User talk:Cor anglais 16

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initiation!

I've begun work on the composers' pages, good sir. -Noah

Organ repertoire timeline

It's a template - you can edit it here: Template:Timeline Organ Composers. There is sort of a timeline coding language, so we will be able to make separate timelines for each of the sub-pages of organ repertoire that we will probably need to create eventually. --Sesquialtera II 03:13, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

small organs

Hey Jonathan - I was wondering if you could take a look at portative organ and positive organ. They are a little bit cumbersome right now. Makemi was hoping we could clear it up a little. -Sesquialtera II 17:12, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Organ

Would you be interested in joining/starting an Organ project? I have found a Pipe organ/refactor project but it doesn't seem to do a lot. There seems to be lots of work that needs doing, not just to the instrument pages, but also to composers/works etc. Best, Mdcollins1984 12:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. I have formally proposed the WikiProject Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Pipe Organ. Please add your name to the interested list and lets see if we can get this off the ground. Mdcollins1984 10:20, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Wikipedia:WikiProject PipeOrgan has now been created. Feel free to assist in the creation of the project page, and then we can get started!

Best,

MDCollins (talk) 16:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Organ pipe, Organ stop and Pipe organ

Hi,

Would you mind taking a look at the Organ pipe and Organ stop articles?

Do you think that they add any information that isn't in the really good Pipe organ? I would assume that the point of more specific articles is to be more specific! These look really poor in comparison.

If I was to be brave, I would suggest merging the pair of them into Pipe organ. What do you think?

Best wishes,

Mdcollins1984 14:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DEFAULTSORT of categories

Hi - just thought I'd point out that when you added the "Classical organists" category to Arthur Poister, you removed the "Poister, Arthur" from the "American organists" category. This had the unfortunate effect of including him in that category under "A" rather than "P". I've discovered the benefits of using the {{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Firstname}} instruction - it's a useful one to add at the top of a list of (short!) existing list of categories to save adding "|surname, firstname" to each category you add. Apologies if you know this already! Best wishes, Bencherlite 00:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you much... I am terribly bad at this technical side of Wikipedia, including organization of articles and things... about the only thing I have done successfully so far in that realm is merging. Thanks for letting me know about the {{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Firstname}} instruction; I will make sure to use it next time! —Cor anglais 16 (talk) 14:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Just thought I'd stop by and give you a friendly hello, from one musician to another! Kntrabssi 09:11, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much... hello back! —Cor anglais 16 (talk) 14:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dom Bedos

I noticed you corrected all of the spellings for Dom Bedos de Celles in pipe organ, there were a lot of inconsistencies there! I'm not sure there is an acute on it however, looking at a quick google search anyway! Have you got it printed somewhere? How's your French: Fr:Dom Bedos de Celles...! We actually need an article to pass FA (as red links count against). Either that or we unlink it for the time. I might create a stub or something at some point.

–MDCollins (talk) 22:47, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, I did correct those spellings… The accent aigu comes from the spelling given in the Cambridge Companion to the Organ (index and two essays). The Grove Dictionary gives an article heading of "Bédos [Bedos] de Celles, François". Before these sources, I'd never seen it spelled with the accent. I'm inclined to go with Grove, because they're more or less the last word on music. Are we allowed to wikilink his name to the French Wikipedia? In the future, an article on Dom Bédos in the English Wikipedia would certainly be helpful. —Cor anglais 16 23:41, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know about the French link, I'll look into it. I'd guess probably not, so maybe a short stub in English with the usual inter-language links would probably be better. The day after I posted that, I saw it myself with an accent in an "Organists Review" magazine, and if Grove and the Cam Com agree, who am I to argue??!!

Good work on the article, I'm trying to catch up after my little break.

–MDCollins (talk) 08:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing - Pipe organ

Good work on the construction referencing. I've been looking into the various systems of referencing and at other FAs, and have simplified your references from the Cam Comp. I have moved the bulk of the citation to "References" (your Works Cited) - the place for the full citation, the footnote containing the author and page (and date if necessary). I'm not sure whether the weblinks can be simplified or moved, but think its ok at the moment.

The Bibliography section is now for further printed reading, obviously with the websites in External Links. In case I have got this wrong, I've asked User:Jayron32 who brought this up at peer review for his thoughts and assistance. –MDCollins (talk) 10:27, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sonata on the 94th Psalm

Hello. I've just written this article on the sonata by Julius Reubke. I found you through the project: Pipe Organ. Do you have this piece of music in your repertoire? I wonder if you would consider making a recording that we could put on the page? It would be an excellent addition to Wikipedia and make the article complete. Thanks for considering. I have also contacted a few others who listed that they were a good organist, who were listed on the pipe organ project page, so if someone notifies me that they are able to do it, I will let you know. Thanks. Clavecin 12:18, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikibooks

Hey,

Recently I've come to think that writing a course on organ playing would be an invaluable contribution to the resources available in the Wiki network. See: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Music

The Wikibooks project, at least for music, seems to be in a far earlier stage than Wikipedia, but I am envisioning great things for it, as far as we could contribute. Let's take a specific topic, for instance: the playing of a Baroque fugue subject. We could outline general principles, such as the articulation and the weights of each subdivision - for instance, the Boe system where beats are 1 3 2 4, in order of strongest to weakest. The best part would be augmenting the article with practical examples from brief recordings we could make, not only of the subject by itself but then in context with other voices. I also feel that this would be invaluable to us in developing a comprehensive teaching system for our (likely) future students.

I think we would then be able to make this significantly known to the Web. A prominent external link on Organ (music), Pipe organ, Organist, etc. would draw in the casual crowd, and boost search results; I also think we should submit an article to the AGO and the Diapason about the project once it's sufficiently advanced to release to our national colleagues for their evaluation. That would spread the word in the organ world; they should recognize that nothing replaces an actual student-teacher relationship, and that this would be a valuable free supplemental resource.

What do you think? I envision this almost as a version of Gleason with audio samples. —Sesquialtera II (talk) 21:45, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I imagine that school will keep me busy enough to prevent me from really completing the project, so the bulk of the actual work seems likely to occur in the summer, unless I acquire more time than I anticipate having. This wouldn't be an immediate project. —Sesquialtera II (talk) 01:17, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, this sounds really cool! I'm up for it. I will check out Wikibooks soon and see what it's all about. This is exciting! —Cor anglais 16 18:39, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree; this sounds like a great idea. I'll be glad to help out where I can.

-Random Pipings 10:34, 28 December 2007 (EST)

Registration

Wow! Thanks! Good jorb! Random Pipings (talk) 03:03, 25 February 2008 (UTC) Random Pipings[reply]

You're very welcome, though most of the content is pulled directly from Organ stop. Had to do something, though, or they were going to delete it! —Cor anglais 16 04:45, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pedal keyboard

Hi, In the discussion section of the Pedal keyboard, you indicated that you would rather not have so much discussion of jazz organ. One of the unusual aspects about Wikipedia articles is that they are much more interdisciplinary and wide-ranging than articles in standard print encylopedias. I would imagine that the article on Pedal Keyboard in the Grove's dictionary spends 99% of its time discussing the use of the pedal keyboard in art music, with perhaps a passing mention of their use in pop and jazz (if at all)...............................................This reflects the Grove's dictionary's decision to focus on art music. However, Wikipedia doesn't have any pre-set limitation like this. So the Pedal keyboard article includes a discussion of the use of the pedal keyboard in art music, jazz, and pop......................................................I have been in your position, though, too. In the article on the history of the preparations that the UK made to defend itself from a amphibious sea invasion during WWII, there is a "Counterfactual" section which speculates on whether the land defenses would have been able to resist a Nazi attack. I criticized the inclusion of this "counterfactual" section, on the grounds that professional historians rarely discuss "what might have happened if..." The article's main editors argued that Wikipedia includes a wider range of sources than just mainstream professional historians..........................................Now this all being said, I think that we could have 2 separate articles: Pedal keyboard (pipe organ), Pedal keyboard (jazz organ), if you think this would be useful.Nazamo (talk) 17:28, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me. I didn't know that the pedal keyboard really had a great deal of usage differently in jazz than it does in classical music... plays the bass line, etc. Technique, I suppose, is different. I kind of regarded it as those sections on the bottom of Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Organ (music), where people simply list random sightings of the T&F and the organ in popular culture, which is pretty much useless. Two articles doesn't sound like a bad idea to me, as long as there's enough information on both subjects. We should propose it on the WikiProject Pipe Organ pages. —Cor anglais 16 17:38, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it would be interesting to see if other editors think that having two articles would be useful. I take a more intermediate view of the pop culture trivia sections. Let us consider the T&F. I agree with you that it is useless to have a list of every single animé cartoon, Disney cartoon, Seinfeld episode, etc, that contains one or 2 bars of the opening. However, I think that when an entire episode, movie, or short story is based on the work, it is useful to note. Let us say that there is a movie about a teen who strives to learn the T&F without a teacher, and so the T&F is interwoven throughout the movie. That would be useful to note. Or if there is a avant-garde album in which every song is based on excerpts from the T&F (retrograde inversions, etc), that would be interesting. What I do when I come to those lists is I pick out the four or so examples where the piece/song/etc is a core part of the pop culture item in question, and erase the rest...................On another side note, it is touching that 15 year olds reading Manga comics and watching Animé are aware of art music enough to note that the authors are making references to symphony X or Tone Poem Y! : ) Nazamo (talk) 17:50, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation... agreed in all cases here!—Cor anglais 16 00:30, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Organ FA nomination

Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look at it soon. Sorry I haven't been as active lately as I wanted to be. :-( You guys have been doing a great job, though! -W0lfie (talk) 22:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit request please!

The article Croatia national football team has recently been greatly increased in quality. There have been discussions to nominate it for a FA. However, some areas really need a quick copyedit. Nothing really major, there are just some minor grammar and wording mistakes that really could do with assistance. Would really appreciate it.

The lead section is currently good, as it has been already reviewed a few times. The main sections in need of copyediting are the '1990's' History section, 'Records' section and 'Stadium' section. Again, would really appreciate if you would assist in this. Hope to hear from you! Domiy (talk) 23:21, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pipe organ

Hi,

Good work with the Pipe organ article. I'll try and help out at the FAC as much as I can. I've sent out a call for assistance to all of the participants of WP:PO in an attempt to try and get some people to help take the burden away from thee and me to address all of the concerns. It's a bit of a slog otherwise! This article will pass (even if it is eventually!).

–MDCollins (talk) 00:55, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again,

Reference 4 seems to be what has been left from a string of references to Cook. I seem to remember it was an organ history website. All of it's buddies have been removed (presumably by you to replace them with more reliable ones). However, this one remains, but the full reference has also disappeared, meaning that as a reference it is now pretty useless. Can you replace that one as well? I seem to be getting nowhere fast with these refs, due to not having much printed material to hand - the web is pretty useless for what we need isn't it.

Keep up the good work! –MDCollins (talk) 01:46, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi… I'm familiar with the Cook website. Good resource and lots of personal insight, but it's simply not a reliable source. I thought I got rid of all of them, but I'll look into that last one. Thanks for all your hard work! —Cor anglais 16 15:43, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stanford Memorial Church

Cor anglais 16, would you mind looking at this article, specifically the "Organs" section? I would like to bring this to FA. I'm sure that after you read it, it'll be apparent that this section was written by a non-musician. (That would be me.) I'd like to get an expert's opinion (which from your user page, that would be you) and bring the prose up to snuff. Or at least have it sound like the editors knew what the heck they were talking about. (Which I don't, not about organs, anyway.) Thanks in advance for your help. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 07:09, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi… glad to help. I'll look at it probably this weekend. —Cor anglais 16 12:01, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cor, not to be pushy or anything, and I'm sure you're busy, but I wanted to remind you about this. There's no hurry; I just completed addressing a reviewer's comments. Up next is to submit it for a copyedit, but I wanted to make sure we got your expertise on this section. Thanks again. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:36, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh goodness, and it's already been two weeks. Sorry about that! I'll take a look Tuesday evening. —Cor anglais 16 02:54, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And you did it on Monday evening! ;) Thanks so much. I understand the section so much less now! But that's only because I'm stupid when it comes to organs. ;) Seriously, it now reads like it was written by someone who knows the subject. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 15:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to help; however, I'm disappointed that it's not understandable. The wikilinked articles should help any reader who would like a more comprehensive understanding of organ terminology, but I imagine FAC will want the vocabulary to be somewhat familiar to everyone. I'll make just a couple more quick revisions and links; the goal is for it to be understandable. —Cor anglais 16 16:03, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, I was kidding! I think you did a great job. Like you said, the links are there for folks to look at if they don't understand the terminology. I don't think that this article is a place to define the terms, especially since the topic is pretty technical. And that's okay; I just wanted the prose to be expert-driven. Thanks again. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 05:31, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pipe organ GA Sweeps: On Hold

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Nobel Prize help

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Cheers --Esuzu 18:13, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit Backlog Elimination Drive

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GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up

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GOCE copy edit drive

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November 2010 backlog elimination drive update

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November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion

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We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated.

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Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%.
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GOCE drive news

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 backlog elimination drive

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GOCE January Backlog elimination drive conclusion

Guild of Copy Editors January 2011 Backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We have reached the end of the month and the end of another successful drive; thanks to all who participated.

Statistics

54 people signed up for the year's first Backlog elimination drive. Of these, 40 participated.
One of our goals was to reduce the size of the backlog by at least 10%. We managed to reduce the backlog by 633 articles, or about 12%.
Another goal was to eliminate as many 2009 months as possible from the queue. We eliminated January, February, March, and April—4 out of 12 months is not bad! In addition, we eliminated 37% of all remaining 2009 articles from the queue.
Chaosdruid copy edited Kutch Gurjar Kashtriya for 32,711 words, which is the largest single article completed in one of our drives so far. This article counts as six 5000-K articles, and Chaosdruid wins the "most 5000-K articles" leaderboard category. Way to go! A complete list of individual results is here.

Barnstars

If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the November 2010 Backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering the barnstars within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for participating in this year's first Backlog elimination drive! We hope to see you in March.

Your drive coordinators –S Masters (talk), Diannaa (talk), The Utahraptor (talk), and Tea with toast (talk)

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GOCE drive newsletter

The Guild of Copy Editors – May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive

The Guild of Copy Editors invite you to participate in the May 2011 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive began on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to eliminate as many articles as possible from the 2009 backlog and to reduce the overall backlog by 15%. ! NEW ! In an effort to encourage the final elimination of all 2009 articles, we will be tracking them on the leaderboard for this drive.

Awards and barnstars
A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants. Some are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page.

We look forward to meeting you on the drive! Your GOCE coordinators: SMasters, Diannaa, Tea with toast, Chaosdruid, and Torchiest

You are receiving a copy of this newsletter as you are a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, or have participated in one of our drives. If you do not wish to receive future newsletters, please add you name here. Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 07:12, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Cor anglais 16/Organ key actions

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GOCE elections

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

Elections are currently underway for our Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days and ends on June 30, 23:59 UTC. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! There is also a referendum to appoint a Coordinator Emeritus. Cast your vote today.

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GOCE drive invitation

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting.

This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated.

We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words".

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GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters.

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GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their November 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles (and specifically will be targeting the oldest three months), as we want to copy edit as many of these as possible. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters.

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Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 00:51, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors

Elections are currently underway for our third tranche of Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, 16 December – 23:59 UTC, 31 December. All GOCE members, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are five candidates vying for four positions. Your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 10:28, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Reviving WikiProject PipeOrgan

Hello, Cor anglais 16! I'm attempting to revive Wikipedia:WikiProject PipeOrgan. As you are one of the founders of this project I hope you would like to participate in its revival if you have time. Kind regards, Danmuz (talk) 16:51, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE 2011 Year-End Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2011 Year-End Report

We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2011. Read all about these in the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report.

Highlights

Membership grows to 764 editors, an increase of 261
Report on coordinators' elections
Around 1,000 articles removed through six Backlog elimination drives
Guild Plans for 2012
Requests page report
Sign up for the January 2012 Backlog elimination drive!

Get your copy of the Guild's 2011 Year-End Report here
On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. We look forward to your support in 2012!
– Your 2011 Coordinators: Diannaa (lead), The Utahraptor, and Slon02 and SMasters (emeritus).

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GOCE March copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their March 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate the remaining 2010 articles from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, Stfg, and Coordinator emeritus SMasters. 19:31, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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GOCE March drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 27 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far.

Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers.

Your drive coordinators – Dianna (talk), Stfg (talk), and Dank (talk)

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GOCE March drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter.

Participation

Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months.

Progress report

During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.

When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators.

Thank you for participating in the March 2012 drive! All contributions are appreciated. Our next copy-edit drive will be in May.

Your drive coordinators – Dianna ^(Talk), Stfg (Talk), and Dank (talk)

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GOCE May copy edit drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their May 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg.

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GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles.

Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg

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GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago.

Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg

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GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their July 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on July 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on July 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to eliminate the articles tagged in April, May and June 2011 from the queue and to complete all requests placed before the end of June. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 6 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in April–June 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg.

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GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter

Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 25 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—May, June, and July 2011—by about 40%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 264 articles so far, to around 2500 articles.

Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, your best copy-editing work of the month will be eligible for fabulous prizes! See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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GOCE July drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up

Participation: Out of 45 people who signed up this drive, 31 have copy-edited at least one article. Lfstevens continues to carry most of the weight, having edited 360 articles and over a quarter of a million words already. Thanks to all who have participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, will be available early in August here.

Progress report: We are once again very close to achieving in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog. Only 35 such articles remain at press time. The total backlog currently sits at under 2400 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We are just two articles away from completing all requests made before July 2012 (both are in progress).

Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, you'll be able to submit your best copy-editing work for palaver, praise, and prizes. See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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GOCE news and September drive invitation

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best August copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit the articles tagged longest ago and to complete all requests placed before the end of August. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top six in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". This drive features a much easier signup process. We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Precious

pipe organ and organ pipe

Thank you for quality articles around pipe organ such as Heinrich Fleischer and Carl Schalk, based on professional knowledge, for improving related articles, such as adding Aristide Cavaillé-Coll's innovation and rescueing Bach's cantata for today from a "woeful state", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A year ago, you were recipient no. 2075 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:03, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pipe organ reassessment

Hello! As a major contributor to articles around pipe organ, you should be made aware that the main article pipe organ is currently subject to good article reassessment as there are several outstanding uncited statements and poor-quality sources that have crept in. If I had the resources I would make my own efforts to correct the issues but unfortunately I have no clue where to find such info such as the connection between organum and the portative organ. Recon rabbit 12:14, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]