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August 2023 Good Article Nominations Backlog Drive reminder

The August 2023 Good Article Nominations Backlog Drive is at the halfway mark, and has seen incredible progress, dropping the backlog from 638 to 359 unreviewed articles -- a 43.7% reduction in only fifteen days! But we still have over two weeks to go, and there are plenty of articles left to review:

• We've gone from 14 nominations 270+ days old and 65 nominations 180+ days old to 2 and 0 respectively. No more articles will reach 270+ status during the drive, and only three more will reach 180+ if unreviewed, so this is your last chance to get the higher age bonuses!
• We still have plenty of articles in the 90+ range, but the list is shrinking fast.
• Some articles need new reviewers, either because they're officially on second opinion or because the original reviews were deleted or invalidated. You can help prevent these articles from waiting longer!
• While there are starting to be clear favourites for the Content Review Medal of Merit, the field is still very open. A late entrant can still pull an upset to get the most reviews in the drive!

And remember: if you've done reviews, you should log them at the backlog drive page for points, so they can be tracked towards your awards at the end.

Thanks for signing up for the drive, and I hope to see you reviewing! Vaticidalprophet 02:01, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

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Belgrave railway line

Thank you for taking the time to review the Belgrave railway line article for GA status- much appreciated! Best wishes for your future wikipedia edits! HoHo3143 (talk) 10:06, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Jack4576

You absolutely did the right thing by trying to support this editor. The fact that it turned out that he didn't deserve your help is no discredit to you. Unfortunately, my experience over the years is that 90% of editors of this kind can't and won't be helped, but it's still worth trying to help them, for two reasons. Firstly, and in my opinion most importantly, the waste of your time for those 90% is, I think, outweighed by the value of the 10% of successes. Secondly, if it does turn out that the person in question is not capable of being helped, then the very fact that you tried to help and it didn't work makes the situation clearer, so that it is easier for decisions to be taken. Please continue to assume good faith and to try to help rather than condemn whenever it seems there's a reasonable chance that doing so may be justified, and put it down to your good nature, not your naivety, when, as will often happen, your attempt to help turns out to fall on stony ground. JBW (talk) 12:34, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks @JBW! I understand the “giveemtherope” concept for sure. Certainly, I won’t let this kill my optimistic nature. But certainly it’s a reminder of the lesson: when someone shows who they are, believe them. — MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 13:23, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

"When someone shows who they are, believe them" is a very neat way of expressing it. May I reuse it? JBW (talk) 15:59, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

@JBW, sure. Haha. Don’t think of me as exceptionally profound, I heard it elsewhere myself. — MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 22:02, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes. A quick Google check reveals that it's actually a quote from Maya Angelou. JBW (talk) 07:08, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Murder of Vivianne Ruiz

The article Murder of Vivianne Ruiz you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Murder of Vivianne Ruiz for comments about the article, and Talk:Murder of Vivianne Ruiz/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Caeciliusinhorto -- Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 21:03, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in the August 2023 GAN backlog drive

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	We really appreciate that you reviewed several GANs during the drive. Due in part to your efforts, the backlog of unreviewed nominations was reduced by 440 articles, an astonishing 69 percent.

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