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Copy editing is the process of making improvements to an article—correcting spelling and improving grammar, sentence structure, style and flow to make it clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent; and make it say what it means and mean what it says. In Wikipedia, we follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style (MoS). [1]
The Guild maintains a Copy Edit Requests Page, where editors can request copy edits on articles they are working to develop and improve, or want to nominate for Good Article, A-class or Featured Article status. We try to complete requests quickly, but waiting times are variable. We do not guarantee that articles we copy edit will be accepted at ...
According to Butcher's Copy-editing: The good copyeditor is a rare creature: an intelligent reader and a tactful and sensitive critic; someone who cares enough about the perfection of detail to spend time checking small points of consistency in someone else's work but has the good judgement not to waste time or antagonize the author by making ...
Copy editing: This form of editing looks at the text from a broader perspective, ensuring consistency in style, tone, and voice. It also checks for factual accuracy and potential legal issues. Line editing: Line editing is a more in-depth review of each line in the manuscript.
A very simple Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter; A free open source tool to convert from CSV and Excel files to wiki table format: csv2other; Spreadsheet-to-MediaWiki-table-Converter This class constructs a MediaWiki-format table from an Excel/GoogleDoc copy & paste. It provides a variety of methods to modify the style.
The other form of visual editing is cinematic editing. Cinematic editing entails anything that is to be used as cinematic material, mainly films. Cinematic editing dates back to the early 1900's when American filmmaker, D.W. Griffith, produced the first films that essentially paved the way for the editing techniques that are still used today. [13]
This inline template should be used to mark sentences or paragraphs requiring copy editing. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status reason reason for Text to replace the default hover text. Default The text preceding this tag may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. String ...
Edit a section of an article, not the entire article (editing of sections is discussed in the 'Editing article sections' section). Click the "history" tab to see if an article is getting a lot of edits; if so, do a series of small (quick) edits rather than trying to do a lot of changes within a single edit.