Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Basic copyediting (section)

{{short description|How-to guide explaining copyediting of articles on Wikipedia}}
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Discovering that [[Wikipedia]] pages need basic [[copyediting]], i.e., correcting for grammar, spelling, readability, or layout, may surprise new visitors to the site, but this ''is'' the "encyclopedia that anyone can edit": it is [[WP:not perfect|not perfect yet]]! Thousands of articles need simple improvements you can make without [[WP:Expert|being an expert in the subject]]. Copyediting involves the "five Cs": making the article clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent.<ref>{{cite web |first=Julia |last=Armstrong |url=http://current.ischool.utoronto.ca/system/files/workshops/2011/copy_writing_workshop2011.pdf |title=Copyediting and proofreading |publisher=University of Toronto |page=2 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224809/http://current.ischool.utoronto.ca/system/files/workshops/2011/copy_writing_workshop2011.pdf |archivedate=3 March 2016 |accessdate=2 November 2019}}</ref> The following is a guide for new copyeditors.