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The following event is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this event.

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is a one-month-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 September 2015, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September 2015, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in March, April and May 2014);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from July and August 2015.

Drive participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles from the Requests page count towards your total; these are generally higher-quality articles than those tagged with {{copy edit}}. You will receive a bonus score of 50% over the article's word count for articles that were tagged with {{copyedit}} in March, April and May 2014, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians; you don't have to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. You must, however, be competent in your use of English grammar, spelling and punctuation. We strongly advise you to read Wikipedia's guide to basic copy editing before you begin working. If you're unsure about spelling, grammar or punctuation, consult the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Skilled use of English is especially important for articles listed on the Requests page.

Drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The drive's lead coordinator is Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), KieranTribe (talk), Miniapolis (talk) and Pax85 (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive page.

Full instructions, tips, and awards

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Full instructions for participants, tips, help for new copy editors, useful tags, and details of the many barnstars available for the drive can be found on the main drive page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

Progress

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(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles
Lfstevens (37) Tortle (35) Miniapolis (30) Slon02 (13) PubliusHadrianus (8)
Jonesey95 (8)
Baffle gab1978 (8)
Total
Words[n 1]
Miniapolis (67,282) Lfstevens (63,655) Tortle (55,180) PubliusHadrianus (29,610) Baffle gab1978 (25,729)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Tortle (4) Miniapolis (3)
PubliusHadrianus (3)
Lfstevens (2)
Baffle gab1978 (2)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
Lfstevens (27) Tortle (26) Miniapolis (25) PubliusHadrianus (2)
Slon02 (2)
Baffle gab1978 (2)
Dthomsen8 (1)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
Lfstevens (16,658) PubliusHadrianus (12,325) Tortle (11,044) Baffle gab1978 (9,414) Miniapolis (8,528)
  1. ^ a b For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
  2. ^ Number of articles of 5,000 words or more. An article of 10K+ words counts as 2, of 15K+ as 3, and so on.
  3. ^ Oldest articles are those tagged in March, April and May 2014.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Graphs of daily progress
Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • March, April and May 2014
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 August 2015 145 2,322
1 September 2015 140 2,311 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 11
2 September 2015 131 2,295 Positive decrease 16 Positive decrease 27
3 September 2015 120 2,296 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 26
4 September 2015 118 2,305 Negative increase  9 Positive decrease 17
5 September 2015 110 2,312 Negative increase  7 Positive decrease 10
6 September 2015 100 2,310 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 12
7 September 2015 88 2,288 Positive decrease 22 Positive decrease 34
8 September 2015 82 2,291 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 31
9 September 2015 77 2,295 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 27
10 September 2015 75 2,294 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 28
11 September 2015 66 2,285 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 37
12 September 2015 59 2,298 Negative increase  13 Positive decrease 24
13 September 2015 51 2,289 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 33
14 September 2015 50 2,297 Negative increase  8 Positive decrease 25
15 September 2015 49 2,295 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 27
16 September 2015 49 2,297 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 25
17 September 2015 49 2,316 Negative increase  19 Positive decrease  6
18 September 2015 45 2,318 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease  4
19 September 2015 44 2,317 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease  5
20 September 2015 41 2,317 Steady  0 Positive decrease  5
21 September 2015 39 2,314 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease  8
22 September 2015 38 2,311 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 11
23 September 2015 37 2,315 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease  7
24 September 2015 37 2,319 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease  3
25 September 2015 34 2,329 Negative increase  10 Negative increase  7
26 September 2015 31 2,352 Negative increase  23 Negative increase  30
27 September 2015 30 2,356 Negative increase  4 Negative increase  34
28 September 2015 26 2,334 Positive decrease 22 Negative increase  12
29 September 2015 21 2,349 Negative increase  15 Negative increase  27
30 September 2015 19 2,336 Positive decrease 13 Negative increase  14
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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GOCE coordinators and other experienced Guild members will carry out random checks to ensure that copy edits are of a satisfactory standard. If you are willing to help with reviewing, please sign up below.

10% of each participant's copy edits from the backlog should be checked, and all copy edits from the Requests page should be reviewed, time permitting. Please choose articles at random and do not inspect your own copy edits. After checking articles, place a {{checked}} template after the article on the listing and sign your username with four tildes (~~~~). If a rough consensus finds that a copy edit is not of an acceptable standard, the tag will be re-added and the editor will be deducted a penalty of 1,200 words plus the word count of the reviewed article. The reviewer may give advice on how the edit could have been improved without penalizing the editor. Please raise any questions on the Coordinators' talk page.

Reviewers sign-up

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Signing up

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To sign up for the drive, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section for you to record your copy edits. The previous drive's rollover totals are located here, if you need to add them.

This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.

Totals

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How to record articles you have copy edited:

  • Remove any extant {{copyedit}} tags from the article.
  • When you sign up, your section is automatically populated with # {{Working}} [[]] () and # {{Completed}} [[]] ():
    • Article titles go in wikilinks [[]]. List the article's full title, not an abbreviated version.
    • Article word counts go in round brackets (): use this script to get the page's word count.
  • Place articles you're working on on the {{Working}} line. When you've finished your copy edit, change {{Working}} to {{Completed}}
  • If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count. If it was tagged in March, April and May 2014, place *O after the word count.
  • Place any comments between the article title and the word count.
  • Do not list articles on which you have placed {{GOCEreviewed}} instead of copy editing them, or which needed no copy editing.
  • Do not add the 50% bonus for Requests or Oldest articles—a coordinator will apply the bonuses after the drive is over.
  • If you want your work checked, you can request it on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1,234) *O

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234) *O
Article list
  1.  Completed Primmore's Pride (59)
  2.  Completed Salivary gland fistula (102)
  3.  Completed Sarı Odalar (53)
  4.  Completed Simon Leather (58)
  5.  Completed Viktor Szigetvári (32) Checked Slon02 (talk) 03:11, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6.  Completed Subramanya, Karnataka (1,484) *O
  7.  Completed Talbots (207) *R
  8.  Completed After the Night and the Music (342)
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 2,337
  • Rollover words: 3,880
Article list
  1.  Completed Protest against conscription of yeshiva students (1,092) *O
  2.  Completed Sekai to Sekai no Mannaka de (477) *O
  3.  Completed Svoboda (political party) (617) *O Checked Slon02 (talk) 03:13, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4.  Completed History of Toulouse (8,528) *O
  5.  Completed Sanctuary of Our Lady of Gold (2,544) *O
  6.  Completed The Phantom (3,007) *O
  7.  Completed History of Vladivostok (2,461) *O
  8.  Completed Urban electric transport in Russia (1,084) *O
  9.  Completed Lambeth (London borough) (1,397) *O
  10.  Completed Rolling stock manufacturers of Russia (992) *O
  11.  Completed Embodied design (mathematics education) (1,244) *O
  12.  Completed Karnataka Police (1,181) *O
  13.  Completed Union, Progress and Democracy (2,973) *O
  14.  Completed German-Jordanian University (504) *O
  15.  Completed Aymeric Chauprade (1,238) *O
  16.  Completed Gumla (1,058) *O
  17.  Completed HaMerotz LaMillion 2 (5,105) *O
  18.  Completed Chak De! India (3,162) *R
  19.  Completed Jabalpur (5,292) *O
  20.  Completed 2006 Subway 500 (3,995) *R
  21.  Completed Metal Hero Series (821) *O
  22.  Completed Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (4,384) *R
  23.  Completed Bassbaba Sumon (615) *R
  24.  Completed Ice (The X-Files) (2,109) *R
  25.  Completed Moonrunners (993) *O
  26.  Completed Neolithic sites in Kosovo (2,834) *O
  27.  Completed Uskok War (2,600) *O
  28.  Completed KVEA (2,154) *O
  29.  Completed Draconian constitution (1,885) *O
  30.  Completed Italian Law 91/1981, Article 18B (946) *O
  • Total articles: 30
  • Total words: 67,282
  • Rollover words: 8,105
Article list
  1.  Completed Battle of Aleppo (2012–present) (2,743) *R
  2.  Completed North American Man/Boy Love Association (1,901) *R
  3.  Completed 2002–03 S.L. Benfica season (2,238) *R
  4.  Completed History of York City F.C. (8,068) *R
  5.  Completed Murder_of_Selena (9,414) *R
  6.  Completed Soaring Stones (576) *R
  7.  Completed Willy Rohr (1,099) *O
  8.  Completed Artelia (1,484) *O
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 27,529
  • Rollover words: 5,955
Article list
  1.  Completed The Dougy Center (941) *R
  2.  Completed Google Book Search Settlement Agreement (1886) *R
  3.  Completed Paranthodon (1354) *R
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4181
  • Rollover words: 1507.5
Article list
  1.  Completed List of wars involving the Philippines (11) O+
  2.  Completed Slot drain (410)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 421
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Fracture sonography (786) Checked Slon02 (talk) 03:15, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 786
Article list
  1.  Completed Corporation (role playing game) (2072) *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2072
  • Rollover words: 2192.5
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Tourist attractions in Mysore (2,626)*O (See a. Below)
  2.  Completed Urbana High School (Illinois) (732)*O (See a. Below)
  3.  Completed San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines (468)*O (See a. Below)
  4.  Completed Gig Harbor High School (1,243)*O (See a. Below)
  5.  Completed Fertigation (774)*O (See a. Below)
  6.  Completed Disney Channel (Australia and New Zealand) (310)*O (See a. Below)
  7.  Completed Tetsuya Noda (1,306)*O (See a. Below)
  8.  Completed United Telecoms Limited (617)*O (See a. Below)
  9.  Completed Kalvacherla (473)*O (See a. Below)
  10.  Completed History Museum of Armenia (754)*O (See a. Below)
  11.  Completed South Sulawesi (5014)*O (See a. and b. Below)
  12.  Completed Exoès (89)*O (See c. Below)
  13.  Completed List of Hindi film clans (2,411)*O
  14.  Completed Legal issues in airsoft (11,044)*O
  15.  Completed List of former state roads in Florida (1-99) (2,052)*O
  16.  Completed Kudumbi (4,358)*O
  17.  Completed United States Navy Dental Corps (2,202)*O
  18.  Completed PBA Bowling Tour: 2014 season (323)*O
  19.  Completed Royal Palace of Turin (893)*O
  20.  Completed Big Hero 6 (comics) (1,678)*O
  21.  Completed Phantom (comics) (5,994)*O
  22.  Completed Suicidal Angels (916)*O
  23.  Completed Nawab of Awadh (92)*O
  24.  Completed Sleepio (700)*O
  25.  Completed Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (1,403)*O
  26.  Completed The Swinging Bridge (386)*O
  27.  Completed Milan Spasić (612)*O
  28.  Completed Storm spotting (1,583)*O
  29.  Completed Murder of Agnès Marin (617)*O
  30.  Completed Channel 9 (Malaysia) (635)*O
  31.  Completed Tri-Valley Central School (611)*O
  32.  Completed Chinese Television System (643)*O
  33.  Completed Guba mass grave (386)*O
  34.  Completed Islamic Community of Kosova (366)*O
  35.  Completed Interstate 49 in Arkansas (869)*O
  36.  Working Tehmina Durrani ()*O
  37.  Working Freemasonry in Luxembourg ()*O
  38.  Working Uskok War ()*O
  39.  Working M. A. G. Osmani ()*O
  40.  Working Keep on the Shadowfell ()*O
  41.  Working São Mateus–Jabaquara Metropolitan Corridor ()*O
  42.  Working Rolling stock manufacturers of Russia ()*O
  43.  Working Production of urban electric transport in Russia ()*O
  44.  Working Planescape Campaign Setting ()*O
  45.  Working Randy Pobst ()*O
  46.  Working Perušić ()*O
  47.  Working Nam Woo-hyun ()*O
  48.  Working Magic Item Compendium ()*O
  49.  Working Geeta Dharmarajan ()*O
  50.  Working German-Jordanian University ()*O
  51.  Working Gumla ()*O
  52.  Working American handball ()*O
  53.  Working Paul Hilario ()*O


a.The Wikipedia word counter didn't pick up the bullet pointed text that I edited so I copied and pasted the text into a online word counter. And added the bullet pointed word count in.

b.The Wikipedia word counter didn't pick up the text in the table that I edited so I copied and pasted the text into a online word counter. And added the bullet pointed word count in.

c.I finished the copyedit on the lead section and I came back to find that Lfstevens finished the rest so I only included the word count for the lead section which I completed.

  • Total articles: 35
  • Total words: 55,180
Article list
  1.  Completed Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen (12,973)
  2.  Completed Frankfurt (16,658)
  3.  Completed List of Golden Time episodes (143) *O
  4.  Completed Tongan Kava Ceremony-Taumafa Kava (971) *O
  5.  Completed Tamborrada (769) *O
  6.  Completed Open Source Business Alliance (735) *O Checked with minor edits--Slon02 (talk) 21:38, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7.  Completed Traita (488) *O
  8.  Completed Marcia Overstrand (1212) *O
  9.  Completed Mimmi Spång (614) *O
  10.  Completed Shruti (music) (860) *O
  11.  Completed Shabnam Ramaswamy (1266) *O
  12.  Completed Emmanuel Séjourné (1004) *O
  13.  Completed Frederick Ruple (1040) *O
  14.  Completed Ambikapur, India (709) *O
  15.  Completed Bay of Kotor (2647) *O
  16.  Completed Election promise (1311) *O
  17.  Completed American handball (1725) *O
  18.  Completed Randy Pobst (334) *O
  19.  Completed Paul Hilario (490) *O
  20.  Completed Constantinos Christoforou (546) *O
  21.  Completed Geeta Dharmarajan (446) *O
  22.  Completed Nam Woo-hyun (710) *O
  23.  Completed Perušić (653) *O
  24.  Completed São Mateus–Jabaquara Metropolitan Corridor (1303) *O
  25.  Completed Chinese Unification (2555) *O
  26.  Completed Holly Martin Smith (1545)
  27.  Completed Musical instrument classification (2457) *O
  28.  Completed Testing high-performance computing applications (1599) *O
  29.  Completed Solid sorbents for carbon capture (1539) *O
  30.  Completed Biome (911)
  31.  Completed GOES-R (1678)
  32.  Completed Low-level design (362)
  33.  Completed Magnetic resonance (quantum mechanics) (1761)
  34.  Completed Pupillometry (481)
  35.  Completed Right-hand rule (452)
  36.  Completed Slack bus (677)
  37.  Completed Thin layer extraction (605)
  • Total articles: 37/2/27
  • Total words: 63,655
Article list
  1.  Completed 2001–02 S.L. Benfica season (1936) *R
  2.  Working Rojos del Águila de Veracruz (3585)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1,936
  • Rollover words: 4114.5
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed List of Presidents of Romania (462)
  2.  Completed Mergui Road (92)
  3.  Completed National Front of Catalonia (66)
  4.  Completed Guba mass grave (391) *O
  5.  Completed Royal Malaysian Police Museum (346)
  6.  Completed Muhammad Hamidullah Khan (1203) *O
  7.  Completed Bill Cable (577) *O
  8.  Completed Free, prior and informed consent (361)
  9.  Completed Jamaica Coalition on the Rights of the Child (155)
  10.  Completed Koreans in Venezuela (293)
  11.  Completed Council on Environmental Quality (517)
  12.  Completed Justice First (425)
  13.  Completed St Ives Borough Police (269)
  14.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 13
  • Total words: 5,157
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Harry Ledger (67) Checked with minor edits. Slon02 (talk) 03:17, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Efekan Coşar (32)
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  11.  Completed [[]] ()
  12.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 99
  • Rollover words: 2436
Article list
  1.  Completed Ryse: Son of Rome (4294)*R
  2.  Completed Måns Zelmerlöw (1296)*R
  3.  Completed McStay family murder (1597)*R
  4.  Completed Skin Trade (film) (2894)*R
  5.  Completed Guns N' Roses (12325)*R
  6.  Completed Magic Item Compendium (884)*O
  7.  Completed Intercompany crossover (850)*O
  8.  Completed Paulo Francis (5470) *R
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 29,610
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed The Theory of Everything (2014 film) (2779)
  2.  Completed Addiction-related structural neuroplasticity (1983)
  3.  Completed List of Zoey 101 characters (8458)*O
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 13220
Article list
  1.  Completed Mahishasura (1,808) *O
  2.  Completed Twitches (novel series) (1,719) *O
  3.  Completed Red Data Girl (3,575) *O
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 7,102
Article list
  1.  Completed Spiral (comics) ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2651
Article list
  1.  Completed All Is Full of Love (3949)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3949
Article list
  1.  Completed Acufida (194) Checked Slon02 (talk) 21:39, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 194