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The Military history WikiProject's October-November 2015 backlog reduction drive has now concluded.

About the drive

The backlog reduction drive is a six-week effort to reduce the backlog of military history articles needing attention and military history articles with incomplete B-Class checklists. These articles have been flagged as needing particular types of improvement to achieve B-Class status; by reducing the backlog, the drive will simultaneously help the project achieve its 15% B-Class milestone target. The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 15 October and runs through 23:59 UTC on 30 November.

A brief explanation of the B-Class criteria is available here, and more detailed information on meeting the criteria is available in this FAQ.

Scoring

You will receive points for each article you improve, based on the category in which it is listed. If an article is listed in more than one category, you can submit it multiple times, once for each category of improvement you make. You will receive points for each category so long as it is assessed as meeting the B-class criteria for that category following your improvements. As such, once you have improved an article, it should be listed at WP:MHA for independent assessment. Please do not self assess articles you have improved (although it is acceptable to remove a photo request tag from the talk page once you have met the request).

Serial	Category	Points
1	Military history articles needing attention to grammar	10 points per article
2	Wikipedia requested photographs of military history	10 points per article
3	Military history articles needing attention to structure	5 points per article
4	Military history articles needing attention to supporting materials	5 points per article
5	Military history articles with incomplete B-Class checklists	5 points per article
6	Assessing articles listed at WP:MHA or in the Unassessed military history articles category	5 points per article
7	Military history articles with no associated task force	2 points per article

To qualify for the points detailed above for the first four categories, you must have contributed to the article content within the scoring period. Points are also offered for articles that are removed from the fifth category by assessment action only (i.e. you complete an incomplete B class checklist) and the sixth category if you assess an article listed at WP:MHA or in the unassessed category (if an article meets both of these criteria, you may list it twice). In this regard, 5 points are offered per article you assess against the B-class criteria during the drive.

Awards

As a token of our appreciation for your efforts, the coordinators will be presenting service awards and barnstars based on the number of articles you improve. The awards will not be cumulative, rather each participant will qualify for a single award based on the total number of points you accumulate.

• 
  One Stripe
  (2 points)
• 
  Two Stripes
  (50 points)
• 
  Three Stripes
  (100 points)
• 
  WikiChevrons
  (500 points)
• 
  Tireless Contributor Barnstar
  (1,000 points)
• 
  Working Man's Barnstar
  (1,500 points)
• 
  Barnstar of Diligence
  (2,000 points)
• 
  WikiProject Barnstar
  (2,500 points)

To add a bit of friendly competition, the three editors who earn the most points by 30 November 2015 will be awarded bronze, silver and gold wikis.

• 
  Third place overall
• 
  Second place overall
• 
  First place overall

The coordinators will post awards to your talk page within a few days of the end of the drive. If you'd like yours earlier, please ask one of the coordinators.

Starting statistics

Articles that need...	Starting count
...work on grammar	4,539
...only work on grammar	21
...needs photographs	1,200
...work on structure	14,676
...only work on structure	189
...work on supporting materials	13,237
...only work on supporting materials	617
...incomplete B-class checklist	532
...no associated task force	569

Progress

−1,263.7% complete Backlog: Military history articles needing attention to grammar Goal: 4,250 articles Current: 8,191 articles Initial: 4,539 articles

600% complete Backlog: Wikipedia requested photographs of military history Goal: 1,000 articles Current: 0 articles Initial: 1,200 articles

−2,555.6% complete Backlog: Military history articles needing attention to structure Goal: 14,000 articles Current: 31,952 articles Initial: 14,676 articles

−8,346% complete Backlog: Military history articles needing attention to supporting materials Goal: 13,000 articles Current: 33,017 articles Initial: 13,237 articles

98.5% complete Backlog: Military history articles with incomplete B-Class checklists Goal: 0 articles Current: 8 articles Initial: 532 articles

99.3% complete Backlog: Military history articles with no associated task force Goal: 0 articles Current: 4 articles Initial: 569 articles

How to participate

To take part in the drive, please add your name to the list of participants; the exact syntax will be displayed when you edit the section.

Then, in alphabetical order, please create a new worklist section for yourself; as before, the exact syntax will be displayed when you edit the page.

Now you can begin working on articles in the categories listed above. For each article:

1. Fix the listed problem by editing the article or update the assessment checklist in the {{WPMILHIST}} tag on the article's talk page;
2. If you have improved the content of the article, request assessment at WP:MHA once you have completed your improvements (not required for minor technical fixes such as adding a photograph - in this regard, just remove the photo request from the talkpage yourself); and
3. List the article under the appropriate category in your worklist section.

If you fix an article that's listed in multiple categories, please list it separately under each applicable category.

Participants

• Anotherclown (worklist)
• Auntieruth55 (worklist)
• AustralianRupert (worklist)
• Hamish59 (worklist)
• Lineagegeek (worklist)
• Molestash (worklist)
• Nikkimaria (worklist)
• Patar knight (worklist)
• Peacemaker67 (worklist)
• TeriEmbrey (worklist)
• Sturmvogel_66 (worklist)
• Tomandjerry211 (worklist)
• Catlemur (worklist)