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Wikipedia articles needing copy edit

Subtotals
April 2025	41
May 2025	35
June 2025	76
July 2025	65
August 2025	72
September 2025	85
October 2025	91
November 2025	70
December 2025	83
January 2026	93
February 2026	98
March 2026	136
April 2026	138
May 2026	110
June 2026	147
July 2026	181
Undated articles	0

All articles

1,521

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 {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 September 2016, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 30 September 2016, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in July through October 2015);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from August 2016.

Drive participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles from the Requests page count towards your total; these are generally higher-quality articles 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 {{copyedit}} in July through October 2015, and for all articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians; you don't have to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. You must, however, be 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 Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Tdslk (talk) and Corinne (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive page.

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

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Leaderboard

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**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	Twofingered Typist (60)	Lfstevens (35)	Miniapolis (26)	Prof. Squirrel (22)	Leschnei (13) Avgr8 (13)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Twofingered Typist (94,500)	Miniapolis (72,694)	Lfstevens (43,256)	Leschnei (34,632)	Prof. Squirrel (34,458)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Miniapolis (6)	Twofingered Typist (4)	Leschnei (3) Prof. Squirrel (3)	–	Avgr8 (2) Dhtwiki (2)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Twofingered Typist (36)	Lfstevens (35)	Miniapolis (26)	Prof. Squirrel (14)	Leschnei (12)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Twofingered Typist (16,200)	Leschnei (14,281)	Miniapolis (12,089)	Dhtwiki (9,771)	Prof. Squirrel (7,944)

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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.
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Oldest articles are those tagged in July, August, September, and October 2015.
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The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date	Old articles July–October 2015	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
31 August 2016	269	1,886	—	—
1 September 2016	261	1,869	17	17
2 September 2016	258	1,878	9	8
3 September 2016	246	1,877	1	9
4 September 2016	243	1,873	4	13
5 September 2016	232	1,868	5	18
6 September 2016	228	1,876	8	10
7 September 2016	225	1,881	5	5
8 September 2016	221	1,889	8	3
9 September 2016	212	1,877	12	9
10 September 2016	208	1,883	6	3
11 September 2016	203	1,875	8	11
12 September 2016	198	1,866	9	20
13 September 2016	195	1,860	6	26
14 September 2016	188	1,848	12	38
15 September 2016	181	1,837	11	49
16 September 2016	177	1,835	2	51
17 September 2016	174	1,845	10	41
18 September 2016	167	1,831	14	55
19 September 2016	158	1,824	7	62
20 September 2016	147	1,816	8	70
21 September 2016	141	1,816	0	70
22 September 2016	138	1,817	1	69
23 September 2016	135	1,826	9	60
24 September 2016	128	1,828	2	58
25 September 2016	120	1,824	4	62
26 September 2016	113	1,818	6	68
27 September 2016	106	1,816	2	70
28 September 2016	104	1,809	7	77
29 September 2016	97	1,824	15	62
30 September 2016	83	1,789	35	97

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Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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

Signing up

To sign up for the drive, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section where you will record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous drive are located here.

Totals

How to record articles you have copy edited:

Remove any extant {{copyedit}} 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.
- 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.
Place articles you're working on on the {{Working}} line. When you've finished your copy edit, change {{Working}} to {{Completed}}
If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count. If it was tagged in July through October 2015, place *O 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 it on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1,234) *O

and like this on the rendered page:

Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234) *O

Tdslk (talk)

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Completed Christ Lutheran Church Kattukadai (54)
Completed Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (563)
Completed Osage Nation Museum (102)
Completed New Castle Correctional Facility (563)
Completed Duchy of Rome (1124)
Completed Cornel Rasanga Amoth (407)
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Total articles: 6
Total words: 2813
Rollover words: 3701

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Completed Joseph A. Mandarino (961) *O
Completed 2002–03 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball team (110)
Completed Adaraneeya Kathawak (196)
Completed Al ritmo de tu corazón (249)
Completed Animal husbandry in Nepal (344)
Completed Ishaque Ahmed Ansari (407)
Completed Asisten Rumah Tangga (154)
Completed ELSA Law Review (621)
Completed The Exclusives (326)
Completed Charli Evans (226)
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Total articles: 10
Total words: 3,594
Rollover words: 659

Twofingered Typist (talk)

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Completed Shawna Robinson (3,800) *R
Completed Hawkins\Brown (200) *R
Completed PAW Patrol (1,900) *R
Completed Cellarette (500) *R
Completed Allen Walker (2,400) *R
Completed North Carolina Highway 13 (1936-1951) (virtually flawless) (0) *R
Completed Kodandera M. Cariappa (2,900) *R
Completed Helen McEntee (partial count) (300) *R
Completed Fantasia 2000 (4,800) *R
Completed 1915 Vanderbilt Commodores football team (partial count) (1,000) *R
Completed Sigismund Ernuszt (1,400) *R
Completed Poonia murders (1,100) *R
Completed Death of Linda Norgrove (partial count) (1,000) *R
Completed Janeway Lambda one (3,000) *R
Completed Matriarch of the Blues (partial count) (500) *R
Completed Amor Prohibido (4,400) *R
Completed The Fault in Our Stars (film) (3,400) *R
Completed Maybe This Christmas (partial count) (600) *R
Completed Red imported fire ant (16,200) *R
Completed Maybe This Christmas Too? (partial count) (300) *R
Completed Operation Arctic Fox (2,900) *R
Completed Black & White (video game) (3,600) *R
Completed Giganotosaurus (partial count, virtually flawless) (500) *R Stfg (talk) 14:03, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Completed Jamala (700) *R
Completed Ron Assouline (800) *O
Completed Congress of the Peoples of the East (2,400) *O
Completed The Oval (2,000) *O
Completed Royal Economic Society (2,300) *O
Completed Capital Area Greenbelt (500) *O
Completed Ulcinj Castle (1,000) *O
Completed Aleksey Mozgovoy (partial count) (300) *O
Completed Alex Chigogidze (700) *O
Completed Karam (festival) (1,000) *O
Completed Tom Stuart-Smith (400) *O
Completed James Alexandrou (700) *O
Completed Maggie Gee (novelist) (partial count) (500) *O
Completed Ansar Burney (3,000) *O
Completed Moisés Naím (partial count) (500) *O
Completed Ruby McGregor-Smith, Baroness McGregor-Smith (900) *O
Completed Justice Society of America (5,350) *O
Completed Shaul Olmert (partial count) (250) *O
Completed Shaquell Moore (200) *O
Completed Rifleman (partial count) (400) *O
Completed Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre (2,000) *O
Completed Popeye the Sailor (1960s TV series) (600) *O
Completed Helmut Mertens (800) *O
Completed Kaye Styles (600) *O
Completed Kenichi Itō (politics) (900) *O
Completed Carl Stough (1,000) *O
Completed Bob D'Eith (1,000) *O
Completed Sukrita Paul Kumar (700) *O
Completed Northwich Victoria F.C. (partial count) (900) *O
Completed Joan Russow (700) *O
Completed Lady of Elche (partial count) (700) *O
Completed Evany José Metzker (article is a stub - not much to do) (0) *O
Completed Gau wu (partial count) (500) *O
Completed Saint Mercurius (partial count) (200) *O
Completed United States Pony Clubs (partial count) (200) *O
Completed Khalid Mahmud Arif (1,100) *O
Completed Heather Cassils (2,000) *O
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