Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors

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The League of Copyeditors was a project that aimed to improve the style and formatting of Wikipedia articles, including their grammar, punctuation, wiki links, paragraph structure, diction, tone, and flow. League members worked on two main projects, as well as offered advice and contributed to articles across Wikipedia:

• Members responded to requests for copyediting specific articles. You could ask the League to copy-edit a specific article at the requests page, and project members would do so as soon as possible.

• Members also tried to reduce the large backlog of articles that require copy-editing.

Tasks

1. Satisfy requests for copy-editing specific articles. If the article is long or difficult, you can list it for more proofreading under the appropriate section.
2. Copy-edit any of Wikipedia's articles that need copy-edit.
3. Recruit new members.
4. If you have knowledge of some topics, list them on your user page under the heading "areas of interest/expertise". League members who need help editing an article on one of those topics may ask you for help.

Requesting a copyedit

If you want us to copy-edit a specific article, please follow the instructions at our Requests page. However, articles which do not meet our criteria will not be copyedited. In brief, the criteria are as follows:

This Wikipedia page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus has become unclear. If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you should seek broader input via a forum such as the proposals page of the village pump.

1. The article must be written in English.
2. The article must comply with the major stylistic requirements of the manual of style and the stylistic requirements of appropriate WikiProjects.
3. The article must be free from major content issues.
4. The article must be stable.

Full details of the criteria can be found on the /Criteria subpage.

Useful links

• Wikipedia:How to copyedit — guide to copyediting Wiki articles
• Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit — articles so tagged (January 2007)
• Wikipedia:Cleanup — unsorted requests for copyediting and other cleanup
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention — cleanup requests sorted by topic
• Wikipedia:Typo — systematic fixing of mistakes

Members and joining

The list of project members is at Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors/Members. To join the project, visit that page and add your name to the list.

You may wish to add this userbox to your userspace: {{User LoCE}}

This user was a member of the League of Copyeditors.

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