The following event 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 event.

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; those carrying the {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 September 2015, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 September 2015, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in March, April and May 2014);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from July and August 2015.

Drive participants can earn 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 March, April and May 2014, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive is 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 Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), KieranTribe (talk), Miniapolis (talk) and Pax85 (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

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	Lfstevens (37)	Tortle (35)	Miniapolis (30)	Slon02 (13)	PubliusHadrianus (8) Jonesey95 (8) Baffle gab1978 (8)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Miniapolis (67,282)	Lfstevens (63,655)	Tortle (55,180)	PubliusHadrianus (29,610)	Baffle gab1978 (25,729)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Tortle (4)	Miniapolis (3) PubliusHadrianus (3)	Lfstevens (2) Baffle gab1978 (2)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Lfstevens (27)	Tortle (26)	Miniapolis (25)	PubliusHadrianus (2) Slon02 (2) Baffle gab1978 (2)	Dthomsen8 (1)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Lfstevens (16,658)	PubliusHadrianus (12,325)	Tortle (11,044)	Baffle gab1978 (9,414)	Miniapolis (8,528)

^ ^a ^b For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
^ 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 March, April and May 2014.
^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date	Old articles March, April and May 2014	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
31 August 2015	145	2,322	—	—
1 September 2015	140	2,311	11	11
2 September 2015	131	2,295	16	27
3 September 2015	120	2,296	1	26
4 September 2015	118	2,305	9	17
5 September 2015	110	2,312	7	10
6 September 2015	100	2,310	2	12
7 September 2015	88	2,288	22	34
8 September 2015	82	2,291	3	31
9 September 2015	77	2,295	4	27
10 September 2015	75	2,294	1	28
11 September 2015	66	2,285	9	37
12 September 2015	59	2,298	13	24
13 September 2015	51	2,289	9	33
14 September 2015	50	2,297	8	25
15 September 2015	49	2,295	2	27
16 September 2015	49	2,297	2	25
17 September 2015	49	2,316	19	6
18 September 2015	45	2,318	2	4
19 September 2015	44	2,317	1	5
20 September 2015	41	2,317	0	5
21 September 2015	39	2,314	3	8
22 September 2015	38	2,311	3	11
23 September 2015	37	2,315	4	7
24 September 2015	37	2,319	4	3
25 September 2015	34	2,329	10	7
26 September 2015	31	2,352	23	30
27 September 2015	30	2,356	4	34
28 September 2015	26	2,334	22	12
29 September 2015	21	2,349	15	27
30 September 2015	19	2,336	13	14

^ ^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

Slon02 (talk)

Signing up

To sign up for the drive, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section for you to record your copy edits. The previous drive's rollover totals are located here, if you need to add them.

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

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 March, April and May 2014, 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:

1.

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

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list
Completed Primmore's Pride (59) Completed Salivary gland fistula (102) Completed Sarı Odalar (53) Completed Simon Leather (58) Completed Viktor Szigetvári (32) Slon02 (talk) 03:11, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply] Completed Subramanya, Karnataka (1,484) O Completed* Talbots (207) R Completed* After the Night and the Music (342)

Total articles: 8
Total words: 2,337
Rollover words: 3,880

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list

Completed Protest against conscription of yeshiva students (1,092) *O
Completed Sekai to Sekai no Mannaka de (477) *O
Completed Svoboda (political party) (617) *O Slon02 (talk) 03:13, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Completed History of Toulouse (8,528) *O
Completed Sanctuary of Our Lady of Gold (2,544) *O
Completed The Phantom (3,007) *O
Completed History of Vladivostok (2,461) *O
Completed Urban electric transport in Russia (1,084) *O
Completed Lambeth (London borough) (1,397) *O
Completed Rolling stock manufacturers of Russia (992) *O
Completed Embodied design (mathematics education) (1,244) *O
Completed Karnataka Police (1,181) *O
Completed Union, Progress and Democracy (2,973) *O
Completed German-Jordanian University (504) *O
Completed Aymeric Chauprade (1,238) *O
Completed Gumla (1,058) *O
Completed HaMerotz LaMillion 2 (5,105) *O
Completed Chak De! India (3,162) *R
Completed Jabalpur (5,292) *O
Completed 2006 Subway 500 (3,995) *R
Completed Metal Hero Series (821) *O
Completed Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (4,384) *R
Completed Bassbaba Sumon (615) *R
Completed Ice (The X-Files) (2,109) *R
Completed Moonrunners (993) *O
Completed Neolithic sites in Kosovo (2,834) *O
Completed Uskok War (2,600) *O
Completed KVEA (2,154) *O
Completed Draconian constitution (1,885) *O
Completed Italian Law 91/1981, Article 18B (946) *O

Total articles: 30
Total words: 67,282
Rollover words: 8,105

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

Article list
Completed Battle of Aleppo (2012–present) (2,743) R Completed* North American Man/Boy Love Association (1,901) R Completed* 2002–03 S.L. Benfica season (2,238) R Completed* History of York City F.C. (8,068) R Completed* Murder_of_Selena (9,414) R Completed* Soaring Stones (576) R Completed* Willy Rohr (1,099) O Completed* Artelia (1,484) *O

Total articles: 8
Total words: 27,529
Rollover words: 5,955

Hampton11235 (talk)

Article list
Completed The Dougy Center (941) R Completed* Google Book Search Settlement Agreement (1886) R Completed* Paranthodon (1354) *R

Total articles: 3
Total words: 4181
Rollover words: 1507.5

DThomsen8 (talk)

Article list
Completed List of wars involving the Philippines (11) O+ Completed Slot drain (410) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 421

Learnerktm (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Fdssdf (talk)

Article list
Completed Fracture sonography (786) Slon02 (talk) 03:15, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply] Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 786

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
Completed Corporation (role playing game) (2072) *O

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2072
Rollover words: 2192.5

Findemnow (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

MrWooHoo (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Tortle (talk)

Article list

Completed Tourist attractions in Mysore (2,626)*O (See a. Below)
Completed Urbana High School (Illinois) (732)*O (See a. Below)
Completed San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines (468)*O (See a. Below)
Completed Gig Harbor High School (1,243)*O (See a. Below)
Completed Fertigation (774)*O (See a. Below)
Completed Disney Channel (Australia and New Zealand) (310)*O (See a. Below)
Completed Tetsuya Noda (1,306)*O (See a. Below)
Completed United Telecoms Limited (617)*O (See a. Below)
Completed Kalvacherla (473)*O (See a. Below)
Completed History Museum of Armenia (754)*O (See a. Below)
Completed South Sulawesi (5014)*O (See a. and b. Below)
Completed Exoès (89)*O (See c. Below)
Completed List of Hindi film clans (2,411)*O
Completed Legal issues in airsoft (11,044)*O
Completed List of former state roads in Florida (1-99) (2,052)*O
Completed Kudumbi (4,358)*O
Completed United States Navy Dental Corps (2,202)*O
Completed PBA Bowling Tour: 2014 season (323)*O
Completed Royal Palace of Turin (893)*O
Completed Big Hero 6 (comics) (1,678)*O
Completed Phantom (comics) (5,994)*O
Completed Suicidal Angels (916)*O
Completed Nawab of Awadh (92)*O
Completed Sleepio (700)*O
Completed Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (1,403)*O
Completed The Swinging Bridge (386)*O
Completed Milan Spasić (612)*O
Completed Storm spotting (1,583)*O
Completed Murder of Agnès Marin (617)*O
Completed Channel 9 (Malaysia) (635)*O
Completed Tri-Valley Central School (611)*O
Completed Chinese Television System (643)*O
Completed Guba mass grave (386)*O
Completed Islamic Community of Kosova (366)*O
Completed Interstate 49 in Arkansas (869)*O
Working Tehmina Durrani ()*O
Working Freemasonry in Luxembourg ()*O
Working Uskok War ()*O
Working M. A. G. Osmani ()*O
Working Keep on the Shadowfell ()*O
Working São Mateus–Jabaquara Metropolitan Corridor ()*O
Working Rolling stock manufacturers of Russia ()*O
Working Production of urban electric transport in Russia ()*O
Working Planescape Campaign Setting ()*O
Working Randy Pobst ()*O
Working Perušić ()*O
Working Nam Woo-hyun ()*O
Working Magic Item Compendium ()*O
Working Geeta Dharmarajan ()*O
Working German-Jordanian University ()*O
Working Gumla ()*O
Working American handball ()*O
Working Paul Hilario ()*O

a.The Wikipedia word counter didn't pick up the bullet pointed text that I edited so I copied and pasted the text into a online word counter. And added the bullet pointed word count in.

b.The Wikipedia word counter didn't pick up the text in the table that I edited so I copied and pasted the text into a online word counter. And added the bullet pointed word count in.

c.I finished the copyedit on the lead section and I came back to find that Lfstevens finished the rest so I only included the word count for the lead section which I completed.

Total articles: 35
Total words: 55,180

Lfstevens (talk)

Article list

Completed Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen (12,973)
Completed Frankfurt (16,658)
Completed List of Golden Time episodes (143) *O
Completed Tongan Kava Ceremony-Taumafa Kava (971) *O
Completed Tamborrada (769) *O
Completed Open Source Business Alliance (735) *O with minor edits--Slon02 (talk) 21:38, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Completed Traita (488) *O
Completed Marcia Overstrand (1212) *O
Completed Mimmi Spång (614) *O
Completed Shruti (music) (860) *O
Completed Shabnam Ramaswamy (1266) *O
Completed Emmanuel Séjourné (1004) *O
Completed Frederick Ruple (1040) *O
Completed Ambikapur, India (709) *O
Completed Bay of Kotor (2647) *O
Completed Election promise (1311) *O
Completed American handball (1725) *O
Completed Randy Pobst (334) *O
Completed Paul Hilario (490) *O
Completed Constantinos Christoforou (546) *O
Completed Geeta Dharmarajan (446) *O
Completed Nam Woo-hyun (710) *O
Completed Perušić (653) *O
Completed São Mateus–Jabaquara Metropolitan Corridor (1303) *O
Completed Chinese Unification (2555) *O
Completed Holly Martin Smith (1545)
Completed Musical instrument classification (2457) *O
Completed Testing high-performance computing applications (1599) *O
Completed Solid sorbents for carbon capture (1539) *O
Completed Biome (911)
Completed GOES-R (1678)
Completed Low-level design (362)
Completed Magnetic resonance (quantum mechanics) (1761)
Completed Pupillometry (481)
Completed Right-hand rule (452)
Completed Slack bus (677)
Completed Thin layer extraction (605)

Total articles: 37/2/27
Total words: 63,655

2macia22 (talk)

Article list
Completed 2001–02 S.L. Benfica season (1936) R Working* Rojos del Águila de Veracruz (3585)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1,936
Rollover words: 4114.5

SLeahy36 (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Slon02 (talk)

Article list

Completed List of Presidents of Romania (462)
Completed Mergui Road (92)
Completed National Front of Catalonia (66)
Completed Guba mass grave (391) *O
Completed Royal Malaysian Police Museum (346)
Completed Muhammad Hamidullah Khan (1203) *O
Completed Bill Cable (577) *O
Completed Free, prior and informed consent (361)
Completed Jamaica Coalition on the Rights of the Child (155)
Completed Koreans in Venezuela (293)
Completed Council on Environmental Quality (517)
Completed Justice First (425)
Completed St Ives Borough Police (269)
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 13
Total words: 5,157

They call me Mister Tibbs (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

KieranTribe

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Tdslk (talk)

Article list
Completed Harry Ledger (67) with minor edits. Slon02 (talk) 03:17, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply] Completed Efekan Coşar (32) Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 99
Rollover words: 2436

PubliusHadrianus (talk)

Article list
Completed Ryse: Son of Rome (4294)R Completed* Måns Zelmerlöw (1296)R Completed* McStay family murder (1597)R Completed* Skin Trade (film) (2894)R Completed* Guns N' Roses (12325)R Completed* Magic Item Compendium (884)O Completed* Intercompany crossover (850)O Completed* Paulo Francis (5470) *R

Total articles: 8
Total words: 29,610

Scribe4562 (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

JourneySarah (talk)

Article list
Completed The Theory of Everything (2014 film) (2779) Completed Addiction-related structural neuroplasticity (1983) Completed List of Zoey 101 characters (8458)*O

Total articles: 3
Total words: 13220

Mlstillo (talk)

Article list
Completed Mahishasura (1,808) O Completed* Twitches (novel series) (1,719) O Completed* Red Data Girl (3,575) O Working* [[]] ()

Total articles: 3
Total words: 7,102

Goose121 (talk)

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

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2651

Prof. Squirrel (talk)

Article list
Completed All Is Full of Love (3949) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 3949

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

Article list
Completed Acufida (194) Slon02 (talk) 21:39, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Total articles: 1
Total words: 194

[nobonus-1] 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 March, April and May 2014.

[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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