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The following event is now closed. Please do not modify this page, unless you are a participant adding your final statistics within 48 hours of the closure. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate talk page..

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 14 February 2021, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 20 February 2021, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz were:

  • The articles from our backlog: January and February 2021
    • New Wikipedia copy editors (welcome!) are advised to focus their efforts on these backlog articles.
  • All requests; GANs and FACs should be copyedited by experienced editors.
    • Please note: it is very important that articles listed on the Request page are skillfully and fully copy-edited; many of these will be reviewed for Good Article or Featured Article status. If you have any questions or comments about the article you're copy-editing, please ask on the blitz's talk page.

Blitz participants could 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 Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), Tenryuu (talk), and Twofingered Typist (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.

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Outstanding
  • Requests and Jan/Feb 2021
    backlog articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
February 13, 2021 258 — —
February 14, 2021 270 Negative increase  12 Negative increase  12
February 15, 2021 271 Negative increase  1 Negative increase  13
February 16, 2021 261 Positive decrease 10 Negative increase  3
February 17, 2021 260 Positive decrease  1 Negative increase  2
February 18, 2021 251 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease  7
February 19, 2021 249 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease  9
February 20, 2021 254 Negative increase  5 Positive decrease  4

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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  1. Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:01, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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. Rollover totals from the previous blitz can be found here.


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. Count the words in the version of the article that existed before you started editing. These brackets should not contain anything other than this number.
  • Place the article you are editing on the {{Working}} line. Only work on one article at a time. 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 this 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)

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed 1993–94 Australia Tri-Nation Series (1147)
  2.  Completed The House of Asterion (1864)
  3.  Completed Napoleonic looting of art (6481)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 9,492
  • Rollover words: 1,105

ritenerek (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Emergency Tsunami (949)
  2.  Completed August Wesley (704)
  3.  Completed Lídia Puigvert (511)
  4.  Completed World Congress of Mountain Jews – may need more work for long lists in prose. (1429)
  5.  Completed Ants Mellik (407)
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 4,000

Twofingered Typist (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed List of accolades received by Interstellar (291) *R
  2.  Completed Asuka Langley Soryu (4971) *R
  3.  Completed Makoto Naegi (4380) *R
  4.  Completed List of colonial buildings in Medan (2604) *R
  5.  Completed Cormac McCarthy (4062) *R
  6.  Completed Nu-Clear Sounds (2375) *R
  7.  Completed Paul Rapsey Hodge (424) *R
  8.  Completed Rona Nadile (855)
  9.  Completed Patta Fort 300
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 20,262
  • Rollover words: 2,246

The Only Zac (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed The_Blue_Bird_(1970_film) (444)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 444

Miniapolis (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Prime Minister of Laos (3,244)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3,244
  • Rollover words: 17

saylibhalekar25 (talk)

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

Nightshift49 (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 14,377

Shotgunscoop (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Kangeyam (1247)
  2.  Completed CouRageJD (586)
  3.  Completed Heino Hankewitz (282)
  4.  Completed Qiushi (531)
  5.  Completed Taal Volcano (3931)
  6.  Completed Medicaid (7303)
  7.  Completed V. Z. Durai (697)
  8.  Completed Manaksas (113)
  9.  Completed Piravom (1208)
  10.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 15898

Kncny11 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed List of Kung Fu Panda characters (still needs some TLC, but I managed to cut it down to 1/10th of the bloated size) (30,847)
  2.  Completed African Renaissance (695)
  3.  Completed Les Strong (165)
  4.  Completed Louise Lasser (1905)
  5.  Completed Hurricane Luis (3582)
  6.  Completed Rhino (character) (3665)
  7.  Completed Joel John (103)
  8.  Completed Larry Bright (1143)
  9.  Completed Jason Kenney (still needs some help on POV/neutrality, but at least every comma is in the right place) (7048)
  10.  Completed Young Paris (341)
  11.  Completed Richard Avery Hornsby (852) Checked (Minor tweaks)
  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 50,346

Reidgreg (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Payola (1839) *O
  2.  Working [[]] () *O
  3.  Working [[]] () *O
  4.  Working [[]] () *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1839
  • Rollover words: 1561

Meganhulan (talk)

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

Tdslk (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Yazid I (4694)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 4694
  • Rollover words: 1744

CharlieM1021 (talk)

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

Pupsterlove02 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses (7351)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 7351

Willbb234 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ging Gompa (1125)
  2.  Completed Paper Mario (3889)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 5014

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Polimeks (274)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 274
  • Rollover words: 3,074

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Rocket U-boat (4,136) *R
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 4,136
  • Rollover words: 3,697

Marshall2u (talk)

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

Flxcn (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed RAF East Fortune (1417)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1417

Philothesophist (talk)

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