Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors

Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
	(refresh)
Subtotals
October 2007	1
October 2010	44
November 2010	100
December 2010	126
January 2011	147
February 2011	162
March 2011	172
April 2011	227
May 2011	201
June 2011	205
July 2011	208
August 2011	262
September 2011	293
October 2011	321
November 2011	423
December 2011	480
January 2012	486
February 2012	174
Undated articles	0
All articles	4,030

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Welcome to WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
"Make it say what it means and mean what it says" – Wikipedia: How to copy edit

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Copyright concerns

If you see large blocks of text that seem to be better written than the rest of the article, you might be reading material that is a copyright violation. Coren Search Bot can check an article out for you and determine whether or not the article, or a portion of it, is a copyright violation. Copyright material must be removed. If the entire article is copyvio, it should be nominated for deletion. Further details are available at Wikipedia:Copyright violations and simple instructions are available at Wikipedia:Text Copyright Violations 101.

What is copyediting? Have a look at the wikipedia page on Copyediting and the guide WP:Basic copyediting.

[edit] Announcements!

Welcome to the Guild of Copy Editors home page.
New to copy editing and need help? Join our mentorship program and select a guide.
The January copy edit drive has ended. Our next drive will be in March.
January closed with 3983 articles in the backlog.
You can copy edit articles on our requests page, or submit an article for editing.
Our mailing list can be found here. Signing up for the mailing list enables delivery of our bi-monthly drive updates, as well as our drive invitations and other announcements.

[edit] Quick links

Want to join the Guild? Feel free to add your name to the list here. Add {{User Copy Edit}} to your userpage! This will automatically add you to Category:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors members.
Dive right in and start improving the articles needing copy edit.
Want to request an edit? Add it to our requests page, or contact editors with an interest in the appropriate field at our members page.
New to copy editing? See our how-to guide, which includes links to exercises and advice for copy editors of all levels.
Advanced copy-editing advice and exercises are available at Tony1/How to improve your writing.
Copy edit a random article in need of improvement.

[edit] Goals and scope

We aim to improve the articles in the English Wikipedia by dealing with articles tagged for copy editing using {{copy edit}}, and by maintaining the category of articles needing copy edit. We don't cover requests for review; they're handled by the folks at Peer Review, although we do take specific requests for copy editing.

[edit] Current focus

To keep the number of tagged articles trending downwards
To promptly fulfill special requests
To organize backlog elimination drives to encourage active participation in the Guild, and to reduce the copy edit backlog to a manageable level
To attract new members and improve our level of expertise

[edit] Top 10 reasons to join the Guild of Copy Editors

Improve your skills in the craft of copy editing
Read interesting articles that you might not normally look at
Gain a significant amount of Wikipedia editing experience
You get to remove {{copy edit}} tags, you can use a special tag while copy editing to prevent interruptions, and you can leave a tag on the article's talk page with your name on it after you finish
Take pleasure from correcting horrible spelling and grammar
Receive gratitude, praise and more from those asking for help
The backlog gives you a ready-made "To Do" list
Make new friends at GoCE and beyond
Participate in contests and receive barnstars
Help make a real difference by improving Wikipedia

[edit] Selecting articles for copy edit by category

Here's something new! If you would like to search for articles in a specific genre to copy edit, there's a way! Go to catscan. Don't let the complex looking screen fool you; it's actually easy.

Set the Depth to 5.

Place the names of two or more categories in the "Categories" box. For example, to find articles that are in both the category "Wikipedia articles needing copy edit" and the category "Books" place them both in this box, one category per line.

Go to the bottom of the screen and press the "Do it!' button.

Voila! The example search produced a list of 348 articles about books that are tagged for copy editing and took 44 seconds to execute.

You can also crossreference to a wikiproject talk page banner. Click here to see the completed form for this example.

Set Depth to 5.

Place "Wikipedia articles needing copy edit" in the Category box.

Tick off both Article and Talk in the Namespaces boxes.

Place the template of the wikiproject in the Templates field and tick off "Use talk pages instead."

Wow! The example search found 77 articles on Pakistan that need copy edits and took 5 seconds to execute.

Thanks to Jubilee ♫clipman for the tip!

[edit] Progress chart

**Monthly progress chart**
Date	Number of articles	Change from previous month
December 31, 2009	8002	+156
January 31, 2010	8036	+34
February 28, 2010	8025	−9
March 31, 2010	8111	+86
April 30, 2010	8323	+212
May 31, 2010	7563	−760
June 30, 2010	7582	+19
July 31, 2010	6293	−1289
August 31, 2010	6300	+7
September 30, 2010	5,575	−725
October 31, 2010	5,601	+26
November 30, 2010	4,974	−627
December 31, 2010	5,151	+177
January 31, 2011	4,518	−633
February 28, 2011	4,672	+154
March 31, 2011	3,850	−822
April 30, 2011	4,158	+308
May 31, 2011	3,737	−421
June 30, 2011	3,953	+216
July 31, 2011	3,615	−338
August 31, 2011	3,947	+332
September 30, 2011	3,801	−146
October 31, 2011	4,054	+253
November 30, 2011	3,822	-232
December 31, 2011	4,152	+330
January 31, 2012	3,983	-169