User talk:Tenryuu/Archives/Jul–Dec 2021

Review of my CE for Wikiproject Human Rights

Hi @Tenryuu:, I don't know no-one better than you who could review my stupid CE trial at Kailash_Satyarthi (not part of the drive). If you could spend some minutes I would hardly appreciate it. Thanks in advance! CommanderWaterford (talk) 11:23, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

CommanderWaterford, I'll be glad to give it a look soon. Been busy doing my own copyedits and Teahouse hosting. Probably in the next day or so? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:23, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Hey CommanderWaterford, I took a look at Kailash Satyarthi. A few Some thoughts:

• Kailash Satyarthi has been a member of a UNESCO body [...] Since when? "Has been" puts some emphasis on when a person started being something. If context is provided beforehand it's fine, but since a new concept is being introduced ("a UNESCO body"; emphasis added), that doesn't apply.
• Satyarthi led a nationwide march [...] in demand for legislation against child rape, child sexual abuse and trafficking. I would suggest replacing "in demand for" with "to demand"; the sentence could use a more active voice.
• Satyarthi was born in Vidisha, a small town in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in a middle-class family. Emphasis added. Parenthetical thought "a small town in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh" isn't closed off with a comma after "Pradesh"; right now the sentence would read to pedants like "Vidisha is a small town that is inside a middle-class family in a state". Furthermore, the emphasised "in" would be better off replaced by "to" or "into"; there's still some debate over which to use, as demonstrated in this WordReference forum thread and this UsingEnglish forum thread. The weak consensus appears to be to use "into" in that instance.
• Satyarthi was the second child and had an older brother. Since he is the subject of the previous sentence, you can get away with using his pronoun. (stylistic choice)
• His father was a police constable (he retired as a Head Constable) and his mother was uneducated; she was a housewife with high morals. As per Satyarthi, this exceptionally idealistic and helpful nature of his mother had a big impact on him. I would incorporate the parenthetical thoughts into the first sentence: "His father was a retired police head constable and his mother was an uneducated housewife with high morals". Using "as per" is tricky (I still have trouble deciding when to use it versus "per") and it sounds unnatural when used here; "according to" may work better (though personally I hate that phrase when I see it being used again after 3 or 4 sentences).
  As a topic not related to copy editing, how does "high morals" equal an "exceptionally idealistic and helpful nature"? It seems like it would be better off quoted from the source instead of paraphrased; "had a big impact" sounds too casual for an encyclopedic tone.
• He grew in a locality (mohalla) which had Hindus and Muslims living with each other. Per MOS:ITALICS, "mohalla" should be italicised as a non-English term. I would use "was raised" instead of "grew" (one of the few times where passive voice is better), and rewrite everything after "mohalla" with "where Hindus and Muslims lived with each other".
• Satyarthi's experiences when young with poverty and lack of school access for all children had a significant effect on him. I would reverse the sentence as the important point was he was significantly affected: "Satyarthi was significantly affected by the lack of school access for all children and his experiences with poverty in his youth".
  Non-copyedit topic: all children didn't have access to school?
• He attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Vidisha, and completed a degree in electrical engineering at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute in Vidisha (then affiliated to the University of Bhopal, which was renamed in 1988 as Barkatullah University) and a post-graduate degree in high-voltage engineering. Getting into run-on sentence territory. Assuming that he completed his entire education in Vidisha, the entire sentence could be prefaced with "Satyarthi completed his education in Vidisha". I would also add "undergraduate" right before "degree in electrical engineering" to contrast the two degrees more. Regarding the parenthetical thought, does "affiliated to" mean "transferring to"? "Which was renamed in 1988 as" can be substituted with "Now", as it is currently taking up a third of the sentence.
• In 1980, Sathyarthi gave up his career as an electrical engineer and founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) that year. No need for "that year" at the end; the year at the beginning makes the phrase redundant.
• He has served as the President of the Global Campaign for Education, from its inception in 1999 to 2011, having been one of its four founders alongside ActionAid, Oxfam and Education International. The first clause should be in past perfect tense ("had served") as he is no longer the president. I would remove the comma before "from its inception" and separate the sentence into two smaller sentences at "1999 to 2011". The new second sentence would read something like "He is one of its four founders..."
• In 1998 Satyarthi conceived and led the Global March against Child[5] Labour traversing across 103 countries covering 80,000 km with a demand for an International Law on Worst Forms of Child Labour. This eventually led to the adoption of ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour. The existence of this paragraph means that the previous mention of the Global March isn't necessary. I would add in, as a parenthetical thought, "(and by extension, the International Center of Child Labor and Education (ICCLE))". Traversing across that distance could be simplified to "traversed 80,000 km across 103 countries" and its objective could be reduced to "to demand an International Law..."
  I usually don't like using "this" in the beginning of sentences for encyclopedic writing, and would refer to it as "the march". (stylistic choice)
• This first of its kind social labeling initiative in the late 1980s and early 1990s undertook focused campaigns on [...] Emphasis added. You can get away with saying "focused its campaigns" and mean the same thing.
• Satyarthi has served on the board and committee of several international organisations [...] Again, not wrong, but Satyarthi being the subject of the previous sentence allows his pronoun to be used clearly with context. (stylistic choice)
• The movement has engaged itself in identifying, liberating, rehabilitating and educating children in servitude through direct intervention; community participation, partnerships, and coalitions; promoting ethics in trade'; unionizing workers; running campaigns on issues such he was so education, trafficking, forced brilliant labour, ethical trade, and by building child-friendly villages. Bolded semicolons added. Is the movement not engaging itself anymore? If not, present tense should be used. I'm not sure what "running campaigns on issues such he was so education" means; my guess is it was supposed to read "running campaigns on issues such as education [...]".
  I am not a big fan of gerund overuse (too many -ings going on), and many of the verbs in there could take its own past or perfect tense to give the movement more of an active role; for example,
  "has engaged itself in identifying, liberating, rehabilitating and educating children in servitude [...]"
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  "identifies, liberates, rehabilitates, and educates children in servitude [...]"
  "Builds [my edit] child-friendly villages" shouldn't be the last item in the list in order to avoid verb awkwardness. The verb "engage" can be used before "communitity participation".
  Finally, I replaced some commas with semicolons as there are smaller lists in the big list. Smaller items in sub-lists are separated with commas, while the bigger items (e.g., "children in servitude" versus "ethics in trade") should be separated by semicolons.
• Satyarthi established GoodWeave International [...] I would follow it up with a parenthetical thought like "(formerly Rugmark)" so that the following mention of renaming is less jarring.
• This latter organization operated a campaign [...] Only one organisation is mentioned in this paragraph, so "latter" does not help as a distinguishing word. "The organization" is fine.
• The international network comprises producing country offices [...] "Comprise" is a tricky word; I like the phrase "is composed of" more.
  Non-copyedit question: What are "producing country offices"?
• The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), was established in 2004 by Satyarthi. Unnecessary comma does not need to be there.
• It is a grassroots organization to spread awareness about child issues and be a policy advocate. Sounds awkward. I suggest "It is a grassroots organization that spreads awareness and advocates for beneficial policies for children's rights".
• Satyarthi formed the Global Campaign for Education and was made the organization's president at its inception in 1999. "was made the organization's" can be simplified to "became its".
• It was formed in 1999 as a partnership between NGOs that were separately active in the area, including Action Aid, Oxfam, Education International, Global March Against Child Labour and national organizations in Bangladesh, Brazil and South Africa. Has a minor conflict with Satyarthi mentioned before. The first sentence in this list item places a lot more emphasis on Satyarthi as the one who created the organisation, while this sentence puts the agency on the individual NGOs instead.
• Launched in Kanyakumari on 11 September 2017 by Kailash Satyarthi, this campaign [...] The first clause can be merged with the second: "The campaign started in Kanyakumari by Satyarthi on 11 September 2017, and marched [...]"
• either to taboo issues in India [...] Not sure why "either" is in that fragment.
• Bharat Yatra saw the participation of more than 1,200,000 marchers over 35 days [...] Saying this personifies the march. I would say something more along the lines of "More than 1,200,000 people marched for 35 days [...]" while reminding readers in the first sentence that Bharat Yatra was a march. I would mention the Criminal Law Amendment and Anti-Human Trafficking Bill in the same sentence.

Let me know if you have any comments or questions. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 19:39, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Uh wow ... I am overwhelmed, to be honest. THANK YOU so much!! I am not the original author but I will boldly check your points and will improve it as best as I can. CommanderWaterford (talk) 19:45, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Merchandise giveaway nomination

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 – Received the shirt! Thanks for the nominations. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:03, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

A token of thanks Hi Tenryuu! I've nominated you to receive a gift from the Wikimedia Foundation. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk 04:28, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the nomination, Sdkb! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 19:47, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

My pleasure! {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 19:47, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Cai Lun copy edit?

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 – Copyedit complete! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:45, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi Tenryuu, I'm familiar with your copy editing work and was wondering if you have the time and interest in doing so at Cai Lun. I plan to nominate the article for FA soon, but another user pointed out some issues with the prose (particularly, that it often lacks flow) so I'm hoping you might be help me address this, and any other copy-editing-related issue you might find. Best - Aza24 (talk) 20:44, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

@Aza24: I can certainly give it a look, though I'm usually busier on odd months, as the GOCE has bimonthly drives. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:50, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

If you're too busy, no worries, just let me know. I came here first because I saw your admirable work on Sorabiji and League of Legends, though I'd be happy to request a formal GOCE edit if necessary. Aza24 (talk) 18:54, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

@Aza24: Alright, the backlog drive's done now. Did you still want me to take a look at Cai Lun? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:28, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

If possible, that'd be lovely. I'm in no rush, but would like to get this to FAC by July at the latest. Aza24 (talk) 22:03, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

@Aza24: Great; I'll start taking a look at it a few hours from now. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:27, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

tea house comment

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 – I derped. Comment has since been amended. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:03, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I’ve noticed this edit and just wanted to ask if your okay... or am I not in on something. Justiyaya (talk) 02:52, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

@Justiyaya: Yep I made a boo-boo. *eats trout* —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:50, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Merchandise Giveaway Nomination – Successful

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 – Received shirt. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:03, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

A Wikimeida t-shirt!

Hey Tenryuu,

You have been successfully nominated to receive a free t-shirt from the Wikimedia Foundation through our Merchandise Giveaway program. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work! Please email us at merchandisewikimedia.org and we will send you full details on how to accept your free shirt. Thanks!

On behalf of the Merchandise Giveaway program,

-- Vermont (talk) 06:07, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Congrats Tenryuu -- Justiyaya (talk) 02:22, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Justiyaya! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:10, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello Tenryuu, i have a bit of a problem regarding games released in PAL

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On the Wikipedia Manual of Style, for Video Games. it states released in PAL, but as most countries are converting or already converted to different outputs, shouldn't something be changed regarding this? thankyou for your time! EzeeWiki (talk) 03:23, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

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GOCE Questions

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 – Copyedit complete, answers moved to Talk:Paper Mario. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:03, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

This is super inconvienient for me and it definitely will be for you, too. See, the mobile Wikipedia app is the most unproductive way of being productive. I can do hardly anything and it is super buggy. One bug, for example, does not allow me to reply properly on article talk pages, and that's why I'm responding to your Paper Mario GOCE questions here. So sorry about that! There just isn't any other way to do this easily. Panini!^🥪 04:34, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Q1: Yes, those are the only 3 awards the series has won. You can view the awards and nominations table at the bottom of the article. Panini!^🥪 04:34, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Q2: I'm pretty sure Nintendo refers to the games as taking place in the Mushroom Kingdom in ads and the alike. In addition, they all take place in the same universe so that would make it all take place in The Mushroom Kingdom. If you are still skeptical, I bet I can find evidence. Panini!^🥪 04:37, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Sounds good! You can remove it. Panini!^🥪 04:38, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

In addition, mobile editing does not let me edit old responses on talk pages. The statement above is for Q3. Panini!^🥪 04:39, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Q4: Yes, this mistake was caught in the Paper Mario: Sticker Star article and was not fixed accordingly in this one. The environment fall flat, not Mario. Please adjust accordingly. Panini!^🥪 04:40, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Q5: Its actually the opposite, but you wouldn't know that based on my prose. Its emphasizes Maroo & Luigi series gameplay rather than Paper Mario gameplay. Panini!^🥪 04:42, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Q6: It was re-coded for the Wii. Panini!^🥪 04:42, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Q7: Well, it seems I was referring to the game and the title OF the game. But fair point, it can be adjusted. Panini!^🥪 04:44, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Q8: Well, they started at Super Paper Mario and nobody really cared and then drastic movement was made during Sticker Star. It would be your call on where to place this. Panini!^🥪 04:45, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Q9: Good point! You can remove it. Panini!^🥪 04:46, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Q10: He has said this in interviews before, but earlier statements of his ardent mentioned in the article. I might have been mentionings Risa Tabatas comments about similar matters a couple paragraphs before. You can remove it if you'd like. Panini!^🥪 04:49, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I skipped the first question, so Q0: Fair enough, change accordingly. Panini!^🥪 04:50, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Once again, I appreciate your work! Paper Mario goes up as TFA on July 17 and it's always good to give it one more check. Panini!^🥪 04:53, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

About your proposal at Talk:Adam's Bridge

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 – Refactored. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:03, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

May I suggest tweaking the section heading to something like 'Dealing with the "Change Adam's Bridge to Ram Setu" requests'? That makes it clearer that rather than a request, it's about dealing with the requests. —C.Fred (talk) 15:15, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

@C.Fred: Refactored. I'll admit I was being a little cheeky when I typed that up. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:55, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

GOCE June 2021 newsletter

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Copyedit

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 – The4lines submitted as a request at WP:GOCER. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 12:23, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

Hey! Thanks for all your work copyediting Satrun V and Deep blue. Could you copyedit my article Dixon Reservoir (Escondido)? Thanks! Signed,The4lines |||| ^{(You Asked?) (What I've Done.)} 21:16, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

@The4lines: Good to hear from you again! I'm busier on odd months due to the backlog drives. Would you be willing to wait until August? Otherwise, feel free to leave it as a request at the GOCE's requests page and someone will get to it. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:04, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Yo! Ty for the reply. Let me see. I'll get back to you once I know. Best, Signed,The4lines |||| ^{(You Asked?) (What I've Done.)} 22:49, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

I have a question, do you know any other ce editors that could do it? Signed,The4lines |||| ^{(You Asked?) (What I've Done.)} 00:29, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

@The4lines: That I'm not sure on, as it's not just me participating in the drive. I don't believe many of the other copy editors at the GOCE take personal requests, and would rather they be placed on the requests page. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:45, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Alright, I think I'll place it on the request page soon. Thanks for all your work with copyediting! Signed,The4lines |||| ^{(You Asked?) (What I've Done.)} 00:47, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Ontario COVID-19 references

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Hi there, I apologise for reverting your edit to Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2021. For the timeline articles, I'm not aware of Wikipedia policy is to only publish national cases, recoveries and deaths related to COVID-19 or whether we can also list subnational units like states and provinces. If so, I am willing to accept correction. Perhaps, we could discuss this on Talk:Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2021 or Wikipedia talk: WikiProject COVID-19. Look forward to getting back in touch with you. Kind regards. Andykatib 03:57, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi Andykatib. As far as I'm aware, it's far better to post it on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, as it's specifically for the Canadian province in question, and it would not start a precedent of adding any country's subdivision in a page with a wider scope like Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2021. I'd redirect the user that added that to the Ontario page. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 04:03, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi Tenryuu, thanks very much for the clarification. If we have articles for the subnational divisions, it will make sense for these Ontario and Quebec reports to go there. Will be good to let User:S201050066 know since they have been posting the Ontario and Quebec reports daily. That user has been posting raw links instead of the proper references. Have reached out to them to advise them of Wikipedia policy but have received no response. Someone suggested user might be making mobile edits. PaleoNeonate has reached out to them as well. Hopefully they will get the message. Andykatib 04:09, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

@Andykatib: Good to hear. That being said, Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/Canada/Ontario medical cases chart is maintained daily from one official provincial source, so there's really no need for new news articles to be used as citations, or for daily reports to be mentioned in the prose; many subdivision pages don't bother doing it anymore due to cases being commonplace. Unless it's something notable, like an extreme outbreak at a hospital or provincial guidelines being revised, they're not mentioned. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 04:20, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi again, I have messaged User:S201050066, advising them that that it will be a good idea to place the Ontario and Quebec references in the provincial timeline pages for Ontario and Quebec respectively. I could go after the raw links and format them. Once they are ready, I could transfer them in batches to those provincial articles. Will offcourse have to indicate I copied them on the edit summary. You're welcome to help if you are interested. Plan to do it throughout the year in my free time. Andykatib 02:00, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

COVID-19 pandemic data

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 – Directed LSGH to WT:COVID-19. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 12:23, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi again. Do you know if there are other editors who are willing to update this template every day? In previous months, more people edited that template regularly. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 14:56, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

@LSGH: Not off the top of my head, no. I myself have become very inactive with pages related to COVID-19 save for one. You could try asking at WT:COVID-19 to see if there are any volunteers. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:36, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

I'll give it a try. Hopefully, it catches the attention of some interested editors. It's already becoming more difficult to update the template because there are only a handful of people left who still go there regularly. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 15:46, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

It looks like help is not coming. Editor interest in the topic area has been decreasing and more pages in the topic area are becoming outdated. I'll try to look for other ways to solve this. LSGH (talk) (contributions) 15:13, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

@LSGH: Ah, sorry to hear that. For any editors that are still interested, it might be better to just update them once a week or something so that it's less tedious. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 16:33, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Frozen II

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 – Copyedit complete. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 04:05, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Can you copyedit Frozen II? Thanks. Wingwatchers (talk) 04:59, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Wingwatchers (talk) 05:00, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

@Wingwatchers: Hello! I'm currently working on another article, so if you don't mind waiting, I'll take a look at it after I'm done with the one I'm working on. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:12, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for accepting my request. I see that you are almost complete on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, so take your time :) Wingwatchers (talk) 20:50, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

@Wingwatchers: I'll start checking the article. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:53, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. Wingwatchers (talk) 22:55, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

I will stand by to avoid edit conflicts. Wingwatchers (talk) 22:56, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Thank you Wingwatchers (talk) 04:24, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Request to revert an edit by CharlieFinney on 06:01, 4 April 2021

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Hi, the user, CharlieFinney's edit this, considered to be directed towards a particular religion with baseless claims. The user have proven to be editing tendentiously on Hinduism related articles and literally all of his "vandalism" edits are being reverted. So, I request the revert of this edit from Adam's_Bridge page. I also request the removal of all occurrences of "mythological" and "myth" from the page, since those claims are also baseless, considering historic and archaeological evidences. —WikiLinuz (talk) 06:26, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

If you're unable to make the changes yourself (as the article is extended confirmed protected) you can leave an edit request on the article's talk page. As a tip, mention nothing about Rama Setu. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:57, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy ping: WikiLinuz —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 14:58, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Mildred and Arvid Harnack

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 – Finished working on both. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 13:51, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Tenryuu: I was wondering if you could do a copyedit on the Mildred Harnack and Arvid Harnack articles. An article Clara Leiser has been created and its has a DYK on the go now at Template:Did you know nominations/Clara Leiser. She was a best friend of Mildred Harnack and it will undoubtedly get a lot of views. The Mildred article is quite short and has had some work. Thanks. scope_creep^Talk 13:18, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi Scope creep. I can give both articles a look. I'll start with Mildred. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:03, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Tenryuu: Excellent. That is cool. Thanks. scope_creep^Talk 21:34, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Moving on to Arvid Harnack. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 19:29, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Maureen Wroblewitz

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Hello. Help copy edit. Thanks you. Vnosm (talk) 08:35, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

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Hello Tenryuu, thank you for copy editing the Kunchitiga page. _/\_ 14:42, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Template: unsigned

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 – Making sure to substitute this template now. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:09, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Just a reminder that at Template:Unsigned it says "This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Unsigned}})." - David Biddulph (talk) 13:15, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

@David Biddulph: Thanks for the reminder. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 13:22, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

September newsletter

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 – Fixed the issues in the newsletter. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:08, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi there! Hope you don't mind, but I saw you moved the September 2021 GOCE newsletter to WP and so I took a look at it. I think there might be a small issue: at least as far as I can tell, each time it should say 2021, it actually says 2020, including in the title, first line, and progress report section. Sorry! (I would have edited it myself, but I wasn't sure if I was missing something...) -Pax Verbum 06:39, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Yikes! Thanks for catching that, @Pax85! —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:22, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Prem Dhoj Pradhan

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 – Copyvio investigation completed; not valid. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:07, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

I've declined to revdel the revisions to Prem Dhoj Pradhan as I can't be sure there isn't a backwards copyvio. The oldest revision of the page on archive.org postdates the oldest revision of the Wikipedia article by several months so there is the possibility that it was copied (without attribution) from Wikipedia. Nthep (talk) 12:04, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

@Nthep: Thanks for letting me know. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:46, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021 Guild of Copy Editors newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). 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, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Copy Edit request

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Hey, can you take another look at Frozen II; large chunks of information have been added and now it requires a throughout copyedit. Thanks. Wingwatchers (talk) 14:32, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

@Tenryuu? Wingwatchers (talk) 01:33, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Hey Wingwatchers. I see you've already posted it at WP:GOCER. I have been neglecting the request backlog for a while, so I'm filling it out on the other end. One of us copyeditors should get to your request soon. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:28, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

I see that you have completed your copyedit, can you take my request on the GOCE request page now, please? :) Wingwatchers (talk) 05:14, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

I see that you have completed you copyedit, can you take my request on the GOCE request page now, please? :) Wingwatchers (talk) 05:20, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Draft copyedit request

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FYI

 – Heading added by Tenryuu.

Do you believe you could copyedit my page for Draft: NFL Top 100 Players of 2021, please? I've been trying for about two months to get this page accepted, and I keep getting the message that there's something wrong with my article every time I go to submit. I've done everything I could think of to make this a legitimate Wikipedia page, and I don't know of anything else I could do to improve my chances for having it accepted. Thank you very much. User:MichaelEhlenbeck — Preceding undated comment added 22:01, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

@MichaelEhlenbeck: A copyedit isn't what your draft needs. The common issue is that reviewers aren't seeing how the references demonstrate that the subject is notable as Wikipedia defines the term. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:01, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

How do I go about making that happen? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelEhlenbeck (talk • contribs) 11:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

@MichaelEhlenbeck: I'm not a reviewer so I can't give you a definite answer. You should either ask the declining reviewer, or find better reliable sources that are independent from the subject and cover it in detail. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 16:03, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Thanoose on Zebra series

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 – Draft has been deleted. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 23:16, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

I think we should not delete it, better we should give the person time to add more references. What you say? २ तकर पेप्सी (talk) 20:25, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

@२ तकर पेप्सी: I've already removed my CSD template, as it is not applicable in draftspace. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:47, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Ontario COVID-19 content

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Hi Tenryuu, I have been in touch with User:3201050066. Regarding the Ontario references in the various Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic articles, I have advised him that it will be best to put the Ontario daily case updates into boxes and paragraphs within the Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario article. Will work with him to copy the content over the next few months. Andykatib 10:45, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

@Andykatib: Much appreciated. Hopefully there's not much to do, as the charts should have done some of the work already. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 15:47, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Cite

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Can you tell me why you remove pori.moni cite? 103.38.17.234 (talk) 20:27, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

It's a tentative removal; it doesn't seem like Influencer Born is a reliable source given the editorial "staff" that's made up of social media experts, social activists and data seekers. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 21:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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