfn too. Sorry to bother – Aza24 (talk) 22:32, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Wow, you weren't kidding. No bother at all. I'll take a stab at it. Snowman304|talk 23:08, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Much appreciated! Aza24 (talk) 00:03, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- I got through about 2/3 of the references. The last third I'm going to save for tomorrow unless some intrepid editor takes a crack at it while I'm away. Snowman304|talk 01:31, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Much appreciated! Aza24 (talk) 00:03, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
Shameless plug
editHiya. I noticed that you added {{duplicated citations}} to Treaty of Trianon. You may be interested in User:Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences which can do that for you, and specifies which of the refs have been duplicated to make cleanup easier. Polygnotus (talk) 18:04, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Ronald Daniel Bass
editA tag has been placed on Ronald Daniel Bass requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. C F A đź’¬ 01:56, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Maxton Rollerskate edits
editHi Snowman304, I reverted your edits to this page. I was curious as to why you made the changes you did.Kumboloi (talk) 20:53, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Kumboloi: I did notice that, and I didn't understand why you reverted them. My edits were to clean up the citations—removing unused parameters and adding archives to make them easier to check in case links change/rot. If you peruse my contributions, you'll see thousands of similar changes. Snowman304|talk 21:27, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
- That's what I suspected. It just seemed a little unusual to convert so many working references to archived items, and leave some. When I scanned through the changes, it also appeared that some author attributions were lost (although they may have just been moved). I also noticed some odd looking artifacts left, like "last=< !--Not stated-->", instead of "author=< !--Not stated-->". It looked like a script error. Thanks Snowman304.Kumboloi (talk) 22:06, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Mosquito Lake State Park has been accepted
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gobonobo + c 06:27, 2 September 2024 (UTC)WPDX (AM)
editRe: This edit.
We/I have had a couple editors before say the information (ie: the facility ID number) was unsourced, hence the source. I understand that's a coding issue, but it's done to keep a vocal minority happy. I'll leave that up to you and Sammi. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:45, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter
edit| Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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CS1 error on Lala Mustafa Pasha's Caucasian campaign
editHello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Lala Mustafa Pasha's Caucasian campaign, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:
- A missing title error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)
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archive-url links
editHi. Your bot archived links on Helen Levitt. I don't see the advantage of the redundancy, when the web pages are fresh or obviously made to stay, like the MoMA pages. The reference just looks awful and unnecessarily technical. There is a link that works fine, the redundant archive-url is just irritating and disturbing. I certainly see the purpose, but the bot produces -beside the already described redundancies- also the illusion of good maintenance. I found several links (in this lemma) the bot added an archive-url to that were already dead or just a search box (instead of a find). Would you be at least able to make the archive-urls invisible as long as the original urls are live? This would be a good compromise, I think. (The wording "rescued" is pretentious anyway, if the link was visited the day before) MenkinAlRire 13:56, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there!
- It's not my bot, so I don't have control over its "pretentious" verbiage.
- Link rot happens all the time. There's even a whole page about it (WP:LINKROT). The archive-url is a feature, not a bug. You want people to be able to look at the references in 5, 10, 15 years from now, even if MoMA moves the pages or the New York Times puts the article behind a paywall. That's why, for example, the cited journal articles have DOIs.
- Is it a perfect system? Of course not. There are a few tweaks I'll have to make to what it output, e.g., the 404 errors it archived. But it's a lot better than leaving link rot to chance. Snowman304|talk 14:19, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- My point was, if there wasn't a way to design it more discreet. It makes no sense to show an archive-url as long as the original link works. As a reader I really don't want to see a technicality, it's unnerving to read and try to understand why there has to be two or even three or four links for one reference, especially when they are unchecked.
- It seems to me, that technical principles, the bureaucratic aspect rules over the actual experience to read and work with WP. The design is everything else but elegant. This is certainly true for all the formulas urls are archived with, they usually result in redundancies that make no sense and hurt the eye (and the brain). It's not a bug, but it looks like one, and in the cases I meant it isn't a feature either. I would expect the NYT and the MoMA as well would announce such a move beforehand. But I expect too, that it's (more) complicated, and the vast WP has to use all bots it can get. MenkinAlRire 16:00, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Well, that's all well beyond my pay grade (as a volunteer). Go take it up on Help talk:Citation Style 1 or something. Snowman304|talk 16:21, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, I wanted to add something in that sense./ MenkinAlRire 16:58, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Well, that's all well beyond my pay grade (as a volunteer). Go take it up on Help talk:Citation Style 1 or something. Snowman304|talk 16:21, 17 September 2024 (UTC)