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Hello Fork99,
Backlog update
At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.
After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.
2024 and 2025 NPP Awards
Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.
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BoyTheKingCanDance , Rosiestep , SunDawn , and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.
January–February backlog drive
The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG , who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:37, 14 May 2026 (UTC) Reply
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- Note to self: fixed. Fork99 (talk) 09:43, 30 May 2026 (UTC) Reply
An editor has requested that New South Wales A and B sets be moved to New South Wales Waratah trains. Since you had some involvement with 'New South Wales A and B sets', you are invited to participate in the move discussion. Qwerty123M (talk) 23:43, 1 June 2026 (UTC) Reply
Hello,
I see you've reverted my edit to Southern Cross railway station. I wanted to explain why I have made these edits.
I swapped them so that they would be consistent with every other service. When I say 'convention', I use that as a substitute for making something the same as the majority. If theres a convention that states that it should be the same, I don't know it. LachlanTansey (talk) 00:29, 16 July 2026 (UTC) Reply
Hello Fork99:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.
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 5000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC) Reply
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I was wondering if i could possibly post a image on Wikimedia Commons of a Screenshot that i took on OpenStreetMap of Bridport Road that i drew a red line on the route of bridport road, would it be possible to post it with out any copyright issues? 1Ink (talk) 00:56, 31 July 2026 (UTC) Reply
- @1Ink: Hi, I don't have any experience with creating or adding maps to articles. I don't know if OSM screenshots can be uploaded to Commons, you would need to enquire there as Commons is a separate project/website to the English Wikipedia. Please also note that some images are appropriate to upload locally to the English Wikipedia rather than Commons, however again, I do not know if these would be appropriate here either. You might find these links regarding copyright useful: Commons policy on screenshots, Wikipedia policy on images uploaded locally, OpenStreetMap copyright licensing
- However, most road articles have an interactive map, for example, see the infobox of Bass Highway (Tasmania). Is there a reason why one can't be created for this rather than a static screenshot? I would suggest since neither of us know how to create these maps, that you have a look at Template:Map requested and place
{{Map requested|Australia}}on the relevant talk pages of the article(s) you want a map for to request that someone else make one for it. Please see that template page's documentation linked earlier for how to use it. - Otherwise, if you want more information on maps on Wikipedia articles in general, see Wikipedia:Maps for Wikipedia. Fork99 (talk) 01:26, 31 July 2026 (UTC) Reply
- Alrighty thank you 1Ink (talk) 01:38, 31 July 2026 (UTC) Reply