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Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives
Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
(refresh)
Subtotals
September 202339
October 202379
November 202379
December 202399
January 2024109
February 202476
March 2024110
April 2024172
May 2024117
June 202494
July 2024142
August 2024118
September 2024113
October 2024104
November 2024110
December 2024148
January 2025207
February 2025178
March 2025202
Undated articles0
All articles
2,296

This Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is 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 {{copy edit section}}, {{copy edit inline}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{cleanup tense}}, and their redirects) and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 March 2025, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 March 2025, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive are:

  • to reduce the backlog by as many articles as possible, especially the earliest-tagged articles (those tagged in August, September, and October 2023);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from January and February 2025.

Drive participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Articles listed on the Requests page count towards your total; these articles are generally higher in quality 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 August, September, and October 2023, and for articles listed on the Requests page. Awards will be given out once the drive has finished.

The drive is 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 Dhtwiki (talk), who is assisted by IQR (talk), Miniapolis (talk), Mox Eden (talk), and WikiEditor5678910 (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message on the drive's Talk page.


For brief instructions on recording your work, see below. For full instructions, visit the Main Drive page. Further details can be found on the drive's FAQ 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 		Ultraodan (24) TNM101 (15) Zzz plant (14) Grumpylawnchair (12) Tenryuu (11)
Protobowladdict (11)
Total
Words[n 1] 		Ultraodan (46149) TNM101 (42325) Tenryuu (27870) Mox Eden (20124) voorts (18324)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		Ultraodan (4)
TNM101 (4) 		EricXXue (2) Grumpylawnchair (1)
voorts (1)
Zzz plant (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		Ultraodan (21) TNM101 (13) Tenryuu (11) Protobowladdict (5) Miniapolis (4)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		TNM101 (14015) EricXXue (12060) Ultraodan (10797) voorts (8852) Grumpylawnchair (5396)
  1. ^ a b 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 August, September, and October 2023.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Aug – Oct 2023
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
28 February 2025 212 2,464 — —
1 March 2025 205 2,439 Positive decrease 25 Positive decrease 25
2 March 2025 200 2,397 Positive decrease 42 Positive decrease 67
3 March 2025 198 2,371 Positive decrease 26 Positive decrease 93
4 March 2025 194 2,356 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 108
5 March 2025 192 2,334 Positive decrease 22 Positive decrease 130
6 March 2025 184 2,317 Positive decrease 17 Positive decrease 147
7 March 2025 181 2,313 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 151
8 March 2025 175 2,289 Positive decrease 24 Positive decrease 175
9 March 2025 162 2,266 Positive decrease 23 Positive decrease 198
10 March 2025 152 2,277 Negative increase  11 Positive decrease 187
11 March 2025 148 2,277 Steady  0 Positive decrease 187
12 March 2025 148 2,285 Negative increase  8 Positive decrease 179
13 March 2025 141 2,287 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 177
14 March 2025 136 2,291 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 173
  1. ^ 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

To sign up for the drive, click the button below. This will create a subsection in the Totals section where you will record your copy edits. Rollover totals from the previous drive are located here.


Totals

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) and avoid piped links, quotation marks and italics.
    • 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; do not use additional brackets for comments. Avoid long calculation strings (more than one line) in your word total.
  • 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}}.
  • If the article is from the GOCE Requests page, place *R (using plain text) after the word count. If it was tagged in August, September, and October 2023, place *O (using plain text) 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 this on the drive's Talk page.

Properly completed records look like this in the edit window:

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

and like this on the rendered page:

1.  Completed Dark chocolate (1,234) *O

Miniapolis (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Christian Discourses (3,974) *O
  2.  Completed Maitrī (18) *O
  3.  Completed Ira Silverberg (1,141) *O
  4.  Completed Konkomba people (4,246) *O
  5.  Working List of Lucky Luke albums (11,400) *O
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 9,379
  • Rollover words: 9,596

EricXXue (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (12,060) *R
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 12,060
  • Rollover words: 1,739

Mox Eden (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Laura Vila Kremer (339) *R
  2.  Completed Celestica (song) (776) *R
  3.  Completed Woman of Steel (album) (1198) *R
  4.  Completed Dying Light: The Following (2468) *R
  5.  Completed Billy (Black Christmas) (4835) *R
  6.  Completed Giant anteater (3179) *R
  7.  Completed Yuri Sakazaki (2737) *R
  8.  Completed They Fear Us (2658) *R
  9.  Completed Deer Lady (1944) *R
  10.  Working Alice in Chains (album) (6834) *R
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 20124
  • Rollover words: 15810.5

LightlySeared (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Blockade of the Cabañas Department (1608) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1608
  • Rollover words: 1317

Trex32 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Sophisticatedevening (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Five-gallon bucket (428)
  2.  Completed Eva Sadoun (324)*O
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 752
  • Rollover words: 1611.5

GreenRedFlag (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 2,170

SheriffIsInTown (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3,688

Ultraodan (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Paul Barry (896)
  2.  Completed Jackie Biskupski (1917)
  3.  Completed Caio Blinder (320)
  4.  Completed Kurt S. Browning (476) *O
  5.  Completed Alireza Jadidi (481) *O
  6.  Completed Esha Kansara (848) *O
  7.  Completed Parvesh Shaheen (453) *O
  8.  Completed Boris Milev (770) *O
  9.  Completed Emiliano Sordi (549) *O
  10.  Completed Joe Chester (3946) *O
  11.  Completed Jari Vilén (783) *O
  12.  Completed Rehavam Ze'evi (1811) *O
  13.  Completed MERA25 (459) *O
  14.  Completed Khaligraph Jones (934) *O
  15.  Completed Arcade and Attica Railroad (1589) *O
  16.  Completed Yuriy Nikitenko (489) *O
  17.  Completed Olympic symbols (3409) *O
  18.  Completed Criticism of TV Globo (5418) *O
  19.  Completed Khal Nayak (872) *O
  20.  Completed Ottoman entry into World War I (5565) *O
  21.  Completed Suicide attack (10797) *O
  22.  Completed 2005 German visa affair (1744) *O
  23.  Completed Sich Battalion (565) *O
  24.  Completed Treaty of Vienna (1725) (1058) *O
  25.  Working Dear You (7144) *O
  • Total articles: 24
  • Total words: 46149
  • Rollover words: 545

Zzz plant (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Marie-Françoise André (377)
  2.  Completed Shalom Obadiah Cohen (1016) *O
  3.  Completed Big Brother (Swedish TV series) (1391) *O
  4.  Completed St. Elizabeth's Indian School (1969)
  5.  Completed Ann Bates (1525)
  6.  Completed Nita Hontiveros-Lichauco (773)
  7.  Completed A Love So Beautiful (346)
  8.  Completed Khrystyna Soloviy (2083) *R
  9.  Completed Kokui Selormey Hanson (445)
  10.  Completed Naveen Medaram (196)
  11.  Completed Mara La Torre (1004)
  12.  Completed Pamputtae (165)
  13.  Completed Jerzy Kukuczka (1086)
  14.  Completed Lightning McQueen (5194) *R
  • Total articles: 14
  • Total words: 17570
  • Rollover words: 1394

Worldbruce (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 2041

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Toronto Fire Services (1625) *O
  2.  Completed Mesa of Lost Women (496) *O
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2121
  • Rollover words: 2349

Grumpylawnchair (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira (508)
  2.  Completed Khorovod (249)
  3.  Completed Casimir II of Belz (747)
  4.  Completed Meerut (5396)
  5.  Completed Suicide of Renata Kambolina the "Investigation" section (392)
  6.  Completed Jovan Šantrić (489)
  7.  Completed Antun Dalmatin (251)
  8.  Completed Jhuruli Could not edit "Rural structure" section, as it borders on nonsensical, so subtracted that from the word count (723)
  9.  Completed Death of Julen Roselló (888)
  10.  Completed Ann Obaseki (68)
  11.  Completed White Terror (Spain) (6237) *O
  12.  Completed Reserve Officer Training in Russia (2154)
  13.  Working HIV/AIDS in Russia (16376)
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 18102

Boeing747Pilot (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Tenryuu (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Marcosians Removed inadequately-sourced content and inappropriate language (2,478) *O
  2.  Completed Daman district, India Removed inadequately-sourced content and material that seemed to violate WP:CLOSEPARA (1,372) *O
  3.  Completed Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,928) *O
  4.  Completed The Concept of Anxiety Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (3,060) *O
  5.  Completed Three Upbuilding Discourses (1843) Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,353) *O
  6.  Completed Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844) Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,733) *O
  7.  Completed Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843) Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,946) *O
  8.  Completed Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (3,723) *O
  9.  Completed Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (3,022) *O
  10.  Completed Stages on Life's Way Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,548) *O
  11.  Completed Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastry Removed inadequately-sourced content (707) *O
  12.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 11
  • Total words: 27870
  • Rollover words: 3,419

Omnigrade (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Niankh-Pepy-kem (233)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Lfstevens (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

voorts (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Peking Man (8852) *R
  2.  Completed Don't Be (4564) *R
  3.  Completed Death Race 2 (3676) *R
  4.  Completed Gary Tuggle (1232) *R
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 18324

PrinceTortoise (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Pompei (460)
  2.  Completed Platycheirus brunnifrons (496)
  3.  Completed Williamsonville, Wisconsin (471)
  4.  Completed Cecilia Eggleston (484) *R
  5.  Working Colletorto (1037)
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 1911
  • Rollover words: 366

Jolielover (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working It Ends with Us controversy (2307)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Miminity (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

United Blasters (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

SilkPyjamas (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Croatian Committee (2,006) *R
  2.  Completed Josip Torbar (politician, born 1889) (1,848) *R
  3.  Completed Squirrel Games (1,063) *R
  4.  Completed Dusky dolphin (2,886) *R
  5.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 7,803
  • Rollover words: 6,990

Bananaspice (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

TNM101 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed History of Surat (1454) *O
  2.  Completed Irreligion in India (3976) *O
  3.  Completed VSP Vision Care (830) *O
  4.  Completed Kuzhanthai Velappar temple (882) *O
  5.  Completed Philipp Käßbohrer (535) *O
  6.  Completed GMA News TV (1112) *O
  7.  Completed Coup d'état of May Seventeenth (992) *O
  8.  Completed Praski Vitti (197) *O
  9.  Completed Dadu Dayal (620) *O
  10.  Completed Jhayco (680) *O
  11.  Completed Hou Yaowen (1654) *O
  12.  Completed Ambrosio O'Higgins, 1st Marquess of Osorno (2271) *O
  13.  Completed Wake Island (14015) *O
  14.  Completed Skopje (12218) *O
  15.  Completed Jadranska straža (journal) (889) *R
  16.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 15
  • Total words: 42,325
  • Rollover words: 18,176

Papybara (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Chinese character radicals (1793)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1793

Mwwv (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Neelu Mishra (262)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 262
  • Rollover words: 3385

Moriwen (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Scumwit (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

GraziePrego (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Articute (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Augnablik (talk)

Article list
  1.  Working Stuttering Pride (3,769) *O
  2.  Completed Deep Seek (1,498)
  3.  Completed Deer Lady(1,910) *R
  4.  Completed Odd Eye Circle(656)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4,064

Riley1012 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Diana Taurasi (4358)
  2.  Completed France at the 2024 Summer Olympics (2896)
  3.  Completed Juventus FC (women) (1190)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 8444

1250metersdeep (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Paleorthid (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed 5Star (1401)
  2.  Working Timeline of Malaysian history (37) O*
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1401

GN22 (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Nsophiay (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Desertroseflora (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

BugMutual (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed (Soulboy (Khalil Fong album) (718)
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 718

Protobowladdict (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Aji River (Gujarat) (184)
  2.  Completed Byeokgolje Ssangnyong Nori (941)
  3.  Completed Classmates.com (960)
  4.  Completed Densetsu no Stafy (video game) (1020)
  5.  Completed Ukulhas (2247)
  6.  Completed Fox Spirit Matchmaker (1162)
  7.  Completed Roomba (4342) *O
  8.  Completed Philipp Schaerer (549) *O
  9.  Completed S.L. Shneiderman (1816) *O
  10.  Completed Cebu Monorail (858) *O
  11.  Completed Wells of Life (1275) *O
  12.  Completed Goodwill Industries (2306) *O
  • Total articles: 12
  • Total words: 17660

Batorang (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Anonymous Libertarian (talk)

Article list
  1.  Completed Battalion ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 0
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