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For Sack of Magdeburg, the siege of Jerusalem under Titus led to Jerusalem being ruined and utterly sacked by the Romans. I think thats what he means when he says "It is certain that no more terrible work and divine punishment has been seen since the Destruction of Jerusalem." -- 2001:8003:59DB:4100:D4A6:C6A0:FF0:2892 ( talk) 05:56, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
thankyou for your reply on my talkpage. I had thought it referenced the sack under Titus, but unless I see anything concrete on it, I'll take your word on it for 1099 AD. 2001:8003:59DB:4100:D4A6:C6A0:FF0:2892 ( talk) 06:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
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Issue 41, September – October 2020
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter
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Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now. Drive and Blitz reports
September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive. October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz. November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests. Other news
Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above). Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Seasonal tidings and cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020
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If you're going to import and replace all the popes' shortdescs, perhaps you should establish some consensus to standardize them and make them standard instead of doing 260+ articles ad hoc?? Elizium23 ( talk) 01:54, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
On 27 January you edited King Khalid page with Provelt, but this tool uses only "last" parameter for the authors in the refs. So please review your work after you use it, thanks. -- Egeymi ( talk) 09:20, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Heyyy why did you removed my words? In buddha and arniko? Buddha was born in lumbini (present nepal) And arniko spread pagoda style architecture Ananta5421 ( talk) 12:15, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
No everyone knows Buddha's birthplace but they don't want to write nepal they write lumbini yes lumbini is in nepal buy it's written like this 'buddha was born in lumbini and he spend his life in ancient india' indirectly again people will think buddha was born in india Ananta5421 ( talk) 01:10, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Same goes in pagoda style you have write stupa is the inspiration of pagoda what is the proof?it's a myth which is famous here too but maybe you can write myth 'pagoda style originated from stupa style of india' Ananta5421 ( talk) 01:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
And yes why don't you search about ashoka piller ashoka was an indian king he knew later his indian people will try to fake Buddha's birth place so he made a piller tha says buddha was born here in lumbini (nepal) Ananta5421 ( talk) 01:14, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Yes he was born in lumbini According to wikipedia which is correct but lumbini is in nepal Ananta5421 ( talk) 11:07, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
He traveled whole indian sub continent mostly to india so he stayed in India more but he was born in lumbini nepal Ananta5421 ( talk) 11:08, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Please stop adding "Families from Ancient Rome who shared Foo nomen" as a short description in articles about Roman gentes. This is awkward and confusing—it suggests that gentes were random collocations of unrelated families that just happened to share a name by some coincidence. Roman gentes were families, in the broad sense—not collections of unrelated families. I understand you're getting this from Wikidata—but whoever wrote that in Wikidata obviously didn't know what they were doing. The best short description to use here is "Ancient Roman family", without any circumlocution about multiple families sharing nomina. P Aculeius ( talk) 06:44, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
Is there a reason you're adding these? I've never seen life-span dates in short descriptions before, is there is new advisory to do this? It doesn't seem to me to be necessary of there's nothing to disambiguate. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 05:24, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Dear Chewings72, I too have some concerns with your work on short descriptions. The guideline ( WP:HOWTOSD) says "be brief: aim for no more than about 40 characters (but this can be exceeded when necessary)", but it seems that your descriptions are systematically longer, and very often much longer than about 40 characters. Do you actually check how it looks on a smart phone? Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 12:41, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 42, January – February 2021
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- 11:27, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- 11:11, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello brother, I noticed that you returned my article. I have modified some words such as (Bedouin) for the word Arabs. Also, I deleted the word Najd because it is incorrect, so we find a region in Saudi Arabia that has no relation to the history of the Arabs. The history of the Arabs is related to the Hijaz and Yemen only Samlaxcs ( talk) 11:55, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
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These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
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The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
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Election time: Voting in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 16 June and will conclude at the end of the month. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Have your say and show support here. June Blitz: Our June copy-editing blitz is underway and will conclude on 26 June. Drive and blitz reports
January Drive: 28 editors completed 324 copy edits totalling 714,902 words. At the end of the drive, the backlog had reached a record low of 52 articles. ( full results) February Blitz: 15 editors completed 48 copy edits totalling 142,788 words. ( full results) March Drive: 29 editors completed 215 copy edits totalling 407,736 words. ( full results) April Blitz: 12 editors completed 23 copy edits totalling 56,574 words. ( full results) May Drive: 29 editors completed 356 copy edits totalling 479,013 words. ( full results) Other news
Progress report: as of 26 June, GOCE participants had completed 343 Requests since 1 January. The backlog has fluctuated but remained in control, with a low of 52 tagged articles at the end of January and a high of 620 articles in mid-June. 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, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu and Twofingered Typist, and from member Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Issue 45, May – June 2021
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The discussion at wikipedia talk:Short descriptions talks about the implications of exceeding the limit. In some contexts, the excess is simply discarded. Personally, I think that the limit is generally too small to be useful - see wikipedia talk:Short descriptions#Conclusion - but that's the current policy. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 14:37, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi. During your latest revert on this article you may have inadvertently supported an earlier vandalism by IP 103.134.110.68. I have restored the article back to a stable version by user:HinduKshatrana. Kannada and Sanskrit were the primary languages of the empire and there is sufficient content about that in this article which is well cited. Marathi made a late arrival but needs to be included anyway. Pied Hornbill ( talk) 14:51, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
The article reads (Modern interpretation): Moses speaks of "Mithridates, satrap of Darius" (identifiable with Mithridates I of Pontus) installed by Alexander to rule over the Georgians. Darius died in 330 BC, and Mithridates I of Pontus was not born at that time ... Mithridates II of Cius should be written here, because during his transfer (302 BC) the Kingdom of Iberia was formed. Correction is necessary here. Thanks in advance.-- Lasha-george ( talk) 17:38, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021
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Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter
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September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Drive and Blitz reports
June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{ cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). 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, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Hello, I am in dispute with another editor User_talk:Mooproop1#Vandalism_and_discriminatory_speech. This regards the page Menelik II. Would you look into the matter and advise? Rastakwere ( talk) 04:57, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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Issue 47, September – October 2021
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For Sack of Magdeburg, the siege of Jerusalem under Titus led to Jerusalem being ruined and utterly sacked by the Romans. I think thats what he means when he says "It is certain that no more terrible work and divine punishment has been seen since the Destruction of Jerusalem." -- 2001:8003:59DB:4100:D4A6:C6A0:FF0:2892 ( talk) 05:56, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
thankyou for your reply on my talkpage. I had thought it referenced the sack under Titus, but unless I see anything concrete on it, I'll take your word on it for 1099 AD. 2001:8003:59DB:4100:D4A6:C6A0:FF0:2892 ( talk) 06:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
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Issue 41, September – October 2020
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Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter
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Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now. Drive and Blitz reports
September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive. October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz. November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests. Other news
Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above). Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Seasonal tidings and cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.
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The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself. [22] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- 14:00, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
If you're going to import and replace all the popes' shortdescs, perhaps you should establish some consensus to standardize them and make them standard instead of doing 260+ articles ad hoc?? Elizium23 ( talk) 01:54, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
On 27 January you edited King Khalid page with Provelt, but this tool uses only "last" parameter for the authors in the refs. So please review your work after you use it, thanks. -- Egeymi ( talk) 09:20, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Heyyy why did you removed my words? In buddha and arniko? Buddha was born in lumbini (present nepal) And arniko spread pagoda style architecture Ananta5421 ( talk) 12:15, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
No everyone knows Buddha's birthplace but they don't want to write nepal they write lumbini yes lumbini is in nepal buy it's written like this 'buddha was born in lumbini and he spend his life in ancient india' indirectly again people will think buddha was born in india Ananta5421 ( talk) 01:10, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Same goes in pagoda style you have write stupa is the inspiration of pagoda what is the proof?it's a myth which is famous here too but maybe you can write myth 'pagoda style originated from stupa style of india' Ananta5421 ( talk) 01:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
And yes why don't you search about ashoka piller ashoka was an indian king he knew later his indian people will try to fake Buddha's birth place so he made a piller tha says buddha was born here in lumbini (nepal) Ananta5421 ( talk) 01:14, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Yes he was born in lumbini According to wikipedia which is correct but lumbini is in nepal Ananta5421 ( talk) 11:07, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
He traveled whole indian sub continent mostly to india so he stayed in India more but he was born in lumbini nepal Ananta5421 ( talk) 11:08, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Please stop adding "Families from Ancient Rome who shared Foo nomen" as a short description in articles about Roman gentes. This is awkward and confusing—it suggests that gentes were random collocations of unrelated families that just happened to share a name by some coincidence. Roman gentes were families, in the broad sense—not collections of unrelated families. I understand you're getting this from Wikidata—but whoever wrote that in Wikidata obviously didn't know what they were doing. The best short description to use here is "Ancient Roman family", without any circumlocution about multiple families sharing nomina. P Aculeius ( talk) 06:44, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
Is there a reason you're adding these? I've never seen life-span dates in short descriptions before, is there is new advisory to do this? It doesn't seem to me to be necessary of there's nothing to disambiguate. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 05:24, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Dear Chewings72, I too have some concerns with your work on short descriptions. The guideline ( WP:HOWTOSD) says "be brief: aim for no more than about 40 characters (but this can be exceeded when necessary)", but it seems that your descriptions are systematically longer, and very often much longer than about 40 characters. Do you actually check how it looks on a smart phone? Apaugasma ( talk| contribs) 12:41, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 42, January – February 2021
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- 11:27, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- 11:11, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello brother, I noticed that you returned my article. I have modified some words such as (Bedouin) for the word Arabs. Also, I deleted the word Najd because it is incorrect, so we find a region in Saudi Arabia that has no relation to the history of the Arabs. The history of the Arabs is related to the Hijaz and Yemen only Samlaxcs ( talk) 11:55, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk)
00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
You can see the right map of Qing, attention Guizhou and Guangxi, the map of yellow river also
Guild of Copy Editors June 2021 Newsletter
![]() Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, our first newsletter of 2021, which is a brief update of Guild activities since December 2020. To unsubscribe, follow the link at the bottom of this box. Current events
Election time: Voting in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 16 June and will conclude at the end of the month. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Have your say and show support here. June Blitz: Our June copy-editing blitz is underway and will conclude on 26 June. Drive and blitz reports
January Drive: 28 editors completed 324 copy edits totalling 714,902 words. At the end of the drive, the backlog had reached a record low of 52 articles. ( full results) February Blitz: 15 editors completed 48 copy edits totalling 142,788 words. ( full results) March Drive: 29 editors completed 215 copy edits totalling 407,736 words. ( full results) April Blitz: 12 editors completed 23 copy edits totalling 56,574 words. ( full results) May Drive: 29 editors completed 356 copy edits totalling 479,013 words. ( full results) Other news
Progress report: as of 26 June, GOCE participants had completed 343 Requests since 1 January. The backlog has fluctuated but remained in control, with a low of 52 tagged articles at the end of January and a high of 620 articles in mid-June. 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, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu and Twofingered Typist, and from member Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors at 12:37, 26 June 2021 (UTC).
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Issue 45, May – June 2021
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- 11:04, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
The discussion at wikipedia talk:Short descriptions talks about the implications of exceeding the limit. In some contexts, the excess is simply discarded. Personally, I think that the limit is generally too small to be useful - see wikipedia talk:Short descriptions#Conclusion - but that's the current policy. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 14:37, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi. During your latest revert on this article you may have inadvertently supported an earlier vandalism by IP 103.134.110.68. I have restored the article back to a stable version by user:HinduKshatrana. Kannada and Sanskrit were the primary languages of the empire and there is sufficient content about that in this article which is well cited. Marathi made a late arrival but needs to be included anyway. Pied Hornbill ( talk) 14:51, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
The article reads (Modern interpretation): Moses speaks of "Mithridates, satrap of Darius" (identifiable with Mithridates I of Pontus) installed by Alexander to rule over the Georgians. Darius died in 330 BC, and Mithridates I of Pontus was not born at that time ... Mithridates II of Cius should be written here, because during his transfer (302 BC) the Kingdom of Iberia was formed. Correction is necessary here. Thanks in advance.-- Lasha-george ( talk) 17:38, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
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Issue 46, July – August 2021
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- 11:14, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter
![]() Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021. Current and upcoming events
September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Drive and Blitz reports
June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{ cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). 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, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:43, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I am in dispute with another editor User_talk:Mooproop1#Vandalism_and_discriminatory_speech. This regards the page Menelik II. Would you look into the matter and advise? Rastakwere ( talk) 04:57, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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Issue 47, September – October 2021
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team -- 16:58, 10 November 2021 (UTC)