Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2022


 * The following event is now closed. Please do not modify this page, unless you are a participant adding your final statistics within 24 hours of the closure. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate talk page.

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 which fit the theme and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 13 February 2022, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 19 February 2022, at 23:59 (UTC).

The themes of this blitz were:
 * Requests and
 * Africa and African diaspora history

Blitz participants earned barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edited. Awards will be given out once the blitz has finished.

The blitz was open to all; you didn't have to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. You must, however, have been competent in your use of English grammar, spelling and punctuation. We strongly advised you to read Wikipedia's guide to basic copy editing before you began working. If you were 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.

Blitzes are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The blitz's lead coordinator is Reidgreg (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Dhtwiki (talk), Miniapolis (talk) and Tenryuu (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.

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 – Reidgreg (talk) 01:37, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 00. fake article to show what a completed article looks like ✅ – Reidgreg (talk) 01:37, 9 February 2022 (UTC)


 * 1) 1967 Detroit riot ✅  Mini  apolis  15:21, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 2) 1992 Los Angeles riots ✅  Mini  apolis  17:10, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 3) 2019–2022 Sudanese protests ✅  Mini  apolis  02:24, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 4) 2021 Boyo killings ✅ Reidgreg (talk) 23:20, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 5) 2022 Costa Rican general election
 * 6) 678 (film) ✅ Reidgreg (talk) 06:12, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 7) Ademola Rasaq Seriki
 * 8) Ahmed Balafrej
 * 9) Alex A. Y. Kyerematen ✅ Reidgreg (talk) 23:17, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 10) Amerado (musician) ✅ Reidgreg (talk) 04:42, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 11) Belizean Creole ✅ Dhtwiki (talk) 23:35, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 12) Beryl Gilroy
 * 13) Buffalo Souljah
 * 14) Chefchaouen ✅ Reidgreg (talk) 22:35, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 15) Chinhoyi
 * 16) Constitution of Nigeria
 * 17) Denis Sassou Nguesso
 * 18) Egyptian invasion of Hararghe ✅  Mini  apolis  21:18, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 19) Eugene Francois Magloire
 * 20) Fatima Lolo ✅  Baffle☿gab  03:43, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 21) Fawziya Mahran
 * 22) Gender roles in Islam
 * 23) Hamman Bello ✅ – Jonesey95 (talk)
 * 24) Idania Martínez Grandales ✅  Baffle☿gab  23:31, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 25) Jacob Zuma
 * 26) Kagera (region) ✅  Baffle☿gab  02:45, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 27) Karim Hirji ✅  Baffle☿gab  03:28, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 28) Nagos ✅  Baffle☿gab  06:49, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 29) Obafemi Awolowo University ✅  Baffle☿gab  07:50, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 30) Oromo conflict ✅ by   Baffle☿gab  03:44, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 31) Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda
 * 32) Somali calendar c/e ❌; cleaned up copyvios and marked for rev-del.  Baffle☿gab  03:24, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 33) Ubadah ibn al-Samit
 * 34) W.Z. Fenyang