Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/December 2022

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 was a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the relevant backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 11 December 2022 at 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 17 December 2022 at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz were:

The articles from our backlog tagged for copy-edit in February 2022, and the September and October requests.
- New Wikipedia copy editors (welcome!) are advised to focus their efforts on the backlog articles.
Requested 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 coordinators are Baffle gab1978 (talk), Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), Tenryuu (talk), and Zippybonzo (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 Feb 2022 articles and Sep/Oct 2022 requests	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
December 10, 2022	106	—	—
December 11, 2022	105	1	1
December 12, 2022	100	5	6
December 13, 2022	89	16	17
December 14, 2022	89	0	17
December 15, 2022	83	6	23
December 16, 2022	82	1	24
December 17, 2022	79	3	27

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:

1.

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

Mathijsvs (talk)

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Completed Dolphin Force (546) Working Starship Troopers (film) (11647)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 546

Reidgreg (talk)

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Completed Wearable computer (24) O Working* [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 24
Rollover words: 1378

Sarrail (talk)

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Completed 2007 Bocaue fire (1,025) Completed Iryna Venediktova (1,194) Completed Agra College (1,035) Completed John Ghazvinian (809) Completed Guido Girardi (910) Working Bob Proctor (author) (682)

Total articles: 5
Total words: 4,966
Rollover words: 2,245

Miniapolis (talk)

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Completed 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans (7,011)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 7,011
Rollover words: 1,978

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

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Completed Beekeeping (6,671) R Completed* Bangabandhu Memorial Museum (1,075) R Completed* All the Light We Cannot See (3,420) R Completed* That's So Raven (2,543) *R

Total articles: 4
Total words: 13,704
Rollover words: 120

BluePenguin18 (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working Telugu Desam Party (2479)

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Anupamdutta73 (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Completed It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water (1481)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1481
Rollover words: 529

Jadedhippo (talk)

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Completed Olanchito (1149) O Checked* Baffle☿gab 01:52, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1723

Careless lemon (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

You-are-my-armour (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Rublamb (talk)

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Completed Into It. Over It. (1081) Completed The Romancers (2154) Completed List of analog television stations in Vietnam (215) Completed Harry Forrester (coach) (1069) Completed Public university (6362) Working GreenPower Motor Company (1107)

Total articles: 5
Total words: 10,881

Tarheel95 (talk)

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Completed 1990s (5,733) Completed Pieskaret (1,028) Checked Baffle☿gab 02:02, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply] Completed O Come, All Ye Faithful (The Vampire Diaries) (403) Completed Lobbying in Germany (1,017) Completed Syrians in Germany (1,264)

Total articles: 5
Total words: 9,445

Firefangledfeathers (talk)

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Completed African Americans and birth control (5710)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 5710
Rollover words: 589

Rainbow Galaxy POC (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Completed High Speed 2 (19 (number of edits from 11th to 17th / 36 (total number, from 4th to 18th) * 10,650 (word count) = 5,621 (rounded)) (5,621)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 5,621
Rollover words: 3,714