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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 that require copy editing. It will begin on 11 December 2016, at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 17 December 2016, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz are (only articles from these two groups receive credit during this blitz):

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

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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
  • Outstanding Requests and
  • November 2015 backlog articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
December 10, 2016 43
December 11, 2016 35 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease  8
December 12, 2016 32 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 11
December 13, 2016 30 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 13
December 14, 2016 30 Steady  0 Positive decrease 13
December 15, 2016 25 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 18
December 16, 2016 23 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 20
December 17, 2016 22 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 21

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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  1.  – Corinne (talk)

Signing up

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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

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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.
  • 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)
Article list
  1.  Completed Shin Dong-yup (poet) (732)
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 732
  • Rollover words: 16
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working William H. Starbuck ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Rommel myth (6,800) *R
  2.  Completed The Reader Magazine (200) *R
  3.  Completed "Gypsy (Lady Gaga song)" (2,000) *R
  4.  Completed The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch (2,000) *R
  5.  Completed Somnath Sharma (900) *R
  6.  Completed 1918 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team (partial count) (600) *R
  7.  Completed Paava Mannippu (2,500) *R
  8.  Completed Auditorium and Music Hall (partial count) (500) *R
  9.  Completed "Sorry Mrs. Carter" (partial count) (500) *R
  10.  Completed Gagged (EP) (partial count) (500) *R
  11.  Completed 1916 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team (partial count) (500) *R
  12.  Completed Russell family (Passions) (4,000) *R
  13.  Completed Swine (song) (partial count) (500) *R
  14.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 21,500
  • Rollover words: 500
Article list
  1.  Completed La question (album) (2,410)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2,410
  • Rollover words: 1,907
Article list
  1.  Completed Ullahpara (987)
  2.  Completed Kamen Rider ZO (1,705)
  3.  Completed Reverse-Flash (2,824)
  4.  Completed Mirha-Soleil Ross (901)
  5.  Completed Sung Jae-gi (5,720)
  6.  Completed Kanban (development) (1,058)
  7.  Completed Ninja in popular culture (6,361)
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 19,556
  • Rollover words: 753
Article list
  1.  Completed Dresden Codex (1207)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1207
  • Rollover words: 796
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Jutsu (Naruto) (12,300) *O
  2.  Completed Cheers (season 7) (§ Episodes only) (6,400) *R
  3.  Completed Death of Mary Jane Barker (500) *R
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 19,200
  • Rollover words: 3,700
Article list
  1.  Completed William H. Starbuck (6428)
  2.  Completed Paula Vesala (957)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 6428
Article list
  1.  Completed La Guajira Department (3389)
  2.  Completed Shirani (1634)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 5023
  • Rollover words: 604
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Harifal (1845)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1845
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0