Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2019

This event is now finished. Participants, please ignore the notice below and add your final word counts in the next 24-36 hours from my timestamp. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 03:38, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion 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 discussion.

This Copy Editing Project Blitz was a one-week-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 began on 17 February 2019, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 23 February 2019, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz were:

Requests and
Articles tagged in September 2018 (done; thanks!)

Blitz participants could 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 was open to all; you didn'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 Miniapolis (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Jonesey95 (talk), Reidgreg (talk), and Tdslk (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 Requests and Sept articles	Change since previous day	Change since beginning	Daily articles edited
February 16, 2019	37	—	—	—
February 17, 2019	33	4	4	4
February 18, 2019	28	5	9	5
February 19, 2019	26	2	11	2
February 20, 2019	22	4	15	4
February 21, 2019	22	0	15	2
February 22, 2019	17	5	20	5
February 23, 2019	14	3	23	3

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

Baffle☿gab

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)

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list
Completed Hryhoriy Vasiura (1314) Completed University of Belgrade Faculty of Security Studies (1072) R Checked* Baffle☿gab 06:53, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply] Working [[]] () Working [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 2386
Rollover words: 2859

Ben79487 (talk)

Article list

Completed Coat of arms of Greece (1,965) *R – Reidgreg (talk) 13:47, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Completed Nostrana (restaurant) (837) *R – Reidgreg (talk) 13:47, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Completed R. Hari Kumar (499) *R – Reidgreg (talk) 13:47, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Completed Lucy Fallon (546) *R
Completed Sputnik 1 (4,339) *R
Completed Mario Alberto Peña (753) *R
Completed Cross Marian (1,504) *R
Completed Venning v Chin (816)

Total articles: 8
Total words: 11,259
Rollover words: 483
Total (plus bonus) count: 16,963.5

PopularOutcast (talk)

Article list
Completed Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1282) – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:13, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply] Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1282
Rollover words: 6,645

DannyS712 (talk)

Article list
Completed Shadow campaigns in the United States (1207) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1207

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list
Completed Orenco station (TriMet) (1437) Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1437
Rollover words: 350

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
Completed Bologna massacre (2,695) Completed Freddy vs. Jason (2,172) Checked Baffle☿gab 07:02, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply] Completed Missamma (soundtrack) (1,219) Completed On the Job (2013 film) (2,733)

Total articles: 4
Total words: 8,819
Rollover words: 1,671

Gog the Mild (talk)

Article list
Completed Echo parakeet (7700)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 7700

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
Completed Enel (including bulleted lists) (5506)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 5,506
Rollover words: 281

FiveFaintFootprints (talk)

Article list
Completed Rachel Sheherazade (758) Checked Baffle☿gab Completed Amrita (Gujarati novel) (702) *R

Total articles: 2
Total words: 1460
Rollover words: 1190

Twofingered Typist (talk)

Article list
Completed Ruth Hanna McCormick R (2,958) Checked* Baffle☿gab 07:10, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply] Completed List of D.Gray-man characters R (11,428) Completed* Safavid occupation of Basra (1697–1701) R (2,040) Completed* The Emperor's New School R (1,997) Completed* Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare *R (2,543)

Total articles: 5
Total words: 20,966
Rollover words: 6332

Adam J Hruby (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Tdslk (talk)

Article list
Completed Fatwa of Ali Khamenei against insulting revered Sunni figures (334) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 334
Rollover words: 1082

Suman chowdhury 22 (talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working Bollywood (12852)

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

Article list
Completed Wing Chun (902) Completed Groom Mine (1,853) R Completed* If You Leave Me (871)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 3,629
Rollover words: 960

Csgir (talk)

Article list
Completed S. Ramanathan (Indian politician) (427) Checked Baffle☿gab Working Chandragupta Maurya (2925)

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0