Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/October 2014


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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 October 19, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on October 25, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme(s) of this blitz are:


 * WikiProject Albums and
 * WikiProject History

Blitz participants can 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 is 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, who is assisted by  and. 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 lists
When you have chosen an article for copy editing and are ready to edit it, please add working (displays as ) and sign your name and date ( ~ ) next to the article's listing in the table below. Please mark an item as "working" only when you are immediately going to begin editing it, so that we can avoid articles being stuck in limbo.

When you are done copy-editing the article, please add y (displays as ) and sign your name and date ( ~ ) next to the article's listing below, then record it in your article list below.

Article list for this blitz
Click "show" to expand the list of articles.


 * 0. fake article to show what an in-progress article looks like – Jonesey95 (talk)
 * 00. fake article to show what a completed article looks like  – Jonesey95 (talk)

Albums
 * 1) A Great Night in Harlem - Baffle gab1978 (talk) 00:33, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Colours (Ayumi Hamasaki album) Baffle gab1978 (talk) 17:55, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) Dayman (album) Baffle gab1978 (talk) 22:55, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 4) Gift (Kanjani Eight EP) Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:57, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) Gourmandises -   ΤheQ Editor   Talk? 22:04, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) Growing Up (IU album) Baffle gab1978 (talk) 22:09, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 7) List of Slayers songs Fiosracht  Talk  17:31, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 8) Me? (EP) ✅ &#34;We could read for-EVER&#59; reading round the wiki!&#34; (talk) 22:46, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 9) Metallica Through the Never
 * 10) My Love, My Life (album) JudyCS (talk) 15:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 11) Recovery (Eminem album) Amintly (talk) 20:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 12) Rhyme Skool with Katrina Kaif Baffle gab1978 (talk) 18:14, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 13) Silver Side Up Baffle gab1978 (talk) 21:28, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 14) Soy (Debi Nova album) Baffle gab1978 (talk) 19:00, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 15) The Legacy of Bhikhari Thakur ✅ Philg88 ♦talk 06:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 16) The Lovestory LP ✅ &#34;We could read for-EVER&#59; reading round the wiki!&#34; (talk) 00:10, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 17) Valerio Scanu Live in Roma (CD+DVD) -   ΤheQ Editor   Talk? 22:04, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 18) Volume Up  JudyCS (talk) 16:10, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

History
 * 1) Battle of Smolenice Xcia0069 (talk) 11:00, 19 October 2014 (UTC) Still needs inline citations though
 * 2) Buddhist cosmology – Jonesey95 (talk)
 * 3) Capitulare de villis  - SmileBlueJay97 talk  15:30, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 4) Empire I forgot to add this mark when I signed the article as Complete in my list below. This article still needs work, including verification or clarification of some information stated as facts. ˘ &#124; ˘ Hwajaetalk
 * 5) First Vienna Award
 * 6) History of Andhra Pradesh
 * 7) History of Dalmatia still needs lots of work; simply reads as list of facts without citations
 * 8) History of Hesse Amintly (talk) 20:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 9) History of machine translation
 * 10) History of Morocco Vanamonde93 (talk) 02:13, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 11) History of the hamburger in the United States   JudyCS (talk) 06:47, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 12) History of the Jews in Poland
 * 13) History of Wallonia
 * 14) Inquisitorial system (only small changes were needed in tagged section) Tdslk (talk) 00:49, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 15) Jhansi Ki Rani (TV series)  ~Helicopter   Llama~  11:54, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 16) Levon Mirzoyan – Tdslk (talk) 00:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 17) New Imperialism – removed tag; tagged section probably should be entirely rewritten for POV reasons, but little copy editing needed. Tdslk (talk) 04:34, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 18) Presentism – was recently (last week) changed to redirect page. New page Presentism (literary and historical analysis) is not tagged for copy editing. Tdslk (talk) 19:09, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 19) Self-organization
 * 20) The Expansion of England Vanamonde93 (talk) 21:50, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 21) The Great Day of Girona
 * 22) Thomas Gardner (planter) Baffle gab1978 (talk) 23:30, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 23) What Is History? ❌: unsuitable for c/e. Relies too heavily on primary source. C/e tag removed, tagged for cleanup. Baffle gab1978 (talk) 09:20, 23 October 2014 (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 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 gab1978 (talk)

Signing up
=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.
 * Place articles you're working on on the Working line. 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 it on the blitz talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

and like this on the rendered page: