User talk:FeanorStar7/Archive 4

Order of categories

Is there any policy or guideline behind your edit here?

I usually use code like {{subst:L|||Thwaites, Thomas}} to add the Defaultsort and birth/death/living categories to an article; DEFAULTSORT has to appear before any categories (per WP:ORDER), so the birth/death/living categories will follow it immediately, ie before any other categories which are already present. Is there a rule to say that they should be elsewhere? PamD 08:12, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Note: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization section 3.1 (toward the end) has some considerations about the order of categories but does not specifically talk about birth/death/living cats. Attention: @User:PamD --FeanorStar7 (talk) 11:53, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

William T. Greenough article assessment

I reassessed William T. Greenough as start class. You'd rated it a stub a couple of weeks ago. It now has more than 30 citations, which would make it one of the more comprehensive stubs in my experience. While I don't usually quibble about assessments, the article has been submitted for DYK. Officially at least, stub class articles aren't eligible for DYK, and I do think this article should be eligible for that. It's more comprehensive than most new articles accepted for DYK. Cheers, Easchiff (talk) 11:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News

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Greetings

Thanks again for reading and checking the Jesse Root Grant biography. Saw your greeting on your user page. Not long ago I started a couple of articles about notable librarians who did groundbreaking work in their fields, working with, editing and publishing manuscripts, etc. i.e. Howard Henry Peckham and John Clement Fitzpatrick. Hope you find them interesting if not useful. Cheers. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 21:57, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Wilgus

Thanks for cleaning up my two mistakes at D. K. Wilgus. Obviously editing too early in the morning! PamD 13:33, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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Many thanks for the improvements on article Adalbert of Babenberg Mill 1 (talk) 17:37, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

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Bio of Marco Averà, Ceo of Snam - looking for suggestions

Dear FeanorStar7, I have recently submitted a draft containing the biography of Marco Alverà, CEO of Snam, the Italian natural gas infrastructure company (http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Marco_Alver%C3%A0). Judging by what is written in your bio (you are currently working on living people articles), I thought this content might be of interest to you. I was wondering if you could have a look and tell me what you think. Thank you in advance! Anna Sai (talk) 15:03, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Pierre François Dumont

I see you assessed this article as "Stub". That is, "A very basic description of the topic. ... Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition." See WP:ARTASS. It would be helpful if you could provide notes on the article's talk page (not here) explaining what improvements would be needed to get it up the "C" level, where it would be useful to a casual reader. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 00:33, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for your edits to George Willis Cooke!

I see that you have corrected a number of errors I made. I appreciate your input, and I have learned something.ArthurOgawa (talk) 21:56, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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Help me!

Please help me with... the talk page for the article Ali Darzi redirects to Ali Darzi, Saveh which is a different article about a village in Iran. I think there should be a separate talk page for the person. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

FeanorStar7 10:09, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Done. !dave 10:21, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

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Yelena Stempkovskaya

Hi! I'm just wondering why you labeled Yelena Stempkovskaya as a stub on the talk page. It's 4,264 bytes, much longer than what is traditionally considered a stub.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 12:27, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Category sort

Is there a reason you are putting birth and death date cats for people on the bottom of list of cats? The overwhelming majority of articles I have seen have these on the top, so for purposes of standardization, that seems like the best place. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 12:59, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) And if an editor creates the categories the quick way using {{subst:L|1900|1980|Smith, Jane}} to add birth, death and DEFAULTSORT, they will do so above any other categories, so these two will come first. PamD 13:24, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

There's no rule at WP:CATEGORIES ("the order in which categories are placed on a page is not governed by any single rule"), but looking at the first 5 Featured Article biographies at Wikipedia:Featured_articles#Art,_architecture,_and_archaeology_biographies the birth and death cats come first for 3 of them, and after one or two defining cats but before all the rest for the other two. So there's inconsistency for FAs, but in that sample of 5 they were not put at the bottom of the list. PamD 13:31, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

My point is striving for consistency, not that there's any rule about it. Of all cats on a bio article, these two categories are likely to be most common. If they are put on the bottom, they will likely rise to the middle as new cats are added by additional authors as the article develops. If they are put on the top, they hopefully will stay there. This is all IMHO. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 13:39, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

thanks, everyone for your comments; the reason I thought that putting them on the bottom was a good idea is that they are (IMHO) not as important as what the person is known for (American women scientists, for example). Also, in a lot of cases, the category will be year of birth missing or something like that; which is a hidden category anyway... I add the categories manually. --FeanorStar7 13:44, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

I can really recommend the "Subst:L" method - lots of results for relatively few keystrokes. Leave a date field blank or add "missing" or "unknown" as appropriate - so {{subst:L|||Smith, Jane}} gets her the "living people" and "date of birth missing (living people)" categories, while {{subst:L|missing|missing|Smith, Jane}} is when we know she's dead and think her dates are likely to be findable somewhere (eg she was active in 19th century), or {{subst:L|unknown|1456|Smith, Jane}} when it's unlikely that the birth date is recorded anywhere, etc. PamD 13:55, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

I would offer that our opinion on what is most important goes against NPOV. For that reason, I always alpha lists. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 13:49, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

To be or Not to be a Stub

Hi, thank you for doing a stub assessment on the Gali Muddu Krishnama Naidu article which I've done quite a lot of work on recently. I was hoping it wouldn't be considered to be a stub any more because I've expanded it quite a bit and I removed its stub tag when I'd finished (my bad) but you've put it back again. When is an article considered to be no longer a stub?Rodney Baggins (talk) 23:11, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

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As stated

I had asked you why you put yes to living, etc. Obviously I took it off because the page is not encountering huge traffic and doesn't need it. That is to protect the page from people who are trivializing things or just being silly. Neither is happening so it's not necessary. Bleucheeses (talk) 01:24, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

You're asked to answer the above question. Are you putting "bio tags" all over the site? Are they necessary or can't they be adapted to the types of personalities? You seem to use the one size fits all approach. Bleucheeses (talk) 01:33, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Well. You replied, thanks. My thinking is you may be incorrect but there's nothing affected by you doing so. Here's my opinion and you can probably find many others that agree. Because everyone is living you are saying they should be tagged. As already mentioned some pages get much less traffic or even almost no visitors. I do not concur that putting classifications on things or using other tags means you must have the bio tag, but go ahead! : ) I hope you find other things on here to be quite enthusiastic about, not just seemingly mundane and boring stuff. Bleucheeses (talk) 01:56, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

June 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days. Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed. March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words). April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words). May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words). Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place 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: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk. >>> Participate in the June elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:16, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

... and seven! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

... and eight --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Congrats

Hi and congrats for your patient and tireless work on my own contributions. That's what I call being comitted!

I'm not competent as regards the TP additions you make but I'm glad to observe there aren't that many mistakes in English in the articles themselves. Thanks for correcting them. Yours, LouisAlain (talk) 07:32, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Indigenous history

Indigenous history...I am writing a series of grants. I need a historian who knows this line very well. Can you help me? My goal is repatriation on a large scale. 513-802-1433 on signal Ladyarcher64 (talk) 08:39, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

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English?

George Williamson (academic) was a Category:English literature academics (scholars studying English lit), but why did you give him {{England-academic-bio-stub}} (scholars of English nationality)? There's no evidence that he was from the UK: did you let Hotcat mislead you? Please take more care. Thanks. (@Philafrenzy: for info) PamD 08:37, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hello!I ask for help in editing an article about the composer Rudolf Schumann, help me to make the article good and help with a good translation. I took information from other Wikipedia in other languages. Thank you! http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Shumann_Rudolf 91.205.239.8 (talk) 13:16, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2018. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2019, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from all of the articles tagged in our original target months of June, July and August 2018, and by 24 January we ran out of articles. After adding September, we finished the month with 8 target articles remaining and 842 left in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 48 requests for copyedit in January. Of the 31 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 32 copyedits, including 15 requests. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 23:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 108 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 851 articles. March Drive: The month-long March drive is now underway; the target months are October and November 2018. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Sign up here! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. 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. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
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@LouisAragon: Thanks so much! --FeanorStar7 01:28, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Evaluation of Maria van Reigersberch article

I seldom react to evaluations of my articles, but rating Maria van Reigersberch "start class"? Now I am very curious about the defects you found.--Ereunetes (talk) 19:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Removal of WP:BIO tags

I (and other editors, I've noticed) have removed those tags from the talk pages of articles about missing-persons cases because they aren't biographies. They're about events, not people: "Disappearance of X", not "X". The people involved would not meet the criteria for having an article about themselves simply on the basis that they went missing, and since that's usually the only reason we have an article about them, we don't name the article after them.

Yes, they have biographical information, but that's usually short (the sources available usually don't focus on that much, anyway) and included only as relevant to the article, i.e. to explain how they wound up living where they were living when they disappeared. Daniel Case (talk) 01:18, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

@Daniel Case: Thanks for the information and clarification. I appreciate it. I will let the editors I'm working with on a project know about this. May I quote your statements?--FeanorStar7 01:27, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Sure, although even better, you can just link the diff. Daniel Case (talk) 04:03, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2019. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 16 June. 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. June Blitz: Our June blitz will soon be upon us; it will begin at 00:01 on 16 June (UTC) and will close at 23:59 on 22 June (UTC). The themes are "nature and the environment" and all requests. March Drive: Thanks to everyone for their work in March's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from 182 of the articles tagged in our original target months October and November 2018, and the month finished with 64 target articles remaining from November and 811 in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 22 requests for copyedit in March; the month ended with 34 requests pending. Of the 32 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the April Blitz; the blitz ran from 14 to 20 April (UTC) inclusive and the themes were Sports and Entertainment. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 04:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 267 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 605 articles. May Drive: During the May Backlog Elimination Drive, Guild copy-editors removed copyedit tags from 191 of the 192 articles tagged in our original target months of November and December 2018, and January 2019 was added on 22 May. We finished the month with 81 target articles remaining and a record low of 598 articles in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 24 requests for copyedit during the May drive, and the month ended with 35 requests pending. Of the 26 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Stub criteria

Are there criteria for assessing a biography as stub, or do have reviewers different standards, and yours are high? Anke Sieloff. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Was passing through here and saw your question. I hope FeanorStar7 doesn't mind I answer it.

Standards to remove "stub" and make it a "start", from what I understand are: 1. Prose size (text only): should be greater than 1500 B "readable prose size" 2. Paragraphs and prose should have sources

I have a tool that helps me determine the Prose Size. It doesn't count lists as prose. The tool to determine the prosesize is in my common.js subpage. You can see it here:
http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:The_Eloquent_Peasant/common.js

With that code in my common.js subpage, I get a "Page size" Tool on my Wikipedia. When I click on Page size, the page prose of the article is highlighted in yellow and the Prose Size is given, at the top ... Go ahead and copy that code into your common.js subpage and you should be able to do the same--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 12:49, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the information and reminding me about the prose size; that was what I couldn't remember... --FeanorStar7 12:51, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank!

Hey, FenorStar! As you saw, yesterday I went on a little bit of a tear creating new stubs. Thanks for going in and cleaning up the categories and things on so many of them. I appreciate the help! --Slugger O'Toole (talk) 13:47, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Pedro Juan Rosaly

Hi. In reference to this, thanks for noticing. I am as curious about this one. I will try to contact someone with local Ponce history expertise and see what she has to say. I don't hold much hope since similar situations in the past have meet with (other) folks that appear to know even less than myself about the subject. Will see... Mercy11 (talk) 02:53, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Senet Q

Is "senet" italicized because it is a foreign term? FYI, after your two edits there remain nine occurances of the name that are unitalicized. --IHTS (talk) 00:44, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

@IHTS: yes, I italicized the term because it is Egyptian. I have updated the rest of the occurrences in the text; thanks. --FeanorStar7 00:53, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

September 2019 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2019. June election: Reidgreg was chosen as lead coordinator, and is being assisted by Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk, and first-time coordinator Twofingered Typist. Jonesey95 took a respite after serving for six years. Thanks to everyone who participated! June Blitz: From 16 to 22 June, we copy edited articles on the themes of nature and the environment along with requests. 12 participating editors completed 35 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: The year's fourth backlog-elimination drive was a great success, clearing all articles tagged in January and February, and bringing the copy-editing backlog to a low of five months and a record low of 585 articles while also completing 48 requests. Of the 30 people who signed up, 29 copyedited at least one article, a participation level last matched in May 2015. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 18 to 24 August, we copy edited articles tagged in March 2019 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 03:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 413 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stood at 599 articles, close to our record month-end low of 585. Requests page: We are experimenting with automated archiving of copy edit requests; a discussion on REQ Talk (permalinked) initiated by Bobbychan193 has resulted in Zhuyifei1999 writing a bot script for the Guild. Testing is now underway and is expected to be completed by 3 October; for this reason, no manual archiving of requests should be done until the testing period is over. We will then assess the bot's performance and discuss whether to make this arrangement permanent. 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! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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2019 US Banknote Contest

	US Banknote Contest
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Year–year range

Hi! Thanks for your stub tagging. Wanted to leave a note re: [1] that "year–year ranges" are indeed unspaced (becomes spaced only when one side of the range itself is spaced). (not watching, please {{ping}}) czar 22:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

@Czar: Thanks for your note and for the information. I didn't realize the spacing was an issue; at least from my perspective, I think it looks better with the space but will follow the MOS as noted. Best regards, FeanorStar7 22:44, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

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GOCE December 2019 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December 2019 GOCE newsletter, an update of Guild happenings since the September edition. Our Annual Report should be ready in late January. Election time: Nominations for the election of a new tranche of Guild coordinators to serve for the first half of 2020 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself! September Drive: Of the thirty-two editors who signed up, twenty-three editors copy edited at least one article; they completed 39 requests and removed 138 articles from the backlog, bringing the backlog to a low of 519 articles. October Blitz: This event ran from 13 to 19 October, with themes of science, technology and transport articles tagged for copy edit, and Requests. Sixteen editors helped remove 29 articles from the backlog and completed 23 requests. November Drive: Of the twenty-eight editors who signed up for this event, twenty editors completed at least one copy edit; they completed 29 requests and removed 133 articles from the backlog. Our December Blitz will run from 15 to 21 December. Sign up now! Progress report: From September to November 2019, GOCE copy editors processed 154 requests. Over the same period, the backlog of articles tagged for copy editing was reduced by 41% to an all-time low of 479 articles. Request archiving: The archiving of completed requests has now been automated. Thanks to Zhuyifei1999 and Bobbychan193, YiFeiBot is now archiving the Requests page. Archiving occurs around 24 hours after a user's signature and one of the templates {{Done}}, {{Withdrawn}} or {{Declined}} are placed below the request. The bot uses the Guild's standard "purpose codes" to determine the way it should archive each request so it's important to use the correct codes and templates. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Miniapolis, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. >>> Sign up for the December blitz! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Proposed deletion of Toby Gnuyen

The article Toby Gnuyen has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Local musician who fails musician notability and general notability. Zero sources found under this name, but a move to Toby Guynn might be appropriate, although even under that name, coverage is sparse.

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WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report

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Ruth Oniang'o

Thanks for pointing out the errors in the spelling of Ruth Oniang'o's name on the talk page! I have moved her page to the correct name, and have fixed the spelling of her name throughout the article. Oddly, there was a different misspelling of her name on the Women in Red talk page, so I had to fix that as well. I just wanted to reach out and let you now that it didn't go unnoticed! IphisOfCrete (talk) 23:04, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here. March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now! Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. 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. 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, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Spaces around a date range en-dash.

I noticed that you added spaces around the en-dash in the date range here. Is this the house style? I make a lot of these, and would be fine adjusting them going forward if this is required somewhere. Cheers! BD2412 T 02:26, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

non-diffusing cats

Thanks for updating the cats at Gillian Genser. Just a quick heads up about non-diffusing categories: typically someone shouldn't be removed from an occupation-related category and placed in a "women [occupation]" category. The latter is non-diffusing, so someone can be in e.g. "Canadian women sculptors" and either "Canadian sculptors" or some other subcategory of Canadian sculptors. At least that's my understanding of WP:EGRS. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 13:41, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	You have made many, many contributions. Thank you, good job, and keep going, FeanorStar7! Oneillge2029 (talk) 21:32, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Thanks for consistently helping to improve categories for articles, especially Perpetua of Hippo recently. It's very much appreciated. Lajmmoore (talk) 07:25, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. 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, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Question re: bolding of journal citations

[Imzadi1979]

Hi: I saw that you have worked on journal citations in the past. I have a question regarding the use of bolding for volume numbers of periodicals.

Example (from Richard Worsam Meade I article):

• De Cunzo, Lu Ann (April 1983). "An Historical Interpretation of William Birch's Print 'High Street, From Ninth Street, Philadelphia'". Pennsylvania History. 50 (2): 109–147. JSTOR 27772895.

What is the purpose of bolding the volume number of the periodical if nothing else in the citation is bolded? Is it the fact that it is used for one publication published in several volumes or something else? It just looks strange to me because my understanding of how bolding works is that whatever is bolded can be searched and linked to the lede of an article; example: John Smith. I hope this is a clear explanation of my question. Thanks very much. --FeanorStar7 (talk) 15:36, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanking you

Hello Editor, Sincere thanks for the editing of "Alavi Bohras". I have been adding matter to this page from some time. It requires patience to get authentic references..--NoorAlavi (talk) 13:09, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Robert Gaudino

Not sure if you have been informed but this page has been tagged for an afd.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 12:33, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Better stubs

Hiya! Appreciate you adding more specific stubs. What sort of tools or resources do you use to find better stubs? I only know the generic ones, for now, so would appreciate your guidance. Many thanks! — Infogapp1 (talk) 18:23, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Edition

Ricardo had a son, he spoke at his funeral. In his funeral it was stated he has 5 girls and a son. MfeyaT (talk) 15:31, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:111 births

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:113 deaths

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Article for deletion

Hello,

Please have a look at this discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Motiravan Kangali about this article that you contributed to. Leave a vote if possible. Shivashree (talk) 02:00, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:851 births

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:798 births

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.                  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! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. 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. Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 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 Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 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, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Biographies of women

Thanks for all the work you do on new articles and their talk pages. In assessing wp:Women articles, I see that you frequently add this wikiproject for women who born before 1950. In such cases, it would be more appropriate to assign wp:Women's History in line with recommendations on wp:Women in Red meetup pages.--Ipigott (talk) 12:40, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT = ?

Hi, and thank you for adding a category to an article I've started yesterday. I am generally interested in content and not so much in technical issues, only so much as to allow me to edit. I see you've added
DEFAULTSORT:Hezekiah
to the article Hezekiah (governor). How does it help, considering that there is an article about King Hezekiah and a Hezekiah (disambiguation) page? Thank you very much! Arminden (talk) 11:56, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

@Arminden, hi and thanks for your question. The purpose of the DEFAULTSORT tag is to produce a correct ordering of member pages and subcategories on category pages (especially for categories with a large number of pages, such as WP Biography), which appear in particular articles (for example: Hezekiah (governor)). This is particularly useful when more than one article uses the same or similar names (John Smith is a good example here). There are particular guidelines available at: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization#Sort_keys

I hope this is helpful--FeanorStar7 (talk) 12:16, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Sure it is, many thanks Feanor! I'll save this on my "Wiki - How To" file and will try to apply it. Thanks again! Arminden (talk) 16:21, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for sorting out the categories and tags for Mehbube Ablesh! Lajmmoore (talk) 09:03, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

@User:Lajmmoore: thank you very much.--FeanorStar7 (talk) 15:34, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

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Need immediate attention and help, same name two articles

FeanorStar7, CAPTAIN RAJU, and Amkgp Greetings! I am so sorry to bother you all, but I just noticed something odd. This draft Draft:Sardar Gulab Singh Rathore is still awaiting for a review[[2]] since 18th November and another page with one line is reviewed and accepted and contested for adeletion process between 25th and 26th November 2020 [[3]]. Kindly sort this out. Thanks and regards RAJIVVASUDEV (talk) 12:17, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.                  Current and upcoming events 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 our mailing list.

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Thank you!

Dear FeanorStar7, thank you for your extensive help with the upgrade of the Vladimir Zelenko article. Much appreciated. Happy New Year!! IZAK (talk) 02:03, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

@User talk:IZAK: thank you for your note. I made some more edits; I hope they are helpful. --FeanorStar7 (talk) 02:54, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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talk:Charin Mendes

Hi thanks so much for your feedback. Can you please help me out and tell me what needs to be done to get the page Charin Mendes published for public viewing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tashiya Jayatilaka (talk • contribs) 12:55, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

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Assistance with Nate Morris article

Hello FeanorStar7, I'm a representative of Nate Morris, working recently to collaborate with the community to improve the encyclopedic entry. Understanding Wikipedia's guidelines for my paid conflict of interest, I am looking for volunteers willing to help by weighing-in and implementing changes, so I can stay hands-off and respectful of the rules in place. Understanding too that the edit request queue is long, I thought I would look for contributors who may be interested in the content as my request remains unanswered so far. I stumbled upon your name as a past contributor to the page and also noticed that you seem to work most on biographies. As such, I wondered if you'd be interested to take a look at my open request at Talk:Nate Morris. Mindful of editors' time as volunteers, I have tried to make my request simple to implement by providing a draft for editors' review. Thanks for any consideration. All the best, MS rep 4 NMorris (talk) 22:13, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Talk page banners

Hi, FeanorStar7, and thanks for your attention of the talk pages of women's biographies. I've noticed on a few occasions, you have deleted WP Women when you've added more specific banners. On Women in Red, we advise editors to add WP Women or WP Women's History to the talk pages of the articles they create as if there are any potential deletions, they are listed on the main pages of these projects, allowing those interested to take appropriate action. While it is certainly useful to have more specific banners, I suggest you leave those there in place.--Ipigott (talk) 11:40, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

@User talk:Ipigott, thanks for the information. In the future, I will leave the existing Women and/or Women's History tags there. Is it still ok to add more specific tags (e.g. WikiProject Women scientists) along with them?--FeanorStar7 (talk) 11:45, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hi, I have noticed that you helped in the article M.Zaid (content producer) and btw thank you so much for that but there is some guy trying to delete can you please help me Young Pakistani Boy (talk) 14:25, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Martok

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Uncu

@FeanorStar7 Hi! Sincerely appreciate your improvements on the subject page. May i request you to have a look at Tocapu and Cumbi?. Thanks and best regards RV (talk) 02:49, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

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Dinogad's smock

Hi FeanorStar7,

I have removed the stub tag you put on Dinogad's Smock as I've now extended the article. I've not touched the tag on the talk page as I think that is a project decision. All the best. Boynamedsue (talk) 08:14, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Orlando Goff

The Civil War letters of Orlando S Goff and his brother Charles have been passed down to me. They were written to the aunts of my grandmother and saved in a shoe box I inherited in 1988. Interestingly, their father was a carriage builder in Portland, CT. I surmise that Orlando may have been an apprentice to my great great grandfather, Silas Buck, before entering the war. Thank you for your historical contributions. Bhjk49 (talk) 14:42, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:92 BC births

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Enquiry

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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 our mailing list.

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