Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/December 2013

Rollover words total for December

The signup page states that, "If you participated in the previous blitz, check your rollover words (in the October column) and add them to your section" and the link leads to the August 2013 Blitz totals page. This link should lead to the October 2013 Blitz totals page for the correct rollover words total for this December Blitz, & the statement should read, "...(in the December column) ..." Is this a revision that needs to be made by the Project coordinator? Thanks! JudyCS (talk) 10:48, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

You are welcome to fix stuff like this that is clearly broken. The coordinators watch these pages, so if you get something wrong, we'll correct it, ideally with an edit note that explains how. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:26, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Disputed articles on list

Esteemed colleagues: I popped open several articles hoping to find one to tackle in the time I have... noticed along the way, though, that several articles have various disputes over NPOV, seem to be opinion essays, or otherwise have been deservedly tagged for deeper cleanup than we would typically hit with a copyedit. Examples include Christian privilege (NPOV), Holocaust theology (opinion essay)... perhaps part of this blitz would be cleaning our backlog by tagging them "reviewed" and pulling the general c/e tag? I'm going to be out of town and offline tomorrow and Sunday but if this helps another blitzer take care of the backlog, we all win. Paul M. Nguyen (chat|blame) 20:41, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes, quite often tagged articles have other issues like that. Sometimes we can solve them; other times it may be better to remove the copy edit tag and, on the talk page, place a {{GOCEreviewed}} tag and an explanation of why copy editing wouldn't be productive right now.

Another thing I'm noticing probably just reflects a strange category structure: for example, we have an atheist metal guitarist (Kerry King) and a Playstation role-playing game that may be there because one of its categories is Exorcism in Fiction (La Pucelle: Tactics), while Santa Claus is tagged for copy editing but has somehow escaped the list, even though it is in categories: Christian folklore, Christmas characters, Christmas traditions, Fictional Christian saints, and Folk saints. --Stfg (talk) 12:17, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

It looks like you have to go four levels up from Santa Claus to get to Religion in the category tree. After playing around with category reports, I went with three levels deep, which gave us a decent selection without straying too far from the topic of Religion. Even at only three levels deep, we ended up with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lords of Chaos and Order (comic book characters), and Shattered Angels (manga). – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:16, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Last call

The December blitz has ended. Please make any final edits to your article lists and to the master article list in the next few hours. Barnstars will be distributed sometime on December 15 (U.S. time; sorry to be geocentric). – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:03, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

Just finished editing my article; I got caught up in adding info to the table, which I think I was not supposed to do...? Should I save word count for January editing drive? JourneySarah (talk) 04:22, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

That's a nice long article! I'll allow it for December. Nice work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:33, 15 December 2013 (UTC)