User talk:Mpatel/archive 4

Quran Project[edit]

Can you add GlobalQuran.com link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran. it was there, but someone removed it and i cant add it again, the page is locked.

we have worked for very long time to build this application, it would be great to let people use it and learn Quran easily. email me if you have question (info@globalquran.com) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ibnbasit (talk • contribs) 22:10, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BookwormUK[edit]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be monitoring her closely now. If someone openly espouses bigoted opinions (e.g. that Islam is "the world's most hated religion" and Muslims are "brainwashed"), I don't think they have long for wikipedia anyway. Hopefully. Deuterium 11:08, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Black Stone[edit]

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God vs Allah[edit]

Because of your previous activity with regard to your topic, I thought I'd let you know that there is a poll going on at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)/God vs Allah. It'd be great if you could vote. Thanks! Starwarp2k2 04:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I made the same U-Turn, hehe. Starwarp2k2 12:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hadith[edit]

Im just happy to see people joining the projects :) --Striver 10:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Suhuf-i-Ibrahim article edit[edit]

Hi, MPatel/MathPhys. Can you please give reasons / what bases you use to justify not including the Latter Day Saints issue [1]? Moreover, do you want to continue this cabal case since there is nobody to take up the other side of the case? Jsw663 18:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

Thanks for recategorising Maulana, Andhe ki laathi. I was struggling to think where it should go. Also, there is still some religious terminology that I didn't know so couldn't link to or explain in English. I was trying to help clear the wikification backlog and came up against my ignorance of Islam. Itsmejudith 22:23, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Metre Poetry[edit]

Hi there, I wish I had seen your comment earlier. I also wanted to know the difference when I edited that part about the etymology of "Qur'an". I meant to say the meter in poetry. In Arabic it is called "wazn" and the literal translation of "wazn" is "weight".

For example in arabic you would say that "place" and "grace" have the same "wazn" because they have the same # of letters and also sound similar. Having known that, do you think it should be Meter(music) or meter(poetry) Thank you for your input.Marwan123 05:00, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also think it is Meter(poetry). All I wanted to prove by adding that part about the meter of the word "Quran" is to show that this word is actually derived from an Arabic root rather than being derived from a syriac origin. This is very clear to me as an Arabic speaker. Unfortunately some people, who are obviously not linguists, still think that the part about Quran being syriac in origin should remain. This theory is more than 100 years old and has almost no supporters among real linguists yet its taking half of the etymology section. Marwan123 20:41, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Eotvos effect[edit]

I copy and paste from User Talk:Cleonis :

[...] By the way, I didn't realise that there was an article on the Eötvös effect - thanks! MP (talk) 12:18, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just to be sure: are you referring to the Eötvös effect or the 'Eötvös experiment'?
The article that I wrote about the Eötvös effect is unrelated to GTR, in the sense that the Eötvös effect is general physics, it applies equally in newtonian dynamics and GTR; no distinction. The Eötvös experiement of course tested the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass.

What is interesting about the Eötvös effect is that it is closely related to the Coriolis effect as taken into account in meteorology. On my own website the Eötvös effect article is the opening article of an assembly of four articles. 1) the Eötvös effect 2) rotational-vibrational coupling 3) Inertial oscillations (the inertial oscillations that are taken into account in oceanography and meteorology) 4) Comparison of inertial oscillations and ballistics. --Cleonis | Talk 16:45, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AfD[edit]

Hello. Could you please follow the procedure described at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#How to list pages for deletion when nominating a page for deletion? The article won't be deleted otherwise, unless a poor soul fixes it up, like I did for Indian relativity. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 02:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Indian relativity[edit]

M - Thank for the head's-up on that article. In response, I have put Aryabhata's relativity principle up for deletion also. The creator of that article has failed to make any case for me that the article should exist, and the resposne to the AfD of Indian relativity has given me hope that I get this one removed also. --EMS | Talk 15:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CH[edit]

M -

Chris Hillman has been trying to contact you. I tried forwarding some e-mail from him to you. Have you received it? All that I can tell you is that Chris wants to talk to you. --EMS | Talk 06:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Types of hajj[edit]

Dear MP, the problem with the section that I deleted was that it was so terse, and presumed such an acquaintance with Arabic, the various madhabs, etc., that I found it impenetrable. If I found it hard going (and I'm somewhere more informed about Islam than the usual encyclopedia user, thought I'm certainly no scholar) I don't think a regular user could make head or tail of it. If you want to restore that information, you're going to have to unpack it. Similarly the hajj undertaken for others. That deserves a section, and perhaps some examples. If you just say that it exists, blam, then that info is going to float over readers' heads.

I recall several accounts of vicarious hajj in accounts of 18th and 19th century Indian life. The wealthy, aged, and feeble would do the hajj this way, as it was the only way that they could. But is it so common now? I should think that with jet travel, vicarious hajj would have disappeared. If there are any stats available on the numbers of such pilgrims each year, that would certainly help. Zora 06:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AfD Islamic socialism[edit]

You have edited the article Islamic socialism. This article is currently being considered for deletion under the wp:afd process. You may contribute to this discussion by commenting here. Thank you. Edivorce 01:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photons from special relativity?[edit]

You wrote that "In special relativity, it is possible derive E=hf by assuming that light has a certain frequency and energy (or momentum if you want to think in those terms). Once the four-momentum for light is defined (without necessarily referring to any de Broglie type of hypothesis), it is straightforward to deduce the above energy-frequency relation." But I don't see how special relativity gives you a relationship between the energy and frequency of light. In classical electromagnetism, the energy density of an electromagnetic field (light) depends on the amplitude and frequency. Nothing compels you to introduce photons with E=hf. (Let's continue the discussion on this page, please) Dark Formal 18:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Freemasonry[edit]

I read the source again, and it uses the word "felony". However, if you can find me the original law, a translation thereof, and a classification of levels of crimes, I'd be happy to change it to something more accurate. Furthermore, it's "too American" simply because other countries call them "indictable offenses" (not "serious crimes"), and probably because the article is from an American paper. In any case, as per your "important issues" section of your user page, hopefully you found the article useful and informative. MSJapan 21:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Contribs[edit]

Why isnt your contribs link enabled? Sup with that? --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 17:38, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Actually, it is enabled. I have no problems viewing my contributions. Try again later. MP (talk) 22:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I dont see any link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mpatel -- you should remove this redirect to the MathPhys user. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 23:16, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This kind of redirect is aggravating and inappropriate.Proabivouac 06:29, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It would be helpful and courteous if you said why you find it "aggravating and inappropriate". MP might change it and resolve whatever problem you're having with the redirect if you give some reasons. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 08:31, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MPatel, thanks for removing the redirect. Can you also fix your signature so it goes to Mpatel instead of MathPhys? The reason is that when people click on your signature, they should arrive to the username you're using so they can see your contribs, your actual user page and talk page. This is the signature code you can use:

[[User:Mpatel|MP]] [[User_talk:Mpatel | (talk)]]

thanks, --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 12:37, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problems - done. MP ^{(talk•contribs)} 14:00, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, works great now. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 02:40, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

General Relativity (book)[edit]

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Cat Islam[edit]

The Islam cat is reserved for top level articles only. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 13:10, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you see Category:Islam, it says there that it must be pruned regularly. There's lots of Islamic stuff, so we cant put all the articles in that cat, only the most top level articles like Muhammad. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 15:41, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See here which mentions {{catdiffuse}}, the template that Category:Islam uses. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 15:49, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Islam cat looks okay to me now. If you think there's a main top level article that should be added, go ahead. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 15:50, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

you can also create new sub-categories if you think there can be any where some other articles can be grouped too. --Matt57 ^{(talk•contribs)} 15:51, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of categories:(Country) converts to Islam[edit]

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Lesser Inner Greater Outer[edit]

You're a general relativity custodian at wikipedia, right? When you copyedit, rather than revert, vandalisms like this one, it's almost like a stamp of approval. Tsk tsk. -lethe ^{talk +} 05:15, 24 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do high G forces created by acceleration also slow time in the same manner as large planets?[edit]

Magruderb 15:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Relativity[edit]

You asked me to take part in this project. I believe, a lot of confusion comes from not properly described experiments and terms. But if I try to show, that a clock could be a counter to count the oscillations of electromagnetic wave, caught in an resonator exitated by emissions of the most simple atom, I am stopped with the allegation of OR. If such basic message is OR, I can't contribute anything. Talk:Twin_paradox#no_original_research The term rod has the following translations to german:

       rod             das (auch: der) Pleuel

rod [tech.] der Biegedorn rod [tech.] die Bohrstange rod [tech.] der Brennstab [Kerntechnik] rod [tech.] der Dosierstab rod der Eisenstab rod die Fuchtel rod [tech.] das Gestänge rod [tech.] der Greiferbalken rod [tech.] die Kurbelstange rod [engin.] der Linienträger rod der Mast rod [tech.] der Rundstab rod [tech.] die Rundstange rod die Rute rod [sl.] das Schießeisen [sl.] rod der Stab rod [engin.] der Stab rod [anat.] das Stäbchen rod [anat.] die Stäbchenzelle wiss.:Cellula optica bacilliformis i rod [tech.] die Stange rod [tech.] die Steckachse rod [textil.] der Stoßarm - Ladtrieb rod [tech.] die Strebe rod die Zuchtrute

But some unknown prohibits me to show, that a rod stands for a well defined materialistic object of certain length, what most simple is a lattice of atoms, which gives us the possibility to link geometric dimension to wavelength of radiation on one hand and to define the distance of two mirrors, that form such a apparatus, working as said resonator. Therefore, I'm not, no longer and not again interested in such work. If I'm alone! ;-] ErNa (talk) 07:25, 14 January 2008 (UTC) No answer? ErNa (talk) 09:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ununoctium FAC[edit]

I noticed you have taken a look at the article several days ago. You are welcome to leave some thoughts/comments on the article at the FA candidate page. Thanks! Nergaal (talk) 21:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Isometries in physics[edit]

I see you have a history of working on the article Isometries in physics. I am looking at it from the project Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles where it is one of the longest {{unreferenced}} tagged articles that does not meet at least the barest minimum of verifiability. It has been tagged and completely without references since June 2006. It would be extremely helpful if you had some references you could add to the article to help support its verifiability and notability. Thanks for any help you can give. BirgitteSB 21:23, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please help us with Ali article[edit]

Hi, I saw you have done good efforts to improve Qur'an. Can you do similar work for Ali, which is nominated as a GA article. Thanks.--Seyyed(t-c) 12:48, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. Do you want the tag remain on the article anymore.--Seyyed(t-c) 02:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your work[edit]

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I hereby award this barnstar to Mpatel for his tireless efforts to improve Islam related articles such as Ali. Thank you for your diligence! Peter Deer (talk) 20:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't be too unexpected, I have Ali on my watchlist, so I've seen all your work on it, as well as your work on Qur'an. You've been doing necessary work and it's quite appreciated. Peter Deer (talk) 21:29, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's good idea to put a comment on this page under my request and declare you've done it.--Seyyed(t-c) 03:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Isometries in physics[edit]

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Muhammad / The Prophet[edit]

Hi, I think in some cases which we want to emphasize on the religious aspect of Muhammad we can use "The Prophet". You see the meaning of the superiority of the Prophet's progeny over the rest of the ummah and the superiority of Muhammad's progeny over the rest of the ummah are completely different. Of course it's against WP:MOSISLAM but I put my idea there. Please write your idea here--Seyyed(t-c) 11:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Distortion of Succession to Muhammad[edit]

When I separated Shia-Sunni views and leading paragraph I had a reason. In brief the first paragraph shows scholars viewpoints about the historic fact and the last one shows Muslim beliefs. For more explanation please read here. --Seyyed(t-c) 11:55, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please forgive me but I revert your edition in this section.--Seyyed(t-c) 11:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That section has completely two different part. I clarify them by adding a sub section.--Seyyed(t-c) 12:00, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you revert without any discussion. This is an important issue and your edit distorted it. Even you didn't pay attention to sources.:-((--Seyyed(t-c) 13:24, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The explanation is at Ali talk. MP ^{(talk•contribs)} 13:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, I'm not in good mood today. I'll come back later. I hope you can improve the article. And please revert the first two paragraphs which are not written on the basis of the Shia and Sunni views.--Seyyed(t-c) 13:33, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I put a comment on the talk page to discuss about succession. I hope my anxious manner wouldn't bother you. God bless you.--Seyyed(t-c) 16:01, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer to the talk page before reverting my edition. Pardon me, I don't want to accuse you, but your edition is a kind of censorship. --Seyyed(t-c) 15:08, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My proposal[edit]

Hi Mpatel,

Could you please take a look at my proposal here [2]. Thanks in advance, Cheers, --Be happy!! (talk) 09:32, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New change in WP:MOSISLAM[edit]

Salam Alaykum

Two weeks ago I put a comment in the talk page of MOSISLAM and proposed using "The Prophet" in especial cases and about one weeks ago I changed WP:MOSISLAM [3]. Nobody protest or change my proposal. Thus I want to insert it in the related articles.--Seyyed(t-c) 23:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Einstein Field Equations vandalism[edit]

The article begins with inserted text 'black holes are nothingness. Black holes are big'. The odd thing is that it does not appear on the edit page. I looked at the HTML source but that gave no insight into where the text is coming from (at the style sheet level, perhaps?).

Just wanted to mention it to someone working with the project. Cyclone77 (talk) 16:17, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Planck from special relativity[edit]

Hi mpatel,

your user page says "Planck's relation between the energy and frequency of a photon can be derived using special relativity" -- but the article on four-vectors that this links to doesn't seem to mention Planck's constant. I don't see how anything involving Planck's constant could be derived from special relativity alone -- and as someone remarked above, Maxwell's electrodynamics are invariant under Lorentz transforms and thus compatible with special relativity. Could you explain what you mean?

Thanks,

Joriki (talk) 05:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At-Tawba 29, Imran (father of Maryam) and Islamic view of Ishmael[edit]

Greetings. The reason I placed those items in the general Islam category is because I'm organizing hundreds of WP:UNCAT articles per day. If I attempt to exactly categorize each article, I'll only be able to rescue a fraction of those articles. Further, since there are many topics I'm not well-versed in, if I detail-cat there's a danger that I'll miscategorize. Please don't think of this as "dumping" articles into your section, I'm instead trying to save articles that are floating around lost, and by putting them in the general category I'm letting the people who know that field best decide where to file (or whether to delete) them. Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:30, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings![edit]

Hi, M,

Haven't heard from you in some time--- drop me a line when you get a chance, I'd like to catch up!

Chris

WikiProjectIslam Collaboration[edit]

Salam bro,

Don't you want to participate in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Islam#Collaboration. Please participate in collaborative improvement of Sources of Islamic law, which is nominated as GA.

General relativity FAC review[edit]

Thanks once more for your helpful comments at the FAC review. Please consider hiding your resolved comments in a cap box template, to make it easier for the FAC directors to consider when all issues have been resolved. Thanks! Markus Poessel (talk) 18:14, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your edits on the Al-Aqsa Mosque article[edit]

Hey. Thanks for your edits to the article. I would like to see that article reach GA status, and its nice to not have to do all the work;-) Have a nice day!--SJP_Chat 02:42, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hell yeah! I know exactly what you mean:-) I'm thinking of pretty much rewriting the "Significance in Islam" subsection, since that is the part that has issues. I won't be doing any work on the article because I have a shortage of Adderall:-P Cya around.--SJP_Chat 17:38, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mind holding off from improving the Significance in Islam subsection? I'm in the middle of re-writing it. You can re-write it if you really want to, but I would appreciate it if you would wait a little bit before editing it. After I'm perfectly fine if you edit it:-)--SJP_Chat 15:20, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hadith[edit]

Hi Mpatel. How are you? I think you might have restored this material by mistake. In essence it's a long list of primary source material selected by Davehas of unknown significance, which I think adds nothing of encyclopedic value to the article. More discussion can be found on the talk page if you're interested. Regards, ITAQALLAH 20:17, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Articles Needing Copy Edit[edit]

Hello former LOCE member :)

This is an invitation for you to join a brand-new WikiProject that aims to improve the articles tagged for copy edit. This is pretty important to Wikipedia because there are now over 4,000 such articles, some of which need quite a bit of help. This is not a clone of the LOCE because we will not deal with requests for copy edits, but will happily make improvements to articles at our own pace. If you're interested, sign up at the project page!

Cheers, Samuel Tan 02:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of the Trench[edit]

Salam Alaykum,

I've nominated Battle of the Trench for review here. One of the reviewer asked for copy-editing which I can't do it. Please help me with it. Thanks.--Seyyed(t-c) 07:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Druze[edit]

I appear to have misunderstood the Druze Category:Islam issue. Can you clarify? It should be categorised as an Islam page, what am I missing in re format? Thanks, Ogress _smash! 23:44, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Rquote2[edit]

Template:Rquote2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Kaldari (talk) 20:28, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

g-force article[edit]

Hi, I noticed you were on the relativity task force, and you'd edited recently.

There's a discussion over at Talk:g-force about whether g-force is a measure of acceleration. Could you cruise over if you have a chance and give your opinion? Many thanks- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 23:34, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Template for Deletion Notice.[edit]

Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Hadith_authenticity is a deletion discussion about a template you have created. ThuranX (talk) 01:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mpatel, at the deletion discussion for the Hadith authenticity template, someone noted that the template is not currently used anywhere. If you've used it in articles in the past, could you make a note of it at the discussion? Thanks. --Amble (talk) 04:46, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just in case you didn't notice.[edit]

Hello, Mpatel. You have new messages at 21655's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

21655 ^{ταλκ/01ҁ} 01:10, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Space Topology[edit]

Please read the article you cite ... before writing: Path Topology and the Original Zeeman Topology are not the same ... and it was precisely the objective of Hawking et al. to develop a new topology to overcome some drawbacks of the original Zeeman-proposal. Moreover the original Hawking definitions work as promised only if the under lying manifold is a Lorentzian Manifold with additional constraints .. only then the cite set serve as base. Else you have to invest in some additional definitions or axioms I'm developping a BLOG on the subject -- so if you like - your kindly invited. [4] Corneliusni (talk) 00:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Halilsoy Article[edit]

Maybe you can provide some opinion on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mustafa Halilsoy, while it is about a person who contributed to field of exact solutions in general relativity. Thank you. --mcyp (talk) 18:42, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Excessive pictures?[edit]

The Quran is beginning to look rather cluttered. The pictures are however, relevant to the article and do help clarify. Do you think its possible to remove one - or both - of the templates to accomadate the large number of pictures? Supertouch (talk) 15:13, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's better, but I think if you just removed it altogether and replaced it with a link to the article on Islam at the beginning of the See Also list I think that would be better. Also, removing, in my opinion, the two 'boxes' containing quotes would be better off removed... Just a suggestion... Supertouch (talk) 16:05, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks a lot better! I made a few essentially structural changes as well - tell me what you think. Supertouch (talk) 16:37, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While I don't necessarily disagree with your choice of "History" as a section heading instead of "History of the Quranic text", it seems to me to be a POV issue. The term "History of the Quran" implies to me - in light of the Toby Lester article in the Atlantic - is POV as it implies that the Quran we have today went thru an evolution until becoming what it is today, whereas "History of the Quranic Text seems much more neutral. At the same time, I recognize that this might not be as apparent to someone who hasn't read the article... You seem much more in touch with the Quran page so tell me what you think is more appropriate... Supertouch (talk) 16:01, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mosque[edit]

Can you please not revert my edits.--Ghamay (talk) 19:47, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2010 January 16[edit]

Hi. We need some help on Islam-related AfDs. Could you take a look at these? - Richard Cavell (talk) 15:42, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit Backlog Elimination Drive[edit]

Hi, as a member of the Guild of Copy Editors you're hereby notified of and invited to participate in the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2010. Please help us eliminate the 8,000+ copyedit backlog! Participating editors will receive barnstars and other awards, according to their level of participation. ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! 00:06, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Grab some glory, and a barnstar[edit]

Hi, I'd like to invite you to participate in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. In May, about 30 editors helped remove the {{copyedit}} tag from 1175 articles. The backlog is still over 7500 articles, and extends back to the beginning of 2008! We really need your help to reduce it. Copyediting just a couple articles can qualify you for a barnstar. Serious copyeditors can win prestigious and exclusive rewards. See the event page for more information. And thanks for your consideration. ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! 15:02, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for signing up for the July Backlog Elimination Drive! The copyedit backlog stretches back two and a half years, all the way back to the beginning of 2008! We're really going to need all the help we can muster to get it down to a manageable number. We've ambitiously set a goal of clearing all of 2008 from the backlog this month. In order to do that, we're going to need more participants. Is there anyone that you can invite or ask to participate with you? If so, we're offering an award to the person who brings in the most referrals. Just notify ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! or Diannaa ^TALK of who your referrals are. Once again, thanks for your support! --Diannaa ^TALK 14:47, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are now a Reviewer[edit]

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 00:31, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Backlog Elimination Drive Has Begun[edit]

Hello, I just wanted to take a moment and announce that the July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive has started, and will run for a month. Thanks for signing up. There's a special prize for most edits on the first day, in case you've got high ambitions. Enjoy! ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! 04:14, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder[edit]

Hi! This message is just a friendly reminder that you signed up to participate in the GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive. I noticed that you haven't logged a single copy edit yet. We'd love to see you participate! The drive runs three more weeks so there's still plenty of time to earn barnstars. Thanks! --Diannaa ^(Talk) 22:29, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE Newsletter[edit]

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have now passed the halfway point, so here's an update.

Progress Report - Progress toward the targets has been good. 751 articles out of the approximately 1,600 we would like to get completed by the end of the month were done by July 15, so we will be very close to meeting the target for volume. However, we would like to clear all of the 2008 articles from the backlog, and there are still 892 left to do. Please consider choosing one of these older articles when looking for something to copy edit. If we focus our firepower we can completely wipe out 2008 from the queue.

Participation Report - 95 people signed up for the July drive. This is a great result compared to May, when we had 36. However, in May only one person that signed up didn't do any copy edits, and in July only 59 of the 95 have posted any copy edits on the big board.

The task may seem insurmountable but please remember that if all 95 participants copy edit just one article a day from now until the end of the month, we will eliminate 1,300 more articles from the backlog. So please consider participating at whatever level you can! All contributions are appreciated.

This newsletter was prepared for the GOCE by Diannaa ^(Talk), S Masters (talk), and The Raptor ^{Let's talk}.

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up[edit]

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks to all who participated in the drive! Over 100 editors—including Jimbo Wales—signed up this time (nearly triple the participants of the May drive). This benefited the Guild as well as the articles in need of copy editing. You can see from the comparison graphs that we increased the number of completed copyedits substantially. Unfortunately, we were not able to meet our goal of completely wiping out 2008 from the queue. We also were not able to reduce the backlog to less than 6,000 articles. We suspect people were busy with real life summertime things, at least in the northern hemisphere! We were able to remove the months of January, February, March, April, and May from the backlog, and we almost wiped out the month of June. We reduced the backlog by 1,289 articles (17%), so all in all it was a very successful drive, and we will be holding another event soon. We'll come up with some new ideas to try to keep things fresh and interesting. Keep up the good work, everybody!

Stats
If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you edited in the May 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, your word totals are cumulative for barnstars (not the leaderboard). Over the course of the next week or two, we will be handing out the barnstars.

Eight people will receive The Most Excellent Order of the Caretaker's Barnstar (100,000+ words): Chaosdruid, Diannaa, Ericleb01, Lfstevens, Shimeru, S Masters, The Utahraptor, and Torchiest.
Bullock and Slon02 will receive The Order of the Superior Scribe (80,000+).
The Barnstar of Diligence (60,000+) goes to Derild4921, GaryColemanFan, kojozone, and Mlpearc.
The Modern Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar (40,000+) goes to A. Parrot, AirplanePro, Auntieruth55, Bejinhan, David Rush, and mono.
Nobody will receive The Old School League of Copy Editors award (30,000+).
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar (20,000+) goes to Backtable, Cindamuse, dtgriffith, Duff, e. ripley, Laurinavicius, NerdyScienceDude, and TEK.
The Cleanup Barnstar (12,000+) goes to Brickie, Casliber, cymru lass, December21st2012Freak, Nolelover, TheTito, Whoosit, and YellowMonkey.
The Working Man's Barnstar (8,000+) goes to Bsherr, Duchess of Bathwick, HELLKNOWZ, Mabeenot, noraft, Pyfan, and Richard asr.
The Modest Barnstar (4,000+) goes to Adrian J. Hunter, Airplaneman, Annalise, Camerafiend, Cricket02, Fetchcomms, Gosox5555, LeonidasSpartan, Paulmnguyen, Piotrus, SuperHamster, Taelus, and TPW.

Gold Star Award

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	Articles	Words	5k+ Articles
1.	Diannaa (248)	Shimeru (200,392)	Shimeru/Ericleb01 (13)
2.	Slon02 (157)	Diannaa (164,960)	Chaosdruid (8)
3.	GaryColemanFan (101)	Chaosdruid (130,630)	Derild4921 (7)
4.	Torchiest (100)	The Utahraptor (117,347)	GaryColemanFan/Slon02 (6)
5.	Shimeru (80)	Ericleb01 (114,893)	Bejinhan/The Utahraptor (5)

Coordinator: ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! Co-coordinators: Diannaa ^TALK and S Masters (talk) | Newsletter by: The Raptor ^{You rang?}/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions}

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GOCE Invitation[edit]

There are currently
2,803 articles in the backlog.
You can help us! Join the
September 2010 drive today!

The Guild of Copy-Editors – September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive

The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invite you to participate in the September 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September at 23:59 (UTC). The goals for this drive are to eliminate 2008 from the queue and to reduce the backlog to fewer than 5,000 articles.

Sign-up has already begun at the September drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page.

Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

Awards and barnstars
A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GoCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.

Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive!
— ɳorɑfʈ^Talk! and S Masters (talk).

November copy edit drive[edit]

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!

The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue.

Sign-up has already begun at the November drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page.

Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

Awards and barnstars

A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants, some of which are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.

Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive!
— The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}/_{Contributions}, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa ^(Talk)

November 2010 backlog elimination drive update[edit]

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!

Discussions are underway to elect our inaugural group of GOCE Coordinators. Guild members and Drive participants are invited to have a look at the Coordinators page and join the discussion on its associated talk page.

We have reached the midway point in our backlog elimination drive, so here is an update.

Participation report — The November drive has 53 participants at this point. We had 77 participants in the September drive. In July, 95 people signed up for the drive, and in May we had 36. If you are not participating, it is not too late to join!

Progress report — The drive is quite successful so far, as we have already almost reached our target of a 10% reduction in the number of articles in the backlog. We are doing very well at keeping our Requests page clear, as those articles count double for word count for this drive.

Please keep in mind the possibility of removing other tags when you are finished with an article. If the article no longer needs {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, or other similar maintenance tags, please remove them, as this will make the tasks of other WikiProjects easier to complete. Thanks very much for participating in the Drive, and see you at the finish line!

Your drive coordinators –The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}/_{Contributions}, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa ^(Talk)

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of The Utahraptor (talk) at 16:26, 14 November 2010 (UTC).[reply]

GOCE elections[edit]

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors via SMasters using AWB on 01:52, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion[edit]

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!

We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated.

Stats

58 people signed up for this drive. Of these, 48 people participated in the drive.
Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%.
49 awards will go out to 33 of 48 participants. Check out the complete list of barnstar winners here.

Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Our next drive is scheduled for January 2011. In the meantime, please consider helping out at the Wikification drive or any of the other places where help with backlogs is needed.

Thank you for participating in the last 2010 backlog elimination drive! We look forward to seeing you in January!

Your drive coordinators –The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}/_{Contributions}, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa ^(Talk)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Mosques in Hong Kong[edit]

Template:Mosques in Hong Kong has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji (talk) 14:54, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE Year-end Report[edit]

Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report.

Highlights

Membership grows to 503 editors
2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives
Our encounter with Jimbo Wales
Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned
Report on our inaugural elections
Guild Plans for 2011
New barnstars introduced
Requests page improved
Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive!

Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011!
– Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 06:34, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Exact Solutions in General Relativity[edit]

Template:Exact Solutions in General Relativity has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — This, that, and the other (talk) 23:52, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive news[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! The drive is halfway over, so here are some mid-drive stats.

Participation

So far, 43 people have signed up for this drive. Of these, 25 have participated. If you signed up for the drive but haven't participated yet, it's not too late! Try to copy edit at least a few articles. Remember, if you have rollover words from the last drive, you will lose them if you do not participate in this drive. If you haven't signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now.

Progress report

We have eliminated two months from the backlog – January and February 2009. One of our goals is to eliminate as many months as possible from the 2009 backlog. Please help us reduce the size of this part of the backlog if you haven't already. Another goal is to reduce the entire backlog by 10%, or by 515 articles. Currently, we have eliminated 375 articles from the queue, so if each participant copy edits four more articles, we will reach that goal.

Thank you for participating in the January 2011 drive. We anticipate it will be another big success!

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa ^(Talk), The Utahraptor ^{Talk to me}, and Tea with toast (Talk)

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GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.

Statistics

54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated.
One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%.
Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue.
Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here.

Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March.

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Science of Hadith[edit]

Template:Science of Hadith has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:57, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference[edit]

Hello there. This is an automated message to tell you about the gradual phasing out of the preference entitled "Mark all edits minor by default", which you currently have (or very recently had) enabled.

On 13 March 2011, this preference was hidden from the user preferences screen as part of efforts to prevent its accidental misuse (consensus discussion, guidelines for use at WP:MINOR). This had the effect of locking users in to their existing preference, which, in your case, was true. To complete the process, your preference will automatically be changed to false in the next few days. This does not require any intervention on your part and all users will still be able to manually mark their edits as being minor in the usual way.

For well-established users such as yourself there is a workaround available involving custom JavaScript. If you have any problems, feel free to drop me a note.

Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 20:35, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter[edit]

The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive

The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive.

Awards and barnstars
A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.

We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:52, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

GOCE elections[edit]

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

Elections are currently underway for our Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days and ends on June 30, 23:59 UTC. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! There is also a referendum to appoint a Coordinator Emeritus. Cast your vote today.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 08:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive invitation[edit]

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting.

This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated.

We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words".

>>> Sign-up now <<<

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 09:17, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Categories of Hadith[edit]

I noticed you were removing the Category:Islam from this article, without citing any reason for the same. Please discuss this on the Talk page first. Thanks. Shaad lko (talk) 05:00, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback[edit]

Hello, Mpatel. You have new messages at Shaad lko's talk page.
Message added 06:30, 1 August 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Shaad lko (talk) 06:30, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter[edit]

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters.

>>> Sign up now <<<

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 16:48, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Hadith authenticity[edit]

Template:Hadith authenticity has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 23:57, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter[edit]

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their November 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles (and specifically will be targeting the oldest three months), as we want to copy edit as many of these as possible. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters.

>>> Sign up now <<<

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 01:47, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Islah (concept)[edit]

The article Islah (concept) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The corresponding Dab contains the only encyclopedia-worthy content this article has seen in its more than six years' existence. If its prose content can be expanded beyond a dictdef, it's high time to do so.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jerzy•t 05:16, 15 December 2011 (UTC) Timestamp: 20111215044412[reply]

GOCE newsletter[edit]

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

Elections are currently underway for our third tranche of Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, 16 December – 23:59 UTC, 31 December. All GOCE members, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are five candidates vying for four positions. Your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 11:05, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

GOCE 2011 Year-End Report[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report

We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report.

Highlights

Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261
Report on coordinators' elections
Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives
Guild Plans for 2012
Requests page report
Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive!

Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here
On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012!
– Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 06:36, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March copy edit drive[edit]

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their March 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:46, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

>>> Sign up now <<<

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GOCE March drive newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far.

Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers.

Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk)

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GOCE March drive wrap-up[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter.

Participation

Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months.

Progress report

During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.

When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators.

Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May.

Your drive coordinators – Dianna ^(Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk)

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Main page appearance: General relativity[edit]

This is a note to let the main editors of General relativity know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on April 19, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 19, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:

General relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. General relativity generalises special relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation, providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time. In particular, the curvature of spacetime is directly related to the four-momentum of whatever matter and radiation are present. The relation is specified by the Einstein field equations. Some predictions of general relativity differ significantly from those of classical physics. Examples of such differences include gravitational time dilation, gravitational lensing, the gravitational redshift of light, and the gravitational time delay. General relativity's predictions have been confirmed in all observations and experiments to date. Although general relativity is not the only relativistic theory of gravity, it is the simplest theory that is consistent with experimental data. However, unanswered questions remain, the most fundamental being how general relativity can be reconciled with the laws of quantum physics to produce a complete and self-consistent theory of quantum gravity. (more...)

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GOCE May copy edit drive[edit]

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their May 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg.

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Your GA nomination of Black Stone[edit]

The article Black Stone you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Black Stone for comments about the article. Well done! There is a backlog of articles waiting for review, why not help out and review a nominated article yourself? GoP _T ^C _N 08:47, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles.

Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg

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Topology and Physical Cosmology[edit]

Hi Mpatel,

You've written that the study of space-time topology is very important for the field of physical cosmology. Could you elaborate? What is it about space-time topology that is so relevant to cosmology in general, and in particular to physical cosmology? Thanks for any thoughts --- Sofsonline (talk) 11:27, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Mosques in Canada[edit]

Template:Mosques in Canada has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.

GOCE May drive wrap-up[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago.

Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg

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GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive[edit]

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their July 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on July 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on July 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to eliminate the articles tagged in April, May and June 2011 from the queue and to complete all requests placed before the end of June. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 6 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in April–June 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg.

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GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 25 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—May, June, and July 2011—by about 40%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 264 articles so far, to around 2500 articles.

Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, your best copy-editing work of the month will be eligible for fabulous prizes! See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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Proposed deletion of Exact solution[edit]

The article Exact solution has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The article consists solely of a definition for a term whose meaning follows from the usual meanings of the words "exact" and "solution".

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. RockMagnetist (talk) 20:24, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE July drive wrap-up[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Out of 45 people who signed up this drive, 31 have copy-edited at least one article. Lfstevens continues to carry most of the weight, having edited 360 articles and over a quarter of a million words already. Thanks to all who have participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, will be available early in August here.

Progress report: We are once again very close to achieving in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog. Only 35 such articles remain at press time. The total backlog currently sits at under 2400 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We are just two articles away from completing all requests made before July 2012 (both are in progress).

Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, you'll be able to submit your best copy-editing work for palaver, praise, and prizes. See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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GOCE news and September drive invitation[edit]

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best August copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit the articles tagged longest ago and to complete all requests placed before the end of August. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top six in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". This drive features a much easier signup process. We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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GOCE September activities[edit]

Reminders from the Guild of Copy Editors

A quick reminder of our current events:

The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight September 14 (UTC).
The September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight September 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin.
The September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is now underway! The event runs until midnight September 30 (UTC). The goal is to copy edit articles with the oldest tags and complete all requests placed before September. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who participates, with special awards given to the top five in the following categories: "Total articles", "Total words", "Total articles over 5,000 words", "Total articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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GOCE mid-drive newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 19 have copy-edited at least one article, about the same as the last drive. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!
Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—August, September, and October 2011—by about 44%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 58 articles so far, to around 2600 articles. The biggest difference between this drive and the previous one is a stronger focus on large articles, so total word counts are still comparable.
Don't forget about the Copy Edit of the Month contests! Voting for the August contest has been extended through the end of the month. You don't have to make a submission to vote!
- August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight September 30 (UTC).
- September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight September 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin.

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GOCE September 2012 drive wrap-up[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Out of 41 people who signed up this drive, 28 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing July, August, September and October 2011 from the backlog. This means that, for the first time since the drives began, the backlog is less than a year. At least 677 tagged articles were copy edited, although 365 new ones were added during the month. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2341 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 54 requests outstanding before September 2012 as well as eight of those made in September.

Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the August 2012 competition, and prizes will be issued soon. The September 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The October 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote.

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GOCE fall newsletter[edit]

Fall Events from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best October copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
Voting is in progress for the September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not.
NEW!! In the week from Sunday 21 October to Saturday 27 October, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} belonging to selected project(s). For the first blitz, we'll start with WikiProject Olympics and WikiProject Albums and add more Projects to the blitz as we clear them. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded.
November 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in 2011 and to complete all requests placed before the end of October. 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 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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GOCE November 2012 copy edit drive update[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

Participation: Out of 31 people signed up for this drive so far, 22 have copy-edited at least one article. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!
Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive. We have reduced our target group of articles—November and December 2011—by over 50%, and 34 of the the 56 requests made in September and October this year have already been fulfilled. However, the rate of tagging for copy edit has increased, and this month we are just keeping the size of the backlog stable. So, all you copy editors, please do come along and help us!
The September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest was won by Baffle gab1978 for his copy edit of Expulsion of the Acadians. Runner up was Gareth Griffith-Jones for his edit of I Could Fall in Love. Congratulations to both.
The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight November 30 (UTC). You don't have to make a submission to vote!
November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight November 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin.
Seasonal oversight: We had a slight fall from grace in the title of our last newletter, which mentioned the season in the northern hemisphere and thus got it wrong for the southern. Fortunately an observant GOCE member was ready to spring into action to advise us. Thanks! In future we'll stay meteorologically neutral.

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GOCE November drive wrap-up[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 38 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy-edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. All the barnstars have now been distributed.

Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing November and December 2011 from the backlog. For the first time since the drives began, the backlog consists only of articles tagged in the current year. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2690 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 56 requests outstanding before November 2012 as well as eight of those made in November.

Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the October 2012 competition, and prizes have been issued. The November 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The December 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote.

Coodinator election: The six-month term for our fourth tranche of Guild coordinators will expire at the end of December. Nominations are open for the fifth tranche of coordinators, who will serve from 1 January to 30 June 2013. For complete information, please have a look at the election page.

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GOCE mid-December newsletter[edit]

End of Year Events from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

The December 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best December copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
Voting is in progress for the November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not.
From Sunday 16 December to Saturday 22 December, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} from January 2012. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded.
January 2013 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 January, February, and March 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2012. 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 January, February, and March 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

Coodinator election: Nominations are open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January to 30 June 2013. Nominations close on December 15 at 23:59 UTC, after which voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page.

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Category:Islamic terms[edit]

Category:Islamic terms, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 21:59, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE 2012 Annual Report[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors 2012 Annual Report

The GOCE has wrapped up another successful year of operations!

Our 2012 Annual Report is now ready for review.

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GOCE mid-drive newsletter, January 2013[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors January 2013 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

We are halfway through our January backlog elimination drive.

The mid-drive newsletter is now ready for review.

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GOCE February 2013 newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors February 2013 events newsletter

We are preparing to start our February requests blitz and March backlog elimination drive.

The February 2013 newsletter is now ready for review.

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GOCE news: February 2013[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2013 wrap-up

Participation: Out of 19 people who signed up for this blitz, 9 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: During the six-day blitz, we removed over twenty articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, BDD and Miniapolis.

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GOCE mid-March 2013 newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2013 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

We are halfway through our March backlog elimination drive.

The mid-drive newsletter is now ready for review.

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GOCE April 2013 newsletter[edit]

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

We have completed our March backlog elimination drive.

The drive wrap-up newsletter is now ready for review.

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GOCE April 2013 newsletter[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors April 2013 events newsletter

We finished the April blitz and are preparing to start our May backlog elimination drive.

The April 2013 events newsletter is now ready for review.

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Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library![edit]

World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!

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GOCE May drive wrap-up[edit]

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

We have completed our May backlog elimination drive.

The drive wrap-up newsletter is now ready for review.

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GOCE June/July 2013 events[edit]

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

We have completed our June blitz and are about to commence our July backlog elimination drive.

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GOCE July 2013 news report[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

Participation: Out of 30 people who have signed up for this drive so far, 18 have participated. If you have signed up for the drive but have not yet participated, it isn't too late. If you haven't signed up for the drive, sign up now!

Progress report: Thus far we have reduced the number of May/June 2012 articles to just 124 articles, so we're on the right track. Unfortunately, for the first time in GOCE history, the number of articles in the backlog has actually gone up during this drive. While all participants are currently doing a fine job, we just don't have as many of them as we have had in the past. We have over 500 editors on our mailing list, but only 18 editors who have done a copy edit for the drive. If you're receiving this newsletter, it's because you have an interest in copy editing. Join the drive! Even if you only copy edit one article, it helps. Imagine how much progress we could make if everyone chipped in just one article.

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GOCE July 2013 copy edit drive wrap-up[edit]

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

We have completed our July backlog elimination drive.

The drive wrap-up newsletter is now ready for review.

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GOCE Blitz wrap-up and September 2013 drive invitation[edit]

Guild of Copy Editors August Blitz wrap-up

Participation: Out of sixteen people who signed up for this blitz, nine 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 26 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the September drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95 and The Utahraptor.

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GOCE September 2013 drive wrap-up[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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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MOS:ISLAM update guidelines to include standard reference source[edit]

Hi, We now have standard consistent sources to refer to , can we add this guideline in MOS:ISLAM 1)SUNNAH.COM 2)QURAN.COM

All primary references should come only from these two sources for consistency . I have seen many hadith in wikipedia which are wrongly quoted with incorrect ref name , this will make it easy to verify. http://sunnah.com/bukhari/53/9 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Summichum (talk • contribs) 19:32, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]