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This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive was a one-month-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 January 1, 2015, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on January 31, 2015, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (August, September and October 2013)
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from November 2014.

Drive participants earned barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles from the Requests page count towards your total; these are generally higher-quality articles 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 {{copyedit}} in August, September or October 2013, and articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive 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.

Drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The drive's lead coordinator is Miniapolis (talk), who is assisted by Philg88 (talk), Jonesey95 (talk), and Biblioworm (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive 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 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

Leaderboard

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	Tdslk (48)	Lfstevens (38)	Jonesey95 (23) Dthomsen8 (23)	Miniapolis (22)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Lfstevens (108,429)	Miniapolis (71,203)	Jonesey95 (52,243)	Tdslk (23,157)	Biblioworm (14,872)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Lfstevens (8)	Miniapolis (6)	Jonesey95 (5)	Tdslk (1) Deadbeef (1) Biblioworm (1)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Lfstevens (30)	Jonesey95 (15)	Miniapolis (13)	Tdslk (11)	Dhtwiki (5)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Lfstevens (13,425)	Miniapolis (13,237)	Jonesey95 (10,611)	Deadbeef (5,879)	Tdslk (5,864)

^ ^a ^b Please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus for requests and older articles.
^ Number of articles of 5,000 words or more. An article of 10K+ words counts as 2, of 15K+ as 3, and so on.
^ Oldest articles are those tagged in Aug/Sep/Oct 2013.
^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date	Aug/Sep/Oct old articles	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
31 December 2014	212	2,198	—	—
1 January 2015	193	2,188	10	10
2 January 2015	188	2,186	2	12
3 January 2015	181	2,171	15	27
4 January 2015	173	2,166	5	32
5 January 2015	168	2,182	16	16
6 January 2015	164	2,176	6	22
7 January 2015	163	2,189	13	9
8 January 2015	156	2,195	6	3
9 January 2015	148	2,196	1	2
10 January 2015	142	2,205	9	7
11 January 2015	137	2,204	1	6
12 January 2015	130	2,201	3	3
13 January 2015	125	2,197	4	1
14 January 2015	121	2,198	1	0
15 January 2015	118	2,197	1	1
16 January 2015	112	2,191	6	7
17 January 2015	111	2,184	7	14
18 January 2015	94	2,182	2	16
19 January 2015	89	2,188	6	10
20 January 2015	87	2,185	3	13
21 January 2015	81	2,177	8	21
22 January 2015	80	2,182	5	16
23 January 2015	74	2,179	3	19
24 January 2015	71	2,190	11	8
25 January 2015	63	2,189	1	9
26 January 2015	57	2,190	1	8
27 January 2015	55	2,183	7	15
28 January 2015	51	2,174	9	24
29 January 2015	50	2,179	5	19
30 January 2015	47	2,176	3	22
31 January 2015	47	2,186	10	12

^ ^a ^b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

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 editor will be deducted a penalty of 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

DThomsen8 (talk)

Signing up

This drive has concluded. Follow the "Drives" link at the top of this page to sign up for the next (or current) drive.

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}}
If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count. If it was tagged in August, September or October 2013, place *O 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 it on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

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

and like this on the rendered page:

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Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234) *O

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list

Completed Ramon Sender (634) *O Y Checked. --Biblioworm 00:47, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Completed Bunny Walters (241) *O
Completed Death of Joan Robinson Hill (6254) *R
Completed Joan Robinson Hill (9753) *R
Completed Ignat Kaneff (512) *O
Completed Cynthia Ann Parker (2,081) *R
Completed Welcome to the Jungle (Neon Jungle song) (2,386) *R
Completed Magna Carta (10,611) *R
Completed The Gold Rush (1,600) *R
Completed Soldier's Heart (Gary Paulsen novel) (1,281) *O
Completed Kavichandran Alexander (599) *O
Completed List of Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival selections (933) *O
Completed List of heritage sites in Victoria West (word count of descriptions) (5,466) *O
Completed Bob Rowe (736) *O
Completed Hervé Biausser (393) *O
Completed Giancarlo Cannito (700) *O
Completed Ingress Abbey (737)
Completed The Grand Prior's Award (502) *O
Completed Mohanlal filmography (87) *O
Completed Manolo Escobar (436) *O
Completed Massimo Gabutti (1,226) *O
Completed Django Unchained (4,302) *R
Completed Rawal Mallinath (773) *O

Total articles: 23
Total words: 52,243
Rollover words: 1,519

Biblioworm (talk)

Article list
Completed 2011 White House shooting (1360) R Completed* 2014 oil spill on Sundarbans (945) R Completed* Capon Chapel (2900) R Completed* One World Trade Center (only counting the part copy edited during January) (5008) R Completed* Ladislaus I of Hungary (3693) R Completed* Murder of Kylie Maybury (218) R Completed* Bolokhoveni (748) *R

Total articles: 7
Total words: 14872
Rollover words: 7901

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list

Completed Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation (list) (1,126) *O
Completed Valley View (Romney, West Virginia) (3,948) *R
Completed Traditional games of Korea (1,884) *O
Completed Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game) (3,339) *R
Completed Kadir Timergazin (lists) (837) *O
Completed Black Canary (list) (4,707) *R
Completed Queen of the Demonweb Pits (1,054) *O
Completed The Edukators (2,765) *R
Completed Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (list) (1,658) *O
Completed Camas pocket gopher (3,679) *R
Completed Constituent Assembly of India (1,458) *O
Completed Sam and Diane#Reception (1,510) *R
Completed International reactions to the Ghouta chemical attack (lists) (5,766) *O
Completed Tunnel Vision (song) (2,399) *R
Completed Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny (lists) (5,212) *O
Completed 2013–14 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team (5,240) *R
Completed Centre de Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques (list) (1,491) *O
Completed Operation Backstop (1,828) *R
Completed Jhansi Ki Rani (TV series) (section) (645) *O
Completed La Pucelle: Tactics (list) (2,149) *O
Completed List of All My Children characters (list) (13,237) *O
Completed List of M jak miłość characters (Mostowiak family) (5,271) *O

Total articles: 22
Total words: 71,203
Rollover words: 10,061

Hwajae • talk • contribs

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Completed Vazken Andréassian In copy editing this article, I found it has multiple issues. I couldn't do much with citations and references because most of the references were in Armenian or French. I added some "Needs citation" markers. The Personal section requires more information. For example, a grandson is named, but Andréassian's wife and children are not. I'm adding comments to the article's Talk page. (472) *O

Total articles: 1
Total words: 472

Biggs Pliff (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Learnerktm (talk)

Article list
Completed Johannes Hint (1093) Completed Ahmad Dhani (1604) O Completed* Oliena (3101) O Completed* Julius Lothar Meyer (878) O Completed* Sampada Malla (843)

Total articles: 5
Total words: 7519

Thnidu (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Lfstevens (talk)

Article list

Completed Warner Bros. (8,814)
Completed Jean-André Deluc (1034) *O Y Checked. No outstanding issues. --Biblioworm 01:41, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Completed Electromagnetic radiation (7,844)
Completed Fatal Fury (series) (1140) *O
Completed The Great Day of Girona (3311) *O
Completed 1973 oil crisis (7,035)
Completed Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (3003) *O
Completed Vilnius University Faculty of Communication (1809) *O
Completed Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II (346) *O
Completed Fall of Mazari Sharif (1616) *O
Completed Partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1623)
Completed Oriental Development Company (737) *O
Completed Caltech 101 (559) *O
Completed Mamerto Natividad (2100) *O
Completed Lee Moyer (908) *O
Completed Protection and indemnity insurance (840) *O
Completed Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg (943) *O
Completed DeKalb County School District (350) *O
Completed Kludge (1982) *O
Completed Allegations of misappropriations related to the Iraq War (353) *O
Completed Dalit (8,012)
Completed University of California Davis Graduate Studies (281) *O
Completed Universidad Tecnológica de Tula-Tepeji (662) *O
Completed Lancia Ypsilon (3407) *O
Completed The Prisoner (2009 miniseries) (1168) *O
Completed Jim Calarco (399) *O
Completed Elbow (band) (2585) *O
Completed Mikhail Shuisky (baritone) (2133) *O
Completed Dimitri Logothetis *O (827) *O
Completed Cyndi Lauper (6,148)
Completed Nagoya (4160) *O
Completed Tevye (797) *O
Completed Hyundai Elantra (2715) *O
Completed John Mayer (5,159)
Completed Cádiz Cortes (1213) *O
Completed Canzo (8,956) *O
Completed Thai Pongal (1589) *O
Completed Richelieu-class battleship (13,425)
Completed Maglev (7,823)

Total articles: 39
Total words: 116,252

Djenial (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Slon02 (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Deadbeef (talk)

Article list
Completed APCOA Parking (442) Completed All About That Bass (5,879) R Completed* Barrackpore (2,317) O Completed* Pablo Illanes (540) O Completed* Rashid Askari (354) O Completed* Ellenabad (349) *O

Total articles: 6
Total words: 9,881

One life to live (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
Completed Mar'ashi Najafi library (word count = rnd(10,573 B / 5 B/W), as prose count (468 W) far under-counted what I did) (2115) O Completed* Pallithode (1717) O Completed* Shinobido: Way of the Ninja (including lists) (4067) O Completed* Wild Arms 3 (including lists) (1663) O Completed* ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal (including lists) (1756) *O

Total articles: 5
Total words: 11318
Rollover words: 16808.5

SmileBlueJay97 talk

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

HackedBotato (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Dougie WII (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Tdslk (talk)

Article list

Completed New Washermenpet (71)
Completed Plectroglyphidodon sindonis (129)
Completed Temsalet (51)
Completed Sigurd Hammer (191)
Completed Pharmacological torture (264)
Completed Belize–Mexico border (748) *O
Completed Iran–South Korea football rivalry (110) *O
Completed Debi Makhsoospuri (127) *O
Completed Margaret Castro (195)
Completed The Falling Soldier (880) *O
Completed Ove Høegh-Guldberg (537)
Completed Lebanese immigration to Mexico section (103)
Completed Boko Haram (5,864)
Completed Fram Kino (742) *O
Completed 2014 Sweden mosques arson attack series (265)
Completed Song Kwang-won (167)
Completed Manora, Washim (57)
Completed Xochimilco Ecological Park and Plant Market (2275)
Completed Abdul Basith (volleyball) (108)
Completed Dávid Bélaváry (172)
Completed De Fontaine Memorial (592)
Completed Marc Ongley (452) *O
Completed Ben Greenhalgh (342) *O
Completed Athina Rachel Tsangari (510) *O
Completed Capitan Tifus (350) *O
Completed Broom & Groom (583) *O
Completed Igorrr (353) *O
Completed Nicolaus Adriani (52)
Completed Karnoo (50)
Completed Shenyang section (90)
Completed Grand Tack Hypothesis (479)
Completed Margaret K. Butler (667)
Completed Yoshida dormitory, Kyoto University (174)
Completed João Henrique Ulrich Júnior (94)
Completed Example-based machine translation (515)
Completed Hiro Kanagawa (142)
Completed Hispanic–Latino naming dispute (1807)
Completed Tampomas II (1429)
Completed Tatacoa Desert (453)
Completed Ruksin (76)
Completed Rukumkot (264)
Completed Raoul I of Lusignan (206)
Completed Inebolu Shipyard (147)
Completed Osteochilus lini (28)
Completed Osteochilus spilurus (22)
Completed Osteochilus melanopleurus (69)
Completed Osteochilus microcephalus (34)
Completed Bete Amhara (121)

Total articles: 48
Total words: 23,157
Rollover words: 437.5

DThomsen8 (talk)

Article list

Completed Cranes (beverage) (44)
Completed Fast4 Tennis (166)
Completed Greek frigate Hydra (F-452) (263) *O
Completed Gupis (Goopechh valley) (183)
Completed Hazipur Nasir Uddin Memorial High School (87)
Completed Holston High School (67)
Completed Incheon Namdong Asiad Rugby Field (28)
Completed Khanom phing (184)
Completed Kurz ibn Jabir al-Fihri (137}
Completed L'Atalante basin (298)
Completed Ladies Learning Code (93) . – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:41, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Completed List of egg dishes (84)
Completed Lukovo pole hydro power project (549)
Completed Malibu Rum (282) . – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:41, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Completed Narsakkapalli (45) . Could have used a bit more work to check unfamiliar words. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:41, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Completed Order of Chosen Friends (468)
Completed Sarojini Vidhyalaya Matric Higher Secondary School (74)
Completed Sri shariputhra maha vidyalaya (38)
Completed Summit Lake, Alaska (142) . Improvements. A bit more could have been even better. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:41, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Completed Uijeongbu (356) *O
Completed Utoy Village (526)
Completed Vukan's Gospel (66) . Needed more. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:41, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Completed Wrocław Town Hall (983) *O

Total articles: 23
Total words: 4000+
Rollover words: 2280

TheMagikCow (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Zhujiangshuiguai (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Thnidu (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Jarmihi (talk)

Article list
Completed Icewind Dale (1,910) O Completed* The Krion Conquest (907) *O

Total articles: 2
Total words: 2,817

Crow Talk

Article list
Completed Major Accident (547) *O

Total articles: 1
Total words: 547
Rollover words: 700

Eman235/Talk

Article list
Completed Shared universe (1869) O Completed* Logical framework approach (885) *O

Total articles: 2
Total words: 2745

RaptorexGaming (talk)

Article list
Working Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard (1253) O Not done. Needs more work, e.g. the adjective "single player" should be "single-player"; "is billed" should be "was billed". Serial comma consistency is needed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:15, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply] Working* Protection and indemnity insurance (840) *O

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

LouiseS1979 (talk)

Article list
Completed Dragons of the Dwarven Depths (1300) O Completed* Petr Mrázek (841) O Completed* Poochakkal (450) O Completed* Surabhi (theatre group) (850) O Completed* Guillaume Lekeu (942) *O

Total articles: 5
Total words: 4383
Rollover words: 6600.5

Kvom01 (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Xlmnop (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

JacobiJonesJr(talk)

Article list
Completed Illegal drug trade (6322) Completed Colross (2345) *R

Total articles: 2
Total words: 8687

Gaff (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Jprieto311

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

Article list
Completed Giancarlo Agazzi (113) Completed Adavilo Abhimanyudu (353) Completed ANUCDE (75) Completed Bachelor of Science in Aquatic Resources and Technology (140) Completed Samantha Baines (496) Completed Badichowdi (106)

Total articles: 6
Total words: 1,283
Rollover words: 2,034

unitypeace01318sda (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

meow10811 (talk)

Article list
Completed Nanjing Lukou International Airport (670) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 652

Lirazelf (talk)

Article list
Completed Horní Suchá (2202) O Completed* Soulcalibur IV (1883) *O

Total articles: 2
Total words: 4085

Lemmoid (talk)

Article list
Completed Bhume Naach of Kham people in Nepal (846)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 846

BrandenburgG (talk)

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Completed 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire (1651)

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Eurodyne (talk)

Article list
Completed Loïs Andréa (355) Completed Nut rage incident (856) *R

Total articles: 2
Total words: 1211

[nobonus-1] Please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus for requests and older articles.

[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 Aug/Sep/Oct 2013.

[4] The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

[change-5] Change refers only to outstanding tags.

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