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GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261 Report on coordinators' elections Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives Guild Plans for 2012 Requests page report Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012! – Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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GOCE Drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE January 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation 45 people signed up for this drive this time; of these, 35 participated. This is similar to the number of editors who helped out in November. Thanks to all who participated! Barnstars will be distributed in the near future. Progress report Recent drives have been focusing on the oldest three months in the backlog. During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—July, August, and September 2010—from the queue, and there are less than 300 articles remaining from 2010. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the January 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy edit drive will be in March. Your drive coordinators – The Utahraptor talk, S Masters (talk), Diannaa (Talk), Stfg (Talk), Sp33dyphil (talk), and Dank (talk)

GOCE March copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their March 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:26, 20 February 2012 (UTC) >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graphs Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter. Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far. Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive GOCE March 2012 Backlog Elimination progress graph Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter. Participation Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months. Progress report During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators. Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May. Your drive coordinators – Dianna (Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk) To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their May 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. EdwardsBot (talk) 18:13, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Divergent version of Danelaw

I just found User:Amitchell125/danelaw, which may have diverged too much from the article now. I noticed it as its categories are not userfied. Did you want to do something with this, like add colons to the categories, or repaste the current article? im just trying to keep usernames out of categories. no big deal, thanks for your obvious hard work at a level of detail i have not even tried to approach.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:14, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles. Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 14:12, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 15:13, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their July 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on July 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on July 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to eliminate the articles tagged in April, May and June 2011 from the queue and to complete all requests placed before the end of June. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 6 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in April–June 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:42, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Edmund the Martyr

well done in enabling the article to become a good article again. Some of us who got burnt last time were watching and hoping but, and I can only speak for myself, felt if I got involved other not so helpful editors might join in. Well done and thanks.Edmund Patrick – confer 06:07, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 25 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us! Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—May, June, and July 2011—by about 40%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 264 articles so far, to around 2500 articles. Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, your best copy-editing work of the month will be eligible for fabulous prizes! See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:22, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Request

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Norman_conquest_1066.svg <- any chance you could possibly add Battle of Fulford to the list? Harold Hardrada took York in a bloody battle that, had York won, would almost certainly have kept Britain Saxon after 1066. I'm poor at image stuff so don't want to ruin the picture trying to add it.. Thanks. ~A Mysterious Stranger — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.171.79.195 (talk) 10:51, 26 July 2012 (UTC) ...

request granted... Hel-hama (talk) 14:40, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Wessex

Hello Amitchell125. Can you explain your rationale for removing the infobox at the above article? Although I can appreciate your addition of the map, the simultaneous removal of the infobox seems to me to have removed an accessible presentation of certain pieces of information. Thanks. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 23:29, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello PaleCloudedWhite - thanks for your message. It was remiss of me not to write in the talk page. I removed the infobox as it contained information that was unreliable, misleading, incomplete or a duplication of what was already in the lead section:

(i) unreliable - there has been much "scholarly debate" about the foundation of the kingdom and the only written account, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, is not considered to be reliable by all scholars. In short, Wessex may not have founded in 519. (see Yorke, Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England p. 128 etc for a discussion);

(ii) misleading - the flags for Wessex, Essex, Sussex and Kent are anachronisms and should not appear in the article at all; it has been argued that Winchester did not become the political centre of Wessex until around the late ninth century; England was not fully unified in 927, as for many years following Æþelstān's death, the English peoples were at times ruled simultaneously by different kings (e.g. Edmund/Olaf II);

(iii) incomplete - even though there is a link to List of monarchs of Wessex, the inclusion of the four Wessex kings appears quite arbitrary and fails to take into account the existence of any subkings, or any period when Wessex had overlordship over other parts of Anglo-Saxon England (as described in Lapidge, The Blackwall Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, p.511 onwards);

(iv) a duplication of the lead section - everything worth keeping in the infobox is already in the lead section - or could easily be put there. Therefore the infobox could be considered to be an disinfobox. I think infoboxes are a very good idea on Wikipedia, but surely in this potentially complex article, a topographical map is of more use (and more attractive) than the infobox.

I will attempt to improve the lead section so that a well-presented summary of the article can be accessed. Hel-hama (talk) 07:55, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I confess I am not knowledgeable about this subject, and queried the infobox disappearance simply because of the lack of explanation for its removal. However your points above more than suffice in that regard! As an aside, am I right in thinking that your alternative username signature has a particular historical inspiration? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 10:56, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, PaleCloudedWhite. Hel-hama is Anglo-Saxon for 'grasshopper'... Hel-hama (talk) 11:46, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Reversion

Hey there, I just mistakenly rolled your edits back rather than revert them. The issue is that Hengist and Horsa were clearly not "people" just as Odin was not a "person". Of course, deities are not classified as people, regardless of the propaganda of the church. :) :bloodofox: (talk) 15:38, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Bloodofox, in my mind the Saxons considered them to be real people, so I treated them as such, but your point is entirely valid. Hey, I must be feeling tired after a long day to forgotten they were legends... Hel-hama (talk) 15:46, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Category:Anglo-Saxon documents

I changed some of the contents here, but I'm not sure it should be emptied & deleted. "Documents" to my mind are original manuscripts (at this period, or the Bayeux Tapestry) rather than copies; normally of things with no real claim to be literature. If it could be considered as literature, on a broad definition, it is a text, but might be a document also, especially if it only survives in a unique MS. Does that make sense? Maybe not. Lists and "records" are documents rather than texts. Going by the article, the Leofric Missal is both a document ("legal records") and contains texts, as well as standard liturgical stuff in Latin. Fiddly. Johnbod (talk) 21:54, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

out-of-process emptying of Category:Archaeology of the kingdom of East Anglia

Please don't empty categories out of process, as you did with Category:Archaeology of the kingdom of East Anglia. If you think a category needs to be deleted, feel free to nominate it at Categories for Discussion, where the community has a chance to express their opinion about it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:55, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

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Ricberht

I've had a go at reviewing this. It's a good piece of work, but I have to warn you that I really dithered in deciding whether this could meet the GA criteria given how little is known about him. I'm not sure whether writing it was brave or foolhardy! Sarastro1 (talk) 21:32, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Passed now, nice work. I placed it in the Royalty and Nobility section of the GAs rather than Monarchs, which I presume is the safest place. Sarastro1 (talk) 23:49, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

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TFA

Coming soon --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:35, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Main page appearance: Anna of East Anglia

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Anna (killed 653 or 654) was King of East Anglia from the early 640s until his death. Little is known of Anna's life or his reign, as few records have survived from this period. He was one of the three sons of Eni who ruled East Anglia, succeeding after Ecgric was killed in battle by Penda of Mercia. Anna was praised by Bede for his devotion to Christianity and was renowned for the saintliness of his family. In 645 Cenwalh of Wessex was driven from his kingdom by Penda and whilst living as an exile at the East Anglian court and as a result of Anna's influence, he was converted to Christianity. Upon his return from exile, Cenwalh was able to re-establish Christianity in his own kingdom and the people of Wessex then remained firmly Christian. Following the attack in 651 by Penda on the monastery at Cnobheresburg, which Anna richly endowed, he was forced by Penda to flee into exile. He may have travelled to the western kingdom of the Magonsæte and returned in about 653, but East Anglia was attacked again by Penda soon afterwards and at the Battle of Bulcamp the East Anglian army, led by Anna, was defeated by the Mercians, and Anna and his son Jurmin were both killed. He was succeeded by his brother, Æthelhere. (Full article...)

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Wuffa

I was going to wait to see what he or she had to say, but you're in BRD. Do try not to be protective simply because it's a GA, though; that's not a reason in itself to not remove chunks if they don't meet standards - the point is that they do (in my, and presumably your, opinion). Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 22:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

I have read up on WP:BRD and will do my best to follow the advice you and the essay have given. Many thanks. Hel-hama (talk) 22:28, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Precious

East Anglia
Thank you for quality articles on the people and history of East Anglia, such as Anna of East Anglia and Edmund the Martyr, and for your work in the Guild of Copy Editors - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:39, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Edmund the Martyr

Links,sorted, have you seen all the foreign language bots are changing the title already. Look at the history. I think this could be tricky. Edmund Patrick – confer 18:52, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

The bots needn't make any difference: the English version should stand as the correct version. Hel-hama (talk) 19:03, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

I have brought the events to the attention of User talk: The Rambling Man with whom I have worked before, and he has a history with Edmund the Martyr. I am not so sure about the bots, an interesting way to get a name change. Edmund Patrick – confer 19:14, 28 December 2012 (UTC)