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August 2026 GOCE blitz award

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to LightlySeared for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE August 2026 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 05:32, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2026 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed TNM101 to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as lead coordinator, and Miniapolis, Mox Eden and GoldRomean return as coordinators. We said goodbye to Wikieditor662 and thank them for their service. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here. Reviewing system: The Guild is adopting a new system of scoring copy edit reviews. A point will be given for each review, and barnstars for reviewing will be awarded. These changes will take effect from this month's drive, and we encourage experienced copy editors to sign up for reviewing. For more details, see here. June 2026 blitz: 18 of the 20 editors who signed up for the June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 69,606 words comprising 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. July 2026 drive: 30 of the 44 editors who signed up for the July 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited a total of 531,346 words comprising 252 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. August 2026 Blitz: 13 of the 16 editors who signed up for the August 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited a total of 192,712 words comprising 64 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. September 2026 Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive. Progress report: As of 23:47, 13 September 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 207 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,511 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:54, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

Unconstructive edits by Ojacistungtungaura

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Unconstructive edits by Ojacistungtungaura.Ldm1954 (talk) 19:55, 18 September 2026 (UTC)

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Schedule

• The October 2026 administrator elections are set to proceed.
• We plan to use the following schedule:
  • September 29 – October 5: Candidate sign-up
  • October 8–12: Discussion phase
  • October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase
• If you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts before we get started, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:46, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Qualified editors are encouraged to find at least one experienced nominator. Self-nominations are also allowed. Please review instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

• September 29 – October 5: Nominations phase (we are here)
• October 8–12: Discussion phase
• October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

• The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed. However, in practice, few candidates succeed without ~10K edits, some content creation, no recent behavioral issues, and a nominator.
• Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
• The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
• The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
• Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. Later, a user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:59, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Pride Flag

Pride flag : It is illegal to alterate the colours of the Brazilian flag, please respect Brazilian law No.5,700/1971. Brazilian law applies also to you and wikipedia, your alteration is illegal, no disrespection of the Brazilian flag will be tolerated. Kindly be noticed that federal judge Alexandre de Moraes had been informed. Please revert your edits on that page and conform to the actual laws. Thanks & regards ~2026-50172-80 (talk) 08:01, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

See thread on ANI. I'll not discuss this further here. LightlySeared (talk) 08:18, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

September drive bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to LightlySeared for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! In solidarity, Miniapolis 18:12, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

The discussion phase of the October 2026 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• October 8–12: Discussion phase (we are here)
• October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase
• Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Discussion phase.

On 13 Oct, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for.

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:05, 8 October 2026 (UTC)

Introducing the revamped uw-mos1 template

Hi, LightlySeared, and thanks for your contributions. I noticed that you have used user warning templates like {{uw-mos1}} to advise or warn users about MOS issues, such as at this user Talk page—thanks very much for that. The {{uw-mos1}} template has always suffered from vagueness; if you look at that example on the user's talk page, you'll notice it doesn't say anything about what MOS rule they broke, making it nearly impossible for the user to understand: 1) what they did wrong, 2) how to fix it, or 3) how to avoid making the exact same error next time. In brief, if used without additional wording, the uw-mos1 template assigns blame without explanation or remedy, and is virtually useless to help a willing user improve.

But, good news! The template has been revamped with new features, in particular, a couple of different ways to signal exactly what MOS rule was broken. There are two new parameters you can use for this: |issue=, and |longissue=. Please take a minute to go over the new doc at {{uw-mos1}} about how to use the new params; see especially sections §§ Notes​ and Examples. Next time you need to advise a user about a MOS style issue, please try out the new features to help the user understand better what they are being templated for.

Once again, many thanks for using {{uw-mos1}} to advise editors about MOS issues; I hope you'll find the new features helpful. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 20:52, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

Good to know. I'll keep it in mind. LightlySeared (talk) 21:35, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

The voting phase of the October 2026 administrator elections has started and will continue until 19 October 2026 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase (we are here)
• Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote has a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:12, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

GOCE October blitz

Hi LightlySeared—

Thanks much for your contributions to the GOCE's October blitz. As a reviewer for this drive, I checked your copyedits to the article A. D. G. The article was definitely improved, while maintaining its literary tone. Some things caught my eye that would be ideal to adjust, so I touched up the article a bit afterward. In case any feedback would be helpful for a future drive or blitz, a list of some interesting fixes is given below.

By the way, the prose size tool reports a word count of 1840 for this article. Would you want to update your section of the blitz page?

Thanks again for your copyediting, and I look forward to seeing you in a future drive or blitz.

—Pac Veten

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• Wikipedia's Manual of Style recommends that long quotations over about 40 words be formatted as blockquotes. So I converted two quotations near the end of the article.
• A.D.G. had many connections and characters. So in paragraphs where another person is mentioned between "A.D.G." and the next occurrence of "he" (for the writer), it can be helpful to change "he" to "A.D.G." for clarity.
• Many French terms are probably unfamiliar to an English-language reader, so some of them are worth glossing briefly.
• "Secretary-General" is typically spelled with a hyphen.
• The novel "Kangouroad Movie" has title capitalization.

Pac Veten (talk) 03:07, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Hi Pac Veten,

Thanks for taking a look at the article and reviewing it. As I said when updating my entry on the Blitz page, not my greatest work, given that the original article was quite confused and missing sources.

The wordcount is because prosesize does not count words behind bullets (and was down anyway), so I chucked the text into word. I've redone it just now with the original text where prosesize gives your number and word gives 621 words for the bulleted items. So I've corrected to 2461 words, given that I edited those sections as well.

As for everything else, fair criticism. I'll take it and have another look and fix what you didn't already. LightlySeared (talk) 06:11, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Hi LightlySeared—Glad to help out! MS Word gives a word count of 2001 for the A.D.G. article just before your revisions (including the full body after headers and before references).—Pac Veten Pac Veten (talk) 15:55, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Did you ignore the works section in that count? I did edit that section as well. LightlySeared (talk) 16:07, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

I just did the count again, Prosesize gives me 1840 words for the version before I started, and word still gives me 621 words for the bulleted items; 136 if we ignore the works section. Am I doing something wrong? LightlySeared (talk) 16:14, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

I was able to reproduce your count of 2487 directly in Word. Discrepancy reconciled. Pac Veten (talk) 16:33, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Phew. I'm gonna stick with 2461, that's probably the more accurate count. LightlySeared (talk) 16:59, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

October 2026 GOCE blitz award

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to LightlySeared for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2026 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 06:00, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

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Ren ☺ (Talk) 22:12, 31 October 2026 (UTC)

Reverted my Edit

Hello,

I was told to come here from your message. Not sure why you revered my edit on Geographical distribution of French speakers#Asia .

I fixed a typo under the Hong Kong section and my edit was revered 5 minutes later. Is there a grammar update that I am unaware of? ~2026-58709-83 (talk) 21:58, 4 November 2026 (UTC)

Nevermind. I realise I misspelled communities. rats... ~2026-58709-83 (talk) 22:03, 4 November 2026 (UTC)

Well, I just typed the explanation when you replied, but yeah, that. Typos like that are commonly seen by people testing editing for the first time. That's why I wrote that message. Just bad luck for me to have seen your edit.

In any case: Welcome to Wikipedia. There are more typos to go around, feel free to fix them, if I haven't demotivated you. Which I sincerely hope I have not. LightlySeared (talk) 22:07, 4 November 2026 (UTC)