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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 {{copy edit}} tag (also {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{cleanup tense}}, and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 January 2023, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 January 2023, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in February, March and April);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from September, October and November.

Drive participants earned barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edited. Articles listed on the Requests page counted towards their total; these articles are generally higher in quality than those tagged with {{copy edit}}. Participants received a bonus score of 50% over the article's word count for articles that were tagged with {{copy edit}} in February, March and April 2022, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards were given out once the drive has finished.

The drive was open to all Wikipedians; you didn't have to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. You must, however, have been competent in your use of English grammar, spelling and punctuation. We strongly advised you to read Wikipedia's guide to basic copy editing before you began working. If you were 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 coordinators are Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, and Zippybonzo . If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on recording your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive page. Further details can be found on the drive FAQ 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
Jayowyn (72) Tails Wx (22) Tenryuu (19) Lfstevens (17) Miniapolis (15)
Total
Words[n 1]
Jayowyn (148,824) Baffle gab1978 (68,838) Miniapolis (37,146) Tenryuu (37,038) Lfstevens (31,451)
5k+
Articles[n 2]
Jayowyn (8)
Baffle gab1978 (8)
Mathijsvs (2)
Lfstevens (2)
Dhtwiki (3) Miniapolis (1)
Tenryuu (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3]
Jayowyn (59) Miniapolis (15) Tenryuu (9) Lfstevens (6) Dhtwiki (3)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4]
Dhtwiki (19,875) Jayowyn (18,603) Baffle gab1978 (17,631) Mathijsvs (11,647) Lfstevens (8,055)
  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 February, March and April 2022.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Feb/Mar/Apr 2022
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
31 December 2022 297 1,923
1 January 2023 294 1,927 Negative increase  4 Negative increase  4
2 January 2023 285 1,926 Positive decrease  1 Negative increase  3
3 January 2023 279 1,921 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease  2
4 January 2023 272 1,906 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 17
5 January 2023 266 1,907 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 16
6 January 2023 262 1,896 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 27
7 January 2023 259 1,885 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 38
8 January 2023 256 1,905 Negative increase  20 Positive decrease 18
9 January 2023 251 1,907 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 16
10 January 2023 249 1,907 Steady  0 Positive decrease 16
11 January 2023 242 1,901 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 22
12 January 2023 239 1,903 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 20
13 January 2023 238 1,903 Steady  0 Positive decrease 20
14 January 2023 236 1,902 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 21
15 January 2023 232 1,898 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 25
16 January 2023 229 1,901 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 22
17 January 2023 226 1,910 Negative increase  9 Positive decrease 13
18 January 2023 221 1,914 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease  9
19 January 2023 214 1,918 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease  5
20 January 2023 208 1,921 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease  2
21 January 2023 201 1,917 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease  6
22 January 2023 195 1,909 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 14
23 January 2023 189 1,911 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 12
24 January 2023 186 1,914 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease  9
25 January 2023 184 1,907 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 16
26 January 2023 178 1,907 Steady  0 Positive decrease 16
27 January 2023 176 1,901 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 22
28 January 2023 175 1,895 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 28
29 January 2023 174 1,888 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 35
30 January 2023 168 1,858 Positive decrease 30 Positive decrease 65
31 January 2023 164 1,861 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 62
  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 penalized 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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This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.

Rollover totals from the previous drive are located here.

Totals

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How to record articles you have copy edited:

  • Remove any extant {{copy edit}} 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) and avoid piped links, quotation marks and italics.
    • 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; do not use additional brackets for comments. Avoid long calculation strings (more than one line) in your word total.
  • 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}}.
  • If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R (using plain text) after the word count. If it was tagged in February, March and April 2022, place *O (using plain text) 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 this on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (1,234) *O

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O
Article list
  1.  Completed Cinema of Bihar (1,161) *O
  2.  Completed Interlanguage (1,962) *O
  3.  Completed Centrist Democrat International (940) *O
  4.  Completed Murder of Pentecostals in Sloviansk (1,347) *O
  5.  Completed Power Grid (3,052) *O
  6.  Completed Punjab Police (Pakistan) (1,934) *O
  7.  Completed Mindset (3,217) *O
  8.  Completed Goito (5,555) *O
  9.  Completed Union of Slavic Forces of Russia (3,373) *O
  10.  Completed List of Muhteşem Yüzyıl episodes (3,002) *O
  11.  Completed The Bachelor (American season 26) (4,827) *O
  12.  Completed Antisemitism in contemporary Hungary (739) *O
  13.  Completed Dick pic (2,418) *O
  14.  Completed Kiev Bolshevik Uprising (1,038) *O
  15.  Completed Muscovite-Ukrainian War (1658–1659) (2,581) *O
  • Total articles: 15
  • Total words: 37,146
  • Rollover words: 6,164
Article list
  1.  Completed Nitzan Horowitz (983) *O
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 983
  • Rollover words: 389
Article list
  1.  Completed Prosecutor General of Ukraine (676) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 676
  • Rollover words: 3809
Article list
  1.  Completed Humanism (7,229) *R
  2.  Completed Quine–Putnam indispensability argument (5,525) *R
  3.  Completed Greece–Turkey relations (4,322) *R
  4.  Completed Critical Role (campaign two) (17,631) *R
  5.  Completed Nezak Huns (2,960)
  6.  Completed Oddinary (2,420) *R
  7.  Completed Noeasy (3,466) *R
  8.  Completed Bharat Jodo Yatra (4,060) *R
  9.  Completed Isko Moreno (9,614) *R
  10.  Completed Nier: Automata (6,555) *R
  11.  Completed Mexico City Metro overpass collapse (5,056) *R
  12.  Completed
  13.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 68,838
  • Rollover words: 15,539
Article list
  1.  Completed Carlos Alvarado Quesada (1,085) (Only one section, 472 words, tagged for copyediting; changes largely cosmetic. Miniapolis 20:22, 15 January 2023 (UTC))[reply]
  2.  Completed Tomáš Petráček (1,762)
  3.  Completed Boris Galerkin (1,998)
  4.  Completed Epik High (1,652)
  5.  Completed Ashley Comeau (529)
  6.  Completed Arthur H. Marshall (202)
  7.  Completed Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (259) Checked; few changes but not many needed there. Baffle☿gab 08:07, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  8.  Completed Asociación Corriendo con el Corazón por Hugo (180)
  9.  Completed Bò kho (225)
  10.  Completed Kathleen E. Cullen (270)
  11.  Completed Baidrabad (76)
  12.  Completed Suman Bairagi (99)
  13.  Completed Bhagiwal (76)
  14.  Completed Bhalla, Karnal (339)
  15.  Completed Balesar (298)
  16.  Completed Pouya Rahmani (113)
  17.  Completed Mittagsplatzl (164) Checked; unreffed stub—good removal of waffle etc. Baffle☿gab 08:14, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  18.  Completed Brij Bhushan Mani Tripathi (207)
  19.  Completed 1984 French protests (127)
  20.  Completed Balkassar (90)
  21.  Completed Agil Gurbanov (125)
  22.  Completed Bigu Rural Municipality (170)
  • Total articles: 22
  • Total words: 10,046
  • Rollover words: 13,774.5
Article list
  1.  Completed William Windom (actor) (1204)
  2.  Completed Alexandre del Valle (1864)
  3.  Completed Systems development life cycle (3211)
  4.  Completed Oscar Peterson discography (24)
  5.  Completed Rhetorical device (1919)
  6.  Completed Music of Finland (6,109)
  7.  Completed Concern (business) (100) *O
  8.  Completed Paudie Sheehy (1841) *O
  9.  Completed Maidan casualties (1080) *O
  10.  Completed GoGo Sentai Boukenger (891) *O
  11.  Completed Islamic fundamentalism in Iran (8,055) *O
  12.  Completed Hawaiian Tropic (233) *O
  13.  Completed Cardiomegaly (788) *O
  14.  Completed Diversey Holdings (521) *O
  15.  Completed Bharathi Kannamma (2019 TV series) (1892) *O
  16.  Completed Majority rule (1763) *O
  17.  Completed History of the firearm (2451) *O
  18.  Completed History of the Jews in Ukraine (4880) *O
  • Total articles: 18
  • Total words: 36,026
Article list
  1.  Completed Glued intraocular lens (2328) *O
  2.  Completed Engineering technologist (2494) *O
  3.  Completed List of Wild Cards characters (19875) *O
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 24,697
  • Rollover words: 238
Article list
  1.  Completed Jagraon (1740) *O
  2.  Completed George Edward Bonsor Saint Martin (2782) *O
  3.  Completed Catherine McAuley College Relies too much on primary sources, removed inadequately cited content (727) *O
  4.  Completed Vizianagaram Removed unsourced content (1306) *O
  5.  Completed Spill.com Removed inadequately sourced content (4250) *O
  6.  Completed V. K. Sasikala (1762) *O
  7.  Completed Huazhu Hotels Group Removed inadequately sourced content (779) *O
  8.  Completed TRTÉ Added {{unreferenced section}} (291) *O
  9.  Completed ABS-CBN Removed unsourced content (4024) *O
  10.  Completed Mounir Fatmi Removed inadequately sourced content (1634) *O
  11.  Completed Chris Mihm Removed inadequately sourced content (2569) *O
  12.  Completed Bhinmal Removed inadequately sourced content (2221) *O
  13.  Completed Aajonus Vonderplanitz (2989) *O
  14.  Completed International reactions to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy (6239) *O
  15.  Completed Hiroki Miura (213) *O
  16.  Completed Duane Morris (420) *O
  17.  Completed Demat account Removed inadequately sourced content (1552) *O
  18.  Completed Brigade Media (1195) *O
  19.  Completed Mondragon University (345) *O
  20.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 19
  • Total words: 37038
  • Rollover words: 5949
Article list
  1.  Completed Shoreham-by-Sea (3458) *O
  2.  Completed Werdersch (1585) *O
  3.  Completed Military history of France during World War II (18603) *O Checked Many improvements. Dhtwiki (talk) 05:17, 27 January 2023 (UTC) (edited 23:09, 1 February 2023 (UTC))[reply]
  4.  Completed Nokia 6.2 (443) *O
  5.  Completed Oddinary (2353) *O
  6.  Completed Climate change in Thailand (1547) *O
  7.  Completed Adelaide Central Market (864) *O
  8.  Completed Mor Mattai Monastery (1232) *O
  9.  Completed Adiponitrile (411) *O
  10.  Completed Prehistoric Ethiopia (911) *O
  11.  Completed The Outsider (King novel) (834) *O
  12.  Completed Christian Walls of Madrid (711) *O
  13.  Completed Khargone district (740) *O
  14.  Completed Mervyn Jayathunga (488) *O
  15.  Completed Jar burial (809) *O
  16.  Completed Wat Yannawa (1212) *O
  17.  Completed Michinori Holdings Required tons of formatting...oof! (1149)
  18.  Completed Queueing theory (3073)
  19.  Completed Hormuud Telecom (1797) *O
  20.  Completed Ogu–Bolo (849) *O
  21.  Completed Nagram (866) *O
  22.  Completed SJT-class ROUV (1027) *O
  23.  Completed Diathesis–stress model#Genetics (316) *O
  24.  Completed List of Arthur characters I'm now an Arthur lore expert. (10092) *O
  25.  Completed Mathematics in Ethiopia (1333)
  26.  Completed Paimpont forest (2314)
  27.  Completed Magnetic coupling (669)
  28.  Completed Tourism in Marathwada (444)
  29.  Completed Sterlitamak (2654)
  30.  Completed Noeasy (3494) *O
  31.  Completed Natural gas in Ukraine (1631) *O
  32.  Completed Nord Stream 1 (5671) *O
  33.  Completed 2021 split in Nepalese communist parties (1751) *O
  34.  Completed Subduction tectonics of the Philippines (2360) *O
  35.  Completed Perinthalmanna (890) *O
  36.  Completed Battle of Parwan (1842) *O Checked—significant improvements. Baffle☿gab 08:25, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  37.  Completed Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport (821) *O
  38.  Completed Sea Dragon-class ROV (1185) *O
  39.  Completed Ciudad Perdida (1465) *O
  40.  Completed Space dust measurement This one required some intense technical scrutiny. (4916)
  41.  Completed Kelana Jaya line (2347) *O
  42.  Completed Ribozyme (2842) *O
  43.  Completed Ross Jeffries (198) *O
  44.  Completed Bala Tripura Sundari Temple (869) *O
  45.  Completed Jiuta Wainiqolo (1266) *O
  46.  Completed David Lilley (snooker player) (662) *O
  47.  Completed Shao Piaoping (2066) *O
  48.  Completed Lahore Edited 100,000 words as of this article! (9023) *O
  49.  Completed Hindustan Petroleum (731) *O
  50.  Completed Convulsion (980) *O
  51.  Completed Dasharatha (924) *O
  52.  Completed Thunderbirds 2086 (2646) *O
  53.  Completed Daund (872) *O
  54.  Completed Enchanter (manga) (1884) *O
  55.  Completed Japan–China Joint Communiqué (2811) *O
  56.  Completed Drawing (manufacturing) (886) *O
  57.  Completed Ghat Roads (1629) *O
  58.  Completed List of Mitsubishi A6M Zero operators (1381) *O
  59.  Completed Moscow Paveletsky railway station (819)
  60.  Completed Employment Ice Age (1142)
  61.  Completed Kaliningrad Oblast (3016) *O
  62.  Completed Demographic profile (955) *O
  63.  Completed Kreuzberg (1664) *O
  64.  Completed Mamiko Noto (537) *O
  65.  Completed Battle of Samara Bend (2072) *O
  66.  Completed Kazakhs in China (1465) *O
  67.  Completed Jungfrau Railway (1303)
  68.  Completed Television news music (2809) *O
  69.  Completed Sex and Love (1637) *O
  70.  Completed Digital photography (5940) *O
  71.  Completed Ejea de los Caballeros (350)
  72.  Completed Saw sam sai (2188)
  • Total articles: 72
  • Total words: 148,824
  • Rollover words: 13,563
Article list
  1.  Completed Starship Troopers (film) (11647)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 11647
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Shahaji (2805) *O Checked; significant improvements. Baffle☿gab 09:09, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2805
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Early Middle Japanese (1906)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Computational biology (2,674)
  2.  Completed Zimmerman's poison frog (1,702)
  3.  Completed Fencing (2,962)  Not done – very little done when more was needed. Dhtwiki (talk) 23:13, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4.  Completed Marcel Ponitka (1,034)
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 8,905
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Suttantaprija Ind (611)
  2.  Completed Adyghe language (681)
  3.  Working Sustainable development (3528)
  4.  Working Passi, Iloilo (6153)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 7445
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Oppositional defiant disorder (2918)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3724
Article list
  1.  Completed Islamic fundamentalism in Iran (8,188)*O  Not done—single edit with minor changes, text removal and tagging. See my remarks on talk. Baffle☿gab
  2.  Completed Academic degree (14,010) *O  Not done—single edit with minor tweaks and {{cn}} tagging. Baffle☿gab
  3.  Completed Ancient art (3716) *O  Not done—single edit with one minor change and tagged {{cn}} x2. Baffle☿gab
  4.  Working [[]] () *O
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 22198
  • Rollover words: 0
Article list
  1.  Completed Abishabis (1609)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1609
Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working The Three Stooges (10214)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0