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Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives
Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
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Subtotals
December 202346
January 202485
February 202469
March 202485
April 2024138
May 202497
June 202469
July 2024115
August 202498
September 202481
October 202480
November 202476
December 2024114
January 2025145
February 2025114
March 2025147
April 2025191
May 2025142
June 2025189
July 2025105
Undated articles0
All articles
2,186

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 will begin on 1 July 2025, 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 July 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 October, November, and December 2023);
  • to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page dating from March, April, May, and June 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 October, November, and December 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 GoldRomean (talk), Miniapolis (talk), and Mox Eden (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 FAQ page.

Full instructions, tips, and awards

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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

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(Please update your own figures)

Leaderboard

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  • Gold Star Award Leaderboard
1 2 3 4 5
Total
Articles 		Toffee Dude (17) Littenberg (9) Jayowyn (5) Miniapolis (4) Readingpro256 (3)
Dhtwiki (3)
Total
Words[n 1] 		Littenberg (31,940) Toffee Dude (19,911) Miniapolis (17,272) Dhtwiki (13,225) Jayowyn (15966)
5k+
Articles[n 2] 		Miniapolis (2)
Littenberg (2) 		Jayowyn (1)
Dhtwiki (1)
EricXXue (1)
Oldest
Articles[n 3] 		Jayowyn (5) Toffee Dude (4)
Miniapolis (4) 		Readingpro256 (3)
Dhtwiki (3) 		Littenberg (2) Reidgreg (1)
EricXXue (1)
Longest
Article[n 1][n 4] 		Miniapolis (10,159) Littenberg (8,548) Dhtwiki (5,987) Jayowyn (5782) EricXXue (5,220)
  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 October, November, and December 2023.
  4. ^ The number of words in the longest article you copy edited. Only one entry for any editor.

Progress chart

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Progress Chart
Date
  • Old articles
  • Oct – Dec 2023
  • Outstanding
  • tags
  • Change since
  • previous day
[N 1]
  • Change since
  • beginning
[N 1]
30 June 2025 98 2,275 — —
1 July 2025 90 2,260 Positive decrease 15 Positive decrease 15
2 July 2025 87 2,242 Positive decrease 18 Positive decrease 33
3 July 2025 85 2,243 Negative increase  1 Positive decrease 32
4 July 2025 79 2,232 Positive decrease 11 Positive decrease 43
5 July 2025 74 2,223 Positive decrease  9 Positive decrease 52
6 July 2025 72 2,200 Positive decrease 23 Positive decrease 75
7 July 2025 70 2,196 Positive decrease  4 Positive decrease 79
8 July 2025 67 2,188 Positive decrease  8 Positive decrease 87
9 July 2025 64 2,192 Negative increase  4 Positive decrease 83
10 July 2025 61 2,189 Positive decrease  3 Positive decrease 86
11 July 2025 60 2,191 Negative increase  2 Positive decrease 84
12 July 2025 57 2,186 Positive decrease  5 Positive decrease 89
13 July 2025 48 2,180 Positive decrease  6 Positive decrease 95
  1. ^ a b Change refers only to outstanding tags.

Reviewing

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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

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  1. GoldRomean (talk) 19:46, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Signing up

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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

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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 October, November, and December 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 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

Dhtwiki (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Former German nobility in the Nazi Party (5987) *O
  2.  Completed List of massacres in Brazil (3222) *O
  3.  Completed Islamic State beheadings (4016) *O
  4.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 13,225
  • Rollover words: 14,680.2

Miniapolis (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Operation Donnerkeil (4,853) *O
  2.  Completed Great Purge (10,159) *O
  3.  Completed Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (1,784) *O
  4.  Completed Registered Traveler (476) *O
  5.  Working Sent-down youth (9,344) *O
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 17,272
  • Rollover words: 9,535

EricXXue (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Nationalism in the Middle Ages (1,425) *O
  2.  Completed No Kings protests (5,220) *R
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 6,645
  • Rollover words: 1,165.5

Mox Eden (talk)

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  1.  Completed The King of Fighters: Kyo (1998 video game) (2150) *R
  2.  Completed Waluigi (3166) *R
  3.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 5316
  • Rollover words: 13,143

Fcstmani (talk)

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

LightlySeared (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 4,551.5

Wracking (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Sexual script theory (4167) *O
  3.  Working Shoulder surfing (computer security) (1267) *O
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Lfstevens (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Hypersonic flight (3385)
  2.  Completed Sonia Sotomayor (1025)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 4110

Reidgreg (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Hundreds of Beavers (2240) *O Checked — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoldRomean (talk • contribs) 02:13, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2240
  • Rollover words: 2742

Calmkelp (talk)

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

Contrawwftw (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Large blue Behaviour section (1680)
  2.  Completed Holdridge's toad (1343)
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 3023

Sessep (talk)

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Article list

2025–26 Punjab, Pakistan budget

  1.  Completed 2025–26 Punjab, Pakistan budget (1)
  2.  Working Draft:2024–25 Punjab, Pakistan budget, 2025–26 Pakistan federal budget (2)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: Unknown
  • Rollover words: Unknown

Readingpro256 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Udaariyaan (1578)*O, Jeet Kune Do (1846)*O, Bans on Nazi symbols (2032)*O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 5456
  • Rollover words: 1652

Cardboard Moose (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Checked Cássia Eller (1586)
  2.  Working New Youth (3794)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 1586

CosXZ (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed 2024–25 Port F.C. season (128)
  2.  Completed 1240–1241 Votia campaign (1,554)
  3.  Completed Toyota KZ engine (276)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 1,958

Mwwv (talk)

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

Etzedek24 (talk)

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

Jonesey95 (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Component speaker (191)
  2.  Completed Joan Kennedy (novelist) (562)
  3.  Completed [[]] ()
  4.  Completed [[]] ()
  5.  Completed [[]] ()
  6.  Completed [[]] ()
  7.  Completed [[]] ()
  8.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 753
  • Rollover words: 3,956

ClaudineChionh (talk)

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

Zhanii (talk)

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

Jayowyn (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Gothic War (436–439) (1389) *O
  2.  Completed Historia Brittonum (3102) *O
  3.  Completed Albania–Greece relations (2689) *O
  4.  Completed Rajaraja I Mostly already copyedited by user Sitush. (3004) *O
  5.  Completed Abdul Majid Daryabadi (5782) *O
  6.  Completed Hadamard transform Only one section needed editing.(247)
  7.  Completed Rashba–Edelstein effect (1764)
  8.  Completed Hazaribagh (2689) *O
  9.  Completed Sand 364 (740)
  10.  Completed Swedish War of Liberation (2411) *O
  11.  Completed Freudian slip (1669)
  12.  Completed Texture mapping (4021)
  13.  Completed Chinese anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden (2433) *O
  14.  Completed Iperindo (482) *O
  15.  Completed Pembina Pipeline (643) *O
  16.  Completed Duewag GT8 Typ Freiburg (749) *O
  17.  Completed [[]] ()
  18.  Completed [[]] ()
  19.  Completed [[]] ()
  20.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 16
  • Total words: 33814
  • Rollover words: 1898

Moritoriko (talk)

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

Pac Veten (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Art and culture law (1441) *O Checked GoldRomean (talk) 20:38, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Completed Baruch Podolsky (1001) *O Checked GoldRomean (talk) 20:38, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  Completed Internet censorship circumvention (2363) *O
  4.  Working Theodicy (6006) *O
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 4805

Valorrr (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Arizona State Route 101 (1,318)
  2.  Completed Methods used by advocacy groups (1,439) O*
  • Total articles: 2
  • Total words: 2,757
  • Rollover words: 7,342

voorts (talk)

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

EarthDude (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed IIT Bombay (2,410)
  2.  Working New Design series (2,873)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2,410

SilkPyjamas (talk)

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

MiDBC (talk)

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

Augnablik (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Women in music (21932) O*
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 9,100.5

Toffee Dude (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed Go-to-market strategy (788)
  2.  Completed Boal (3054)
  3.  Completed Vladimir Zhirinovsky (4963) *O
  4.  Completed Address of the 221 (549)
  5.  Completed Confectionery Factory "Kopernik" (625) *O
  6.  Completed The Creative Center (209) *R
  7.  Completed Rajesh Saraiya (104)
  8.  Completed Henri Parent (185)
  9.  Completed Crude oil washing (521)
  10.  Completed NaviDrive (123)
  11.  Completed Protagoras (1723)
  12.  Completed David Smith (boccia) (1111) *O
  13.  Completed Elisa (Italian singer) (2701) *O
  14.  Completed Osborne Computer Corporation (1086)
  15.  Completed Mike Curb (2169)
  16.  Completed Timeline of Jamestown, Virginia (42)
  17.  Completed TyDi (1497)
  18.  Completed Lagahida (118)
  19.  Completed Charles Crismon (1370) *O
  20.  Working Aryan (1988 film) (1021) *O
  • Total articles: 19
  • Total words: 22938

AetherLens (talk)

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

GoldRomean (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working István Tarlós (2543) *O
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 3,704.5

Grumpylawnchair (talk)

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

TheyMightBeRobots (talk)

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  1.  Working NBA criticisms and controversies (10086)
  2.  Completed Transport in Surat (262)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 262

Littenberg (talk)

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  1.  Completed Rosa Parks (7768) *R
  2.  Completed Checked Vasil Tole (1538) *O
  3.  Completed Checked Melanocytic nevus (2025)
  4.  Completed Donald Trump town hall meeting in Oaks, Pennsylvania (1451) *R
  5.  Completed 2021 Western Kentucky tornado (2054) *R
  6.  Completed New Youth (3869) *O
  7.  Completed Ukrainian Sheriffs (2398) *R
  8.  Completed Price Tower (8548) *R
  9.  Completed John H. Wescott (1839) *R
  • Total articles: 9
  • Total words: 31,940

Titan1655 (talk)

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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Anshel Brusilow (828) *O
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Excellenc1 (talk)

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  1.  Completed Dharmapuram Adheenam (688)
  2.  Working Mayiladuthurai district (2849)*R
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 688

T24boo (talk)

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Article list
  1.  Completed ABBA (12864)
  2.  Completed The Blacklisted Collection (251)
  3.  Completed Grain drying (2586)
  4. {{}} [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 15701

Rajpurohitgs (talk)

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

GreenRedFlag (talk)

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

Rage glitter (talk)

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

Urban Versis 32 (talk)

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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0

Saturniapavonia (talk)

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  1.  Completed [[]] ()
  2.  Working Kenya Finance Bill protests (4168)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 547

Astra Travasso (talk)

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  1.  Completed Ibrahim Raza Khan (443) *O
  2.  Working [[]] ()
  • Total articles: 1

197.231.180.52 (talk)

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

Notaoffensivename (talk)

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  1.  Working FK Skopje (757)
  • Total articles: 0
  • Total words: 0
  • Rollover words: 514