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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome GraziePrego! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:51, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

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

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Question from HaileySeneff (04:28, 30 November 2025)

Hi GraziePrego, I was editing the Johnnie Swearingen page and was wondering how I would go about adding a picture to it? How do I know if an image is free use or not?

-Hailey --HaileySeneff (talk) 04:28, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Huntersfred (14:12, 1 December 2025)

Hello! Thank you for being my Wikipedia mentor! I randomly stumbled upon this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Colomares) that I feel is pretty unprofessionally written and could be improved on greatly. I especially take issue with the "History" section that is very opinionated, and seems to be a direct translate/copy-paste of this website (https://www.castillomonumentocolomares.com/historia/). More than this, there seems to be a bit of a COI here, in that this description was written by the creator of the monument.

What is the best way to go about fixing this? I think it is maybe ok to have the current "History" section only if it can more clearly be in quotations (Maybe inside a markdown quote block if you can do that on Wikipedia, or even just rename the section to "Description from Creator" or something to make the bias more clear? Does that section just need to be rewritten or removed? I would feel bad removing the section without having something in its place, because even if biased, there is surely still some value in it, right?

Also, if we keep it, because the material is quoted, does that mean that we should not fix grammatical, spelling, and formatting mistakes in it? There are a few things, such as capitalizing Crown in Crown of Castille (The main article Crown of Castille seems to capitalize it, but this article does not).

I also think I should add that it seems to essentially be google translated from the Spanish source. Does that add any wiggle room in terms of changing the quoted material, especially in an attempt to better reflect the source?

Some examples: verdaderos “lobos marinos,” which is a rough idiom for tough seasoned sailors, was translated to true "sea lions"

"Necesitó expertos marinos para sus empresas" translated to "He needed marine experts for his companies." Companies is a literal translation, but expeditions or undertakings would I think more faithfully capture the meaning.

Sorry this ran a little long, thanks! --Huntersfred (talk) 14:12, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Wikisherwood (03:32, 3 December 2025)

Hi, I saw you edit for the Women in Green project! How do you go about starting your work on articles for that? It sounds super interesting, but I don’t know where to start! --Wikisherwood (talk) 03:32, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from MaxPlus360 (05:28, 3 December 2025)

awesome - I'm looking forward to contributing. Long time reader --MaxPlus360 (talk) 05:28, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors – December 2025 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2025 Newsletter

Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box to your watchlist.

Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure ~~nearly~~ everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors experienced in drives or blitzes and in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to nominate themselves or another editor (with their permission, of course) to be a Guild coordinator until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June 2026.

September Drive: 43 of the 63 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive edited 693,541 words in 265 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

October Blitz: 14 of the 15 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz edited 75,108 words in 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

November Drive: 38 of the 65 editors who signed up for the November Backlog Elimination Drive edited 590,816 words in 240 articles. Barnstars awarded are posted here.

December Blitz: The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 14 December (UTC) and will end on 20 December at 23:59. Sign up here. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 01:49, 8 December 2025 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 293 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,730 articles.

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

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2025).

Administrator changes

Valereee

CheckUser changes

Spicy

Technical news

Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account associated with their edits.
Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). T382958

Miscellaneous

The December 2025 administrator elections are scheduled from Nov 25 – Dec 15.
An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in December 2025, with over 1,000 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Question from RaeDae (03:26, 11 December 2025)

Hi! Wikipedia says you are my mentor, thank you for helping me!

I'd like to add more references to some articles, because that's what I look for the most. Do you have any tips for me? --RaeDae (talk) 03:26, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Ajron Bach (16:38, 11 December 2025)

How do you put in userboxes? I hope can help with this. --Ajron Bach (talk) 16:38, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]