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This is a page for all participants in the Great Backlog Drive 2011 to show what they've achieved. Stand up and be counted!

This page lists different backlog areas; please feel free to list what you intend to work on and how much of the backlog you have cleared. Remember, this isn't a competition and there are no prizes; it's just a space for others to recognise the good work you've been doing.

Content

Content Backlogs

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Will be working on Category:Articles with trivia sections, as well as sourcing Unreferenced BLP's.	The Interior User:Doktorbuk	60 However many I can cull/clean/curtail
Unreferenced BLPs; all of them buggers are getting cleared.	Ironholds DennisDallas Fæ	Wait and see 179
I will do some more Category:Articles needing coordinates (I did some in August).	Dianna	21
Getting through the massive amount of Category:United States articles missing geocoordinate data, starting with Category:Montana articles missing geocoordinate data	ChromaEmprise	50 (and growing quickly)
Adverts	/ƒETCHCOMMS/	Category:Articles with a promotional tone from April 2007 cleared.
Sourcing	/ƒETCHCOMMS/	Category:Articles with unsourced statements from June 2006, Category:Articles with unsourced statements from March 2006, and Category:Articles with unsourced statements from February 2006 cleared.
Splitting	/ƒETCHCOMMS/	Category:Article sections to be split from August 2008 cleared.
Helping with Category:Articles that need to be wikified	Adacus12	get rid of the very old files
Helping out with Category:Virginia articles missing geocoordinate data	Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Edits)	Helped bring category down under 1,000 entries.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized	User:Missvain - Edits
Articles needing wikification via this drive	Mono (talk) / WikiCopter (♠ • ♣ • ♥ • ♦ • simple • commons • lost • cvu • onau)
Cleared up confusion on the Jumpman logo being on Nike products since 1985. The article clearly does not contradict itself. Check the discussion page for my conclusion.	TheAnonymity	1 So Far...
Category:Articles needing coordinates (NSW, Australia)	Afaber012  (talk)	45
Category:Articles with unsourced statements	Afaber012  (talk)	2
Category:Articles lacking sources	Afaber012  (talk)	3
Sifting through Category:Articles needing coordinates and adding coordinates to more articles, especially for locations in Ohio and other US states	SpencerT♦C	9 (as of now)
Assisting with Wikification as well.	LTC b2412 Troops Talk	Contributions here
Articals lacking sources starting with the oldest Category:Articles lacking sources once plan to empty all of Oct 2006	Peacekeeper 1234	15 (so far).
Sorting through Orphaned articles	USchick	50 and counting.
Looking at External Links	Mrh30	25 so far
Right now, I'm adding coordinates to articles. I may expand to other areas later.	Danaman5	2
External links cleanup, my specialty category	Themfromspace	14
Category:Alabama articles missing geocoordinate data and many others	Zwilson14	107 (cleared)
Category:Articles needing coordinates, specifically, Category:Colorado articles missing geocoordinate data	Ken_g6	23 (so far)
Category:Articles needing coordinates, specifically, Category:Slovenia articles missing geocoordinate data	U5K0	60 (so far)
Category:Articles with a promotional tone	Noophilic	5, 2 PRODded.
Category:Articles to be merged	Cliff	5 and working
Working on articles tagged for Style problems, particularly copy editing and promotional tone	Bluebklyn	4 and counting
Category:Puerto Rico articles missing geocoordinate data/Category:Minnesota articles missing geocoordinate data	Minnecologies	~650 (1 PRODed)
External links	Ynhockey	2
Israel articles missing geocoordinate data	Ynhockey	53
Articles lacking sources	Ynhockey	3
Various sections. I'll probably hop around a bit.	Jess	We'll see how far I get
Removing articles that don't need expansion/where the template was used incorrectly from Category:Articles to be expanded	Ynhockey	9
Articles lacking in-text citations	Ynhockey	1
Articles to the merged	Ynhockey	10
Articles to be expanded	Mjs1991	4
Category:Articles needing coordinates, specifically, Category:Syria articles missing geocoordinate data	Yazan	3
Mainly sourcing and removing original research.	User:Cilibinarii	As many as I feel like doing.
Category:Articles with unsourced quotes	Alaney2k	1
Category:Articles lacking sources	Alaney2k	-
Category:Tanzania articles missing geocoordinate data	Sphilbrick	4
Category:Connecticut articles missing geocoordinate data	Sphilbrick	80
Category:North Carolina articles missing geocoordinate data	Davecrosby_uk	260+
Category:Washington, D.C. articles missing geocoordinate data	Sphilbrick	151
Category:Jamaica articles missing geocoordinate data,	Janvo	2
Category:Articles lacking sources	Mjs1991	2
Category:Articles to be merged	Dondegroovily	58 during this drive (about 1500 since last October).
Category:Articles to be merged, Category:Canada articles missing geocoordinate data, and others	P 1 9 9 • TALK	516 so far during this drive (countless before)
Category:Switzerland articles missing geocoordinate data	Sphilbrick	12
Category:Massachusetts articles missing geocoordinate data	Sphilbrick	442
Category:Articles needing coordinates specifically Kenya and UK.	Chris55	120
Category:Articles lacking sources	Slowking4	5
Category:Articles lacking sources	SenatorSteve
Category:Russia articles missing geocoordinate data	Slon02	20
Category:United Kingdom articles missing geocoordinate data	Jaguar	33 (and counting)
Category:Articles needing coordinates	Mjs1991	20 +
Category:Album infoboxes lacking a cover	Gsyhiap	18 so far
Category:Articles lacking sources/Wikify	FoCuSandLeArN	Don't count them...

Accuracy

Accuracy Backlogs

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Category:Self-contradictory articles	Chaosdruid	12
Category:Self-contradictory articles Verifying, Deleting, Rewriting...	Richardofoakshire	2
Category:Self-contradictory articles	Fresh	1

Copyrights

Copyrights Backlogs

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Will be working on Category:Wikipedia license migration needs review. 1,858 at start, 0 left.	Acather96	60
Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections. Started at 42 sub-categories, 38 left.	Shoy
Category:Copied and pasted articles and sections. Working on those copyvios.	Reaper Eternal	7 (3 blatant copyvios, 1 minor copyvio, 1 close paraphrasing, 2 non-copyvio)
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations. 52 subcategories, (tens of?) thousands of affected articles.	Wizardman	20, 1 subcat

Layout

Layout Backlogs

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Category:Articles needing sections	Another Believer	Emptied May, July, and August 2008 subcategories.
Category:Articles needing sections	Ynhockey	1
Category:Articles to be expanded	Janvo	0
Category:Articles to be expanded	Silverwood	2
Category:Articles to be split	op47	~500. All articles 2011 and earlier cleared. All articles in 2011 either new or problematic. Regard backlog as cleared?

Style

Style Backlogs

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Category:Wikipedia articles needing style editing	Qwyrxian	Emptied May 2007 (2), and June 2007 (17)
Category:Articles with a promotional tone	Jtalledo	15 (details)
Category:Articles with minor POV problems	Flyte35	427
Category:Articles that need to be wikified and Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit; after all, I'm participating in the routine backlog elimination drives for each of these projects.	Wilhelmina Will	124
Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit	Herr Beethoven	1
Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases	Abdul Wadud	Began serious weasel hunting business 19 February 2011. Killed 14 weasels so far.
Category:Articles that need to be wikified	ThomasO1989	1
Category:Articles that need to be wikified	Zunraa	Simple: 3 Detailed: Zunraa's Backlog List

General images

General Images

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Mattg82 (talk)	20
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Davecrosby_uk	950+
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Another Believer	(however many I get to)
Anything in this section or the non-free images section I can do.	Sven Manguard Wha?	I give up trying to count. I worked all across the two image sections. Check my contributions if you really want to know the specifics. Best estimate is anywhere from 300 to 400, or as high as 700, depending on what and how you're counting. I'll keep working in the images fields, but this is the last I'm bothering with counting.
Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons	Reaper Eternal (talk) Lcawte/WebCoder11 (Talk)	19
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Diannaa (talk)	2
Category:Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons	OhanaUnitedTalk page	see log
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Hugahoody (talk)	70+
Category:Images which should be in PNG format	Hugahoody (talk)	300 (backlog cleared)
Category:Articles which may no longer need images Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons	TFCforever (talk)	See my contributions
Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Bejinhan talks	5 for Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons 15 for Category:Articles which may no longer need images
Category:Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons	Daniel Case (talk)	6 dated categories
Category:Images lacking an author Category:Images which should be in PNG format	Ken_g6 (talk)	22 from Category:Images lacking an author (so far); 3 from Category:Images which should be in PNG format (when that dupe deletion comes through.)
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Sweet kate (talk)	156
Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons Category:Images lacking a description	Altt311 (talk)	Copy to Wikimedia Commons:4 (1 Considered unsuitable) Images lacking a description:3
Category:Wikipedia files with the same name on Wikimedia Commons	Sphilbrick	399
Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons, Category:Images which should be in PNG format, and Category:Images lacking a description	Wilhelmina Will	14
Category:Images with inappropriate JPEG compression	Markcoulter50	5 (so far by creating svg)
Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons	Gavin.perch (talk)	18 and counting
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Canadian Girl Scout (talk)	4 and counting
Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons	→♠Gƒoley↔Four♣←	17 and counting!
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Kaly99 (talk)	308
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	GRAPPLE X	44+
Category:Articles which may no longer need images	Warfieldian
Category:Images lacking a description	EricSerge	30
Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming	Cloudbound	818
Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons	Ebe123 (talk)	over 206 (Sep MtC drive)

Non-free images

Non-free Images Backlogs

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Thus far: Category:Non-free Wikipedia file size reduction request	Sven Manguard Wha? (talk)	See count above, in the general images section, for a total of all image work across both sections.
Category:Wikipedia files that transclude the Non-free media rationale template with no Purpose specified	walk victor falk talk	51
Category:Non-free Wikipedia file size reduction request and Category:Publicity photographs with missing fair-use rationale	Wilhelmina Will	243

Meta

Meta

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Assessing pages in Unassessed Japan articles and Unassessed Death articles; Evaluating Unknown Importance Death articles and Unknown Importance Japan Articles (~14,000)	Boneyard90(talk)	Unassessed Japan articles = Cleared Unassessed Death articles = Cleared Unknown Importance Death articles = Cleared
Assessing pages in Category:Ship articles without infoboxes	Sturmvogel_66	The cat had 1842 when I started, so we'll just have to see
Assessing pages in Category:Unassessed biography articles	Bgwhite (talk)	~4500
Adding listas parameter to pages in Category:Biography articles without listas parameter	97198 (talk)	480
Adding listas parameter to pages in Category:Biography articles without listas parameter	MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM	4,200 Mar. 5,500 Feb. 12,300 Nov.–Jan.
Adding listas parameter to pages in Category:Biography articles without listas parameter	Dawkeye (talk)	~3500
Adding listas parameter to pages in Category:Biography articles without listas parameter	Bgwhite (talk)	~6200
Adding living parameters to pages in Category:Biography articles without living parameter	GabrielF (talk)	100
Adding living parameters to pages in Category:Biography articles without listas parameter	EricSerge (talk)	275+
Adding living parameters to pages in Category:Biography articles without living parameter and general clean up in passing	VinculumMan (talk)	780 (approx)
Adding living parameters to pages in Category:Biography articles without living parameter	Sophus Bie (talk)	774
Adding living parameters to pages in Category:Biography articles without living parameter	Bgwhite (talk)	~6,000
Adding living parameters to pages in Category:Biography articles without living parameter	Amkilpatrick (talk)	16
Adding living parameters to pages in Category:Biography articles without living parameter and general clean up in passing	Lara	50
Adding oldid to Category:Good articles without an oldid	Lara	5
Adding oldid to Category:Good articles without an oldid	Essam Sharaf (talk)	6
Adding oldid to Category:Good articles without an oldid	Pyrotec (talk)	2 so far in June 3 in April 7 in May 16 in Mar. 9 in Feb. 10 in Jan.
Helping review at WP:GAN and WP:FAC	Binksternet (talk)	1
Reviewing Good Article Nominations at Unreviewed good article nominations	DustFormsWords (talk)	19
Reviewing Good Article Nominations at Unreviewed good article nominations	Wizardman Operation Big Bear	4
Wikipedia:Good article nominations and Wikipedia:Featured article candidates	Wilhelmina Will	8
Reviewing Good Article Nominations at Unreviewed good article nominations	Pyrotec (talk)	12 so far in Mar. 9 in Feb., 10 in Jan.
Reviewing Good Article Nominations at Unreviewed good article nominations	Ankit Maity	4
Reviewing Good Article Nominations at Unreviewed good article nominations	Jezhotwells	12 in Jan 14 in Feb 87 in Mar 25 as as ta 25/4/11

Miscellaneous

Misc. Backlogs

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Working on: Category:Orphaned articles from August 2006 (0 left), Category:Articles with trivia sections from October 2007 (0 left), and Category:Self-contradictory articles (119 left). /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 02:52, 20 November 2010 (UTC)	/ƒETCHCOMMS/
Working on Category:Orphaned articles from August 2006 (0 left) (Started with 60+) Done and trying to make more of dent in other parts of Category:Orphaned articles, Sadads (talk) 03:27, 23 November 2010 (UTC) Starting Category:Orphaned articles from September 2006 (0 left)(Started with 650+)07:40, 24 November 2010 (UTC) Also, working on Category:Orphaned articles from April 2007 (0 left, started at 50+)Sadads (talk) 18:55, 2 February 2011 (UTC)	User:Sadads	Several hundred, incl.Orphaned articles from August 2006
Will attempt to clear out Category:Orphaned articles from July 2007 (0 left), and always working on the bot-added Category:Orphaned articles from February 2009 (0 left)	Ϫ	Quite a few, see my log
Done Cleared out Category:Good articles without an oldid (0 left) and Category:Good articles without topic parameter (0 left). Continues to monitor these 2 categories.	OhanaUnitedTalk page	see log
Will be working on Category:Articles that include images for deletion. 1,359 at start, 2 left (not including monthly cats).	Acather96	Cleared March 2009 and September 2010
Working on Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit.	Reaper Eternal	Stopped keeping track.
Working on Category:Articles needing cleanup.	Aichi (talk)	67
Category:All orphaned articles	Mattg82 (talk)	50
I remember when Category:Articles needing cleanup had 17,000 articles in it...sigh. I'll pitch in, though they're slow.	--RobthTalk
Category:Pages with missing references list.	Peacekeeper 1234	around 40
Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from February 2011	Spock of Vulcan	18 (I'm working on the newest ones as they show up, so I don't feel like we're falling behind during the bimestrial backlog elimination drives. Started Feb. 1, 2011.)
Category:All orphaned articles Starting with months with the fewest to eliminate them from the list	Peacekeeper 1234	9
Category:Underpopulated categories	jwillbur	My contribs
Category:Articles that need to be wikified	Reaper Eternal	Stopped keeping track.
Several categories, including Missing references list, wikify and others	User:owain.davies|see log
Category:Underpopulated categories	Dafoeberezin3494	15 (so far)
Working on Category:Orphaned articles	Adhir Kirtikar	15 so far and 4 attempted
Working on Category:Wikipedia articles needing reorganization	Cind.amuse 12:21, 10 February 2011 (UTC)	77 so far
Working on Category:Orphaned articles from December 2007 and any other orphaned articles that I chance upon.	Cwmhiraeth	81 and counting.
Mostly sources, copyedit & wikification probably.	tomasz.	Will list here
Category:Pages with missing references list	Ynhockey	4
Category:Articles that need to be wikified	Ynhockey	1
Category:Underpopulated categories	RedWolf	Hundreds of edits to remove cats that no longer need to be here as well as putting others into subcats.
Editor reviews	Reaper Eternal	7
Category:Unreviewed new articles, Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard and Category:Uncategorized pages	Wilhelmina Will	Unreviewed pages: 7428; cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from February 2010, by ridding it of 145 pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from March 2010 by ridding it of approx. 235 pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from November 2009 by ridding it of 8 pages. Also helped clear out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from May 2010 by ridding it of... over 50 pages; I lost count. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from June 2010 by ridding it of 147 pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from July 2010 by ridding it of 208 pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from August 2010 by ridding it of 206 (out of an initial 208) pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from September 2010 by ridding it of approx. 265 pages. Also cleared Category:Unreviewed new articles from September 2010 by ridding it of 4 pages. Also cleaned out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from October 2010 by ridding it of 200+ pages. Also cleaned out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from November 2010 by ridding it of 310 pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from December 2010 by ridding it of 300+ pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from January 2011 by ridding it of... I've forgotten how many. Cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from February 2011 by ridding it of 200+ pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from March 2011 by ridding it of, at any rate, hundreds of pages. Cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from April 2011 by ridding it of over 400 pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from May 2011 by ridding it of over 300 pages, at least. Cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from June 2011 by ridding it of over 400 pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles from March 2011 by ridding it of 9 pages, and Category:Unreviewed new articles from April 2011 by ridding it of 2 pages. Also cleared Category:Unreviewed new articles from August 2011 by ridding it of 19 pages, and Category:Unreviewed new articles from February 2011 by ridding it of 41 pages. Cleared Category:Unreviewed new articles from January 2011 by ridding it of 117 pages. Also cleared Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from July 2011 by ridding it of almost 500 pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles from September 2011 by ridding it of over 40 pages, in total. Cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles from May 2011 by ridding it of... 10 pages the day I cleared it, and I forgot how many before. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from August 2011 by ridding it of... I think... over 600 pages. Cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles from June 2011 by ridding it of over 300 pages, I think. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from September 2011 by ridding it of around 600 pages. Also cleared out Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from October 2011 by ridding it of over 300, I think around 400 pages. And after 7416 pages cleared, got the backlog cleared by reducing Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard from November 2011 down to size. After this, I will continue to do my part in working to keep the Unreviewed pages category from getting backlogged again, and I will also embark on clearing the Uncategorized pages backlog. Due to my not having been aware that one must check for copyright problems when reviewing pages, I've asked a user to have the articles I reviewed checked over again, to make sure nothing important was missed. This is for the good of the encyclopedia, after all. My apologies to everyone. Uncategorized pages (not counting unreviewed pages I also categorized): 108
Category:Orphaned articles	RahulText me	very few
Working on Category:Orphaned articles from October 2007 and also Category:Orphaned articles from May 2007 or whatever else I feel like	killian441	more than 35
Working on stuff	Srich32977	some
everything	Ankit Maity	You get to count
Working on Unreviewed new articles	Banej	Cleared December 2009 and January 2010
Working on Category:Uncategorized pages	Harrias talk	109 so far
Category:Orphaned articles (starting with the oldest, September 2006)	User:TheAMmollusc	a few per week (will continue). Now on to October 2006
Category:Unreviewed new articles	Sophus Bie (talk)	9
Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup	Ysjzysn (talk)	10

References

References Backlogs

Backlog	Username	Number of articles cleared
Cleared out the category of articles with missing reflist tags (except for the templates to avoid transclusion issues with putting the reflist on other articles).	Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:56, 25 November 2010 (UTC)	12 (more keep appearing)
Will be working on Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup. 1,563 at start, 0 left.	Acather96	Why I can't claim all the credit, the backlog is now down to 2010
Eliminating all the articles with minor POV issues from 2007.	Reaper Eternal	All 37 done
Eliminating all the articles with minor POV issues from 2008.	Reaper Eternal	All 150 done
Category:Articles lacking sources.	The Founders Intent	2006 done (20)
The major reference categories as part of the Unreferenced Articles WikiProject	Mattg82 (talk)
Adding reference lists to pages missing them at Category:Pages with missing references list.	Rock drum Ba-dumCrash (Driving well?)	15
Adding reflists to articles missing them at Category:Pages with missing references list.	Yiosie 2356	10 so far
Clearing the backlog at Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting	Wingman4l7	ongoing
Working on Category:Articles lacking sources and Category:Pages with missing references list	Verkhovensky (talk) 21:41, 2 February 2011 (UTC)	10 so far!
Working on Unreferenced Articles WikiProject	--FormerIP (talk) 01:18, 3 February 2011 (UTC))	100 since Jan 1
Working on cleaning up dead links	Mrh30	2 so far
Working on cleaning up Dead External Links	Adhir Kirtikar	7 so far
Category:Articles with dead external links, specifically, articles with a biological content	BoundaryRider	29
Working on unsourced statements	Peacekeeper 1234	6 to start
Working on Category:Pages with missing references list	Jguy	6 here.
Category:Pages with missing references list	Essam Sharaf (talk)	6 till now.
Working on Category:Pages with missing references list	Kuwaronline	30 here.
Working on Category:Unreferenced BLPs	Wilhelmina Will	9
Working on Category:Pages with missing references list	Sphilbrick	19
Category:Articles with dead external links	Resolute	35
Working on Category:Pages with missing references list and anything else I can do	Gatechjon  (talk)	151
Category:Pages with missing references list	Afaber012  (talk)	18
Working on Category:Articles with dead external links and Category:Pages with missing references list	Mojoworker (talk)	30 5
Category:Articles lacking sources	Alynna (talk)	5
Category:Pages with missing references list and Category:Articles with minor POV problems	GreatOrangePumpkin	20+
Category:Pages with missing references list	Krollo	20ish
Category:Pages with missing references list	Yaksar	24
Category:Unreferenced BLPs	Jezhotwells	360 since 1/11/10
Category:Articles with dead external links and Category:Articles with unsourced statements	ScottSteiner	5 as of April 4, 2011
Category:Pages with missing references list	Gsyhiap	56 and counting