Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests/Archives/2024

Archiving bot

Hi coords, it looks like there's a problem with the archiving bot YiFeiBot, which hasn't archived completed requests since 10 January. I'm not sure what's causing this so I've been tidying up unusual bits of code like asterisk bullets, poor threading, etc but that doesn't seem to have worked. I've also gone through the 2023 archive page to check there, fixed an unusual 'and' but didn't find any other oddities. Perhaps the bot needs a holiday... I'll see what happens next before I bother the bot-runner. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 01:59, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

I've just removed another two asterisks. Life is fun. :) Baffle☿gab 02:06, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing, Baffle, and Zhuyifei1999 hasn't edited on enwp since October 2021. It was nice while it lasted </sigh>. All the best, Miniapolis 15:16, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

And the designated contact @Bobbychan193: (courtesy ping) hasn't edited here since October 2023. There's nothing on the bot's talk to indicate it's been deactivated though... let's see if it archives my latest one. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 03:46, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I'll try to get Zhuyifei1999 to take a look. Bobbychan193 (talk) 04:37, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Fixed. Root cause was an automatic pywikibot upgrade pulled in phab:T340640 fix, which added https://pypi.org/project/packaging/ as a mandatory dependency of pywikibot, but I did not have that installed. Anyways, feel free to shoot me an email if I don't see your ping. I rarely log on nowadays. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:49, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you both, that's great, the bot really saves us lots of chores. I'd rather be copy-editing than archiving requests! :) Cheers, Baffle☿gab 11:00, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

(←) Thank you all! Miniapolis 16:44, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Tomás Palacios on hold

Hi all; I've placed the request for the above draft on hold; it hasn't yet been accepted into the mainspace. I suggest we decline this for now; @PreethaK2023: (courtesy ping) is welcome to re-submit the request once it's been accepted. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 17:29, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Baffle☿gab Thank you PreethaK2023 (talk) 17:49, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Agree, Baffle. Thanks and all the best, Miniapolis 02:59, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Tomás Palacios

CC-BY-SA declaration; this section was copied from the Requests page here by me; see that page's history for full attribution. Baffle☿gab 05:23, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Guild of copy editors, Could I please have help to edit this draft to be ready to publish on Wikipedia? Thank you!! Leave the tildes in place so that your signature is appended to the request. PreethaK2023 (talk) 04:01, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Working Nsbfrank (talk) 09:01, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Partly done Nsbfrank (talk) 09:18, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

(←)  On hold per GOCE guidelines; @PreethaK2023:, please wait until this article has been accepted into the mainspace before requesting a full c/e. Discuss at REQ talk. Baffle☿gab 17:18, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm working on this article for one year. Is there anyone at Wikipedia team, who could help me to move this article to mainspace? I would appreciate the help. PreethaK2023 (talk) 17:21, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @PreethaK2023:, there is guidance on the draft's talk page here. Basically, you need to show the subject in notable and warrants an article. You can do this by showing significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 17:50, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

 Declined per talk page discussion; discuss there. Baffle☿gab 05:23, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Excess request removed

I've removed a third request here and have informed the requester on their talk here. Sorry I didn't notice this earlier. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 04:35, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Military History of Canada – too long?

@Leventio: As you noted on your request, Military History of Canada is rather lengthy, perhaps too long for a copyedit, GAN or FAC. It's 20k words, and Wikipedia:Article size states that articles of 9k words should probably be shortened and articles of 15k words should almost certainly be shortened. The equivalent US article is about 9k words, which is achieved as almost all sections have main articles, allowing the sections to be kept to summaries of 1–3 paragraphs in most cases. Can something like that be done here? – Reidgreg (talk) 02:38, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

There has been a paring down/trimming down effort on most of the sections already. That said, I've actually been debating splitting the article into two for a while now in my head (was sort of just trying to figure at where). I can withdraw the request if that is what the people here would like. Leventio (talk) 05:24, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Leventio. It would make more sense (and be easier on us) to copyedit both articles after the split. As it is, it probably wouldn't be promoted to GA because of its length and it took a long time to load in my browser. All the best, Miniapolis 15:08, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

If you don't take the summary route (like the US article) I suppose the natural place for a split would be at Confederation (1867), since Canada didn't exist as a country before then. – Reidgreg (talk) 04:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

V. Nagaraj

CC-BY-SA declaration; I copied text in this section from the Requests page here. See that page's history for full attribution. Baffle☿gab 17:15, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

V. Nagaraj

Some parts of the Career section make no sense. DareshMohan (talk) 21:25, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@DareshMohan:, copy-editing isn't WP:CLEANUP and copy-editors we shouldn't have to fix up messes made by past incompetent editors. This article has serious BLP violations, which I've noted with a template – BLPs must be properly referenced. That section is on notice; I suggest either properly referencing the article or removing the uncited text and stubifying the rest. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 01:50, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Baffle gab1978: I removed the unsourced content. Can the request be removed too? DareshMohan (talk) 02:01, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@DareshMohan: thank you for that, yes, just put {{Withdrawn}} below my post and the bot will remove it in 24 hours or so, and I'll archive this section a bit later. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 16:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

 Request withdrawn DareshMohan (talk) 17:32, 7 February 2024 (UTC)