Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/March 2025

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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 {{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 ended on 31 March 2025, 23:59 (UTC). The goals of this drive were:

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 could 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 (40)	Protobowladdict (22)	TNM101 (19) Mox Eden (19)	Zzz plant (14) Grumpylawnchair (14)	Tenryuu (11)
Total Words^{[n 1]}	Ultraodan (68277)	TNM101 (60259)	Mox Eden (58952)	Protobowladdict (48969)	Grumpylawnchair (35307)
5k+ Articles^{[n 2]}	Ultraodan (5) Lfstevens (5) Grumpylawnchair (5) TNM101 (5)	Mox Eden (3)	EricXXue (2) Protobowladdict (2) Miniapolis (2)	voorts (1) Zzz plant (1) Dhtwiki (1)
Oldest Articles^{[n 3]}	Ultraodan (37)	TNM101 (15) Protobowladdict (15)	Tenryuu (11)	Dhtwiki (8)	Borage blue (5) Miniapolis (5)
Longest Article^{[n 1]}^{[n 4]}	Lfstevens (25522)	Grumpylawnchair (16376)	TNM101 (14015)	EricXXue (12060)	Miniapolis (11,400)

^ ^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 August, September, and October 2023.
^ 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	25	25
2 March 2025	200	2,397	42	67
3 March 2025	198	2,371	26	93
4 March 2025	194	2,356	15	108
5 March 2025	192	2,334	22	130
6 March 2025	184	2,317	17	147
7 March 2025	181	2,313	4	151
8 March 2025	175	2,289	24	175
9 March 2025	162	2,266	23	198
10 March 2025	152	2,277	11	187
11 March 2025	148	2,277	0	187
12 March 2025	148	2,285	8	179
13 March 2025	141	2,287	2	177
14 March 2025	136	2,291	4	173
15 March 2025	134	2,286	5	178
16 March 2025	132	2,292	6	172
17 March 2025	128	2,293	1	171
18 March 2025	126	2,290	3	174
19 March 2025	126	2,307	17	157
20 March 2025	123	2,305	2	159
21 March 2025	113	2,289	16	175
22 March 2025	108	2,275	14	189
23 March 2025	105	2,276	1	188
24 March 2025	101	2,277	1	187
25 March 2025	98	2,278	1	186
26 March 2025	97	2,264	14	200
27 March 2025	97	2,240	24	224
28 March 2025	94	2,231	9	233
29 March 2025	89	2,210	21	254
30 March 2025	87	2,211	1	253
31 March 2025	82	2,210	1	254

^ ^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

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

Completed Christian Discourses (3,974) *O
Completed Maitrī (18) *O
Completed Ira Silverberg (1,141) *O
Completed Konkomba people (4,246) *O
Completed List of Lucky Luke comics albums (11,400) *O

Total articles: 5
Total words: 20,779
Rollover words: 9,596

EricXXue (talk)

Article list

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

Completed Laura Vila Kremer (339) *R
Completed Celestica (song) (776) *R
Completed Woman of Steel (album) (1198) *R
Completed Dying Light: The Following (2468) *R
Completed Billy (Black Christmas) (4835) *R
Completed Giant anteater (3179) *R
Completed Yuri Sakazaki (2737) *R
Completed They Fear Us (2658) *R
Completed Deer Lady (1944) *R
Completed Alice in Chains (album) (6834+567) (revisited; see why) *R
Completed Peri Brown (2730) *R
Completed Killua Zoldyck (2316) *R
Completed Luna (Feid and ATL Jacob song) (1710) *R
Completed Classy 101 (1625) *R
Completed Ziaur Rahman (4567) *R
Completed Discovery (Daft Punk album) (2556) *R
Completed 70 Pine Street (6218) *R
Completed 20 Exchange Place (5004) *R
Completed Ochaco Uraraka (4691) *R
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 19
Total words: 58952
Rollover words: 15810.5

LightlySeared (talk)

Article list

Completed Blockade of the Cabañas Department (1608) *O
Completed Political repression in North Korea (1878) *O
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 3486
Rollover words: 1317

Trex32 (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Sophisticatedevening (talk)

Article list

Completed Five-gallon bucket (428)
Completed Eva Sadoun (324)*O
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 752
Rollover words: 1611.5

GreenRedFlag (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Dhtwiki (talk)

Article list

Completed Provenance (geology) (4170) *O
Completed Cabinet of Eduard Heger ("Coalition crisis" section) (493) *O
Completed Vintergatan (1268) *O
Completed Charles A. Munn III (1442) *O
Completed Battle of Hetény-Kurtakeszi-Izsa (2830) *O
Completed Ukraine–NATO relations (7976) *O
Completed Joint Base Charleston (1211) *O
Completed Thul Hairo Khan (457) *O
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 8
Total words: 19,847
Rollover words: 2,170

SheriffIsInTown (talk)

Article list

Completed Jewish General Hospital (453)

Total articles: 1
Total words: 453
Rollover words: 3,688

Ultraodan (talk)

Article list

Completed Paul Barry (896)
Completed Jackie Biskupski (1917)
Completed Caio Blinder (320)
Completed Kurt S. Browning (476) *O
Completed Alireza Jadidi (481) *O
Completed Esha Kansara (848) *O
Completed Parvesh Shaheen (453) *O
Completed Boris Milev (770) *O
Completed Emiliano Sordi (549) *O
Completed Joe Chester (3946) *O
Completed Jari Vilén (783) *O
Completed Rehavam Ze'evi (1811) *O
Completed MERA25 (459) *O
Completed Khaligraph Jones (934) *O
Completed Arcade and Attica Railroad (1589) *O
Completed Yuriy Nikitenko (489) *O
Completed Olympic symbols (3409) *O
Completed Criticism of TV Globo (5418) *O
Completed Khal Nayak (872) *O
Completed Ottoman entry into World War I (5565) *O
Completed Suicide attack (10797) *O
Completed 2005 German visa affair (1744) *O
Completed Sich Battalion (565) *O
Completed Treaty of Vienna (1725) (1058) *O
Completed Dear You (7144) *O
Completed Oi u luzi chervona kalyna (618) *O
Completed Bukan Cinderella (532) *O
Completed Blockade of Berbera (1855–1856) (752) *O
Completed Disappearance of Gaia Pope (2430) *O
Completed Kilgoris (654) *O
Completed Tandai, Honiara (352) *O
Completed Koovagam (1047) *O
Completed Tenea (623) *O
Completed Hammanskraal (1445) *O
Completed Peugeot 407 (922) *O
Completed Dabuyid dynasty (535) *O
Completed Paryushana (637) *O
Completed Ali Shariati (3348) *O
Completed Dan Clarke (752) *O
Completed Myriam Rignol (337) *O
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 40
Total words: 68277
Rollover words: 545

Zzz plant (talk)

Article list

Completed Marie-Françoise André (377)
Completed Shalom Obadiah Cohen (1016) *O
Completed Big Brother (Swedish TV series) (1391) *O
Completed St. Elizabeth's Indian School (1969)
Completed Ann Bates (1525)
Completed Nita Hontiveros-Lichauco (773)
Completed A Love So Beautiful (346)
Completed Khrystyna Soloviy (2083) *R
Completed Kokui Selormey Hanson (445)
Completed Naveen Medaram (196)
Completed Mara La Torre (1004)
Completed Pamputtae (165)
Completed Jerzy Kukuczka (1086)
Completed Lightning McQueen (5194) *R

Total articles: 14
Total words: 17570
Rollover words: 1394

Worldbruce (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0
Rollover words: 2041

Reidgreg (talk)

Article list

Completed Toronto Fire Services (1625) *O
Completed Mesa of Lost Women (496) *O
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 2
Total words: 2121
Rollover words: 2349

Grumpylawnchair (talk)

Article list

Completed Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira (508)
Completed Khorovod (249)
Completed Casimir II of Belz (747)
Completed Meerut (5396)
Completed Suicide of Renata Kambolina the "Investigation" section (392)
Completed Jovan Šantrić (489)
Completed Antun Dalmatin (251)
Completed Jhuruli Could not edit "Rural structure" section, as it borders on nonsensical, so subtracted that from the word count (723)
Completed Death of Julen Roselló (888)
Completed Ann Obaseki (68)
Completed White Terror (Spain) (6237) *O
Completed Reserve Officer Training in Russia (2154)
Completed HIV/AIDS in Russia (16376)
Completed Piotr Wszeborycz (829)

Total articles: 14
Total words: 35307

Boeing747Pilot (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Tenryuu (talk)

Article list

Completed Marcosians Removed inadequately-sourced content and inappropriate language (2,478) *O
Completed Daman district, India Removed inadequately-sourced content and material that seemed to violate WP:CLOSEPARA (1,372) *O
Completed Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,928) *O
Completed The Concept of Anxiety Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (3,060) *O
Completed Three Upbuilding Discourses (1843) Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,353) *O
Completed Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844) Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,733) *O
Completed Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843) Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,946) *O
Completed Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (3,723) *O
Completed Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844 Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (3,022) *O
Completed Stages on Life's Way Removed inadequately-sourced and essay-like content (2,548) *O
Completed Rachakonda Viswanatha Sastry Removed inadequately-sourced content (707) *O
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 11
Total words: 27870
Rollover words: 3,419

Omnigrade (talk)

Article list

Completed Niankh-Pepy-kem (233)
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Lfstevens (talk)

Article list

Completed Electronic cigarette and e-cigarette liquid marketing (25,522)
Completed Amiga productivity software (2683) *O
Completed Karma-Sanyasa Yoga (625) *O

Total articles: 3
Total words: 28,830
Rollover words: 3581

voorts (talk)

Article list

Completed Peking Man (8852) *R
Completed Don't Be (4564) *R
Completed Death Race 2 (3676) *R
Completed Gary Tuggle (1232) *R

Total articles: 4
Total words: 18324

PrinceTortoise (talk)

Article list

Completed Pompei (460)
Completed Platycheirus brunnifrons (496)
Completed Williamsonville, Wisconsin (471)
Completed Cecilia Eggleston (484) *R
Completed Colletorto (1037) *O
Completed Kukatpally (381) *O
Completed Angamaly (522) *O
Completed Gazprom-Media (429) *O

Total articles: 8
Total words: 4280
Rollover words: 366

Jolielover (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working It Ends with Us controversy (2307)

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Miminity (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

United Blasters (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

SilkPyjamas (talk)

Article list

Completed Croatian Committee (2,006) *R
Completed Josip Torbar (politician, born 1889) (1,848) *R
Completed Squirrel Games (1,063) *R
Completed Dusky dolphin (2,886) *R
Completed Nishiddho Sompadokiyo (764) *R
Completed Blasius Mataranga (2,677) *R
Completed Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists (3,309) *R
Completed Fiume question (3,680) *R
Completed Terrorism Confinement Center (2,650) *R
Completed Dominic Thopia (1,150) *R

Total articles: 10
Total words: 22,033
Rollover words: 6,990

Bananaspice (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

TNM101 (talk)

Article list

Completed History of Surat (1454) *O
Completed Irreligion in India (3976) *O
Completed VSP Vision Care (830) *O
Completed Kuzhanthai Velappar temple (882) *O
Completed Philipp Käßbohrer (535) *O
Completed GMA News TV (1112) *O
Completed Coup d'état of May Seventeenth (992) *O
Completed Praski Vitti (197) *O
Completed Dadu Dayal (620) *O
Completed Jhayco (680) *O
Completed Hou Yaowen (1654) *O
Completed Ambrosio O'Higgins, 1st Marquess of Osorno (2271) *O
Completed Wake Island (14015) *O
Completed Skopje (12218) *O
Completed Jadranska straža (journal) (889) *R
Completed Ivan Geshev (4221)
Completed 2019 Bolivian protests (4304)
Completed History of Pune (8578) *O
Completed Cabinet of Gustavo Petro (831)
Working Education in Africa (10241)

Total articles: 19
Total words: 60,259
Rollover words: 18,176

Papybara (talk)

Article list

Completed Chinese character radicals (1793)
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1793

Mwwv (talk)

Article list

Completed Neelu Mishra (262)
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 262
Rollover words: 3385

Moriwen (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Scumwit (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

GraziePrego (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Articute (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Augnablik (talk)

Article list

Working
Completed Deep Seek (1,498)
Completed Deer Lady(1,910) *R
Completed Odd Eye Circle(656)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 4,064

Riley1012 (talk)

Article list

Completed Diana Taurasi (4358)
Completed France at the 2024 Summer Olympics (2896)
Completed Juventus FC (women) (1190)

Total articles: 3
Total words: 8444

1250metersdeep (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Paleorthid (talk)

Article list

Completed 5Star (1401)
Completed Timeline of Malaysian history (37) O*
Working

Total articles: 2
Total words: 1438

GN22 (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Nsophiay (talk)

Article list

Completed Fundo de Garantia do Tempo de Serviço (1166)
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 1166

Desertroseflora (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

BugMutual (talk)

Article list

Completed (Soulboy (Khalil Fong album) (718)
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 718

Protobowladdict (talk)

Article list

Completed Aji River (Gujarat) (184)
Completed Byeokgolje Ssangnyong Nori (941)
Completed Classmates.com (960)
Completed Densetsu no Stafy (video game) (1020)
Completed Ukulhas (2247)
Completed Fox Spirit Matchmaker (1162)
Completed Roomba (4342) *O
Completed Philipp Schaerer (549) *O
Completed S.L. Shneiderman (1816) *O
Completed Cebu Monorail (858) *O
Completed Wells of Life (1275) *O
Completed Goodwill Industries (2306) *O
Completed Sculptured stones (2690) *O
Completed Giuseppe Monterosso (2248) *O
Completed Modern Chinese characters (5575)
Completed Puerto Rico State Guard (2058) *O
Completed Devlet I Giray (2083) *O
Completed Religious Technology Center (2183) *O
Completed Tomás Fernández de Medrano (7578) *O
Completed Heavy Gear (4622) *O
Completed Umrao Jaan (1981 film) (655) *O
Completed Central Asian Flyway (1617) *O
Working Central, Paraguay (992)

Total articles: 22
Total words: 48969

Batorang (talk)

Article list

Completed Telangana tunnel collapse Comment: @Batorang Please add the words count in the brackets → ()
Completed The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Anonymous Libertarian (talk)

Article list

Completed Battalion (3049)
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 3049

SmileySnail (talk)

Article list

Working

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Borage blue (talk)

Article list

Completed Polycystic kidney disease 3 (autosomal dominant) (536)
Completed Moody Gardens (1150)
Completed FP3 player (974)
Completed Kick a Goal (414) *O
Completed Love & Sex (album) (Clearing the dregs of Sept 2023!) (272) *O
Completed Ballard Maturational Assessment (299) *O
Completed Grzegorz Mazurek (ugh, resume) (590) *O
Completed Yury Khovansky (1173) *O
Working St. Joan of Arc Catholic Academy (credit to Zzz plant for starting this edit in Feb? I just want to fully clear it) (2000) *O

Total articles: 8
Total words: 5408

Sadie694 (talk)

Article list

Completed [[]] ()
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 0
Total words: 0

Jonesey95 (talk)

Article list

Completed Jil Jung Juk (2,661) *O
Working [[]] ()

Total articles: 1
Total words: 2661
Rollover words: 630

[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 August, September, and October 2023.

[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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