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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 December 16, 2018, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on December 22, 2018, 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 edited. 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 Reidgreg (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Jonesey95 (talk), Miniapolis (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

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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 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

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Outstanding
  • articles
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
December 15, 2018 88 — —
December 17, 2018 76 Positive decrease 12 Positive decrease 12
December 18, 2018 75 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 13
December 19, 2018 66 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 22
December 20, 2018 51 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 37
December 21, 2018 51 Steady  0 Positive decrease 37
December 22, 2018 44 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 44

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 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

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Signing up

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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

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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)

Miniapolis (talk)

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  1.  Completed Hitori Kumagai (2,215)
  2.  Completed Belén Rodríguez (5,258)
  3.  Completed Doordarshan (1,386)
  4.  Completed Second-wave feminism in Germany (1,973)
  5.  Completed Gold-collecting campaign (1,469)
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 12,301
  • Rollover words: 4,370

Reidgreg (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed List of Kamen Rider Build characters (19597)
  2.  Completed Izzi Telecom (270)
  3.  Completed Hey! Say! JUMP (2274)
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 22141
  • Rollover words: 718

Gog the Mild (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Xixiasaurus (3106)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Suman chowdhury 22 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

FiveFaintFootprints (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  3.  Completed Occitanie (1854)
  4.  Completed The Four Ceremonial Occasions (2646)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4500
  • Rollover words: 690

Twofingered Typist (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Clementina Agricole (645)
  2.  Completed Marine Fish Conservation Network (627)
  3.  Completed Obstetrical forceps *O (2,860)
  4.  Completed Thuraiyur *O (854)
  5.  Completed Minimum wage in South Korea *O (1,724)
  6.  Completed Dosha *O (475)
  7.  Completed Russo-Iranian treaty of 1717 *R (1,619)
  8.  Completed Elena Kagan *R (5,065)
  9.  Completed Azur Lane *R (2,964)
  10.  Completed 2001 Motorola 220 *R (3,929)
  11.  Completed 2003 London Champ Car Trophy *R (3,798)
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 24,560
  • Rollover words: 1,772

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Apollo 8 (7,896)
  2.  Completed Edward John Newell (1,225)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 9,121
  • Rollover words: 1,229

StudiesWorld (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Verbal overshadowing (3072)
  2.  Completed Royal Veteran Battalions (1417)
  3.  Completed Dermatoglyphics (768)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 5,257
  • Rollover words: 1,024

Kalmbach (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

PopularOutcast (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Capital Gate (667) *O
  2.  Completed Heinrich Theodor Höch (1075) *O
  3.  Completed A Nightmare on Elm Street (3917) *R
  4.  Completed WBKO (3134) *O
  5.  Completed Trolleybuses in Singapore (1163) *R
  6.  Completed A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 film) (5471) *R
  7.  Completed Eliana Michaelichen Bezerra (1396) *O
  8.  Completed Rötteln Castle (2831) *O (this needs more work by someone who can translate German)
  9.  Completed Enrique Hernández-Luike (567) *O
  10.  Completed The Way That I Love You (1563) *R
  11.  Completed George Camocke (904) *R
  12.  Completed Suwannee Hulaween (1297) *O
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 23,985
  • Rollover words: 2,660

Ben79487 (talk contribs)

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Article list
  1.  Completed ABS-CBN (5,001) *O
  2.  Completed Dipak K Banerjee (I did not copyedit the "Edited collections" and "Patents" sections, because they were pretty much in a list format and not prose.) (280)
  3.  Completed Al-Barkaat Malik Muhammad Islam English School (206)
  4.  Completed Chandraspalle (206)
  5.  Completed Turkish strikes on Sinjar (2018) (424)
  6.  Completed Ghana–United States Status of Forces Agreement (627) *O
  7.  Completed Bonaigarh (I did not edit the stuff in the table.) (537)
  8.  Completed Pyaterochka (424)
  9.  Completed First Nations Workers Alliance (577)
  10.  Completed Yadesa Bojia (534)
  11.  Completed Janet Lusk (179)
  12.  Completed Elmo Saves Christmas (964)
  13.  Completed Fast-moving consumer goods (532)
  14.  Completed Arash Derambarsh (224)
  15.  Completed HallyuPopFest (337)
  16.  Completed Satish Upadhyay (729)
  17.  Completed Crop Contracts Law (1,153)
  18.  Completed Phaung-Daw-Chat-Ma Pagoda (743)
  19.  Completed Are Women People (598)
  20.  Completed Multitask optimization (382)
  21.  Completed The Forging of a Rebel (826)
  • Total articles: 21
  • Total words: 15,483

SamCordes (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Sport in Slovenia (2197)
  2.  Completed Azim Azimzade (1201)
  3.  Completed Ashok Chavda (868)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4226

Baffle gab1978

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Article list
  1.  Completed Engine tuning (3,114) *O
  2.  Completed Edge, Branscombe (2,040) *O
  3.  Completed RTÉ Television (2,833) *O
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 7,987
  • Rollover words: 2,973

EggOfReason (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed List of Super Mario speedrunning records (3383)
  2.  Completed NBA Playgrounds (726)
  3.  Completed Barakaldo (639)
  4.  Completed Modern Combat 5: Blackout (2011)
  5.  Completed Francisco J. Ricardo (578)
  6.  Completed Morocco in World War II (2062)
  7.  Completed Thiruvananthapuram–Nagercoil–Kanyakumari line (197)
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 9,596

TimTempleton (talk) (cont)

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Article list
  1.  Completed ABS-CBN (TV network) (3,786)
  2.  Completed Event marketing (893)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3,786

Kim Post (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed PlayStation Portable (7221)
  2.  Completed Jennifer Aniston (4995)
  3.  Completed Don Ball (philanthropist) (644)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 12,860

EditWorker (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

FiendYT ★

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Article list
  1.  Completed Friday (magazine) (281)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 281

Csgir (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Waghoba (1368)
  2.  Working Deivam Thandha Veedu (2516)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1368

Tdslk (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Jaekelopterus (2831)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2831
  • Rollover words: 251
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