Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/June 2019


 * The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. 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 themed articles that require copy editing: those carrying the copyedit tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 16 June 2019 at 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 22 June 2019 at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme of this blitz was:
 * Primarily nature and environmental articles; see list below.

Blitz participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards will be given out once the blitz has 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. 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 Miniapolis (talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 (talk), Jonesey95 (talk),Reidgreg (talk) and Tdslk (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.

Article list
Click "show" to expand the list of articles.


 * 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)


 * 1) Economy of Kenya
 * 2) Materialism  Orville1974  (talk) 22:40, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 3) Civil defense siren  Orville1974  (talk) 03:11, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 4) Robert Peary Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:30, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 5) Speed limit  Orville1974  (talk) 17:36, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 6) Herschel Grynszpan  Mini  apolis  22:58, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 7) Augmented reality Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:52, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 8) Tears
 * 9) Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk  Mini  apolis  17:33, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 10) Sex scandal Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:10, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 11) Janet Napolitano
 * 12) Haptic technology
 * 13) Ancient astronauts
 * 14) Adewale Ayuba Robotxlabs (talk) 18:29, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 15) Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Gog the Mild (talk) 15:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 16) Louise Glück – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:34, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 17) Operation Ostra Brama  Orville1974  (talk) 18:32, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 18) Mixed reality
 * 19) History of whaling
 * 20) General Sherman incident  Orville1974  (talk) 01:41, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 21) Drug interaction
 * 22) Gerard Schwarz
 * 23) Rudraksha ✅  Baffle☿gab  03:54, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 24) Turbot War Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:30, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 25) Electricity sector in India
 * 26) Reliance Infrastructure RajkGuj (talk) 17:31, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 27) Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 Dhtwiki (talk) 14:18, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 28) Symphony No. 9 (Bruckner)  Orville1974  (talk) 14:30, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 29) William John Wills Robotxlabs (talk) 17:36, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 30) Well control
 * 31) Capacity building
 * 32) Copper(II) fluoride
 * 33) Yolanda Lopez
 * 34) Martyrs' Lane Gog the Mild (talk) 17:40, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 35) Hakainde Hichilema
 * 36) Estonian Greens  Mini  apolis  17:54, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 37) Selaginella lepidophylla  – FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 19:02, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 38) Muscular Christianity
 * 39) Copernican heliocentrism  Orville1974  (talk) 01:35, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 40) Pakistani coal mines and resources
 * 41) Michael Tobias
 * 42) Mycoplasma laboratorium
 * 43) Transnationality Will soon be moved to Transnational corporation. Along with copyedit, merged content from Multinational corporation and requested technical move over existing redirect.  Orville1974  (talk) 15:37, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 44) Conservation refugee
 * 45) Biofuel in the European Union  Orville1974  (talk) 17:46, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 46) Tafsir Malick Ndiaye ❌ CSD request for copyvio.  Orville1974  (talk) 22:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 47) Environmental product declaration
 * 48) Christian Sulheim ❌ CSD request for copyvio.  Orville1974  (talk) 22:13, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 49) Textiles of Sumba
 * 50) Ectomycorrhiza
 * 51) Marcel van den Broecke ❌ Draftified. (BLP of prior AfD-keep with no reliable sources)  Orville1974  (talk) 22:28, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 52) Mass surveillance in China
 * 53) Global Virus Network Robotxlabs (talk) 20:02, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 54) Assassination of Kim Jong-nam
 * 55) Ramiro Gomez
 * 56) Death in Rome
 * 57) Tsunami Advisory Center of the Ministry of National Resources
 * Second inauguration of Nicolás Maduro ❌ Gave this one a c/e before the start of the blitz as I didn't see it was on the list. Marking it as not done but please remove it entirely if that's the appropriate course of action. --Robotxlabs (talk) 13:17, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
 * 2) Adolfo Sansolini
 * 3) Environmental impacts of fur farming  Mini  apolis  00:16, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 4) Ingrid Levavasseur Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:26, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 5) Valery E. Forbes ❌; c/e not needed.  Baffle☿gab  00:53, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 6) Maternal-fetal conflict  Orville1974  (talk) 18:49, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 7) Laurel Lawson RajkGuj (talk) 03:50, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 8) Lisa Smith (soldier) RajkGuj (talk) 14:42, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 9) B. G. Kolse Patil RajkGuj (talk) 12:40, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 10) Progressive Confucianism  Orville1974  (talk) 03:14, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
 * 11) UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration  – FiveFaintFootprints (talk) 20:21, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

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.

Signing up
To sign up for the blitz, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section for you to record your copy edits. 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:

DannyS712 (talk)
== TimTempleton (talk) (cont)  ==