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Guild of Copy Editors' requests page On this page, you can request that the Guild of Copy Editors copy-edit specific articles. Instructions for requesters To make a request, remove any existing {{copy edit}} tags from the article, then click this button and follow the instructions: Manual instructions (if the button doesn't work) To make a request, add your article, using the following format, to the bottom of this page: ===[[Articlename]]=== Your comments ~~~~ Please remove any existing {{copy edit}} tags from the article to avoid edit conflicts during the copy edit. Please note: No request by an unregistered editor will be accepted unless the IP has done significant work on the article. Drive-by IP requests already on the list may be declined by any editor. The average waiting time is two or so months. Please be patient and feel free to improve your requested article while you wait. If you plan to nominate the article for good article, A-class or featured article status, please wait until the copy edit is complete before nominating it. Having your article copy edited by our team does not guarantee that the prose will be considered acceptable during any of the above reviews. You may have up to two open requests at any one time. This is enforced so that every request can have a fair chance of being fulfilled within a reasonable period. Requests may be declined if the article is: in the Draft or User namespaces, or is awaiting review at Wikipedia:Articles for creation; unstable, undergoing rapid development, the venue for an ongoing edit war, or otherwise not yet suitable for copy editing. Instructions for copy editors Once you have accepted a request, it may be helpful to add a section to the article's Talk page explaining that you will be copy-editing the article and that other editors are welcome to post questions and comments for you while you are doing so. Remember to add another note when you are done. Please ensure that you are familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style and the expectations for editing for the GOCE outlined in our Step by Step guide. The simplified Manual of Style is here. A number of national varieties of English are present throughout the encyclopedia, and no one variety is preferred. Keep spelling and date formatting consistent within an article. When you accept a request, place an indented {{Working}} template immediately beneath the request and sign your post with four tildes (~~~~) so other copy editors know not to accept it. Accept only one request at a time. Articles that are potential Featured Article candidates should be handled by experienced editors. If you have accepted a request but cannot fulfill it for any reason, please amend it with either: a note of the sections you have completed so someone else can complete the copy edit, or; a suitable template: {{Not done}}, {{Partly done}}, or Abandoned (not a template!). Please make a good-faith effort to complete a copyedit; excessive use of the "Partly done" template does little (or nothing) to reduce the backlog. If the article is unstable, experiencing rapid development, an ongoing edit war or apparent ownership issues, open a discussion on Requests talk to inform project coordinators. Acceptances that appear to have been abandoned will be checked after a reasonable period, usually one week after the timestamp. In cases of complete inactivity we will ask for an update on your talk page. If no response is received within one further week, the {{Working}} template will be removed so other editors may complete the copy edit. When you have completed a request, add the template {{Done}} below the request and sign your post with four tildes (~~~~) and a bot will archive it in about 24 hours. In limited circumstances (breakdowns etc.), you can add the details of the request to the archive page then remove the request here by blanking the subsection. Do not delete the original request without archiving it. Please consider adding the templates {{GOCE|user={{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|date={{subst:date}}}} on the talk page of articles you have copy edited and {{GOCEtb|article=Insert article name|sign=~~~~}} to the talk page of the requester. Instructions for coordinators Stale requests marked as "Working": Acceptances that appear to have been abandoned should be checked for activity after a reasonable period, usually one week after the timestamp. In cases of complete inactivity, a coordinator should ask for an update on the copy editor's talk page. Write "Asked X for update on talk page" below the "Working" line on the Requests page. If no response is received within one further week, the {{Working}} template should be removed so that other editors may complete the copy edit. Quality control: Articles from the Requests page that are completed by newer editors should be reviewed for quality by a coordinator, time permitting. The top priority is to review articles that are FA candidates; the second priority, GA and DYK candidates. Edit this panel

March 2025

Terraria

I plan on nominating Terraria for FAC. I only want the "Development and release" and "Reception" sections to be copyedited and made more engaging. I suggest following the instructions at MOS:VG. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 13:34, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

April 2025

Dowry system in India

Someone please completely rewrite this article, just get it off my hands. Seems a bunch of high school students have copy-pasted their term end papers on it. LΞVIXIUS💬 20:27, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Classy 101

I need clean-up work on prose and grammar to nominate this article on FAC in the future. Santi (talk) 01:02, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Snooze (SZA song)

For a future FAC. Many sentences need to be simplified/made less complex; prose should have more concision too Elias 🦗🐜 ^{[Chat, they chattin', they chat]} 08:04, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Connection Lost

Would like to renominate for FAC after having withdrawn the 1st FAC due to issues with prose. Pamzeis (talk) 02:55, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

BoJack Hates the Troops

I'm planning on submitting this article for GA status, and then possibly FA status, but I believe a copy edit would benefit it. The plot and themes section may be a little redundant, so restructuring that would be great. Thank you :) Crystal Drawers (talk) 18:28, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Rosa Parks

FAC (I think). Am planning on nominating this article for FA sometime in the future. Some help with CE would be appreciated. Spookyaki (talk) 21:15, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

May 2025

Ukrainian Sheriffs

Ukrainian war documentary film for GAN. Reidgreg (talk) 22:12, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

The King of Fighters: Kyo (1998 video game)

Small visual novel article with potential for GAN. There are not too many sources so it might easy to do.Tintor2 (talk) 23:21, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Mayiladuthurai district

Please help me to meet the above artical to meet Wikipedia:Good article criteria certification En.saravanan (talk) 08:49, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Employee of the Month

Hi, I am requesting a copy edit of the article of the film Employee of the Month that starred Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson and Dax Shepard, especially since the plot section needing to be trimmed. Thank you. NeoBatfreak (talk) 18:33, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Greensburg tornado

See Talk:Greensburg tornado, pretty self-explanatory as to why I'm submitting a request. Hoping to get to FA-quality sometime soon. — ^EF⁵ 18:10, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Ochaco Uraraka

The article was previously copyedited for an attempted FAC. Because the FAC was not successful, I had a peer review. I made the changes in the peer review and in the article's GAN. Currently, this article is a good article, but I am seeking another copyedit on this article as this article is significantly different from the last time this was copyedited, and I anticipate to send this for PR and later another FAC. As of the date of this request, I have an outstanding PR for a different article, but I intend to ask for another PR for this article as soon as my outstanding PR for the other article is done. For details, see Talk:Ochaco Uraraka. Z. Patterson (talk) 20:58, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

The peer review for the other article is closed. The second peer review for this article is outstanding. Z. Patterson (talk) 02:27, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

This peer review is now done. This request is now for a potential WP:FAC. Z. Patterson (talk) 00:31, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Mayiladuthurai

Hi, I am requesting a copy edit of the article Mayiladuthurai to meet wikipedia good artical standards. Thank you. En.saravanan (talk) 06:24, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Payanam (2011 film)

Potential GA. DareshMohan (talk) 13:04, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Fandi Ahmad

Old GA that recently passed GAR, needs copyedit. Thanks, actuall7 (talk | contrib) 08:44, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Myst V: End of Ages

Forgotten about FA from 2009, may run as TFA in September for its 20th anniversary. Needs a copy-edit.Harizotoh9 (talk) 22:57, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Draft:The World After Gaza:A History

It is possible to copy-edit Draft:The World After Gaza:A History, as it appears to have been moved to the draft page due to its promotional tone. GolsaGolsa (talk) 07:23, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Waluigi

Wanted this one to be copyedited after there were a lot of edits already sibce it became a GA. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 17:41, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

ABBA

Much of this article is in a conversational style and needs to be trimmed for clarity. Karst (talk) 09:32, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Marvel's Midnight Suns

The article is in need of in-depth copyediting for its flow and use of grammar. Thank you. OceanHok (talk) 10:17, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Dinolandia

Requesting a copy edit for this Good article nominee (GAN). Thanks! --Another Believer _(Talk) 04:15, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

1990 United States Senate election in Delaware

Recently promoted GA, hoping for a ce to get any errors me or the GAN reviewer missed Olliefant (she/her) 10:14, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Price Tower

I recently got this to GA status and would like to nominate this to FAC soon. I would appreciate a copy edit in case the GA reviewer or I missed anything. Thanks in advance. – Epicgenius (talk) 04:44, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

The First Fallen

For possible re-nomination for GA. GnocchiFan (talk) 12:46, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

The King of Fighters 2003

Potential GAN after recent revision.Tintor2 (talk) 17:16, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Zaw Min Tun (general)

An editor placed a copy-edit template on the article and left a statement with the following summary that the article is over-written. Please kindly clean-up the article, keep the important information and remove the overly written ones and then once the article is cleaned up and well-written, remove the template. Thank you. KhantWiki (talk) 18:06, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

June 2025

History of the United Arab Emirates

ACN and potential GAN. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 06:47, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Nicolinas

Portuguese festivities for GAN. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 08:07, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

People's democratic state

WP:DYK nom. --TheUzbek (talk) 10:38, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

National democratic state

WP:DYK nom. --TheUzbek (talk) 10:38, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Doge (meme)

Might need to be copyedited. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 16:08, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945

Failed an FAC, with apparent MOS & reference issues which multiple editors indicate need to be fixed. Can someone go through the article and references and ensure they are aligned with MOS? Thanks in advance! From the FAC: “Examples of MOS issues include unmarked postal abbreviations, repeated links, and missing alts. Examples of citation inconsistencies include whether newspapers are italicized, whether authors are listed last name or first name first, and whether ISSNs are included for periodicals.” The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 01:12, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

@WeatherWriter: Most, if not all, of what you mention could, and should, be treated by the subject-matter editors. "[U]nmarked postal abbreviations" mean what? I see two-letter state abbreviations being linked; that should be enough. WP:OVERLINK should be consulted and links removed accordingly (this is a fairly short article, of ~800 words, as we measure such things). There shouldn't be much need for linking a particular prose term more than once (you might even consider cutting down on linking the state postal abbreviations in your table, such as "MS" and "AL"). Consistent formatting of references, as well as what detail they contain, and how punctuated, are not what copy editors concentrate on. Nowhere in your FAC quotation does it say "prose issues", which is a better sign that the guild should be called in. Dhtwiki (talk) 09:58, 5 June 2025 (UTC) (edited 10:03, 5 June 2025 (UTC))

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)

I'm hoping to bring Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series), a 3D animated series, to GA status, but I'm not confident in my copy editing. I'm not sure what should be trimmed or kept, or how to best organize the article as a whole, especially the "Production" and "Other media" sections, which I feel are a bit messy. Lililolol (talk) 21:38, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Hundreds of Beavers

Independent film with potential for FA. Jon698 (talk) 04:28, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Tragic Kingdom

FA from 2009 that has not run on the front page, and may run in October for the 20th anniversary of its release. Needs a copyedit. Harizotoh9 (talk) 19:28, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

2014 Moscow school shooting

For a future GAN, I feel like the Legal proceedings sections need work. 7kk (talk) 23:10, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

 Working —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 20:06, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Masters of Doom

Wanted to try getting this to FA but the FAC didn't work out. So I think having a copyedit will help it out in some capacity. GamerPro64 01:54, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Máximo Bistrot

A recent GA that I think it is likely to become a FAC. A copyedit can be helpful. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 19:06, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Starfish

An FA that I've made changes to. LittleJerry (talk) 15:52, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Donald Trump town hall meeting in Oaks, Pennsylvania

Seeking a copy edit ahead of a possible Good article nomination (GAN). Thanks! --Another Believer _(Talk) 17:12, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Supreme state organ of power

Potential DYK and GA nom. --TheUzbek (talk) 08:18, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Sae Kitamura

Translated from its Japanese entry, the article has passed AfC with a B-class and was promoted in DYK, but was quick failed for a GA because of "grammar problems", and the reviewer suggested me a copyedit request here. --Saimmx (talk) 12:17, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Partially done: I've corrected the obvious prose issues. For a final polish to really make the writing shine, you may want to wait for another reviewer, but this should be sufficient to not quickfail. 2001:8F8:172B:3F78:9DD7:CA08:8AA4:B88C (talk) 05:03, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for copyediting! I have not even consider some of usage when seeing your change. Saimmx (talk) 14:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Tetris

For potential FAC. Lazman321 (talk) 05:37, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Spit (album)

FAC: After 2+ years I am planning on nominating this for FA status, hopefully by end of 2025. I would appreciate if a copyeditor could: 1.) make things read clearer; especially in songs section and release/promotion and 2.) redo the critical reception in its entireity as I am generally bad at writing those and have become too jaded and/or cynical to do a good job. This, alongside any other CE'ing/feedback, is greatly appreciated. Any sources with a ProQuest ID are accessible via Wikipedia Library. // Chchcheckit (talk) 11:28, 22 June 2025 (UTC)