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GOCE September activities

Reminders from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

A quick reminder of our current events:

  • The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight September 14 (UTC).
  • The September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight September 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin.
  • The September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is now underway! The event runs until midnight September 30 (UTC). The goal is to copy edit articles with the oldest tags and complete all requests placed before September. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who participates, with special awards given to the top five in the following categories: "Total articles", "Total words", "Total articles over 5,000 words", "Total articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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GOCE July 2013 copy edit drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors July 2013 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
 

We have completed our July backlog elimination drive.

The drive wrap-up newsletter is now ready for review.

– Your project coordinators: Torchiest, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, and The Utahraptor.

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406   Combat Vehicle 90 (talk)     Cleanup
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483   Alucard (Hellsing) (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
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263   Alberto Aquilani (talk) Unencyclopaedic
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23   Sound energy flux (talk)           Merge
2   Hillsboro, Washington County, Pennsylvania (talk)       Merge
41   Romanus Pontifex (talk)         Wikify
146   Bowhunting (talk)         Wikify
117   Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española (talk)       Wikify
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46   North Carolina locations by per capita income (talk)       Add sources
307   Powerade (talk)       Add sources
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11   The White Darkness (talk)           Cleanup
547   Maurice Sendak (talk) Cleanup
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345   DeLorean Motor Company (talk)     Expand
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28   Make-work job (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
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1,272   Snickers (talk)     Merge
616   Types of chocolate (talk)     Wikify
30   Patternmaker (talk)           Wikify
5   Tir Planitia (talk)       Wikify
1   Vale, Catawba County, North Carolina (talk)           Orphan
3   Greater Raleigh-Durham CSA (talk)       Orphan
1   Greenville-Kinston-Washington CSA (talk)         Orphan
27   Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (talk)         Stub
2   Neoregelia marmorata (talk)           Stub
1   Neoregelia gigas (talk)           Stub
13   Kurbash (talk)           Stub
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3   North Carolina General Assembly of 1779 (talk)         Add sources
9   Larry Teal (talk)           Add sources
99   Unam sanctam (talk)           Add sources
139   Naval flight officer (talk)   Add sources
498   SpaceShipTwo (talk) Add sources
93   Solar maximum (talk)       Cleanup
84   Let's roll (talk)           Cleanup
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164   Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
610   Snow Crash (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
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104   Neuromorphic engineering (talk)         Merge
63   Activation-induced (cytidine) deaminase (talk)         Merge
97   Name of Mexico (talk)         Wikify
141   Spanish orthography (talk) Wikify
35   First 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency (talk)       Wikify
2   R.A.M Tebo II of Batibo (talk)         Orphan
4   Living New Deal (talk)           Orphan
12   Rudolph Sutermeister (talk)           Orphan
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