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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 24 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 17 April 2022, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 23 April 2022, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme(s) of this blitz were:

  • The articles from our backlog: August 2021 and September 2021
    • New Wikipedia copy editors (welcome!) are advised to focus their efforts on these backlog articles.
  • All GAN and FAC requests 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 was 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 Reidgreg (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Tenryuu (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
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
April 16, 2022 209 — —
April 17, 2022 204 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease  5
April 18, 2022 194 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 15
April 19, 2022 193 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 16
April 20, 2022 189 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 20
April 21, 2022 191 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 18
April 22, 2022 191 Steady  0 Positive decrease 18
April 23, 2022 190 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 19

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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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. 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)

Miniapolis (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Shanghai Tunnel Bar (626)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 626
  • Rollover words: 2,583

Reidgreg (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Canada in the War in Afghanistan (5826)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 5826
  • Rollover words: 435

TeddyBearRocker123 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Probe tip (4,315)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 4,315

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Alexey Shchusev (25 (edits this past week) / 64 (edits all told, since April 3) * 6415 (total word count)) (2506)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2,506
  • Rollover words: 2,054

Urban Versis 32 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Adını_Feriha_Koydum (946)Checked
  2.  Completed Big Brother China (461)
  3.  Completed Karma (2020 TV series) (477)
  4.  Completed Raza Academy (529)☒N incomplete Reidgreg (talk)
  5.  Completed Razgrad clock tower (1449)
  6.  Completed Aké Arts and Book Festival (1195)
  7.  Completed James Bellamy (Upstairs, Downstairs) (1638)
  8.  Completed List of Chengdu J-7 variants (1526)
  9.  Completed List of Eat Bulaga! segments (38503)☒N insufficient changes Reidgreg (talk)Reidgreg (talk) 19:15, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  10.  Completed Qi (standard) (1779)
  11.  Completed London Letters (195)☒Ninsufficient changes Reidgreg (talk)
  12.  Completed RHB Bank (545)
  13.  Completed Health status of White Americans (1655)☒N incomplete Reidgreg (talk)
  14.  Completed Mykhaylo Zagirnyak (716)
  15.  Completed N2 (South Africa) (3060)☒Nincomplete Reidgreg (talk)
  16.  Completed Internet in Poland (923)
  17.  Completed Anna Pletnyova (274)
  18.  Completed Loser.com (380)
  19.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 18
  • Total words: 56,251

Tdslk (talk)

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

Zippybonzo (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed National security of China (2526)Checked Reidgreg
  2.  Completed Black Hole Recordings (1485)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4011

Rublov (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Chinatowns in the United States (9,360)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 9,360
  • Rollover words: 1,281

Thinker78 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed 1990s (1/2 credit; see edit summary) (2646)Checked
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2,646

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Louis H. Bean (1,284) *R
  2.  Completed Mirabel Madrigal (2,772) *R
  3.  Completed Murder of Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe (1,417) *R
  4.  Completed Proseminar in Homophile Studies (1,269) *R
  5.  Completed Ten Years with Guru Dutt (1,355) *R
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 8,097
  • Rollover words: 4,090

BroVic (talk)

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

Asparagusus (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Khalaj language (576)
  2.  Completed Chakma people (5149)
  3.  Completed Latin America (23737)
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 29462

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed B. P. Mandal (1009)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1009
  • Rollover words: 736

MysticCaprids (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working University of Phoenix (3707)☒N insufficient; removed a single unsourced sentence
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Gamger173 (talk)

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

Toadspike (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed 1837 Surat fire (429)
  2.  Completed 2022 food crises (1004)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1433
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