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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 {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on July 1, 2015, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on July 31, 2015, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in January, February and March 2014);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2015.

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 January, February and March 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 Baffle gab1978 (talk), who is assisted by KieranTribe (talk), Miniapolis (talk) and Pax85 (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

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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 		Dthomsen8 (32) Miniapolis (31)
Hampton11235 (31) 		Lfstevens (11)
Pax85 (11)
Total
Words[n 1] 		Miniapolis (67,632) Hampton11235 (41,005) Lfstevens (33,924) Baffle gab1978 (24,498) Pax85 (22,565)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		Lfstevens (3) Miniapolis (2)
Vanamonde93 (2) 		Pax85 (1)
2macia22 (1)
Hampton11235 (1)
Baffle gab1978 (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		Hampton11235 (28) Miniapolis (23) Lfstevens (9) Pax85 (8) 2macia22 (4)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		Lfstevens (13,893) Vanamonde93 (9,575) 2macia22 (8,046) Hampton11235 (7,982) Miniapolis (6,611)
  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 January, February and March 2014.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Graphs of daily progress
Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Jan, Feb and Mar 2014
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
30 June 2015 217 2,228 — —
1 July 2015 211 2,233 Negative increase  5 Negative increase  5
2 July 2015 210 2,225 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease  3
3 July 2015 207 2,225 Steady  0 Positive decrease  3
4 July 2015 203 2,237 Negative increase  12 Negative increase  9
5 July 2015 202 2,241 Negative increase  4 Negative increase  13
6 July 2015 199 2,239 Positive decrease  2 Negative increase  11
7 July 2015 190 2,238 Positive decrease  1 Negative increase  10
8 July 2015 187 2,230 Positive decrease  8 Negative increase  2
9 July 2015 185 2,239 Negative increase  9 Negative increase  11
10 July 2015 180 2,234 Positive decrease  5 Negative increase  6
11 July 2015 176 2,232 Positive decrease  2 Negative increase  4
12 July 2015 169 2,223 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease  5
13 July 2015 162 2,225 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease  3
14 July 2015 155 2,218 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 10
15 July 2015 149 2,213 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 15
16 July 2015 144 2,205 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 23
17 July 2015 139 2,203 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 25
18 July 2015 132 2,200 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 28
19 July 2015 126 2,191 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 37
20 July 2015 122 2,197 Negative increase  6 Positive decrease 31
21 July 2015 118 2,194 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 34
22 July 2015 114 2,197 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 31
23 July 2015 108 2,195 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 33
24 July 2015 107 2,191 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 37
25 July 2015 106 2,190 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 38
26 July 2015 103 2,194 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 34
27 July 2015 100 2,202 Negative increase  8 Positive decrease 26
28 July 2015 97 2,202 Steady  0 Positive decrease 26
29 July 2015 95 2,195 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 33
30 July 2015 93 2,188 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 40
31 July 2015 79 2,188 Steady  0 Positive decrease 40
  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 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

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Signing up

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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.

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 {{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.
  • Place articles you're working on on the {{Working}} line. When you've finished your copy edit, change {{Working}} to {{Completed}}
  • If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count. If it was tagged in January, February and March 2014, place *O 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 it on the drive talk page.

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

Miniapolis (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Second Battle of Ypres (2,073) *O
  2.  Completed Mayabazar (3,675) *R
  3.  Completed The Rip Chords (2,861) *O
  4.  Completed Reign of Fire (film) (1,258) *R
  5.  Completed Sudan University of Science and Technology (1,154) *O Checked -Pax Verbum 05:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6.  Completed Man Down (song) (2,325) *R
  7.  Completed St Ethelbert's Church, Ramsgate (277) *O
  8.  Completed Ayers Rock (band) (4,800) *R
  9.  Completed Mold growth, assessment, and remediation (5,095) *O
  10.  Completed S/O Satyamurthy (6,611) *R
  11.  Completed Project Russia (1,077) *O
  12.  Completed Bahadur Shah I (3,524) *R
  13.  Completed Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence (1,615) *O
  14.  Completed 2006 UAW-Ford 500 (2,421) *R
  15.  Completed Malappuram district (lists) (4,307) *O
  16.  Completed Ash Crimson (1,636) *R
  17.  Completed Enrique Márquez Jaramillo (2,408) *O
  18.  Completed Interpersonal deception theory (2,731) *O
  19.  Completed Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (3,488) *O
  20.  Completed Bugo (877) *O
  21.  Completed Iraqi Police (1,826) *O
  22.  Completed Party of Regions (330) *O
  23.  Completed Russian LGBT Network (927) *O
  24.  Completed Kudiramalai (1,075) *O
  25.  Completed Yakuza 4 (3,406) *O
  26.  Completed Salem, Tamil Nadu (3,048) *O
  27.  Completed Thirteenth Aunt (506) *O
  28.  Completed Tormenta en el paraíso (445) *O
  29.  Completed Rajat Dholakia (390) *O
  30.  Completed Habib Munzir Al-Musawa (833) *O
  31.  Completed Foqion Postoli (633) *O
  • Total articles: 31
  • Total words: 67,632
  • Rollover words: 6,657

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Zammuto (band) (792) *O
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 792
  • Rollover words: 2,692

Eman235/talk

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Article list
  1.  Completed Putu (mushroom) (may not meet GNG) (72)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 72
  • Rollover words: 1186.5

KieranTribe (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Pax85 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Sonoma State University (2768) *O
  2.  Completed Neravy (140)
  3.  Completed U.S. Route 231 in Indiana (1954) *O
  4.  Completed Romney Literary Society (4338) *R
  5.  Completed Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (4190) *O
  6.  Completed Tasmanian cushion plants (1267) *O
  7.  Completed Don't Hate the Player (807) *O
  8.  Completed Japanese asset price bubble (5608) *O
  9.  Completed Photovoice (600) *O
  10.  Completed Gemma McCluskie (517) *R
  11.  Completed National e-Governance Plan (376) *O
  12.  Working Kottiyoor Vysakha Mahotsavam (4578) *O
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 22565

Hampton11235 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Chittagong (4501) *R
  2.  Completed Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (612) *R
  3.  Completed Supremacism (1121) *R
  4.  Completed Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Baltimore, Maryland) (541) *O
  5.  Completed Tan Xu (1043) *O
  6.  Completed State Committee on the State of Emergency (1073) *O Checked -Pax Verbum 06:03, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7.  Completed List of All-Hockey East Teams (319) *O
  8.  Completed Alexander N. Chumakov (882) *O
  9.  Completed Paco Montalvo (328) *O
  10.  Completed Damian of Albania (492) *O
  11.  Completed Alexander Ollongren (836) *O
  12.  Completed Sibsagar College (275) *O
  13.  Completed Athlone (3919) *O
  14.  Completed Wolfgang Kauer (309) *O
  15.  Completed Archduke Leo Karl of Austria (301) *O
  16.  Completed Orient Fair (1156) *O
  17.  Completed Ricardo Gómez Pérez (1029) *O
  18.  Completed Scientific Library of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (1409) *O
  19.  Completed Bandeirantes (1059) *O
  20.  Completed University of Chittagong (209) *O
  21.  Completed Andrey Kasparov (1567) *O
  22.  Completed Marieke Wijsman (935) *O
  23.  Completed Bella Shteinbuk (515) *O
  24.  Completed Nirankari (1008) *O
  25.  Completed Dave Holmes (researcher) (413) *O
  26.  Completed Riverdale Park, Maryland (2138) *O
  27.  Completed List of Ig Nobel Prize winners (7982) *O
  28.  Completed Morton Mandel (2527) *O
  29.  Completed Karola Obermueller (480) *O
  30.  Completed Thierry Lodé (396) *O
  31.  Completed National Environmental Policy Act (1630) *O
  • Total articles: 31
  • Total words: 41,005

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Karate throws (1242) *O
  2.  Completed Ismah (4401) *R
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 5643
  • Rollover words: 5727.5

Lfstevens (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Reactions to the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (13,893)
  2.  Completed Double-layer capacitance (1018) *O
  3.  Completed Photoredox catalysis (5,169) *O
  4.  Completed Pseudocapacitance (1498) *O
  5.  Completed Zenith Cable Modem (2680) *O
  6.  Completed National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (3053) *O
  7.  Completed Digital Forensics Framework (239) *O
  8.  Completed Legal issues with BitTorrent (1846) *O
  9.  Completed Wacom (company) (1979) *O
  10.  Completed Chipless RFID (904) *O
  11.  Completed Control rod (1645)
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 33,906

DThomsen8 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Neihsial (676) *O Checked - @Dthomsen8:Be sure to remove the GOCE tag after a copy edit. Also leaving a note on your talk page. Pax Verbum 18:34, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Snake (slang) (28)
  3.  Completed Tilori Kunbi (41)
  4.  Completed Chhokar Kalan (28)
  5.  Completed Ezone (80)
  6.  Completed Boroña (397)
  7.  Completed Vulturii Textila Lugoj (51)
  8.  Completed Nabu (91)
  9.  Completed Sribu.com (370)
  10.  Completed Goltakuri (234)
  11.  Completed Yusuf Al-Khuri (59)
  12.  Completed Titter Khel (321)
  13.  Completed Surkh Dheri (72)
  14.  Completed Hopea foxworthyi 69
  15.  Completed Sahmal (210)
  16.  Completed Bharouli Village (126) Checked Please don't forget to remove those {{GOCEinuse}} tags. Thank you for your work! :) -Pax Verbum 18:15, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  17.  Completed Kolompeh (121)
  18.  Completed Janta Market (81)
  19.  Completed Bolivian regional elections, 2015 (46)
  20.  Completed SS Castlegar (110)
  21.  Completed Saudi Regional League (71)
  22.  Completed Dawid Szufryn (13)
  23.  Completed Faruk Imam Muhammad (55)
  24.  Completed Chandpur Children's Academy (116)
  25.  Completed Hwata dynasty#Hwata chieftainships (206) *O
  26.  Completed Cringila Lions FC (50)
  27.  Completed Aluthgama (190)
  28.  Completed Hurlingham, Buenos Aires (61)
  29.  Completed Torka Bazaar (102)
  30.  Completed 2015 President's Cup (tennis) – Men's Doubles (104)
  31.  Completed Chindonan Island (136)
  32.  Completed Polly Pocket 2: Cool at the Pocket Plaza (135)
  33.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 32
  • Total words: 4,560
  • Rollover words: 2946

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Dreaming of You (album) (5,738) *R
  2.  Completed Sarai Alamgir (806) *O
  3.  Completed Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151 (2,039) *R
  4.  Completed Sheila Florance (3,969) *R
  5.  Completed Load (album) (957) *R
  6.  Completed 2012 Gatorade Duels (2,381) *R
  7.  Completed 2012 Daytona 500 (4,246) *R
  8.  Completed Wolfmother discography (450) *R
  9.  Completed Kalidas (film) (1,465) *R
  10.  Completed Perspectives on the abduction phenomenon (2,447) *R
  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 24,208
  • Rollover words: 9207.5

Yevata (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Vanamonde93 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ankylosaurus (2199)*R
  2.  Completed List of awards and nominations received by Crowded House (496)*R
  3.  Completed Russo-Georgian War (9575)*R
  4.  Completed Myrmecia (ant) (7148) *R
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 19518
  • Rollover words: 817.5

Tdslk (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Aranayaka (90)
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  11.  Completed [[]] ()
  12.  Completed [[]] ()
  13.  Completed [[]] ()
  14.  Completed [[]] ()
  15.  Completed [[]] ()
  16.  Completed [[]] ()
  17.  Completed [[]] ()
  18.  Completed [[]] ()
  19.  Completed [[]] ()
  20.  Completed [[]] ()
  21.  Completed [[]] ()
  22.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 90
  • Rollover words: 2346

Jarmihi (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Working Enrique Márquez Jaramillo (2,408)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Mathijsvs (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3668

HoboMcJoe (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Anti-Dumping case about washing machines (1043)
  2.  Working Lam Dorji (750) *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1043
  • Rollover words: 3391

2macia22 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Grand Courage (567) *O
  2.  Completed Yongzheng Emperor (3645) *O
  3.  Completed Districts of Madrid (1361) *O
  4.  Completed Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (2282)
  5.  Completed List of Hatkar clans (563)
  6.  Completed Naval battles of the American Civil War (545)
  7.  Completed Ceres, Celestial Legend (1325)
  8.  Completed Great Lakes (band) (1114)
  9.  Completed List of Slayers characters (8046)
  10.  Completed Taratari shipyard (596) *O
  11.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 20,044
  • Rollover words: 985.5

Jjjjjjdddddd (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Los Rieleros del Norte (748) *O
  2.  Completed Kill_the_Irishman (2667) *R
  3.  Completed Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (225) *O
  4.  Completed Sarai_Alamgir (605) *O
  5.  Working Magam (488)
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 4245

Quae legit (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Completed Terminator Genisys (except "Reception") (2830) *R
  3.  Working List of statues of Vladimir Lenin -- I tried to count only the lists that had sentences, but please let me know if I counted wrong. (2492) *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2830

Vicyush (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Agent 47 (3926) *O
  2.  Completed Gears of War (4164) *O
  3.  Completed Know Your Meme (430)
  4.  Completed GAZ Valdai (496)
  5.  Completed Street Fighter (4774)
  6.  Completed Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (1899)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 15689

Freebirds Howdy!

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

CoolInu43 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed 2015 Chinese stock market crash (527)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 527

YoSoyUnHamster (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Red Pen (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0