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January–February 2026 NPP drive - Phase 2

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Welcome to Phase 2 of the January–February 2026 NPP drive ↗. During Phase 1, we reviewed 16,658 articles and 4,416 redirects, and there is currently a backlog of 16,475 articles and 23,782 redirects in the queue. Fantastic job! Completing 22,502 patrols in the first phase made a significant dent in the backlog. Let's keep our foot on the gas for Phase 2, and I hope we can achieve even more reviews than Phase 1. Best of luck!
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:21, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:42, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: :Robert Gardner (executive) ↗

I wanted to let you know that I declined the speedy deletion of :Robert Gardner (executive) ↗, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because there was at least an indication of significance for the article's subject, meaning WP:A7 ↗ didn't apply. However, this decision doesn't mean the subject meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, so if you want you can bring the article up for a WP:AFD ↗. Sincerely, --SouthernNights (talk) 16:17, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Gaimhreadhan

Hi Bastun. I've got a message on my talkpage regarding user Gaimhreadhan who, so far as I know, died nearly 20 years ago - and I think you confirmed it at the time. Any idea what this is about? Sarah777 (talk) 01:24, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
:No idea what that's about, at all. Weird. I never even knew Gaimhreadhan's real name. It was W.Frank who broke the news, I believe, here ↗, and I just posted the news to the IWNB. BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! ↗ 10:37, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
::Though now I've googled... !!! BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! ↗ 11:23, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
:::Thanks. Maybe those were more innocent times! Sarah777 (talk) 03:19, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
:::: OMG - just seeing this now, and yes - I've enough back-story to be able to confirm that. I think I'd best do some editing over on WP:OBIT ↗ - '''Alison''' talk ↗ 22:16, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
::::: Apologies, Alison- I'm a bit uncertain here. Are you confirming that Gaimhreadhan was not, as presented, a single contributor with that name with terminal cancer who died in 2006? I'll very sadly need to amend my user page of 20 years if that's the case. Just need some confirmation. Delicate question, I know Sarah777 (talk) 02:36, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

January–February 2026 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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Use of "Former" in article titles

Hi Bastun, thanks for picking up on the issue of using "Former" in article titles. Until now I'd been basing them on the official Historic England ↗ listing titles, but I appreciate that WP:COMMONNAME ↗ would (and should) take precedence. I've gone back through my articles and made the necessary changes, and I'll keep that in mind for future ones. Mmberney (talk) 15:47, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
:Good stuff, no worries. Nice article, by the way! BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! ↗ 19:31, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Administrator Elections – Schedule

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May 2026 Administrator Election – Call for Candidates

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The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at '''Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Candidates ↗'''.

Here is the schedule:

April 29 – May 5: Call for candidates

May 8–12: Discussion phase

May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

The requirements to run are identical to RFA ↗—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed ↗.

Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful ↗ and unsuccessful ↗ RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates ↗, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing ↗.

The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.

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New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

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The voting phase of the May 2026 administrator elections has started and will continue until {{Administrator elections status/data|May 2026|end}} at {{Administrator election time|end}} UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at '''Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Voting phase ↗'''.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

{{Administrator elections/Header/daterange|May 2026|begin|end}}: SecurePoll voting phase ('''we are here''')

Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote ↗ has a week to use the SecurePoll ↗ software to vote, which uses a secret ballot ↗. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements ↗ are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page ↗ (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page ↗. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall ↗ candidates must achieve 55.0% support ↗. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ↗ ("crat chats").

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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

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'''Backlog update'''

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

'''2024 and 2025 NPP Awards'''

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{{no ping|Hey man im josh}} and {{no ping|MPGuy2824}} won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

{{no ping|BoyTheKingCanDance}}, {{no ping|Rosiestep}}, {{no ping|SunDawn}}, and {{no ping|Vanderwaalforces}} were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame ↗ for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

'''January–February backlog drive'''

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to {{no ping|JTtheOG}}, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

'''May backlog drive'''

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026 ↗.

'''PageTriage'''

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== May 2026 NPP backlog drive – Points award ==
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