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GOCE drive news[edit]
Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive
 Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats. 
 So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now.
We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal. Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success! Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), The UtahraptorTalk to me, and Tea with toast (Talk) |
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Shapley–Folkman lemma: GA Review[edit]
Dear Paul,
Thanks again for your peer-review of the Shapley–Folkman lemma article. Now the article is undergoing a Good-Article review. Your comments and suggestions would again be helpful!
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Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 15:09, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion[edit]
| Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive
Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.
If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March. Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk) |
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 15:36, 5 February 2011 (UTC).
March 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive[edit]
Hi. On behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors, I am inviting you to sign up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive. Win a barnstar! It's fun. --Diannaa (Talk) 01:53, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
GOCE drive newsletter[edit]
The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive. Awards and barnstars We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest |
You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:55, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Hillary Scott[edit]
Could you expand on what you meant when you moved the Hillary Scott article and left the following edit summary: distasteful subject matter should be hidden by a disambiguation page on the first and last name? I'm mostly curious as to what policy hiding "distasteful subject matter" falls under. Dismas|(talk) 06:50, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not sure on a policy... I was just really surprised to search for the name of a music artist and hit a porn actress's page. There was a disambig link from there to the singer, but I think that because they are so unrelated there should be a branch separate from either of them; I created the appropriate disambiguation page and added a disambig link from the singer to the actress, so the loops are closed and folks searching for down-home country music won't be shocked by "anal sex" and "double penetration" on their first visit. Common courtesy exists on Wikipedia, right? WP:BOLD Paul M. Nguyen (chat|blame) 07:03, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
- I wasn't saying that common courtesy doesn't/shouldn't exist. Though I'd appreciate if editors spoke from a more objective viewpoint rather than letting their morals dictate their actions. For instance, country music is more distasteful to me than pornography. And if it were me that was performing the move/disambiguation, I think that I would have simply stated that I was disambiguating instead of "hiding distasteful subject matter", no matter what the subject. WP:CENSORED Dismas|(talk) 07:20, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
- I will fight for an informative resource and adequate metadata on WP. I think what I did falls within what Wikipedia is, because I removed no content, only made one page less accessible by landing it on a disambig page, and I even polluted the singer's article (from the perspective of someone motivated by his morals) with the disambig link to "the American pornographic actress". Appreciate your concern and keeping me real by presenting an opposing viewpoint. I did consider switching the redirect to point to the singer first but that, as you pointed out, would be the same bias in the other direction. As it stands now, no bias exists, except maybe the ordering of links on the disambig page; I opted for alphabetical because I think neither is really more "primary" than the other, per the guideline and MOS on Disambiguation links. Paul M. Nguyen (chat|blame) 07:27, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
- I wasn't saying that common courtesy doesn't/shouldn't exist. Though I'd appreciate if editors spoke from a more objective viewpoint rather than letting their morals dictate their actions. For instance, country music is more distasteful to me than pornography. And if it were me that was performing the move/disambiguation, I think that I would have simply stated that I was disambiguating instead of "hiding distasteful subject matter", no matter what the subject. WP:CENSORED Dismas|(talk) 07:20, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
GOCE elections[edit]
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors
 Elections are currently underway for our Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days and ends on June 30, 23:59 UTC. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! There is also a referendum to appoint a Coordinator Emeritus. Cast your vote today. |
Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 08:02, 19 June 2011 (UTC)