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Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
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Subtotals
July 20233
August 202342
September 202385
October 2023138
November 202395
December 2023105
January 2024119
February 202489
March 2024126
April 2024196
May 2024142
June 2024109
July 2024161
August 2024134
September 2024132
October 2024124
November 2024139
December 2024202
January 2025164
Undated articles1
All articles
2,306

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is a one-month-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{cleanup tense}}, and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 January 2025, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 January 2025, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in July and August 2023);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from November and December 2024.

Drive participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles listed on the Requests page count towards your total; these articles are generally higher in quality than those tagged with {{copy edit}}. You will receive a bonus score of 50% over the article's word count for articles that were tagged with {{copy edit}} in July and August 2023, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians; 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.

Drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The drive's lead coordinator is Dhtwiki, who is assisted by Miniapolis (talk) and Mox Eden (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on recording your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive page. Further details can be found on the drive FAQ 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 drive can be found on the main drive page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

Progress

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(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles 		Phibeatrice (53) Tarlby (12) Jayowyn (10) KjjjKjjj (9) Mox Eden (8)
Sophisticatedevening (8)
Total
Words[n 1] 		Phibeatrice (101,692) Jayowyn (35,974) Mox Eden (27,420) Sophisticatedevening (9,734) Tarlby (9,489)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		Phibeatrice (7) Jayowyn (3) Mox Eden (1)
Tenryuu (1)
Mason7512 (1)
Lfstevens (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		Miniapolis (4)
Tenryuu (4)
Jayowyn (4) 		Phibeatrice (3)
Sophisticatedevening (3) 		KjjjKjjj (2)
LightlySeared (2) 		Tdslk (1)
Mason7512 (1)
EricXXue(1)
Reidgreg (1)
GreenRedFlag (1)
Chilicave (1)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		Lfstevens (23,581) Phibeatrice (17,042) Jayowyn (11,512) Tenryuu (6,004) Mox Eden (5,267)
  1. ^ a b For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
  2. ^ Number of articles of 5,000 words or more. An article of 10K+ words counts as 2, of 15K+ as 3, and so on.
  3. ^ Oldest articles are those tagged in July and August 2023.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Jul–Aug 2023
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 December 2024 81 2,499 — —
1 January 2025 76 2,500 Negative increase  1 Negative increase  1
2 January 2025 72 2,454 Positive decrease 46 Positive decrease 45
3 January 2025 68 2,421 Positive decrease 33 Positive decrease 78
4 January 2025 62 2,393 Positive decrease 28 Positive decrease 106
5 January 2025 61 2,370 Positive decrease 23 Positive decrease 129
6 January 2025 60 2,317 Positive decrease 53 Positive decrease 182
7 January 2025 59 2,287 Positive decrease 30 Positive decrease 212
8 January 2025 57 2,293 Negative increase  6 Positive decrease 206
9 January 2025 54 2,293 Steady  0 Positive decrease 206
10 January 2025 52 2,292 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 207
11 January 2025 52 2,289 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 210
12 January 2025 50 2,290 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 209
13 January 2025 47 2,290 Steady  0 Positive decrease 209
14 January 2025 45 2,303 Negative increase  13 Positive decrease 196
15 January 2025 45 2,307 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 192
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

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 editor will be penalized 1,200 words plus the word count of the reviewed article. 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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To sign up for the drive, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section where you will record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous drive are located here.


Totals

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How to record articles you have copy edited:

  • Remove any extant {{copy edit}} 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) and avoid piped links, quotation marks and italics.
    • 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; do not use additional brackets for comments. Avoid long calculation strings (more than one line) in your word total.
  • 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}}.
  • If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R (using plain text) after the word count. If it was tagged in July and August 2023, place *O (using plain text) after the word count.
  • 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.
  • Do not add the 50% bonus for Requests or Oldest articles—a coordinator will apply the bonuses after the drive is over.
  • If you want your work checked, you can request this on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (1,234) *O

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3,026

LightlySeared (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Generalstabsarzt (486) *O
  2.  Completed Kitivo (224)
  3.  Completed Saurer (2029) *O
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 2739

Reidgreg (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Judgement (320) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 320
  • Rollover words: 1869

Mox Eden (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Jake Leschyshyn (1269) *R
  2.  Completed Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (4823) *R
  3.  Completed Unfun (2729) *R
  4.  Completed Night (5267) *R
  5.  Completed Connection Lost (2352) *R
  6.  Completed Bivouac (album) (3562) *R
  7.  Completed Line of Duty (2985) *R
  8.  Completed 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (4433) *R
  9.  Working El Alma al Aire (2555) *R
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 27420
  • Rollover words: 3650

Mwwv (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Thirupathi (2006 Kannada film) (160)
  2.  Completed Sidssy (349)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 509
  • Rollover words: 676

EricXXue (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Decolonisation of Africa (*O) (3,333)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3,333
  • Rollover words: 518.5

Tenryuu (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Janjgir–Champa district Removed inadequately-sourced content and noted problematic source (807) *O
  2.  Completed Sindhi traditions and rituals (6,004) *O
  3.  Completed Instruments used in general surgery (667) *O
  4.  Completed Gerry Leonard Removed inadequately-sourced content (1,404) *O
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 8882
  • Rollover words: 2,096

Miniapolis (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Władysław Tarnowski (1,053) *O
  2.  Completed Kriengsak Chareonwongsak (1,206) *O
  3.  Completed Pancha Kshethram (1,385) *O
  4.  Completed Virtue ethics (532) *O
  5.  Working List of Sugar Rush episodes (13,563) *O
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 4,176
  • Rollover words: 1,195

Lfstevens (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ferdinand Marcos (23,581)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 23,581

SheriffIsInTown (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3,533

Tdslk (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ecatepec de Morelos (1076) *O
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1076
  • Rollover words: 473

The-Pope (talk)

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

Worldbruce (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ajob Karkhana (315)
  2.  Completed Anisuzzaman (philosopher) (240)
  3.  Completed Bangladesh Agricultural University (812)
  4.  Completed Gonotantrik Chhatra Shakti (253)
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 1620

Wavehunter (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Wubu County (269)
  2.  Completed World domination (3,800)
  3.  Completed WZRA-CD (641)
  4.  Completed Rachel Williams (hockey umpire) (816)
  5.  Completed White (2016 film) (265)
  6.  Completed Sarah Wigglesworth (432)
  7.  Completed History of Wetherby (2,309)
  8.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 8,532

CanonNi (talk)

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

Antzu50 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Kingdom of Tanur (4957)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

That Tired Tarantula (talk)

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

Khane Rokhl Barazani (talk)

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

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

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

Dmartin969 (talk)

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

KjjjKjjj (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed 2017 Iran Futsal's 2nd Division (68)
  2.  Completed The Anointed Race Sisters (422)
  3.  Completed Chaneya (725)
  4.  Completed UM Specialist Centre (362)
  5.  Completed Hani and Sheh Mureed (1,624)*O
  6.  Completed Gleneagles Hospital (523)
  7.  Completed Paskuhan Village (987)*O
  8.  Completed Rockdale Ilinden FC (995)
  9.  Completed Himalaya Wellness Company (509)
  10.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 6,215
  • Rollover words: 5920

Mathijsvs (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1218

Ultraodan (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Thomas Welsby Clark (2270)
  2.  Completed David Attenborough filmography (113)
  3.  Completed Australia–Korea Free Trade Agreement (2116)
  4.  Completed Royal Hotel, Perth (86)
  5.  Completed Enny (266)
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 4851

DeemDeem52 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Banana Flavored Milk (327)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 327

Jayowyn (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed History of mathematical notation (11512)
  2.  Completed Nanclares de la Oca (810) *O
  3.  Completed Spanish cuisine (4395) *O
  4.  Completed Lottery wheeling (1993)
  5.  Completed Abscissa and ordinate (446)
  6.  Completed Algebraic connectivity (600)
  7.  Completed Game complexity (2850)
  8.  Completed Kingdom of Tanur (7390) *O
  9.  Completed Samguk yusa (3749) *O
  10.  Completed Progressive-iterative approximation method (2229)
  11.  Completed Van der Waals equation Wickedly complicated. (21315)
  12.  Completed [[]] ()
  13.  Completed [[]] ()
  14.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 57289
  • Rollover words: 6736

GreenRedFlag (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed 69th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (3020) *O
  2.  Working Sleep disorder (5840) *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3020

Adiiitya (talk)

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

Phibeatrice (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ira Silverberg (1136) *O
  2.  Completed ShutDownDC (1249) *O
  3.  Completed Apple Michigan Avenue (429) *R
  4.  Completed "I Want" song (357)
  5.  Completed Jang Seong-man (386)
  6.  Completed Cheonmasan Army (2747)
  7.  Completed CNN Philippines (3429)
  8.  Completed CNN Portugal (432)
  9.  Completed Codenames (board game) (1166)
  10.  Completed DJ Cobra (404)
  11.  Completed Downtown Primary School, Elementary Arts Educational Institution and Logopedical Institute (765)
  12.  Completed Han (musician) (3039)
  13.  Completed Hangzhou Daily (825)
  14.  Completed Fly FM (545)
  15.  Completed Flashcard (892)
  16.  Completed Eureka Learning Channel (300)
  17.  Completed Fake building (1052)
  18.  Completed Fascism in South America (1783)
  19.  Completed Foreign policy of the Masoud Pezeshkian administration (649)
  20.  Completed Gambling in Bangladesh (350)
  21.  Completed Gambling in France (564)
  22.  Completed Fathers 4 Justice (1389)
  23.  Completed Duluth, Minnesota (13397)
  24.  Completed Fort Myers Palms (885)
  25.  Completed Sancler Frantz (755)
  26.  Completed Friendshoring (828)
  27.  Completed 2019 Gaza economic protests (592)
  28.  Completed General Union of Neighbourhood Associations of Macau (189)
  29.  Completed Genogram (503)
  30.  Completed Mariam Ghani (569)
  31.  Completed Pope Francis (17042)
  32.  Completed Maggie Harris (703)
  33.  Completed Gloria Gorceag (246)
  34.  Completed Higher education in China (3071)
  35.  Completed Kisaragi Station (959)
  36.  Completed Human rights abuses of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964–1985) (543)
  37.  Completed Katō Yoshiaki (601)
  38.  Completed Federal enclaves (2518)
  39.  Completed Jang Yu-jeong (4022)
  40.  Completed LeeMujin Service (289)
  41.  Completed Park In-je (298)
  42.  Completed Yoon Suk Yeol (7727)
  43.  Completed Assassination of Park Chung Hee (4806)
  44.  Completed India–South Korea relations (1406)
  45.  Completed Death of Wei Zexi (709)
  46.  Completed Nazi symbolism in Taiwan (1072)
  47.  Completed Notice of the National Press and Publication Administration on Further Strict Management and Effective Prevention of Minors' Addiction to Online Games (965)
  48.  Completed Death of Anjali Singh (1055)
  49.  Completed Nature (group) (1079)
  50.  Completed Port of Tianjin (6638)
  51.  Completed Death of Hu Yaobang (1864)
  52.  Completed Star Cruises (853)
  53.  Completed Joint criminal enterprise (1531) *O
  54.  Completed Atlantis, South Africa (447)
  55.  Completed Judiciary of South Korea (2797)
  • Total articles: 54
  • Total words: 104936

MD SAMOL MIA (talk)

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

TNM101 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Sam Reid (actor) (1048) *R
  2.  Completed Park Heong-joon (2179)
  3.  Completed Air pollution in Delhi (2480)
  4.  Working Mughal invasions of Konkan (1684) (1446)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 5707
  • Rollover words: 6391.5

TshiamoOnYouTube55 (talk)

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

TheSlumPanda (talk)

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

Grumpylawnchair (talk)

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

Mason7512 (talk)

[edit]
Article list
  1.  Completed Economy of Punjab, India (5092)*O
  2.  Working Battle of the Palo River (2633)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 5092

Basildeka9 (talk)

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

Tarlby (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Louise Wareham Leonard (398)
  2.  Completed Vuk Vrčević (1143)
  3.  Completed Charles Graham (Western Australian politician) (692)
  4.  Completed Yakutian Laika (918)
  5.  Completed Thomas Rousseau (1062)
  6.  Completed Boleslaw Goldman (516)
  7.  Completed Pioneer Pacific College (564)
  8.  Completed Activism against violence against women (2386)
  9.  Completed Duniyapur (TV series) (477)
  10.  Completed Mediterraneo (917)
  11.  Completed Adam Brooks (wrestler) (120)
  12.  Completed Noirvember (296)
  13.  Working
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 9489

SmileySnail (talk)

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

Marincyclist (talk)

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

49ersBelongInSanFrancisco (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Marsa Alam (1067)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1,067

United Blasters (talk)

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

Ovvo (talk)

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

WunderMrow (talk)

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

Contrawwftw (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed 2 Cold Scorpio (1642)
  2.  Completed Trachinotus blochii (766)
  3.  Working Nazeem Hussain (806)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 3214

Peter Flass (talk)

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

Tvfunhouse (talk)

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

Chilicave (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Rasayana (635)*O
  2.  Working
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

SilkPyjamas (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 17204

Sophisticatedevening (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Knight of faith (2232)*O
  2.  Completed Jwala Ji (1275)*O
  3.  Completed Jaspur (639)*O
  4.  Completed Arab archery (526)
  5.  Completed Ivana Icardi (561)
  6.  Completed Fadlan Hazim (153)
  7.  Completed Rügen Chalk (2522)
  8.  Completed Kensico Reservoir (1826)
  9.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 9734

Saturniapavonia (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Ringed Seal (2668)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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