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January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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|style="border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This award is given in recognition to GELongstreet for accumulating at least 10 points during the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:37, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
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New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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On 1 May 2025, a one-month backlog drive for New Pages Patrol will begin.

Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.

Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.

Each review will earn 1 point.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:25, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Question on :William Rumsey ↗

Thanks for your edits! Why don't we link regiments in either the body or infobox? It doesn't feel like overlinking to me and would be helpful with WhatLinksHere if someone wants to research a regiment. --Engineerchange (talk) 17:39, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
::You're welcome. We absolutely do link them but there is no article for the regiment (different unit than the battalion, though some of its batteries have articles on their own). Regards ...GELongstreet (talk) 18:05, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
:::Ah, good call. This makes a ton of sense. Appreciate the fix. --Engineerchange (talk) 18:28, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

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'''WikiProject Articles for creation ↗''' is holding a '''month long Backlog Drive ↗ in June!'''<br />
The goal of this drive is to '''reduce''' the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 1 month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 June 2025 through 30 June 2025.

You may find :Category:AfC pending submissions by age ↗ or other categories and sorting ↗ helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.<br />
There is a backlog of over {{Rounddown|{{formatnum:3,205|R}}|-2}} pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi GELongstreet. Thank you for your work on Holcane ↗. Another editor, MPGuy2824, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol ↗ and left the following comment:

{{Bq|1=not mentioned in target page}}

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{code|<nowiki>{{Re|</nowiki>MPGuy2824<nowiki>}}</nowiki>}}. <small>(Message delivered via the Page Curation ↗ tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)</small>

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May 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

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On 1 September 2025, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.

Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.

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Each review will earn 1 point.

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September 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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November article improvement drive

Starting on 1 November, the month-long 2025 Article Improvement Drive ↗ will target a number of content improvement areas and backlogs. Participating editors will be in line for barnstars and other awards; articles from all aspects of the project will be eligible so there will be something for everybody. Interested editors are encouraged to '''sign up now! ↗''' MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:17, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

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'''WikiProject Articles for creation ↗''' is holding a '''month long Backlog Drive ↗ in December!'''<br />
The goal of this drive is to '''reduce''' the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than half a month of outstanding reviews from the current 2+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 December 2025 through 31 December 2025.

You may find :Category:AfC pending submissions by age ↗ or other categories and sorting ↗ helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.<br />
There is a backlog of over {{Rounddown|{{formatnum:3000|R}}|-2}} pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:07, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

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Congratulations from the Military History Project

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid lightsteelblue;" | On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I am pleased to reward your performance - 66 points - in the November 2025 Article Improvement Drive ↗ with this award. Congratulations! <span style="color:#800082">Hawkeye7</span> <span style="font-size:80%">(discuss)</span> ↗ 18:21, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
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New pages patrol January–February 2026 Backlog drive

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New Pages Patrol is hosting a one-time, two-month experimental backlog drive aimed at reducing the backlog. This will be a combo drive: both articles and redirects will earn points.

The drive will run from 1 January to 28 February 2026.

The drive is divided into two phases. Participants may take part in either phase or across both phases, depending on availability.

Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled during the drive.

Two-month drive-exclusive barnstars will be awarded to eligible participants.

Each article review earns 1 point, while each redirect review earns 0.2 points.

Streak awards ↗ will be granted based on consistently meeting weekly point thresholds.

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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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January–February 2026 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

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Each review will earn 1 point.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:23, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Nádasdy

Thanks for upgrading the Franz Leopold von Nádasdy ↗ article. Lately, I've been writing articles about the War of the Austrian Succession ↗ and noticed Franz Nádasdy played a prominent role in that war. I would have liked to have assessed the article but Hawkeye7 got there first. Djmaschek (talk) 22:21, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

:You're very welcome, essentially just learning about him by chance and then through the article research. There is lots of room for expansion of his services in those mid-century wars if somebody wants to go deepter into it, the two wikisource entries linked in the article having a good bit more on those. ...GELongstreet (talk) 23:00, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

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'''

74px|left ↗{{no ping|JTtheOG}} was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.
{{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'''

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed ↗ to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket ↗ if you're interested in following along.

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