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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, signified by the {{copyedit}} tag or by a listing on the GOCE Requests page. Please make sure that you know how to copy edit and that you are familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style before you begin copy editing—these are specially important for articles listed on the Requests page. The drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The lead coordinator is Torchiest (talk), and he is assisted by BDD (talk) and Miniapolis (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page. This drive begins on May 1, 2013, 00:00 UTC and will end on May 31, 2013, 23:59 UTC.

Status of "articles needing copy edit" category as of the end of the drive

The goals of this backlog elimination drive are to reduce the overall backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on those that have been in the queue for the longest (April, May, and June 2012) and to complete all requests made on the GOCE Requests page before May 2013. Articles from the Requests page count towards your total whether they have a copy edit tag on them or not, so please feel free to select from there when you are in the mood for a better-quality article to edit. Articles tagged {{copyedit}} in April, May, and June 2012, and all requests, will receive a bonus score of 50% over and above the article's word count. Awards will be given out to those individuals who help reduce the size of the backlog.

The backlog elimination drive is open to all, and you do not need to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. However, you may want to consider joining, as membership has its benefits. For example, you can place a special "page in use" tag when you are copy editing, and another tag on the talk page when you finish. See the Templates page. Please visit the Guild or the main drive page for more information.

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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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
  • (update your own numbers)
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles
Lfstevens (603) Miniapolis (11) AngusWOOF (9) Jonesey95 (7)
Freebirds (7)
Mhbeals (4)
Total
Words[n 1]
Lfstevens (144,824) Miniapolis (31,272) Stfg (11,468) AngusWOOF (10,649) Dianna (7,090)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Miniapolis (2)
Stfg (2)
Spock of Vulcan (1)
Dianna (1)
Tdslk (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
AngusWOOF (9) Jonesey95 (7)
Freebirds (7)
Miniapolis (5) Mhbeals (4) Tdslk (2)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
Stfg (11,468) Dianna (7090) Tdslk (5,340) Miniapolis (5,335) Spock of Vulcan (5,316)
  1. ^ a b For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
  2. ^ Number of articles of 5000 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 April, May, and June 2012.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.
Progress Chart
Date
  • Apr/May/Jun
  • 2012 articles
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
30 April 2013 325 3,061
1 May 2013 320 3,030 Positive decrease 31 Positive decrease 31
2 May 2013 315 3,008 Positive decrease 22 Positive decrease 53
3 May 2013 308 2,951 Positive decrease 57 Positive decrease 110
4 May 2013 305 2,919 Positive decrease 32 Positive decrease 142
5 May 2013 303 2,923 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 138
6 May 2013 300 2,903 Positive decrease 20 Positive decrease 158
7 May 2013 297 2,860 Positive decrease 43 Positive decrease 201
8 May 2013 295 2,837 Positive decrease 23 Positive decrease 224
9 May 2013 294 2,808 Positive decrease 29 Positive decrease 253
10 May 2013 287 2,774 Positive decrease 34 Positive decrease 287
11 May 2013 285 2,747 Positive decrease 27 Positive decrease 314
12 May 2013 280 2,724 Positive decrease 23 Positive decrease 337
13 May 2013 275 2,699 Positive decrease 25 Positive decrease 362
14 May 2013 272 2,668 Positive decrease 31 Positive decrease 393
15 May 2013 271 2,657 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 404
16 May 2013 269 2,630 Positive decrease 27 Positive decrease 431
17 May 2013 268 2,616 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 445
18 May 2013 266 2,613 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 448
19 May 2013 262 2,579 Positive decrease 34 Positive decrease 482
20 May 2013 260 2,573 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 488
21 May 2013 260 2,566 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 495
22 May 2013 260 2,561 Positive decrease 12 Positive decrease 500
23 May 2013 255 2,534 Positive decrease 27 Positive decrease 527
24 May 2013 252 2,535 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 526
25 May 2013 248 2,537 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 524
26 May 2013 248 2,543 Negative increase  6 Positive decrease 518
27 May 2013 247 2,556 Negative increase  13 Positive decrease 505
28 May 2013 247 2,558 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 503
29 May 2013 243 2,571 Negative increase  13 Positive decrease 490
30 May 2013 240 2,520 Positive decrease 51 Positive decrease 541
31 May 2013 232 2,484 Positive decrease 36 Positive decrease 577
  1. ^ a b Change only refers to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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GOCE coordinators and other experienced members of the Guild will carry out random checks to ensure that copy edits are of a satisfactory standard. If you are willing to help with this, please sign up below.

10% of a participant's copy edits from the backlog should be inspected. All copy edits from the Requests page should be reviewed, time permitting. Please choose articles at random, and do not inspect articles you have copy edited yourself. After checking an article, place a {{checked}} mark after the article on the listing and sign your username (just ~~~). If a rough consensus finds a copy edit is not of an acceptable standard, the tag will be re-added and the editor will be assessed a penalty of 1,200 words plus the length of the article reviewed. The reviewer may also give advice on how the edit could have been better, 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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This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.

Totals

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When recording articles completed, please remember to remove any {{copyedit}} tag from that article—if you want it checked, you can request it on the drive talk page and someone will be along to do it. Do not list articles on which you have placed {{GOCEreviewed}} instead of copy editing them, or which needed no copy editing; they don't count. Please provide the full title, not an abbreviated version, and place any comments after the article title but before the word count. If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count, or if it was tagged in April–June 2012, place *O after the word count. Please do not add the 50% bonus in these cases—we will apply the bonuses after the drive is over. Here is an example of a well-completed line:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1234) *O


Article list
  1.  Completed Bernar Venet (575) *O
  2.  Completed Resistance: Burning Skies (352) *O
  3.  Completed Cyprinodon julimes (931) *O
  4.  Completed Predeal (382) *O
  5.  Completed Terl Bryant (400) *O
  6.  Completed Christian Homann Schweigaard (571) *O
  7.  Completed Lo Tak-shing (807) *O
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 4,018
  • Rollover words: 8,646
Article list
  1.  Completed National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (1,013) *O
  2.  Completed United States Air Force Chaplain Corps (1,156) *O
  3.  Completed Britain (placename) (1,821) *O
  4.  Completed Network formation (641)*O
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 4,631
Article list
  1.  Completed Antenna tuner (1,602)
  2.  Completed Annu Kapoor (1,266)
  3.  Completed Anna Banana (bullets) *O (4,931)
  4.  Completed Old Swiss Confederacy (lists) *R (4,548)
  5.  Completed Early life of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad *O (1,428)
  6.  Completed Davao City *R (5,335)
  7.  Completed History of the Port of Southampton *O (5,015)
  8.  Completed Green Lantern (Six Flags Great Adventure) *R (1,462)
  9.  Completed 3FM Serious Request *O (2,401)
  10.  Completed Where No One Has Gone Before *R (2,616)
  11.  Completed Barneville-Carteret *O (668)
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 31,272
  • Rollover words: 13,191
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 2876
Article list
  1.  Completed History of feminism (12839)
  2.  Completed Skull and Bones (1786)
  3.  Completed Super Mario (series) (6513)
  4.  Completed Deathrow (video game) (682)
  5.  Completed Kingship of Tara (245) *O
  6.  Completed OSSEC (208) *O
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 22273
Article list
  1.  Completed Kender (1809)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1809
  • Rollover words: 665
Article list
  1.  Completed Goalpara (1208) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1208
Article list
  1.  Completed Ramkishun (61)
  2.  Completed Rene Enriquez (mobster) (246)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 307
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
  • Rollover words: 2,030
Article list
  1.  Completed County of Luxembourg (769)
  2.  Completed Heinz Traimer (515)
  3.  Completed Gangavathi (769)
  4.  Completed The Landlady (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) (923) *R
  5.  Completed John Murdoch (artist) (392) *O
  6.  Completed Yasmine Al Masri (510) *O
  7.  Completed Hollywood Dream – The Ride (741) *R
  8.  Completed Olivier LeCour Grandmaison (650) *O
  9.  Completed David Cantero (129)
  10.  Completed Constance of Wrocław (529)
  11.  Completed Geoffrey Bagley (993)
  12.  Completed Churchill Hotel (2179)
  13.  Completed Matthew Lutton (584) *O
  14.  Completed Jean Peyrelevade (635) *O
  15.  Working [[]] () *O
  • Total articles: 14
  • Total words: 10318
Article list
  1.  Completed Chubb illusion (1087)
  2.  Completed Rinku Singh Rahi (1339)
  3.  Completed Typhoon Doug (1994) (567)
  4.  Completed Your Cheatin' Heart (949)
  5.  Completed Supercapacitor (17,672)
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 21, 712
  • Rollover words: 47772
Article list
  1.  Completed Kirby Baxter Holmes (216)
  2.  Completed Munshirhat Primary School (168)
  3.  Completed Lunatic Society (200)
  4.  Completed Jameatur Rashad (89) (formerly titled “Madarsa Jameatur Rashad”)
  5.  Completed Rolf Köhler (461) (May 2012)
  1.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 1134
  • Rollover words: 2995
Article list
  1.  Completed Paul Lir Alexander (860) *O
  2.  Completed Upwords (section) (541)
  3.  Completed Urdu literature (5340) *O
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 6741
  • Rollover words: 11632
Article list
  1.  Completed Gravity (comics) (1739)
  2.  Completed Wasp (comics) (5316)
  3.  Working [[]]
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 7055
Article list
  1.  Completed Pantech (742) *O
  2.  Completed Air (roller coaster) (891) *R
  3.  Completed Laksamilawan (660) *O
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 2,293
  • Rollover words: 2,772
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Hermeticism (3290)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3290
  • Rollover words: 3424
Article list
  1.  Completed Ford Sync (1,802) O*
  2.  Completed Chandpur District (1,305) O*
  3.  Completed Nelson Bragg (1,241) O*
  4.  Completed Foreign relations of the Arab League (Section Copy Edit) (145) O*
  5.  Completed Palestine Papers (Section Copy Edit) (461) O*
  6.  Completed C-803 (1,133) O*
  7.  Completed Saint Petersburg Lyceum 30 (452) O*
  8.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 6,539
  • Rollover words: 9,637
Article list
  1.  Completed JYP Entertainment (section copyedit) (403) *O
  2.  Completed Cryptid Hunters (513) *O
  3.  Completed Eiji Kawashima (1231) *O
  4.  Completed Pierre Coetzer (1259) (includes table) *O
  5.  Completed Fur and Loathing (195) *O
  6.  Completed Sutter Kain (1181) (includes lists) *O
  7.  Completed Luca Tramontin (1734) *O
  8.  Completed Indigo Tribe (3109) *O
  9.  Completed Michael Nava (1024) *O
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 10649
  • Rollover words: 8187
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

TheOneSean | Talk to me

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Early_life_of_Mirza_Ghulam_Ahmad ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Progressive rock (4443) *O
  2.  Working
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 4443
  • Rollover words: 1428
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working 1 ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 41
Article list
  1.  Completed 1975–76 Chicago Black Hawks season (not tagged, but was previously confusing to read) (476)
  2.  Completed Sverre Bergh (160)
  3.  Completed Venice, Louisiana (289)
  4.  Completed Insurrection (1950 novel) (372)
  5.  Completed Cosmos (1333)
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 2630
Article list
  1.  Completed Cain and Abel (comics)#Publication history (286) *O
  2.  Completed LGBT rights in Azerbaijan#History (203) *O
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 489
  • Rollover words: 3466
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 383
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

InfinityBird (talk)InfinityBird

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Imran Khan Nyazee (4355)
  2.  Completed Water supply and sanitation in the European Union (2549)
  3.  Working Battle Fever J (550)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 6904
  • Rollover words: 2101
Article list
  1.  Completed address bar (460)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 460
Article list
  1.  Completed Rihanna (7090)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 7090
  • Rollover words: 835
Article list
  1.  Completed Komatsu_(Japanese_restaurant) (1007)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1007
Article list
  1.  Completed Jesus (11468) *R
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 11468
  • Rollover words: 3801
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.