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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

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Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2026 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, incumbents Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and Wikieditor662 was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). December 2025 Blitz: 16 of the 31 editors who signed up for the December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz edited 116,064 words in 47 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. January Drive: 35 of the 55 editors who signed up for the January Backlog Elimination Drive edited 498,397 words in 183 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. February Blitz: 19 of the 23 editors who signed up for the February Copy Editing Blitz edited 83,969 words in 43 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. March Drive: 28 of the 48 editors who signed up for the March Backlog Elimination Drive edited 210,064 words in 87 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. April Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 12 to 18 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 09:10, 10 April 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 81 copyediting requests since 1 January 2026. The backlog of articles needing copyediting stands at 1,794 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, Mox Eden and Wikieditor662. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:28, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Association internationale de bibliophilie (AIB)

Hello, thank you for letting me know that you removed the change I made to the page regarding the Association internationale de bibliophilie (AIB). I made my first edit yesterday and do not quite understand what makes it better to remove a change rather than first getting in touch with the person who made it to ask for an explanation. I am a member of the Association internationale de bibliophilie (AIB) and made the change after talking to the Secretary of the Association a few days ago. We both had noticed that the information provided on the Wikipedia page was outdated. I consequently tried to edit the pages in French and English. For reasons I don't understand, I was unable to put the name of the current president (Kenneth Pfaehler) on the French page (I could only delete the wrong information that the current president was Jean Bonna, who stepped down in 2024). I changed the content of the article on both pages to at least provide accurate information about the current president. As far as I know, there is no Internet webpage I could provide to back that claim, but is there anything which could make you think that I made up the information regarding the current president? Jonathan Chiche (talk) 20:56, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia, Jonathan Chiche. If you are a member of the Association internationale de bibliophilie, then contributing to the Wikipedia article in question would constitute a conflict of interest under Wikipedia's policy. The policy states that COI editing is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia and [e]ditors with a COI, including paid editors, are expected to disclose it whenever they seek to change an affected article's content. If you wish to add updated, accurate information about the president of the association, please follow Wikipedia's best practices at WP:COIEDIT.

Wikipedia also requires that all claims made on articles are properly verifiable, as per the verifiability policy, so the name of the current president must be cited by a reliable source. In addition, Any material that needs an inline citation but does not have one may be removed, which is what I followed in this case. Therefore, you must find a method of citation that allows other editors and readers of the article to prove that the claim is true, whether that be a publicly-accessible book, website or other form of media.

I hope that clarifies your queries regarding what you should do to enable accurate information to be added, and happy editing!

Regards, ContributeToTheWiki (talk • contribs) 21:31, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your explanation. I do not have much time to devote to editing Wikipedia and the only reason why I do it is to provide accurate information. The fact that providing the name of the current president of an association for a member of that association constitutes a conflict of interest is new to me. I understand the wish to back articles with citations, but I do not have much time to write for Wikipedia, am not familiar with editing format (e.g. for footnotes) and English is not my mother tongue. I would consequently have had a much more pleasant first experience as a registered user if my edit (providing a factual piece information) had not been deleted almost immediately without even anyone getting in touch with me beforehand to at least inquire as to whether I could provide a reference or who I was (I am perfectly OK to openly state my identity, and I am using my real name here) and how come I happen to have information regarding this association.

For your reference, I also had edited the French version of the Wikipedia page regarding the Association internationale de bibliophilie. Please feel free to delete my edit to revert to an inaccurate version. There are other issues with the (French and English) pages, including inaccurate information, but I am sure you understand that I do not wish to make any edit in the current situation.

Also for the record, there is a page on Wikipedia which I am in an excellent position to judge that it most likely was written by people having very strong conflicts of interest (including financial ones; or at the very least misled by such people, although the first possibility seems much more likely to me), about something which should not be on Wikipedia anyway given its lack of actual significance, a page which is misleading and contains inaccurate information. Now, I *do* have a conflict of interest in this case, since the reason I happen to judge the accuracy of this page is because of my professional activity, which has led me to provide an appraisal of items discussed on that Wikipedia page. Now, I *will not* edit it, although it certainly *should* be completely deleted and should not be on Wikipedia at all in the first place. People who contributed to it certainly didn’t state their real conflicts of interest, and the page misleads everyone one who reads it. What is Wikipedia’s policy regarding that? Does it align well with Wikipedia policy to have a misleading page written by (at least partly, most likely) people having very strong conflict of interest? It certainly seems not to have elicited any deletion, contrary to my edit providing the name of the current president of an association. Jonathan Chiche (talk) 09:47, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Jonathan Chiche, thank you for your explanation. It may interest you to know that another contributor to Wikipedia has, since I last made comment on this talk page, added the information you were previously wishing to update here, along with a verifiable citation.

If you wish to suggest further edits that should be made to update the page and improve its accuracy, please remember you are welcome to propose these changes on the respective article's talk page, so they can be peer-reviewed and, if necessary, supplemented with a reliable, verifiable source. You can do this by following the instructions in the edit request wizard.

Regarding the page on Wikipedia which I am in an excellent position to judge that it most likely was written by people having very strong conflicts of interest, you can let me know what the page is, and either I or another Wikipedian can investigate a potential case of conflict-of-interest or paid editing. Wikipedia has a process called speedy deletion, which can be invoked to suggest that a page be deleted for one of several reasons. In this case, the reason that would be given is A7: no indication of importance. If the page were found to contain unfixable factual errors or were simply not notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia, it will be deleted, if someone reports the page.

I hope this reply answers your questions adequately.

Regards, ContributeToTheWiki (talk • contribs) 20:40, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your reply and explanations. I had seen that someone else had found a source and modified the article accordingly. It may however interest you to know that another contributor of Wikipedia, who was assigned as my mentor, replied that they did not consider my updating the Wikipédia page as a conflict of interest, although I am a member of the association, given the nature of my edit. However, I understand the request for sources (the one found by that other contributor is indeed reliable, and I happen to know the author).

Regarding the other page I mentioned, I do not claim there has been any paid editing, but you can have a look at https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E6%BE%84%E5%AE%9A%E5%A0%82 and get a first impression of what this is. Thank you! Jonathan Chiche (talk) 18:56, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Match Fixing (film)

I don't think that the external link is covered by RD1. See Wikipedia talk:Revision deletion#RD1 and external links. CambridgeBayWeather (#1 deranged), Uqaqatigijaa (talk), Huliva 20:04, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Temporary account IP viewer granted

Hello, ContributeToTheWiki. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

• You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
• Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).

It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:

• When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
• Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
• Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).

Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:31, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

April 2026 GOCE blitz award

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to ContributeToTheWiki for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 22:26, 20 April 2026 (UTC)