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Backlog status as of the end of the drive

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive was a one-month-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the {{ copy edit}} tag (also {{ awkward}}, {{ copy edit section}}, {{ copy edit inline}}, and {{ spacing}}) or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 March 2017, 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 March 2017, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, with a focus on the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in April, May, and June 2016);
to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from February 2017.

Drive participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles from the Requests page counted towards your total; these are generally higher-quality articles than those tagged with {{ copy edit}}. You will receive a bonus score of 50% over the article's word count for articles that were tagged with {{ copy edit}} in March, April, May, and June 2016, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive was open to all Wikipedians; 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.

Drives are under the purview of the Guild's coordinators. The drive's lead coordinator is Miniapolis ( talk), who is assisted by Corinne ( talk), Jonesey95 ( talk), and Tdslk ( talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's talk page.

For brief instructions on how to record your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the main drive 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 drive can be found on the main drive page. Please read this page carefully before you begin. To sign up, please use the form in the Signing up section below.

Progress

(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

**Gold Star Award Leaderboard**
	1	2	3	4	5
Total Articles	TwofingeredTypist (70)	Reidgreg (47)	Dhtwiki (25)	Miniapolis (18)	Tdslk (14)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	TwofingeredTypist (140,782)	Reidgreg (80,734)	Dhtwiki (55,085)	Miniapolis (43,684)	CheChe (23,962)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Reidgreg (7)	TwofingeredTypist (6)	Dhtwiki (4)	CheChe (3)	Miniapolis (2)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	TwofingeredTypist (47) Reidgreg (47)	—	Dhtwiki (25)	Miniapolis (9) Lfstevens (9)	—
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Reidgreg (18,000)	Twofingered Typist (12,466)	CheChe (11,856)	Dhtwiki (9,482)	Miniapolis (7,030)

^ ^a ^b For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.
^ Number of articles of 5,000 words or more. An article of 10K+ words counts as 2, of 15K+ as 3, and so on.
^ Oldest articles are those tagged in April, May, and June 2016.
^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date	Old articles April–June 2016	Outstanding tags	Change since previous day ^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning ^{[N 1]}
28 February 2017	248	1,718	—	—
1 March 2017	239	1,705	13	13
2 March 2017	235	1,713	8	5
3 March 2017	230	1,725	12	7
4 March 2017	225	1,729	4	11
5 March 2017	224	1,732	3	14
6 March 2017	219	1,733	1	15
7 March 2017	208	1,735	2	17
8 March 2017	199	1,740	5	22
9 March 2017	193	1,743	3	25
10 March 2017	188	1,747	4	29
11 March 2017	184	1,741	6	23
12 March 2017	178	1,752	11	34
13 March 2017	175	1,763	11	45
14 March 2017	164	1,750	13	32
15 March 2017	156	1,749	1	31
16 March 2017	148	1,750	1	32
17 March 2017	134	1,717	33	1
18 March 2017	128	1,713	4	5
19 March 2017	116	1,710	3	8
20 March 2017	110	1,712	2	6
21 March 2017	105	1,717	5	1
22 March 2017	99	1,719	2	1
23 March 2017	94	1,719	0	1
24 March 2017	87	1,722	3	4
25 March 2017	85	1,717	5	1
26 March 2017	79	1,699	18	19
27 March 2017	71	1,695	4	23
28 March 2017	56	1,690	5	28
29 March 2017	48	1,686	4	32
30 March 2017	34	1,678	8	40
31 March 2017	10	1,647	31	71

^ ^a ^b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

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 editor will be penalized 1,200 words plus the word count of the reviewed article. 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

Signing up

This drive has now concluded and is no longer open to sign-up.

Totals Information

How to record articles you have copy edited:

Remove any extant {{ copy edit}} tags from the article.
When you sign up, your section is automatically populated with # {{Working}} [[]] () and # {{Completed}} [[]] ():
- 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.
Place articles you're working on on the {{ Working}} line. When you've finished your copy edit, change {{ Working}} to {{ Completed}}
If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R after the word count. If it was tagged in April, May, or June 2016, place *O after the word count.
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.
Do not add the 50% bonus for Requests or Oldest articles—a coordinator will apply the bonuses after the drive is over.
If you want your work checked, you can request it on the drive talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

# {{Completed}} [[Dark chocolate]] (yummy!) (1,234) *O

and like this on the rendered page:

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Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234) *O

Jonesey95 ( talk)

Article list
Completed William F. Moran (admiral) (317) O Completed* Air New Zealand Flight 24 (225) Completed Leonard Farlinger (227) Completed Hotshot (stock character) (792) O Completed* List of people from American Samoa (574) O Completed* Langley Fox (469) Completed Surtees TS19 (1,150) O Completed* [[]] ()

Total articles: 7
Total words: 3,754
Rollover words: 3,578

Miniapolis ( talk)

Article list

Completed Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists (2,064) *R
Completed Belarusian Gothic (389) *O
Completed Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play) (4,022) *R
Completed Freedom of the press in the United States (1,792) *O
Completed Melissa Farley (1,974) *R
Completed Dutch war against ISIL (992) *O
Completed Fightstar (3,516) *R
Completed Czech traditional clothing (1,582) *O
Completed First Church of the Resurrection (359) *O
Completed Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (438) *R
Completed Banshkhali power plant movement (1,339) *O
Completed Wipeout 2048 (3,288) *R
Completed Architecture of Mongolia (3,808) *O
Completed Abdullah II of Jordan (7,030) *R
Completed Catholic Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina (3,025) *O
Completed Millennium Earl (1,922) *R
Completed Devaka Fernando (941) *O
Completed Dostana (2008 film) (5,203) *R

Total articles: 18
Total words: 43,684
Rollover words: 13,529

CoolieCoolster ( talk)

Article list
Working [[]] () Working [[]] () Working [[]] () Working [[]] () Working [[]] () Working [[]] () Working [[]] () Working [[]] () Working [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0
Rollover words: 2,844.5

Curdigirl ( talk)

Article list

Completed Xou_da_Xuxa (sig cleanup, source updating, removal of unsourced claims) (706)*O
Completed El_Show_de_Xuxa (cleanup, source updating) (357)
Completed Delta_and_the_Bannermen (sig cleanup/removal unsourced claims, updated citations) (1694)
Completed Richard_Rumelt (124)
Completed Gindari (updated citations, sig cleanup)(542)*O
Completed Nvader (significant cleanup & removal of unsourced materials, adding citations) (1036)*O
Completed Mathania (article needs improved citations) (624) *O
Completed Ration_card (India) (this article needs cleanup; refimprove & fact checking) (1432) *O
Completed Vishaka_Hari (article needs cleanup; refimprove & fact checking)(235 ) *O
Completed National_Union_for_the_Progress_of_Romania (article needs cleanup; refimprove & fact checking)(612) *O
Completed East_Bengal_Regiment (this article needs cleanup; refimprove & fact checking)(946) *O
Completed Ante_Vokić (this article needs cleanup; refimprove & fact checking) (704) *O

Total articles: 12
Total words: 9012
Rollover words: 4550.5

Lfstevens ( talk)

Article list

Completed Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2016 (1466) *O
Completed Xou da Xuxa (623) *O
Completed Tyrone GAA (663) *O
Completed Gloria Trevi (311) *O
Completed Tashkent Financial Institute (755)
Completed Tarika-e-Maizbhandari (166) *O
Completed Nexopia (763) *O
Completed Characene (567) *O

Completed Syriac Maronite Church (3624) *O

Total articles: 9
Total words: 8,932

thnidu ( talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Adityavagarwal ( talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

♫CheChe♫ talk

Article list

Completed Wythoff symbol. (Removed lots of cluttered, redundant information. Will likely propose merge with Wythoff construction) (872)
Completed Vicumpriya Perera (892)
Completed Death and state funeral of Boris Yeltsin (1,015) *O
Completed Geography of Belarus (783) *O
Completed Coiled-Coil Domain Containing 142 (1,455) *O
Completed Subsistence hunting of the bowhead whale (Did what I could) (1,220) *O
Completed List of Grimm characters (11,856) *O
Completed Sailor Moon (character) (5,016) *O
Completed Monkey Life (TV series) (853) *O
Working History of YouTube (2516) *O
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 8
Total words: 23,959

Bddmagic ( talk)

Article list
Completed Old Road Ground (495) Completed The War Game (1417) Completed Giuseppe Zangara (1457) Completed Hugo (franchise) (2685) Completed Racism in Poland (1388) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 5
Total words: 7,442

ZettaComposer ( talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Sokvetchy ( talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Tdslk ( talk)

Article list

Completed Chak no 7/p (56)
Completed Pernik sword (239)
Completed Sesbania grandiflora (463)
Completed SS Canada Victory (389)
Completed SS Brainerd Victory (717)
Completed SS Carroll Victory (349)
Completed SS China Victory (1191)
Completed SS Clovis Victory (550)
Completed SS Cody Victory (365)
Completed Aino Forsten (407)
Completed N. Louise Young (321)
Completed Prince William Award (45)
Completed Library system (183)
Completed Avukana Buddha statue (726)
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 14
Total words: 6001
Rollover words: 2065

Dthomsen8 ( talk)

Article list
Completed Bidyalongkorn (59) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 59

Reidgreg ( talk)

Article list

Completed List of Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma characters (18000) *O
Completed List of Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates story arcs (§ The Republic Is Burning) (460) *O
Completed Rock dove (§ Osmoregulation) (1140) *O
Completed Capstone Program (2500) *O
Completed Slick Rick (§ Incarceration) (580) *O
Completed Niels Trolle (§ Career – translation and vandalism issues) (450) *O
Completed On the Trail of the Golden Owl (§ Theories – treasure-hunt) (450) *O
Completed Ajinkya Rahane (§ Playing style) (270) *O
Completed Assam Legislative Assembly election, 2016 (Lfstevens also worked on this) (1300) *O
Completed Leola Neal (600) *O
Completed Janet Echelman (total rewrite) (5500) *O
Completed Jacqueline Pang (layout) (5000) *O
Completed Scarlet Witch (5700) *O
Completed Singh Is Bliing (1700) *O
Completed Hometown association (1900) *O
Completed Nandita Roy (lists→prose) (1000) *O
Completed Saikoro Fiction (300) *O
Completed Spy-Fi (subgenre) (checked many examples for relevance) (250) *O
Completed Antonio Puesan (500) *O
Completed Heartless (TV series) (400) *O
Completed Zord (may be moved to List of Zords) (9500) *O
Completed Super Sentai (1900) *O
Completed Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (video game) (1000) *O
Completed Uzma Aslam Khan (700) *O
Completed Big Ben Kandukira (500) *O
Completed Salome MC (300) *O
Completed The Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival (major layout) (1400) *O
Completed Heroic Corps (500) *O
Completed Sarrainodu (1000) *O
Completed Orges Shehi (1534) *O
Completed Kapilavai Lingamurthy (500) *O
Completed Ranji Chandisingh (400) *O
Completed Fani Stipković (400) *O
Completed Brahmanbaria Medical College (400) *O
Completed Nicola Giusfredi (translations) (200) *O
Completed Nikanor Plc (may be moved to Nikanor plc) (1700) *O
Completed Robocar Poli (900) *O
Completed Thomas Smythe (customer) (700) *O
Completed Muktinath (1100) *O
Completed Jean, Baron de Batz (translation) (500) *O
Completed Apaxco (translation) (1200) *O
Completed Lua Blanco (translation) (2200) *O
Completed Monika Gruber (translation) (600) *O
Completed Plant Protection and Quarantine (copy-paste) (1200) *O
Completed Kehta Hai Dil Jee Le Zara (excessive plot) (1400) *O
Completed Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1938) (500) *O
Completed Maharaja Gemunu (500) *O

Total articles: 47
Total words: 80,734
Rollover words: 199999

Noah Kastin ( talk)

Article list
Completed Technology in Star Wars (5781) O Completed* Maxwell Lord (4314) O Completed* Flash (Jay Garrick) (4779) O Completed* Umar Saif (1253) O Completed* Waverider (comics) (1310) O Completed* Lexa discography (130 ^note) O Reidgreg ( talk) 17:46, 22 March 2017 (UTC) reply Completed* Tere Mere Beech (2636) *O

Total articles: 7
Total words: 20203

Dhtwiki ( talk)

Article list

Completed Charlestown, Boston (2 sections) (403) *O
Completed The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) (1140) *O
Completed Villa Marchese del Grillo (693) *O
Completed Steampunk (6005) *O
Completed Roman gardens (1043) *O
Completed Imperial Japanese Army (3292) *O
Completed Military history of Japan (5204) *O
Completed Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features (1545) *O
Completed Rapid transit technology (2567) *O
Completed Luxembourg Army (2484) *O
Completed Microsoft Mobile (rounding up from 4990 words) (5000) *O
Completed Publilius Optatianus Porfirius (616) *O
Completed Rmeileh (including lists) (840) *O
Completed Salisbury University (3504) *O
Completed Porga of Croatia (568) *O
Completed Hristo Smirnenski (1157) *O
Completed Ducks Scéno (including lists) (657) *O
Completed Moscow State University in Tashkent named for M. V. Lomonosov (including one list) (1416) *O
Completed Isma'il ibn Jafar (552) *O
Completed Triune Kingdom (366) *O
Completed North Channel Naval Duel (2428) *O
Completed Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy (3209) *O
Completed Mendelian genetics of humans exophenotype (338) *O
Completed Berber kings of Roman-era Tunisia (one very long footnote only) (576) *O
Completed Visa history of Russia (9482) *O

Total articles: 25
Total words: 55085
Rollover words: 8352.5

Txmormon97 ( talk)

Article list
Completed I Will Always Love You (4296) O Completed* Cthulhu Mythos (1130) Completed Yahoo! Mail (2215) Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 3
Total words: 7641

Twofingered Typist ( talk)

Article list

Completed David Willis (cartoonist) (1,210) *O
Completed South African wine (5,416) *O
Completed Edward Gibbon Wakefield (3,698) *O
Completed William Davison (diplomat) (1,135) *O
Completed David Budbill (647) *O
Completed The Maltings (431) *O
Completed Spenser: For Hire (1,101) *O
Completed Lisbon Navigators (209) *O
Completed Alvin Taylor (453) *O
Completed FitzMartin (2,285) *O
Completed James Gang (1,256) *O
Completed Biju Patnaik International Airport (423) *O
Completed Ceasefires in Myanmar (845) *O
Completed Pierre Denan (974) *O
Completed Fathers 4 Justice (2,938) *O
Completed Gillig Low Floor (915) *O
Completed C.D. Kirven (978) *O
Completed Janel Leppin (563) *O
Completed Sugar Ray (1,601) *O
Completed Yu Gwansun (872) *O
Completed Super 8 film (3,857) *O
Completed The Spinners (American R&B group) (1,991) *O
Completed Edward Tryon (1,488) *O
Completed Kim Won-bong (414) *O
Completed CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries (1,238) *O
Completed Jock Haston (partial count) (1,000) *O
Completed Hong Jin-ho (856) *O
Completed Milton Mallawarachchi (550) *O
Completed Mariazelle Goonetilleke (649) *O
Completed Tennison Cooray (143) *O
Completed List of Bitten episodes (partial count) (2,000) *O
Completed Eurasia Group (892) *O
Completed Jessica Jung (partial count) (426) *O
Completed Brian Harris (translation researcher) (1,422) *O
Completed Educational stage (partial count) (500) *O
Completed Christina Gonzalez (895) *O
Completed Ration card (India) (partial count) (500) *O
Completed Prince of Wales' College, Moratuwa (2,021) *O
Completed List of photovoltaics companies (848) *O
Completed P. L. Munasinghe (330) *O
Completed Ante Vokić (704) *O
Completed Car controls (partial count) (543) *O
Completed Council of Federated Organizations (partial count) (3,000) *O
Completed Sunjong of Korea (445) *O
Completed Membership Training in Korea (Partial count) (555) *O
Completed Saas Bahu Aur Sensex (partial count) (500) *O
Completed I Will Always Love You (2,905) *O
Completed Ellie (The Last of Us) (2,123) R*
Completed The Culture of Nakedness and the Nakedness of Culture (397) *R
Completed Miley Cyrus (5,785) *R
Completed Vidiians (2,997) *R
Completed White House to Treasury Building tunnel (1,054) *R
Completed Skate Punk (1,593 *R)
Completed Tracer (Overwatch) (2,999) *R
Completed North (Something Corporate album) (1,662) *R
Completed Himura Kenshin (2,627) *R
Completed Flash vs. Arrow (3,195) *R
Completed Silent Hill 2 (3,947) *R
Completed Carrom Company (1,556) *R
Completed Unlocked (Alexandra Stan album) (1,909) *R
Completed Kumayl ibn Ziyad (9,869) *R
Completed Long Distance (Ivy album) (1,566) *R
Completed The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film (3,071) *R
Completed One Piece (5,194) *R
Completed List of One Piece characters (12,466) *R
Completed Gus Grissom (3,189) *R
Completed Roger B. Chaffee (2,901) *R
Completed List of Eve episodes (4,000) *R
Completed Woman's club movement (4,683) *R
Completed Curtis P. Iaukea (3,377) *R
Completed [[]] ()
Working Saas Bahu Aur Sensex ()

Total articles: 70
Total words: 142,500
Rollover words: 450,855

EveDK ( talk)

Article list
Completed Eve of Passover on Shabbat (1162) O Working* Wilde, Buenos Aires (1067) *O

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1162

Xevus11 ( talk)

Article list

Completed Greaves Cotton (122) *O
Completed Amaka Igwe (605) *O
Completed Tactical Legends (753) *O (word count for bullets)
Completed Aleksey Orlov (politician) (366)
Completed Marcia McDermott (153)
Completed Pyumori Mehta Ghosh (114) *O
Completed Mushtaq Ahmed Baig (425) *O
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 7
Total words: 4169
Rollover words: 8975

Stingray Trainer ( talk)

Article list
Completed Arag (359) O Completed* Ammunition (3693) Completed East Anglia (1806) O Completed* solid fuel (1665) O Completed* Heavy Weight Champ (558) O Completed* Underworld: Awakening (1085) O Completed* Water Conservation Act of 2009 (797) O Completed* Zimbabwean Dollar (5222) Working

Total articles: 8
Total words: 15,183

MediaKill13 ( talk)

Article list
Completed Intruders (TV series) (576) O Working* Microsoft Mobile (4990) *O

Total articles: 1
Total words: 576

gwendy ( talk)

Article list
Completed Ann Devroy (so many biased quotes!) (913) Completed Alexandra Stan (my first request!) (2013) R Completed* Haskelite Manufacturing Corporation (1267) R Working* Old Bob (492) *R

Total articles: 3
Total words: 4193

Aledtje ( talk)

Article list
Completed [[]] () Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

OctaviusPublius ( talk)

Article list
Completed Karachi Nuclear Power Complex (1524) O Completed* Ration card (India) (1490) O Completed* Isra University (271) O Completed* Paipa (954) O Working* [[]] ()

Total articles: 4
Total words: 4239

SweetCanadianMullet ( talk)

Article list

Completed .243 Winchester (641)
Completed Lullism (606)
Completed Tricicle (731)

Completed Phos Hilaron (2447)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 4425

Russty11 ( talk)

Article list
Completed Kai Islands (915) R Completed* Rogue One (5008) R Completed* The_Eyes-on-the-Road-Benefit (1032) O Working* Field_archery (1276) *R

Total articles: 3
Total words: 6955

Wilhelmina Will ( talk)

Article list
Completed Berlinda of Meerbeke (133) Completed Wayne Benn (204)

Total articles: 2
Total words: 337

[nobonus-1] For requests and older articles, please include only the actual word count, without the 50% bonus.

[2] Number of articles of 5,000 words or more. An article of 10K+ words counts as 2, of 15K+ as 3, and so on.

[3] Oldest articles are those tagged in April, May, and June 2016.

[4] The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

[change-5] Change refers only to outstanding tags.

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