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The following event is closed. Please do not modify it. Participants, please add your final tallies in the 48 hours after closure.

This Copy Editing Project Blitz was an eight-day-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 14 June, at 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 21 June, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme(s) of this blitz were:

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 lead coordinator is Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Reidgreg (talk), Tdslk (talk) and Twofingered Typist (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

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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 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

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
June 13, 2020 197 Steady  0 Steady  0
June 14, 2020 192 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease  5
June 15, 2020 187 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 10
June 16, 2020 184 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 13
June 17, 2020 179 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 18
June 18, 2020 175 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 22
June 19, 2020 153 Positive decrease 22 Positive decrease 44
June 20, 2020 141 Positive decrease 13 Positive decrease 56
June 21, 2020 124 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 73

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 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

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Signing up

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This blitz 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. 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)
Article list
  1.  Completed Groundhog Day (film) (11456) *R
  2.  Completed Battle of Asakai (2498) *R
  3.  Completed Vagina (album) (647) *R
  4.  Completed Lights (musician) (2007) *R
  5.  Completed Bluffmaster! (397) *R
  6.  Completed Art Tomassetti (3160) *R
  7.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 20165
  • Rollover words: 31
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Pacification of Ghent (1556) Checked Baffle☿gab 21:20, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Cessair (741)
  3.  Working Spanish chivalry (1897) Thumbs down icon no edits Reidgreg (talk) 13:28, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2297
  • Rollover words: 1874
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1,378
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  1.  Completed Tayyab Husain (281) Checked Baffle☿gab 21:41, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 281
  • Rollover words: 1440
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed Salt substitute (538) Checked Baffle☿gab 21:51, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Briton Ferry (2788)
  3.  Completed Staffing (1401)
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4727
Article list
  1.  Completed Gangadharpur (700)
  2.  Completed Bisram Khan (52) - checked. Tdslk
  3.  Completed Kamal Kartik (87)
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 839
Article list
  1.  Completed Bettie Serveert (650)
  2.  Completed Oleg Bakhmatyuk (865)
  3.  Completed Edward Rose (fur trapper) (1,200)
  4.  Completed Estehlal Headquarters (245)
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 2,960
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Working Walk forward optimization (1448) ... removed copyvio, now (767)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Salah Farhat (1,852) Checked Baffle☿gab 03:51, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Squash in India (1,025) *R
  3.  Completed Meghamalai (1,888)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4,765
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 680
Article list
  1.  Completed Kelvin Taylor (actor) (403) Checked good revisions - left a couple MOS pointers. -- puddleglum2.0 01:10, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Dmitry Telnov (3495)
  3.  Completed Dann Visbal (425)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4323
Article list
  1.  Completed Sheila Atim (1260) Checkedgood Reidgreg (talk)
  2.  Completed Jesse Jagz (1826)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 3086
  • Rollover words: 29
Article list
  1.  Completed Adam Alsing (413)
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 413
  • Rollover words: 1,703
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 5,823
  • Rollover words: 518
Article list
  1.  Completed Sudeshna Roy (323) Checked Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:18, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 323
Article list
  1.  Completed Ismail I of Granada (2882)
  2.  Completed Kolkata Metro (4721)
  3.  Completed Karukurichi Arunachalam (414)
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 8017
  • Rollover words: 1,436
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Charles Manson (1760) Checkedsection only Reidgreg (talk)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1760
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Orangutan (5,900)
  2.  Completed Ryu (Street Fighter) (5,907)
  3.  Completed Timeline of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (April 2020) (2,141)
  4.  Completed Cymmer Colliery explosion (1,267)
  5.  Completed The Boys in the Bar (1,192)
  6.  Completed Ridge Racer (1993 video game) (2,587)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 19,267
  • Rollover words: 1,905
Article list
  1.  Completed Waqt: The Race Against Time (4,249) *R
  2.  Completed People and Things (3,672) *R
  3.  Completed Bekhudi (949) *O
  4.  Completed Defective democracy (965) *O
  5.  Completed Class society (946) *O
  6.  Completed Suffragette City (1,576) *O
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 12,357
  • Rollover words: 1,499
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Amit Shah (3562)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Yūko Mizutani (541) Checked good changes. Reidgreg (talk)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 541
Article list
  1.  Completed Overspeed (1122) Checked good changes; needs expert attention. Reidgreg (talk)
  2.  Completed Chengara (1510) Checked good changes; left notes on user talk. Reidgreg (talk)
  3.  Completed FitzAlan (926)
  4.  Completed Ipoh (1893)
  5.  Completed Hsiao-Wen Ting (1673)
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 7,124
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Thirteenth salary (1266) Thumbs down icon no edits Reidgreg (talk) 13:52, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()

 Working 4AT (553)

  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed Angene Oru Avadhikkalathu (403)
  2.  Completed Mika Shimotsuki (1709)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2112
  • Rollover words: 500
Article list

Wah Cantonment, Jhatla – minimal changes, not a tagged article or request. Reidgreg (talk) 15:46, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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