The following event is over. Please do not modify it. Participants may add their final updates within the next 48 hours. 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 articles that require copy editing; those carrying the {{ copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 12 April 2020, at 00:00 (UTC) and ended on 18 April 2020, at 23:59 (UTC).

The theme(s) of this blitz is/are:

• Military-history articles (see list of articles below)

Blitz participants could earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards were given out once the blitz 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. It may also be useful to refer to MOS:MIL for this blitz's theme. 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 iwas Jonesey95 ( talk), who is assisted by Baffle gab1978 ( talk), Reidgreg ( talk), Tdslk ( talk) and Twofingered Typist ( 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 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.

Progress Chart

Date	Outstanding Military-history articles	Change since previous day	Change since beginning	Daily articles edited
April 11, 2020	63	—	—	—
April 12, 2020	62	1	1	1
April 13, 2020	55	7	8	7
April 14, 2020	47	8	16	9
April 15, 2020	35	12	28	12
April 16, 2020	26	9	37	9
April 17, 2020	17	9	46	9
April 18, 2020	8	9	55	9

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.

Reviewers sign-up

Rollover totals from the previous blitz can be found here.

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 # {{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. 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:

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

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (yummy!) (1,234)

0. fake article to show what an in-progress article looks like  Working – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:13, 22 August 2017 (UTC) reply

00. fake article to show what a completed article looks like Y – Jonesey95 ( talk) 22:13, 22 August 2017 (UTC) reply

For these articles, it may be useful to refer to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Military history.

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