Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2010

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This Copyediting Backlog Elimination Drive is a one-month-long effort (originally organized by the Guild of Copy Editors) to reduce the backlog of copyedit requests. Please make sure that you know how to copyedit and that you are familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style before you begin copyediting. The coordinator for this drive was ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! and he was assisted by Diannaa ^TALK and S Masters (talk). If you have any questions, leave a message in the drive's talk page. This drive began on 1 May 2010 00:00 UTC and ended on 31 May 2010 23:59 UTC.

The goal of this backlog elimination drive was to bring the number of outstanding copyedit requests to below 7500 (a 10% reduction from the original size of 8323). Awards will be given out to those individuals who help reduce the size of the backlog.

The backlog elimination drive is open to all, and you do not need to be a member of the Guild of Copy Editors to participate. However, you may want to consider joining as membership has its benefits. For example, you can place a special "page in use" tag when you are copyediting, and another on the talk page page when you finish. Please visit the Guild for more information.