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The following event is now closed. Please do not modify this page, unless you are a participant adding your final statistics within 24 hours of the closure. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate talk page.

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 {{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 March 2022, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 March 2022, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in July and August 2021);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from January and February 2022.

Drive participants could 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 2021, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive was 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 Reidgreg (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Tenryuu (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
Tenryuu (41) Sushi725 (11) Baffle gab1978 (10) Miniapolis (8) Tdslk (7)
Total
Words[n 1]
Tenryuu (113,072) Baffle gab1978 (53,564) Miniapolis (29,774) Sushi725 (26,215) Quid Est Squid (23,824)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Tenryuu (11) Baffle gab1978 (5) Miniapolis (3)
Quid Est Squid (3)
You-are-my-armour (3)
Thisisnotcam (2)
TheFallenMoon (2)
Sushi725 (1)
Lfstevens (1)
Dhtwiki (1)
MadameOctavian (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
Tenryuu (40) Miniapolis (8) Thisisnotcam (5)
Dhtwiki (5)
Reidgreg (3)
Quid Est Squid (3)
TheFallenMoon (3)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
Tenryuu (23,186) Quid Est Squid (18,901) Baffle gab1978 (16,914) Miniapolis (12,554) TheFallenMoon (10,440)
  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 2021.
  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 and Aug 2021
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
28 February 2022 201 1,133
1 March 2022 198 1,145 Negative increase  12 Negative increase  12
2 March 2022 194 1,151 Negative increase  6 Negative increase  18
3 March 2022 191 1,158 Negative increase  7 Negative increase  25
4 March 2022 190 1,157 Positive decrease  1 Negative increase  24
5 March 2022 187 1,149 Positive decrease  8 Negative increase  16
6 March 2022 181 1,126 Positive decrease 23 Positive decrease  7
7 March 2022 180 1,117 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 16
8 March 2022 171 1,113 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 20
9 March 2022 167 1,118 Negative increase  5 Positive decrease 15
10 March 2022 165 1,114 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 19
11 March 2022 160 1,108 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 25
12 March 2022 155 1,107 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 26
13 March 2022 146 1,099 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 34
14 March 2022 146 1,142 Negative increase  43 Negative increase  9
15 March 2022 144 1,164 Negative increase  22 Negative increase  31
16 March 2022 138 1,146 Positive decrease 18 Negative increase  13
17 March 2022 131 1,135 Positive decrease 11 Negative increase  2
18 March 2022 125 1,147 Negative increase  12 Negative increase  14
19 March 2022 120 1,142 Positive decrease  5 Negative increase  9
20 March 2022 115 1,126 Positive decrease 16 Positive decrease  7
21 March 2022 107 1,112 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 21
22 March 2022 100 1,110 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 23
23 March 2022 93 1,094 Positive decrease 16 Positive decrease 39
24 March 2022 90 1,095 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 38
25 March 2022 88 1,115 Negative increase  20 Positive decrease 18
26 March 2022 85 1,097 Positive decrease 18 Positive decrease 36
27 March 2022 81 1,074 Positive decrease 23 Positive decrease 59
28 March 2022 79 1,068 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 65
29 March 2022 77 1,059 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 74
30 March 2022 76 1,060 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 73
31 March 2022 75 1,022 Positive decrease 38 Positive decrease 111
  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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From mid month Baffle☿gab

Signing up

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This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.

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 or August 2021, 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
Article list
  1.  Completed Macchi C.200 Saetta (4609) *O
  2.  Completed Siege of Sélestat (502) *O
  3.  Completed Siddhanta Mahapatra (804) *O
  4.  Completed Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (3152) *O
  5.  Completed Fuzzy extractor (word count via LibreOffice; "Page size" returned 29k+; math articles are hard to count) (5222) *O
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 14,289
  • Rollover words: 6,819.5
Article list
  1.  Completed History of the Berlin U-Bahn (6,231) *O
  2.  Completed Ratnakar (film) (784) *O
  3.  Completed COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam (12,554) *O
  4.  Completed Uzbekistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics (1,002) *O
  5.  Completed Tomislav of Croatia (2,354) *O
  6.  Completed Elizabeth Bentley (3,922) *O
  7.  Completed Ishmaelites (682) *O
  8.  Completed Russneft (2,245) *O
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 29,774
  • Rollover words: 8,901
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Dennis Hood (2186) *O
  2.  Completed Il Divo (3230) *O
  3.  Completed Aamer Anwar (2093) *O
  4.  Completed Disney's Animated Storybook (14151) *O
  5.  Completed Al-Sharif al-Radi (1564) *O
  6.  Completed Ignace Meuwissen (1383) *O
  7.  Completed Para Taekwondo (1065) *O
  8.  Completed Misa Tamagawa (1105) *O
  9.  Completed Connexxus Women's Center/Centro de Mujeres (1136) *O
  10.  Completed Sage Frederick Lewis (610) *O
  11.  Completed Sai Ketan Rao (480) *O
  12.  Completed Rawatsar Removed unsourced content (737) *O
  13.  Completed Raja Jagat Singh Removed unsourced content and neutralised tone (1753) *O
  14.  Completed Dewaitha Removed problematic section (918) *O
  15.  Completed Federal University of Sergipe Added maintenance tag and removed gallery (1651) *O
  16.  Completed Prosecution Ministry (2092) *O
  17.  Completed List of Monsters, Inc. characters Section edit (828) *O
  18.  Completed School choice (3731) *O
  19.  Completed Germán Garmendia Removed seemingly irrelevant content (2963) *O
  20.  Completed Youxin Yang (1126) *O
  21.  Completed Police of Republika Srpska Removed unsourced and incomprehensible content (5277) *O
  22.  Completed List of Transformers film series cast and characters (16167) *O
  23.  Completed He Yifan Removed unsourced content (732) *O
  24.  Completed Ian Donald (5442)
  25.  Completed Femi Pedro Removed unsourced content (2281) *O
  26.  Completed Handango (186) *O
  27.  Completed Sirmaur district Removed unsourced content (1640) *O
  28.  Completed Magyar Telekom Removed unsourced content (2334) *O
  29.  Completed The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (1442) *O
  30.  Completed Sheikhpura district Removed unsourced content (586) *O
  31.  Completed Bhanj dynasty (1387) *O
  32.  Completed Devaswom boards in Kerala (857) *O
  33.  Completed Plymouth College Removed unsourced content and neutralised tone (748) *O
  34.  Completed Talaash: The Hunt Begins... (1540) *O
  35.  Completed Mirwais Hotak (2154) *O
  36.  Completed Bharathi Kannamma (721) *O
  37.  Completed Vighnaharta Ganesh Removed bloat (90) *O
  38.  Completed Glossary of Shinto (23186) *O
  39.  Completed National Information Network (369) *O
  40.  Completed Sursand Removed unsourced content (438) *O
  41.  Completed Kristian Kostov (693) *O
  42.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 41
  • Total words: 113072
  • Rollover words: 892195.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Shadow Warrior 2 (1661)
  2.  Completed Gender roles in Islam (3332) *O Checked Baffle☿gab 23:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC) Re-reviewed;  Not done; not an overall improvement. Baffle☿gab 01:32, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4993
Article list
  1.  Completed Yurii G. Naidyuk (100)
  2.  Completed Kyivan Rus Park (228)
  3.  Completed Pa' Que Te Lo Goces (247)
  4.  Completed Scarlat Ghica (122)
  5.  Completed Badaga language (165)
  6.  Completed Lvivska Brama (Kyiv Metro) (666)
  7.  Completed Pryazovia Worker (198)
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 1726
  • Rollover words: 4483
Article list
  1.  Completed Gunungsitoli (3,429) *R
  2.  Completed Wild Tales (film) (4,817) *R
  3.  Completed Adaptive biasing (2,109) *R
  4.  Completed The End of Evangelion (10,923) *R
  5.  Completed Living in the Age of Airplanes (4,989) *R
  6.  Completed Beagle 2 (3,100) *O
  7.  Completed United_States_sanctions#Perceptions (2,531) *R (section)
  8.  Completed Sima Yi (16,914) *R
  9.  Completed Iyarkai (1,264) *R
  10.  Completed Guadeloupe woodpecker (3,488) *R
  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 53,564
  • Rollover words: 7407.5
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed 2001–02 Trabzonspor season (83)
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 83
  • Rollover words: 3535
Article list
  1.  Completed Regep Aga (1674) *O Checked Baffle☿gab 23:49, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Chhath (1515) *O
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 3189
Article list
  1.  Completed Syed Abdullah Tariq (499) *O
  2.  Completed HS Produkt VHS (1352) *O
  3.  Completed World Cosplay Summit (3384) *O
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  7.  Working [[]] ()
  8.  Working [[]] ()
  9.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 5,235
  • Rollover words: 6,114
Article list
  1.  Completed Immunosenescence (996)
  2.  Completed Deep state in the United States (1518)
  3.  Completed Digital rights management (7,541)
  4.  Completed N-slit interferometer (633)
  5.  Completed William Murphy (tennis) (745)
  6.  Completed Haline contraction coefficient (2221)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 13,654
Article list
  1.  Completed Adiponitrile (411) Checked Baffle☿gab 06:18, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 411
Article list
  1.  Completed List of Lorien Legacies characters (18,028) *R  Partly done The only changes were mostly unbundling contractions, with some more that could have been done (e.g. run-on sentences, more consistent punctuation). I'm giving full credit, however. Dhtwiki (talk) 03:34, 2 April 2022 (UTC) Thought twice about giving full credit but then saw that the small word count for "List of challenges in Takeshi's Castle" doesn't indicate how much work was done there. Dhtwiki (talk) 04:27, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (1,454) *R
  3.  Completed List of challenges in Takeshi's Castle (85) *O
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 19,567
  • Rollover words: 28.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Human rights abuses in Manipur (561) *O
  2.  Completed Vikas Dubey (857) *O
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1418
Article list
  1.  Completed Clément Chantôme (3,377) *R
  2.  Completed Torture (4,911) *R
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 8,288
  • Rollover words: 10,783
Article list
  1.  Completed Jews in Hong Kong (5090) *R
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 5090
Article list
  1.  Completed Hong Kong at the 2020 Summer Olympics (807)*O
  2.  Completed Homomonument (1777)*R Checked Baffle☿gab 06:39, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Completed Anthony Perkins (18901)*R
  4.  Completed Lunar Precursor Robotic Program (860)*O
  5.  Completed Dominó (1479)*O
  6.  Working
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 23,824
Article list
  1.  Completed Ronot society(802) *O
  2.  Completed Political positions of Rand Paul (6978) *O
  3.  Completed Wanrong (6235) *O  Partly done; few changes; text still awkward in places. Baffle☿gab 21:17, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  4.  Completed Campaign to Electrify Britain's Railways (1306) *O
  5.  Completed Tower Prep (1004) *O
  6.  Working Harry Edward Vickers (1280) *O
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 16,325
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Constitutional patriotism (3578)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Rikako Aida (2712)
  2.  Completed Bay Islands Department (3913)
  3.  Completed List of awards and nominations received by Shah Rukh Khan (545) *R
  4.  Completed K-33 (Kansas highway) (920) *R
  5.  Completed Joe Brown's Carmel Corn (788) *R
  6.  Completed Primitive communism (2322) *R
  7.  Completed Minar-e-Pakistan (674) *R
  8.  Completed Hippopotamus (4801) *R  Partly done; re-reviewed  Done Baffle☿gab 00:10, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I have taken a second pass on this article, if anyone would like to re-review. Sorry. Sushi725 (talk) 20:46, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  1.  Completed Armistead Abraham Lilly (1999) *R
  2.  Completed William H. Davis (educator) (2232) *R
  3.  Completed Kingdom of Hungary (1000-1301) (5309) *R
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 26,215
Article list
  1.  Completed Flipnote Studio (1,778)
  2.  Completed Mini survival kit (408) *O Checked Baffle☿gab 06:43, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Completed Ringolevio (1,523) *O
  4.  Completed Knights of the Round Table (10,440) *O
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 14,149
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 Open source license litigation (2534) *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2,534
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 [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0