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Advanced editing exercises by Tony1; Copy-editing essentials, courtesy of the Military History Academy; General advice on how to improve your prose from Tony1; Exercises in paragraphing and sentence structure from Tony1; Military History WikiProject A-class and FAC checklist; The best professional-level copy editing guide is the Chicago Manual ...
When editing film articles, please refer to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Film (MOS:FILM); when editing military history articles, please refer to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Military history (MILMOS). There is additional information in these guides specific to the article being edited which is not covered in the main MOS.
Similar to print, online copy editing is the process of revising and preparing the raw or draft text of web pages for publication. [7] Copy editing has three levels: light, medium, and heavy. Depending on the budget and scheduling of the publication, the publisher will let the copy editor know what level of editing to employ.
Below are exercises which workshop participants may copy to a sandbox and edit. Use Wikipedia:Sandbox or create one as a subpage of your user page. (Workshop participants and Workshop project editors, please discuss the exercises, or suggest new or replacement exercises on this project page's talk page.)
Inconsistency in naming and formatting within an article makes the text more difficult to understand. Sifting through an article, using your memory of what has come before to pick up glitches, is a good exercise for editors who are relatively inexperienced at copy-editing. Here are a few examples of common inconsistencies in the same article:
Editing exercises for Visual Editor. Content: A series of exercises (Visual Editor) for practising basic Wikipedia edits, including formatting, linking, citing, and adding an infobox. Usage: DIY learning, teaching, and/or Edit-A-Thons. You may also remix the exercises in your sandbox to suit your instruction needs.
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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.