Wikipedia:Good articles/GAN Backlog Drives/October 2024

The October 2024 GAN Backlog Drive is a one-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 that you read the essays What the Good article criteria are not and Reviewing good articles. The co-ordinators for this drive are asilvering, Ganesha811, and Vacant0. If you have any questions, leave a message on the talk page. The drive will begin on 1 October 2024 at 00:00:00 (UTC).

The ultimate goal of this backlog elimination drive is to completely eliminate the number of outstanding GANs by new nominators. Awards will be given out to those individuals who do the most work in helping reduce the size of the backlog. The drive is intended to promote a faster rate of decreasing backlog while maintaining quality reviews. If you are new to reviewing, and you would like an experienced reviewer to look over your review or answer any questions you may have, consider requesting a mentor at WP:GAMENTOR.

Basic guidelines

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. Reviews and articles will be checked by the co-ordinators to ensure that rubber-stamping does not happen. If a participant is found rapidly rubber-stamping GANs that do not meet the criteria, they may be disqualified and possibly reported to the administrators' noticeboard for disruptive editing.
Minimum quality. Only reviews of a sufficient quality will be counted. This is subjective, and coordinators reserve the right to credit or discredit individual reviews. Reviews that are shorter than 1000 bytes are unlikely to be counted.
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. However, be sure to 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 manner.
Have fun. We're here to help bring these articles up to their fullest potential and hence improving the overall quality of the encyclopedia. If you do not enjoy doing that, then there is no motivation to improve these articles and the encyclopedia as a whole.

Awards

To receive an award, please include your name and the number of reviews you have completed as part of this drive. The co-ordinators will award you points based on those reviews. Awards will be given by the co-ordinators after this drive ends.

This is the scheme for the awards:

At least 3 points: The Minor Barnstar

At least 7 points: The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar

At least 12 points: The Reviewer Barnstar

At least 20 points: The Premium Reviewer Barnstar

At least 30 points: The Multiple Good Article Reviewer Barnstar

At least 40 points: The WikiProject Good Articles Medal of Merit

At least 60 points: The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia

In addition, the person who accumulates the most points during the backlog elimination drive will receive the Content Review Medal of Merit

Scoring

Scoring for the October 2024 drive is simple: one point per review. Since reviews of long articles tend to be more work than reviews of short ones, participants will also receive one point per 2500 reviewed words. Please round the wordcount to the nearest 500, for the sake of the co-ordinators' sanity.

Target articles

Only articles listed on one of the following lists are eligible for this backlog drive. Please do not add any articles to these lists. If an article is under review, please remove it.

The aim for this month is to completely eliminate the backlog in the first list: we want all nominations submitted before 1 October 2024 by editors who are relatively new to GA to be out of the queue by 31 October. If you're an editor with fewer than 10 GAs, get those nominations in before October begins! As a stretch goal, we're also going to try to eliminate the backlog of GANs by all nominators who have reviewed more articles than they've nominated. This is a total of tba articles. Good luck, everyone!

Articles by new nominators (<10 GAs)
List TBA!

All other eligible articles
List TBA!

Participants and reviews tracker

Detailed Instructions

Keep track of the articles you review in the Participants section below by creating a list below. 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 30 September but completed after that date can be included, but aim to be prompt to avoid leaving nominators hanging. Only articles that were listed under the "Target articles" section are eligible for this drive. You are welcome to review any other GANs as you please - but don't submit them here! 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}} and {{Div col end}} templates. Between those templates, each article reviewed is given its own line. Use the "GA" icon line for an article that passes, the "FGAN" 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 "FGAN" when the article passes or fails.) After the article name is a parenthetical for the number of words in the article. Please round the wordcount to the nearest 500. Participants who make repeated rounding errors will be hit with a wet trout.

Following the {{Div col end}} template are three lines to tabulate each participant's total number of articles reviewed, approximate reviewed word count, and running points total.

====[[User talk:Username|Username]]====
{{Div col}}
<!--please round the wordcount to the nearest 500-->
#{{icon|GA}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words)
#{{icon|FGAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words)
#{{icon|GAH}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) 
#{{icon|GAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words)
{{Div col end}}
<!--please do not edit the three fields below; allow the co-ordinators to update the totals for you-->
'''Articles reviewed:'''
<br>'''Approximate total reviewed wordcount:'''
<br>'''Running points total:'''

Coordinators will update the totals for you.

Participants (alphabetical order)

asilvering

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