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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.
Backlog status at the end of the drive

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 {{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 May 2022, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 May 2022, 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 August and September 2021);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from February and March 2022.

Drive participants earned barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edited. Articles listed on the Requests page counted 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 August and September 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 didn't have to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. You must, however, have 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 Reidgreg (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), 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 edit

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 edit

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard edit

  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles 		Tenryuu (27) JTF2020 (24) Baffle gab1978 (14) TheRealSerenaJoy (12) Perfect4th (10)
Total
Words[n 1] 		Tenryuu (80,081) JTF2020 (66,129) Baffle gab1978 (47,764) Miniapolis (28,792) TheRealSerenaJoy (25,711)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		JTF2020 (7) Baffle gab1978 (5) Miniapolis (4)
Tenryuu (4) 		Asparagusus (3) JML1148 (2)
Kravk (2)
Quid Est Squid (2)
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		Tenryuu (27) JTF2020 (15) Perfect4th (10) Kravk (6) Fritzmann (3)
Epikourios Alitheia (3)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		Kravk (13,111) Miniapolis (11,533) Asparagusus (6,975) JTF2020 (6,858) Epikourios Alitheia (6,793)
  1. ^ a b 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 August and September 2021.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart edit

Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Aug and Sep 2021
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
30 April 2022 111 1,304 — —
1 May 2022 110 1,309 Negative increase  5 Negative increase  5
2 May 2022 103 1,307 Positive decrease  2 Negative increase  3
3 May 2022 102 1,291 Positive decrease 16 Positive decrease 13
4 May 2022 98 1,284 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 20
5 May 2022 97 1,279 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 25
6 May 2022 96 1,282 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 22
7 May 2022 92 1,336 Negative increase  54 Negative increase  32
8 May 2022 92 1,320 Positive decrease 16 Negative increase  16
9 May 2022 88 1,304 Positive decrease 16 Steady  0
10 May 2022 85 1,293 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 11
11 May 2022 80 1,295 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease  9
12 May 2022 78 1,301 Negative increase  6 Positive decrease  3
13 May 2022 66 1,298 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease  6
14 May 2022 64 1,288 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 16
15 May 2022 64 1,288 Steady  0 Positive decrease 16
16 May 2022 62 1,291 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 13
17 May 2022 61 1,287 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 17
18 May 2022 61 1,287 Steady  0 Positive decrease 17
19 May 2022 59 1,276 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 28
20 May 2022 54 1,269 Positive decrease  7 Positive decrease 35
21 May 2022 53 1,270 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 34
22 May 2022 48 1,269 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 35
23 May 2022 48 1,269 Steady  0 Positive decrease 35
24 May 2022 38 1,265 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 39
25 May 2022 38 1,279 Negative increase  14 Positive decrease 25
26 May 2022 34 1,271 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 33
27 May 2022 30 1,269 Positive decrease  2 Positive decrease 35
28 May 2022 30 1,274 Negative increase  5 Positive decrease 30
29 May 2022 26 1,274 Steady  0 Positive decrease 30
30 May 2022 23 1,277 Negative increase  3 Positive decrease 27
31 May 2022 23 1,276 Positive decrease  1 Positive decrease 28
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing edit

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 edit

Signing up edit

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

Totals edit

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 August and September 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

Dhtwiki (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Isfahan (5601) *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 5,601
  • Rollover words: 5,253

Miniapolis (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Sayfo (8,152) *R
  2.  Completed History of the University of Texas at Arlington (1965–present) (11,533) *R
  3.  Completed Nehrungisch (2,168) *O
  4.  Completed Philippine television drama (6,939) *O
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 28,792
  • Rollover words: 13,562

Reidgreg (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1261) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  6.  Working [[]] ()
  7.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1261
  • Rollover words: 1966

Asparagusus (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Antarctica (6975) *R
  2.  Completed Khalaj language (581) *O
  3.  Completed Solar deity (5602) *O Checked. Baffle☿gab 00:57, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  4.  Completed Toy (5861) *R
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 19019

Nedak976 (talk) edit

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

JustAnotherUndertaleFrantic (talk) edit

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

Rublov (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3,215

Kravk (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Avars (Caucasus) (2,099)  Comment: not marked for c/e, nor a request, apparently missed sectional c/e tag before; this should be included — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhtwiki (talk • contribs) 05:34, 3 June 2022 (UTC) (edited 19:18, 7 June 2022)[reply]
  2.  Completed Entry of women to Sabarimala (3,941) *O Checked Baffle☿gab 01:52, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Completed Hausa literature (681) *O
  4.  Completed Women's rights in Saudi Arabia (13,111) *O
  5.  Completed Vadalur (304) *O
  6.  Completed Mera Jism Meri Marzi (1,176) *O
  7.  Completed Gerhard Rose (1,812) *O
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 23,124

Baffle gab1978 (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Doukhobors (5,839) *R
  2.  Completed Low Memorial Library (5,892) *R
  3.  Completed iPad (5,538) *R
  4.  Completed People Move On (3,084) *R
  5.  Completed Lazar Lazarević (1,218) *R
  6.  Completed Faded Seaside Glamour (2,145) *R
  7.  Completed Agni Natchathiram (1,430) *R
  8.  Completed List of British armies in World War II (1,891) *R
  9.  Completed Survivor: Africa (5,108) *R
  10.  Completed Ed Bradley (2,974) *R
  11.  Completed Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (709) *R
  12.  Completed Being Canadian (2,092) *R
  13.  Completed Basshunter (3,780) *R
  14.  Completed SpaceX Starship (6,064) *R
  • Total articles: 14
  • Total words: 47,764
  • Rollover words: 7,753.5

Tenryuu (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Tarong Homestead Trimmed down (3334) *O
  2.  Completed Harry Edward Vickers (1259) *O
  3.  Completed Brahmachaitanya Removed unsourced content (2865) *O
  4.  Completed Thirumathi Hitler (882) *O
  5.  Completed Piyaa Albela (1114) *O
  6.  Completed Santosh Sivan (369) *O
  7.  Completed Suryavamsam (TV series) (1395) *O
  8.  Completed Sunwal Removed unsourced content (1287) *O
  9.  Completed Professor Shonku (short story collection) (3003) *O
  10.  Completed Pandharpur Wari (1838) *O
  11.  Completed Vedalam (3143) *O
  12.  Completed Turkish Cypriot folk dances Removed unsourced content (1527) *O
  13.  Completed Ternate (4263) *O
  14.  Completed Yaqub Beg (2250) *O
  15.  Completed Nina Mae McKinney Removed unsourced content (5066) *O
  16.  Completed Héctor Herrera Cajas Removed unsourced and unsuitable content (3013) *O
  17.  Completed High-dynamic-range video (3750) *O
  18.  Completed Locked Up (TV series) (1316) *O
  19.  Completed Mysorean invasion of Malabar (4261) *O
  20.  Completed San Pedro del Pinatar (1627) *O
  21.  Completed Spiritual Discourses (book) Removed section (4344) *O
  22.  Completed iPartment Removed fancruft and unsourced content (5902) *O
  23.  Completed Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men (4583) *O
  24.  Completed Secret Magic Control Agency (4355) *O
  25.  Completed Godannar Removed fancruft (6471) *O
  26.  Completed Kurukshetra War (6607) *O
  27.  Completed 2003 New Year Honours (257) *O
  • Total articles: 27
  • Total words: 80081
  • Rollover words: 959,082.5

You-are-my-armour (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 9,379

Lfstevens (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Pulp (tooth) (2500) *O
  2.  Completed Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (1535)
  3.  Completed Xehanort (2027)
  4.  Completed Oxitec (1541)
  5.  Completed Mathematics (2757)
  6.  Completed Jerry Rice (5,510)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 15,870

Fritzmann2002 (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Kaposvár (2446) *O
  2.  Completed Loon Church (1195) *O Checked Baffle☿gab 00:59, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Completed Kushinagar International Airport (650) *O
  4.  Working Kolhapur (2530) ☒N(no edits) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reidgreg (talk • contribs) 14:03, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4291

Quid Est Squid (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Italian Civil War (10,487) *R  Partly done Baffle☿gab 03:25, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Nepalese Civil War (63) *O
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 10,550
  • Rollover words: 5,736

TypistMonkey (talk) edit

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

PerfectSoundWhatever (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Sibpur Hindu Girls High School (756) *O
  2.  Completed Micaela Viciconte (566)
  3.  Completed 2021 Henan floods (1156) *O
  4.  Completed Flag of Azerbaijan (2000) *R
  5.  Completed Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (840) *O
  6.  Completed Murad Takla (291) *R
  7.  Completed When Jews Were Funny (1755) *R Checked Baffle☿gab 03:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  8.  Completed Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (1633)not sure why this was tagged/still tagged for c/e, the prose is cleaner than any other article i've seen with the c/e tag.
  9.  Completed The Suicide of Rachel Foster (3527) *R
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 12524

JML1148 (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Peter Ebdon (2377) *R
  2.  Completed Madhabi (646) *R
  3.  Completed Cyril Colnik (436) *R
  4.  Completed Victoria Park (Hong Kong) (1393) *R
  5.  Completed Statue of Queen Victoria (Hong Kong) (250)  Comment: – giving credit, although I didn't see c/e tag. Dhtwiki (talk) 08:09, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  6.  Completed Fallout (video game) (5701) *R
  7.  Completed Electricity sector in Turkey (5010) *R
  8.  Completed British–Polish–Ukrainian trilateral pact (1157)
  9.  Completed Climate change in Austria (4519) *R
  10.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 21,489

Tdslk (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Ahtem Chiygoz (130)
  2.  Completed Kyiv Cossacks insurrection (262)
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 392
  • Rollover words: 2,209

Epikourios Alitheia (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Free trade agreements of Israel (949)
  2.  Completed Geoffroi de Charney (1,051) *O
  3.  Completed 2014 Serbian parliamentary election (2,708)
  4.  Completed Democratic Party of Korea (1,709)
  5.  Completed Mahinda College (1,384) *O
  6.  Completed Italian intelligence agencies (1,240) *O
  7.  Completed Semaine sanglante (6,793) *R
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 15,834

Perfect4th (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Alms (2551) *O
  2.  Completed So You Think You Can Dance (Belgium and the Netherlands, season 5) (676) *O
  3.  Completed Nokia 7.2 (636) *O Checked Baffle☿gab 03:39, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  4.  Completed Bishop Moore College (226) ('Principals and achievements' section only) *O
  5.  Completed Harold Morrison (573) *O
  6.  Completed Dhammika Ganganath Dissanayake (628) *O
  7.  Completed Rillo de Gallo (1100) *O
  8.  Completed Daegu National University of Education (658) *O
  9.  Completed Sherwan (694) *O
  10.  Completed ENNIE Awards (344) *O
  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 8086

TheRealSerenaJoy (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed 1981 World Snooker Championship (2276) *R
  2.  Completed Henry Lidgbird Ball (2434) *R
  3.  Completed Tek Fog (2196) *R
  4.  Completed Carrie Williams (1556) *R
  5.  Completed History of the Jews in Kingston upon Hull (5991) *R  Partly done – some punctuation anomalies remain (spaced hyphens (--) rather than spaced en-dash, lack of comma after intro time phrase (In 1826 the Robinson Row shul) Dhtwiki (talk) 06:21, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  6.  Completed Sucker Punch Productions (1946) *R
  7.  Completed Butterfly (Kylie Minogue song) (1226) *R
  8.  Completed What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an (1070) *R
  9.  Completed Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana (748) *R
  10.  Completed How Great Thou Art (Elvis Presley album) (1573) *R
  11.  Completed Cómplices (2713 words) *R
  12.  Completed Bisphenol A (1982) *R
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 25,711

Zippybonzo (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Timeline of reactions to the Hong Kong national security law (November 2020) (6503) *O ☒N minor changes only, needs translation work before thorough copy edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reidgreg (talk • contribs) 14:23, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed New Amsterdam Theatre (7168) *R  Partly done – minor changes; more could have been done (e.g. "...the elevators were insufficient to accommodate 700 patrons under city building codes." s/b "...under city building codes, the elevators were insufficient to accommodate 700 patrons.") — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhtwiki (talk • contribs) 00:14, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 7168

Thisisnotcam (talk) edit

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

Urban Versis 32 (talk) edit

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

JTF2020 (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Bhupi Sherchan (1077) *R
  2.  Completed Dagona Birds Sanctuary (207)
  3.  Completed Ghulam Nabi Kashmiri (704)
  4.  Completed An Son (1471)
  5.  Completed Tek Fog (2256) *R  Comment: – did some work; but not over as many edits as TheRealSerenaJoy and not editor of record in requests archive. Dhtwiki (talk) 08:19, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  6.  Completed Ahichchhatra Jain temples (741) *R
  7.  Completed Imam Reza shrine stabbings (388) *R
  8.  Completed Sawai Madhopur (1553) *O
  9.  Completed Navarasa (web series) (5313) *O
  10.  Completed Timeline of reactions to the Hong Kong national security law (February 2021) (6754) *O
  11.  Completed Madan Mohan Malaviya (3029) *O
  12.  Completed Intinti Gruhalakshmi (2767) *O
  13.  Completed Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani (5509) *O
  14.  Completed 2002–03 FC Basel season (6858) *O
  15.  Completed Chinese calendar (5474) *O
  16.  Completed Jacob Itzhak Niemirower (1635) *O
  17.  Completed Santa Catarina (state) (5575) *O
  18.  Completed Sindhudurg district (1504) *O
  19.  Completed Sepak takraw (4273) *O
  20.  Completed Sun Dawu (910) *O
  21.  Completed Tai Chi Chasers (479) *O
  22.  Completed Leave the Door Open (5273) *R
  23.  Completed Shantinath Jain Teerth (503) *O
  24.  Completed Sayf ol-Dowleh (1876) *R
  25.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 24
  • Total words: 66129

Cioriolio (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Abortion in Alabama (4026)  Partly done – some changes not helpful; c/e tag was left in place — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhtwiki (talk • contribs) 01:09, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Abortion in Florida (2780)  Partly done – minor changes; more needed; c/e tag was left in place — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhtwiki (talk • contribs) 01:09, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Working Atmanirbhar Bharat (3998) ☒N no edits — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reidgreg (talk • contribs) 14:36, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 6806

Jonesey95 (talk) edit

Article list
  1.  Completed Mera Jism Meri Marzi (943) *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 943
  • Rollover words: 3,618
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