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It's mid-November and we have already met one important yearly goal: that of curating entries not edited since January 1 of the current year minus 3. Woo-hoo! Usually this task is not complete until well into December (*cough* possibly not until New Year's Eve *cough*), so I'm pretty chuffed that this work is done with weeks (weeks!) to spare.

One might think this is an impossible and/or onerous task, and indeed, someone once scoffed at the idea of its being possible, but done consistently throughout the year at the rate of 15-17 entries per week, it's very manageable. I usually queue up five entries at a time for curation.

What's involved, you ask? Mostly checking all links to make sure they work and go where we expect them to, finding replacements for those that need to be replaced, adding missing links, updated ADS links to resolved links (peer-reviewed versions rather than pre-prints), downloading the most recent version of the software if necessary, and checking preferred citation information -- where available (and for all that is science, please make this info available for all your software!) -- to ensure it is up-to-date. Basically, we make sure an entry is healthy and remediate anything that needs remediation.

And now we're done for the year, woo-hoo!!