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This Copy Editing Project Blitz was a one-week-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 began on October 19, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on October 25, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme(s) of this blitz are:

Blitz participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards will be given out once the blitz has finished.

The blitz is open to all; 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.

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

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

Full instructions, tips, and awards

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

Article lists

When you have chosen an article for copy editing and are ready to edit it, please add {{working}} (displays as  Working) and sign your name and date (~~~~) next to the article's listing in the table below. Please mark an item as "working" only when you are immediately going to begin editing it, so that we can avoid articles being stuck in limbo.

When you are done copy-editing the article, please add {{y}} (displays as Green tickY) and sign your name and date (~~~~) next to the article's listing below, then record it in your article list below.

Article list for this blitz

Click "show" to expand the list of articles.

Article list
0. fake article to show what an in-progress article looks like  Working – Jonesey95 (talk)
00. fake article to show what a completed article looks like Green tickY – Jonesey95 (talk)

Progress

Progress Chart
Date
  • Outstanding
  • History or Albums articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
October 18, 2014 41 — —
October 19, 2014 30 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 11
October 20, 2014 26 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 15
October 21, 2014 21 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 20
October 22, 2014 19 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 22
October 23, 2014 16 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 25
October 24, 2014 16 Steady  0 Positive decrease 25
October 25, 2014 12 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 29

Reviewing

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 the word count of the reviewed article will be deducted from the editor's total. 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

  1. Baffle gab1978 (talk)

Signing up

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

Totals

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}}
  • 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.
  • If you want your work checked, you can request it on the blitz talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

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

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234)

JudyCS (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed My Love, My Life (album) (75) Green tickY—Minor changes; c/e mostly done by NickGibson3900. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Volume Up (278)
  3.  Completed History of the hamburger in the United States (2,079)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 2,432
  • Rollover words: 1,062

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Me? (EP) (677) - I'm counting the whole article's word count rather than just the tagged section because virtually the whole thing needed copyediting. There were a number of places where I wasn't completely sure what the intended message of the text was, so I had to draw a few guesses, but the article is readable now, so any inaccuracies can be easily corrected by someone more familiar with the subject. Green tickY—Nice work. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 20:56, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed The Lovestory LP (90) - I'm not sure whether the periods in some of the album titles mentioned in the text are actually part of the titles or not, so I've left those until further notice.
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 767
  • Rollover words: 964

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Colours (Ayumi Hamasaki album) (525)
  2.  Completed Dayman (album) (139)
  3.  Completed Gift (Kanjani Eight EP) (282)
  4.  Completed Rhyme Skool with Katrina Kaif (219)
  5.  Completed Soy (Debi Nova album) (178)
  6.  Completed Growing Up (IU album) (256)
  7.  Completed Thomas Gardner (planter) (1,511)
  8.  Completed Silver Side Up (809)
  9.  Completed A Great Night in Harlem (3,745)
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 7,668
  • Rollover words: 1,971

NickGibson3900 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed My Love, My Life (album) (257) including list as I reformatted and referenced that Green tickY—Nice work. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:31, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 257
  • Rollover words: 972

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Buddhist cosmology (451) (section)Green tickYNice clean-up and copy-edit. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:07, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 451
  • Rollover words: 1,385

Vanamonde93 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed History of Morocco (5,436) Green tickY—an excellent copy-edit. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:44, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed The Expansion of England (1058)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 6494

MrWooHoo (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 524

SmileBlueJay97 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Capitulare de villis (2313)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2313

Eman235/talk

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

 Philg88 ♦talk

Article list
  1.  Completed The Legacy of Bhikhari Thakur (841)  Partly done—Some helpful changes; article still needs work. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:12, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 841
  • Rollover words: 1,113

Gastronaut (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

~Helicopter Llama~ (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Jhansi Ki Rani (TV series) (945)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Amintly (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Recovery (Eminem album) (3609)
  2.  Working History of Hesse (1107)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3609

 ΤheQ Editor  Talk?

Article list
  1.  Completed Valerio Scanu Live in Roma (CD+DVD) (230)  Partly done; helpful changes but article text remains poorly-written. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:51, 21 October 2014 (UTC) Green tickY I cleaned it up a bit more. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:04, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Working Gourmandises (550)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 230
  • Rollover words: 1,074

MHBeals (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

MrEdTheTalkingHorseEditor (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Tdslk (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Levon Mirzoyan (238)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 238

˘ | ˘ Hwajaetalk

Article list
  1.  Completed Empire (3542) - This is my first blitz edit and I was somewhat unsure how extensively to edit the text. There were some instances in which correcting the text requires researching the accuracy of statements in the article. I added several questions/comments to the Talk page of this article. Additional hyperlinks to related Wikipedia articles remain to be done, and I didn't have time to review the cited references, but additional citations would be useful. ˘ | ˘ Hwajaetalk 00:30, 26 October 2014 (UTC) – Oh, and I realize I finished too late for the official blitz deadline, but I wanted to complete this. ˘ | ˘ Hwajaetalk 00:47, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3542

Thesixthstaff (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Xcia0069 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed History of Dalmatia (6944)
  2.  Completed Battle of Smolenice (764)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 7708

Wikilizards (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Fiosracht  Talk 

Article list
  1.  Working List of Slayers songs ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Skr15081997 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
The discussion above 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 discussion.
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