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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 October 19, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on October 25, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme(s) of this blitz are:

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) and Miniapolis (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.

Article lists

When you have chosen an article for copy editing and are ready to edit it, please add {{working}} (displays as Working) and sign your name and date (~~~~) next to the article's listing in the table below. Please mark an item as "working" only when you are immediately going to begin editing it, so that we can avoid articles being stuck in limbo.

When you are done copy-editing the article, please add {{y}} (displays as Y) and sign your name and date (~~~~) next to the article's listing below, then record it in your article list below.

Article list for this blitz

Click "show" to expand the list of articles.

Article list

0. fake article to show what an in-progress article looks like

Working – Jonesey95 (talk)

00. fake article to show what a completed article looks like

– Jonesey95 (talk)

Albums

A Great Night in Harlem Y - Baffle gab1978 (talk) 00:33, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Colours (Ayumi Hamasaki album) Y Baffle gab1978 (talk) 17:55, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Dayman (album) Y Baffle gab1978 (talk) 22:55, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Gift (Kanjani Eight EP) Y Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:57, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Gourmandises Working - ΤheQ Editor ^Talk? 22:04, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Growing Up (IU album) Y Baffle gab1978 (talk) 22:09, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
List of Slayers songs Working Fiosracht Talk 17:31, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Me? (EP) Done "We could read for-EVER; reading round the wiki!" (talk) 22:46, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Metallica Through the Never
My Love, My Life (album) Y JudyCS (talk) 15:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Recovery (Eminem album) Y Amintly (talk) 20:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Rhyme Skool with Katrina Kaif Y Baffle gab1978 (talk) 18:14, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Silver Side Up Y Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:28, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Soy (Debi Nova album) Y Baffle gab1978 (talk) 19:00, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Legacy of Bhikhari Thakur Done Philg88 ^♦talk 06:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Lovestory LP Done "We could read for-EVER; reading round the wiki!" (talk) 00:10, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Valerio Scanu Live in Roma (CD DVD) Y - ΤheQ Editor ^Talk? 22:04, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Volume Up Y JudyCS (talk) 16:10, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

History

Battle of Smolenice Y Xcia0069 (talk) 11:00, 19 October 2014 (UTC) Still needs inline citations though[reply]
Buddhist cosmology Y – Jonesey95 (talk)
Capitulare de villis Y - SmileBlueJay97 talk 15:30, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Empire Y I forgot to add this mark when I signed the article as Complete in my list below. This article still needs work, including verification or clarification of some information stated as facts. ˘ | ˘ Hwajae^talk
First Vienna Award
History of Andhra Pradesh
History of Dalmatia Y still needs lots of work; simply reads as list of facts without citations
History of Hesse Working Amintly (talk) 20:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
History of machine translation
History of Morocco Y Vanamonde93 (talk) 02:13, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
History of the hamburger in the United States Y JudyCS (talk) 06:47, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
History of the Jews in Poland
History of Wallonia
Inquisitorial system Y (only small changes were needed in tagged section) Tdslk (talk) 00:49, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Jhansi Ki Rani (TV series) Working ~Helicopter Llama~ 11:54, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Levon Mirzoyan Y – Tdslk (talk) 00:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
New Imperialism Y – removed tag; tagged section probably should be entirely rewritten for POV reasons, but little copy editing needed. Tdslk (talk) 04:34, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Presentism Y – was recently (last week) changed to redirect page. New page Presentism (literary and historical analysis) is not tagged for copy editing. Tdslk (talk) 19:09, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Self-organization
The Expansion of England Y Vanamonde93 (talk) 21:50, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Great Day of Girona
Thomas Gardner (planter) Y Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:30, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
~~What Is History?~~ Not done: unsuitable for c/e. Relies too heavily on primary source. C/e tag removed, tagged for cleanup. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 09:20, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Progress

Progress Chart
Date	Outstanding History or Albums articles	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
October 18, 2014	41	—	—
October 19, 2014	30	11	11
October 20, 2014	26	4	15
October 21, 2014	21	5	20
October 22, 2014	19	2	22
October 23, 2014	16	3	25
October 24, 2014	16	0	25
October 25, 2014	12	4	29

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 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 gab1978 (talk)

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.
Place articles you're working on on the {{Working}} line. 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 it 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)

JudyCS (talk)

Article list
Completed My Love, My Life (album) (75) Y—Minor changes; c/e mostly done by NickGibson3900. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply] Completed Volume Up (278) Completed History of the hamburger in the United States (2,079)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 2,432
Rollover words: 1,062

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

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Completed Me? (EP) (677) - I'm counting the whole article's word count rather than just the tagged section because virtually the whole thing needed copyediting. There were a number of places where I wasn't completely sure what the intended message of the text was, so I had to draw a few guesses, but the article is readable now, so any inaccuracies can be easily corrected by someone more familiar with the subject. Y—Nice work. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 20:56, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Completed The Lovestory LP (90) - I'm not sure whether the periods in some of the album titles mentioned in the text are actually part of the titles or not, so I've left those until further notice.

Total articles: 2
Total words: 767
Rollover words: 964

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

Article list
Completed Colours (Ayumi Hamasaki album) (525) Completed Dayman (album) (139) Completed Gift (Kanjani Eight EP) (282) Completed Rhyme Skool with Katrina Kaif (219) Completed Soy (Debi Nova album) (178) Completed Growing Up (IU album) (256) Completed Thomas Gardner (planter) (1,511) Completed Silver Side Up (809) Completed A Great Night in Harlem (3,745)

Total articles: 9
Total words: 7,668
Rollover words: 1,971

NickGibson3900 (talk)

Article list
Completed My Love, My Life (album) (257) including list as I reformatted and referenced that Y—Nice work. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:31, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Total articles: 1
Total words: 257
Rollover words: 972

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Completed Buddhist cosmology (451) (section)YNice clean-up and copy-edit. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:07, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Total articles: 1
Total words: 451
Rollover words: 1,385

Vanamonde93 (talk)

Article list
Completed History of Morocco (5,436) Y—an excellent copy-edit. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:44, 21 October 2014 (UTC)[reply] Completed The Expansion of England (1058)

Total articles: 2
Total words: 6494

MrWooHoo (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0
Rollover words: 524

SmileBlueJay97 (talk)

Article list
Completed Capitulare de villis (2313)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2313

Eman235/talk

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Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Philg88 ^♦talk

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Completed The Legacy of Bhikhari Thakur (841) Partly done—Some helpful changes; article still needs work. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:12, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Total articles: 1
Total words: 841
Rollover words: 1,113

Gastronaut (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

~Helicopter Llama~ (talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working Jhansi Ki Rani (TV series) (945)

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Amintly (talk)

Article list
Completed Recovery (Eminem album) (3609) Working History of Hesse (1107)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 3609

ΤheQ Editor ^Talk?

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Completed Valerio Scanu Live in Roma (CD DVD) (230) Partly done; helpful changes but article text remains poorly-written. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:51, 21 October 2014 (UTC) Y I cleaned it up a bit more. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:04, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply] Working Gourmandises (550)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 230
Rollover words: 1,074

MHBeals (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

MrEdTheTalkingHorseEditor (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Tdslk (talk)

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Completed Levon Mirzoyan (238) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 238

˘ | ˘ Hwajae^talk

Article list

Completed Empire (3542) - This is my first blitz edit and I was somewhat unsure how extensively to edit the text. There were some instances in which correcting the text requires researching the accuracy of statements in the article. I added several questions/comments to the Talk page of this article. Additional hyperlinks to related Wikipedia articles remain to be done, and I didn't have time to review the cited references, but additional citations would be useful. ˘ | ˘ Hwajae^talk 00:30, 26 October 2014 (UTC) – Oh, and I realize I finished too late for the official blitz deadline, but I wanted to complete this. ˘ | ˘ Hwajae^talk 00:47, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 3542

Thesixthstaff (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Xcia0069 (talk)

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Completed History of Dalmatia (6944) Completed Battle of Smolenice (764) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 7708

Wikilizards (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Fiosracht Talk

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Working List of Slayers songs ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Skr15081997 (talk)

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Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

The discussion above 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.

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JudyCS (talk)

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

NickGibson3900 (talk)

Jonesey95 (talk)

Vanamonde93 (talk)

MrWooHoo (talk)

SmileBlueJay97 (talk)

Eman235/talk

Philg88 ♦talk

Gastronaut (talk)

~Helicopter Llama~ (talk)

Amintly (talk)

ΤheQ Editor Talk?

MHBeals (talk)

MrEdTheTalkingHorseEditor (talk)

Tdslk (talk)

˘ | ˘ Hwajaetalk

Thesixthstaff (talk)

Xcia0069 (talk)

Wikilizards (talk)

Fiosracht Talk

Skr15081997 (talk)

Philg88 ^♦talk

ΤheQ Editor ^Talk?

˘ | ˘ Hwajae^talk