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The November 2021 New Page Patrol Backlog Drive was a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of the new pages patrol feed. The co-ordinators for this drive are Buidhe, Elli, and Tol. If you have any questions, leave a message on this drive's talk page. The drive began on 1 November 2021 and ended on 30 November 2021. The ultimate goal of this backlog elimination drive is to reduce the number of articles awaiting patrol. 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 the backlog whilst maintaining quality reviews. Sign up here.

Basic guidelines

  1. Points: Points will be calculated based on the 30-day total according to the leaderboard. It is updated by TolBot Task 8, which counts patrol, draftification, and deletion nomination, but can only detect deletion nominations when performed with the Page Curation tool. We will also accept CSD logs made by Twinkle, which will be added to the leaderboard at the end of the drive, based on the principle of good faith.
  2. Re-reviewing: As usual, rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. To ensure quality reviews, we are also giving credit to re-reviews, with the aim that everyone completes around 10% as many re-reviews as reviews, and around 10% of each person's reviews are re-reviewed. To find articles to re-review, go to Wikipedia:Database reports/Top new article reviewers, pick any editor, and visit the log to find articles that they have reviewed since the start of the drive. Make sure that the article is not already listed below in the re-review section to avoid duplication.

Signing up

Sign up by adding your user talk page to the participants list. You must sign up to participate in the drive. In order to participate, you must already have New Page Patrol rights.

Backlog chart at the end of the drive

Leaderboard

User Total Patrol Deletion tag Draftify
Mccapra 1656 1458 0 198
Joseywales1961 1575 1406 71 98
Scope creep 646 531 0 115
Hughesdarren 596 575 15 6
Styyx 541 484 0 57
Kj cheetham 509 508 0 1
Htanaungg 476 463 0 13
Dan arndt 444 336 51 57
Sdrqaz 433 359 6 68
Buidhe 339 338 0 1
WaddlesJP13 231 212 0 19
Mhawk10 205 189 2 14
Bada Kaji 160 158 0 2
DanCherek 158 132 25 1
DMySon 153 90 0 63
ThadeusOfNazereth 139 135 3 1
Iflaq 126 92 5 29
JBchrch 125 97 0 28
Meatsgains 123 106 17 0
Robertsky 104 86 0 18
Jessamyn 96 93 0 3
Modussiccandi 92 83 0 9
Simon Peter Hughes 89 79 7 3
Elli 88 83 0 5
Jmertel23 81 71 0 10
Usedtobecool 76 75 0 1
Shellwood 73 73 0 0
Citing 69 69 0 0
Umakant Bhalerao 69 50 9 10
Hatchens 67 42 15 10
Curbon7 60 46 5 9
TheWikiholic 59 45 1 13
Ingratis 56 56 0 0
DocFreeman24 54 51 0 3
Wakowako 54 50 4 0
MPGuy2824 52 45 3 4
Less Unless 49 46 0 3
Ulubatli Hasan 46 42 2 2
Tol 41 32 8 1
Salimfadhley 39 26 0 13
Nightenbelle 38 37 1 0
Qwerfjkl 34 28 4 2
JeBonSer 32 32 0 0
Jupitus Smart 28 26 1 1
Sennecaster 28 27 1 0
AugusteBlanqui 26 25 1 0
MarioGom 26 23 0 3
Lovkal 25 25 0 0
Paul2520 25 25 0 0
Curb Safe Charmer 21 21 0 0
Lithopsian 17 17 0 0
The-Pope 16 16 0 0
49ersBelongInSanFrancisco 15 15 0 0
Stuartyeates 15 15 0 0
Gazal world 14 13 1 0
Lineslarge 14 14 0 0
Devonian Wombat 11 11 0 0
Extraordinary Writ 11 2 7 2
Novem Linguae 11 8 3 0
Redalert2fan 11 11 0 0
Eddie891 8 8 0 0
Jack Frost 4 2 2 0
PK650 3 3 0 0
CapitalSasha 1 1 0 0
Dreamy Jazz 1 0 0 1
JPxG 1 1 0 0
JavaHurricane 1 1 0 0
Yeeno 1 1 0 0
AntanO 0 0 0 0
Brainist 0 0 0 0
CAPTAIN RAJU 0 0 0 0
Citrivescence 0 0 0 0
Dmm1169 0 0 0 0
DoubleGrazing 0 0 0 0
Engr. Smitty 0 0 0 0
Iazyges 0 0 0 0
JSFarman 0 0 0 0
Lefcentreright 0 0 0 0
MRRaja001 0 0 0 0
Markdask 0 0 0 0
Mydreamsparrow 0 0 0 0
Spudlace 0 0 0 0
SuperSwift 0 0 0 0
Total 10487 9320 270 897

Awards

Awards will be given by the co-ordinators after this drive ends. You can earn one point either by reviewing an article or re-reviewing an article.

This is the scheme for the awards:

At least 5 points: The Invisible Barnstar

At least 10 points: The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar

At least 25 points: The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

At least 50 points: The Reviewer Barnstar

At least 100 points: The Patroller's Barnstar

At least 200 points: The New Page Patrol Medal of Merit

At least 500 points: The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia

Re-reviewing at least 25 articles: The Teamwork Barnstar

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

Re-reviewing

To re-review articles, list your name at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/November 2021/Re-reviews followed by a numbered list of the articles you have re-reviewed. To find articles to re-review, go to Wikipedia:Database reports/Top new article reviewers, pick any editor, and visit the log to find articles that they have reviewed since the start of the drive. Make sure to note the original reviewer and whether the original review was correct. If you found problems with the original review, please discuss it with the original reviewer on the backlog drive talk page.