Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests

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On this page, you can request that the Guild of Copy Editors copy-edit specific articles.

Instructions for requesters

To make a request, remove any existing {{copy edit}} tags from the article, then click this button and follow the instructions:

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To make a request, add your article, using the following format, to the bottom of this page:

===[[Articlename]]===

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Please remove any existing {{copy edit}} tags from the article to avoid edit conflicts during the copy edit.

Please note:

No request by an unregistered editor will be accepted unless the IP has done significant work on the article. Drive-by IP requests already on the list may be declined by any editor.
The average waiting time is two or so months. Please be patient and feel free to improve your requested article while you wait.
If you plan to nominate the article for good article, A-class or featured article status, please wait until the copy edit is complete before nominating it.
Having your article copy edited by our team does not guarantee that the prose will be considered acceptable during any of the above reviews.
You may have up to two open requests at any one time. This is enforced so that every request can have a fair chance of being fulfilled within a reasonable period.

Requests may be declined if the article is:

in the Draft or User namespaces, or is awaiting review at Wikipedia:Articles for creation;
unstable, undergoing rapid development, the venue for an ongoing edit war, or otherwise not yet suitable for copy editing.

Instructions for copy editors

Once you have accepted a request, it may be helpful to add a section to the article's Talk page explaining that you will be copy-editing the article and that other editors are welcome to post questions and comments for you while you are doing so. Remember to add another note when you are done.
Please ensure that you are familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style and the expectations for editing for the GOCE outlined in our Step by Step guide. The simplified Manual of Style is here. A number of national varieties of English are present throughout the encyclopedia, and no one variety is preferred. Keep spelling and date formatting consistent within an article.
When you accept a request, place an indented {{Working}} template immediately beneath the request and sign your post with four tildes (~~~~) so other copy editors know not to accept it.
Accept only one request at a time.
Articles that are potential Featured Article candidates should be handled by experienced editors.
If you have accepted a request but cannot fulfill it for any reason, please amend it with either:
- a note of the sections you have completed so someone else can complete the copy edit, or;
- a suitable template: {{Not done}}, {{Partly done}}, or Abandoned (not a template!). Please make a good-faith effort to complete a copyedit; excessive use of the "Partly done" template does little (or nothing) to reduce the backlog.
- If the article is unstable, experiencing rapid development, an ongoing edit war or apparent ownership issues, open a discussion on Requests talk to inform project coordinators.
- Acceptances that appear to have been abandoned will be checked after a reasonable period, usually one week after the timestamp. In cases of complete inactivity we will ask for an update on your talk page. If no response is received within one further week, the {{Working}} template will be removed so other editors may complete the copy edit.
When you have completed a request, add the template {{Done}} below the request and sign your post with four tildes (~~~~) and a bot will archive it in about 24 hours. In limited circumstances (breakdowns etc.), you can add the details of the request to the archive page then remove the request here by blanking the subsection. Do not delete the original request without archiving it.
Please consider adding the templates {{GOCE|user={{subst:REVISIONUSER}}|date={{subst:date}}}} on the talk page of articles you have copy edited and {{GOCEtb|article=Insert article name|sign=~~~~}} to the talk page of the requester.

Instructions for coordinators

Stale requests marked as "Working": Acceptances that appear to have been abandoned should be checked for activity after a reasonable period, usually one week after the timestamp. In cases of complete inactivity, a coordinator should ask for an update on the copy editor's talk page. Write "Asked X for update on talk page" below the "Working" line on the Requests page. If no response is received within one further week, the {{Working}} template should be removed so that other editors may complete the copy edit.
Quality control: Articles from the Requests page that are completed by newer editors should be reviewed for quality by a coordinator, time permitting. The top priority is to review articles that are FA candidates; the second priority, GA and DYK candidates.

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October 2014

Valley View (Romney, West Virginia)

This article was previously selected for a Did you know? hook and was reviewed to Good Article status. I'd kindly like to ask for a copyedit so that this article could continue to Featured Article review. Thanks! Caponer (talk) 13:51, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Working DNA Ligase IV (talk) 16:57, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've asked DNA Ligase IV for an update on this request on her/his talk page; his/her last edit to the article as of my timestamp was 02:59, 16 December 2014 UTC . Baffle gab1978 (talk) 03:22, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Working Miniapolis 20:51, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 2014

One World Trade Center

Skyscraper for imminent second FA; I withdrew first FA nom solely because of copy editing issues. Thanks, Epicgenius (talk) 02:54, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Working. This should keep me busy for a while. I'll start working after I finish a GA review I'm doing right now. Thanks, --Biblioworm 04:01, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game)

This popular Sega Genesis game would go great on the Main Page on June 23, 2016, its twenty-fifth anniversary. I pulled it up to GA last month and plan to FAC it when a few more of my upcoming FACs are through. Tezero (talk) 03:33, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Black Canary

Article has multiple issues of "describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in-universe style," "need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards," and "too long and excessively detailed." NeoBatfreak (talk) 07:41, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Joan Robinson Hill

Submitting this and Death of Joan Robinson Hill (listed below) for a copyedit ahead of GA nominations for this or both. Basically JRH was an American horsewomen and socialite whose 1969 death in unexplained circumstances led to a series of events that spanned the following decade. I put the biography through peer review, and was advised to split the article into a bio, and a separate page detailing events following her death. Although this has been done, some of the information is duplicated, so both could do with an experienced editor to tighten them up. Also this probably needs someone familiar with US English as some British phrases such as "in the dock" have been used. Thanks, This is Paul (talk) 13:08, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Death of Joan Robinson Hill

Submitting for a copyedit ahead of possible GA nomination. See above for further details. This is Paul (talk) 13:08, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Edukators

Seeking a future GAN. Thanks, Gabriel Yuji (talk) 13:28, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Should be in British English. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 00:08, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cynthia Ann Parker

Article needs c/e. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:14, 19 November 2014 (UTC) Working Dylanm312 (talk) 22:36, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Camas pocket gopher

The "morose and savage" Thomomys bulbivorus, a future Featured Article. —Gaff ^ταλκ 21:22, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article passed a thorough and lengthy GA review by very experienced reviewer. Should be stable now for copy-editing, then FA submission. —Gaff ^ταλκ 21:37, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the Jungle (Neon Jungle song)

Would like to nominate this for GA, a quick skim through and c/e would be sincerely appreciated! -Neon Jungle Fan (talk) 02:32, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Magna Carta

This article from the Observer points out that it will be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta next year (15 June 2015) and suggests there will be various TV and radio programmes (and books etc) to coincide with the significant date. I note this article regularly gets 150,000+ page views per month and this is likely to increase. It was listed as a Good Article back in the early days but was delisted in 2006 and has gone downhill since then. It is also listed on the Vital Articles for Society and Social Sciences. Recent edits have brought this near to GA standard and it would be nice to achieve FA before the anniversary. Some specific areas which would benefit from copy-editing are detailed at Talk:Magna Carta#What else before a GA nomination. Any help appreciated.— Rod ^talk 17:57, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sam and Diane#Reception

I recently re-arranged this section and would like a copy editing. This article was copy edited previously though. Also, I want the section to adhere to WP:NPOV, especially UNDUE. --George Ho (talk) 06:07, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tunnel Vision (song)

I would like to bring the article to FA, however, some prose issues were found on the previous FA nomination. I would like whoever takes the article for copy-editing, to c/e it according to those comments. Thanks in advance. — Tomíca^(T2ME) 14:42, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Gold Rush

Anyone who has seen this iconic Charlie Chaplin film may reduce the plot. Kailash29792 (talk) 05:27, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2013–14 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

This article just failed WP:GAN. The reviewer at Talk:2013–14 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team/GA1 suggested a copyedit here.TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:38, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Colross

This article was previously selected for a Did you know? hook and was reviewed to Good Article status. I'd kindly like to ask for a copyedit so that this article could continue to Featured Article review. Thanks! Caponer (talk) 05:51, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Backstop

I would like to take this GA to A-class review, but I trust a thorough copyedit to improve its prose would greatly benefit the article. Could someone please take that up? Tomobe03 (talk) 07:18, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

December 2014

Graduados

This is already a good article, and it has already been reviewed, so it should be quick. I want a second review, just in case, before going for a FAC. Cambalachero (talk) 02:05, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Smallville

According to the page, it was last copyedited 3 years ago, and there have been significant additions since then. Would like to take it to FAC, but thought it would be best to have a copyedit first. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 14:37, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Space debris

With space debris growing in number, and more widely covered in the mainstream news nowadays, this article needs a thorough copyedit before going to a GAN. N2e (talk) 17:31, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

50 Cent

Standard copyediting, reducing the day/month/year sentences.--Retrohead (talk) 18:27, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reborn!

Needs some copyediting before a GAN. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 00:08, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Letter (video game)

DYK review noted that there were some prose problems with this article. I'd like to see what the people here at this Guild can do about it. 和DITOR E tails 22:48, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hud (film)

Needs ce previous to second GAC.--GDuwenTell me! 22:24, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Shimer College

This is a current FA that has decayed quite a bit over time with repeated editing. The school has been in the press quite a bit lately and the page is getting a lot of traffic. I needs a good copyedit with a fresh set of eyes to epitomize the FA standard once again. It could use a good MOS review, too, if someone in the Guild is skilled at that. Nasty Housecat (talk) 23:37, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All About That Bass

The article gains over 150,000 views a month and needs some slight trimming in some sections, and re-wording and a c/e. I would like to nominate it as a good article in future. Thanks! - Lips Are Movin (talk) 10:27, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of Iranian commanders in the Iran–Iraq War

Article needs checking for grammar. This article is important article about Iranian commanders that were participated in Iran-Iraq war. AliAkar (talk) 09:51, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Caldas da Rainha

Hello, Copy Editors! In October, I managed to get this article promoted to Good Article status (yay). I submitted it for Peer Review and received zero feedback. I nominated the article for Featured Article, received some good ideas for improvement, but the nomination stalled and has been archived. Now, I figure I'll see what the Guild of Copy Editors can do for this article. My next step after copy edit is done, will be to submit for Peer Review again, then nominate for Featured Article again. Thank you! —Nelson Ricardo (talk) 22:38, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

Prior some months, it was an FLC; everything was going well but I don't know what went wrong with the FLC. Anyway, I think it needs a minor copyediting, thanks.--FrankBoy _(Buzz) 15:00, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China

Communist anti-corruption agency. --TIAYN (talk) 13:29, 21 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia

Hi! I plan to take this GA to WP:MILHIST A-class review and would appreciate any improvements to the article prose. Thanks. Tomobe03 (talk) 10:34, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2011 White House shooting

This short article has been nominated for Good status. It would be great if it could get a copy edit before it is reviewed. It is pretty short. Any assistance is much appreciated. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 23:11, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Smooth Island (Tasmania)

I've been working tirelessly to bring this geographical article up to B to GA status. I have done an extremely comprehensive online search over the past few months. I'd appreciate some help here as structure and style isn't my strong suit. All the key information is there - it just needs to be presented better. Thanks very much. --Jkokavec (talk) 13:12, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oregon Theatre

Perhaps an odd subject, but I would appreciate a copy edit before nominating this article for good status. Help is very much appreciated. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 06:18, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gabriela Isler

Current Miss Universe winner, needs c/e.--BabbaQ (talk) 13:39, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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