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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; those carrying the ((copyedit)) tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 May 2015, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 May 2015, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

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 December 2013, January 2014, and February 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 Miniapolis (talk), who is assisted by Philg88 (talk), Jonesey95 (talk) and Biblioworm (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[edit]

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[edit]

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard[edit]

  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles 		Jonesey95 (31) Baffle gab1978 (14)
Miniapolis (14) 		– Laatu (13) Dhtwiki (11)
Total
Words[n 1] 		Baffle gab1978 (47,227) Infernus 780 (40,461) Miniapolis (39,095) Dhtwiki (17,609) Lfstevens (14,431)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		Infernus 780 (5) Miniapolis (3) Baffle gab1978 (2)
Lfstevens (2)
Eman235 (2) 		– –
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		Dhtwiki (11) Miniapolis (10) Mysterious Gopher (8) Winner 42 (6) Jonesey95 (4)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		Infernus 780 (17,063) Eman235 (13,080) Miniapolis (10,487) Lfstevens (10,361) Baffle gab1978 (9,780)
  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 December 2013, January 2014, and February 2014.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart[edit]

Graphs of daily progress
Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Dec 2013, Jan/Feb 2014
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
30 April 2015 233 2,627 — —
1 May 2015 231 2,607 Positive decrease 20 Positive decrease 20
2 May 2015 226 2,566 Positive decrease 41 Positive decrease 61
3 May 2015 224 2,491 Positive decrease 75 Positive decrease 136
4 May 2015 221 2,465 Positive decrease 26 Positive decrease 162
5 May 2015 213 2,434 Positive decrease 31 Positive decrease 193
6 May 2015 207 2,393 Positive decrease 41 Positive decrease 234
7 May 2015 204 2,351 Positive decrease 42 Positive decrease 276
8 May 2015 203 2,328 Positive decrease 23 Positive decrease 299
9 May 2015 203 2,311 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 316
10 May 2015 203 2,303 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 324
11 May 2015 202 2,283 Positive decrease 20 Positive decrease 344
12 May 2015 198 2,280 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 347
13 May 2015 197 2,251 Positive decrease 29 Positive decrease 376
14 May 2015 194 2,256 Negative increase  5 Positive decrease 371
15 May 2015 194 2,247 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 380
16 May 2015 193 2,200 Positive decrease 47 Positive decrease 427
17 May 2015 187 2,168 Positive decrease 32 Positive decrease 459
18 May 2015 181 2,154 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 473
19 May 2015 178 2,142 Positive decrease 12 Positive decrease 485
20 May 2015 175 2,117 Positive decrease 25 Positive decrease 510
21 May 2015 170 2,097 Positive decrease 20 Positive decrease 530
22 May 2015 166 2,082 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 545
23 May 2015 165 2,057 Positive decrease 25 Positive decrease 570
24 May 2015 165 2,055 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 572
25 May 2015 156 2,045 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 582
26 May 2015 153 2,038 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 589
27 May 2015 150 2,022 Positive decrease 16 Positive decrease 605
28 May 2015 149 2,019 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 608
29 May 2015 145 2,022 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 605
30 May 2015 142 2,022 Steady  0 Positive decrease 605
31 May 2015 139 2,022 Steady  0 Positive decrease 605
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing[edit]

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[edit]

Signing up[edit]

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.


Totals[edit]

How to record articles you have copy edited:

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)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed 2015 Kandhamal gang rape case (202)
  2.  Completed Rahman Abbas (403)
  3.  Completed Back to School (game show) (65)
  4.  Completed Dead Girl Walking (124)
  5.  Completed Decius Paulinus (103)
  6.  Completed Milcha Sanchez-Scott (150)
  7.  Completed Andrew Kortina (113)
  8.  Completed Daven Michaels (174)
  9.  Completed Eichi Karl Koiwai (169)
  10.  Completed Terry Hayhurst (1,180)
  11.  Completed Kara Stein (282)
  12.  Completed Pacific-12 Conference Men's Basketball Freshman of the Year (122)
  13.  Completed Stefano Cecchi Records (127)
  14.  Completed Tennis at the 2014 South American Games – Men's singles (79)
  15.  Completed James Dodson (author) (380)
  16.  Completed Dungeon Masters Screen (721)
  17.  Completed Samantha Magalas (177)
  18.  Completed Gajraj Singh Thapa (237)
  19.  Completed Goryń (singing group) (181)
  20.  Completed IBML (290)
  21.  Completed Madliena (1,084) *O
  22.  Completed Antena 21 (136)
  23.  Completed Cas Anvar (137)
  24.  Completed Samuel E. Horne, Jr. (1,216)
  25.  Completed Andee (section) (472)
  26.  Completed Francis George Adeodatus Micallef (237)
  27.  Completed Sean Woods (481)
  28.  Completed Dingdong Avanzado (536) *O
  29.  Completed Mick Fowler (377) *O
  30.  Completed Wax (singer) (534) *O
  31.  Completed Behra Sandal Singh (141)

Miniapolis (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed William Dutton (speed skater) (999) *O
  2.  Completed Marija Bursać (2,349) *R
  3.  Completed Yugadrashta (1,240) *O
  4.  Completed 2012 Budweiser Shootout (1,614) *R
  5.  Completed Statute of limitations (2,299) *O
  6.  Completed Eminem (10,487) *R
  7.  Completed Chinese intelligence operations in the United States (2,923) *O
  8.  Completed Stephen Sondheim (8,161) *R
  9.  Completed Internal Troops of Ukraine (1,079) *O
  10.  Completed Community-acquired pneumonia (2,623) *O
  11.  Completed Ninawa governorate election, 2013 (699) *O
  12.  Completed Pan-European Picnic (2,566) *O
  13.  Completed Vietnam's Next Top Model (1,139) *O
  14.  Completed Te cunosc de undeva! (917) *O

DThomsen8 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Azevka River (188)
  2.  Completed Barfani dham (81)
  3.  Completed DaVinci school of design and architecture (83)
  4.  Completed Freezing toilet (102)
  5.  Completed L. Kijungluba AO (198)
  6.  Completed Maurice Sarraut (178)
  7.  Completed Shama Senior High School (37)
  8.  Completed Yandex.Translate (612)
  9.  Completed Zindagi Wins (417)
  10.  Completed Saint Patrick's Day Parade (Utica, NY) (610)

˘ | ˘ Hwajaetalk • contribs[edit]

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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()

Lfstevens (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Renault (10,361)
  2.  Completed Serge Tisseron (4070) *O

Eman235/talk[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Sun (surname) (only the tagged section) (71) *O
  2.  Completed Italian crested newt (13080) *(O)

MrWooHoo (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()

Dhtwiki (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Hirschi High School (not including lists) (1191) *O
  2.  Completed Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (2087) *O
  3.  Completed Anjana Chaudhari (includes list) (776) *O
  4.  Completed Movie star ("Southeast-Asian archipelago" section only) (182) *O
  5.  Completed Campus of the University of Tokyo (including lists; article is mostly lists) (4410) *O
  6.  Completed Hata clan (1032) *O
  7.  Completed Electrodermal activity (1253) *O
  8.  Completed Dominance and submission (1845) *O
  9.  Completed Hafizuddin Ahmed (1177) *O
  10.  Completed Italo Scanga (2993) *O
  11.  Completed Dan Holdsworth (663) *O

Grisette (talk)[edit]

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  1.  Completed [[]] ()

Vivatheviva (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Diomedes Díaz (784) *O

Votrepetite (talk)[edit]

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  1.  Completed Neil Nixon (414)
  2.  Working [[]] ()

Baffle gab1978 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (2,274) *R
  2.  Completed James Caudy (1,414) *R
  3.  Completed Ebla (4,015) *R
  4.  Completed Hawaii (9,780) *R
  5.  Completed Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (4,622) *R
  6.  Completed Janee Michelle (1,076) *R
  7.  Completed Timeline of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (6,049) *R
  8.  Completed Kill the DJ (1,212) *R
  9.  Completed Christina Marie Williams (405) *R
  10.  Completed Marie Stopes (3,689) *R
  11.  Completed Gender roles in non-heterosexual communities (1,763) *R
  12.  Completed Croatian parliamentary election, 1990 (4,026) *R
  13.  Completed Ernie Banks (3,636) *R
  14.  Completed Bad Day (Daniel Powter song) (3,266)

Tdslk (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Vohitsara (99)
  2.  Completed Tennessee State Route 108 (101) section
  3.  Completed Ampelopsis grossedentata (688)
  4.  Completed Aminah Assilmi (197)
  5.  Completed International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (461)
  6.  Completed Pa'O people (1115)
  7.  Completed Bakhar Bar (98)
  8.  Completed Barabanki city (275)
  9.  Completed Jesse Bruchac (835)
  10.  Completed Kpalimé (1575)

2macia22 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga) (657) *O

FreeatlastChitchat (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed 2013 Quaid-e-Azam Residency attack (441) *O
  2.  Completed Rohilla (3372) *O

Mysterious Gopher (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed African Pentecostalism (529) *O
  2.  Completed Galib Mammadov (448) *O
  3.  Completed Aucelon (131) *O
  4.  Completed Batman vs. Robin (1397) *O
  5.  Completed Cantonments (Pakistan) (893) *O
  6.  Completed Loan Chabanol (260) *O
  7.  Completed Luigi De Falco (278) *O
  8.  Completed 1980s in fashion (3997) *O

Winner 42 Talk to me![edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Aunt May (2898)
  2.  Completed Paid News (499) *O
  3.  Completed Kendall Taylor (613) *O
  4.  Completed Naas (1564) *O
  5.  Completed John McKenna (535) *O
  6.  Completed Data quality (2096) *O
  7.  Completed Charles Kennedy (3085) *O

InfernusIsHiding-Talk[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed S&P Dow Jones Indices (4430) *O
  2.  Completed Squad number (association football) (Could use some layout changes still) (4819) *O
  3.  Completed List of Ben 10 characters (17063)
  4.  Completed List of The Flintstones episodes (14149)

Laatu (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed YZ (rapper) (394)
  2.  Completed Cecil Rajendra (note: Lfstevens also copyedited this article during the May drive. I am not sure how to tally words for the combined effort?) (184)
  3.  Completed Paulie (629)
  4.  Completed Kidoh (338)
  5.  Completed Swim Team (164)
  6.  Completed Biopitting (223)
  7.  Completed Kannan (music director) (132)
  8.  Completed Anne Kremer (72)
  9.  Completed Billy Powell (809)
  10.  Completed Hiroki Uemoto (209)
  11.  Completed Anna Vogelzang (231)
  12.  Completed Cabin pressurization (section: Aircraft) (602)
  13.  Completed Vincent Ziani de Ferranti (779)

Alexjanowska (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed James William Govett (255) *O

Michaeldouglass (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()

Rosh 2112 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()

Wilhelmina Will (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Jim Adema (375)
  2.  Completed Graham Aggasiz (86)
  3.  Completed Sigrid Agren (647)
  4.  Completed Bernard Lepkofker (191)
  5.  Completed Bibby Financial Services (252)

Vanamonde93 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Sugar ant (1879) *R
  2.  Completed The 100 (novel) (1311) *R
  3.  Completed The Mask of Zorro (3083) *R

HoboMcJoe (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Biomarker (685)
  2.  Completed Mezhyhirya Residence (1200) *O
  3.  Completed Legal awareness (section, words counted using MS Word) (177)
  4.  Completed Azam Khan (politician) (714) *O
  5.  Completed International counter-terrorism activities of CIA (7772) *O

JarmihiGOCE (talk)[edit]

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No articles.

Helganoth mj (talk)[edit]

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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()

Lemmoid (talk)[edit]

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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()

KieranTribe (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed 2015_Xi-Chu_Meeting (443)
  2.  Completed Emae_language (1480)
  3.  Working [[]] ()

CrowCaw[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed St Benet's, Paul's Wharf (Lot of copyvio here, so copyedit included a lot of deletion. :( ) (971) *O
  2.  Completed Tulamba (1132)

PaintedCarpet (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Dominican Film Market (110)
  2.  Completed Olasunkanmi Abioye Opeola, Kurunloju I (296)
  3.  Completed Veerabhadra Devasthan-Vadhav (51)
  4.  Completed Guy William Willis Stevens (110)
  5.  Completed Signature island (154)
  6.  Completed Andreas Larsson (sommelier) (87)
  7.  Completed Rockwell J. Flint (193)
  8.  Completed List of Draughts-64 World Championship winners (36)
  9.  Completed Hidayat al-Muta`allemin Fi al-Tibb (314)
  10.  Completed Autoradio (Belarus) (112)
  11.  Completed Abu Bakr Rabee Ibn Ahmad Al-Akhawyni Bokhari (199)

TGCJKS197276 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Tove Lo (2069) *R

FacultiesIntact (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Hook (film) (2679)

HRHtate (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Asian Surfing Championships (ASC) (very minor edit) (1133)

Marcus1093 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Loïs Andréa (328)
  2.  Completed Alfândega_da_Fé (1370)
  3.  Completed Nhamo Mkondo (394)
  4.  Completed Mubarak Ali (931)
  5.  Completed Clodoveo Ferri(467)
  6.  Completed Confucius Institute (3620)

Mathijsvs (talk)[edit]

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  1.  Completed John Redwood (2,165)
  2.  Completed Haat bazaar (260)
  3.  Completed Jim Carrey (5,243)

BrandenburgG (talk)[edit]

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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()

GaryColemanFan (talk)[edit]

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  1.  Completed Kristian Brix (113)
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