Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/April 2016

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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 listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 17 April 2016, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 23 April 2016, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme of this blitz was:

To reduce the number of outstanding requests on our requests page. Good Article nominations (GANs) and Featured Article candidates (FACs) require careful editing by experienced copyeditors, with the prose bar higher for FACs than for GANs.

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 was open to all; you didn'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.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date	Outstanding Requests articles	Change since previous day	Change since beginning	Daily articles edited
April 16, 2016	45	—	—	—
April 17, 2016	45	0	0	3
April 18, 2016	45	0	0	4
April 19, 2016	44	1	1	3
April 20, 2016	41	3	4	3
April 21, 2016	42	1	3	2
April 22, 2016	39	3	6	5
April 23, 2016	40	1	5	2

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 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

Signing up

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.

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)

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list
Completed Oobi (TV series) (4,386) Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 4,386
Rollover words: 1,666

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

˘ | ˘ Hwajae^{talk • contribs}

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

West32 (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
Completed Suavemente (2,852) Completed San Giacomo Scossacavalli (2,195) Completed The Signpost (1,660)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 6,707
Rollover words: 4,082

—azuki (talk · contribs · email)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Bemmax (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

DThomsen8 (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Bddmagic (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Twofingered Typist (talk)

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Completed Franz Kurowski R (3,000)
Completed Kyo Kusanagi R (2,700)
Completed Rebel_Heart_(Madonna_album) R (7,300)
Completed Josh Cody R (1,600)
Completed Lady Gaga R (7,800)
Completed Make Me Like You R (1,600)
Completed Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand R (1,300)
Completed Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance R (1,200)
Completed Emma Stone R (3,800)
Working [[]]

Total articles: 9
Total words: 30,300
Rollover words: ?

Ian Waithaka (talk)

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Completed Unorthodox Jukebox (4983) Completed Jordan (11688) Working John of Brienne (5039)

Total articles: 2
Total words: 16671
Rollover words: 2812

Alex70995 (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Glutinousheat (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Jarmihi_GOCE (talk)

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No articles.

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Thnidu (talk)

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Completed Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor (322) Completed Rommel myth (4,028) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 4,350