Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2018

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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 11 February 2018, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 17 February 2018, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz were:

To reduce the number of outstanding requests on our requests page. Good Article nominations (GANs) and Featured Article candidates (FACs) require careful editing by experienced copyeditors, with the prose bar higher for FACs than for GANs.
To copy-edit the articles in the May 2017 backlog month.

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 was 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 Corinne (talk), Miniapolis (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 May 2017 articles	Change since previous day	Change since beginning	Daily articles edited
February 10, 2018	30	—	—	—
February 11, 2018	29	1	1	4
February 12, 2018	25	4	5	4
February 13, 2018	22	3	8	5
February 14, 2018	21	1	9	4
February 15, 2018	19	2	11	4
February 16, 2018	16	3	14	4
February 17, 2018	14	2	16	8

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

Signing up

To sign up for the blitz, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section for you to record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous blitz can be found here.

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)

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list
Completed CD Travadores (1429) Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1,429
Rollover words: 1,834

Gog the Mild (talk)

Article list
Completed Police Regiment South (1262) Completed Gisele Yashar (1166)

Total articles: 2
Total words: 2428

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
Completed Karpal Singh (2,984) Completed Shaykh Syed Mir Mirak Andrabi (2,223) Completed High Line (4,435) Completed The Balkan Girls (1,359) Completed Doo-Wops & Hooligans (3,816)

Total articles: 5
Total words: 14,817
Rollover words: 3,667

Tdslk (talk)

Article list
Completed List of members of the 14th National Assembly of Pakistan (500) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 500
Rollover words: 1406

Twofingered Typist (talk)

Article list

Completed Thunderbird (comics) *O (2,277)
Completed Bring Me the Horizon *R (4,263)
Completed Central Link *R (3,559)
Completed the Jane Dear Girls (album) *R (2,514)
Completed Singer Presents...ELVIS *R (3,421)
Completed HIAG *R (7,424)
Completed Mitsuki (Naruto) *R (1,535)
Completed "I Have Questions" *R (1,300)
Completed Arsen Grigoryan *R (234)
Completed The Thing (1982 film) *R (9,762)

Total articles: 10
Total words: 36,289
Rollover words: 7,104

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
Completed Pieve Vergonte (5783)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 5,783
Rollover words: 3,729

BroVic (talk)

Article list
Completed Punnavely (889) Completed Irakli Tsereteli (5130) Completed Felger & Mazz (273)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 6,292

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list

Completed Tequixquiac (3499)
Completed David Meade (author) (partial count) (1000)
Completed Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring (1401)
Completed Speak (film) (partial count) (793)
Completed Fan (film) (2861)
Completed List of Airplay 100 number ones of the 2010s (311)
Completed Court (film) (3347)
Completed Creep (TLC song) (6084)
Completed Paul Abrahamian (760)
Completed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (7945)

Total articles: 10
Total words: 28001
Rollover words: 1998

Thinker78 (talk)

Article list
Completed 44 (band) (2401) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2401

EOu-ajb (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

To the point that the words have become unintelligible. (talk)

Article list
Completed All India Services Act, 1951 (598)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 598