Wikipedia:Good articles/GAN Backlog Drives/October 2026

To receive an award, please include your name and the number of reviews you have completed as part of this drive. The co-ordinators will award you points based on those reviews. Awards will be given by the co-ordinators after this drive ends.

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Image	Minimum	Template
	At least 3 points	The Minor Barnstar
	At least 7 points	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	At least 12 points	The Reviewer Barnstar
	At least 20 points	The Premium 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
	5th place participant	5th place award
	4th place participant	4th place award
	3rd place participant	3rd place award
	2nd place participant	2nd place award
	In addition, the person who accumulates the most points during the backlog elimination drive will receive the Content Review Medal of Merit

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The backlog drive works on a points system, to help incentivize quality reviews and focus on articles that may be neglected.

• One point is awarded for every article reviewed.
• For each 90 days an article has been in the backlog, an additional half-point is awarded (so a 90-day-old nomination receives 1.5 points, a 180-day-old nomination 2 points, etc). This is measured by the UTC date at which the review begins, and not the exact time interval.

More information Days ago, Points ...

Days ago	Points	Timestamp
90	1.5	June 2026 (UTC)
180	2	March 2026 (UTC)
270	2.5	December 2025 (UTC)

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• Since reviews of long articles tend to be more work than reviews of short ones, participants will also receive an overall bonus of one point per 2500 total reviewed words. Please round the wordcount to the nearest 500, for the sake of the co-ordinators' sanity. For quickfails and insubstantial reviews, only the review point might be rewarded (at co-ordinators' discretion), and no bonus points.
• If a participant is partaking in the Team Media vs Team Society competition, then they will get one bonus point for per article they reviewed within their team's GAN category.
• Coordinators may choose at their discretion to award additional points to reviews considered of especially high quality. This is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Numbers of all GANs and of old GANs are reported as described here and here.

More information Date, Outstanding nominations ...

Date	Outstanding nominations	Unreviewed nominations	Change since previous day[N 1]	Change since beginning[N 1]
3 October 2026	1180	1,040	—	—
4 October 2026	1193	1,032	8 (0.8%)	8 (0.8%)
5 October 2026	1173	1,006	26 (2.5%)	34 (3.3%)
6 October 2026	1185	1,016	10 (1%)	24 (2.3%)
7 October 2026	1180	1,004	12 (1.2%)	36 (3.5%)

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Keep track of the articles you review in the Participants section below by creating a list below. 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 3 November but completed after that date can be included, but aim to be prompt to avoid leaving nominators hanging. Reviews started before 3 October do not count; this includes all reviews for which the nominator created the relevant page pre-3 October. Please state if the article is a pass, fail, or 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.

Following the {{Div col end}} template are three lines to tabulate each participant's total number of articles reviewed, total number of reviews assisted, and running points total. While you should feel free to update the article totals, please do not update the points total yourself – a coordinator will update that number after checking reviews.

====[[User talk:Username|Username]] ([insert team IF you are participating in the "Team Media" vs. "Team Society" competition])====
'''Reviews'''
{{Div col}}
#{{icon|GA}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] {{#invoke:Word count|main|page=Articlename|showcount=yes}}
#{{icon|FGAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] {{#invoke:Word count|main|page=Articlename|showcount=yes}}
#{{icon|GAH}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] {{#invoke:Word count|main|page=Articlename|showcount=yes}}
#{{icon|GAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] {{#invoke:Word count|main|page=Articlename|showcount=yes}}
{{Div col end}}
'''Articles reviewed:'''
<br />'''Running words total (bonus points):'''
<br />'''Running points total:'''