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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).
Miniapolis, I was puzzled to see that you removed the blockquote tags for a number of very long quotes in this article. Per WP:Blockquote, if the quote is longer than about 40 words, then it should be blockquoted. If these very long quotes had been paraphrased, as I was urging in the GA review at Talk:Invasion! (Arrowverse)/GA1, then they would have been shorter; instead, you have the Ed Gross quote, which runs 111 words. It may or may not be fair use, but it's certainly blockquote length and then some. Is paraphrasing not in the copyeditor's remit?
I did notice that Favre1fan93 (the original GA nominator) removed a number of your added inline source citations (and two of the citation needed templates), presumably because they don't feel the need to cite a quote at its end so long as the next citation, however many lines away, is from the same source that the quote came from. What you did is, of course, correct, and the citations/templates need to be added back in. BlueMoonset ( talk) 05:43, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
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-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
First of all, thank you for your edits on the article.
I noticed you've used a lot of brackets, and thought some of them were quite unnecessary. Example: "Tiên made her first high-school tour (Tóc Tiên và những giấc mơ)". "Tóc Tiên và những giấc mơ" was the concert's name, I don't really think it should be written like that. And "Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University's Faculty of Medicine" too. Pardon me, but I've never really seen articles using brackets like this before. I think it's because I usually stuffed quite a bit in one sentence, but if you can, please separate them instead of using brackets.
English is obviously not my native language. I'm only trying to give some constructive comments. Please don't be mad.
P/S: Also can you explain why " music video" became "music-video", and why is the second picture so big? Beyoncetan ( talk) 21:31, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks a lot for CE on Philip W. Nuber. Especially for the section of "Air Force career". I was having a real difficult time handling that.
Also, what is {{ anchor}}? I visited the man/doc page, but didnt understand anything. What does it do exactly? Would you put it in simple words please?
Also, I changed your edit in the lead section. DMA was not part of NGA. There were few different agencies/organisations including DMA, and National Photographic Interpretation Centre, that were seperate from each-other. Then these (I think 8) agencies were merged together. This newly formed agency was named NIMA, which was later renamed to NGA. NGA's current article is sort of mess too. Currently, it is beyond repairable. I am working offline on a new article, "history of NGA". Once it is halfway done, I will upload it in my userspace, and then have discussion on talkpage of NGA, and WP-milhistory
Thanks a lot again. Kindly ping me while replying. —usernamekiran (talk) 02:52, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
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For your edits on Jim Bakker. Keep it up. LovelyGirl7 talk 00:03, 23 February 2018 (UTC) |
Hi, thansk for the CE of Lord Howe swamphen, which is looking really good so far. I have one concern, though, you are removing citations from the ends of paragraphs due to "refbloat", but the result is that not all the information contained in said paragraphs is supported by citations now. Surely, this is not the intention? The many citations present are there because they support different parts of the text, not to cite the same info multiple times. FunkMonk ( talk) 17:02, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
"A good rule of thumb is that, except for certain controversial topics, one footnote after a sentence is almost always sufficient. Two or three may be a good way of preventing linkrot for online sources or providing a range of sources that support the fact, but more than three should usually be avoided; if more than three are truly beneficial as an additional range, consider bundling (merging) the citations."Bundling several citations, as needed, is a good workaround. All the best, Mini apolis 18:10, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News
Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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