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Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
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Subtotals
September 20236
October 202342
November 202355
December 202391
January 202498
February 202473
March 202497
April 2024150
May 2024105
June 202481
July 2024127
August 2024108
September 202494
October 202491
November 202493
December 2024135
January 2025168
February 2025140
March 2025184
April 2025229
May 202548
Undated articles0
All articles
2,215

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is a one-month-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{cleanup tense}}, and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 May 2025, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 May 2025, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in September, October, and November 2023);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from February to May 2025.

Drive participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles listed on the Requests page count towards your total; these articles are generally higher in quality 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 {{copy edit}} in September, October, and November 2023, and for 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 Dhtwiki (talk), who is assisted by IQR (talk), Miniapolis (talk), Mox Eden (talk), WikiEditor5678910 (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.


For brief instructions on recording your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive page. Further details can be found on the drive FAQ page.

Full instructions, tips, and awards

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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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(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles 		GoldRomean (10) Valorrr (4)
LightlySeared (4)
Protobowladdict (4) 		Jayowyn (2) Miniapolis (1)
Mox Eden (1)
Reidgreg (1)
Lfstevens (1)
Tenryuu (1)
GranCavallo (1)
Notaoffensivename (1)
Total
Words[n 1] 		LightlySeared (20298) GoldRomean (17192) Valorrr (10543) Mox Eden (10153) Protobowladdict (9877)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		LightlySeared (3) Mox Eden (2) Valorrr (1)
GoldRomean (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		GoldRomean (9) LightlySeared (4) Valorrr (2)
Jayowyn (2) 		Miniapolis (1)
Reidgreg (1)
Tenryuu (1)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		LightlySeared (13603) Mox Eden (10153) GoldRomean (7049) Protobowladdict (4613) Jayowyn (2511)
  1. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ Oldest articles are those tagged in September, October, and November 2023.
  4. ^ 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
  • Sep–Nov 2023
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
30 April 2025 131 2,358 — —
1 May 2025 128 2,345 Positive decrease 13 Positive decrease 13
2 May 2025 124 2,324 Positive decrease 21 Positive decrease 34
3 May 2025 119 2,307 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 51
4 May 2025 114 2,272 Positive decrease 35 Positive decrease 86
5 May 2025 112 2,262 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 96
6 May 2025 109 2,238 Positive decrease 24 Positive decrease 120
7 May 2025 105 2,228 Positive decrease 10 Positive decrease 130
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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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

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Signing up

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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

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How to record articles you have copy edited:

  • Remove any extant {{copy edit}} 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) and avoid piped links, quotation marks and italics.
    • 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; do not use additional brackets for comments. Avoid long calculation strings (more than one line) in your word total.
  • 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}}.
  • If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R (using plain text) after the word count. If it was tagged in September, October, and November 2023, place *O (using plain text) 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 this on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

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

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1,940.5

Miniapolis (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ping Chong (1,316) *O
  2.  Working Oleh Syzon (761) *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1,316
  • Rollover words: 765

Mox Eden (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Peter Sellers (10153) *R
  2.  Completed Fuuto PI (2288) *R
  3.  Working Princess Peach (6336) *R
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 12441
  • Rollover words: 4,238.5

LightlySeared (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Ramstein Air Base (5373) *O
  2.  Completed Henry Okah (645) *O
  3.  Completed Violence against women (13603) *O
  4.  Completed Edda (local government area) (677) *O
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 20298
  • Rollover words: 2,546

GreenRedFlag (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working List of people from New Jersey (14815) *O
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 0

Reidgreg (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed State Border of Ukraine (808) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 808
  • Rollover words: 1530

CBID2 (talk)

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

Valorrr (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed ANTV (270)
  2.  Completed Arctic Cat (931)
  3.  Completed Godavari Water Disputes Tribunal (3339) *O
  4.  Completed Justice (6043) *O
  5.  Working ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 10543

EricXXue (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 7,829

Lfstevens (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Keʻelikōlani (3022)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 3022

GoldRomean (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Mudgee High School (365)
  2.  Completed Jens Lehmann (scientist) (473) *O
  3.  Completed Paralympic symbols (1869) *O
  4.  Completed Johannes Ledolter (587) *O
  5.  Completed Christianity in Gaul (2882) *O
  6.  Completed List of Spriggan characters (7049) *O
  7.  Completed Samuel Jacob Rubinstein (1063) *O
  8.  Completed Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (347) *O
  9.  Completed Education in Nepal (1874) *O
  10.  Completed Parliament Security Services (683) *O
  • Total articles: 10
  • Total words: 17192

SilkPyjamas (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 39.5

Akansomi (talk)

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

Protobowladdict (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Caricom Airways (620)
  2.  Completed K' (3263)
  3.  Completed Saint Helena Airport (4613)
  4.  Completed Action 52 (1381)
  5.  Completed Malecón Simón Bolívar (616)
  6.  Completed Shuttle bus (863)
  7.  Completed Benin City (2195)
  8.  Working Halloween costume (1547) *O
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 13591
  • Rollover words: 6913

Squawk7700 (talk)

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

Ultraodan (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1,394

Tenryuu (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Mahwa, Rajasthan (119) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 119
  • Rollover words: 5,224

History6042 (talk)

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

Tvfunhouse (talk)

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

Istanistan (talk)

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

Stealthmouse (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working System_of_a_Down (5139)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Audrey Woolf (talk)

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

$govindsinghbabhan$ (talk)

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

GranCavallo (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Yu Chen (artist) (428)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 428

Jayowyn (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Tourism in Tibet (1029) *O
  2.  Completed Anjou Bible (2511) *O
  3.  Completed Sinosphere (5441) *O
  4.  Completed Little Fuzhou (1549) *O
  5.  Working Gwaxdlala/Nalaxdlala (Lull/Hoeya) Marine Refuge (1663) *O
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  9.  Completed [[]] ()
  10.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 10530

Fico Puricelli (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Notaoffensivename (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed TruGreen (514)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 514

Somajyoti (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Nicholas Soraich (397)
  2.  Completed Jason Palmer (prison officer) (538)
  3.  Completed The Lens
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 935

Jayanta.MHA (talk)

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  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

DawnlightMelody (talk)

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

Assignmentfreelance (talk)

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Article list
  1. Template:Dr. Shamika Ravi Dr. Shamika Ravi ()

  2. Unexpected use of template {{3}} - see Template:3 for details. [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 6000
  • Rollover words: 8000

Assignmentfreelance (talk)

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  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 3000
  • Rollover words: 3000

Contrawwftw (talk)

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

Yelps (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Mahua (snack) (547)
  2.  Completed Malama Katulwende (787) *O
  3.  Completed Cuisine of Pará (390) *O
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 1725

Borage blue (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 1374

Tehshakur (talk)

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

SurveyMonkey (talk)

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

JayneriBM (talk)

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

Mlustig (talk)

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

Mackenstuff1 (talk)

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

Cactusisme (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 8

Editor6681067 (talk)

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

Smallangryplanet (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Xingyiquan (5913)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

TheNuggeteer (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Working Kenya Hara (991)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Letthemeatfood (talk)

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Article list

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  1.  Completed Family of Philip V (1738) (404)
  2.  Working Sophie of France (1786 - 1787) (369)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 404
  • Rollover words: 773
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