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Hi. I just wanna ask if this reads fine (If not I am wondering if you can copy edit it) "Despite writing that the shape contributes to its popularity, Abel finds this insufficient to explain the universality of the emoji's popularity. Instead, he proposes that people use the emoji as a way to engage with the act of defecation, evidencing this with the fact that toilets are frequently where phones are used. Abel takes this fact as an opportunity to engage in social commentary. First, he notes that because phones are frequently used on toilets, some evidence suggests that they are often contaminated with fecal matter and harmful bacteria, permitting "poo on phones" to have a dual meaning of physical feces and the poop emoji. From this, he suggests that the poop emoji may be popular as it simultaneously signifies media being consumed (phone use on the toilet) as it signifies the harms of its consumption (seen through the fecal contamination resultant from phone use)". Many thanks. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 10:16, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The "shape" is a "swirling" one, according to the previous paragraph at the article; and that attribute might be brought down. Although fairly grammatical, other parts need further explication. "Engage with the act of defecation", but how? And phones are not especially used in the bathroom. The famously fastidious Japanese allow their phones to "often" become fecally contaminated (since Abel is a Japanese scholar)? That deserves further explanation. The rest of the paragraph has too much vague analysis or speculation. If it's more specific in the paper that's being summarized, more of that specificity belongs in the article. Dhtwiki (talk) 06:47, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Dhtwiki for the response. I wrote the section and have clarified the act of defecation portion a bit. If it's okay, I'm just going to paste the relevant text below, it's pretty short:

As you can see, it indeed seems to be Abel's contention that phones are especially used in bathrooms, that this extends to the Japanese (he only affords "globally", not permitting further explanation).

Frankly, I believe Abel's argument is that everyone uses their phones on the toilet, we all know on some level we're contaminating it or that it's otherwise something we shouldn't be doing, and by using the poop emoji we are trying to navigate the internal dissonance in some way. I don't feel comfortable rendering it like that without outside confirmation that my reading is accurate.

Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 11:18, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GoldRomean nominated you for the GOCE Hall of Fame, which is well deserved and long overdue; I thought you were in there already! Your election is unanimous among the guild's warm bodies (past and present), so congratulations! All the best, Miniapolis 17:56, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, all. I was aware of the nomination, which I decided not to contest, and, so, of the others involved (User:Mox Eden, User:Jonesey95). I wasn't aware of the page just linked to. It looks quite grand. However, I couldn't tell which was my statue. Dhtwiki (talk) 23:07, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your statue is the best-looking one. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:24, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Long due and well-deserved. (And ah, probably should've made the nom through email instead of via an admin's talk page... but whatever.) GoldRomean (talk) 00:23, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Dhtwiki for copyediting 35,160 total words during the GOCE May 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 18:59, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Dhtwiki for copyediting 2 long articles during the GOCE May 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 18:59, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Dhtwiki for copyediting 11 old articles during the GOCE May 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 18:59, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Dhtwiki for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 18:59, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you reverted my edit on WP:GOCE. I'll try not to do that in the future, and thanks for explaining in the edit summary. Tactical Falcon (talk) 01:33, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Dhtwiki for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 21:30, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dhtwiki ... I was just rummaging around at the main GOCE page and when I dragged my cursor over the Current or next blitz section of the tabs, I noticed that the information was still showing for May rather than for July:

"This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive was a one-month-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the tag (also , , , , and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 May 2025, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 May 2025, 23:59 (UTC)." Augnablik (talk) 05:19, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have to update things. Thank you for the notice. Dhtwiki (talk) 22:12, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors June 2025 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2025 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Hall of Fame: Congratulations to Dhtwiki for their well-deserved addition to the Hall of Fame last month, and thanks to GoldRomean for the nomination. Election news: Voting in the mid-year coordinator election ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. April Blitz: 14 of the 25 editors who signed up for the April 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 92,769 words in 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. May Drive: 31 of the 54 editors who signed up for the May 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited 384,392 words in 216 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. June Blitz: 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 26,652 words in 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. July Drive: Our July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive will begin on 1 July and finish on 31 July. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 02:30, 30 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 148 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,270 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. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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