Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/BLD Preload

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The  AfC Backlog Elimination Drive will take place from  to. 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 '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 "Participants" section below after you have reviewed at least one article. All reviews must be completed after 00:00 (UTC) on and before 00:00 (UTC) on. 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 previously been declined by another reviewer, you may still review the article for a point.

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


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

In order to assist with drives wrote a program - AFCBuddy - that can generate the mandatory list of diffs for a user. It is generally much simpler to use AFCBuddy.

Signup
Instructions for registering for the backlog drive, whether or not you're using AFCBuddy:

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 coordinator after this drive ends.

Reviewing Reviews
To ensure quality remains priority, reviews of reviews will be conducted at random times. If a review is found to be not done properly or done poorly, the review will be deducted 2 points. Any user may review other user's reviews if they wish.

Rereviews are conducted by placing on the backlog drive page of a user. These pages have titles which begin with "Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Current month/Username" and are listed in the Totals section. The review template is placed after the link to the diff which is being reviewed. Right before you save a review, the diff page will look like this:


 * 1) (Declined)
 * 2) (Declined)
 * 3) (Declined)

A bot will come by and move the reviews to the "Checked reviews" section.

If you pass a review, use:

If you fail a review, use:

Any user who reviews at least 25 reviews from any other user participating in the drive will receive the Teamwork Barnstar. Please note that if there are a lack of reviewers, distribution of awards at the end of the drive will be delayed until most of the reviews are reviewed.

If a review is failed a third user shall review the same article and either pass or fail the article. If both users fail the review the aforementioned two points will be deducted from the users score. If the secondary reviewer passes the article no points will be deducted.

Reviewers
''This section list users who have re-reviewed other users reviews. ✅ means that the user has reviewed over 25 reviews.''

Invitation
If you know anyone who may want to help, put this template on their talk page: {{subst:WPAFCDrive}}, 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!