Wikipedia:Good articles/GAN Backlog Drives/February 2026
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The February 2026 GAN Backlog Drive is a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of Good article nominations, with this months focus being on clearing as many nominations as possible. The co-ordinators for this drive are Crystalite13, Fade258, Bgsu98, and Vestrian24Bio. If you have any questions, leave a message on this drive's talk page. The drive began on 1 February 2026 at 00:00:00 (UTC) and will end on 28 February 2026 at 23:59:59 (UTC).
The ultimate goal of this backlog elimination drive is to cut down the number of GA nominations as much as possible. Awards will be given out to editors who do the most work in helping reduce the size of the backlog (see scoring system below). The drive is intended to quickly decrease backlog while maintaining quality reviews. Reviews not completed by the end of the month are counted, as long as they were substantially started in February.
In addition to this month's theme of reviewing as many GA nominations as possible, nominators that review a nomination in each of the 15 top-level categories listed at WP:GAN — from "Agriculture, food and drink", "Art and architecture" etc. to "Warfare" ("Miscellaneous" isn't necessary) will receive an additional 10 points and a special barnstar.
Please ensure that you familiarize yourself with the Good Article review process before starting to review an article, and that you are familiar with the GA criteria. It is recommended that you read the essays What the Good article criteria are not and Reviewing good articles.
Awards
[edit]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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At least 3 points | The Minor Barnstar |
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At least 7 points | The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
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At least 12 points | The Reviewer Barnstar |
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At least 20 points | The Premium Reviewer Barnstar |
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At least 30 points | The Multiple Good Article Reviewer Barnstar |
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At least 40 points | The WikiProject Good Articles Medal of Merit |
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At least 60 points | The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia |
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In addition, the person who accumulates the most points during the backlog elimination drive will receive the Content Review Medal of Merit | |
Scoring
[edit]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.
Days ago Points Timestamp 90 1.5 Nov 2025 (UTC) 180 2 Aug 2025 (UTC) 270 2.5 May 2025 (UTC)
- 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.
- 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.
Progress
[edit]Numbers of all GANs and of old GANs are reported as described here and here.
| Date | Outstanding nominations |
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| 1 February 2026 | 966 | 837 | — | — |
| 2 February 2026 | 963 | 787 |  50 (6%)
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| 3 February 2026 | 958 | 776 | 11 (1.4%)
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| Date | Outstanding old nominations |
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| 1 February 2026 | 825 | 559 | — | — |
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Participants and reviews tracker
[edit]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 28 February but completed after that date can be included, but aim to be prompt to avoid leaving nominators hanging. Reviews started before 1 February do not count; this includes all reviews for which the nominator created the relevant page pre-1 February. 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]]====
'''Reviews'''
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#{{icon|FGAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words)
#{{icon|GAH}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words)
#{{icon|GAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words)
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French ship Achille (1804) (1414 words)- Claim of William Clito (3852 words)
Voyager Golden Record (2393 words)
Circle packing theorem (6317 words)- Battle of Chenab (1764) (1266 words)
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The Missing (2023 film) (1,770 words) 
Done – 2 points Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:49, 2 February 2026 (UTC)- Silver (video game) (2,260 words) Done – 1 point Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:49, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
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- Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku (2,500 words) Done – 2 points Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:50, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
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- Korma (847 words)
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- Poppy O'Toole (521 words)
- Pilot (Legends of Tomorrow) (1383 words)
- Mall (Abbott Elementary) (1816 words)
- Open water swimming at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships – Mixed 4 × 1500 metre relay (679 words)
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- Miller House (Columbus, Indiana) (8000 words)
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- Kiddush levana (14069 words)
- Mayiladuthurai (3073 words)
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- Mildred McAdory (1,244 words)
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- 1973 Flores cyclone (1000 words)
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- Yae Miko (1914 words)
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- Miloš Vučević (4588 words)
- Frozen salad (869 words)
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- Love Will Never Do (Without You) (2500 words)
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- Tingin (830 words)
- LoveStoned (1480 words)
- Vanish into You (1630 words) Done – 1 point Fade258 (talk) 03:16, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
- Midnight Sun (1100 words)
- Mercy (1780 words)
- Meu Coco (1020 words)
- Famous Last Words (2210 words)
- GMFU (370 words) Done – 1 point Crystalite13 (talk) 05:47, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
- To Live Is to Die (1250 words) Done – 1 point Fade258 (talk) 02:51, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- House of Secrets (1938 words)
- First Luv (1050 words)
- High Infidelity (630 words)
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- Lambek-Moser theorem (1500 words)
- Children Playing in an Autumn Garden (500 words)
- Gumunso (500 words)
- Branston (brand) (500 words)
- Cycadelic Records (1000 words)
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- Faded (Alan Walker song) (3000 words)
- Blown Away (album) (3000 words)
- Censorship of Roblox (1000 words) Done – 1 point Crystalite13 (talk) 05:47, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
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- Triangulopteris (898 words)
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- Conventional Weapons (1,180 words) Done – 2.5 points Fade258 (talk) 03:12, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
- See You Again (Carrie Underwood song) (1,264 words)
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- Candle salad (1000 words)
- One Griswold Street (1000 words)
- Windham Sadler (3000 words)
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- 2021 Liechtenstein general election (1508 words)
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- Gu Yanwu (5000 words)
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- History of the United Arab Emirates (8000 words)
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- Viva la Vida (3260 words)
- Lighter (Kyle Alessandro song) (1908 words)
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- Horse racing in Indonesia (2604 words)
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- Maurice Gamelin (6000 words) Done – 1 point Crystalite13 (talk) 20:50, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
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- Damage, Inc. (video game) (# words)
- Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 (# words)
- Splatoon 3: Side Order (# words)
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- Sanity Code (# words)
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