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Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page.

Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here.

Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking.

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Benny Blanco Bio

i read that he said that he is Puerto Rican and Colombian descent somewhere and not Jewish and if he is Jewish then has he done bar mitzvah's recently or celebrates Hanukkah and is there any proof that his family is Jewish because like I said I looked into Google and it says otherwise so do your homework first before assuming that he's Jewish if that's all the proof that you have. CapCage11 (talk) 00:30, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Please add a reference to substantiate that. An article about him that states that, for example. Google is not a reliable source. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 04:53, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Here's a question: Where do you get your reliable source that he's Jewish? CapCage11 (talk) 07:14, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
There’s a reference immediately after the word “Jewish” to support it. There are plenty of other sources as well. For example, https://jewishunpacked.com/everything-we-know-about-benny-blancos-jewish-identity/. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 07:30, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
If you want to discuss this further, the proper place is the talk page for the article, not here. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 07:30, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Copyvio

Thanks for your contribution in Zionism as settler colonialism article, but i wonder if you have idea where exactly did the copyvio exist ? CFA didn’t specify, can using five same words amount to copyvio ? Stephan rostie (talk) 17:40, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

See the paragraph that was deleted in Special:Diff/1235353580 starting with “The first application…” and compare it to the first paragraph in [1]. It starts with close paraphrasing then has some blatant copies, e.g. the sentence beginning “A series of scholars—among them Said, Sayegh, Rodinson, Jabbour, Abu-Lughod and Abu-Laban, Hilal, El-Messiri, and Sayigh—have all employed the framework…” — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:27, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
The copyvio tool doesn’t work on that source—the main text isn’t picked up by the tool. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:28, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
then has some blatant copies, e.g. the sentence beginning “A series of scholars—among them Said, Sayegh, Rodinson, Jabbour, Abu-Lughod and Abu-Laban, Hilal, El-Messiri, and Sayigh—have all employed the framework…”
this sentence was in the note not the main text, and is supposed to be quoting from the source, does that count as copyvio ? Stephan rostie (talk) 18:52, 19 July 2024 (UTC)