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New pages patrol January–February 2026 Backlog drive

January–February 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
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. Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Interested in participating? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Saint Lucia

Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Saint Lucia, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Saint Lucia and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Saint Lucia during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Fram (talk) 13:58, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Armenia

Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Armenia, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Armenia and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Armenia during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Fram (talk) 13:59, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Tuvalu

Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Tuvalu, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Tuvalu and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Tuvalu during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Fram (talk) 14:02, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Fiji

Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Fiji, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Fiji and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Fiji during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Fram (talk) 14:06, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Kazakhstan

Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Kazakhstan, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Kazakhstan and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Kazakhstan during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Fram (talk) 14:11, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Canada

Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Canada, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Canada and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Canada during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Fram (talk) 14:14, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Qatar

Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Qatar, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Qatar and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Equity lists/Nationality/Qatar during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Fram (talk) 14:15, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Carlos Alberto Barbosa Dantas' page

Hello! I'm just passing to say thank you for translating the article of Dantas. But also, I want to ask for your help. You see, the institution that he worked, IME-USP, changed its name from "Institute of Mathematics and Statistics" to " Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science". I could move the page itself, but not the category. Is there a chance you could help me with it?

Thank you so much. VictorAyabe (talk) 12:39, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Unreferenced articles March 2026 backlog drive

WikiProject Unreferenced articles | March 2026 Backlog Drive
There is a substantial backlog of unsourced articles on Wikipedia, and we need your help! The purpose of this drive is to add sources to these unsourced articles and make a meaningful impact. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles cited. Remember to tag your edit summary with [[WP:MAR26]], both to advertise the event and tally the points later using Edit Summary Search. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:13, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Cynthia Brewer short description

Hello,

I've worked on a few biographies and never seen the birth year included. Short descriptions are not an area that I'm deeply plugged into, but adding the birth year seems odd and a bit inconsistent with other pages. Is there any particular standard for biography short descriptions? GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 05:40, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I am not an expert either, but I think it is considered the practice to add the dates when that information is known. At least, that has been common from what I have seen. There is some information here, but I also don't feel strongly about it for the Brewer page! Best, static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 11:35, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

May 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
On 1 May 2026, a one-month backlog drive for New Page 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. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:24, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Staticshakedown,

New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026

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

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and 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.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and 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 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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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:38, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Woodsy Owl

Hello! I am currently working as part of Woodsy's new Skip the Bin! campaign and would like to add a new section to his page. DilapidatedTilapia (talk) 21:15, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Sure! Would you like help with that or are you planning on editing the page directly? static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

June 2026

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Hilary Hoynes when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Staticshakedown:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a 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 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.

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.
There is a backlog of over 5000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:38, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

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