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Contents 1 Request for Peer Review help 2 The FA-Team 3 Benjamin Franklin Tilley FAC 4 Thomas Baltzar DYK 5 London FAC 6 May FAC/FAR reviewer award

[edit] Request for Peer Review help

Thank you for you work as a peer review volunteer. Since March, there has been a concerted effort to make sure all peer review requests get some response. Requests that have gone three days or longer without a substantial response are listed at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog. I have three requests to help this continue.

1) If you are asked to do a peer review, please ask the person who made the request to also do a review, preferably of a request that has not yet had feedback. This is fairly simple, but helps. For example when I review requests on the backlog list, I close with Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, ...

2) While there are several people who help with the backlog, lately I have been doing up to 3 or 4 peer reviews a day and can not keep this up much longer. We need help. Since there are now well over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, if each volunteer reviewed just one PR request without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog. To help spread out the load, I suggest those willing pick a day of the month and do a review that day (for example, my first edit was on the 8th, so I could pick the 8th). Please pick a peer review request with no responses yet, if possible off the backlog list. If you want, leave a note on my talk page as to which day you picked and I will remind you each month.

3) I have made some proposals to add some limits to peer review requests at Wikipedia_talk:Peer_review#Proposed_limits. The idea is to prevent any one user from overly burdening the process. These seem fairly reasonable (one PR request per editor per day, only four total PR requests per editor at a time, PR requests with cleanup banners can be delisted (like GAN quick fail), and wait two weeks to relist a PR request after it is archived), but have gotten no feedback in one week. If you have any thoughts on these, please weigh in.

Thanks again for your help and in advance for any assistance with the backlog. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:06, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The FA-Team

Hi. There has been some discussion of how to improve the FA-Team's functioning. It's be grand if you could comment on the new suggested structure, and perhaps also look at our current proposals. Thanks. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 18:35, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Benjamin Franklin Tilley FAC

FYI: I was able to get the bibliography for the web source that you provided me (the Govt. of American Samoa page) and the author has now (or will shortly) be adding that to his page. But, if you actually want it (I'm not sure you do), I can email it to you. The good news there is that I've politely asked the official territorial historian (the guy that wrote those pages) to look over the article for inaccuracies and he has found none. I'm not sure if any of this matters to you, but since you were kind enough to comment, I should be kind enough to follow-up. JRP (talk) 02:19, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thomas Baltzar DYK

On 6 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Thomas Baltzar, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Daniel Case (talk) 04:16, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] London FAC

Hi there,

Apart from the Random Gardening Map, which I am finding a better source for, are there any more problems with the article in your opinion?

Thanks,

The Helpful One ^(Review) 19:52, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May FAC/FAR reviewer award

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		To BuddingJournalist, For your superior reviews of at least 18 Featured article candidates during May, thank you for being one of the top reviewers this month and for your careful work and thorough reviews to help promote Wiki's finest work. Combined with your steady work at FAR, you have made a significant contribution to assuring quality in featured articles on Wiki and are always willing to dig in to the tougher candidate pages. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:12, 8 June 2008 (UTC) Special thanks to Ling.Nut—a retired editor who had a strong commitment to excellence in content review—for designing this award, and to Maralia for running the stats for May.