Wikipedia:Good articles/GAN Backlog Drives/May 2025
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The May 2025 GAN Backlog Drive is a one-month-long effort to reduce the backlog of Good article nominations and to mentor editors who are new to reviewing. The co-ordinators for this drive are Vacant0, IntentionallyDense, and DaniloDaysOfOurLives. If you have any questions, leave a message on this drive's talk page. The drive began on 1 May 2025 at 00:00:00 (UTC) and will end on 31 May 2025 at 23:59:59 (UTC).
Please ensure that you familiarise yourself with the Good Article review process before starting to review an article, and that you are familiar with the GA criteria and the Manual of Style. Also, it is recommended that you read the essays What the Good article criteria are not and Reviewing good articles.
The ultimate goal of this backlog elimination drive is to encourage participation in GA reviews by editors who are not already heavily active in this part of Wikipedia. Awards will be given based on total score (see scoring system below). Regular GA reviewers are welcome to participate and perform reviews by themselves as normal, but are highly encouraged to assist less-experienced reviewers as well. Not sure how many reviews you've done? Find your name on the list!
Guidelines
[edit]- Log completed GANs here. If you complete a GAN for an article, don't forget to list it here so that you can get credit for the review.
- No rubber-stamping GANs. Good Article nominations tend to result in even better improvements if a reasonable amount of issues are brought up in a review. This can be especially useful when approaching Featured Article standing. Quick-fails are allowed if the article is in exceptionally poor shape or per the GA criteria page. Reviews and articles will be checked by the co-ordinators to ensure that rubber-stamping does not happen. If a participant is found rapidly rubber-stamping GANs that do not meet the criteria, they may be disqualified and possibly reported to the administrators' noticeboard for disruptive editing.
- Minimum quality. Only reviews of a sufficient quality will be counted. This is subjective, and coordinators reserve the right to credit or discredit individual reviews. Reviews that are shorter than 1000 bytes are unlikely to be counted.
- Provide constructive criticism. If you see a problem or problems in a certain article you're reviewing, don't be afraid to point that out and indicate to the nominator what's wrong. However, be sure to guide the nominator to possible ways of fixing those problems. Similarly, if the article is not of Good Article quality yet, don't be afraid to fail, but make sure you provide guidance as to how to get the article up to GA quality.
- Stick with it. An article isn't improved if it remains on hold for months. Instead, make the smaller corrections, make sure the primary writer is actively editing, and make the pass/fail judgement if concerns are/are not addressed in a timely matter.
- Have fun. We're here to help bring these articles up to their fullest potential and hence improving the overall quality of the encyclopedia. If you do not enjoy doing that, then there is no motivation to improve these articles and the encyclopedia as a whole.
Newbie reviewers (<6 completed reviews)
[edit]- The aim is that every review by a newbie reviewer will have some degree of oversight by an experienced reviewer. Please do not close your review (i.e., pass, fail, or quickfail it) before an experienced reviewer has had a chance to check it.
- If you have claimed a review (by creating the review page) and it is not yet spoken for by an experienced reviewer, please add it to the list in the "Progress" section.
- You don't have to take this step if you already have an experienced reviewer in mind. It's perfectly ok for your GA mentor (or anyone else you have already asked) to be your reviewing buddy.
- You may formally request a mentor at WP:GAMENTOR if you so desire, but please understand that those mentors are independent of this backlog drive and may find themselves over capacity as a result of this drive.
- Many newbie reviewers burn out immediately because they try to do too many reviews at once. (Many experienced reviewers have done this too!) Please do not open multiple blank reviews at a time. You are welcome to review multiple nominations at once, but please complete a significant portion of one review before opening another.
- This pair system is for your sake, so please ask questions if you have them and don't worry too much about being difficult. The experienced reviewer who offers their opinion is here to help you, so please take any criticism from them with that in mind. If you feel that someone has been overly WP:BITEy to you as a result of this backlog drive, please contact the co-ordinators.
Mentoring newbie reviewers
[edit]- If you are an experienced reviewer, you are encouraged to assist newbie reviewers with their reviews. The aim is that every review by a newbie reviewer will have some degree of oversight by an experienced reviewer. You will receive one point for each review you assist with.
- You can make previous arrangements with a newbie reviewer to help them with their reviews. There is also a list in the "Progress" section, where newbie reviewers will post their reviews that do not yet have an experienced reviewer assistant.
- Please make, and sign, a note at the top of the review stating that you are going to take part as an experienced reviewer for the purposes of this backlog drive.
- You are encouraged to sign up as a mentor at WP:GAMENTOR, if this interests you.
- Assisting reviewers should be willing to answer any questions the newbie reviewer has, and are expected not to WP:BITE the newbies when responding.
- Assisting reviewers are expected to satisfy themselves that the newbie reviewer has correctly performed a full review, and to communicate on the review page that you have done so and agree with the result.
- You are encouraged but not required to do an abbreviated review of your own to be sure. For example, you might do a source check for only the most frequently cited source.
- In the event that you find your newbie reviewer is completely unready to be doing GA reviews at this time, please communicate that to them (gently!), assist as much as you are willing, and suggest that the nominator put the review up for a formal second opinion. You are welcome to take on the review yourself if you like. (You will get points both for the assist and the review.)
- In the event that you find yourself in a complete trainwreck of a situation, feel free to post on the talk page of this drive (not the main GAN talk page, please) for help. The point of this drive is to bring new people into GA reviewing, not to chain experienced reviewers to people who are intent on being disruptive.
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.
This is the scheme for the awards:
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
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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 |
Additional scheme for assistant reviewers:
At least 5 points: The Assistant Reviewer Barnstar
At least 12 points: The Premium Assistant Reviewer Barnstar
Scoring
[edit]The May backlog drive works on a points system. The basic points are as follows:
- Two points per review, if you have completed five reviews or fewer in total. (That means five reviews ever, not five reviews in this drive, specifically.)
- One point per review, if you have completed six or more reviews in total. (Again, not six or more reviews in May, six or more reviews ever.)
There are also bonus points available:
- One half-point per 2000 words/article (measured by prosesize). (So a 2000-word article gets +0.5, a 4000-word article gets +1, and so on.)
- One point per review, for experienced reviewers (10+ reviews in total) who assist newbie reviewers (<6 reviews in total).
- 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.
- Nominators or reviewers can suggest reviews they think may be candidates.
- Experienced reviewers are encouraged to point out especially well-done reviews by newbie reviewers.
- If you're impressed by a review, please nominate it!
Progress
[edit]Date | Reviews opened |
Reviews finished |
Total opened |
Total finished |
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1 May 2025 | 7 | 1 | -- | -- |
2 May 2025 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 4 |
3 May 2025 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 10 |
4 May 2025 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 14 |
5 May 2025 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 16 |
6 May 2025 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Reviews that need an experienced reviewer
[edit]Newbie reviewers: if you have claimed a review (by creating the review page) and it is not yet spoken for by an experienced reviewer, you may add it to the list below by adding the following to the bottom of the list below. (Be sure to swap in the correct information!)
#[[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] ~~~~
Experienced reviewers: when you claim one of the reviews listed below, please simply remove it from the list.
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 31 May but completed after that date can be included, but aim to be prompt to avoid leaving nominators hanging. Reviews started before 1 May do not count; this includes all reviews for which the nominator created the relevant page pre-1 May. 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 and assists.
====[[User talk:Username|Username]] (newbie/experienced)==== '''Reviews''' {{Div col}} #{{icon|GA}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) #{{icon|FGAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) #{{icon|GAH}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) #{{icon|GAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) {{Div col end}} '''Assists''' {{Div col}} #{{icon|GA}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) #{{icon|FGAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) #{{icon|GAH}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) #{{icon|GAN}} [[Talk:Articlename/GAn|Articlename]] (# words) {{Div col end}} '''Articles reviewed:''' <br />'''Assists:''' <br />'''Running points total:'''
Participants (alphabetical order)
[edit]Alachuckthebuck (newbie)
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Riverside Drive (Manhattan) (8097 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:45, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Whiteman Park railway station (1080 words)
Done 2 points - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:20, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Kiki Wong (1160 words)
Assists
Articles reviewed: 2
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Running points total: 6
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Whoops (song)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 04:12, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:43, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:43, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Grand Prix de France (figure skating)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:43, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
"BMF" (song)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:21, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
"Afraid" (2hollis and Nate Sib song)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:21, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
"Imgonnagetyouback"
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:21, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Assists
Articles reviewed: 7
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Running points total: 7
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Aviationwikiflight (newbie)
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DaniloDaysOfOurLives (experienced)
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Nardole (# words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 07:35, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke (# words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 07:35, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Regina George (Mean Girls) (# words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:45, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke (# words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 07:35, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Yeti (Doctor Who)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:45, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Grand Prix of Finland
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:45, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:45, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:45, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:25, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:25, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Lebanon at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:25, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Assists
Articlename (# words)
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Articles reviewed: 11
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Running points total: 11
Dracophyllum (experienced)
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Svarta ballader (1194 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:26, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Keijō nippō (1646 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:26, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Articles reviewed: 2
Assists:
Running points total: 2
DrOrinScrivello (newbie)
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Olympic Village (Paris) (2165 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:47, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Articles reviewed: 1
Running points total: 2.5
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Megalobulimus dryades (1450 words)
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Ganesha811 (experienced)
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Grumpylawnchair (experienced)
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IntentionallyDense (experienced)
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...Ready for It? (# words)
Fievel Is Glauque (# words)
Death Race 2 (# words)
Statue of John Barry (# words)
Nihilism (# words)
Riverside Drive (Manhattan) (8000 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Edward Cridge (2000 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Olympic Village (Paris) (2000 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
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Assists: 3
Running points total: 3
It is a wonderful world (experienced)
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Richard L. Morrill (1364 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Hong Kong at the 2014 Winter Olympics (365 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
John Higgins (5173 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
KGAN (1509 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:29, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Santi Romano (2334 words)
KUAT-TV (1284 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:29, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Washington University in St. Louis (6020 words)
Talk:Charlie Suff/GA1 (1045 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Talk:KVEO-TV/GA1 (1595 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:29, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Talk:KVDA/GA1 (1109 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:29, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Talk:McKayla Maroney/GA1 (2356 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Talk:WRBW/GA1 (2403 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Talk:John Roach (bishop)/GA1 (1211 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:27, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Talk:Andrew Still (actor)/GA1 (1363 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:27, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Talk:WXIN/GA1 (~2500 words – prose size won't work)
Done 1.5 points - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:27, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Talk:WSIL-TV/GA1 (1844 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:27, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2432 words)
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Cady Noland (8700 words)
Articles reviewed: 14
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Running points total: 16.5
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Jens Lallensack (experienced)
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Lake Como (4,238 words)
Done 2 points - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:27, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Articlename (# words)
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Articles reviewed: 1
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Running points total: 2
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Botetourt Medal (2000 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:52, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Murder of Wang Lianying (4000 words)
Done 2 points - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:28, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Fredrick Arthur Willius (1500 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:28, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
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Articles reviewed: 3
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Running points total: 4.5
History6042 (experienced)
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...Ready for It? (2,081 words)
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Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (3187 words)
Done 1.5 points - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:48, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Maria das Neves (1074 words)
Articles reviewed: 2
Assists: 0
Running points total 1.5
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Patrick Welsh (newbie)
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Nihilism (4884 words)
Metaepistemology (4074 words)
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Reconrabbit (experienced)
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Talk:Delbert Cowsette/GA1 (1093 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:53, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
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Articles reviewed: 1
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Running points total: 1
Relativity (experienced)
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Sammi Brie (experienced)
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simongraham (experienced)
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Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 1,518 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:30, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Price Tower (8,516 words)
Done 3 points - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 16:30, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
WLTX (# words)
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Articles reviewed: 1
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Running points total: 4
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Fievel Is Glauque (919 words)
Statue of John Barry (1925 words)
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Thebiguglyalien (experienced)
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Syrian caretaker government (# words)
For Your Pleasure (# words)
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The Battle of Polytopia (1720 words)
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Vanamonde93 (talk) (experienced)
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Hannah Fry (1750 words)
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Warriorglance (newbie)
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Edward Cridge (2014 words)
Done Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:54, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Somali Airlines Flight 40 (# words)
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Articles reviewed: 1
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Running points total: 2.5
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2023 Serbian parliamentary election (11000 words)
KPTM (1200 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:49, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Bust of a Chinese Gentleman (750 words)
Done 1 point - IntentionallyDense (Contribs) 15:49, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Bryant Park restroom (1000 words)
WEYI-TV (# words)
Taichang Emperor (# words)
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Articles reviewed:2
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Running points total: 2