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This Copy Editing Project Blitz was a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing. It began on 20 August 2017, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 26 August 2017, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme of this blitz is:

  • biographical articles that have been tagged for copy editing for over six months (see list below)

Blitz participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards will be given out once the blitz has finished.

The blitz is open to all; 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.

Blitzes are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The blitz's lead coordinator is Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Corinne (talk), Keira1996 (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Tdslk (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the blitz's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main blitz 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 blitz can be found on the main blitz page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

Biographical article list for the blitz[edit]

Click "show" to expand the list of articles.

Article list
0. fake article to show what an in-progress article looks like  Working – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:13, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
00. fake article to show what a completed article looks like Green tickY – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:13, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  1. Abdulla Issa Green tickY TwistieV (talk) 8:40, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
  2. Abdullah ibn Masud
  3. Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi Green tickY Miniapolis 23:54, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov
  5. Ana Sladetić Green tickY – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:05, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Bahirji Naik Green tickY Pratim from Lakhuria (talk) 11:19, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Bethany Joy Lenz Green tickY Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:40, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Bjørnar Iversen (at AfD) Green tickY
  9. Carmen Miranda Green tickY Miniapolis 17:31, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Daniel Johnston Green tickY Reidgreg (talk) 21:30, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Dmytro Firtash Green tickY Reidgreg (talk) 17:42, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Eitel Brothers  Working Pratim from Lakhuria (talk) 11:19, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Emir Vildić Green tickY Reidgreg (talk) 15:34, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Gauri Pathare
  15. George F. Close Green tickY Reidgreg (talk) 15:28, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Gustavo Morales
  17. Henry Conger Pratt Green tickY AlfredRennie (talk) 16:29, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Hokky Situngkir Green tickY CoolieCoolster (talk) 17:08, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Jahandar Shah Green tickY Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:29, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Jim Tavaré Green tickY CoolieCoolster (talk) 02:00, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Julian Marcus Trono Green tickY – Reidgreg (talk) 20:34, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Kavasji Naegamvala Green tickY Dhtwiki (talk) 21:20, 26 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha
  24. Ladislaus the Posthumous Green tickY Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:40, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Lucien Scheler Green tickY CoolieCoolster (talk) 21:13, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Mark Jonathan Davis Green tickY Reidgreg (talk) 01:44, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Mehrsa Baradaran Green tickY – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:31, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Mohamed Enani Green tickY Reidgreg (talk) 18:32, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Mohydeen Izzat Quandour
  30. Paul Enenche Green tickY Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:22, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  31. Peter and Rosemary Grant Green tickY Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:15, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  32. Prahlad Pandey Green tickYPratim from Lakhuria (talk) 05:37, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  33. Ram Singh (activist) Green tickY(Was a BDP)Pratim from Lakhuria (talk) 07:27, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  34. Ramya Green tickY Reidgreg (talk) 12:07, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  35. Rastko Ćirić Green tickY CoolieCoolster (talk) 00:33, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  36. Rebecca Jackson Green tickY – Jonesey95 (talk)
  37. Richard Koch  Working Jonesey95
  38. Robert Lyn Nelson Green tickY Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:28, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  39. Satish (Bahadurgarh baby killer)
  40. Spice 1 Green tickY Reidgreg (talk) 12:22, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  41. Sreekandan Nair Green tickY CoolieCoolster (talk) 00:57, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  42. Tanaya Henry Green tickY Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:56, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  43. Tareque Sayeed Green tickY Reidgreg (talk) 22:16, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  44. Vinicius de Moraes Green tickY Dhtwiki (talk) 02:08, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  45. Wei-Heng Chen Green tickY Miniapolis 19:28, 26 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  46. Wolfgang Haber Green tickY Tdslk (talk) 02:22, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  47. Z. Karvalics László Green tickY CoolieCoolster (talk) 16:40, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Progress chart[edit]

Progress Chart
Date
  • Outstanding
  • old BLPs
  • Change since
  • previous day
  • Change since
  • beginning
August 19, 2017 47 — —
August 20, 2017 39 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease  8
August 21, 2017 36 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 11
August 22, 2017 27 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 20
August 23, 2017 24 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 23
August 24, 2017 16 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 31
August 25, 2017 12 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 35
August 26, 2017 8 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 39

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 word count of the reviewed article will be deducted from the editor's total. 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]

  1. Reidgreg (talk) 21:18, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Signing up[edit]

To sign up for the blitz, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section for you to record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous blitz can be found here.


Totals[edit]

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. These brackets should not contain anything other than this number.
  • 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}}.
  • 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.
  • If you want your work checked, you can request this on the blitz talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

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

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234)

Jonesey95 (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Rebecca Jackson (825)
  2.  Completed Ana Sladetić (185)
  3.  Completed Mehrsa Baradaran (568)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 1,578
  • Rollover words: 1,980

Miniapolis (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Carmen Miranda (8,855)
  2.  Completed Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi (526)
  3.  Completed Wei-Heng Chen (295)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 9,676
  • Rollover words: 1,639

Pratim from Lakhuria (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Prahlad Pandey (625)
  2.  Completed Ram Singh (activist) (941)
  3.  Completed Bahirji Naik(635)
  4.  Working Eitel Brothers (To be done tommorow(partly done))
  5.  Working Bahirji Naik (almost finished)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2,201


Twofingered Typist (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Tanaya Henry (691)
  2.  Completed Bethany Joy Lenz (2,675)
  3.  Completed Robert Lyn Nelson (700)
  4.  Completed Ladislaus the Posthumous (3,645)
  5.  Completed Paul Enenche (413)
  6.  Completed Peter and Rosemary Grant (1,880)
  7.  Completed Jahandar Shah (573)
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 10,577
  • Rollover words: 3,944

CoolieCoolster (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Sreekandan Nair (453) Checked Reidgreg
  2.  Completed Z. Karvalics László (316) Checked Reidgreg
  3.  Completed Jim Tavaré (629) Checked Reidgreg
  4.  Completed Lucien Scheler (447)
  5.  Completed Hokky Situngkir (362)
  6.  Completed Rastko Ćirić (431)
  • Total articles: 6
  • Total words: 2,638

Tdslk (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Wolfgang Haber (570)
  2.  Completed [[]] ()
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 570
  • Rollover words: 3439

AlfredRennie (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Henry Conger Pratt (approx count) (3100) Checked Reidgreg (talk) 21:27, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3100

Reidgreg (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Julian Marcus Trono (160)
  2.  Completed Mark Jonathan Davis (COI/autobio check) (780)
  3.  Completed Daniel Johnston (§Art career) (450)
  4.  Completed George F. Close (470)
  5.  Completed Mohamed Enani (partial count) (240)
  6.  Completed Tareque Sayeed (480)
  7.  Completed Spice 1 (570)
  8.  Completed Dmytro Firtash (3700)
  9.  Completed Ramya (880)
  10.  Completed Emir Vildić (690)
  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 8420
  • Rollover words: 400

Dhtwiki (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Vinicius de Moraes (1910)
  2.  Completed Kavasji Naegamvala (650)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2,560
  • Rollover words: 3,271

Matz44 (talk)[edit]

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

TwistieV (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Abdulla Issa (788)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 788

RajkGuj (talk)[edit]

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

Wilhelmina Will (talk)[edit]

Article list
  1.  Completed Bjørnar Iversen (481)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 481
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