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The following event is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. Editors should add their final tallies in the folowing 24 to 36 hours.

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 16 August 2015, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 22 August 2015, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme(s) of this blitz were:

  • biographical articles that have been tagged for copy editing for over a year (see list below)

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), KieranTribe (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Pax85 (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

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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 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 list

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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.

Biographical article list for the blitz

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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) 22:13, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
00. fake article to show what a completed article looks like Green tickY – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:13, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Ahmar Mahboob Green tickY Hampton11235 (talk) 10:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Alejandro Iaccarino  Working Miniapolis 23:37, 17 August 2015 (UTC) (or not; see User talk:BeenAroundAWhile#Alejandro Iaccarino)[reply]
  3. Amarnath Vidyalankar Green tickY Miniapolis 00:11, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Andrew Cunningham Scott Green tickY - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 18:03, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Andrey Kuraev Green tickY Hampton11235 (talk) 22:47, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. André Masséna Green tickY —2macia22 (talk) 21:42, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Aymeric Chauprade
  8. Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Green tickY--Petebutt (talk) 01:53, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Bashiri Johnson WorkingBddmagic (talk) 15:44, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Beppe Grillo  Done Baffle gab1978 (talk) 04:49, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Bhakti Hridaya Bon
  12. Bill Cable  Working SlimJimTalk 06:03, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Constantinos Christoforou
  14. Cristina Ouviña Green tickY fdsTalk 20:04, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Dale Purves
  16. David Pakman Green tickY fdsTalk 21:48, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Emily Sandberg Green tickY Abierma3 (talk) 15:07, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Emmanuel Séjourné
  19. Frederick Ruple
  20. Geeta Dharmarajan
  21. Gerd Heinrich
  22. Hazrat Mai Safoora Qadiriyya
  23. Hellmuth Kolbe
  24. Hema Malini
  25. Hollie Dunaway Green tickY TheEditor867 (talk) 05:04, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Jack Womer  Done Baffle gab1978 (talk) 01:45, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  27. James Dallas Egbert III  Done If only there was a worthy joke about a band-aid attending the opera... (talk) 18:17, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Jonathan Maicelo Green tickY fdsTalk 22:15, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Juan Rulfo Green tickY – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:31, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  30. Kaiaphas
  31. Karl May
  32. Kasra Nouri
  33. Krishna Pal Singh Green tickY fdsTalk 23:36, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  34. Lali Espósito Green tickY fdsTalk 22:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  35. Luis Raul Marrero Green tickY fdsTalk 23:05, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  36. M. A. G. Osmani  Working Jay (talk) 00:03, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  37. M. L. Buchman Green tickY Hampton11235 (talk) 15:54, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  38. Maria Pogee
  39. Mary Coble
  40. Mimmi Spång
  41. Muhammad Hamidullah Khan
  42. Nam Woo-hyun
  43. Nicholas of Verdun  Done --DThomsen8 (talk) 23:11, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  44. Nour El Sherbini Green tickY fdsTalk 00:16, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  45. Nyan Boateng Green tickY fdsTalk 01:34, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  46. Olga Najera-Ramirez
  47. Ong Beng Hee
  48. Park Jung-yang Green tickY - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 16:08, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  49. Randy Pobst
  50. Reed McNeil Izatt
  51. Ross Bolleter
  52. Shashi Tharoor Green tickY fdsTalk 20:58, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  53. Snježana Martinović  Working - TheEditor867 (talk) 06:02, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  54. Tehmina Durrani
  55. Tetsuya Noda
  56. Tony TubbsGreen tickY Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:37, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  57. Tripuraneni Maharadhi
  58. Valen Low  Working Hampton11235 (talk) 01:26, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  59. Édgar Crespo Green tickY - TheEditor867 (talk) 05:58, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  60. Đỗ Thị Hải Yến

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Outstanding
  • old biographical articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
August 15, 2015 60 — —
August 16, 2015 54 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease  6
August 17, 2015 49 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 11
August 18, 2015 45 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 15
August 19, 2015 43 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 17
August 20, 2015 41 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 19
August 21, 2015 38 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 22
August 22, 2015 34 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 26

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 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

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Signing up

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

This blitz 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}}
  • 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)

Jonesey95 (talk)

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  1.  Completed Juan Rulfo (1,102)
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1,102
  • Rollover words: 1,293

Miniapolis (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Working Alejandro Iaccarino (839)
  2.  Completed Amarnath Vidyalankar (1,952)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1,952
  • Rollover words: 3,125

John Vitzileos (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working M. A. G. Osmani (10503)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

SlimJim (talk)

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

Fdssdf (talk · contribs)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Nyan Boateng (859)
  2.  Completed Lali Espósito (1,663)
  3.  Completed Shashi Tharoor (3,432)
  4.  Completed Jonathan Maicelo (94)
  5.  Completed Luis Raul Marrero (850)
  6.  Completed Nour El Sherbini (780)
  7.  Completed David Pakman (745)
  8.  Completed Krishna Pal Singh (660)
  9.  Completed Cristina Ouviña (825)
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 9,581

Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk)

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

DThomsen8 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Nicholas of Verdun (1940)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1940

Abierma3 (talk)

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

2macia22 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed André Masséna (1953)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1953

Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Andrew Cunningham Scott (555),
  2.  Completed Park Jung-yang (1422)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1977

Hampton11235 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed M. L. Buchman (90)
  2.  Completed Ahmar Mahboob (994)
  3.  Completed Andrey Kuraev (373)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 1,459
  • Rollover words: 3,122

BeenAroundAWhile (talk)

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

TheEditor867 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Hollie Dunaway (487)
  2.  Completed Édgar Crespo (1954)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2441

Bddmagic (talk)

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

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Tony Tubbs (911)
  2.  Completed Jack Womer (1,496)
  3.  Completed Beppe Grillo (2,292)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4,699
  • Rollover words: 1,790

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed James Dallas Egbert III (670)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 670
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