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

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This Copy Editing Project Blitz is a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 16 October 2016, at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 22 October 2016, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme of this blitz is:

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 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 Corinne (talk) and Tdslk (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	Change since previous day	Change since beginning	Daily articles edited
October 15, 2016	45	—	—	—
October 16, 2016	47	2	2	1
October 17, 2016	45	2	0	3
October 18, 2016	42	3	3	5
October 19, 2016	42	0	3	3
October 20, 2016	42	0	3	0
October 21, 2016	37	5	8	6
October 22, 2016	27	10	18	11

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. Rollover totals from the previous blitz can be found 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 The Independent (2748) Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2748
Rollover words: 1,268

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
Completed Mouna Ragam (4,281) Completed Game of Thrones (8,475) Completed Justin Bieber videography (2,997)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 15,753

Tdslk (talk)

Article list
Completed Pod (sculpture) (499) Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 499
Rollover words: 297

BroVic (talk)

Article list
1 Completed West African Ebola virus epidemic (16907)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 16907

Nairspecht (talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Leschnei (talk)

Article list
Completed Westinghouse Time Capsules‎ (1464) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1464
Rollover words: 1,810

Twofingered Typist (talk)

Article list
Completed Bruno Mars (6,000) Completed 2002 Sure For Men Rockingham 500 (3,000) Completed Release the Stars (2,000) Completed 1922 Vanderbilt Commodores football team (6,000) Completed William Crichton (engineer) (2,000) Completed Zigrasimecia (partial count) (1,000) Completed Roses in Portland, Oregon (partial count) (500) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 7
Total words: 20,500

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list
Completed Looking for Alaska (c. 2000) Completed John Heisman (c. 2700) Completed Paper soccer (1400 words, MediaKill13 did half) (700) Completed Moon Ducote (c. 1000) Completed Pedro Muñoz (c. 3400) Completed Art game (c. 7000) Completed The King of Fighters XIV (c. 1900)

Total articles: 7
Total words: 18700

Gluons12 (talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

MediaKill13 (talk)

Article list
Completed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (7648) Completed Vlad II Dracul (2521)

Total articles: 2
Total words: 10,169

Yellow Dingo

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Jlarkin469 (talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

KWojciechowski (talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
Completed List of frigates of India (2604)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2604

Dpulse (talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

If Wikipedia had two swans for every project discussion... (insert here) (talk)

Article list

Completed Eve Russell (3,502)
Completed Wistarburgh Glass Works (849)
Completed Vera Katz (sculpture) (786)
Completed Max Guevara (2,020)
Completed Sofía Espinosa (968) - Note that, as this copyedit was started before but completed after the deadline, I am only counting the WC from the areas I reviewed/copyedited prior to 00:00 23 October 2016, UTC. I hope that is acceptable. If Wikipedia had two swans for every project discussion... (insert here) (talk) 00:09, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Total articles: 4-5
Total words: 8,125