User talk:BluePenguin18

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to BluePenguin18 for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 22:06, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping to reduce the copy-editing backlog by 75% in one month! – Reidgreg (talk) 22:06, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to BluePenguin18 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 18:16, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors "Make it say what it means and mean what it says" – Wikipedia: How to copy edit

Hello BluePenguin18 and welcome to the Guild of Copy Editors (GOCE)! We are glad that you have decided to help us in our mission to improve the quality of writing on the English Wikipedia! Here are some links that you might find helpful to get started on your copy-editing journey!

• A how-to guide to Wikipeda copyediting
• Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS), a helpful guide to refer to while copy editing
  • A simplified version of the above
• A quick guide to writing on Wikipedia

You can help with copy-editing requests if you already have familiarity with the MOS and considerable English copy-editing skills, or start with articles tagged for copy editing to gain experience.

Thank you so much for joining the GOCE, we appreciate it!

For the GOCE, Puddleglum^2.0_{(How's my driving?)} 16:19, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like you're also interested in health-related articles. A bunch of us hang out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine, and you're welcome to join us. We just started a casual contest around adding sources to articles, and you can also sign up on the Outreach dashboard if you'd like to. Don't worry – signing up is retroactive to the start of the contest, so there's no penalty for not learning about it until now. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:42, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate the invite @WhatamIdoing! Do all edits throughout the year count, or only those that occur for articles currently designed as assigned? As in, I am aware that I can self-assign articles, but do I need to always do so for the edits of adding sources to count? BluePenguin18 🐧 ( 💬 ) 00:59, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You don't have to assign any articles. Any article that is tagged with the {{WikiProject Medicine}} banner (on its talk page) will automagically be counted. The dashboard even seems to re-calculate every day or so to pick up newly tagged articles. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:09, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article Mycobacterium you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mycobacterium for comments about the article, and Talk:Mycobacterium/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Ealdgyth -- Ealdgyth (talk) 13:43, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

	The Original Barnstar
	Neoscardovia arbecensis is a great page!! BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 05:06, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On 17 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mycobacterium, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mycobacterium bacterial species constantly remodel their cell wall layers to survive in stressful environments and avoid their host's immune defenses? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mycobacterium. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mycobacterium), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Aoidh (talk) 12:02, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On 20 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mike Sadler, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mike Sadler (pictured) guided nighttime raids on enemy targets as a celestial navigator during the Western Desert campaign? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mike Sadler. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mike Sadler), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 53,205 views (2,216.9 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of February 2024 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Introduction Membership news, obituary and election results Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page Closing words – Your Guild coordinators: Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 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. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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