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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 that require copy editing; those carrying the {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 13 October 2019, at 00:00 (UTC) and will ended on 19 October 2019, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz are:

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 Reidgreg (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Miniapolis (talk), Tdslk (talk) and Twofingered Typist (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.

Article list

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Click "show" to expand the list of articles.

Article list
0. fake article to show what an in-progress article looks like  WorkingJonesey95 (talk) 22:13, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
00. fake article to show what a completed article looks like  DoneJonesey95 (talk) 22:13, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Outstanding
  • list articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
  • Daily articles
  • edited
October 12, 2019 36
October 13, 2019 27 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease  9 9
October 14, 2019 26 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 10 1
October 15, 2019 24 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 12 2
October 16, 2019 22 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 14 2
October 17, 2019 19 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 17 3
October 18, 2019 16 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 20 3
October 19, 2019 10 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 26 6

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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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.

This blitz has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.
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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)
Article list
  1.  Completed Jennifer Love Hewitt discography (530) *R
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 530
  • Rollover words: 1,583
Article list
  1.  Completed Saruhashi Bridge (1737)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1737
  • Rollover words: 348
Article list
  1.  Completed Khoja Zufar (794)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 794
  • Rollover words: 377
Article list
  1.  Completed Cactus wren (3684) *R
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3684
  • Rollover words: 2027
Article list
  1.  Completed School bus by country (807)
  2.  Completed Crowdshipping (963)
  3.  Completed Environmental communication (989) – added words for sections the script couldn't count
  4.  Completed Digital detox (572)
  5.  Completed Patented track crane (757)
  6.  Completed Theodore Roosevelt Memorial (Portland, Oregon) (1010) *R
  7.  Completed Basic economy (2107) *R
  8.  Completed Nischal Basnet filmography (350) *R
  9.  Completed American Farm Bureau Federation (1057)
  10.  Completed Daniel Hardcastle (383) *R
  11.  Completed Global Entrepreneurship Summit (1060) – added words for section the script couldn't count
  12.  Completed Models of collaborative tagging (2403)
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 12458
  • Rollover words: 3084
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Sudarshan Gadyawali (483) *R
  2.  Completed Siddhantasara (1236) *R
  3.  Completed Raúl Alberto Trejo Benavides (1269) *R
  4.  Completed Idalia Ramos Rangel (1466) *R
  5.  Completed Takayuki Yagami (1960) *R
  6.  Completed Tel Yokneam (5441) *R
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 11,855
  • Rollover words: 923
Article list
  1.  Completed 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) (10404) *R
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 10,404
  • Rollover words: 1,765
Article list
  1.  Completed Skijoring (101)
  2.  Completed Moscow Metro (159)
  3.  Completed Life is Fruity (1,677)
  4.  Completed Proposed wildlife crossings in Jackson, Wyoming (1,780)
  5.  Completed Chinese New Left (2,669)
  6.  Completed Indian Engineering Services (2,214)
  7.  Completed Internet activism in South Korea (2,367)
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 10,967
  • Rollover words: 1,574
Article list
  1.  Completed WNYW (3995)
  2.  Completed Madara Uchiha *R (2388)
  3.  Completed WNBC (6200)
  4.  Completed India national football team at the Olympics *R (1600)
  5.  Completed 2002 Austrian Grand Prix *R (5293)
  6.  Completed Beaverton Transit Center *R (1646)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 21,122
  • Rollover words: 9653
Article list
  1.  Completed Roads in India (3245) Checked Reidgreg
  2.  Completed Lifelog (1019)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4264
Article list
  1.  Completed Tiwa Savage (2291)
  2.  Completed Florine Stettheimer (3554)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 5845
  • Rollover words: 1063
Article list
  1.  Completed North Korean Embassy in Madrid raid (3,742) *R
  2.  Completed Video on demand (3,461)
  3.  Completed Max Taitz (1,105)
  4.  Completed Mike Cooley (engineer) (2,548)
  5.  Completed Mikhail Epstein (546)
  6.  Completed Relational constructivism (1,073)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 12,475
Article list
  1.  Completed 2019 Cricket World Cup (5279) *R Checked Reidgreg
  2.  Completed 66th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (1647) *R
  3.  Completed Kenneth Gärdestad (610)*R
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 7536
Article list
  1.  Completed Nico Rosberg (6295) *R Checked Twofingered Typist
  2.  Completed Tribo-fatigue (1916) *S
  3.  Completed Rambha Gandhi (394) *R
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 8,605
  • Rollover words: 1,190