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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 especially important for articles listed on the Requests page. The drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The drive's lead coordinator was Jonesey95 (talk), assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk) and Miniapolis (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page. This drive began on January 1, 2014, 00:00 UTC and ended on January 31, 2014, 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 (October and November 2012) and to complete all requests made on the GOCE Requests page during November 2013. Articles from the Requests page counted 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 October and November 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 was 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

Leaderboard

More information Total Articles, Total Words ...

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	PaintedCarpet (62)	Lfstevens (43)	Miniapolis (38)	Onel5969 (26)	JudyCS (22)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	JudyCS (103,663)	Lfstevens (104,194)	Miniapolis (61,261)	Onel5969 (37,132)	PaintedCarpet (33,961)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	JudyCS (10)	Lfstevens (4)	Ankit Maity (2) Demiurge1000 (2) Onel5969(2)	Miniapolis (1) PaintedCarpet (1) SuperHamster (1)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Lfstevens (39)	Miniapolis (34)	Onel5969 (16)	JudyCS (14)	AngusWOOF (9)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Lfstevens (20,080)	JudyCS (13,139)	Demiurge1000 (11,575)	Ankit Maity (10,228)	SuperHamster (8,172)

[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 October and November 2012.
[4]
The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

More information Date ...

Progress Chart
Date	Oct/Nov 2012 articles	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
31 December 2013	198	2,922	—	—
1 January 2014	187	2,924	2	2
2 January 2014	183	2,935	11	13
3 January 2014	179	2,940	5	18
4 January 2014	175	2,963	23	41
5 January 2014	170	2,969	6	47
6 January 2014	158	2,971	2	49
7 January 2014	154	2,971	0	49
8 January 2014	144	2,969	2	47
9 January 2014	139	2,999	28	77
10 January 2014	137	2,966	33	44
11 January 2014	134	2,969	3	47
12 January 2014	133	2,963	6	41
13 January 2014	128	2,950	19	28
14 January 2014	123	2,946	4	24
15 January 2014	109	2,866	80	56
16 January 2014	102	2,839	27	83
17 January 2014	93	2,800	39	122
18 January 2014	88	2,792	8	130
19 January 2014	84	2,773	19	149
20 January 2014	81	2,771	2	151
21 January 2014	78	2,777	6	145
22 January 2014	65	2,785	8	137
23 January 2014	60	2,786	1	136
24 January 2014	51	2,784	2	138
25 January 2014	44	2,771	13	151
26 January 2014	38	2,772	1	150
27 January 2014	18	2,773	1	149
28 January 2014	8	2,773	0	149
29 January 2014	1	2,771	2	151
30 January 2014	0	2,780	9	142
31 January 2014	0	2,777	3	145

[1]
Change refers only 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

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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 October and November 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