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The July 2021 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 Buidhe, Usernameunique, and Lee Vilenski. If you have any questions, leave a message on this drive's talk page. The drive began on 1 July 2021 at 00:00:00 (UTC) and ended on 31 July 2021 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 related to the number, age, and size, of articles reviewed. The drive is intended to promote a faster rate of decreasing backlog whilst maintaining quality reviews.

1. Give preference to older nominations. While any review counts for the drive, nominations which have been in the queue 90 days or more should be given extra consideration, and are eligible for extra points.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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 co-ordinators 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.
5. 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.
6. 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, although the reviewer may close their review when they see fit.
7. 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.

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Date	Outstanding nominations	Unreviewed nominations	Change since previous day [N 1]	Change since beginning [N 1]
1 July 2021	540	464	—	—
2 July 2021	531	371	93 (20%)	93 (20%)
3 July 2021	516	354	17 (4.6%)	110 (23.7%)
4 July 2021	511	339	15 (4.2%)	125 (26.9%)
5 July 2021	506	331	8 (2.4%)	133 (28.7%)
6 July 2021	490	314	17 (5.1%)	150 (32.3%)
7 July 2021	477	307	7 (2.2%)	157 (33.8%)
8 July 2021	468	295	12 (3.9%)	169 (36.4%)
9 July 2021	451	291	4 (1.4%)	173 (37.3%)
10 July 2021	437	281	10 (3.4%)	183 (39.4%)
11 July 2021	423	266	15 (5.3%)	198 (42.7%)
12 July 2021	423	269	3 (1.1%)	195 (42%)
13 July 2021	415	263	6 (2.2%)	201 (43.3%)
14 July 2021	406	265	2 (0.8%)	199 (42.9%)
15 July 2021	396	262	3 (1.1%)	202 (43.5%)
16 July 2021	403	275	13 (5%)	189 (40.7%)
17 July 2021	390	257	18 (6.5%)	207 (44.6%)
18 July 2021	379	242	15 (5.8%)	222 (47.8%)
19 July 2021	361	235	7 (2.9%)	229 (49.4%)
20 July 2021	358	230	5 (2.1%)	234 (50.4%)
21 July 2021	356	235	5 (2.2%)	229 (49.4%)
22 July 2021	361	243	8 (3.4%)	221 (47.6%)
23 July 2021	351	230	13 (5.3%)	234 (50.4%)
24 July 2021	354	233	3 (1.3%)	231 (49.8%)
25 July 2021	360	243	10 (4.3%)	221 (47.6%)
26 July 2021	371	251	8 (3.3%)	213 (45.9%)
27 July 2021	364	249	2 (0.8%)	215 (46.3%)
28 July 2021	359	243	6 (2.4%)	221 (47.6%)
29 July 2021	364	245	2 (0.8%)	219 (47.2%)
30 July 2021	357	249	4 (1.6%)	215 (46.3%)
31 July 2021	350	249	0 (0%)	215 (46.3%)
1 August 2021	350	245	4 (1.6%)	219 (47.2%)

To receive an award, please include your name and the number of reviews you have completed as part of this drive. Awards will be given by the co-ordinator(s) after this drive ends.

This is the scheme for the awards:

At least 3 points: The Invisible Barnstar

At least 7 points: The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar

At least 15 points: The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

At least 20 points: The 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

Points

• One point is awarded for every article reviewed.

In addition:

• If a nomination is 90+ days old, the review of that article is worth an extra half point.
• For every cumulative 4,000 words reviewed, an extra point is awarded.

• The number of words in an article is calculated by using Prosesize.

Quick-fails are eligible for only up to one point; the word counts from quick-failed articles are not credited towards extra points.

List of qualifying old articles

The following list contains all nominations that are currently 90+ days old. A review of these articles is thus worth an extra half point.

• After starting a review of one of these articles, please remove it from the list
• This list will be updated as additional nominations become 90+ days old
• If all nominations that are 90+ days old are placed on review, then nominations that are 80+ days old will become eligible for the extra half point. Subsequently, if all nominations that are 80+ days old are placed on review, then nominations that are 70+ days old will become eligible, and so on.

Article	Nomination	Notes
Arab Christians	26 March 2021	7,000+ words
Steinitz's theorem	21 April 2021	2,800+ words
Affine symmetric group	21 April 2021	6,000+ words

List of abandoned reviews

The below articles have had their nominations abandoned, or need a second opinion.

• Reviews of these articles count towards points in the same way as other articles (1 point per review; .5 point if 90+ days old; words count towards extra points).

Article	Review page	Notes
Let's Dance (David Bowie album)	Talk:Let's Dance (David Bowie album)/GA1
Heartless (Kanye West song)	Talk:Heartless (Kanye West song)/GA1
Palestinian enclaves	Talk:Palestinian enclaves/GA1

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 July but completed after 31 July can be included in the running total – however should be completed as quickly as possible to avoid being too late. Reviews started before 1 July 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}} 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. If the nomination is 90 or more days old when you begin your review, add "(old)" after the number of words. Following the {{ Div col end}} template are three lines to tabulate each participant's total number of articles reviewed, total number of old nominations reviewed, and total words reviewed.

====[[User:Username|Username]]====
{{Div col}}
#{{icon|GA}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) (old)
#{{icon|FGAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words)
#{{icon|GAH}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) (old)
#{{icon|GAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words)
{{Div col end}}
'''Articles reviewed:'''
<br>'''Old nominations reviewed:'''
<br>'''Total words reviewed:'''

Participants

A._C._Santacruz

Articles reviewed:
Old nominations reviewed:
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Ado2102

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 6407
Points: 4.5

Akrasia25

Articles reviewed: 6
Old nominations reviewed: 5
Total words reviewed: 12,217 words
Points: 11.5

Amitchell125

Articles reviewed: 16
Old nominations reviewed: 2
Total words reviewed: 28,130
Points: 24

ArnabSaha

Articles reviewed: 4
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 1,999
Points: 4

Artem.G

Articles reviewed: 12
Old nominations reviewed: 5
Total words reviewed: 30,408
Points: 21.5

AryKun

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 9,062
Points: 5

BennyOnTheLoose

Articles reviewed: 5
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 8,246
Points: 7.5

Casliber

Articles reviewed: 7
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 16,877
Points: 11.5

Chipmunkdavis

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 818
Points: 3

Citing

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 2,824
Points: 1.5

Colin M

Articles reviewed: 8
Old nominations reviewed: 3
Total words reviewed: 18,986
Points: 13.5

Damien Linnane

Articles reviewed: 2
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 6,900
Points: 3

DocFreeman24

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 1,758
Points: 1.5

Etriusus

Articles reviewed: 6
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 22,270
Points: 10.5

Epicgenius

Articles reviewed:
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Extraordinary Writ

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 2,798
Points: 1

Ganesha811

Articles reviewed:5
Old nominations reviewed: 4
Total words reviewed: 22,621
Points: 12

GeneralPoxter

Articles reviewed: 11
Old nominations reviewed: 2
Total words reviewed: 38,010
Points: 21

Gerald Waldo Luis

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Gog the Mild

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Goldsztajn

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 2168
Points: 3

Haleth

Articles reviewed: 4
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 10,964 words
Points: 6.5

Harper J. Cole

Articles reviewed: 18
Old nominations reviewed: 2
Total words reviewed: 45,514
Points: 30

HawkAussie

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 1,910
Points: 1

HickoryOughtShirt?4

Articles reviewed:
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Hog Farm

Articles reviewed: 13
Old nominations reviewed: 2
Total words reviewed: 31,635
Points: 21

Horsesizedduck

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 5,335
Points: 4.5

-ink&fables

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 4,387
Points: 4

Jburlinson

Articles reviewed: 1 (The Dream of Ossian review started 30 June)
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 2,751
Points: 1.5

JPxG

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 1,253
Points: 1.5

GhostRiver/Kncny11

Articles reviewed: 11
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 31,499
Points: 18.5

Kyle Peake

Articles reviewed: 8
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 16,311
Points: 12

Lazman321

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 8,257
Points: 5

Lee Vilenski

Articles reviewed: 10
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 18,791 words
Points: 14

Marshelec

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 3,544
Points: 1.5

Mikehawk10

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 1,102
Points: 1

Modussiccandi

Articles reviewed:
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MrLinkinPark333

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 1,234
Points: 3

MSG17

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 9,091
Points: 3.5

Muboshgu

Articles reviewed: 4
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 12,179
Points: 7.5

MWright96

Articles reviewed: 28
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 33,732
Points: 36

Npthura

Articles reviewed: 4
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 6,082
Points: 5

Paul W

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 2,500
Points: 1.5

Peacemaker67

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 5,614
Points: 4.5

Pickersgill-Cunliffe

Articles reviewed: 5
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 12,721
Points: 8

REDMAN 2019

Articles reviewed: 1 (2021 EFL League One play-off Final review started 21 June)
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 3,339
Points: 1

Rotideypoc41352

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Reidgreg

Articles reviewed:
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RunningTiger123

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: N/A (quick-fail)
Points: 1

S Marshall

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 18,656
Points: 7.5

Sammi Brie

Articles reviewed: 4
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 5,007
Points: 5

simongraham

Articles reviewed: 17
Old nominations reviewed: 2
Total words reviewed: 54,778
Points: 31

Some Dude From North Carolina

Articles reviewed: 150
Old nominations reviewed: 17
Total words reviewed: 414,631
Points: 261.5

SSSB

Articles reviewed: 2
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 8,797
Points: 4.5

Steelkamp

Articles reviewed: 5
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 7,543
Points: 6.5

Tayi Arajakate

Articles reviewed: 30
Old nominations reviewed: 9
Total words reviewed: 110,611
Points: 61.5

Teratix

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 2,186
Points: 1.5

The Most Comfortable Chair

Articles reviewed:
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TRM

Articles reviewed: 4
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 13,916
Points: 7

Tomobe03

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 6,620
Points: 4

Urve

Articles reviewed: 3
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 4,418
Points: 4

Usernameunique

Articles reviewed: 9
Old nominations reviewed: 8
Total words reviewed: 29,859
Points:

Vaticidalprophet

Articles reviewed: 12
Old nominations reviewed: 2
Total words reviewed: 24,815
Points: 19

VersaceSpace

Articles reviewed: 1
Old nominations reviewed: 0
Total words reviewed: 1,415
Points: 1

Wasted Time R

Articles reviewed: 5
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 4,638
Points: 7

Wetrorave

Articles reviewed: 4
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 11,294
Points: 6.5

Willbb234

Articles reviewed: 2
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 2,570
Points: 2.5

Wizardman

Articles reviewed: 2
Old nominations reviewed: 1
Total words reviewed: 4,639
Points: 3.5

Z1720

Articles reviewed: 5
Old nominations reviewed: 5
Total words reviewed: 14,803
Points: 10.5