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

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This Copy Editing Project Blitz is 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 will begin on 15 April 2018, at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 21 April 2018, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz are:

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 August 2017 backlog month (done!).

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 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 August 2017 backlog articles	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
April 14, 2018	32	—	—
April 15, 2018	29	3	3
April 16, 2018	25	4	7
April 17, 2018	22	3	10
April 18, 2018	19	3	13
April 19, 2018	18	1	14
April 20, 2018	17	1	15
April 21, 2018	17	0	15

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 Portland Youth Philharmonic (3950) Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] () Completed [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 3,950
Rollover words: 1,263

Twofingered Typist (talk)

Article list
Completed Trump and JCPOA (897) Completed Pat O'Keeffe (1,732) Completed U Don't Know Me (Basement Jaxx song) (892) Completed [[Gearheads (video game)]] (1,330) Completed "Deliver" (Fifth Harmony song) (1,218) Completed Lucy Kaopaulu Peabody (1,091)

Total articles: 6
Total words: 7,160
Rollover words: 3.393

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
Completed Satya Narayan (Hindu deity) (5,905) Completed Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (2,349) Completed Kick Your Game (1,655) Completed Staten Island Railway (5,556)

Total articles: 4
Total words: 15,465
Rollover words: 3,484

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
Completed Retina (4362)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 4,362
Rollover words: 3,512

LichWizard talk

Article list
Completed Shadowmarch (1197) Completed Bingo Bango (1009)

Total articles: 2
Total words: 2206

Tdslk (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0
Rollover words: 500

Gog the Mild (talk)

Article list
Completed HM Prison Shepton Mallet (5306) R Completed* Antiochus X Eusebes (3453)*R

Total articles: 2
Total words: 8759
Rollover words: 428

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list
Completed Lavi (D.Gray-man) (1629) Completed Arthur Frederick Bettinson (3114) Completed History of Smooth Island (Tasmania) (5441) Completed 4 da Fam (667) Completed John Wick (8159) Completed Ghetto Day/What I Need (990) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 6
Total words: 20000
Rollover words: 9,999

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

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

Total articles: 1
Total words: 0