User talk:Readingpro256

GAN reviews

Hello. It is very unusual for an editor with only 25 edits, and only 4 edits to mainspace, to feel comfortable taking on a GAN review. May I ask what, if any, previous accounts you have? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:44, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Talk:Ariana Grande/GA4

The page Talk:Ariana Grande/GA4 has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done for the following reason:

G6 - see Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations#Ariana_Grande_GAN

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Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:00, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

GOCE Drive – Koskull family article

Hello there, Readingpro256. I saw your recent edit to Koskull family, and I thank you for fixing the bits that I missed. Especially that one awkwardly constructed phrase, "the other would keep the other side". I had tried to think of another word to replace that second "other", but I was unable to think of the word. How I did not think of the word "opposite", I will never know, but I am glad that you did.

I also inspected the edit history and saw that you made several excellent edits to the article before I started editing it, and that you mentioned the "guild drive" in your edit summaries. I checked this against your articles list on the GOCE May 2024 Drive page, and it seems that both you and I have claimed the article Koskull family for the GOCE May 2024 Drive. The drive FAQs page states that if two editors have both worked on the same article for a drive, each editor may claim 50% of the word count. I have adjusted the totals in my article list accordingly, and I trust that you will adjust your totals in like fashion.

In the future we can avoid this mildly inconvenient situation by checking the edit history before selecting an article for the drive (which I forgot to do in this case), and once that has been done, by replacing the article's "copy edit" tag with an "in use" tag before beginning the editing process (which you seem to have forgotten in this case). If you formally join the GOCE, then you will be entitled to use the {{GOCE in use}} template; otherwise you may use the generic {{in use}} template.

Thank you for your contributions to Wikpedia, and keep up the good work!

Kind regards,

SmileySnail (talk) 06:15, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out the "in use" tags. I will adjust the word totals. Readingpro256 _{talk to me contribs} 15:18, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

No problem; I am happy to help. Also, there is something I forgot to explain in my last message.

I noticed that we had different totals for the same article. The prosesize tool does not properly parse some kinds of text, such as tables, lists, and mathematical notation. Some kinds of text in list form are non-copyeditable (Table of Contents, References, See also, Further reading). Other lists, – such as the Notable individuals section in the Koskull family article) – can and should be copyedited (I replaced misused hyphens in that list with en dashes), and should be counted. That being said, the correct word count for the article is 1946, and each of us gets 973 of those words.

For future reference, know that prosesize highlights in yellow everything that it counts, so you can easily see if it left out something. In this case you can copy and paste the article into a word processor and remove everything that is truly non-copyeditable to get the true word count. More information on this can be found in the GOCE drive instructions and the prosesize documentation.

I'm sorry I forgot to explain this last night.

Kind regards,

SmileySnail (talk) 22:18, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

May 2024 GOCE drive award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Readingpro256 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:50, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.