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GOCE Invitation
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The Guild of Copy-Editors – September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive
The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invite you to participate in the September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September at 23:59 (UTC). The goals for this drive are to eliminate 2008 from the queue and to reduce the backlog to fewer than 5,000 articles.
Sign-up has already begun at the September drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page.
Awards and barnstars
A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GoCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.
It's really bad practice to edit an article 25 times in one day (example, Weeds). You can make all these changes in one edit. (Not that you should have, since you didn't source *any* of your changes...) Darkxsun (talk) 02:48, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about that and I will edit more on the article all at once. Also, much of the article (in the season synopses) isn't sourced even before I added the information. ATC.Talk 04:06, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Also I've just checked the article's history section (with your comments) and realized I added a few too detailed information that made the sentences long and vague. Sorry about that. :) ATC.Talk 05:04, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Saw new edits. So far so good IMO. Hope I wasn't too harsh... Adding random quotes that didn't add anything to the surrounding paragraph (Shane called his mom a whore... irrelevant), etc were the things I found detrimental to the article. Another Ex: it's pretty clear that her son being sexually active at a young age won't make her happy. "much to her dismay" isn't needed here (you overused that phrase a lot). And, agreed, way too much of this is unsourced :( I wonder if sources even exist for 1/2 of this stuff beyond the show itself. We may end up with a drastically shorter article if we start sticking to the rules :P Thanks for your understanding and contributing to the article, and let's both try to be open and remember this is an encyclopedia... and we should decide what belongs and what doesn't with that in mind. Good luck. Darkxsun (talk) 06:26, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Oh but I thought it met the same rules as in a plot section for a film article, where sources are unnecessary as it clutters the article. Doesn't that apply to a series article with a season synopses as well? ATC.Talk 14:30, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, but I disagree with Darkxsun here re: bad practice to edit many times, or the need to make all edits in one; I edit many article that many times a day, and find it easier to follow changes when edits are made individually. If there is a problem with specific edits, that's another matter. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:34, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Weeds (TV series)
RE: [1] - Amazon is not a reliable source. If you want to quote a previously published review that amazon is requoting, you would need to cite the original source. ActiveBanana (bananaphone 13:57, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Okay thanks for reminding me. I will do so. ATC.Talk 00:01, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, the Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue.
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A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants, some of which are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.
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Discussions are underway to elect our inaugural group of GOCE Coordinators. Guild members and Drive participants are invited to have a look at the Coordinators page and join the discussion on its associated talk page.
Participation report — The November drive has 53 participants at this point. We had 77 participants in the September drive. In July, 95 people signed up for the drive, and in May we had 36. If you are not participating, it is not too late to join!
Progress report — The drive is quite successful so far, as we have already almost reached our target of a 10% reduction in the number of articles in the backlog. We are doing very well at keeping our Requests page clear, as those articles count double for word count for this drive.
Please keep in mind the possibility of removing other tags when you are finished with an article. If the article no longer needs {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, or other similar maintenance tags, please remove them, as this will make the tasks of other WikiProjects easier to complete. Thanks very much for participating in the Drive, and see you at the finish line!
Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.
We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated.
Stats
GOCE November 2010 backlog elimination drive graphs
58 people signed up for this drive. Of these, 48 people participated in the drive.
Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%.
If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks.
We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report.
Highlights
Membership grows to 503 editors
2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives
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