Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/November 2012

Very long article

One of the articles tagged in our target months of November and December 2011 is List of 90210 characters, at 20085 words. It's tagged for over-long and excessively detailed plot, so there's an opportunity for a hero here. Oh, and a few of its sections are tagged as needing expansion! Mwaaahaha. --Stfg (talk) 21:02, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

I'll have a go, I hope, anyway. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 21:04, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

(Abandoned, I believe, if anyone else wants it.) --Stfg (talk) 18:00, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Oddity

I note that for 11/7, the tally sheet shows a backlog increase of 32, but if you do the math it's only 8. Who do we tell? Lfstevens (talk) 13:09, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Lfstevens (talk) 13:09, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

I hereby nominate you for project accountant :) Fixed, with thanks. --Stfg (talk) 13:38, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Indian villages, etc.

I just hit a 7 "sentence" article about festivals in a village which I reproduce in full below.

Valsang Jatra is in Valsang a small village in South Maharashtra stat in Solapur City. Valsang Jatra is popular for the festival in the month of May every year.

In this village there are many fairs that will be conducted every year. The 4 main Jatra are Shankar Linga Jatra, Chowdeshwary and Basavvana Jatra.siddeshwar jatra

These will be conducted by local villager, people use to collect money for every Jatra.

Shankar Linga Jatra on this day some young and old people gather near the Temple and they use to take the holy stics(Nandi kol) and walk around the vikkages with lighting and music, So every people likely women's use to make the pooja of nandi kol. On the next day there will be a drama or play in the village so all the people will gather.

This seems nuts to me. I'm thinking about merging such articles into the most obvious parent article. This would go into Valsang. Other village stubs would go into their district. Any thoughts? And is there a project that I could engage in this discussion? I'd rather they change their approach instead of continuing to spin out these embarrassments. (Who are they informing of anything?)

Lfstevens (talk) 16:49, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

That looks like a good merge, since Valsang already has a section about fairs. Probably not even controversial. For the larger issue, WikiProject India might be the place to start, perhaps. --Stfg (talk) 18:09, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Ninjas in popular culture

Ninjas in popular culture is quite a beast. I tried to filter out some of the titles in the manga/anime section but the overall article is still quite disorganized and could be grouped a lot better using charts. Does anyone want to take a crack at this or can I punt it off the list? Also a lot of the references fit in multiple categories (i.e. book spawns manga/anime spawns movie and then video game) It sure made Muay Thai in popular culture look like a cakewalk. AngusWOOF (talk) 08:19, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

It's also being heavily edited by a non-GOCE Wikipedia user. Should I slap on GOCEreviewed? AngusWOOF (talk) 22:06, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

My inclination would be to put GOCEreviewed on it. User:Niemti has been working on it for quite a long time and appears to want to continue developing it. I'd let them. Up to you, though. --Stfg (talk) 22:21, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Ok, will do. He can have at it. AngusWOOF (talk) 02:26, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Old Article question

Hi, I'm a tad bit new to Backlog Elimination drives, so I'm sorry if I sound foolish, but I noticed under the Gold Star Award Leaderboard that Oldest Articles are ones tagged in November and December 2011. However, under the Totals section, it says, "if it was tagged in July, August September or October 2011, place *O after the word count", contradicting the first one. I imagine the first one is right considering that there are none tagged in July, August, September, or October 2011. I was just making sure, because I didn't want it to look like I cheated and added the *O tag on articles that didn't deserve it. Thanks! MattVariety 23:55, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Oops! It's just November and December. We copy paste these drive pages over and over again, and sometimes we miss all the little spots that need updating. Thanks for mentioning it. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 00:19, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

The whimsically named CatScan

Is anybody else not able to get CatScan to work? When I try to use it I get the following informative error message:

MYSQL error : Table 'enwiki_p.globalimagelinks' doesn't exist [SELECT /* SLOW_OK LIMIT:2000 NM */ /* CATSCAN2 */ pid,gil_wiki,gil_page_namespace_id,gil_page_namespace,gil_page_title FROM temp2,enwiki_p.globalimagelinks WHERE pns=6 AND gil_to=ptitle]

I don't suppose anybody speaks that language? Tdslk (talk) 20:01, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

It has been giving that error for weeks. I think there's a problem with the Toolserver. There's not a lot I can add to the error description. It just means the SQL query can't find the "enwiki_p.globalimagelinks" table to search. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 20:52, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Tdslk (talk) 21:54, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

You could ask at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). They are extremely clued up and helpful over there. --Stfg (talk) 22:13, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

For those not familiar with it, this is a discussion of Wikipedia:CatScan. --DThomsen8 (talk) 02:13, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

There is another CatScan tool here that works. --Odie5533 (talk) 00:42, 2 December 2012 (UTC)