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Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:AnthonyW90/BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2012 has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2012, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article. Your draft is waiting for a review by an experienced editor, if you have any questions please ask on our Help Desk! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 10:51, 18 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Anthony, and thanks for joining up to the Etymology Task Force! I don't edit etymology articles that much, but I set the task force up so I'm pretty much the go-to guy for task-force-related things. If you would like any pointers about getting involved or about general Wikipedia matters, don't hesitate to ask. Also, you should feel free to ask at the WikiProject Linguistics talk page for any content-related things. Someone there is bound to be able to help you. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:24, 19 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hi Stradivarius! Thanks for the welcome! I love etymology, but I am no expert - but I have plenty of time to do the research, and compile useful information into a Wikipedia friendly style. Thanks again! AnthonyW90 (talk) 10:43, 19 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks to improve article Aakash Educational Services Limited

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Hi AnthonyW90, I heartily thanks you to improve my written article. I request you to please improve it more so that it could be made as per Wikipedia standard. Satya563 (talk) 04:28, 20 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

2013 Huangpu River dead pigs incident

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Hi, your comment here would have more effect if you added it to the deletion discussion that is currently taking place. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 13:30, 20 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! Had done so much flicking from page to page I had lost track of where I wanted to post my comments! AnthonyW90 (talk) 13:43, 20 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Tips for copy-editing

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Hi AnthonyW90, I'm Baffle gab1978 (talk) and I'm an experienced copy-editor at the GOCE. You asked here for some copy-editing tips. There's a very useful guide here, and the Manual of Style is very handy for checking on punctuation, English variety issues and all sorts of other things. The GOCE runs a mentoring progamme that you might find useful too. I hope you find the above useful and that you enjoy copy-editing; feel free to contact me if you need to – good copy-editors are in short supply! Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 03:43, 9 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Anthony, what's the status of your GOCE copy-edit of the article? I see you've done some work on it but nothing since 12th April and you haven't declared it done on the Request page. Can you please let us know whether you plan to finish it? I'll return it to the queue if I don't hear from you in the next week. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 05:39, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Sorry about that! Been a bit pre-occupied recently (got made redundant) but all is well, and I do plan on finishing it! I have been working on a copy at User:AnthonyW90/IvyQueenCopyEdit because I was aware that fairly regularly small improvements were being made to the original! Please feel free to return it to the queue, and if someone fixes it up before me then that's no problem - it's all experience! Thank you! AnthonyW90 (talk) 11:56, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the update; I'm sorry to hear about your job, obviously the real world must take priority over online activities, so it's understandable and I hope I wasn't being pushy. I'll put a note on the requester's page and let him know you're editing in your userspace and that you intend to complete the c/e. I think it's probably best for him to withdraw the request, since there's little point having two copies being edited separately. So we'll see where DivaKnockouts wants to handle things before I return it to the queue. Thanks again for the update; best wishes for job-hunting. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 16:46, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
(talk page visitor) Hi Anthony, I saw this because of the discussion on the GOCE Requests page. It's very risky to take a copy to edit in your own space like this, because if some else edits the article in mainspace, either you're going to have to incorporate their edits in your copy, or you're going to end up overwriting their edits when you copy your work back into mainspace, which would be very discourteous. The right way to handle this is to use the {{GOCEinuse}} template on the article in mainspace, and edit there. I like to change this to {{under construction}} overnight while I'm not working, to give other editors a chance. Regards, --Stfg (talk) 18:16, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hi Stfg - sorry about that! I have the article on my watchlist and have incorporated all new edits to the original article into my own as I've been going along! In future I will use the 'in use' and 'under construction' templates as you have suggested - for now, I would like to continue as I am - as I said before I do not mind if the article is worked on without me - I kind of picked this article because it was large and on a topic I knew nothing about, and would therefore serve as good practice/learning for copy editing - ergo I did not initially want to make live edits, and was planning on just working at it and then inviting GOCE in to comment on it - unfortunately the whole process has been interrupted by real life and has taken longer than I had initially hoped! Thank you, both Stfg and Baffle gab for your understanding!AnthonyW90 (talk) 21:12, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hi again. (Don't forget to sign your posts with ~~~~  .) Yeah, it's OK to continue like that so long as you know the risk. I took a quick look at what you've done with it so far in your space, and you clearly know what you're doing, so I wouldn't hesitate to edit articles in situ in future. Sorry about the redundancy. Well, maybe sorry, but I had a redundancy too, years ago, and in the end it proved to be a blessing. I hope it does for you too. Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 20:58, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
Oh, oops, I meant to say that nobody else will take on the copy edit while it's marked as {{working}} on the requests page, so it needs either doing or releasing. Best, --Stfg (talk) 21:01, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
Ooops sorry! Still getting used to the whole ~~~~ thing! Even if it IS written right there at the bottom of the Text Editor box!! Haha! Yeah - the whole redundancy thing isn't worrying me too much, I'm young, I'll move on (and hopefully up!) unfortunately it just came a little unexpectedly and just as I was really getting into the flow of things at work! Meh - these things are sent to try us! I will remove the {{working}} tag now, since I don't mind if it is picked up by someone else! But I will post a note myself to mention that I am still 'having a go' at it! Thank you for the encouragement!   AnthonyW90 (talk) 21:12, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hi again Anthony, I hope you are well. I'm sorry to be pushy (again!) but what's the situation with this copy-edit? There's been no sandbox edits since 25th April. I hope your job-hunting is going well. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 05:18, 10 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hi. Sorry - so much going on in real life, I think it would be best to pass this one on! Sorry again! Feel free to take on any of the edits I have made so far (there is a 'hidden' note in the sandbox to indicate how far along I've got!) AnthonyW90 (talk) 08:09, 10 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
No worries, thanks for the update, I'll probably take this one on, and I'll probably use your sandbox version and see where that takes us. Thank you for your work on it, I hope you don't feel discouraged from copy-editing and hope to see you at the GOCE soon. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 10:25, 11 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
I'm now Done; feel free to delete the version in your sandbox. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 02:10, 14 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
Awesome! Thank you...ummm, how do I go about deleting the page I created? Cheers! AnthonyW90 (talk) 08:10, 14 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
You can mark it for speedy deletion per Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#User_pages by adding {{db-u1}} at the top; the page will appear at CSD and an admin will delete it for you. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 03:32, 15 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

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GOCE September 2013 drive wrap-up

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
 

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GOCE Blitz wrap-up; join us for the November drive

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Guild of Copy Editors October Blitz wrap-up
 

Participation: Out of eleven people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we copy edited 42 articles from WikiProject Film's backlog, reducing it by a net of 34 articles. Hope to see you at the November drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, and The Utahraptor.

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November 2013 GOCE drive wrap-up

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Guild of Copy Editors November 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
 

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GOCE December 2013 Blitz wrap-up and January Drive invitation

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December Notes from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

The December blitz ran from December 8–14. The theme for this blitz was articles tied in some way to religion. Seven editors knocked out 20 articles over the course of the week. Our next blitz will be in February, with a theme to be determined. Feel free to make theme suggestions at the Guild talk page!

The January 2014 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on January 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in October and November 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2013. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in October and November 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there!

 

Coordinator election: Voting is open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January through 30 June 2014. Voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page.

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GOCE 2013 Annual Report

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Guild of Copy Editors 2013 Annual Report
 

The GOCE has wrapped up another successful year of operations!

Our 2013 Annual Report is now ready for review.

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GOCE February blitz wrapup

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Guild of Copy Editors Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2014 wrap-up
 

Participation: Out of seven people who signed up for this blitz, all copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 16 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978.

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March GOCE copyedit drive

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Notes from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

The March 2014 backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles in need of copyediting. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copyedit all articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and to complete all requests placed in January 2014. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copyedits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: number of articles, number of words, number of articles over 5,000 words, number of articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and the longest article. We hope to see you there!

 

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GOCE March drive wrapup

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Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
 

The March 2014 drive wrap-up is now ready for review.
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Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
 

Participation: Thanks to all who participated in the drive and helped out behind the scenes. 42 people signed up for this drive and 28 of these completed at least one article. Final results are available here.

Progress report: Articles tagged during the target months of December 2012 and January 2013 were reduced from 177 to 33, and the overall backlog was reduced by 13 articles. The total backlog was 2,902 articles at the end of March. On the Requests page during March, 26 copy edit requests were completed, all requests from January 2014 were completed, and the length of the queue was reduced by 11 articles.

Blitz!: The April blitz will run from April 13–19, with a focus on the Requests list. Sign up now!

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April blitz wrap-up and May copyediting drive invitation

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2014 Blitz wrap-up
 

Participation: Out of 17 people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 28 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the May drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978.

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:01, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Reply