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This Copyediting Backlog Elimination Drive is a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copyediting, signified with the {{ copyedit}} tag. Please make sure that you know how to copyedit and that you are familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style before you begin copyediting. The coordinator for this drive was ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! and he was assisted by Diannaa ^TALK and S Masters ( talk). If you have any questions, leave a message in the drive's talk page. This drive began on 1 July 2010 00:00 UTC and ended on 31 July 2010 23:59 UTC.

The goal of this backlog elimination drive was to bring the number of outstanding copyedit tags to below 6000 and completely clear 2008 from the backlog queue. Awards will be given out to those individuals who help reduce the size of the backlog.

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

1. Note the article's wordcount before you copyedit it. You will need it to get credit for the copyedit. There is an automated word counting script available at User talk:Dr_pda/prosesize.js. It is VERY easy to install and you don't need a shred of technical ability! If you can follow a recipe for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you can install this script. Instructions are below. If you get anxious, ask ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! for help.

• If, even with this script, you forget to click the 'Page size' tool before beginning your copyedit session, you may still be able to retrieve the correct initial page size information (in Firefox, anyway), by right clicking the tab you are editing and selecting 'open a duplicate tab' from the drop-down menu, and then on the duplicated page, click your 'Back' button as many times as needed to flip the duplicate back to its unedited version. From there, you can click the 'Page size' tool, copy that word count number, and edit your 'working' line here (below). Then, close that tab, and continue copyediting on the original tab, right where you left off. Yay! Problem solved. If you've already saved copyedits when you realize your gaff, you may be able to do the same thing from a diff of the article as it existed immediately prior to your edits; so still, probably no problem.

1. Log completed copyedits in the Running Totals section. If you complete a copyedit for an article, don't forget to list it so that you can get credit for the edit. Also don't forget to remove the {{copyedit}} tag from the article itself.
2. No rubber-stamping of articles. Be thorough and complete in your copyedits, and make sure all the i's are dotted and the t's crossed. The prose in copyedited articles should comply with the Manual of Style and be free of grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors.
3. Don't create extra work. Participants should not copyedit any article they themselves added a {{copyedit}} tag to during the months of June or July.
4. Have fun. We're here to help bring these articles up to their fullest potential and hence improving the overall quality of the encyclopedia. If you do not enjoy doing that, then there is no motivation to improve these articles and the encyclopedia as a whole.

To add the script that calculates page size: ^{[Credit 1]}

1. If you have JavaScript enabled, go here to access your skin's .js file.
   • If you do not have JavaScript enabled and either do not wish to or cannot, go to Special:Preferences and click on the Appearance tab. In the very first section, Skin, locate the skin that is selected and click on the Custom JS next to your selected skin.
2. Click Edit on the page that opened.
3. Add the following code to the page and save it: {{subst:js|User:Dr pda/prosesize.js}} ^{[Credit 2]}
4. Reload the cache.
   • If you are using Internet Explorer, press Ctrl-F5
   • If you are using Firefox/Safari for Windows, hold down Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R); for Mac, press Command-R.
   • If you are using Opera/Konqueror, press F5.
5. To test it out go to any random article. If you look under the Toolbox menu on the far left of the screen there will be a link for Page size. The backlog elimination drive uses the number of words listed under Prose size (text only).
6. Go copy edit!

Finding articles

Some copyeditors enjoy taking a random dip in Category:All articles needing copy edit and learning about something completely new along the way. Others prefer editing articles in a field they already know about. Such articles can be found using categories: ^{[Credit 3]}

1. Go to the whimsically named CatScan.
2. Don't be intimidated! It's easy to use.
3. Set the Depth to 5.
4. Write or paste Wikipedia articles needing copy edit in the box labelled "Categories".
5. Write the name of a category of interest on a separate line in the same box, eg Books.
6. Scroll down and click the button labelled "Do it!"
7. Be patient... For big categories the results might take a little while.

This example will find articles tagged with {{ copyedit}} in Category:Books, as well as its sub-categories, sub-sub-categories, and so on down to sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-categories.

• You can also crossreference to a wikiproject talk page banner. Click here to see the completed form for this example.

1. Set Depth to 5.
2. Place Wikipedia articles needing copy edit in the Category box.
3. Tick off both Article and Talk in the Namespaces boxes.
4. Place the template of the wikiproject in the Templates field and tick off "Use talk pages instead."
5. Click "Do it!"
6. Wow! The example search found 77 articles on Pakistan that need copy edits and took 5 seconds to execute.

The July 2010 elimination drive welcomes and encourages those who have not yet tried their hand at copyediting, or those who haven't done so in some time, to join the drive, even if only to copyedit one or two articles. If you want someone to check over your edit and make sure that it's good, the drive coordinator ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! will gladly assist.

Useful tags

While we try as far as possible to copy edit articles, this is not always achievable where the text is confusing or in need of content expertise. We are then forced to use a tag to attract such help for the article. Some useful tags are:

{{ off-topic}} ~ {{ Expand}} ~ {{ Expert-verify}} ~ {{ Expert-subject}} ~ {{ contradict}} ~ {{ confusing}} ~ {{ refimprove}} ~ {{ nofootnotes}} ~ {{ notability}} ~ {{ original research}} ~ {{ crystal}} ~ {{ POV}} ~ {{ unreferenced}}

See WP:TC for a full list of cleanup template messages.

Gold Star Award Leaderboard
(update your own numbers)

	Articles	Words	5k+ Articles
1.	Diannaa (248)	Shimeru (200,392)	Shimeru/Ericleb01 (13)
2.	Slon02 (157)	Diannaa (164,960)	Chaosdruid (8)
3.	GaryColemanFan (101)	Chaosdruid (130,630)	Derild4921 (7)
4.	Torchiest (100)	The Utahraptor (117,347)	GaryColemanFan/Slon02 (6)
5.	Shimeru (80)	Ericleb01 (114,893)	Bejinhan/The Utahraptor (5)

Chart by ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk!

Date	2008 articles remaining	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day [N 1]	Change since beginning [N 1]
30 June 2010		7,582	—	—
1 July 2010		7,423	159	159
2 July 2010		7,357	66	225
3 July 2010		7,255	102	327
4 July 2010		7,202	53	380
5 July 2010		7,167	35	415
6 July 2010		7,121	46	461
7 July 2010		7,105	16	477
8 July 2010		7,094	11	488
9 July 2010		7,055	39	527
10 July 2010		6,997	58	585
11 July 2010		6,938	59	644
12 July 2010	990	6,919	19	663
13 July 2010	962	6,845	74	737
14 July 2010	948	6,836	9	746
15 July 2010	940	6,831	5	751
16 July 2010	914	6,795	36	787
17 July 2010	892	6,769	26	813
18 July 2010	885	6,761	8	821
19 July 2010	871	6,747	14	835
20 July 2010	858	6,738	9	844
21 July 2010	832	6,699	39	883
22 July 2010	809	6,678	21	904
23 July 2010	785	6,656	22	926
24 July 2010	749	6,612	44	970
25 July 2010	725	6,579	33	1003
26 July 2010	708	6,556	23	1026
27 July 2010	692	6,539	17	1043
28 July 2010	665	6,509	30	1073
29 July 2010	618	6,448	61	1134
30 July 2010	567	6,392	56	1190
31 July 2010	497	6,293	99	1289

Total word-count awards

Awards will be given out at the conclusion of the backlog elimination drive as follows:

Leaderboard awards

The prestigious Guild of Copy Editors' Gold Star Award will be awarded to the copy editor with the highest total article count, the copyeditor with the highest total word count, and the copyeditor with the most articles of more than 5,000 words.

A special leaderboard award will be presented to all editors who make the top 5 leaderboard in each category.

Unfortunately, because of financial limitations, we are not able to give away Segways at this time.

And remember, the ultimate winner here is Wikipedia.

Other awards

Anyone that copy edits at least one individual article of more than 10,000 words will receive The 10k Copyedit Barnstar.
The person who edits the most articles on the first day of the drive will win an Original Barnstar.
There will be an award for the largest single article that is copy edited.

You can still join! Feel free to put your name down at any time. Read the directions, and then add your name in Totals below. Returning Editors: If you edited in the May 2010 GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive, your word totals are cumulative for barnstars (not the leaderboard). Add your May 2010 totals as shown below. If you use  Working or  Doing..., it is expected that you begin copyediting immediately after "claiming" the article. Articles may not be "saved for later."

Directions

Please log entries in the following format:

=====~~~=====
{{collapse top|Article list}}
{{Div col|cols=3}}
#{{completed}} [[John Doe]] (765)
#{{completed}} [[Example]] (440)
#{{completed}} [[Jane Doe]] (2,330)
#{{working}} [[Example B]] (673)
{{Div col end}}
{{collapse bottom}}
*Total articles: '''3'''
*Total words: '''3,535'''
*May 2010 words (if you participated): '''10,906'''
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The numbers in parentheses are the word counts of the articles before copyediting. Do not include the May 2010 words line if you did not edit in the May 2010 drive.

Will look like:

ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk!

• Total articles: 3
• Total words: 3,535
• May 2010 words: 10,906

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The Backlog Elimination Drive Has Ended. Please Do Not Post Any More Numbers.

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A. Parrot ( talk)

• Total articles: 40
• Total words: 20,062
• May 2010 words: 20,242

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Acebulf ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 503

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Adrian J. Hunter^{( talk• contribs)}

• Total articles: 8
• Total words: 4199

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Airplaneman ✈

• Total articles: 8
• Total words: 5762

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AirplanePro ^Radio _Checklist

• Total articles: 24
• Total words: 41,226

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Amory ( u • t • c)

• Total articles: N/A
• Total words: N/A

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Annalise ( talk)

• Total articles: 9
• Total words: 467
• May 2010 words: 6421

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User:Anon423 ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 2679

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~ Ara gorn 135

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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Arteyu ? _{Blame it on me !}

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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Auntieruth55 chat with me?

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 1943
• May 2010 words: 49,859

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Backtable _{Speak to me} ^{concerning my deeds.}

• Total articles: 20
• Total words: 20,065

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Bejinhan Talk

• Total articles: 7
• Total words: 45,073

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Bobnorwal ( talk)

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 783

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Boing! said Zebedee ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 951

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Brickie ( talk)

• Total articles: 3
• Total words: 2,897
• May 2010 words: 9,362

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Bsherr ( talk)

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 10,168

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Bullock ✉

• Total articles: 6
• Total words: 4,582
• May 2010 words: 81,021

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Camerafiend ( talk)

• Total articles: 4
• Total words: 4,068

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Casliber ( talk · contribs)

• Total articles: 12
• Total words: 14927

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Chaosdruid ( talk)

Details here

• Total articles: 46
• Total words: 130,360

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CheMechanical ( talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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Chevy monte carlo

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 1528

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Cindamuse

• Total articles: 22
• Total words: 23,851

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Cricket02 ( talk)

• Total articles: 8
• Total words: 4501

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cymru lass ^{(hit me up)}⁄ _{(background check)}

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 3,390
• May 2010 words: 11,153

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Dan ^{the Man}

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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David Rush ( talk)

• Total articles: 26
• Total words: 48,352

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Décembër21st2012Freâk ^Talk

• Total articles: 25
• Total words: 22,207

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Derild 49 21 ☼

• Total articles: 16
• Total words: 61,798

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Diannaa ^{( Talk)}

• Please see User:Diannaa/Sandbox#July drive

• 5K articles: 3
• 10K articles: 1
• Total articles: 248
• Total words: 164,960
• Biggest article: Albany, New York 10193
• May 2010 words: 136,200

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dtgriffith ( talk)

• Total articles: 6
• Total words: 18,862
• May 2010 words (if you participated): 13,225

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Duchess of Bathwick ( talk · contribs)

• Total articles: 17
• Total words: 11,557
• May 2010 words : 0

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Duff ( talk)

• Total articles: 11
• Total words: 23637

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DustFormsWords ( talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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e. ripley ( talk)

• Total articles: 15
• Total words: 20573

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EdoDodo ^talk

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 215

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ems 2 4

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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Enigma ^msg

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: N/A

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_EricLeb⁰¹ ( Page | Talk)

Please see User:Ericleb01/Copy edit (July 2010) for articles.

• 5k articles: 13
• 10k articles: 3
• Total articles: 28
• Total words: 114,893

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--Falcon Darkstar Momot ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 396

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— fetch · comms

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 58
• May 2010 words: 6335

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===== Fences& Windows=====

• See User:Fences and windows/Copyediting

• Total articles: 4
• Total words: 11145

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GaryColemanFan ( talk)

Please see User:GaryColemanFan/New for list of articles.

• Total articles: 101
• Total words: 65,556

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Gonzonoir ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 282

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GorillaWarfare ^talk

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 3701

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^~ Gosox^{( 55)}_{( 55)}

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 6,433

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Ha dg er

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 1,003

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  HELLKNOWZ  ▎ TALK

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 11,592

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HaeB ( talk)

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 1339

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Homework2 ^Talk What I do!

• Total articles:
• Total words:

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Jimbo Wales ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 402

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Jubilee ♫ clipman

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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kojozone

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0
• May 2010 words: 66,503

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Laurinavicius ( talk)

• Total articles: 7
• Total words: 20,453
• May 2010 words (if you participated): 12,622

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LeonidasSpartan ( talk)

• Total articles: 4
• Total words: 6,941

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lfstevens ( talk)

See User:Lfstevens/July 2010 copy-edits

• Total articles: 72
• Total words: 108,952
• May 2010 words: 61,600

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Mabeenot ( talk)

• Total articles: 12
• Total words: 9,452

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Mario777Zelda ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 1,439

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MasterOfHisOwnDomain ( talk)

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 5634

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Mike moral ♪♫

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 1,575
• May 2010 words : 1,328

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Minor 4th

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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Mlpearc powwow

• Total articles: 7
• Total words: 32,658
• May 2010 words: 40,441

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— mono

• Total articles: 16
• Total words: 22291, with one article over 10k
• May 2010 words (if you participated): 28596

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Moralis ( talk)

Please see User:Moralis/Sandbox.

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 1070

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MPatel ^{( talk• contribs)}

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: '0

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~ NerdyScienceDude ( ✉ • ✐ • ✍)

• Total articles: 13
• Total words: 23,560

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NikNaks _{talk - gallery - commons}

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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Nolelover ( talk)

• Total articles: 23
• Total words: 12,616

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ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk!

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 441
• Total May 2010 words: 10982

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ocrasaroon ^{blah blah blah}

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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— Oli ^OR Pyfan!

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 9710

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-- φ OnePt618 ^Talk φ

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 1,828

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Papagel ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 2044

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Paulmnguyen ( talk)

• Total articles: 14
• Total words: 6747

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πr² ( talk • contributions)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk}

• Total articles: 2
• Total words: 4,518

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Strt Sig --> Qwerp Qwertus · _Talk_

• Total articles: 4
• Total words: 1712

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User

Richard asr|Richard asr]] ( talk)

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 12,608

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Richwales ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 3556

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User

SMasters|S Masters]] ( talk)

See User:SMasters/Sandbox#GOCE_July_2010_Drive

• Total articles: 51
• Total words: 25,577
• May 2010 words: 83,101

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SciHound ( talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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Shi meru See User:Shimeru/Sandbox#July copyediting backlog elimination drive

• Total articles: 80
• Total words: 200,392
• 5k articles: 13
• 10k articles: 4
• 30k articles: 2 – Fascism (30,147) and List of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple characters (35,890), the latter of which is now about 1/3 that size.

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Slon02 ( talk) Please see User:Slon02/July drive

• Total articles: 157
• Total words: 84,068
• 5K articles: 6
• 10K articles: 1

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Super Hamster ( talk)

• Total articles: 26
• Total words: 6,746

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Taelus ( Talk)

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 4160

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TEK ( talk • e-mail)

Please see User:TEK/GOCE.

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Thatcomputerperson ( talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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—  The Earwig  ^(talk)

• Total articles: 5
• Total words: 958

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The Utahraptor ^Talk

Please see User:The Utahraptor/July Drive

• Total articles: 54
• Total words: 117,347
• May 2010 words (if you participated): 24,155

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TheTito ^Discuss

• Total articles: 13
• Total words: 11,522
• May 2010 words (if you participated): 2,460

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Thomprod ( talk)

• Total articles: 0
• Total words: 0

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Torchiest ^talk/ _contribs

• Total articles: 100
• Total words: 4512
• May 2010 words: 125,000

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TPW ( talk)

• Total articles: 1
• Total words: 4,108

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Whoosit ( talk)

• Total articles: 22
• Total words: 18509

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♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣}

• Total articles: 0

• Total words: 0

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Wizardman

• Total articles: 6
• Total words: 1128

YellowMonkey

• Total articles: 21
• Total words: 14635

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We will spot-check some of the completed copyedits for quality control reasons. If a rough consensus finds a copyedit is not of an acceptable standard, the tag will be readded and the reviewer will be assessed a penalty of 1200 words plus the length of the article reviewed.