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Content merged with Linguistic categories#ISO 12620 (ISO TC37 Data Category Registry, ISOcat as recommended after requested move 8 May 2020

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Hello Stuartyeates,

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

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Hello Stuartyeates,

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

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306		Cypherpunk (talk)	Add sources
36		Chittagong College (talk)	Cleanup
27		Johannes Hoffmeister (philosopher) (talk)	Cleanup
22		Blue ling (talk)	Cleanup
57		Sarah Bahbah (talk)	Expand
341		Telefónica (talk)	Expand
47		Kaipara Harbour (talk)	Expand
363		Kardecist spiritism (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
24		Maki Mirage (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
23		Barbara von Krüdener (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
24		History of Maputo (talk)	Merge
16		Briq (talk)	Merge
87		Benji Samit (talk)	Merge
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120		Transportation safety in the United States (talk)	Wikify
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16		Bonded expansion anchor (talk)	Orphan
3		Ugatame (talk)	Orphan
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12		Anders Jordahl (talk)	Stub
7		Sphinx kalmiae (talk)	Stub
9		Luís Seoane (talk)	Stub
10		Donna Rose Addis (talk)	Stub
5		Pachysphinx modesta (talk)	Stub

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You decided to move Ferrocarriles Toluca a Tenango y San Juan to "Toluca and Tenango and San Juan Railways", a title which, btw., you obviously took from my slightly incorrect – now fixed – translation in the article. There is a reason why I opted for the Spanish name, and you should have asked for that reason, before moving an article to a wrong lemma. First, using the English translation is not consistent with other articles about Mexican railways (please read about Consistency in article titles), including the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México, Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico, Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán, or Ferrocarril del Pacífico, which are/were some of the most important railways in Mexico, and definitely set precendents here. Second, in the case of the Toluca, there is only one book available in English, and even that book uses the Spanish name for the company. Third, company names are proper names and should only be translated in the article title, if there is significant reason to do so (like use in the literature about that company). So the Spanish name was the much better choice here. --Thogo 19:52, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The page NGC 5591 has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it was a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

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109		Summon Night: Swordcraft Story (talk)	Cleanup
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65		Nostalgie de la boue (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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1,976		Ethics of artificial intelligence (talk)	Merge
334		Immigration detention in the second Trump administration (talk)	Merge
543		Paratha (talk)	Merge
30		Kazakh wrestling (talk)	Wikify
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716		Honda in Formula One (talk)	Wikify
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19		Onitsha South (talk)	Stub
372		DDR6 SDRAM (talk)	Stub
13		Cerro Cambutal (talk)	Stub
14		Punta Mala, Panama (talk)	Stub
34		Idemili North (talk)	Stub
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