Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/December 2021

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 Project Blitz is a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; the oldest articles and those articles listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 12 December 2021, at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 18 December 2021, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz are:

The articles from our backlog: June and July 2021
- New Wikipedia copy editors (welcome!) are advised to focus their efforts on these backlog articles.
All requests; GANs and FACs should be copyedited by experienced editors.
- Please note: it is very important that articles listed on the Request page are skillfully and fully copy-edited; many of these will be reviewed for Good Article or Featured Article status. If you have any questions or comments about the article you're copy-editing, please ask on the blitz's talk page.

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 Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Tenryuu (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

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.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date	Outstanding June and July 2021 articles and Requests	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
December 11, 2021	224	—	—
December 12, 2021	221	3	3
December 13, 2021	218	3	6
December 14, 2021	214	4	10
December 15, 2021	213	1	11
December 16, 2021	207	6	17
December 17, 2021	205	2	19
December 18, 2021	202	3	22

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 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

Signing up

This blitz 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. 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:

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

Miniapolis (talk)

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Completed Naeem Ahmad Khan (1,072)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1,072
Rollover words: 3,455

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Completed HIAG (6095) *R

Total articles: 1
Total words: 6,095
Rollover words: 1,633

Charlette9 (talk)

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Completed Timeline of Bihar (203) Completed Navaratri (4345) Working Lean Six Sigma (1171) N no edits to article – Reidgreg

Total articles: 2
Total words: 4548

Reidgreg (talk)

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Completed Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex (1034) O Completed* List of British deception formations in World War II (8100) R Completed* Colombo Stock Exchange (1234) O Working* [[]] ()

Total articles: 3
Total words: 10368
Rollover words: 1651

Fritzmann2002 (talk)

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Completed Uesugi clan (1024 words) Completed Battle near the Irghiz River (1394 words) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 2418

PurpleTheory (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

ItsMackie (talk)

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Completed Ploudiry Parish close (1445) Working

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1445

Slon02 (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Asilvering (talk)

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Completed The Beetle (novel) (2708) Working

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2708

Tdslk (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0
Rollover words: 439

Cowfemme (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working Disability_flag () N One edit, minor changes only – Reidgreg

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Tabbycat2003 (talk)

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Completed Women's professional sports (11843) Completed List of Nintendo DS accessories (6338 words) Completed Community gardening in the United States (6304) Working Lada Niva (10338)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 24485

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

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Completed Jean Ross (6,585) R Completed* He-Man#Queer_analysis (section) (1,625) R Completed* [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 8,210
Rollover words: 867

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Completed Altamas Kabir (942) Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 942
Rollover words: 1,133