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This page is a record of my copy editing as part of the Guild of Copy Editors.

January 2013 Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive

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  1.  Completed Ponda, India (776) *O
  2.  Completed The Resident (2011 film) (1329)
  3.  Completed Oregon State University (529) *O Green tickY Stfg (talk)
  4.  Completed Lost in Space (film) (329) *O
  5.  Completed Limp (743) *O
  6.  Completed Kevin Spacey (421) *O
  7.  Completed Serving Sara (602) *O
  8.  Completed Netscape Navigator 2 (300) *O
  9.  Completed Lowie Vermeersch (673) *O
  10.  Completed Night World (long!) (7792) *O
  11.  Completed Elections to the General Council of the Principality of Asturias, 2012 (329) *O
  12.  Completed Magic quotes (745) *O
  13.  Completed Plummer v. State (364) *O
  14.  Completed Rob Trains (290) *O - Article was AfD when I edited it, then deleted a few days later. Oh well, at least it was short.
  15.  Completed RAR (461) *O
  16.  Completed Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (1844) *O
  17.  Completed George W. Frank House (1322) *O
  18.  Completed Amancio Ortega Gaona (347) *O
  19.  Completed Universalism (section) (584) *O
  20.  Completed Alberto Chissano (455) *O
  21.  Completed Gurion Hyman (section) (182) *O
  22.  Completed Kingdom of Spain (Napoleonic) (737) *O - I copyedited the first half of this article and took credit for those words only. The second half is a machine translation and needs dual fluency attention, not a copy edit. I re-tagged it accordingly and removed the copy edit tag. If that's not OK, I trust one of our fearless GOCE leaders will correct my correction. No problem.
    Green tickY Good call. Stfg (talk)
  23.  Completed Divergent (novel) (1466) *O
  24.  Completed The Seems (1013) *O
  25.  Completed Miho Nakayama (167) *O
  26.  Completed Morrow Mountain State Park (1623) *O
  27.  Completed Frank Gardiner–Ben Hall gang (1800) *O
  28.  Completed Freaknik: The Musical (section) (801) *O
  29.  Completed Laurent Ruquier (50) *O - I did a tiny bit of copy editing and then marked this as a machine translation that needs dual fluency attention. It's pretty hopeless right now, but someone who can compare the original French with the machine English might be able to work with it.
  30.  Completed Charles Jencks (1275) *O
  31.  Completed Michael McIndoe (754) *O - Goal achieved: 31 edits, one for each day in January.
  32.  Completed Non-Uniform Memory Access (889) *O - "I wish I could quit you." - Brokebacklog Elimination
  33.  Completed Scarab (Vertigo) (381)
  34.  Completed Strategy of unbalanced growth (2702) *O - under the wire, with nine minutes to go.
  • Total articles: 34
  • Total words: 34,075

March 2013 Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive

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  1.  Completed The One with Rachel's Date (section) (381) *O
  2.  Completed Restoration comedy (section) (35) *O Green tickY BDD (talk)
  3.  Completed Totally Spies! (2815) *O
  4.  Completed The Cement Garden (film) (1062) *O
  5.  Completed Phanos (309) *O
  6.  Completed Martin Richards (police officer) (323) *O
  7.  Completed Tommy Roberts (designer) (566) *O
  8.  Completed Ryan Coonerty (1446) *O
  9.  Completed Robert Rodriguez (American football) (484) *O
  10.  Completed Griffith College Limerick (1054) *O
  11.  Completed Louis Truscott (430) *O
  12.  Completed Lower Columbia College (764) *O
  13.  Completed Korihor (473) *O
  14.  Completed Forty-seven Ronin (5524) *O
  15.  Completed Bomfunk MC's (694) *O
  16.  Completed IIHF European Champions Cup – satisfying copyediting and restructuring work – (1127) *O
  17.  Completed KQAC (1313) *O
  18.  Completed Fresh Pretty Cure! (2728) *O
  19.  Completed Memory conformity (2532) *O
  20.  Completed James Stevenson-Hamilton (1377) *O
  21.  Completed Rosa Martinez (1323) *O
  22.  Completed Kurt Yaeger (932) *O
  23.  Completed Agnès Mellon (286) *O
  24.  Completed This England (album) (1386) *R
  25.  Completed Blue Bloods (novel series) (5240) *O
  26.  Completed Western Bulldogs (3350) *O
  27.  Completed Maiestas vetus (333)
  28.  Completed Kay Hooper (187)
  29.  Completed Ralph Leroy Nafziger (198)
  30.  Completed Fernanda Ribeiro (459)
  31.  Completed Night of the Eagle (section) (Goal achieved: 31 articles, one for each day in March) (280)
  • Total articles: 31
  • Total words: 39,411
  • Rollover words: 10,258

April 2013 Copy Editing Blitz

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  1.  Completed Instant-boiled mutton (458)
  2.  Completed H. P. Lovecraft section "Influences on Lovecraft" (574)
  3.  Completed Super Water Sympathy (738)
  4.  Completed Mauricio Amster Cats (430)
  5.  Completed Hannes Lintl (68)
  6.  Completed Fox News Channel (section) (110)
  7.  Completed Malian French (111)
  8.  Completed IRQL (Windows) (171)
  9.  Completed Fairview, Nevada (85)
  10.  Completed Nantucket (2444)
  11.  Completed Monoblock PC (110)
  12.  Completed Remy Munasifi (359)
  13.  Completed Kim Dingle (571)
  • Total articles: 13
  • Total words: 6,229

May 2013 Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive

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  1.  Completed Bernar Venet (575) *O
  2.  Completed Resistance: Burning Skies (352) *O
  3.  Completed Cyprinodon julimes (931) *O
  4.  Completed Predeal (382) *O
  5.  Completed Terl Bryant (400) *O
  6.  Completed Christian Homann Schweigaard (571) *O
  7.  Completed Lo Tak-shing (807) *O
  • Total articles: 7
  • Total words: 4,018
  • Rollover words: 8,646

June 2013 Copy Editing Blitz

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  1.  Completed Logan Field (Airport) (969)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 969
  • Rollover words: 229

July 2013 Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive

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  1.  Completed Jeffrey Alfred Legum (a lot of work for 1830 words!) (1830) *O Checked --DThomsen8 (talk)
  2.  Completed Arnold Rimmer (section) (1741) *O
  3.  Completed PSK31 (1467) *O
  4.  Completed Long John Silver (film) (section) (477) *O
  5.  Completed George Steiner (1778) *O
  • Total articles: 5
  • Total words: 7,293
  • Rollover words: 2,673

August 2013 Copy Editing Blitz

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  1.  Completed Wordless novel (2,159)
  • Total articles: 1
  • Total words: 2,159
  • Rollover words: 1,198

September 2013 Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive

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  1.  Completed Schools for Schools (1332) *O
  2.  Completed Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer (564) *O
  3.  Completed United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (467) *O
  4.  Completed Fixed satellite service (739) *O
  5.  Completed London SS (880) *O
  6.  Completed Refugee Advocacy Service of South Australia (750) *O
  7.  Completed Brazilian aircraft carrier São Paulo (A12) (939) *O
  8.  Completed Angelo Mangiarotti (237) *O
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 5,908
  • Rollover words: 1,613

October 2013 Copy Editing Blitz

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  1.  Completed Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (section) (118)
  2.  Completed O.K. Connery (section) (370)
  3.  Completed The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (film) (section) (419)
  4.  Completed Condemned (1984 film) (256)
  5.  Completed Underworld (1985 film) (138)
  6.  Completed Django Shoots First (613)
  7.  Completed The Cisco Kid (section) (275)
  8.  Completed The Big Bang (2011 film) (809)
  • Total articles: 8
  • Total words: 2,998
  • Rollover words: 1,357

November 2013 Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive

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  1.  Completed Breitling Jet Team (546) *O
  2.  Completed Euthyphro dilemma (5,754) *O
  3.  Completed List of awards and nominations received by Vidya Balan (658) *R
  4.  Completed Tragic Lovers (577) *R
  • Total articles: 4
  • Total words: 7,535
  • Rollover words: 2,475

December 2013 Copy Editing Blitz

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  1.  Completed Thiruvilayadal (1965 film) (1312)
  2.  Completed Yohimbine (1414)
  3.  Completed Caliph of Córdoba (609)
  • Total articles: 3
  • Total words: 3,335
  • Rollover words: 355


These are pages from the Guild of Copy Editors Requests page and articles marked with the {{copy edit}} tag on which I performed complete copy edits outside of Backlog elimination drives and blitzes. "*R" denotes articles from the Requests page.

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  1.  Completed List of counties in West Virginia (February) (450) *R
  2.  Completed Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World; Nicolas Flagello: The Passion of Martin Luther King (April) (991) *R
  3.  Completed Du (surname) (April) (209)
  4.  Completed 2012 UCLA Bruins men's soccer team (April) (56)
  5.  Completed Alexander Campbell King (April) (358)
  6.  Completed Jefferson Chapman (April) (480)
  7.  Completed Indian Institute of Planning and Management (May) (a team effort) *R
  8.  Completed Petersen Rock Garden (August) *R
  9.  Completed The Swarm (roller coaster) (August) *R
  10.  Completed Outlaw Run (December) *R
  11.  Completed