User:Dcshank/sandbox-a

The 2012 November Backlog Elimination Drive will take place from October 22, 2012 to November 21, 2012. Before joining this elimination drive, please make sure you have read through this entire page. If you have questions about the information on that page an/or unsure about some info, please do not join this drive until you fully understand everything. If you have any questions, please leave a message on this page's talk page or Dom497's talk page.

How to help
Before joining this drive and start to review articles, please make sure you have read this page and have no questions. To join this drive, please add your name under to the "Totals" section below after you have reviewed at least one article. All reviews must be started after 00:00 (UTC) on October 22, 2012 and before 11:59 (UTC) on November 21, 2012. Reviews started outside of those parameters do not count.

To find an article to review for creation, go to this page. If you see that an article in the submission page that has already been reviewed by another user, you may still review the article for a point.

Here are some articles that can help you with review articles:


 * GNG
 * Verifiability
 * NPOV
 * Original research
 * Reliable Sources
 * COPYVIO


 * Manual of Style MOS is not pass or fail criteria
 * Lead
 * Layout
 * Words to watch
 * Fiction

Awards
To receive an award, please make sure to include your name and the number of reviews you have completed in the "Running Totals" section. Awards will be given by the co-ordinator or a selected user after this drive ends.

Running Total
For reviews during the drive to count as a "point", you must log each and every article that you have reviewed below. To log articles, use the following template and include it below the "Totals" section. Please note that when inserting the URL and the article name, remember to leave a space between the two.

Copy the following code with your User information filled in and paste it in alphabetical order into the Totals section below.

User

 * 1) [URL GOES HERE article name goes here]
 * 2) [URL GOES HERE article name goes here]
 * 3) [URL GOES HERE article name goes here]

Because submissions can be reviewed more than once, when you have completed a review, please provide a link to the "oldid" of the accept or decline edit you made. To find the "oldid" of an article, go to the article/submission's history page. Once there, click on the edit that you made when you passed or failed the article. Copy the URL and place it under your name using the template below.

User

 * 1) Sandbox
 * 2) Sandbox - fail -- Dom497
 * 3) Sandbox - pass -- Dom497
 * 4) Sandbox
 * 5) Sandbox - fail -- Dom497

Reviewing Reviews
To ensure quality remains priority, most reviews will be reviewed to ensure that the reviewer has not passed/declined a review for no reason and/or the reviewer is actually done by the review who included the article in the Totals section above. At least 70 - 80 percent of all reviews should be reviewed. In any case, a participant should not receive a barnstar until most of their reviews are checked by another user. If for any reason a review is found to have problems with it, a deduction of -1 point will be given to the original reviewer of the article.

To mark a review reviewed, beside the entry, included either "Pass" or "Fail" along with your user signature.

User

 * 1) [URL GOES HERE article name goes here] - Pass --
 * 2) [URL GOES HERE article name goes here] - Fail --
 * 3) [URL GOES HERE article name goes here] - Pass --

Any user who includes their name below and reviews at least 20 reviews from any other user participating in the drive will receive the.

Please note that if there are a lack of reviewers, distribution of barnstars at the end of the drive will be delayed until most of the reviews are reviewed.

Reviewers
''Only add your name below if you are interested in reviewing reviews from the Totals section. This section is not to state that you are participating in the drive to review new submissions from the submission page.''



Invitation
If you know anyone who may want to help, put this template on their talk page:, which will produce this.  WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive! The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from March 1st, 2013 – March 31st, 2013.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive. There is a backlog of over 2000 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!