User talk:Pac Veten
July 2025 GOCE drive awards
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to Pac Veten for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 23:45, 6 August 2025 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place | |
| This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Pac Veten for copyediting 1 long article during the GOCE July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 23:45, 6 August 2025 (UTC) |
August blitz bling
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The Cleanup Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to Pac Veten for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE August 2025 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:16, 27 August 2025 (UTC) |
Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter
[edit]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. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:46, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
COI Requests
[edit]Hi, Pac Veten and welcome to Wikipedia. I do realize that everyone is welcome to edit Wikipedia but it is not common for someone newish on Wikipedia to answer COI edit requests. I am assuming that the advocating at Talk:Informa is likely due to inexperience with guidelines surrounding companies but we maintain a pretty high standard for inclusion of information on company pages. With all this in mind, I am hoping you can tell me more about your interest with COI. CNMall41 (talk) 18:10, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
- Hi CNMall41. My participation was requested for this discussion. If you review the contents of this talk page, the particulars are presumably available.
- Is there an aspect of the corporation's proposal that you think deserves additional attention? If so, I assume that article's quality would be enhanced by your new scrutiny. Pac Veten (talk) 21:09, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
- For "this discussion," yes. Your original involvement began in June and you were not pinged. What brought you to the Informa page originally? --CNMall41 (talk) 06:57, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
- Please have a look at the talk page for the Informa article. My feedback was requested on June 2.
- For discussion related to a specific article, I suggest using that article's talk page. Pac Veten (talk) 13:07, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
- No, there was a COI request on June 2 but I do not see where your feedback was requested. The COI request was declined by another user on June 10th for being promotional. You were pinged on June 11 by the editor with a COI as they stated you were active on the page, although there were other active editors (including myself) who were not pinged so it is strange that you would be targeted. Not an accusation, but seems out of the ordinary. As far as the talk page, I am here about conduct, not content. Your edits give the impression that you may have a COI and prior to bringing to WP:COIN, I am hoping you can clarify why you are advocating for the inclusion of advertorial material that had previously been declined as well as new requests which have been declined as advertorial. I may be missing something which is why I am here asking. If you would prefer that I file this directly with COIN I will do so but it is a requirement to discuss with you first. --CNMall41 (talk) 22:17, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
- Correct about the date when I was contacted—11 June 2025. For any background on that contact, the best source of information would be the person who reached out to me.
- In approaching the discussion around the article on Informa, I have tried to bring a real-world editor's perspective—striving at all times for clarity, consistency, and completeness. In case it helps with administration, I am not a current or former employee of Informa or one of its competitors.
- As a member of Wikipedia's Guild of Copy Editors (GOCE), my initial hope was to improve the quality of this piece on Informa. Hopefully I have helped in some way with that. But since it looks like my input is no longer needed, I'll be glad to step back now. Most concretely, I can stop following the article's talk page. Since I have no official role in this COI process, that step should be sufficient to let the process reach its natural conclusion organically.
- At any time in the future, if the community would like traditional copyediting work to be done on this article, please feel welcome to contact the GOCE or myself directly. Pac Veten (talk) 02:00, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
- Please do not take this as me asking you to "step back." The reason I am here is for clarification and hopefully you can understand why based on what I presented. It was strange that you came across the page to just change a logo. Then, were pinged by a COI editor. Then, continued to advocate for promotional content. Again, not accusing you of having a COI, but it gives the impression. As far as stepping back, I would advise the opposite. I encourage you to continue editing any topic you see fit. However, I would also recommend taking the advice of other editors, including the other two experienced editors who were commenting in the discussion along with myself. I realize that Wikipedia has a large learning curve as I am still learning myself. --CNMall41 (talk) 03:19, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
- No, there was a COI request on June 2 but I do not see where your feedback was requested. The COI request was declined by another user on June 10th for being promotional. You were pinged on June 11 by the editor with a COI as they stated you were active on the page, although there were other active editors (including myself) who were not pinged so it is strange that you would be targeted. Not an accusation, but seems out of the ordinary. As far as the talk page, I am here about conduct, not content. Your edits give the impression that you may have a COI and prior to bringing to WP:COIN, I am hoping you can clarify why you are advocating for the inclusion of advertorial material that had previously been declined as well as new requests which have been declined as advertorial. I may be missing something which is why I am here asking. If you would prefer that I file this directly with COIN I will do so but it is a requirement to discuss with you first. --CNMall41 (talk) 22:17, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
- For "this discussion," yes. Your original involvement began in June and you were not pinged. What brought you to the Informa page originally? --CNMall41 (talk) 06:57, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
September 2025 GOCE drive award
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The Cleanup Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to Pac Veten for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! GoldRomean (talk) 03:41, 5 October 2025 (UTC) |
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