Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/October 2013
List of articles in WikiProject Film for blitz
[edit]Could you please add a link to the October 2013 Blitz page to the correct list of articles in WikiProject Film to work on for the Blitz? I thought I had found a listing of articles needing copy editing under Project Film, but the entire page was huge, and it dragged horribly when I tried to scroll through it. Then I noticed at the top that that page had not been updated since March 2010. It had links to 2 other "full listings," but those pages only errored out when I tried to open them. Could you please direct us to the correct listing of articles to work on? Thank you very much! JudyCS (talk) 03:38, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Update: Okay, sorry, long day. I expanded the Article list below the "WikiProject Film" heading underneath Article lists
on the October 2013 Blitz page & found the list of 72 (as of this writing) articles. The instructions under Article lists says that when we have chosen an article for copy editing & are ready to edit, "add Working ... next to the article's listing in the table below page." I must be having a dense day, but ... what table below what page? Two sentences further, the instructions state that when we are done copy-editing, "add
... next to the article's listing below..." Is the Article list "below" the "table below page"? Is this "Article list" the one place from where we work, choosing articles & adding the
Working &
tags as we go? (Please pardon my brain fog. It's been a crazy few weeks -- that's my answer & I'm sticking to it...) Thank you for your patience & perseverance! JudyCS (talk) 04:26, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
- Take a look at it now. Does that make more sense? The word "page" was extraneous in the instructions, and I added some examples of what an in-progress article and a completed article look like. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:29, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you so much for the clarification, Jonesey95! I was reading the instructions initially at the end of a long, crazy day, & was getting myself all twisted around (doesn't take much, on some occasions). Thanks to you, I am straightened out & on track. Again, I thank you so much for your patience, perseverance, expertise, & all sorts of other adjectives! JudyCS (talk) 02:01, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Some useful advice on editing film articles
[edit]If you haven't seen the following articles, you may find them useful in editing film articles (and other articles about works of fiction):
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Film
- Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Film#Plot (specifically, plot summaries should generally not exceed 700 words)
- Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(writing_about_fiction)#Plot_summaries
- Wikipedia:Plot_summaries
- Wikipedia:How_to_write_a_plot_summary
Feel free to add more useful links if you like. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:46, 20 October 2013 (UTC) (updated 03:17, 23 October 2013)