Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/December 2012

''The following event has concluded. Comments should be made on the talk page.'' This Copy Editing Project Blitz was a one-week effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the number of articles of a chosen WikiProject that require copy editing, signified by the copyedit tag. Please make sure that you know how to copy edit and that you are familiar with the Simplified Manual of Style before you begin copy editing. The blitzes are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The lead coordinator for this blitz is, and he is assisted by. If you have any questions, leave a message on the blitz's talk page. This blitz began on Sunday, December 16, 2012, 00:00 UTC and ended on Saturday, December 22, 2012, 23:59 UTC.

The goals of this blitz were to copy edit as many articles as possible from the group of wikipedia articles needing copy edit from January 2012. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles.

The blitz is open to all, and you do not need to be a member either of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. However, you may want to consider joining the Guild, as membership has its benefits. For example, you can place a special "page in use" tag when you are copy editing, and another tag on the talk page when you finish. See the Templates page. Please visit the Guild or the main blitz page for more information.

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 blitz page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below. To participate, follow the instructions at the top of the article lists.

Article lists
Due to technical issues making it impossible to compile WikiProject specific lists, for this blitz, we are doing articles from the following category:


 * Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from January 2012

Reviewing
GOCE coordinators and other experienced members of the Guild will carry out random checks to ensure that copy edits are of a satisfactory standard. If you are willing to help with this, please sign up below.

When checking, please choose articles at random, and do not inspect articles you have copy edited yourself. When you find an acceptable copy edit, place a checked mark after the article on the listing and sign your username (just ). If in doubt, please raise the issue on the Coordinators' talk page. If a rough consensus finds a copy edit is not of an acceptable standard, the tag will be re-added and the word count deducted. The reviewer may also give advice on how the edit could have been better, without penalizing the editor. Please raise any questions on the Coordinators' talk page.

Reviewers sign-up

 * 1) Stfg (talk)

Signing up
''This event has concluded. Comments should be made on the talk page.''

=Totals= When recording articles completed, please remember to remove any copyedit tag from that article—if you want it checked, you can request it on the blitz talk page and someone will be along to do it. Do not list articles on which you have placed GOCEreviewed instead of copy editing them, or which needed no copy editing; they don't count. Please provide the full title, not an abbreviated version. Please avoid adding text comments unless they are essential, and place any comments after the article title but before the word count.