Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2015

Reviewing[edit]

I signed up as a reviewer, and who knows, maybe a Blitzer, or maybe not. (When I type Blitzer, I think of a Wolf or a Reindeer (Blitzen.)--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:21, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think of "blitz plotz" in The Mouse That Roared :-). Thanks again, but take a break by copyediting too. All work and no play ... Miniapolis 03:44, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Code calculations[edit]

This is my first Blitz and the calculation code is a big confusing. Where does this stuff get added? --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 20:20, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean the article word counts, the calculator is a script you copy-paste on your .js page. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes#Word counting script. Miniapolis 00:48, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thank you. --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 17:06, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requests list for the Blitz[edit]

This is the requests list for the February 2015 Blitz, removed from the headings.--DThomsen8 (talk) 15:58, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

December 2014[edit]

January 2015[edit]

February 2015[edit]

Comments[edit]

Thanks. Miniapolis 21:38, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Dthomsen8: It seems like you missed some. --Biblioworm 22:10, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:24, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please make all {{Working}} and {{Done}} notations on WP:GOCE/REQ instead of here; otherwise, it's too confusing. Thanks and all the best, Miniapolis 00:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am confused. It seems that articles on WP:GOCE/REQ are sometimes marked as completed, but sometimes removed from that page completely, meaning that searching through the history is required to find out where a particular article has gone, and when. Stefan Vladislav of Serbia went that way. The February Blitz apears to show three articles done the first day, you, me, and Biblioworm, but you show progress as 2, not three. Surely I am confused by the situation. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:46, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

After they're tagged {{Done}} by an experienced copyeditor, they're archived here. With newbies who may be the subject of competence concerns, I'll wait a day or two for complaints from the requester; silence implies satisfaction, and I then archive. I get the daily count from counting the subsections on WP:GOCE/REQ; each subsection is an article. Miniapolis 15:06, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think a non-coordinator is supposed to mark an article as

Done so that a coordinator can archive the article for them; however, coordinators can directly archive articles that they copy edited. Right? --Biblioworm 15:10, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK, anyone can archive; it's not a user right or anything :-). All the best, Miniapolis 00:16, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Button doesn't work in mobile beta[edit]

At least, not on my Samsung Verizon Android Galaxy S-3 smartphone, SCH-I535 running OS v4.4.2. I guess I'll have to use my laptop to sign up. To discuss this, please {{Ping}} me. --Thnidu (talk) 05:23, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to hear it; we haven't had any browser- OS- or device-dependent complaints, AFAIK, until now. Maybe the folks at WP:VPT can help. Thanks for your interest and all the best, Miniapolis 14:17, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

What do you do when you're halfway through an article when a blitz ends? It seems that this will be the case with Berkhamsted. Do you count it, but only count the words that you did, or something else? --Biblioworm 15:45, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't count it. The blitz ends when it ends. Do keep going with the copy edit, though, to build a better encyclopedia. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, well. Ancient Greek personal names was a double S**tload of work, much of it moving a huge amount of bibliographical info out of the text and into Refs in proper format. At least the article is, if I may say so, a helluva lot more readable now. (diff) Thnidu (talk) 04:04, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Great work, Thnidu! I sometimes let a well-intentioned copy edit get out of hand, as I try to clean up the whole article or realize that copy editing will not suffice. Your work on that article reminds me of the many hours I spent on Euthyphro dilemma a few months ago. The references were a complete mess, and I just didn't feel right leaving them as they were. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:36, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

:-) Thanks, Jonesey95, that makes me feel a lot better about it. --Thnidu (talk) 05:22, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstars done[edit]

I have calculated and distributed all of the stats and barnstars for this blitz (except for my own). – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and done. Miniapolis 03:07, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]