User:Stfg/GOCEreviewing

The following are my suggestions as to what factors to consider when deciding whether to remove a copyedit tag from an article and take some other action, such as marking its talk page GOCEreviewed. These are my personal views only. Discussion on the talk page is welcome.

This discussion is about reviewing articles that have been tagged. It doesn't apply to articles listed on the GOCE requests page. Such requests can be declined, but this should be done in discussion with the requester, not by means of GOCEreviewed.

Remove on sight
The following things should be removed from an article on sight, regardless of what else you decide to do with an article (you may then copy edit the rest, for example).


 * Defamation and/or outing (delete on sight and ask an admin to delete from the history too)
 * Prejudicial about court cases
 * Copyright violation, unless you are able and willing to clean the article of it (see WP:Cv101 for more about how to handle copyvio)

Tag and don't waste our time
There's no point beautifying prose that needs to be rewritten. Considering this, the following tags are symptoms that it may be best to remove a copyedit tag from an article and place GOCEreviewed on its talk page. But do check whether you agree with a tag -- although it's probably fairly rare, there is such a thing as spite tagging.


 * Over-long and/or over-detailed plot summaries. Remember that plots are creative work, so over-detailed summary can amount to unfair use, even if no text has been copied.
 * All plot
 * Content forks
 * COI and its variants such as advert, like-resume, ... (on the principle that we aren't here to help you write your CV/marketing blurb/bid for a knighthood)
 * Articles involved in unresolved edit wars (place GOCEreviewed & add a talk page section saying that a copy edit would be inappropriate while the content is not agreed)
 * Articles due or proposed to be split or merged
 * Needing expert attention

Unintelligible articles

 * Machine translations etc: tag Rough translation etc
 * Other unintelligible: GOCEreviewed and explain why on talk page

Things that are NOT obstacles to copy editing

 * Wikify (many of us do)
 * No/more footnotes (provided there are enough references)
 * Orphan (some of us de-orphan; anyway, who cares providing the subject is notable?)
 * Puffery (we can remove it)
 * Anything listed as "style issues" (highlighted blue) in the documentation of template Multiple issues

Tags challenging notability
I don't think these tags by themselves justify marking an article as GOCEreviewed. Many such articles have acquired enough references over the months and years to establish notablity; the notability tag can be removed from these. Otherwise, you may find enough reason to go to PROD or AfD. If you're unsure, I think it's best to do nothing.