Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2013

Screen shot of backlog status at start of drive

This is mostly just a reminder to myself that I took a screen shot of the backlog status at the start of the drive. It's at File:GOCE_drive_status_2013-05-01.png. I'll take another one at the end of the drive so that we can post them both on the page on June 1. Jonesey95 (talk) 00:10, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Who is doing all the editing?

Summing the individual totals of participants in the drive, we've edited 18 articles thus far, while at least 40 additional articles have been tagged for copy editing this month. Yet the total number of articles needing copy edits has gone down by 84. 84 + 40 - 18 = at least 106 tags removed from articles unaccounted for by the drive totals. Does anyone know what gives? Tdslk (talk) 19:15, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Some articles are delisted because they are not ready for copyediting. They can include lists, copy/pastes, and major overhauls. -AngusWOOF (talk) 20:58, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I was wondering this as well. I have five articles edited and am currently shown as the overall leader on the leaderboard. I know that can't be right. I know that some people keep track of their edits off-line and copy them onto the Drive page near the end of the month. I encourage those folks to update their entries on the Drive page, and on the leaderboard (at least once a week?) to foster a sense of community and friendly competition. Quality is the primary goal, but it is motivational to know that other people are participating in copy editing during the drive. Jonesey95 (talk) 05:20, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

User:Lfstevens/May 2013 copy-edits --Stfg (talk) 06:16, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Ah. I should have known that Lfstevens would be behind all this! Tdslk (talk) 23:19, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

As you can see from my page, I'm working shorties this month. I hate seeing the backlog go up, but it seems like cheating to count them in the contest. I should have cleared basically everything under 3k in the next couple of days. If I reach the point where I can't stand it anymmore, I'll do some oldies or goodies and count those. Lfstevens (talk) 00:22, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Not cheating. You're doing a lot of work, and you should count it. Words is words. Jonesey95 (talk) 05:36, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Rollover words

The link to find the previous drive's rollover words is incorrect. It links to the rollover words from the January drive. Anyone who relied on that link for their rollover total has their numbers wrong. Dementia13 (talk) 21:29, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting this, Dementia13. I've now linked both the drive page and the sign-up box to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/March 2013/Rollover words, which gives the rollover words from the March drive. I haven't checked individual entries in the May drive page. --Stfg (talk) 22:15, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Drive page now updated with March rollovers. --Stfg (talk) 09:27, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. Dementia13 (talk) 12:24, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

too sad to copyedit

I had to punt Katras away from copyediting; it was WP:NPOV beyond saving. Is there a task force that can gut articles like that one? -AngusWOOF (talk) 07:29, 24 May 2013 (UTC)