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Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June.

Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed GoldRomean to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as lead coordinator, and Miniapolis and Mox Eden return as coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here.

June 2025 blitz: 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 26,652 words comprising 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

July 2025 drive: 30 of the 54 editors who signed up for the July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited a total of 379,557 words comprising 151 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

August 2025 Blitz: 11 of the 17 editors who signed up for the August 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 65,601 words comprising 25 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

September 2025 Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive.

Progress report: As of 06:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 222 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,010 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:45, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Crusading movement

Thank you for your thorough and comprehensive copy edit. I truly appreciate your hard work, which has significantly improved the article's style and text. I am planning to nominate it for Good Article status in a couple of days. Borsoka (talk) 02:40, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you in turn, @Borsoka. It was very well written and as someone with a deep interest in this very sort of topic, it was very enjoyable for me on another level than just copy editing. I can easily see it soon becoming a Good Article.

There are a few things I'd like to suggest further be done, apparently by you as the main author; but that will be on the article's Talk page, where I'll soon post a GOCE (Guild of Copy Editors) requested copy edit completed notification. Augnablik (talk) 04:53, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 2025 GOCE drive awards

		The (old school) League of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Augnablik for copy edits totaling over 30,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! GoldRomean (talk) 04:09, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Augnablik for copyediting 2 long articles during the GOCE September 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! GoldRomean (talk) 04:09, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Strife Creek

There is no article for Strife Creek, that's why it remains red. -- Verbarson ^talk_edits 09:49, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Verbarson, do you mean all the entries are supposed to have their own Wikipedia article? If so, I wasn't aware. I did find one town name used in two different states that had a Wiki article for each, but I thought that was a rarity. And if all entries are supposed to have their own articles, then I'll need to reword what I said about that name (Ponder). Augnablik (talk) 12:26, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the Funny names page is not actually an article, so policies may not apply fully. On the whole, if an item does not have an article of its own, but is likely to be notable enough for an article (ie have enough WP:RS), then we are encouraged to make it a link, which will appear in red because the article doesn't yet exist. On the other hand, if it is unlikely to be notable (and I suspect that Strife Creek is not notable) then don't bother making it a link. (But check Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features).)

Ponder links to the disambiguation page, but you have linked the relevant articles in the text, so I see no problem there.

I don't think there is any objection to including names that don't have articles; there are plenty of others on the list. -- Verbarson ^talk_edits 12:38, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Verbarson, what does it mean if the name of an entry is in black rather than blue or red? Augnablik (talk) 12:18, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blue - links to an article
Red - tries to link. but there is no article of that name
Black - just text, not trying to link

-- Verbarson ^talk_edits 13:21, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you be a little more detailed about black? I'm asking because I've now seen it at least one of my recent additions. Augnablik (talk) 17:52, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When you say 'black', do you mean normal text, or do you mean bold text which is done by three single quotes before and after? -- Verbarson ^talk_edits 18:18, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Normal text. I've never heard "black" meaning bold. The recent addition I made that is in black font is Crazy Mountains. But I've seen others. Augnablik (talk) 06:15, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]