Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/December 2017

December 17 numbers

Jonesey95, I think Miniapolis had it right when he listed 29 active requests. Looking at the last Requests-page edit at 23:10 on December 17, since the first edit on December 18 was after 00:00 UTC, I see 5 in the November section and only 24 in the November section, for a total of 29 requests, since none of them were Done.

The odd thing is that the first three December 18 additions, at 00:23, 01:54, and 02:45, were all problematic, in that they were third or fourth requests from those editors; even before I noticed the discrepancy in the December 17 totals, I posted notes to the talk pages of the two editors involved, asking them to remove the excess requests, since they each already had two requests made. BlueMoonset (talk) 08:40, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Daylight saving time strikes again! It is the worst. You are right about the 29. I have fixed it. And thanks for leaving a note about the excess requests. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:03, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy to do it, Jonesey95. Both of the requesters have subsequently removed one extra request, though one of them had an additional extra request reviewed during the day of December 18 before they could remove it, which is why the number of reviews concluding on December 18 is 5 rather than the 4 that would show doing the diff between 00:00 19 December and 00:00 18 December. Has there ever been a same-day request-and-review during a blitz before? BlueMoonset (talk) 04:28, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm sure there has been, and I might even be the guilty party. There is one requester whose articles are a pleasure for me to review (and are never very long) that I sometimes grab them and edit them as soon as they pop up. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:51, 19 December 2017 (UTC)