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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:

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

Please note:

Unless the temporary account has done significant work on the article, drive-by requests by unregistered editors may be declined at any time.
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 {{subst: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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August 2026

Toluca FC

Football club, would love to take to FA (FAC) some day. Major work on the article is done but would love an extra pair of eyes since no one has really edited beyond the Players section since the major updates were made. If anyone has experience helping with Tables and MOS:DTAB that would be great too. Thank you, Morogris (✉ • ✎) 04:54, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

English whisky

The full article requires WP:COPYEDIT (BCR).ChefBear01 (talk) 21:02, 5 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Aim to get article to B Class and then GA Class (GAN), there is also a peer review (PR) open on the talk page to meet the above tasks.ChefBear01 (talk) 21:22, 9 August 2026 (UTC)reply

New Course Policy

I plan to submit the New Course Policy as a GAN and would appreciate a copyedit to fix any grammar issues and improve prose flow. Tomobe03 (talk) 22:25, 12 August 2026 (UTC)reply

New Cascadia Traditional

Requesting a copy edit before a Good article nomination (GAN). Thank you! --Another Believer _(Talk) 23:44, 15 August 2026 (UTC)reply

My Chemical Romance

Requesting copyedit for potential GA nomination (GAN) sometime in the near future. Thanks! Gavetheman555 (talk) 17:15, 16 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Warner Bros. Discovery

This article is a mess, about three times too long and I don't see how our readers will be able to take away an understanding of this company by trying to digest this article. I think this request might be rejected because this corporation is in the news and is the subject of media reports but I was just hoping that any editors with a stronger content creation background than me could go in and cut this bloated article down to size. It's not currently the subject of any edit wars that I can see but we seem to have a lot of editors interested in media companies who add on any tiny bit of media coverage this company gets, regardless of whether or not it is significant. If it's not taken on as a project by GOCE, maybe some independent copy editors will be interested in trying to trim it down to size. Thank you for considering this request. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:48, 17 August 2026 (UTC)reply

On hold; a major subsection, "Attempted separation and proposed sale to Paramount Skydance (2025–present)" has been tagged for concerns about the presence of copyrighted material and LLM-generated material, and I agree there is a lot of trivial coverage as well. All of that should removed or integrated before a full copy-edit occurs. @Liz:, this seems to me more like a job for CLEANUP than the Guild. Cheers, 🅑🅰🅖 ☿ 🅴🅻🅵🅵🅐🅱 23:52, 17 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Clarke Quay MRT station

This attained GA quite some time ago and I've recently expanded the article a bit more with details from other conference papers I managed to find. I appreciate further polishes before I bring the article to FAC. ZKang123 (talk · contribs) 06:23, 20 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Filthy (song)

Requesting a copy edit of "Filthy" (all except the lead) for a potential FAC nomination. Red Shell Momentum 20:51, 20 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Make It Shine

Want to possibly take the article for FA (FAC) in the future. Carnival of Lights (talk) 23:21, 21 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Cups (song)

Want to make the article FA (FAC), but the biggest problem is that the reception needs to be fixed. Carnival of Lights (talk) 23:23, 21 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Nikolai Kulikovsky

2011 FA set to run in November for TFA. Positively ancient, and would benefit from a polish for grammar, spelling, and formatting. Harizotoh9 (talk) 09:12, 22 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Robert Garcia (Art of Fighting)

Recently created article.Tintor2 (talk) 01:22, 23 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Stryper

Requesting a copyedit ahead of a future GAN. This is a well-established, extensively sourced band article (heavy metal, glam metal, hard rock; ~125,000 bytes) that's recently undergone significant expansion and sourcing cleanup. B-Class confirmed by WikiProject Metal; no outstanding citation or verifiability issues that I'm aware of. Looking for a prose-level pass: paragraph flow, word choice, general tightening. Several sections were written and expanded over a period of months, so checking for consistency of tone/register across sections would be particularly welcome. Thanks in advance. Sourcereer (talk) 14:54, 24 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Mirisata

Requesting a copy edit of this new article ahead of a possible GA nom (GAN). Thank you! --Another Believer _(Talk) 17:37, 25 August 2026 (UTC)reply

John Farnham

I have expanded this article from 88 to 119 kb over the past ten days. I intend to prepare the article for GAN and request the GOCE to assist. Thanks.Didier Landner (talk) 07:00, 26 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Meccha Chameleon

GAN. I think this might need a little bit of copyediting. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 04:42, 29 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Working —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 11:25, 30 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Done —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 18:18, 31 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Coffee Houser Sei Addata

I am requesting a copyedit for this article as it currently awaiting a second opinion at GAN, which was requested a while ago. I am applying here since an experienced user suggested me to at the GAN nomination page. Babin Mew (talk) 08:14, 29 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Working —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 18:19, 31 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Kula Diamond

This is an old article I remade after researching for magazines and other online sources needed to pass WP:Notability. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 16:14, 30 August 2026 (UTC)reply

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