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This Copy Editing Project Blitz was a one-week effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the number of articles of a chosen WikiProject that require copy editing, signified by the {{copyedit}} tag. Please make sure that you know how to copy edit and that you are familiar with the Simplified Manual of Style before you begin copy editing. The blitzes are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The lead coordinator for this blitz is Stfg (talk), and he is assisted by Torchiest (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the blitz's talk page. This blitz began on Sunday, December 16, 2012, 00:00 UTC and ended on Saturday, December 22, 2012, 23:59 UTC.

The goals of this blitz were to copy edit as many articles as possible from the group of wikipedia articles needing copy edit from January 2012. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles.

The blitz is open to all, and you do not need to be a member either of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. However, you may want to consider joining the Guild, as membership has its benefits. For example, you can place a special "page in use" tag when you are copy editing, and another tag on the talk page when you finish. See the Templates page. Please visit the Guild or the main blitz page for more information.

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 blitz page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below. To participate, follow the instructions at the top of the article lists.

Article lists

Due to technical issues making it impossible to compile WikiProject specific lists, for this blitz, we are doing articles from the following category:

Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from January 2012

Progress

Progress Chart
Date	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
December 15, 2012	142	—	—
December 16, 2012	132	10	10
December 17, 2012	128	4	14
December 18, 2012	122	6	20
December 19, 2012	114	8	28
December 20, 2012	105	9	37
December 21, 2012	101	4	41
December 22, 2012	86	15	56

Reviewing

GOCE coordinators and other experienced members of the Guild will carry out random checks to ensure that copy edits are of a satisfactory standard. If you are willing to help with this, please sign up below.

When checking, please choose articles at random, and do not inspect articles you have copy edited yourself. When you find an acceptable copy edit, place a {{checked}} mark after the article on the listing and sign your username (just ~~~). If in doubt, please raise the issue on the Coordinators' talk page. If a rough consensus finds a copy edit is not of an acceptable standard, the tag will be re-added and the word count deducted. The reviewer may also give advice on how the edit could have been better, without penalizing the editor. Please raise any questions on the Coordinators' talk page.

Reviewers sign-up

Stfg (talk)

Signing up

This event has concluded. Please do not modify this page. Comments should be made on the talk page.

Totals

When recording articles completed, please remember to remove any {{copyedit}} tag from that article—if you want it checked, you can request it on the blitz talk page and someone will be along to do it. Do not list articles on which you have placed {{GOCEreviewed}} instead of copy editing them, or which needed no copy editing; they don't count. Please provide the full title, not an abbreviated version. Please avoid adding text comments unless they are essential, and place any comments after the article title but before the word count.

Stfg (talk)

Article list
Completed Attleboro, Massachusetts (1970) Completed Cornelius Rost (814) Working Ado Bayero (1239) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 3
Total words: 4023
Rollover words: 2713

Torchiest ^talk_edits

Article list
Completed Xiangqi (6446) Completed Willies Mchunu (267) Completed Avi Schönfeld (321) Completed Valentinos Sielis (227) Completed Fatehpur Thakiala (409) Completed International Components for Unicode (396) Completed Carlos R. Imperial (285) Completed Sanhita Nandi (241) Completed Sencha Touch#Features (158)

Total articles: 9
Total words: 8750
Rollover words: 943

Freebirdthemonk (talk)

Article list

Completed Archie Bethel (365) Y Stfg (talk)
Completed International Association of Aviation Personnel Schools (328)

Working Canadian federalism (4020) not done Stfg (talk)

Total articles: 2
Total words: 693

Emayv (talk)

Article list
Completed Sissi (film) (1046) Y Stfg (talk) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1046

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

Article list
Completed Columbia Independent School (874) Completed Horrible Histories: Gory Games (463) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 1337
Rollover words: 1341

MathMaven (talk ∫ edits)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Soulparadox (talk)

Article list
Completed John Edwards extramarital affair (3904) Y Stfg (talk) Completed Janie Johnson (1737) Completed Torturer (band) (400) Completed Dodge Super Bee (598) Completed List of The Stand characters (7291) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 5
Total words: 13930
Rollover words: 41

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
Completed Belgian American (1,132) Completed LGBT culture (2,989) Completed Paris-Nice (1,881) Completed Help! (song) (section—list) (1,174) Completed Round Top Branch (660) Completed Carolina Sandoval (843) Completed Nisporeni District (841) Working

Total articles: 7
Total words: 9520
Rollover words: 4,232

Lexah06 (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

JC.Torpey (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Assistant N (talk)