Wikipedia:Good articles/GAN Backlog Drives/April–May 2020

The 2020 April–May GAN Backlog Drive is a two-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of Good Article nominations. Please ensure that you familiarise yourself with the Good Article review process before starting to review an article, and that you are familiar with the GA criteria and the Manual of Style. Also, it is recommended reading the essays What the Good article criteria are not and Reviewing good articles. The co-ordinators for this drive are Harrias and Lee Vilenski. If you have any questions, leave a message on this drive's talk page. The drive begins on 1 April 2020 at 00:00:01 (UTC) and ends on 31 May 2020 at 23:59:59 (UTC).

The ultimate goal of this backlog elimination drive is to cut the number of outstanding GANs and in particular those which have been in the queue 90 days or more. Awards will be given out to those individuals who do the most work in helping reduce the size of the backlog and reach milestones, such as reviewing 15 GANs, vice versa. This backlog drive is modelled on the September 2019 drive; as a result, no additional points will be awarded based on how long a review is. This is to ensure a faster rate of decreasing backlog whilst maintaining quality reviews. Consequently, "quick-fails" are allowed, only if the article is in exceptionally bad shape. If a participant is found rapidly rubber-stamping GANs that do not meet the criteria, they may be disqualified. Each review will be checked by a co-ordinator to ensure that this does not happen.

Basic guidelines

Give preference to older nominations. While any review counts for the drive, please give extra consideration to nominations which have been in the queue 90 days or more.
Log completed GANs here. If you complete a GAN for an article, don't forget to list it here so that you can get credit for the review.
No rubber-stamping GANs. Good Article nominations tend to result in even better improvements if a reasonable amount of issues are brought up in a review. This can be especially useful when approaching Featured Article standing. Quick-fails are allowed if the article is in exceptionally poor shape or per the GA criteria page. Each review and its article will be checked by the co-ordinator to ensure that rubber-stamping does not happen.
Minimum quality Only reviews of a sufficient quality will be counted; quick fails and very short reviews may not be given credit. As a rough guide, no review shorter than 1,000 bytes will be considered, though the judges reserve the right to remove other short reviews. This is not to say that such short reviews are not worthwhile, it is merely to say that they will not be recognised in this competition.
Provide constructive criticism. If you see a problem or problems in a certain article you're reviewing, don't be afraid to point that out and indicate to the nominator what's wrong. Instead of merely pointing to the problems, guide the nominator to possible ways of fixing those problems. Similarly, if the article is not of Good Article quality yet, don't be afraid to fail, but make sure you provide guidance as to how to get the article up to GA quality.
Stick with it. An article isn't improved if it remains on hold for months. Instead, make the smaller corrections, make sure the primary writer is actively editing, and make the pass/fail judgement if concerns are/are not addressed in a timely matter. Generally, it is standard for a GA review to be on hold for seven days, however the reviewer may close their review when they see fit.
Have fun. We're here to help bring these articles up to their fullest potential and hence improving the overall quality of the encyclopaedia. If you do not enjoy doing that, then there is no motivation to improve these articles and the encyclopaedia as a whole.

Progress

Date	Outstanding nominations	Unreviewed nominations	Change since previous day^{[N 1]}	Change since beginning^{[N 1]}
1 April 2020	692	605	—	—
2 April 2020	682	569	36 (6%)	36 (6%)
3 April 2020	659	519	50 (8.8%)	86 (14.2%)
4 April 2020	640	491	28 (5.4%)	114 (18.8%)
5 April 2020	619	466	25 (5.1%)	139 (23%)
6 April 2020	610	444	22 (4.7%)	161 (26.6%)
7 April 2020	593	432	12 (2.7%)	173 (28.6%)
8 April 2020	581	417	15 (3.5%)	188 (31.1%)
9 April 2020	568	407	10 (2.4%)	198 (32.7%)
10 April 2020	564	391	16 (3.9%)	214 (35.4%)
11 April 2020	545	373	18 (4.6%)	232 (38.3%)
12 April 2020	534	362	11 (2.9%)	243 (40.2%)
13 April 2020	525	351	11 (3%)	254 (42%)
14 April 2020	516	339	12 (3.4%)	266 (44%)
15 April 2020	500	327	12 (3.5%)	278 (46%)
16 April 2020	492	319	8 (2.4%)	286 (47.3%)
17 April 2020	473	296	23 (7.2%)	309 (51.1%)
18 April 2020	465	284	12 (4.1%)	321 (53.1%)
19 April 2020	453	269	15 (5.3%)	336 (55.5%)
20 April 2020	442	260	9 (3.3%)	345 (57%)
21 April 2020	439	251	9 (3.5%)	354 (58.5%)
22 April 2020	425	243	8 (3.2%)	362 (59.8%)
23 April 2020	413	229	14 (5.8%)	376 (62.1%)
24 April 2020	400	221	8 (3.5%)	384 (63.5%)
25 April 2020	391	207	14 (6.3%)	398 (65.8%)
26 April 2020	390	207	0 (0%)	398 (65.8%)
27 April 2020	395	207	0 (0%)	398 (65.8%)
28 April 2020	392	204	3 (1.4%)	401 (66.3%)
29 April 2020	396	203	1 (0.5%)	402 (66.4%)
30 April 2020	392	215	12 (5.9%)	390 (64.5%)
1 May 2020	391	221	6 (2.8%)	384 (63.5%)
2 May 2020	398	228	7 (3.2%)	377 (62.3%)
3 May 2020	396	230	2 (0.9%)	375 (62%)
4 May 2020	393	219	11 (4.8%)	386 (63.8%)
5 May 2020	400	216	3 (1.4%)	389 (64.3%)
6 May 2020	395	221	5 (2.3%)	384 (63.5%)
7 May 2020	390	218	3 (1.4%)	387 (64%)
8 May 2020	392	220	2 (0.9%)	385 (63.6%)
9 May 2020	385	223	3 (1.4%)	382 (63.1%)
10 May 2020	382	228	5 (2.2%)	377 (62.3%)
11 May 2020	380	230	2 (0.9%)	375 (62%)
12 May 2020	378	232	2 (0.9%)	373 (61.7%)
13 May 2020	381	226	6 (2.6%)	379 (62.6%)
14 May 2020	383	235	9 (4%)	370 (61.2%)
15 May 2020	391	241	6 (2.6%)	364 (60.2%)
16 May 2020	385	234	7 (2.9%)	371 (61.3%)
17 May 2020	373	233	1 (0.4%)	372 (61.5%)
18 May 2020	367	226	7 (3%)	379 (62.6%)
19 May 2020	372	236	10 (4.4%)	369 (61%)
20 May 2020	371	236	0 (0%)	369 (61%)
21 May 2020	364	225	11 (4.7%)	380 (62.8%)
22 May 2020	363	221	4 (1.8%)	384 (63.5%)
23 May 2020	347	220	1 (0.5%)	385 (63.6%)
24 May 2020	346	219	1 (0.5%)	386 (63.8%)
25 May 2020	350	225	6 (2.7%)	380 (62.8%)
26 May 2020	342	217	8 (3.6%)	388 (64.1%)
27 May 2020	340	215	2 (0.9%)	390 (64.5%)
28 May 2020	342	218	3 (1.4%)	387 (64%)
29 May 2020	350	228	10 (4.6%)	377 (62.3%)
30 May 2020	356	226	2 (0.9%)	379 (62.6%)
31 May 2020	357	232	6 (2.7%)	373 (61.7%)
1 June 2020	357	238	6 (2.6%)	367 (60.7%)

1 2 Change refers only to unreviewed nominations.

Awards

To receive an award, please include your name and the number of reviews you have completed as part of this drive. Please keep a running total next to your name. Awards will be given by the co-ordinator after this drive ends.

This is the scheme for the awards:

At least 2 GANs reviewed: The Invisible Barnstar

At least 5 GANs reviewed: The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar

At least 10 GANs reviewed: The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

At least 15 GANs reviewed: The Reviewer Barnstar

At least 20 GANs reviewed: The Multiple Good Article Reviewer Barnstar

At least 30 GANs reviewed: The WikiProject Good Articles Medal of Merit

At least 50 GANs reviewed: The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia

In addition, the person who reviews the most Good Article nominations during the backlog elimination drive will receive the Content Review Medal of Merit

Running total

Keep a running total of your reviewing in the Participants section below by creating your own list. Only passes and fails will be recognised as completing a review. If necessary, you can put the article on hold if the article needs to be edited further to be passed. Each of your reviews should be included in your list. Article reviews started before 31 May but completed after 31 May can be included in the running total. Reviews started before 1 April do not count. Please state if the article is a pass, fail, or on hold. Make sure you follow up on reviews that you have started or placed on hold.

A sample review section is below; all sections start with a fourth-level header containing the editor's username and the {{Div col}} template, and end with the {{Div col end}} template. Between those templates, each article reviewed is given its own line. Use the "GA" icon line for an article that passes, the "DA" icon line for an article that fails, the "GAH" icon line for an article where the initial review is complete and has been placed on hold, and the "GAN" icon line for an article where the review has started but has not yet been placed on hold. (Change "GAN" and "GAH" to "GA" or "DA" when the article passes or fails.)

====[[User:Username|Username]]====
{{Div col}} 
#{{icon|GA}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]]
#{{icon|DA}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]]
#{{icon|GAH}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]]
#{{icon|GAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]]
{{Div col end}}