Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2016

The following event is closed. Please finalise your article tallies in the next 24 – 48 hours from 01:06, 28 February 2016 (UTC). Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This Copy Editing Project Blitz was a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 21 February 2016, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 27 February 2016, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme of this blitz is:

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.

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 Baffle gab1978 (talk) and Miniapolis (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 articles	Change since previous day	Change since beginning	Daily articles edited
February 20, 2016	28	—	—	—
February 21, 2016	25	3	3	3
February 22, 2016	21	4	7	4
February 23, 2016	25	4	3	3
February 24, 2016	19	6	9	7
February 25, 2016	17	2	11	3
February 26, 2016	14	3	14	7
February 27, 2016	13	1	15	8

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

This blitz has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-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. The previous blitz's rollover totals are located 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.
Place articles you're working on on the {{Working}} line. 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 it 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 Matthew C. Keifer (162) Completed Empower Playgrounds (744)

Total articles: 2
Total words: 906
Rollover words: 760

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
Completed 1: Nenokkadine (4,311) Completed 1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team (3,148) Completed The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom (1,819) Completed Star Tribune (1,826)

Total articles: 4
Total words: 11,104
Rollover words: 2,978

JourneySarah (talk)

Article list
Completed The Time Traveler's Wife (film) (1407) Working Gackt (4870) (This is completed, but after blitz closed. I updated the requests page.)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1407

Vanamonde93 (talk)

Article list
Completed Assassination of Ali (705) R Completed* 75 (album) (859) R Completed* David Hattner (961) *R

Total articles: 3
Total words: 1564

DThomsen8 (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Finchlyfincherton (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Wilhelmina Will (talk)

Article list
Completed Molly Sandén (770) - Notes made in the article's submission on the Requests' page. Completed A Retrospective (Pink Martini album) (762) Completed Koppány (915)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 2447

Slon02 (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Twofingered Typist (talk)

Article list

Completed Til It Happens to You (3102)
Completed Starbreeze Studios (2294)
Completed Carlos Menem (4534)
Completed Global Climate Coalition (2344)
Completed Oba Chandler (3796)
Completed Simone Russell (1962)
Completed 12 Songs of Christmas (Etta James album) (several minor tweaks!) (0)
Completed Kanche (3229)
Completed Gendarmerie of Haiti (minor punctuation fixes and addition of links to WP articles - partial count) (100)
Completed A Meeting by the River (minor fixes - partial count) (200)
Completed Guadeloupe conference (288)
Completed Best Of... (Sia album) (fixed multiple duplicate WP links; minor punctuation - partial count) (151)

Total articles: 12
Total words: 22,000
Rollover words: 3900

Ian Waithaka (talk)

Article list
Completed Armenia–Azerbaijan relations in the Eurovision Song Contest (1822) Completed The Shadow (1994 film) (1375) Completed Habits (Tove Lo song) (6528) Completed Good for You (song) (6607) Completed Love Ballad (Tove Lo song) (1480) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 5
Total words: 17,812

vicyush^talk

Article list
Completed Koenig Specials (1582) Completed Mad Max (2015 video game) (4626) Completed Spec Ops: The Line (6528)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 12,736

Baffle gab1978 (talk)

Article list
Completed Russell family (Passions) (3,053) R Completed* Commercial Crew Development (2,188) *R

Total articles: 2
Total words: 5,223
Rollover words: 1,514

FiendYT (talk)

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

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

DubitoErgoCogito (talk)

Article list
Completed 10 Songs for the New Depression (1011) Completed Sukumar (director) (2092) Completed T. C. Russell (1414) Completed Tempt, Tease and Touch (788) Completed Leavin' (album) (1405)

Total articles: 5
Total words: 6710