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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

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.

Scoring

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 July (UTC)
180 2 April (UTC)
270 2.5 January (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

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

Date Outstanding
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  1. ^ a b Change refers only to unreviewed nominations.
  2. ^ a b Change refers only to unreviewed old nominations.

Participants and reviews tracker

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.

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