Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/April 2020


 * The following event is over. Please do not modify it. Participants may add their final updates within the next 48 hours. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This Copy Editing Project Blitz was a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the copyedit tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 12 April 2020, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 18 April 2020, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme(s) of this blitz is/are:
 * Military-history articles (see list of articles below)

Blitz participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards were given out once the blitz finished.

The blitz was open to all; 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. It may also be useful to refer to MOS:MIL for this blitz's theme. Skilled use of English is especially important for articles listed on the Requests page.

Blitzes are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The blitz's lead coordinator iwas Jonesey95 (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Reidgreg (talk), Tdslk (talk) and Twofingered Typist (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the blitz's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main blitz 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 blitz can be found on the main blitz page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

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 word count of the reviewed article will be deducted from the editor's total. 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



 * 1)  Baffle☿gab 

Signing up
Rollover totals from the previous blitz can be found here.

Totals
How to record articles you have copy edited:
 * Remove any extant copyedit tags from the article.
 * When you sign up, your section is automatically populated with and :
 * 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. These brackets should not contain anything other than this number.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * If you want your work checked, you can request this on the blitz talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

and like this on the rendered page:

Article list

 * 0. fake article to show what an in-progress article looks like – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:13, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * 00. fake article to show what a completed article looks like  – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:13, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

✔️ Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:28, 16 April 2020 (UTC) ✔️ Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:03, 16 April 2020 (UTC) ✔️Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:03, 16 April 2020 (UTC) ✔️Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:03, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) 1st Armoured Division (India) ✅ -- Puddleglum  2.0 (How's my driving?) 02:38, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) 1st Indian Cavalry Division ✅  Mini  apolis  18:39, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 3) 2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500) ✅ — hiabc (talk) 01:08, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 4) 9th Infantry Division (Bangladesh) ✅ -- Puddleglum  2.0 (How's my driving?) 17:53, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 5) 10th Indian Infantry Division ✅ Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:20, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 6) 10th Infantry Division (Bangladesh) ✅ Visioncurve (talk) 12:59, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) 20th Lancers (Pakistan) ✅ FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 11:22, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) 41st Armoured Regiment (India) ✅  Baffle☿gab  22:25, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 3) 1931 Kashmir agitation ✅  Mini  apolis  14:42, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 4) 2014–2015 India–Pakistan border skirmishes ✅  Mini  apolis  17:13, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 5) Abhinandan Varthaman ✅  Baffle☿gab  08:25, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 6) Agni-I ✅  Baffle☿gab  01:32, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 7) Agni-III ✅  Mini  apolis  20:09, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 8) Amogha missile ✅ Total Eclipse 2017 (talk) 20:23, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) António Galvão ✅  Baffle☿gab   Baffle☿gab  03:54, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) Army Aviation Corps (India)  Mini  apolis  20:09, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 3) Ashok K. Mehta ✅ hiabc (talk) 02:38, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 4) Aviation in India ✅ Reidgreg (talk) 13:21, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 5) Bareilly Airport ✅  Mini  apolis  19:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 6) Battle of Beicang ✅ Gog the Mild (talk) 21:32, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 7) Bhim self-propelled howitzer ✅ Total Eclipse 2017 (talk) 16:44, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Bihar Regiment ✅ Twofingered Typist (talk) 15:09, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) Cantonment ✅ hiabc (talk) 01:01, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 3) Chetak ✅ FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 18:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 4) D. P. K. Pillay
 * 5) Defence of Kamalpur ✅ User:Visioncurve (talk) 09:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 6) HAL AMCA
 * 7) HAL HJT-36 Sitara
 * 8) Harlow PC-5 ✅ Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:39, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 9) Hathazari Airfield ✅ Total Eclipse 2017 (talk) 20:18, 15 April 2020 (UTC)✔️____
 * 10) Indian Army ✅ Dhtwiki (talk) 18:04, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 11) Indian Military Academy
 * 12) IV Corps (India) ✅ -- Puddleglum 2.0 (How's my driving?) 22:57, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 13) James Morris Colquhoun Colvin ✅ Twofingered Typist (talk) 18:10, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 14) James Stuart (British Army officer, born 1741) ✅Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 15) Jat Regiment ✅  Baffle☿gab  00:17, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 16) Jean-Baptiste Ventura ✅ hiabc (talk) 03:15, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 17) Jean-François Allard ✅ FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 12:19, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 18) Kambampati Nachiketa ✅  Baffle☿gab  00:01, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 19) Kargil Review Committee ✅ hiabc (talk) 18:00, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 20) Lewis Heath ✅ Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:49, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 21) Madras War Cemetery ✅  Baffle☿gab  21:26, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 22) Malik Kafur ✅ FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 23:32, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 23) Manek Burj ✅ - FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 07:45, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 24) Maratha–Mysore War  ✅ Visioncurve (talk) 06:11, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 25) MARCOS ✅  Baffle☿gab  23:38, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 26) Modern Sub Machine Carbine ✅ -- Puddleglum  2.0 (How's my driving?) 21:16, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 27) Nag (missile) - ✅ – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:15, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 28) National Security Guard - ✅ - The4lines (talk) 23:55, 14 April 2020 (UTC)The4lines
 * 29) No. 16 Squadron IAF ✅ Total Eclipse 2017 (talk) 19:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) No. 26 Squadron IAF ✅ FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 11:57, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) One Rank, One Pension (neutrality disputed)
 * 3) Operation Raahat ✅ Twofingered Typist (talk) 20:22, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 4) Operation Safe Homecoming ✅  Mini  apolis  17:08, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 5) Operation Sukoon ✅ The4lines (talk) 23:55, 14 April 2020 (UTC)The4lines
 * 6) R. Hari Kumar ✅ Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:27, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 7) Rana Chhina ✅ Reidgreg (talk) 19:29, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 8) Red Fort ✅ Twofingered Typist (talk) 20:19, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 9) Seymour Expedition ✅ hiabc (talk) 18:02, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 10) Shailesh Tinaikar ✅ Tdslk (talk) 17:29, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 11) Tatya Tope ✅ --Visioncurve (talk) 03:29, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 12) V. K. Singh ✅  Baffle☿gab  21:26, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 13) Yogendra Singh Yadav ✅ Twofingered Typist (talk) 20:03, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

For these articles, it may be useful to refer to Manual of Style/Military history.