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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive
 Hello Nimbus227:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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Aviation categories
Hello, Nimbus227,

These aviation categories keep showing up on lists as empty categories that need to be tagged for CSD C1 speedy deletion. See Special:UnusedCategories. Are you still debating them? Can I tag them now? If you want to keep them, for some reason, even though they are all empty, please put an Empty Categories tag on them so they don't keep showing up on lists of categories that need to be tagged. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 06:26, 10 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Liz, I did explain the contested edit summaries. The project is waiting for User:MSGJ to repair Template:WikiProject Aviation that drives population of these categories. They have hundreds, if not thousands, of aircraft articles contained in them (there are approximately 10,000 aircraft type articles). I was hoping that the template would be repaired in a reasonable time to avoid tagging them with as they are never empty but I will now to prevent their deletion. Nimbus  (Cumulus nimbus floats by)  09:52, 10 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I was reading a discussion on another talk page where you reference this discussion but don't mention my name. I didn't mean for my remarks to be intimidating. But I guess I'm kind of a stickler with categories, keeping an eye out for them throughout the day and then tagging the empty ones. But I honestly don't have an opinion on what should stay or go (which is why I rarely participate at CFD). But with empty categories, I seem to see the same issues over and over again and was posting to you in responce to some of those past encounter. I'm sorry if I came across as bossy, I was just trying to resolve a problem I was coming across. Liz Read! Talk! 05:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive
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German aircraft designations
I've started a discussion at WT:Air to attempt to agree a consensus on this issue here.Nigel Ish (talk) 13:33, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks have posted another problem there. The source spamming is also odd. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by)  19:20, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Breguet
Hi, I have begun rolling back the bad spelling. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 05:52, 27 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Good job, I've been away from home and PC hence the late reply. Will be best for me to not interfere in the remainder of the article moves to avoid confusion/mistakes. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by)  18:18, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Feel free. I am not rolling back at any pace, just as and when I have nothing better to do. &mdash; Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 18:58, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
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Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Consolidated B-24 Liberator
I have noticed that you have done some edits on the Liberator project. I work on the Afrikaans Wikipedia and is busy translating this article. From the sentence: The Liberator peak overseas deployment was 45.5 bomb groups in June 1944. I can understand 45 or 46 bomb groups, what is 45.5 bomb groups? Regards. Oesjaar (talk) 18:48, 10 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, it doesn't make any sense to me either! It was added in this unsourced section in 2015, the IP that added it ceased editing in 2016 so there's no point trying to ask them what it means or what source it was from. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by)  19:46, 10 June 2024 (UTC)


 * There may be a trail to follow in Bombardment group which is also uncited. It seems to say that there were 125 groups in total and that the B-24 was in groups of 72 aircraft, so 45.5 x 72 = 3,276. I would not translate that section, it should be removed as unreferenced. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by)  20:07, 10 June 2024 (UTC)