Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/November 2021

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 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 {{awkward}}, {{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 November 2021, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 30 November 2021, 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 May, June, and July 2021);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from September and October 2021.

Drive participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles listed on the Requests page count towards your total; these articles are generally higher in quality than those tagged with {{copy edit}}. You will receive a bonus score of 50% over the article's word count for articles that were tagged with {{copy edit}} in May, June, and July 2021, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive was open to all Wikipedians; 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.

Drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The drive's lead coordinator is Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Tenryuu (talk). 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

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

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	Tenryuu (47)	Twofingered Typist (15)	Baffle gab1978 (14)	Miniapolis (11)	Tdslk (7)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Tenryuu (111,674)	Twofingered Typist (65,096)	Baffle gab1978 (34,232)	Miniapolis (32,970)	Reidgreg (25,138)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Tenryuu (7)	TwofingeredTypist (6)	Reidgreg (3) Prairie Astronomer (3)	ItsMackie (2) Dhtwiki (2) Miniapolis (2) Lfstevens (2)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Tenryuu (47)	Miniapolis (11)	Tdslk (4) Dhtwiki (4)	ItsMackie (3)	Reidgreg (2) Prairie Astronomer (2)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Prairie Astronomer (15,165)	Reidgreg (14,310)	Tenryuu (13,726)	ItsMackie (12,597)	Dhtwiki (11,776)

^ ^a ^b For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
^ Number of articles of 5,000 words or more. An article of 10K+ words counts as 2, of 15K+ as 3, and so on.
^ Oldest articles are those tagged in May, June, and July 2021.
^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date	Old articles May/Jun/Jul 2021	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
31 October 2021	285	1,134	—	—
1 November 2021	282	1,131	3	3
2 November 2021	276	1,124	7	10
3 November 2021	270	1,131	7	3
4 November 2021	265	1,113	18	21
5 November 2021	255	1,107	24	27
6 November 2021	255	1,107	0	27
7 November 2021	250	1,099	8	35
8 November 2021	245	1,092	7	42
9 November 2021	236	1,084	8	50
10 November 2021	233	1,089	5	45
11 November 2021	233	1,091	2	43
12 November 2021	228	1,079	12	55
13 November 2021	226	1,064	15	70
14 November 2021	214	1,055	9	79
15 November 2021	212	1,053	2	81
16 November 2021	209	1,029	24	105
17 November 2021	205	1,025	4	109
18 November 2021	201	1,025	0	109
19 November 2021	199	1,035	10	99
20 November 2021	196	1,034	1	100
21 November 2021	194	1,039	5	95
22 November 2021	192	1,050	11	84
23 November 2021	190	1,060	10	74
24 November 2021	185	1,043	17	91
25 November 2021	183	1,040	3	94
26 November 2021	179	1,029	11	105
27 November 2021	173	1,039	10	95
28 November 2021	170	1,002	37	132
29 November 2021	169	981	21	153
30 November 2021	168	946	35	188

^ ^a ^b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

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 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

Signing up

To sign up for the drive, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section where you will record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous drive are located here.

This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.

Totals

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 May, June or July 2021, 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

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list
Completed Arthur Phillip (half-credit with Twofingered Typist, RIP) (2,330) *R

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2,330
Rollover words: 2,255

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
Completed Afghan cuisine (1286) O Completed* RS-25 ("Space Launch System" subsection) (656) O Completed* Chhota Bheem and the Throne of Bali (382) O Completed* Siege of Buda (1849) (11776) *O

Total articles: 4
Total words: 14,100
Rollover words: 9,019.5

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list
Completed Texarkana Moonlight Murders (14310) O Completed* Weird Years (1705) Completed Chinook Display Team (463) Completed Delahaye (7622) O Completed* Islamic views on oral sex (886) Completed Rajmata Smt. Devendra Kumari Singhdeo Government Medical College, Ambikapur (152)

Total articles: 6
Total words: 25138
Rollover words: 9119

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list

Completed Malaysian Chinese (4,768) *O
Completed Zielona Góra Airport (1,666) *O
Completed Peace movement (7,458) *O
Completed Protectorate of Peru (2,106) *O
Completed National Organization of Kurdish Youth (4,091) *O
Completed Berdsk (1,422) *O
Completed Osthe (1,444) *O
Completed Music of Olympia, Washington (1,432) *O
Completed Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (1,379) *O
Completed Main Teri Parchhain Hoon (2,184) *O
Completed Aurat March (5,020) *O

Total articles: 11
Total words: 32,970
Rollover words: 5,593

Tenryuu (talk)

Article list

Completed COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka (12381) *O
Completed Bawara Dil (158) *O
Completed Choking (5496) *O
Completed 2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum (1137) *O
Completed Rath Cycle (1745) *O
Completed Fall prevention (2399) *O
Completed Nobuhiko Takada (3906) *O
Completed Vesicular monoamine transporter (3497) *O
Completed Zitti e buoni (1369) *O
Completed Nagrakata (402) *O
Completed Le Cercle Molière (2563) *O
Completed Akira Miyawaki (3060) *O
Completed Marudi (749) *O
Completed Helidon Gjergji Removed a lot of unsourced content (1010) *O
Completed Kayamkulam Removed a lot of unsourced content (831) *O
Completed Phaltan Removed a lot of unsourced and tone-inappropriate content (981) *O
Completed Rafiath Rashid Mithila Removed a lot of unsourced content (678) *O
Completed Chandradasan Removed a lot of unsourced content (327) *O
Completed Boris Aprilov Removed a lot of unsourced content (863) *O
Completed Tyler Shough (932) *O
Completed Poraiyahat (496) *O
Completed Pindwara Removed a lot of unsourced content (923) *O
Completed Rajnagar, Bihar Removed a lot of unsourced and tone-inappropriate content (712) *O
Completed Ehelepola Nilame (807) *O
Completed Pori Moni (452) *O
Completed Social dominance theory (2399) *O
Completed Peroorkada Wholly unsourced article (546) *O
Completed Sitarampur Removed a lot of unsourced content (1280) *O
Completed George Tawengwa Completely unsourced article, removed irrelevant sections (1580) *O
Completed Punjai Puliampatti (822) *O
Completed Tonteldoos (1440) *O
Completed Delahaye 175 Other issues beyond copyediting present (6632) *O
Completed Yue Guang (2077) *O
Completed Exfoliation (701) *O
Completed S. Thaman Consolidated table (491) *O
Completed Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (2227) *O
Completed Mabolwe Lot of unsourced content (2103) *O
Completed Sports Queen Moved page; was originally Queen of Sports (2198) *O
Completed Howard T. Odum (3641) *O
Completed The Rumjacks (1214) *O
Completed Presidency College, Chennai Removed a lot of material more appropriate for WikiVoyage (1716) *O
Completed Trams in Freiburg im Breisgau (9714) *O
Completed Data Protection Act 1998 (1865) *O
Completed Lenana School (1813) *O
Completed 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election (13726) *O
Completed Unarius Academy of Science (3518) *O
Completed Moxi Removed a lot of un(reliably)-sourced content (2097) *O

Total articles: 47
Total words: 111674
Rollover words: 760,963.5

ClaudineChionh (talk)

Article list
Completed 2021 French labor protests (529) O Completed* Julian of Norwich (4065) *R

Total articles: 2
Total words: 4594

Twofingered Typist (talk)

Article list

Completed The Empire Strikes Back (11,138) *R
Completed Tumbling Dice (2,643) *R
Completed Station to Station (7,636) *R
Completed Turkmen literature (2,815) *R
Completed Electoral history of Bill Clinton] (3,781) *R
Completed 1968–1969 Japanese university protests (4,173) *R
Completed Mick Jagger (6,523) *R
Completed University of Notre Dame 10,317 *R
Completed Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS (4,014) *R
Completed Ayşegül Coşkun (444) *R
Completed Tokyo Babylon (3,093) *R
Completed Ronnie Rocket (1,231) *R
Completed Draft Eisenhower movement (2,438) *R
Completed Kendari (2,520) *R
Completed Arthur Phillip (half-credit with Jonesey95) (2,330) *R

Total articles: 15
Total words: 65,096
Rollover words: 332338.5

Tdslk (talk)

Article list
Completed Nauka (ISS module) (4,300) O Completed* Venuste Nshimiyimana (736) O Completed* Roshan Doug (776) O Completed* Vangelis Rinas (142) O Completed* M&M's Kart Racing (100) Completed Root hair (965) Completed Hichki (2971) *R

Total articles: 7
Total words: 9990
Rollover words: 515

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

Article list

Completed Hozuki's Coolheadedness (2,617) *R
Completed Hitman 2 (4,401) *R
Completed Owls (album) (1,241) *R
Completed Disappearance of Bruno Borges (2,486) *R
Completed Original Nuttah (843) *R
Completed Gentle on My Mind (1,360) *R
Completed Laundromat (song) (1,778) *R
Completed Impact events on Jupiter (3,881) *R
Completed Coloniality of knowledge (2,285) *R
Completed Sikandar Shah Miri (1,108) *R
Completed Revolt of the Fourteen (1,033) *R
Completed Your Lie in April (2,917) *R
Completed A Cruel Angel's Thesis (5,541) *R
Completed Laid (album) (2,741) *R

Total articles: 14
Total words: 34,232
Rollover words: 8,986

Thisisnotcam (talk)

Article list
No articles.

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Pax85 (talk)

Article list
No articles.

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0
Rollover words: 1769.5

Lfstevens (talk)

Article list
Completed Green recovery (1355) Completed Traditional games in the Philippines (6,872) Completed Effective altruism (3703) Completed Multicultural education (5300)

Total articles: 4
Total words: 17,230

MagicalWinx (talk)

Article list
No articles.

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Davea1963~enwiki (talk)

Article list
No articles.

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

BroVic (talk)

Article list
No articles.

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0
Rollover words: 794

ItsMackie (talk)

Article list
Completed Noorul Quader (723) O Completed* Emergency contraception (3614) O Completed* Wheat leaf rust (1745) O Completed* Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (12597) *R

Total articles: 4
Total words: 18679

Prairie Astronomer (talk)

Article list
Completed Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2007 (15165) O Completed* Viju Shah (Articles needing Copyediting from October 2018) (608) *O

Total articles: 2
Total words: 19754
Rollover words: 3981

Birdn4t0r (talk)

Article list
No articles.

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Contrawwftw (talk)

Article list
Completed Target Australia (1903) Completed Minister for Primary Industry and Resources (Northern Territory) (69)

Total articles: 2
Total words: 1972
Rollover words: 697

Bddmagic (talk)

Article list
Completed Gamer (2458)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2458

BlueMoonset (talk)

Article list
No articles.

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0
Rollover words: 3342

[nobonus-1] 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 May, June, and July 2021.

[4] The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

[change-5] Change refers only to outstanding tags.

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