Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/June 2013 backlog reduction drive

Law of unintended consequences

G'day all,

I note that the more we do on B Class checklist completion, the stats on three of the other goals go backwards. Obviously this is because many of the checklists (at least the ones I'm doing) identify shortfalls in B1-3, but often not in B4-5. Therefore, are all our targets even achievable? My impression is that we might achieve the checklists completed target but be up the Yarzoo in a barbed wire canoe on several of the others. Do we tweak the targets? Thoughts?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Peacemaker67 (talk • contribs) 11:51, 4 June 2013

G'day, I agree, the targets for most may not be achievable, but it is probably not necessary to adjust them now that we've started. I'm not really fussed, though, so if others disagree, I won't stand in the way. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 13:48, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

We don't want to give the indication that the drive is not concerned with those topics. I was considering suggesting setting hte goal to 0 in each of these cases, so that the increase might be "-1.2%" rather than "-21%" which would keep the target there to encourage people but be less offputting. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 16:07, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Articles needing photographs

G'day all, not having been involved in a drive before, I came across the Image Existence Checker here, and so far have found that 20-30% of all articles listed there actually already have a useful pic (the rest appear to be recognising flags and other image-related stuff. I have been deleting the template from articles where this is the case. Not wishing to devalue the excellent work being done by editors actually finding and uploading pics to articles, but if any other editors are interested in some gnoming around in the list generated by the Image Existence Checker, I'm certain we will easily achieve our target (and do some necessary house-keeping into the bargain. Of course, no backlog drive points would accrue for this activity. Regards, Peacemaker67 (send... over) 09:30, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been finding the same. I'm deleting these templates where they've been addressed. Nick-D (talk) 02:50, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Another drive

Due to the negative progess on several of the categories (up to negative 125%), we may need to hold another drive soon. How would October or November do? 64.6.124.31 (talk) 20:51, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

It isn't actually negative progress - the articles concerned needed work on reference, or structure, or whatever it is, before the drive started; they merely weren't on our radar. So I don't think that should necessarily dictate the next drive. However, October or November sounds sensible anyway, I don't think it would be too soon. Indeed, I wouldn't mind September. Until the B-class checklist backlog has been dealt with, the others will rise. But it will still be progress. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 21:26, 24 June 2013 (UTC)