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Elcor, Minnesota

Hello, Jonesey95! Thank you for your copy edits resulting in GA status for the article Elcor, Minnesota. The article's prose reads and flows much better thanks to you. The article is currently up for FA review. One of the editors had requested that the lead section "be broadened to effectively summarize the body of the article with appropriate weight." I have done this: would you look it over and provide any copy editing you see fit? Thanks! DrGregMN (talk) 15:24, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Done. It was in pretty good shape already. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:43, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello again, Jonesey95! The article Elcor, Minnesota is progressing through the FAC review process. Could I ask you to look at the Geology section? I have made some edits at the request of reviewer Finetooth, but am not certain I like the way it reads. If you can improve upon it, please feel free. Thanks! DrGregMN (talk) 02:11, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

DrGregMN: I took a stab at it. See if you like it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:47, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Jonsey95, you are awesome. As always, you have my profound thanks! DrGregMN (talk) 01:41, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello again, Jonesey95! Another copy edit request for this article, second paragraph in the establishment section. Compare the revisions if you would, please. I've been trying to add some additional information which I feel is relevant to the article before its listing as TFA, but it doesn't seem to read right. I might have made things a little more murky instead of providing clarification. Would you have a look? As always, thank you! DrGregMN (talk) 23:19, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I made some minor improvements. I think it reads a little better. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:34, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

That's why I love what you do Jonsey95! It does read better, but I did make the article more murky. It was actually the Minnesota Iron Company which had controlling interest in Petit and Robinson, not the other way around. My only other problem is the sentence about the Minnesota Steamship Company being vertically integrated with the Minnesota Iron Company. It makes it sound like it was an existing company bought out by the Minnesota Iron Company in 1889 when in fact it was organized by the Minnesota Iron Company to carry ore for its mines. Could you please take another look? I made some minor changes to the last paragraph of the abandonment section as well, but I think it reads okay. Thanks! DrGregMN (talk) 13:58, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Iveta Mukuchyan

Hello! Recently, I have nominated an article for copy editing and I have seen that you copy edit articles. If you have an interest in taking a look at the article, please do so. If possible, I would be so grateful. Harout (talk) 20:52 19 December 2017 (UTC)

John McPhee

Actually, that paragraph in which you removed "Coal Train" is a messy mixture of articles and book titles. The Uncommon Carriers book that contains the "Coal Train" piece was already listed, I just noticed. Perhaps we should try to separate out what's an article or section from what's a book? Like The Control of Nature which contains the piece on the Atchafalaya River (I forget the title of that piece, but my favorite in that book was "Los Angeles Against the Mountains" which is suddenly very current in light of the recent fires and debris flows). I just finished McPhee's Draft Number 4 which makes me want to read a few more. I have about 2 shelf feet of his books in my library already, but not Coming into the Country which figures well in his latest book about the writing process. Dicklyon (talk) 05:46, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

You should pick up Coming into the Country. It's a good book for winter reading (assuming that you are in the northern hemisphere). As for the paragraph in question, take a hack at it. I decided not to edit war about "Coal Train", since I have bigger fish to fry, but to me, it clearly didn't belong, being an essay (not a book) and already being part of a book listed in the paragraph.

I too, have a two-foot shelf of McPhee books and a few more that don't fit on a regular-sized shelf. He and E. B. White are my favorite prose writers. I have every essay of his that has been published between book covers, as far as I know. I just received the new one as a gift, and I'm looking forward to reading it soon. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:41, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

I will get Coming into the Country and maybe try to clean up that section a bit. Probably should list books and essays separately? Dicklyon (talk) 07:33, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

I wouldn't list all of the essays; we already have a list of the books. If there are essays that are notable (i.e. covered in reliable sources), those might be worth mentioning. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:37, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Template:Przypisy listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Przypisy. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Przypisy redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. PRehse (talk) 14:01, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Assistance re: Kripashankar Patel Bishnoi

Hi! As part of the Jan 2018 WP:GOCE Drive, I have been working on Kripashankar Patel Bishnoi. From the infobox on the page, news articles, and results tables within Misplaced Pages, it appears that the title of the page should be Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi (not Kripashankar...). What is the correct procedure for changing the page title/article name? Thank you, in advance, for your help! Laatu (talk) 15:51, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

At the upper right of the article page, to the right of View History, you should see a drop-down menu with an option called "Move". Click it and enter the new article name. It is not something that should be done often, but it looks like you have done adequate research. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:55, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you - for the answer AND for the very quick response! Laatu (talk) 23:40, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

January 2018 GOCE barnstars

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 04:42, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

GOCE in use template

Jonesey95, you may wish to comment at User talk:SMcCandlish#What is the meaning of a GOCEinuse template?. I would be sorry to lose the "GOCEinuse" template.  – Corinne (talk) 23:01, 13 February 2018 (UTC) I'm sorry. I can't figure out how to include the curly brackets and make the link not show the entire template on your talk page.  – Corinne (talk) 23:03, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

February 2018 blitz bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE February 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 17:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

ISBN for non English literature

Our bots can't manage that. Titles in English only. Thanks. 81.230.36.59 (talk) 23:18, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

81.230.36.59, I have no idea what you are referring to. If you link to one of my edits, or to an article, I may be able to help. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:24, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

GOCE February 2018 news

Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). 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, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:00, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Edit-a-Thon: Jewish Women Artists (March 8, Oregon Jewish Museum)

On March 8 (International Women's Day), the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and artist Shoshana Gugenheim will be hosting a Misplaced Pages edit-a-thon to create and improve Misplaced Pages articles about Jewish women artists. Click here for more information. You can also express interest or suggest articles to create or improve here. This event is free and open to the public, and will serve as both a public art action and a public educational program. Participation is welcome in person and remotely (for those outside of Portland). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Misplaced Pages Edit-a-thon (March 10, Pacific Northwest College of Art)

On Saturday, March 10 (11am to 4pm), the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) will be hosting a Misplaced Pages edit-a-thon to create and improve Misplaced Pages articles about art, feminism, and women. You can read details on the Facebook event page, or this Misplaced Pages meetup page. Tutorials for new editors, reference materials, childcare, and refreshments will be provided. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, you're welcome to stop by to show your support! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:50, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Continuation War + Winter War

Thanks a thousand for revising the old citations at Continuation War! Judging from its page history, they date from a time before the sfn-template or similar even existed (I'm assuming before 2009 based on a quick check). All the substance clean-up and checking/updating that the actual references are in order took enough time and toil for me so I didn't bother with the "technical" side of citations. If you and GOCE are ever up to it, Winter War has a similar problem with citations (otherwise it's an FA already and has been through a few non-GOCE c/e rounds). Or should I put it in as a request as well? Manelolo (talk) 14:42, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Wow, Winter War looks like a lot of work, but worth it to ensure that those short citations work. The nice thing about {{sfn}} is that you can run a background script to show you any that don't work. The old citations in Winter War don't do that, so if they are broken, there is no easy way to know. I'll see if I can rig up some sort of find-and-replace script to clean up those citations. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:52, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

I am done with the sfn conversion at Continuation War. As for Winter War, its citations are very consistent and look good (on the rendered page), they appear to be working, and it's an FA, so I would be reluctant to mess with it, per CITEVAR. Verifiability and consistency of formatting are the most important things with citations. I once did a ton of work to make the citations at Jane Austen more consistent and less ambiguous, and I was reverted wholesale by editors who wanted short footnotes that were unverifiable and did not link to the full citations; go figure. A year and a half later, the citations are still inconsistent and ambiguous at that article, but once bitten, twice shy. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:37, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days.
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Review of Copy Editing Changes

I would like to help with copy editing and Misplaced Pages has chosen an article for me. There is a copy editing template on it, and after I make the changes I would want a review of them before removing the template. Is there a designated forum for reviewing specified articles?

Thank you. Falconious (talk) 16:32, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

I recommend Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. I will make one suggestion that I would make to any new Misplaced Pages copy-editor: keep in mind that the articles that have been in our backlog for the longest time are typically still there for a reason. They are longer (more words) than the average article in our backlog, or messier, or somehow more difficult to copy-edit. If you find yourself looking at an article and are unsure how to proceed, sometimes it is best to leave it alone and gain experience by working on a more straightforward edit. Those can often be found in articles tagged in some of the newer backlog months (e.g. November 2017, December 2017, or January 2018). Articles in the very newest month or two are also sometimes tricky, because they may not have had many eyeballs on them yet and may be a total disaster. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:56, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Very much obliged. The article chosen is very recent, and I will keep in mind your advice.—Falconious (talk) 14:57, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

March 2018 drive bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:54, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for giving out the barnstars! – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:06, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Misplaced Pages Edit-a-thon (April 13, University of Oregon)

On Friday, April 13 (3pm to 6pm), the University of Oregon will be hosting a Misplaced Pages edit-a-thon to create and improve Misplaced Pages articles about art and feminism. You can learn more at the Dashboard page, or our Misplaced Pages meetup page. Tutorials for new editors, reference materials, and snacks will be provided. Please bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support and have snacks! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:01, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Precious

copy-editing

Thank you for quality articles beginning with List of mayors of Eugene, Oregon, then Nike OTC Marathon and Virgil Abloh, for copy-editing thousands of articles, coordinating the Guild of Copy Editors and creating its award, for "I don't take anything that happens on Misplaced Pages personally.", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:15, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:46, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing

Hello,

There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Misplaced Pages, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).

If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Misplaced Pages:Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.

Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Misplaced Pages. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Whatamidoing (WMF), thanks for the note. I have fixed some Linter errors in the past, but the help text is woefully inadequate to assist me with fixing things like the HTML 5 misnesting error. Linter reports that there is a problem in the infobox at Euphrates Islamic Liberation Front, for example, and it looks like it might have something to do with the span tag, but the help text doesn't have any information about how one might fix the problem. If the help text were better or at least provided a lot more examples, the problems would be easier to fix, and we might have more people willing to work on them. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:46, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Let's centralize it at WT:Linter, where you've left a note about how you fixed that article. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:08, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. I'll help if I can. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:53, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

April 2018 blitz bling

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 15:43, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

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Recent changes

• All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
• The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
• The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed.
• The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May.
• The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request for Abraham Lincoln

Some sources I found that could be added for the "assassination" section on the Abraham Lincoln page. These have mentioned by some respected sources, and even a few historians. “As he died his breathing grew quieter, his face more calm. According to some accounts, at his last drawn breath, on the morning after the assassination, he smiled broadly and then expired. Historians have emphasized Lincoln's peaceful appearance when and after he died. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Lincoln Administration, Maunsell Bradhurst Field wrote, "I had never seen upon the President's face an expression more genial and pleasing." The President’s secretary, John Hay, saw "a look of unspeakable peace came upon his worn features".“

References

1. Tarbell, Ida Minerva (1920). The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Vol. 4. p. 40.
2. Fox, Richard (2015). Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393247244.
3. Smith, Adam (8 July 2015). "With a smile on his face" – via content.The Times Literary Supplement.co.uk.
4. "'NOW HE BELONGS TO THE AGES' ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION". Abraham Lincoln died, according to press reports, with a smile on his face. "I had never seen upon the president's face an expression more genial and pleasings," wrote a New York Times reporter. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 29 (help)
5. Abel, E. Lawrence (2015). A Finger in Lincoln's Brain: What Modern Science Reveals about Lincoln, His Assassination, and Its Aftermath. ABC-CLIO. Chapter 14.
6. "President Lincoln's Thoughts on April 14, 1865". When he finally gave up the struggle for life at 7:22 A.M., his face was fixed in a smile, according to one bedside witness, treasury official, a smile that seemed almost an effort of life. Lincoln has passed on smoothly and contentedly, his facial expression suggesting that inner peace that prevailed as his final state of mind.
7. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Youtube.com|Historian at 4:06 minute mark|quote="It was the first time in four years, probably, that a peaceful expression crossed his face."]
8. "OUR GREAT LOSS; The Assassination of President Lincoln.DETAILS OF THE FEARFUL CRIME.Closing Moments and Death of the President.Probable Recovery of Secretary Seward. Rumors of the Arrest of the Assassins.The Funeral of President Lincoln to Take Place Next Wednesday.Expressions of Deep Sorrow Through-out the Land. OFFICIAL DISPATCHES. THE ASSASSINATION. Further Details of the Murder Narrow Recape of Secretary Stanton Measures Taken is Prevent the Escape of the Assassin of the President. LAST MOMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. Interesting Letter from Maunsell B. Field Esq. THE GREAT CALAMITY". The New York Times. 1865-04-17. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
9. "Now He Belongs to the Ages - BackStory with the American History Guys". Abraham Lincoln died, according to press reports, with a smile on his face. "I had never seen upon the president's face an expression more genial and pleasings," wrote a New York Times reporter.
10. Hay, John (1915). The Life and Letters of John Hay Volume 1 (quote's original source is Hay's diary which is quoted in "Abraham Lincoln: A History", Volume 10, Page 292 by John G. Nicolay and John Hay). Houghton Mifflin Company.