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516 articles in the backlog
GOCE backlog status as of 00:52 2019-10-01 (UTC)

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive was a one-month-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, and {{spacing}}) or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 September 2019, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 30 September 2019, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in March, April and May 2019);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from August 2019.

Drive participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edited. Articles listed on the Requests page counted towards your total; these articles are generally higher in quality than those tagged with {{copy edit}}. You received a bonus score of 50% over the article's word count for articles that were tagged with {{copy edit}} in March, April and May 2019, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive was open to all Wikipedians; you didn't have to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. You must, however, have been competent in your use of English grammar, spelling and punctuation. We strongly advised you to read Wikipedia's guide to basic copy editing before you began working. If you were 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 Reidgreg (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Miniapolis (talk), Tdslk (talk) and Twofingered Typist (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on recording your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive page. Further details can be found on the drive FAQ page.

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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(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles
Logophile59 (32) Twofingered Typist (24) Tdslk (20) Miniapolis (19) Bobbychan193 (14)
Reidgreg (14)
Total
Words[n 1]
Twofingered Typist (93,277) Logophile59 (80,223) Reidgreg (36,466) Miniapolis (35,616) Willbb234 (22,209)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Logophile59 (7) Twofingered Typist (5) Reidgreg (4) Gog the Mild (2)
Lfstevens (2)
Mathijsvs (1)
Tdslk (1)
Willbb234 (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
Logophile59 (32) Miniapolis (19) Bobbychan193 (12)
Reidgreg (12)
Twofingered Typist (8) Willbb234 (7)
Lfstevens (7)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
Reidgreg (19,627) Twofingered Typist (13,607) Gog the Mild (11,684) Logophile59 (10,756) Wilbb234 (8,277)
  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 March, April and May 2019.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Backlog Progress
Date
  • Old articles
  • March, April and May 2019
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 August 2019 229 814
1 September 2019 225 786 Positive decrease 28 Positive decrease 28
2 September 2019 217 785 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 29
3 September 2019 212 768 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 46
4 September 2019 210 769 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 45
5 September 2019 209 764 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 50
6 September 2019 205 737 Positive decrease 27 Positive decrease 77
7 September 2019 199 730 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 84
8 September 2019 195 724 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 90
9 September 2019 194 704 Positive decrease 20 Positive decrease 110
10 September 2019 189 696 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 118
11 September 2019 188 693 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 121
12 September 2019 183 688 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 126
13 September 2019 176 673 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 141
14 September 2019 166 656 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 158
15 September 2019 162 646 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 168
16 September 2019 157 643 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 171
17 September 2019 154 644 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 170
18 September 2019 151 638 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 176
19 September 2019 147 631 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 183
20 September 2019 145 633 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 181
21 September 2019 141 637 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 177
22 September 2019 137 610 Positive decrease 27 Positive decrease 204
23 September 2019 130 592 Positive decrease 18 Positive decrease 222
24 September 2019 119 570 Positive decrease 22 Positive decrease 244
25 September 2019 114 568 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 246
26 September 2019 112 549 Positive decrease 19 Positive decrease 265
27 September 2019 106 542 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 272
28 September 2019 104 528 Positive decrease 14 Positive decrease 286
29 September 2019 96 523 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 291
30 September 2019 92 519 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 295
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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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 penalized 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

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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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How to record articles you have copy edited:

  • Remove any extant {{copy edit}} 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) and avoid piped links, quotation marks and italics.
    • 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; do not use additional brackets for comments. Avoid long calculation strings (more than one line) in your word total.
  • 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}}.
  • If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R (using plain text) after the word count. If it was tagged in March, April and May 2019, place *O (using plain text) 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 this on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (1,234) *O

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O
Article list
  1.  Completed Timeline of the war in Donbass (April–June 2016) (19627) *O
  2.  Completed Thamarai (TV series) (908) *O
  3.  Completed Nayagi (TV series) (3502) *O
  4.  Completed Kasthooriman (TV series) (5429) *O
  5.  Completed Bryan Sellers (684) *O
  6.  Completed Jana Sena Party (416) *O
  7.  Completed Mewat district (916) *O
  8.  Completed Mahatma Gandhi Setu (section) (259) *O
  9.  Completed White House Council on Women and Girls (629) *O
  10.  Completed IgroMir (674) *O
  11.  Completed Srinidhi Shetty (364) *O
  12.  Completed Freestyle football (786) *O
  13.  Completed A Tree Grows in Guadalajara (1097) *R
  14.  Completed I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (1175) *R
  • Total articles: 14
  • Total words: 36466
  • Rollover words: 179308
Article list
  1.  Completed 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division (11684) *R
  2.  Completed 45th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (2578) *R
  3.  Completed St. Croix macaw (2321) *R
  4.  Completed Raj Somadeva (295)
  5.  Completed Pernia Qureshi (256)
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 17134
  • Rollover words: 3705.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Murray D. Levy (130)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 130
  • Rollover words: 2869
Article list
  1.  Completed Vietnam (13,607) *R
  2.  Completed American football (8873) *R
  3.  Completed Akane Yamaguchi (3413) *R
  4.  Completed Enjoy Yourself (Kylie Minogue album) (2527) *R
  5.  Completed Salute to America *R (2697)
  6.  Completed Daryl Peach (1594) *R
  7.  Completed The Glass Passenger (3390)*R
  8.  Completed MAX Green Line (3712) *R
  9.  Completed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (4821) *R
  10.  Completed SpongeBob SquarePants (11,337) *R
  11.  Completed Sun Yang (3278) *R
  12.  Completed Ding Junhui (4297) *R
  13.  Completed Michael Wittmann (2842) *R
  14.  Completed Myth of the clean Wehrmacht (7112) *R
  15.  Completed KXGN-TV (1292) *O
  16.  Completed Philadelphia Phillies (9967) *O
  17.  Completed Women's Voices Now (543) *O
  18.  Completed Trinity College School (1556) *O
  19.  Completed Hall Caine Airport (4462) *O
  20.  Completed Higher Brothers (749) *O
  21.  Completed Fremantle Australia (907) *O
  22.  Completed Elizabeth Oropesa (604) *O
  • Total articles: 22
  • Total words: 93,580
  • Rollover words: 1178658.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (2036) *O
  2.  Completed Historically black colleges and universities (2246) Checked Baffle☿gab
  3.  Completed Kurukshetra (587) *O
  4.  Working () ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4869
Article list
  1.  Completed Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (1,625) *O
  2.  Completed Sekolah Menengah Agama Persekutuan Bentong (2,297) *O
  3.  Completed Malout (2,161) *O
  4.  Completed Arhat (266) *O
  5.  Completed Jogindernagar (2,354) *O
  6.  Completed Khulna (2,983) *O
  7.  Completed Malangwa (1,986) *O
  8.  Completed Vikram Samvat (1,570) *O
  9.  Completed Kaushambi district (844) *O
  10.  Completed Salkocha (887) *O
  11.  Completed Rayagada district (3,993) *O
  12.  Completed Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Ballia (1,104) *O
  13.  Completed Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan (2,018) *O
  14.  Completed Khan Kluay (803) *O
  15.  Completed Pepenazi (1,119) *O
  16.  Completed Proposed secession of Republika Srpska (1,395) *O
  17.  Completed Loevinger's stages of ego development (1,887) *O
  18.  Completed International Business Centre of Madeira (1,353) *O
  19.  Completed Conservation refugee (4,971) *O
  • Total articles: 19
  • Total words: 35,616
  • Rollover words: 16,068
Article list
  1.  Completed Teacher Eligibility Test (1028) *O
  2.  Completed Pension policy in South Korea (2471) *O
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 3499
  • Rollover words: 1291.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Music therapy (157) *O – Only one section was tagged
  2.  Completed Remand (detention) (370) *O – Only one section was tagged
  3.  Completed Wang Xiaosong (442) *O
  4.  Completed Xiangsheng (2275) *O
  5.  Completed Andy McKean (477) *R
  6.  Completed Light of Hope (957) *O
  7.  Completed Xu Jingcheng (260) *O – Only one section was tagged
  8.  Completed Assassination of Kim Jong-nam (1231) *O – Only one section was tagged
  9.  Completed Mike Wallace Is Here (1001) *R
  10.  Completed Human trafficking in New York (148) *O – Only one section was tagged
  11.  Completed Internet celebrity (1805) *O
  12.  Completed Mixed reality (1420) *O
  13.  Completed Karin Takahashi (400) *O – a few extra words for the infobox / tables
  14.  Completed Miss Panamá 2015 (750) *O – extra words for the tables and bulleted lists
  15.  Working [[]] ()
  16.  Working [[]] ()
  17.  Working [[]] ()
  18.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 14
  • Total words: 11693
  • Rollover words: 3998
Article list
  1.  Completed Junagadh (4215) *O
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 4,215
  • Rollover words: 7,346.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Francis J. Heney (1288) *O
  2.  Completed Perla de Leon (894) *O
  3.  Completed Ligue du LOL (929) *O
  4.  Completed Sarala Temple (4569) *O
  5.  Completed Interpersonal communication (10251) *O
  6.  Completed Trinucleotide repeat disorder (1763) *O
  7.  Completed Denglisch (194) *O
  8.  Completed Love and Responsibility (403) *O
  9.  Completed Wanda Pimentel (920) *O
  10.  Completed Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Ajmer (828) *O
  11.  Completed Nayagarh (926) *O
  12.  Completed Julio Moizeszowicz (1212) *O
  13.  Completed Karuvarakundu (669) *O
  14.  Completed Liu Chengyou (4811) *O
  15.  Completed Rajapalayam (1610) *O
  16.  Completed Janet Napolitano (3691) *O
  17.  Completed Khulna Public College (902) *O
  18.  Completed Kaalai (718) *O
  19.  Completed List of Justice League episodes (5,351) *O
  20.  Completed Raja Rani (TV series) (1428) *O
  21.  Completed Cochin University of Science and Technology (6383) *O
  22.  Completed Economy of Kenya (6765) *O
  23.  Completed Sri Lanka national football team (180) *O
  24.  Completed Nadipinayakanahalli (1499) *O
  25.  Completed Leokadia Serafinowicz (852) *O
  26.  Completed Mahindra Satyam (1286) *O
  27.  Completed Li Jiancheng (3267) *O
  28.  Completed Khag, Jammu and Kashmir (1336) *O
  29.  Completed Morgane Merteuil (408) *O
  30.  Completed Istana Woodneuk (954) *O
  31.  Completed Iti Mrinalini (3179) *O
  32.  Completed Electricity sector in India (10756) *O
  • Total articles: 32
  • Total words: 80,222
  • Rollover words: 8638
Article list
  1.  Completed Fadhila Chitour (204)
  2.  Completed Un geste d'amour (201)
  3.  Completed Tamil Seychellois (523)
  4.  Completed Thevar Vellan (62)
  5.  Completed translanguaging (3147) *O
  6.  Completed Grand Albert (333) *O
  7.  Completed Dalbergia stevensonii (1649) *O
  8.  Completed Thérèse Adloff (167)
  9.  Completed Mikhail Akimenko (61)
  10.  Completed panche baja (115)
  11.  Completed rape and murder of Nirmala Panta (1232)
  12.  Completed Bastarnae (6233) *R
  13.  Completed Concerns and controversies at the 2020 Summer Olympics (1251)
  14.  Completed Mavis Owureku-Asare (364)
  15.  Completed Up Up Girls Kakko Kari (535)
  16.  Completed Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer (2894)
  17.  Completed Unnao rape case (1188)
  18.  Completed Bodo people (987)
  19.  Completed Kuberan (2002 film) (265)
  20.  Completed 1980 South American Jaguars rugby union tour of South Africa (317)
  21.  Completed [[]] ()
  22.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 20
  • Total words: 21,728
  • Rollover words: 7150
Article list
  1.  Completed Good Charlotte (album) (2,025) *R
  2.  Completed Weathering with You (2,530) *R
  3.  Completed Shinya Kogami (2,681) *R
  4.  Completed Alfonso Lam Liu (1,722) *R
  5.  Completed Go Vacation (1,685) *R
  6.  Completed Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey (3,222) *R
  7.  Completed Kashifi (473) *R
  8.  Completed Caveira (1,594) *R
  9.  Completed Special Area Games Scheme (1,308) *R
  10.  Completed Deactivators (772) *R
  11.  Completed Cadet Nurse Corps (3,387) *R
  12.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 21,399
  • Rollover words: 6,284
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Aquaman (film) (5,278) *O
  2.  Completed Michael A. Sutton (1178) *O
  3.  Completed M. A. G. Osmani (6,798) *O
  4.  Completed Steve Howard (sociologist) (997) *O
  5.  Completed Leander Paes (3005) *O
  6.  Completed Jathedar Bhai Tehal Singh Dhanju (1248) *O
  7.  Completed Malavika Avinash (722) *O
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 19,226
  • Rollover words: 7052
Article list
  1.  Completed René Ifrah (337) *O
  2.  Completed Dragutin Keserović (1645)
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
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  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
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  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1982
  • Rollover words: 3,255
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 6469.5
Article list
  1.  Completed Chief information officer (1552) Checked Baffle☿gab
  2.  Working Mixed reality (1344) *O (completed by Bobbychan)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1,552
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Tony D'Souza (597) Checked Baffle☿gab
  2.  Completed Martin_Horn_(politician) (489)
  3.  Completed Hello (2107 Film) (916)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 2002
Article list
  1.  Completed Maham (1163) *O Checked Baffle☿gab
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1163
  • Rollover words: 3960
Article list
  1.  Completed History of CAD software (1182) *O Checked Baffle☿gab
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1182
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
Article list
  1.  Completed Dmitry Glukhovsky (847)*O
  2.  Completed Huccha Venkat (828)*O
  3.  Completed (partial) Battle of Goychay (1206)*R Passed onto Twofingered Typist halfway through
  4.  Completed Gilberto Lerma Plata (1483)*R
  5.  Completed Assistant commandant (403)*R
  6.  Completed Wilhelm Keitel (2232)*R Checked Baffle☿gab
  7.  Completed Paul Boafo (911)*O
  8.  Completed Real-life superhero (2658)*O
  9.  Completed Alandi (1479)*O
  10.  Completed Alicia García-Herrero (552)*O
  11.  Completed 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans (8277)*R
  12.  Completed Manipal University Jaipur (1308)*O
  • Total articles: 11.5
  • Total words: 22,184
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Pavel Vlasov (315)
  2.  Completed Italian Wars (8062) Checked Baffle☿gab
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 8377
Article list
  1.  Completed Crash Course (YouTube) (1,922) *R Checked Baffle☿gab
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1,922
  • Rollover words: 663.5
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Alphabetic_numeral_system ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed Dragutin Keserović (1,644) Superficial changes only; completed by Jonesey95. Will notify. Miniapolis 14:02, 30 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (2,265) Checked Baffle☿gab
  3.  Working [[]] (0)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 3,909
Article list
  1.  Completed List of banks in Thailand (147) Checked Baffle☿gab
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 147
  • Rollover words: 1570
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