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Rothorpe I need your opinion on something. I've been helping William Harris polish the article Dire wolf, and I just started another read-through of the article. In the lead is the following sentence:
I'm fairly sure it was I who put the second verb in past perfect tense, but now that I look at it again, I'm wondering whether "was found" would sound better. It's shorter than "had been found", and maybe a little less pretentious-sounding. On the other hand, the sentence would then have two "was + past participle". What do you think? Which sounds better to you? (William, please feel free to offer your opinion, too.)
– Corinne ( talk) 00:10, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Rothorpe and any talk page stalkers, I wonder if you could give me your opinion on these edits to Dire wolf, which I had recently copy-edited. I agree with some of the edits, but I think this editor removed "however" a few times where it really adds to comprehension and paragraph cohesion – indicating a contrast with what comes before – for example, the first edit of this group of edits, where one scientist determined something, and another published agreement with him, and the contrast follows. Also, later, in the Radiocarbon dating section, the contrast is in the fact that "The age of most dire wolf localities is determined solely by biostratigraphy", but some sites (localities) have been able to be dated using radiocarbon dating. "But" would also signal the contrast, but the word "but" has just been used. This editor also later removed "however" in the discussion of the jaw, where it is appropriate to signal contrast. I am all for using "but" (or no word) instead of "however" (see my edit here, where I changed "however" to "but") and agree that "however" can be overused, but I think in some instances it is appropriate. I also think "a number of" is an elegant construction, as long as it is not overused, whereas "some" is often overused. I have discussed this before with this editor, and gotten nowhere, so don't want to take it up with him again. Also, the editor removed "in order" in the construction "in order to", leaving only "to", where I think "in order to" is more meaningful than merely "to". I cannot understand why some editors think this construction, "in order to", should be dispensed with in every case. (Here's another example by another editor: [1].) I think with most of the transitional words removed, the articles become like a list of tenuously related facts. I kind of also think that once the article has been copy-edited, it shouldn't be re-copy-edited unless there are obvious or egregious errors. It might give the impression that my copy-editing is mediocre. This is not the first time this editor has done this to an article I have just copy-edited. Most of these changes are merely stylistic choices, so I think they should be left alone, at least until after the review is completed, or discussed with me. What do you think? – Corinne ( talk) 15:49, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Rothorpe Since you're on-line now, may I ask you for your opinion on another article? Since I've let some time go by, this, too, may be stale, but there might still be time to address things. See User:Corinne/sandbox#English language. I've written a draft of a comment. You can leave your comments there, or here, whichever is easier. Don't let the images distract you. They were there before I added that section. – Corinne ( talk) 23:48, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
Miniapolis I have just started to copy-edit Krishna. In the section Krishna#Names and epithets, I'm wondering if all those names need to be in italics. I know foreign words need to be in italics, but I'm not sure names do. What do you think? – Corinne ( talk) 14:40, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Corinne.
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Redrose64 I'm doing a final read-through after copy-editing Krishna. I noticed that in the first paragraph of Krishna#Names and epithets, in the phrase, "all-attractive", the hyphen looks shorter than usual. There is a space between the hyphen and the first "a" of "attractive". Is that the way it's supposed to be? I don't remember seeing that small space before. I know there are several hyphens (see MOS:HYPHEN and WP:Hyphen, though you probably already know about those). What do you recommend? – Corinne ( talk) 22:47, 21 May 2017 (UTC) Never mind. I just looked at it in edit mode more carefully and saw that there was indeed a space added after the hyphen. I hadn't noticed the space because "all-" appeared at the end of a line. I have fixed it. Since you're here, would you mind reading my last comment under User talk:Corinne#MoS, above, about en-dash and em-dash templates? – Corinne ( talk) 22:59, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
EEng I see you're working on the MoS; that's great! I'm glad you moved the information on straight and curly quotation marks up. I wanted to mention something that I saw, and you can do whatever you want about it, if anything. In the section Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks, in the sub-section "Quotation characters", in the second bulleted item I see the word "glyphs". I wasn't sure what that word meant, and I'd guess that many readers might not know what it means, either. I see it is linked at its first mention at Ampersand, but someone looking at the Quotation marks section might not see that. The word is also used at the very end of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Original wording section, not linked, but in the sentence:
When I read "as detailed below", I looked below, and had to go two sections below, to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Typographic conformity, last bulleted item in the long list, to find anything:
Even that doesn't tell the reader which are glyphs and which are ligatures. Then there is a "See also" directing readers back to Ampersand.
At the very least, perhaps link "glyphs" to glyph, but for someone who doesn't know what is being referred to in Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks, I'm not sure that article will be helpful. – Corinne ( talk) 23:35, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
EEng I noticed that in the first paragraph of MOS:DASH, it instructs editors as follows:
Two forms of dash are used on Wikipedia:
en dash (–) and
em dash (—). Enter them as
–
or —
; or click on them to the right of the "Insert" dropdown beneath the edit window.
I wonder why the option of using the {{snd}}, {{ndash}}, {{mdash}}, and {{snds}} templates is not given. If it is added, perhaps a note should be added saying not to use them within another template such as a cite ref template or a quote template. (By the way, I stopped using {{snds}} because it often gives a space at the beginning of a new line, and {{snd}} is sufficient to create the spaced en-dash that I want.) – Corinne ( talk) 22:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
EEng I'm sorry, but you've lost me. I was referring to templates such as {{nsmdns}}. The template documentation explains what it is, ending with this:
In essence, it is an em dash that will not break on the left side but will break on the right side if needed.
The phrase "Zero width joiner em dash zero width non joiner" will not appear in the article. It's just explaining what kind of em-dash it is. – Corinne ( talk) 15:51, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
{{
snd}}
just complicate things for the newbies, and we also shouldn't need to worry about whether spaces are "thin" or "normal" because nobody will actually be measuring the gap. Joiners (of any width) are another minefield. There are only two useful kinds of space: a normal space that you get from tapping the space-bar once; and the
non-breaking space (nbsp). The nbsp character may be typed directly, if you know how: but when the page is next edited, some browsers have the annoying habit of altering a directly-typed nbsp into a regular space, so when I need an nbsp I use the entity
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Rothorpe After a day-and-a-half break, I am resuming copy-editing Macedonia (ancient kingdom). I'm now at Macedonia (ancient kingdom)#Religious beliefs and funerary practices. Near the beginning of that section I found the following sentence:
What do you think of the use of active voice for the verb "intertwined"? Would it sound better in passive voice?
Which sounds better to you? – Corinne ( talk) 00:32, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
2) Another question:
In the section Macedonia (ancient kingdom)#Theatre, music and performing arts is the following sentence:
I'm wondering whether the preposition "in" after "alongside studies" is appropriate for both "the Greek language" and "epics of Homer". The phrase "studies in the Greek language" can mean two things:
(a) studies conducted in the Greek language, or
(b) studies of the Greek language.
If it means "studies of the Greek language", then does "[studies in] epics of Homer" make sense to you? Is it clear enough that "studies in the Greek language and epics of Homer" (the way it is now) really means "studies of the Greek language and [of the] epics of Homer"?
Perhaps "in" should be changed to "of", or perhaps the addition of "the" before "epics of Homer" would make it a little clearer.
or some other combination. What do you think? – Corinne ( talk) 01:20, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
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Checkingfax In this and the subsequent edit, an editor changed the date format for Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, with an edit summary saying "relevant date format". If you have time, and wouldn't mind, would you research the history of the English variant used in this article and determine whether the change is justified? Pestalozzi was Swiss; does that by itself make British English the appropriate variant? – Corinne ( talk) 18:53, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
TheGeneralUser Thank you so much for your message and kind words. I very much appreciate them. I also look forward to collaborating with you. I was looking at your user page and found few details about you – I suppose that is deliberate. I was also astonished by all the statistics you've placed there. I'm wondering why – do they help you in your work on WP, or are you just curious about the numbers? What kinds of topics are of interest to you? Let me know if there is anything I can help you with! Best regards, – Corinne ( talk) 23:53, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Vsmith. See the recent edits at Budapest. Can you figure out what's going on there?
By the way, one of the editors, Desaiabhiii, has a user name that sounds an awful lot like the French word for "undressed". Here is the definition of the verb to be undressed, or to be in a state of undress at the French Wiktionary: [4]. The past participle déshabillé (undressed) would be pronounced (for an English-speaker) des-ab-i-yeh. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I thought I'd mention it. – Corinne ( talk) 23:10, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
Rothorpe Do you think this edit to Budapest is an improvement? Do you think it was necessary to change "it" to "Budapest"? – Corinne ( talk) 23:24, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
EEng and Sminthopsis84 I saw this edit to Azadirachta indica, and I thought I remembered seeing somewhere in the MOS that WP does not use the German ß (for "ss", I believe), but I can't be sure. I tried to find some information on it in the MOS but could not. I pinged both of you because EEng, you've been working on the MOS, and we talked about glyphs (but I'm not sure this is a glyph), and Sminthopsis84, you are the botanist. (a) Does WP use the German character, and, if not, (b) do you know where the guideline is in the MOS? Thanks in advance. – Corinne ( talk) 01:28, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello C. I hope you are well. I saw your post on Drmies talk page. As far as I know there is no way to alter an edit summary. Delete yes but alter no. I went ahead and made a dummy edit and linked to the two articles that you mentioned. This is what I usually do when I mess up and leave a red link in an edit summary. I hope this is okay and if I am wrong Drmies will let you know. Best regards. MarnetteD| Talk 03:28, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Corinne.
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Thank you for your thorough and comprehensive copyedit. Now I can nominate the article for GA. I highly appreciate your hard work. Borsoka ( talk) 02:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Rothorpe and any talk page stalkers. I was looking at the latest to Criterion of embarrassment, and I felt the first sentence of the article could be improved. Here it is as it is now:
At first glance, it sounds all right, but I think some slight changes might improve it, and I'd like to hear your thoughts. Here are a few of mine:
1. I don't like the sound of "accounts in which accounts". I think this can be avoided if the explanation of the type of analysis uses the singular "an account" instead of the plural.
2. Instead of "a critical analysis", I'd like to substitute "a type of critical analysis".
3. Regarding the phrase "in which accounts embarrassing to the author", I feel this displays an unwarranted certainty about what would be embarrassing to an individual. I'd like to substitute something like this:
4. Instead of "themselves", I'd like to substitute "him- or herself".
Another alternative would be to reword the entire last part to:
Thus, it would read:
(a) The criterion of embarrassment is a type of critical analysis in which an account likely to be embarrassing to the author of the account is presumed to be true because the author would have no reason to invent an embarrassing account about him- or herself.
or:
(b) The criterion of embarrassment is a type of critical analysis in which an account likely to be embarrassing to its author is presumed to be true because the author would have no reason to invent an embarrassing account about him- or herself.
or:
(c) The criterion of embarrassment is a type of critical analysis in which an account likely to be embarrassing to its author is presumed to be true because it would be illogical for an author to invent an embarrassing account about him- or herself.
Any thoughts? – Corinne ( talk) 01:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
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Sminthopsis84 I guess some people think "which" is to be used for restrictive adjective clauses... See this edit and the one previous to it. – Corinne ( talk) 04:20, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
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EEng I see on your user page you have a section headed User:EEng#Museum of Distorted Quotations Taken Of Context. I think you've looked at your page so many times you probably didn't notice that it should be: "taken out of context". I know you've told me I can make small corrections on your user and talk pages, but I thought since this was a section heading, I'd better just tell you and let you decide what you want to change, if anything. On your page, there is always the possibility that you have written it just as you want it to be. – Corinne ( talk) 20:07, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
It's possible I could do something to help with conflicts over copyediting at FAC. How would you like to approach this? Are we looking at specific types of edits? Should we tweak the process to get more input from you and others? Clearly, we don't want a situation where copyeditors in general are feeling like their work is unappreciated or disregarded ... that would make it harder for people to get copyediting when they ask for it. - Dank ( push to talk) 13:57, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
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Rothorpe I need your opinion on something. I've been helping William Harris polish the article Dire wolf, and I just started another read-through of the article. In the lead is the following sentence:
I'm fairly sure it was I who put the second verb in past perfect tense, but now that I look at it again, I'm wondering whether "was found" would sound better. It's shorter than "had been found", and maybe a little less pretentious-sounding. On the other hand, the sentence would then have two "was + past participle". What do you think? Which sounds better to you? (William, please feel free to offer your opinion, too.)
– Corinne ( talk) 00:10, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Rothorpe and any talk page stalkers, I wonder if you could give me your opinion on these edits to Dire wolf, which I had recently copy-edited. I agree with some of the edits, but I think this editor removed "however" a few times where it really adds to comprehension and paragraph cohesion – indicating a contrast with what comes before – for example, the first edit of this group of edits, where one scientist determined something, and another published agreement with him, and the contrast follows. Also, later, in the Radiocarbon dating section, the contrast is in the fact that "The age of most dire wolf localities is determined solely by biostratigraphy", but some sites (localities) have been able to be dated using radiocarbon dating. "But" would also signal the contrast, but the word "but" has just been used. This editor also later removed "however" in the discussion of the jaw, where it is appropriate to signal contrast. I am all for using "but" (or no word) instead of "however" (see my edit here, where I changed "however" to "but") and agree that "however" can be overused, but I think in some instances it is appropriate. I also think "a number of" is an elegant construction, as long as it is not overused, whereas "some" is often overused. I have discussed this before with this editor, and gotten nowhere, so don't want to take it up with him again. Also, the editor removed "in order" in the construction "in order to", leaving only "to", where I think "in order to" is more meaningful than merely "to". I cannot understand why some editors think this construction, "in order to", should be dispensed with in every case. (Here's another example by another editor: [1].) I think with most of the transitional words removed, the articles become like a list of tenuously related facts. I kind of also think that once the article has been copy-edited, it shouldn't be re-copy-edited unless there are obvious or egregious errors. It might give the impression that my copy-editing is mediocre. This is not the first time this editor has done this to an article I have just copy-edited. Most of these changes are merely stylistic choices, so I think they should be left alone, at least until after the review is completed, or discussed with me. What do you think? – Corinne ( talk) 15:49, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Rothorpe Since you're on-line now, may I ask you for your opinion on another article? Since I've let some time go by, this, too, may be stale, but there might still be time to address things. See User:Corinne/sandbox#English language. I've written a draft of a comment. You can leave your comments there, or here, whichever is easier. Don't let the images distract you. They were there before I added that section. – Corinne ( talk) 23:48, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
Miniapolis I have just started to copy-edit Krishna. In the section Krishna#Names and epithets, I'm wondering if all those names need to be in italics. I know foreign words need to be in italics, but I'm not sure names do. What do you think? – Corinne ( talk) 14:40, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Corinne.
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Redrose64 I'm doing a final read-through after copy-editing Krishna. I noticed that in the first paragraph of Krishna#Names and epithets, in the phrase, "all-attractive", the hyphen looks shorter than usual. There is a space between the hyphen and the first "a" of "attractive". Is that the way it's supposed to be? I don't remember seeing that small space before. I know there are several hyphens (see MOS:HYPHEN and WP:Hyphen, though you probably already know about those). What do you recommend? – Corinne ( talk) 22:47, 21 May 2017 (UTC) Never mind. I just looked at it in edit mode more carefully and saw that there was indeed a space added after the hyphen. I hadn't noticed the space because "all-" appeared at the end of a line. I have fixed it. Since you're here, would you mind reading my last comment under User talk:Corinne#MoS, above, about en-dash and em-dash templates? – Corinne ( talk) 22:59, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
EEng I see you're working on the MoS; that's great! I'm glad you moved the information on straight and curly quotation marks up. I wanted to mention something that I saw, and you can do whatever you want about it, if anything. In the section Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks, in the sub-section "Quotation characters", in the second bulleted item I see the word "glyphs". I wasn't sure what that word meant, and I'd guess that many readers might not know what it means, either. I see it is linked at its first mention at Ampersand, but someone looking at the Quotation marks section might not see that. The word is also used at the very end of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Original wording section, not linked, but in the sentence:
When I read "as detailed below", I looked below, and had to go two sections below, to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Typographic conformity, last bulleted item in the long list, to find anything:
Even that doesn't tell the reader which are glyphs and which are ligatures. Then there is a "See also" directing readers back to Ampersand.
At the very least, perhaps link "glyphs" to glyph, but for someone who doesn't know what is being referred to in Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks, I'm not sure that article will be helpful. – Corinne ( talk) 23:35, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
EEng I noticed that in the first paragraph of MOS:DASH, it instructs editors as follows:
Two forms of dash are used on Wikipedia:
en dash (–) and
em dash (—). Enter them as
–
or —
; or click on them to the right of the "Insert" dropdown beneath the edit window.
I wonder why the option of using the {{snd}}, {{ndash}}, {{mdash}}, and {{snds}} templates is not given. If it is added, perhaps a note should be added saying not to use them within another template such as a cite ref template or a quote template. (By the way, I stopped using {{snds}} because it often gives a space at the beginning of a new line, and {{snd}} is sufficient to create the spaced en-dash that I want.) – Corinne ( talk) 22:55, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
EEng I'm sorry, but you've lost me. I was referring to templates such as {{nsmdns}}. The template documentation explains what it is, ending with this:
In essence, it is an em dash that will not break on the left side but will break on the right side if needed.
The phrase "Zero width joiner em dash zero width non joiner" will not appear in the article. It's just explaining what kind of em-dash it is. – Corinne ( talk) 15:51, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
{{
snd}}
just complicate things for the newbies, and we also shouldn't need to worry about whether spaces are "thin" or "normal" because nobody will actually be measuring the gap. Joiners (of any width) are another minefield. There are only two useful kinds of space: a normal space that you get from tapping the space-bar once; and the
non-breaking space (nbsp). The nbsp character may be typed directly, if you know how: but when the page is next edited, some browsers have the annoying habit of altering a directly-typed nbsp into a regular space, so when I need an nbsp I use the entity
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Hi, this article has been tagged for cleanup and style since 2008 ... if you or others felt like giving it a polish and removing some of those very embarrassing old tags, that'd be great. All the best, Chiswick Chap ( talk) 12:46, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
Rothorpe After a day-and-a-half break, I am resuming copy-editing Macedonia (ancient kingdom). I'm now at Macedonia (ancient kingdom)#Religious beliefs and funerary practices. Near the beginning of that section I found the following sentence:
What do you think of the use of active voice for the verb "intertwined"? Would it sound better in passive voice?
Which sounds better to you? – Corinne ( talk) 00:32, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
2) Another question:
In the section Macedonia (ancient kingdom)#Theatre, music and performing arts is the following sentence:
I'm wondering whether the preposition "in" after "alongside studies" is appropriate for both "the Greek language" and "epics of Homer". The phrase "studies in the Greek language" can mean two things:
(a) studies conducted in the Greek language, or
(b) studies of the Greek language.
If it means "studies of the Greek language", then does "[studies in] epics of Homer" make sense to you? Is it clear enough that "studies in the Greek language and epics of Homer" (the way it is now) really means "studies of the Greek language and [of the] epics of Homer"?
Perhaps "in" should be changed to "of", or perhaps the addition of "the" before "epics of Homer" would make it a little clearer.
or some other combination. What do you think? – Corinne ( talk) 01:20, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
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Karl Pearson (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was a
statistician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of
mathematical statistics.
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Checkingfax In this and the subsequent edit, an editor changed the date format for Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, with an edit summary saying "relevant date format". If you have time, and wouldn't mind, would you research the history of the English variant used in this article and determine whether the change is justified? Pestalozzi was Swiss; does that by itself make British English the appropriate variant? – Corinne ( talk) 18:53, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
TheGeneralUser Thank you so much for your message and kind words. I very much appreciate them. I also look forward to collaborating with you. I was looking at your user page and found few details about you – I suppose that is deliberate. I was also astonished by all the statistics you've placed there. I'm wondering why – do they help you in your work on WP, or are you just curious about the numbers? What kinds of topics are of interest to you? Let me know if there is anything I can help you with! Best regards, – Corinne ( talk) 23:53, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, Vsmith. See the recent edits at Budapest. Can you figure out what's going on there?
By the way, one of the editors, Desaiabhiii, has a user name that sounds an awful lot like the French word for "undressed". Here is the definition of the verb to be undressed, or to be in a state of undress at the French Wiktionary: [4]. The past participle déshabillé (undressed) would be pronounced (for an English-speaker) des-ab-i-yeh. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I thought I'd mention it. – Corinne ( talk) 23:10, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
Rothorpe Do you think this edit to Budapest is an improvement? Do you think it was necessary to change "it" to "Budapest"? – Corinne ( talk) 23:24, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
EEng and Sminthopsis84 I saw this edit to Azadirachta indica, and I thought I remembered seeing somewhere in the MOS that WP does not use the German ß (for "ss", I believe), but I can't be sure. I tried to find some information on it in the MOS but could not. I pinged both of you because EEng, you've been working on the MOS, and we talked about glyphs (but I'm not sure this is a glyph), and Sminthopsis84, you are the botanist. (a) Does WP use the German character, and, if not, (b) do you know where the guideline is in the MOS? Thanks in advance. – Corinne ( talk) 01:28, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello C. I hope you are well. I saw your post on Drmies talk page. As far as I know there is no way to alter an edit summary. Delete yes but alter no. I went ahead and made a dummy edit and linked to the two articles that you mentioned. This is what I usually do when I mess up and leave a red link in an edit summary. I hope this is okay and if I am wrong Drmies will let you know. Best regards. MarnetteD| Talk 03:28, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi Corinne,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Henri-Edmond Cross - The Evening Air - Google Art Project.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on June 22, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-06-22. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich ( talk) 01:01, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
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Are you interested in continuing as a GOCE coordinator? If so, I encourage you to self-nominate at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Coordinators/2017/2. You have about 17 hours to do so. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 07:02, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Corinne.
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Thank you for your thorough and comprehensive copyedit. Now I can nominate the article for GA. I highly appreciate your hard work. Borsoka ( talk) 02:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Rothorpe and any talk page stalkers. I was looking at the latest to Criterion of embarrassment, and I felt the first sentence of the article could be improved. Here it is as it is now:
At first glance, it sounds all right, but I think some slight changes might improve it, and I'd like to hear your thoughts. Here are a few of mine:
1. I don't like the sound of "accounts in which accounts". I think this can be avoided if the explanation of the type of analysis uses the singular "an account" instead of the plural.
2. Instead of "a critical analysis", I'd like to substitute "a type of critical analysis".
3. Regarding the phrase "in which accounts embarrassing to the author", I feel this displays an unwarranted certainty about what would be embarrassing to an individual. I'd like to substitute something like this:
4. Instead of "themselves", I'd like to substitute "him- or herself".
Another alternative would be to reword the entire last part to:
Thus, it would read:
(a) The criterion of embarrassment is a type of critical analysis in which an account likely to be embarrassing to the author of the account is presumed to be true because the author would have no reason to invent an embarrassing account about him- or herself.
or:
(b) The criterion of embarrassment is a type of critical analysis in which an account likely to be embarrassing to its author is presumed to be true because the author would have no reason to invent an embarrassing account about him- or herself.
or:
(c) The criterion of embarrassment is a type of critical analysis in which an account likely to be embarrassing to its author is presumed to be true because it would be illogical for an author to invent an embarrassing account about him- or herself.
Any thoughts? – Corinne ( talk) 01:11, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
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Sminthopsis84 I guess some people think "which" is to be used for restrictive adjective clauses... See this edit and the one previous to it. – Corinne ( talk) 04:20, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
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visual technologies. This image of the rings of Saturn is an example of the application of
ultraviolet photography in astronomy.
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EEng I see on your user page you have a section headed User:EEng#Museum of Distorted Quotations Taken Of Context. I think you've looked at your page so many times you probably didn't notice that it should be: "taken out of context". I know you've told me I can make small corrections on your user and talk pages, but I thought since this was a section heading, I'd better just tell you and let you decide what you want to change, if anything. On your page, there is always the possibility that you have written it just as you want it to be. – Corinne ( talk) 20:07, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
It's possible I could do something to help with conflicts over copyediting at FAC. How would you like to approach this? Are we looking at specific types of edits? Should we tweak the process to get more input from you and others? Clearly, we don't want a situation where copyeditors in general are feeling like their work is unappreciated or disregarded ... that would make it harder for people to get copyediting when they ask for it. - Dank ( push to talk) 13:57, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, Corinne. How are things with you? The film, Nadodi Mannan is my next attempt at GA. I have listed it at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. A good and thorough copyedit would be really grateful. Do inform me once you get around to it. Thanks.
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Looking at you, kid
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A small, gentle reminder.
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Looking at you, kid
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