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Backlog status at the end of the drive

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 {{copy edit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 November 2016, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 30 November 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 September, October, November, and December 2015);
• to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from October 2016.

Drive participants earned barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edited. 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 {{copy edit}} in September, October, November, and December 2015, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards were given out once the drive has finished.

The drive was 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 Corinne (talk) and Tdslk (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

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

• Gold Star Award Leaderboard

	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	Twofingered Typist (58)	Reidgreg (50)	Miniapolis (32)	SkittleCookie22 (17)	Dhtwiki (13)
Total Words	Twofingered Typist (98,900)	Reidgreg (80,000)	Miniapolis (70,187)	Dhtwiki (14,068)	Thisisnotcam (11,362)
5k+ Articles	Reidgreg (6)	Twofingered Typist (5)	Miniapolis (4)	BroVic (1) Thisisnotcam (1)	–
Oldest Articles	Reidgreg (49)	Twofingered Typist (38)	Miniapolis (32)	Dhtwiki (13)	SkittleCookie22 (3)
Longest Article	Twofingered Typist (17,700)	Reidgreg (13,100)	Miniapolis (12,731)	BroVic (5,900)	Thisisnotcam (5,791)

Progress chart

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Progress Chart

Date	Old articles Sep–Dec 2015	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day	Change since beginning
31 October 2016	239	1,937	—	—
1 November 2016	236	1,932	5	5
2 November 2016	233	1,928	4	9
3 November 2016	229	1,926	2	11
4 November 2016	219	1,912	14	25
5 November 2016	213	1,910	2	27
6 November 2016	205	1,906	4	31
7 November 2016	204	1,907	1	30
8 November 2016	200	1,873	34	64
9 November 2016	195	1,871	2	66
10 November 2016	189	1,864	7	73
11 November 2016	178	1,835	29	102
12 November 2016	171	1,825	10	112
13 November 2016	165	1,806	19	131
14 November 2016	157	1,791	15	146
15 November 2016	149	1,743	48	194
16 November 2016	145	1,732	11	205
17 November 2016	143	1,705	27	232
18 November 2016	137	1,683	22	254
19 November 2016	135	1,684	1	253
20 November 2016	131	1,675	9	262
21 November 2016	130	1,660	15	277
22 November 2016	124	1,633	27	304
23 November 2016	115	1,622	11	315
24 November 2016	108	1,605	17	332
25 November 2016	100	1,543	62	394
26 November 2016	92	1,505	38	432
27 November 2016	87	1,484	21	453
28 November 2016	83	1,483	1	454
29 November 2016	76	1,462	21	475
30 November 2016	66	1,414	48	523

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.

Signing up

This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.

Totals

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.
  • 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 September, October, November, or December 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:

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

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Colin Butler (728) *O
2.  Completed Don Armand (306)
3.  Completed Awami Tahreek (456)
4.  Completed George Leonidas Leslie (638)
5.  Completed [[]] ()
6.  Completed [[]] ()
7.  Completed [[]] ()
8.  Completed [[]] ()
9.  Completed [[]] ()
10.  Completed [[]] ()

• Total articles: 4
• Total words: 2,128
• Rollover words: 733

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Sinicization of Tibet (1,794) *O
2.  Completed Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy (2,398) *O
3.  Completed Vlasta Vrána (246) *O
4.  Completed Jalgaon (2,366) *O
5.  Completed Witchblade (anime) (354) *O
6.  Completed Super-Skrull (2,427) *O
7.  Completed K. Rani (singer) (511) *O
8.  Completed Khamosh Pani (1,120) *O
9.  Completed M. S. Golwalkar (2,654) *O
10.  Completed Cherokee military history (5,519) *O
11.  Completed Kashmiri cinema (612) *O
12.  Completed Drishadvati river (800) *O
13.  Completed History of Oradea (410) *O
14.  Completed Reggaeton (3,225) *O
15.  Completed Channel 9 MCOT HD (2,798) *O
16.  Completed Niazi (142) *O
17.  Completed Yale attitude change approach (1,936) *O
18.  Completed Kolar district (3,356) *O
19.  Completed Baztan, Navarre (4,688) *O
20.  Completed Xinjiang conflict (12,731) *O
21.  Completed Space Warrior Baldios (747) *O
22.  Completed Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (1,444) *O
23.  Completed Nalini Prava Deka (1,231) *O Reidgreg (talk) 16:06, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
24.  Completed Raipur Upazila (1,001) *O
25.  Completed Directory service (1,170) *O
26.  Completed Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (1,537) *O
27.  Completed Black Mountain (Tor Ghar) tribes (1,489) *O
28.  Completed DC: The New Frontier (976) *O
29.  Completed Afaqi Khoja revolts (5,011) *O
30.  Completed Expo 2015 (2,553) *O
31.  Completed Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (1,090) *O
32.  Completed Kamen Rider J (1,851) *O

• Total articles: 32
• Total words: 70,187
• Rollover words: 14,832

Dthomsen8 (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed [[]] ()
2.  Working [[]] ()

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Roland Reid (287) *O
2.  Completed Joke theft (1800) *O
3.  Completed Sousa (surname) (1200) *O
4.  Completed The Doctor (Doctor Who) (19,700 claiming partial count) (13,100) *R
5.  Completed United States v. Belmont (995) *O
6.  Completed "Dancing Queen" (stuck in my head) (2900) *O
7.  Completed List of Seraph of the End chapters (1900) *O
8.  Completed Bernardo Leighton (490) *O
9.  Completed "Pest of the West" (§Plot summary only) (400) *O Miniapolis
   Deferred Surmo (400 done but has citation issues) *O
10.  Completed HMCS Algonquin (DDG 283) (2700) *O
11.  Completed Grand Production (880) *O
12.  Completed Janet Harbison (1100) *O
13.  Completed Lattice network (technical) (2500) *O
14.  Completed Picnic (1955 film) (2300) *O
15.  Completed Combat boot (§Spain only) (450) *O
16.  Completed Wind of Change (speech) (§African nationalism) (433) *O
17.  Completed Bellevueplatz (900) *O
18.  Completed Tuba Büyüküstün (800) *O
19.  Completed Love, Sax and Flashbacks (1550) *O
20.  Completed Sherlock Holmes (puppetry) (5300 partial) (5100) *O
21.  Completed Tux (band) (650) *O
22.  Completed Fu Manchu (§Cultural impact) (570) *O
23.  Completed Stephen F. Austin High School (Austin, Texas) (§History) (160) *O
24.  Completed Holiday Inn (§The Great Sign) (370) *O
25.  Completed Ashapoorna Devi (§Bibliography) (800) *O
26.  Completed Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (§Early history) (400) *O
27.  Completed Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1700) *O
28.  Completed Evelyn dos Santos (250) *O
29.  Completed Samuel Pandolfo (1200) *O
30.  Completed Joik (1100) *O
31.  Completed Big Brother (franchise) (10,200) *O
32.  Completed Twice Upon a Time (1983 film) (1650) *O
33.  Completed Detonator Orgun (1800) *O
34.  Completed Bruno Berger-Gorski (1000) *O
35.  Completed Nicetown–Tioga, Philadelphia (was Nicetown-Tioga, Philadelphia) (§1950 to present) (365) *O
36.  Completed Soulja Boy (6600) *O
37.  Completed Philosophical presentism (660) *O
38.  Completed TVF Pitchers (640) *O
39.  Completed Luíza Tomé (500) *O
40.  Completed Ensio Seppänen (550) *O
41.  Completed Alonso del Castillo Maldonado (830) *O
42.  Completed Bṛhatkathā (620) *O
43.  Completed Jabir Novruz (1000) *O
    Deferred Nalini Prava Deka (1400 completed by another editor)
44.  Completed Junagadh State (600) *O
45.  Completed Örgryte New Church (§History only) (315) *O
46.  Completed Futian District (1200 partial) (885) *O
47.  Completed First Toa Payoh Secondary School (600) *O
48.  Completed Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (570) *O
49.  Completed Mansehra (500) *O
50.  Completed Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark (1130) *O

• Total articles: 50
• Total words: 80,000

BroVic (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Experiments and Observations on Electricity (758) *R
2.  Completed Dresden Codex (1,020) *R
3.  Completed La Harinera (220) *R
4.  Completed Jan Emanuel Johansson (726) *R
5.  Completed Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (5,900) *R

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 8,615
• Rollover words: 4,759

Tdslk (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Gold Crown Tomb (531)
2.  Completed Jax Malcolm (316)
3.  Completed Aiko Kitahara (50)
4.  Completed Afro-Haitians (1302)
5.  Completed Muzion (260)
6.  Completed Bardaskan County (236)
7.  Completed [[]] ()
8.  Completed [[]] ()
9.  Completed [[]] ()
10.  Completed [[]] ()
11.  Completed [[]] ()
12.  Completed [[]] ()
13.  Completed [[]] ()
14.  Completed [[]] ()
15.  Completed [[]] ()
16.  Completed [[]] ()
17.  Completed [[]] ()
18.  Completed [[]] ()
19.  Completed [[]] ()
20.  Completed [[]] ()
21.  Completed [[]] ()
22.  Completed [[]] ()
23.  Completed [[]] ()
24.  Completed [[]] ()
25.  Working [[]] ()

• Total articles: 6
• Total words: 2695
• Rollover words: 2514

Olivettilly (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed [[]] ()
2.  Working [[]] ()

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

TerraCodes ^{(talk to me)}

Article list

1.  Completed [[]] ()
2.  Working [[]] ()

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Twofingered Typist (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed 2016 Baku GP2 Series round (2,900) *R
2.  Completed St. Anger (1,900) *R
3.  Completed 2015 Bahrain GP2 Series round (2,700) *R
4.  Completed Yale Union Laundry Building (partial count) (500) *R
5.  Completed Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (6,500) *R
6.  Completed You and I (Lady Gaga song) (4,400) *R
7.  Completed Von Sydow murders (400) *R
8.  Completed Naval battles of the American Revolutionary War (4,000) *R
9.  Completed North Carolina Transportation Museum (partial count) (200) *R
10.  Completed Paul Nahaolelua (900) *R
11.  Completed Trenyce (1,800) *R
12.  Completed Adriana Paz (1,800) *R
13.  Completed Mei-Ann Chen (2,000) *R
14.  Completed Get to Heaven (2,000) *R
15.  Completed Luke fon Fabre (1,600) *R
16.  Completed Sexify (1,500) *R
17.  Completed Rudraveena (film) (2,000) *R
18.  Completed Chandralekha (1948 film) (virtually no work required - partial count ) (500) *R
19.  Completed Ernst Stavro Blofeld (partial count) (600) *O
20.  Completed Jennie Snyder Urman (1,300) *O
21.  Completed Harpe brothers (partial count) (700) *O
22.  Completed Woodstock '99 (1,900) *O
23.  Completed Travis Kauffman (400) *O
24.  Completed Bryan Art (700) *O
25.  Completed Who Is Fancy (500) O*
26.  Completed Rodolphe Seeldrayers (partial count) (500) *O
27.  Completed Malian Americans (700) *O
28.  Completed Fernando de Quintanilha e Mendonça Dias (2,000) *O
29.  Completed Ramanaa (film) (partial count) (500) *O
30.  Completed Russell Boulter (800) *O
31.  Completed Shahid Nadeem (600) *O
32.  Completed Private company limited by shares (partial count) (300) *O
33.  Completed Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah (2,300) *O
34.  Completed Sir Syed Sani Syed Ali Shah Bukhari (900) *O
35.  Completed List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters (6,000) *O
36.  Completed Girolamo Mercuriale (partial count) (300) *O
37.  Completed Emmeram of Regensburg (partial count) (500) *O
38.  Completed Henry Odera Oruka (partial count) (1000) *O
39.  Completed List of Kim Possible characters (17,700) *O
40.  Completed Madzikane (1,900) *O
41.  Completed Bouncing Boy (2,400) *O
42.  Completed Combat Mecha Xabungle (partial count) (400)
43.  Completed Yaqob of India (partial count) (500) *O
44.  Completed Music of Guyana (partial count) (500) *O
45.  Completed Transport in Sudan (partial count) (500)
46.  Completed Roman Šmucler (1,000) *O
47.  Completed Bürkliplatz, Zürich (1,200) *O
48.  Completed Robert-Poirier Stadium (700) *O
49.  Completed Hrachia Adjarian (partial count) (600) *O
50.  Completed Kurentovanje (1,000) *O
51.  Completed Qazi Altaf Hussain (500) *O
52.  Completed Saint Giles (partial count) (200) *O
53.  Completed All Parties Hurriyat Conference (1,800) *O
54.  Completed County of Luxemburg (partial count) (200) *O
55.  Completed County of Toulouse (partial count) (2,000) *O
56.  Completed Tomás Vélez Cachupín (1,600) *O
57.  Completed Satna (2,700) *O
58.  Completed Bernardo López de Mendizábal (1,400) *O
59.  Working [[]] ()

• Total articles: 58
• Total words: 98,900
• Rollover words: 215,994

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed María Ruiz Cruz (421) *O
2.  Completed Proyecto ContraSIDA por Vida (669) *O
3.  Completed Shahzada Iftikhar Uddin (385) *O
4.  Completed Maxim Lemire (1093) *O
5.  Completed Aslam Raisani (665) *O
6.  Completed List of Legion of Super-Heroes members (595) *O
7.  Completed Spinning pinwheel (word count includes lists) (1077) *O
8.  Completed Glushkov's construction algorithm (guessed at word count: math expressions at article may have prevented page-size script from working) (1000) *O
9.  Completed Bulbulay (1268) *O
10.  Completed List of sultans of Sulu (includes table notes) (4210) *O
11.  Completed Coat of arms of Bucharest (571) *O
12.  Completed Ardeshir Tarapore (619) *O
13.  Completed Gerolstein (1495) *O

• Total articles: 13
• Total words: 14,068
• Rollover words: 8385

SkittleCookie22 (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed 4ever (The Veronicas song) (1,469)
2.  Completed All India Institute Of Technology (139)
3.  Completed April Fool's Day (1986 film) (535)
4.  Completed Bad Boy Bill (496)
5.  Completed Awagat (353)
6.  Completed Love or Spend (199) *O
7.  Completed Duda Yankovich (593) *O
8.  Completed Rose Mapendo (972) *O
9.  Completed Bilhana (film) (413)
10.  Completed Berthe Bady (110)
11.  Completed Trevor Coker (255)
12.  Completed Elizabeth Catlett (2,985)
13.  Completed Thomas Cornwallis (430)
14.  Completed Akshat Chopra (174)
15.  Completed Jean Ronald Cornely (316)
16.  Completed Vishnu Deva (247)
17.  Completed Glue code (234)
18.  Working [[]] ()

• Total articles: 17
• Total words: 9,920

Gluons12 (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Media conglomerate (421)
2.  Working [[]] ()

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 747
• Rollover words: 326

Osbusss (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed [[]] ()
2.  Working [[]] ()

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Bddmagic (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Stella Voskovetskaya‎ (263)
2.  Completed Eradicator (comics) (2,997)
3.  Completed Professional certification (3,528)
4.  Completed Antonio Puesan (647)
5.  Completed Newspeak (2,444)
6.  Completed Vettah (638)

• Total articles: 6
• Total words: 10,517

Iazyges (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Aimery of Cyprus (2,719) *R
2.  Working Michael I of Wallachia (438) *R

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 22

Discboy

Article list

1.  Completed [[]] ()
2.  Working Saint Giles (818)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

Lfstevens (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Dhaka Krishnachura Blossoms (94)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 94

ɯɐɔ (talk)

Article list

1.  Completed Erin Bow (728)
2.  Completed Azrael (comics) (2488)
3.  Completed Five Nights at Freddy's (series) (5791)
4.  Completed Science fiction comics (1793) *O
5.  Completed Random House Studio (562)
6.  Working Scarlet Witch (5058)
7.  Working Legally Blonde (1312)
8.  Working Coat of arms of Bucharest (571) *O

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 11,362

Paste _{Let’s have a chat.}

Article list

1.  Completed Myron C. Cramer ()
2.  Working [[]] ()

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 676