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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, signified by the {{copyedit}} tag or by a listing on the GOCE Requests page. Please make sure that you know how to copy edit and that you are familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style before you begin copy editing—these are specially important for articles listed on the Requests page. The drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The lead coordinator is Torchiest (talk), and he is assisted by BDD (talk) and Miniapolis (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page. This drive began on January 1, 2013, 00:00 UTC and will end on January 31, 2013, 23:59 UTC.

The goals of this backlog elimination drive were to reduce the overall backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on those that have been in the queue for the longest (January, February, and March 2012) and to complete all requests made on the GOCE Requests page in November and December 2012. Articles from the Requests page count towards your total whether they have a copy edit tag on them or not, so please feel free to select from there when you are in the mood for a better-quality article to edit. Articles tagged {{copyedit}} in January, February, and March 2012, and all requests, will receive a bonus score of 50% over and above the article's word count. Awards will be given out to those individuals who help reduce the size of the backlog.

The backlog elimination drive is open to all, and you do not need to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. However, you may want to consider joining, 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 drive 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 drive page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

Progress

More information Total Articles, Total Words ...

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
(update your own numbers)
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	FoCuSandLeArN (89)	Lfstevens (69)	Jonesey95 (34)	Dianna (32) Torchiest (32)	Tdslk (26)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Lfstevens (174,087)	Sesamehoneytart (56,468)	Miniapolis (46,728)	FoCuSandLeArN (38,426)	Jonesey95 (33,491)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Sesamehoneytart (9)	Lfstevens (8)	Miniapolis (4)	Torchiest (2) Freebirdthemonk (2) Odysseus1479 (2)	Dianna (1) Stfg (1) Jonesey95 (1) Rutebega (1) Mathijsvs (1)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Lfstevens (41)	Jonesey95 (32)	Torchiest (22)	FoCuSandLeArN (15)	Mathijsvs (11)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Freebirdthemonk (11,247)	Lfstevens (10,641)	Miniapolis (9,907)	Jonesey95 (7,792)	Dianna (7,451)

[1]
For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
[2]
Number of articles of 5000 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 January, February, or March 2012.
[4]
The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

More information Date ...

Progress Chart
Date	Jan/Feb/Mar 2012 articles remaining	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
31 December 2012	389	3,005	—	—
1 January 2013	386	3,004	1	1
2 January 2013	376	3,013	9	8
3 January 2013	366	2,977	36	28
4 January 2013	360	2,974	3	31
5 January 2013	356	2,973	1	32
6 January 2013	346	2,964	9	41
7 January 2013	343	2,949	15	56
8 January 2013	338	2,942	7	63
9 January 2013	323	2,932	10	73
10 January 2013	314	2,933	1	72
11 January 2013	310	2,922	11	83
12 January 2013	300	2,921	1	84
13 January 2013	294	2,928	7	77
14 January 2013	279	2,934	6	71
15 January 2013	273	2,938	4	67
16 January 2013	262	2,923	15	82
17 January 2013	258	2,927	4	78
18 January 2013	254	2,928	1	77
19 January 2013	250	2,929	1	76
20 January 2013	245	2,916	13	89
21 January 2013	240	2,937	21	68
22 January 2013	238	2,950	13	55
23 January 2013	236	2,965	15	40
24 January 2013	219	2,954	11	51
25 January 2013	216	2,947	7	58
26 January 2013	212	2,946	1	59
27 January 2013	191	2,926	20	79
28 January 2013	165	2,904	22	101
29 January 2013	151	2,903	1	102
30 January 2013	144	2,900	3	105
31 January 2013	121	2,894	6	111

[1]
Change only refers to outstanding tags.

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.

10% of a participant's copy edits from the backlog should be inspected. All copy edits from the Requests page should be reviewed, time permitting. Please choose articles at random, and do not inspect articles you have copy edited yourself. After checking an article, place a {{checked}} mark after the article on the listing and sign your username (just ~~~). If a rough consensus finds a copy edit is not of an acceptable standard, the tag will be re-added and the editor will be assessed a penalty of 1,200 words plus the length of the article reviewed. 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

Signing up

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

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 drive 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, and place any comments after the article title but before the word count. If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count, or if it was tagged in January–March 2012, place *O after the word count. Please do not add the 50% bonus in these cases—we will apply the bonuses after the drive is over. Here is an example of a well-completed line:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1234) *O