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The following event is now closed. Please do not modify this page, unless you are a participant adding your final statistics within 24 hours of the closure. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate talk page.

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 16 October 2022, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 22 October 2022, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz were:

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 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: Baffle gab1978 ( talk), Dhtwiki ( talk), Miniapolis ( talk), Tenryuu ( talk), and Zippybonzo ( 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
  • Jul/Aug Requests
    and
    Dec/Jan backlog articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
October 15, 2022 219
October 16, 2022 212 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease  7
October 17, 2022 199 Positive decrease 13 Positive decrease 20
October 18, 2022 182 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 37
October 19, 2022 169 Positive decrease 13 Positive decrease 50
October 20, 2022 169 Steady  0 Positive decrease 50
October 21, 2022 171 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 48
October 22, 2022 161 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 58

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

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)
Article list
  1.  Completed Olivia Colman (2,780)
  2.  Completed 2022 Iran–Greece naval incident (692)
  3.  Completed Eunuchs in China (5,960)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 9,432
  • Rollover words: 2,546
Article list
  1.  Completed Cinema of India (10238) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 10,238
  • Rollover words: 1,140
Article list
  1.  Completed Elon Musk (8049)
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 8,049
  • Rollover words: 1,665
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  1.  Completed Kumbhakarna (1639)*O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1639
Article list
  1.  Completed Scott Manley (660)
  2.  Working Yang Jianli (952)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 660
  • Rollover words: 101
Article list
  1.  Completed Bombing of Mokha (878)
  2.  Completed Girl Guides (1088)
  3.  Completed Jagdish Mahto (Copyedited for grammar, may have extant neutrality problems) (1564)
  4.  Completed Megan Cornish (1467)
  5.  Completed Ghost of Tsushima (7342)
  6.  Completed Tekken: Bloodline (1429)
  7.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 13,768
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Oil wrestling (976)
  2.  Completed Sony marketing (1502)
  3.  Completed Advantageous (Other issues were found) (2511)
  4.  Completed Passive house (3589)
  5.  Completed Rudeus Greyrat (2324)
  6.  Completed List of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid characters (Left out other issues) (9289)
  7.  Completed Options Clearing Corporation (Needs update) (1036)
  8.  Completed Hungarian Development Bank (1274)
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 22,501
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1,421
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Old age (5775)
  2.  Completed Malaysian United Indigenous Party (2295)
  3.  Completed Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (7588)
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 15,658

Tdslk ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Controversial Reddit communities (7468)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 7468
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  1.  Completed ARM Cortex-A715 (11)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 11
Article list
  1.  Completed WAP (song) (3764)
  2.  Completed Chemical bombing of Sardasht (825)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4589
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Kamari Bay (1413)
  2.  Completed Muthupet (1671)
  3.  Completed Batya Weinbaum (1589)
  4.  Completed Bon Om Touk (2972)
  5.  Completed Bruce Kimmel (2078)
  6.  Completed Scot Sothern (282)
  7.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 10005
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Roland (entertainer) (899)  Not done No edits to this article within blitz time frame. Dhtwiki ( talk) 17:13, 23 October 2022 (UTC) reply
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed The N (3,422)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3,422
  • Rollover words: 1,107
Article list
  1.  Completed PUBG Mobile (1,221)
  2.  Completed Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret (954)
  3.  Completed Shi Yomi district (554)
  4.  Completed Chaebol (4396)
  5.  Completed Ilanz (1120)
  6.  Working
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 8,245
Article list
  1.  Completed Belagavi border dispute (3088)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3088
Article list
  1.  Completed Chitra Sarwara (666)
  2.  Completed Rensis Likert (1186)
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 1852
Article list
  1.  Completed Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru (1663)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1663
Article list
  1.  Completed Soul (2020 film) (3164)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3164

Thx56 ( talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
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  1.  Completed Vehicle registration plates of Indonesia (2,214) *R
  2.  Completed Construction of the Minnesota State Capitol (4,032) *R
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 6,246
  • Rollover words: 3,874