Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests

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Nominations for the GOCE's election of coordinators to serve a six-month term from January 1 close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Any editor in good standing can be nominated, and self-nominations are welcome. The voting phase opens at 00:00 on 16 December.

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Guild of Copy Editors' requests page

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:

Manual instructions (if the button doesn't work)

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

===[[Articlename]]===

Your comments ~~~~

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 2024

An Evening with Silk Sonic

For GAN. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 15:38, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Working Dhtwiki (talk) 09:52, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pennsylvania Turnpike

Pennsylvania Turnpike has gotten massively bloated with excessive info. It also has a lot of one-sentence paragraphs and sections where several sentences in a row begin with "In (year)...". Article was recently delisted from GA due to these concerns. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 18:47, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Working Miniapolis 15:20, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Madoc

The article was recently updated with a copyedit and expansion. Would someone please take the time for a professional copyedit, please and thanks. Cltjames (talk) 00:12, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Eternal Blue (album)

Going to try for another go at FAC soon, but I just added or changed a lot of content to Composition and Critical reception, respectively. mftp dan ^oops 02:44, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Working Baffle☿gab 04:43, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done 03:32, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Chris Redfield

Went to PR, and the article needed in-depth copyedits to be at FAC soon. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 04:35, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bukit Brown Cemetery

Hello, I would like to get this article to GA status. My first GAN was failed and the reviewer recommended that I submit the article for copy editing, thanks. Actuall7 (talk) 03:04, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Actuall7 (talk) - I've done some work on the start of this article & I will come back to it. Blackballnz (talk) 02:10, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks for letting me know. Actuall7 (talk) 02:14, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Land reform in interwar Yugoslavia

Hi, I plan to make Land reform in interwar Yugoslavia a GAN and I believe the article would benefit from a copyedit. Thanks!--Tomobe03 (talk) 15:17, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Soft Machine

This article is in dire need of a copyedit to remove fancruft and to present it in a much more neutral note. Greatly appreciate your help! Karst (talk) 14:41, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Into the Light: The Solo Albums

Copy edit needed as this page is being considered to be on the GA nominee (GAN). Anything helps! HereIGoAgain (talk) 12:04, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Eat Bulaga!

Hi! Please help me to fix this article because i want to nominate this on Featured Article (FAC). Royiswariii (talk) 05:51, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The requester has been blocked for account sharing. —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 03:25, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for noting this, @Tenryuu:. That user has requested an unblock, saying they were joking about sharing the account. I think we can agf for now but if the block is upheld, please put the request on hold and post at REQ talk. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 07:21, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Update: The requester's account has now been unblocked. AGF and carry on. Baffle☿gab 08:38, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pooja Gandhi

Article tone is very promotional any all the Indie film content is unsourced. DareshMohan (talk) 07:24, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Introjection (Neon Genesis Evangelion episode)

For a future GAN.--TeenAngels1234 (talk) 21:59, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal

Highly unsourced. DareshMohan (talk) 06:20, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tropical Storm Talas (2017)

Another GA article I made. Tried my best to de-fluff it but I think copy-editors do it the best. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 12:22, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

November 2024

Battle of Chunj

I want to submit the article for a GAN and a copyedit would improve the article, as said in peer review. Thanks! Rahim231 (talk) 06:07, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Frostpunk

The article is in need of in-depth copyediting. Thank you!. OceanHok (talk) 10:07, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Charles the Bold

Second request. For GAN. Thanks Amir Ghandi (talk) 10:52, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Growing Up (The Linda Lindas album)

To advance towards FA status (FAC). Thanks!!! Sam S (talk) 03:40, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Selected Ambient Works Volume II

For a GAN. 💽 LunaEclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ ^{(CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST)} 14:17, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary National Representation

I plan to make the Temporary National Representation article a GAN, but I believe the article would benefit from a copyedit to improve its prose. Cheers. --Tomobe03 (talk) 15:48, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Veiqia

I'm working towards a FA nomination (FAC) for veiqia (tattooing practice in Fiji) and have just competed a copy edit myself, but I would be really grateful if another editor has time and interest to look for things I may have missed Lajmmoore (talk) 11:51, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done. Worked on this for style, punctuation, smooth English reading and general cleanup. Consider it good and ready to be blessed by a more senior copy editor of the GOCE. Here.it.comes.again (talk) 04:18, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

December 2024

Crocodilia

Old FA article that I recently made changes to. Would appreciate a copyedit. Thanks in advance. LittleJerry (talk) 22:21, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Warriors (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis album)

Specifically, the story section would benefit from the input of someone experienced with plot summaries, but any other changes of course more than welcome. I plan to bring this to good article status (GAN). Jonathan Deamer (talk) 09:38, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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