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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Lithopsian,

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

May backlog drive

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.

PageTriage

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket if you're interested in following along.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:37, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Dead link

Other infoboxes do not have similar references to brightest star names so why reinstate the dead link to Polaris? Skeptic2 (talk) 21:16, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Your edit left an orphaned reference (right at the end of the infobox, another one of those claims that most constellation articles don't have references for), so I reverted it. Also note WP:OTHERSTUFF. An inline reference for this and other infobox claims would be nice, but obviously a dead link isn't ideal. A little digging came up with this which appears to be the desired page. There are equivalents for other constellations if you fancy improving 87 other articles! Lithopsian (talk) 13:11, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, hadn't noticed that. But obvious answer was to delete the second appearance of the ref, I would have thought. Let's see what others think. Skeptic2 (talk) 17:11, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Lithopsian:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 5000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

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Category:Ap stars has been nominated for renaming

Category:Ap stars has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 07:07, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Editing tests

Hi @Lithopsian, I am delighted that Wikipedia has caught your attention and that you have been interested in learning how to edit on it. The editing test you did worked; However, you should keep in mind that the goal of this project is to develop a reliable and complete encyclopedia that everyone can consult. Your edit affected the content, so it has been removed. If you want to learn how to edit Wikipedia, the sandbox is at your disposal. If your comments were specific to an article, the correct place is that article's talk page. ~2026-41464-52 (talk) 14:18, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

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