User talk:Jonesey95

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Be as ornery as you like!

Your "ocd" is no big deal considering the context; the one that really drives me nuts is when I see news stories that use "Aids" rather than "AIDS". It is an acronym! LOL! —D'Ranged 1 | VT^alk : 

It's madness out there. My favorite bugbear is "premier"/"premiere". How hard can it be? Pretty hard, I guess. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:57, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Well, to be fair, both can be used as nouns (although in the case of "premier", the usage as a noun is very specific) or adjectives (although "premier" is the preferred adjective, it is still correct to use "premiere" as one), but only "premiere" is a verb (although many consider that to be substandard English), so that's a bit more nuanced. [See premier and premiere at Webster's.] It's interesting to me that neither Grammarist nor Writing Explained even mention that "premiere" is also an adjective. This blogger has a brief post that covers all the bases with quotes from her sources. So, yes, pretty hard.

I have a long list of misused spellings, beginning with "its/it's"; I still find it hard to believe that folks can't understand that one. I also often see flubs when it comes to "there/their/they're", "to/too"; "affect/effect"; etc. I actually saw an online news article about events in the U.S. Congress that referenced "across the isle" rather than "across the aisle". If the paid, so-called "professional journalists" can't get it right, there's no hope. Other great examples are to be found at "Why copy editors are still valuable to the news industry" and "A consise argument for copy editors" (Despite evidence to the contrary, I do know what "concise" means, btw.) —D'Ranged 1 | VT^alk :  22:58, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

@D'Ranged 1: Re "Aids", there is a logic behind it, described at Acronym#Pronunciation-dependent style and case. To proponents of the logic, writing AIDS would suggest a pronunciation of "ay eye dee ess". Applying a coherent rationale we disagree with is a little different from not applying a coherent rationale. Sorry for the late comment. ―Mandruss ☎ 05:12, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Reverts

Didn't understand the message on your two reverts of my edits. Can you please explain? Thanks. Lfstevens (talk) 19:16, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

I rolled back a bunch of tag spamming by one or more IP editors who were tagging (100+) articles for copy editing. I may have undone a couple of your edits in the process. I'll check my reverts and correct any errors I find. Sorry about that. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:00, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

I think I have caught all of my errors. Thanks to BD2412 and BlueMoonset for each catching at least one. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:13, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Template:Realist listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Realist. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Realist redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --Nevé–selbert 14:20, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Got a question for you, sir!

I've been reading wikipedia for many years, and recently decided to start copy editing articles that I read. (Lord knows, many need it.) I have a question for you: What is the best edit comment to leave when fixing awkward phrasing? I don't know if it's necessarily "grammar"; here is an example:

Solomon believes that his son is alive, just perhaps not in the U.S.

This is a bit unwieldy; I would prefer:

Solomon believes that his son is alive, perhaps not in the U.S.

See what I mean? Maybe I'm looking to make things read a little more encyclopedic, even if the grammar is not technically incorrect. I think a lot of times it's about economy of language; sometimes people add superfluous words to a sentence, in the mistaken belief that all good sentences are long. Believe me, I'm guilty of long sentences. However, I often come upon sentences that, while containing vital information, are "padded". How would I label such edits? Am I being pedantic here? :) Thanks for any advice. Mercster (talk) 23:05, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Many editors use a summary like "copy edit" or "minor copy edits" when making a change like the one above. Some people like to abbreviate to "ce", but I try not to do so, as I find it takes the same amount of time to type and may confuse people who are unfamiliar with abbreviations. – Jonesey95 (talk) 10:26, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you.

Hard to believe it's been nearly a year since you fixed an html error on my user page! And I'm just getting around to thanking you. Of course it's been ages since I logged in, one of the problems with having been incompletely assimilated when the Wikipedia Collective swept through my quadrant of the galaxy. And real spacetime is so different from Wikipedia, it's like a whole other planet here beyond the glass! Thanks again. Back in another year or so. Trilobitealive (talk) 01:25, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Research on Backlogs

Hi Jonesey95,

I'm Pau Giner, a member of the Wikimedia Design team. We are interested in providing better support to some of the activities that experienced editors do. In particular, we want to understand better how backlogs work and the issues that users may find when adding the work to be done, and finding/completing this work.

We are organising a series of short interview sessions, and we consider you as an experienced editor are an ideal candidate to participate. In order to participate you can fill this form that collects the basic information for us to schedule a session and contact you back. If you know other users that may provide useful information in this area, feel free to recommend them to participate too.

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Thanks!

-- Pginer-WMF (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

September GOCE bling

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 00:44, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 14 articles during the GOCE September 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 00:44, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 14 old articles during the GOCE September 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 00:44, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Party of horse

That wording doesn't bother me; maybe I've read too many fantasy novels. I take it as short for "horse regiment", or thereabouts. Thanks for the cleanup efforts! --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 13:02, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Fascinating! I had never seen the phrase before, but I did a Google search for "party of horse" (in quotation marks), and I found many usages of the phrase. It appears to be most common in non-modern British English writing. I have never seen it used in contemporary writing or in US English. (For my tps readers, the article in question is Charles I's journey from Oxford to the Scottish army camp near Newark.) – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:04, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for this edit.

I see you have already been discussing horse. In primary sources of that period the terms used are Foot, Horse and Dragoons, for infantry, cavalry and dragoons. This is carried through to many secondary sources and into Wikipedia see for example the first cavalry battle of the Civil War Battle of Powick Bridge where the number are given as 1,000 horse on each side, or see foot soldier redirect to infantry and see List of Regiments of Foot. If you think that the terms are not widely understood I suggest that you ether link the terms foot regiments, party of horse, or alternativly put infantry or cavalry in brackets after the first use of the term "foot (infantry), horse (cavalry)".

However the major reason for this post is to question you change of the following:

• Gardiner's Hist. Of the Civil War. III. 88. → Gardiner 1889, p. 88
• Claradon's Hist Rebellion 490 → Clarendon 1888, p. 490

are you sure that is correct? I ask because I do no, because the works in question are multi-volume and there are many editions and only one volume of each are listed. What is missing on the first of those two citation is that it should start "Brown 1904, p. 109 cites" -- PBS (talk) 13:11, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Hmm, "cites Claradon's Hist Rebellion 490" was clearly wrong, but in what way? I had some rationale for my edits a few days ago, but I don't remember it now. I am not sure that either of those is correct. If you have better information, you should definitely modify my edits. If not, a comment on the talk page and an HTML comment in the article with a cn or similar tag might be needed. Thanks for catching this. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:56, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

compass points

With this edit you changed north-west to northwest. FYI see MOS:COMPASS. -- PBS (talk) 21:52, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I got to learn something today. I did not know that British English hyphenated those words. Someone might want to tag that article with a British English template. I did keep all of the "...our" spellings and other Britishisms, as far as I know. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:43, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Lovelock

See my new redirect "lovelock (hair)". Until I read the cited source I did not know Charles I had one. I thought that the Elizabethan lovelock was common knowledge (see 1550–1600 in Western European fashion#Hairstyles and headgear 2), as apparently it is not, I've created the redirect and I am adding the link as suggested to Charly's journey. -- PBS (talk) 17:14, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

reference tags

Thank you @Jonesey95: for fixing references History of Medicine Society. Whispyhistory (talk) 13:48, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

You're welcome! Happy editing. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:05, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

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Elcor, Minnesota

Hello, Jonesey95! Thank you for your copy edits resulting in GA status for the article Elcor, Minnesota. The article's prose reads and flows much better thanks to you. The article is currently up for FA review. One of the editors had requested that the lead section "be broadened to effectively summarize the body of the article with appropriate weight." I have done this: would you look it over and provide any copy editing you see fit? Thanks! DrGregMN (talk) 15:24, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Done. It was in pretty good shape already. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:43, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello again, Jonesey95! The article Elcor, Minnesota is progressing through the FAC review process. Could I ask you to look at the Geology section? I have made some edits at the request of reviewer Finetooth, but am not certain I like the way it reads. If you can improve upon it, please feel free. Thanks! DrGregMN (talk) 02:11, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

DrGregMN: I took a stab at it. See if you like it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:47, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Jonsey95, you are awesome. As always, you have my profound thanks! DrGregMN (talk) 01:41, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Perineometer revert

Thanks for catching that! I'm really not sure how that happened, I don't recall even editing this article (although I certainly read it). mathrick (talk) 18:19, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

It was a strange one, especially since your other contributions during the time period were completely normal and helpful edits. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:37, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Blitz

Hello, Jonesey95! I'm a writer working on a language blog for the New Yorker website, and was hoping to write a post about the October blitz and/ or Wikipedia copyediting more generally. Might you be able to answer a few questions? If so please let me know the best way to get in touch with you. Thank you! Bananakarenina (talk) 03:46, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Let's start here, if that works for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:12, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Care Quality Commission

Hi there, any particular reason you removed the logo from page? This was not described in the update summary. Millstream3 (talk) 12:36, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Millstream3 My mistake. I was removing unsupported parameters, and the logo got swept into the trash. I have restored it. Thank you for notifying me. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:28, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

No problem - easily done! Cheers, Millstream3 (talk) 15:45, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

GOCE October 2017 Blitz bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2017 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 16:49, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Infobox settlement cleanup

https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bot_requests&diff=809276844&oldid=809275234 77.179.11.240 (talk) 04:02, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Getting started with the drive

Hello! I'm just getting started with the Guild of Copy editors and was wondering if I'm doing everything right so far. Currently, I've edited The A.V. Club and Batman: Under the Red Hood. I was wondering if I accounted for the drive numbers correctly and if the copy edits were satisfactory. Any other advice you have would be great too. Thanks! HRouillier (talk) 18:54, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Recent dummy edits: Feel free to delete!

Hi!

I am just writing to inform you of a couple recent dummy edits I made at the Environmental racism in Europe article. Please feel free to delete! I reverted and reinstated my own edit on several occasions; apologies for any confusion. An incorrect edit by another user was made to the first sentence of the lead section (so I felt a need to fix it immediately), however, in my haste I found myself needing to re-word my rationale (which, again, I felt was necessary since this was the lead sentence).

Thanks! Sincerely,Sturgeontransformer (talk) 07:14, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

No problem. I always find that slowing down helps. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:09, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for understanding! Yep, and good advice to heed - I'll learn :) Sturgeontransformer (talk) 15:53, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Figure 1

Re Figure 1: Can the green in the map be changed to another color(such as yellow), as roughly 7% of the male population suffers from red/green color blindness? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.254.111.116 (talk) 14:51, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

62.254.111.116: Sorry, I don't know what article you are referring to. Can you please link to the article you are talking about? I edit many articles, typically minor edits to clean up an error. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:36, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewing

Hello, Jonesey95. I noticed you've done some constructive editing recently. Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; currently Wikipedia needs experienced users at this task. (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 06:30, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, but that looks like too much drama for me. I am sure that I would mark too many pages as speedy deletes and get a bunch of static from bozos. I prefer gnoming. Thanks for noticing my constructive edit, though. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:13, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

I can see it now:

Reporter: So, Mr Jonesey, have you had any complaints in wiki land? The Big J: Not a one that I listened to

I would have the same problem 😄 AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:24, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Yep. I have a few admins' talk pages on my watchlists, and the ones who delete pages get a lot of incomprehensible junk from people who don't know which end is up. I don't have the patience for it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Haha, yeah it definitely is not for everyone. No worries. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 08:46, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Help citation bot pages

Jonesey95: Could you use your magic powers to delete this files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Citation_bot#Bot_Pages_need_cleaned_up They are a bunch of outdated files within the Citation Bot hierarchy. All testing has been moved to GitHub and all the exclusions, etc. are now built into the source code. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 22:01, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

I have removed the linked pages from the list and I have updated some links. All the ones on the list should be good to be deleted AManWithNoPlan (talk) 14:43, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Incorrect redirects in Spanish

Template:Ficha de libro listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Ficha de libro (+ 3 more). Since you had some involvement with the Template:Ficha de libro redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. . Wikisaurus (talk) 17:02, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the notification. That was polite of you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-49

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Changes later this week
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• Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [1][2]

17:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

query

Did I answer your questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates? You have not returned to comment.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:08, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes, well done. I have marked my initial comment with strike formatting. I have no opinion on the question itself; I've just seen too many RFCs go off the rails for want of a clear initial problem statement. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:22, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

November 2017 GOCE Drive awards

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:22, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting 1 long article during the GOCE November 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:22, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting eight old articles during the GOCE November 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:22, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 7,972 words – during the GOCE November 2017 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:22, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Here you go! – Reidgreg (talk) 18:22, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Guild Newsletter / Drive announcement

I have not received any "mail" from the copyrighters guild since Feb 2017 I have not removed my name from any mailing list that I am aware of and wondered what the reason for this was?Amanda138a (talk) 00:23, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

We haven't sent a newsletter since February. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Newsletters. We are overdue for one. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:31, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Strange revert

[3]. Why did you revert? Please explain. --Moscow Connection (talk) 03:32, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

The previous edit caused a red error message in one of the citations, and the resulting article contained too many duplicate links. Please see MOS:REPEATLINK. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:35, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Okay, I see. But do you think your edit made Wikipedia better? You could have simply unlinked the article "Je veux (Zaz song)" a couple of times (where I accidentally linked it inside a ref template and one more time). You simply removed all the links to newly created articles I added. And here too: [4]. One link caused the citation error, but the other two were correct. --Moscow Connection (talk) 03:45, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

I do think that my revert made the article better. It no longer had a red error message, and the article was no longer in violation of the MOS guideline on repeating links. You are welcome to reinsert selected links now that you are aware of the guideline. An effective way to reinsert the links may be to partially revert my edit, removing the duplicate links but leaving in the rest. Happy editing! – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:50, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Misaligned table lines

Hi Jonesey. Here's a closer-up crop of the problem. The "1802" cell is not aligned properly.--Nevé–selbert 11:36, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I see it in the screen shot, but I do not see it in any of my three web browsers when I look at the article. I suspect a mismatched rowspan, but that table is too complicated for me to dive into right now. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:36, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

I have inspected the rowspan, and I don't think that is the problem. It is likely an Internet Explorer bug.--Nevé–selbert 10:16, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Asked Microsoft about the problem in a live chat, and they seem to think that isn't a browser issue. The lines also misalign in Edge and Chrome but in different parts of the table. Also, the anchors are playing up: clicking the "Victoria" anchor results in the appearance of two lines below the Command bar, yet this does not happen with "George III".--Nevé–selbert 10:56, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

GOCE script

While I was gathering info for the newsletter, I read a comment which led me to another tiny change for the GOCE Drive script:

Do While nTempWordCount > 5000

The 5000 should be changed to 4999 (or the > to >= which might be less confusing). As written, if an article is exactly 5000 words, the do loop isn't triggered to increment the count of 5k articles. (Similarly, it would get one less count if exactly 10,000, 15,000, etc.)

A bit trivial, but I thought I'd report it for the next time you go digging into the code. – Reidgreg (talk) 00:47, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

December 2017 newsletter

Jonesey95, I thought, after reading your GOCE nomination note, it might be worthwhile to draft a newsletter for you, which I've done. However, I did manual counts throughout—I didn't know about the script that Reidgreg mentions, nor did I know he was also working on a draft newsletter. It's awfully long, what with five drives, four blitzes, one completed coordinator election, and one in progress. At any rate, my draft is in my sandbox. If it is at all useful to you or to Reidgreg, please feel free to grab whatever you can from it.

It presupposes that the newsletter isn't sent until after the nominations close later today, and also that you will have a December blitz page created to go with the link included (though you could always send out the newsletter with it as a red link, to turn blue when ready). I tried to do a bit of shortening, but probably added in more than I removed. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:01, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! Can you and Reidgreg get together and merge your sandbox with Reidgreg's draft at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Newsletters/December 2017? – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:48, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: Whoops! Looks like you saved yours first, but I guess easier to work on mine since it's in the designated location. I'd left some notes at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Coordinators#December newsletter. But we should probably put any merge discussion at the talk page for the newsletter itself. – Reidgreg (talk) 13:12, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Iveta Mukuchyan

Hello! Recently, I have nominated an article for copy editing and I have seen that you copy edit articles. If you have an interest in taking a look at the article, please do so. If possible, I would be so grateful. Harout (talk) 20:52 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Holiday Greetings

	Holiday greetings and Best Wishes for a very Happy New Year. Cheers!! Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:13, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2017 News Hello copy editors! Welcome to the December 2017 GOCE newsletter, which contains nine months(!) of updates. The Guild has been busy and successful; your diligent efforts in 2017 has brought the backlog of articles requiring copy edit to below 1,000 articles for the first time. Thanks to all editors who have contributed their time and energy to help make this happen. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< Our copy-editing drives (month-long backlog-reduction drives held in odd-numbered months) and blitzes (week-long themed editing in even-numbered months) have been very successful this year. March drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2016 from our backlog and all February 2017 Requests (a total of 304 articles). By the end of the month, all but 22 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 28 who signed up, 22 editors recorded 257 copy edits (439,952 words). (These numbers do not always make sense when you compare them to the overall reduction in the backlog, because not all editors record every copy edit on the drive page.) April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 April; the theme was Requests. Of the 15 who signed up, 9 editors completed 43 articles (81,822 words). May drive: The goals were to remove July, August, and September 2016 from the backlog and to complete all March 2017 Requests (a total of 300 articles). By the end of the month, we had reduced our overall backlog to an all-time low of 1,388 articles. Of the 28 who signed up, 17 editors completed 187 articles (321,810 words). June blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 18 through 24 June; the theme was Requests. Of the 16 who signed up, 9 editors completed 28 copy edits (117,089 words). 2017 Coordinator elections: In June, coordinators for the second half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 moved back into the lead coordinator position, with Miniapolis stepping down to remain as coordinator; Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators, and Keira1996 rejoined after an extended absence. Thanks to all who participated! July drive: We set out to remove August, September, October, and November 2016 from the backlog and to complete all May and June 2017 Requests (a total of 242 articles). The drive was an enormous success, and the target was nearly achieved within three weeks, so that December 2016 was added to the "old articles" list used as a goal for the drive. By the end of the month, only three articles from 2016 remained, and for the second drive in a row, the backlog was reduced to a new all-time low, this time to 1,363 articles. Of the 33 who signed up, 21 editors completed 337 articles (556,482 words). August blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 20 through 26 August; the theme was biographical articles tagged for copy editing for more than six months (47 articles). Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors completed 38 copy edits (42,589 words). September drive: The goals were to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all August 2017 Requests (a total of 338 articles). Of the 19 who signed up, 14 editors completed 121 copy edits (267,227 words). October blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 22 through 28 October; the theme was Requests. Of the 14 who signed up, 8 editors completed 20 articles (55,642 words). November drive: We set out again to remove January, February, and March 2017 from the backlog and to complete all October 2017 Requests (a total of 207 articles). By the end of the month, these goals were reached and the backlog shrank to its lowest total ever, 997 articles, the first time it had fallen under one thousand (click on the graph above to see this amazing feat in graphical form). It was also the first time that the oldest copy-edit tag was less than eight months old. Of the 25 who signed up, 16 editors completed 159 articles (285,929 words). 2018 Coordinator elections: Voting is open for the election of coordinators for the first half of 2018. Please visit the election page to vote between now and December 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Thanks for participating! Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before (or after) every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Keira1996. >>> Sign up for the January Drive! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator Elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Maureen Wroblewitz

I want a copy to expand the article.Goblin 06:57, 24 December 2017 (UTC)