New Pages Patrol is hosting a one-time, two-month experimental backlog drive aimed at reducing the backlog. This will be a combo drive: both articles and redirects will earn points.
The drive will run from 1 January to 28 February 2026.
The drive is divided into two phases. Participants may take part in either phase or across both phases, depending on availability.
Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled during the drive.
Two-month drive-exclusive barnstars will be awarded to eligible participants.
Each article review earns 1 point, while each redirect review earns 0.2 points.
Streak awards will be granted based on consistently meeting weekly point thresholds.
Barnstars will also be awarded forre-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
I asked you not to contact me again and you're still editing my Talk page. I don't care what you have to say. If I ever make a bad edit I'll own it; in the meantime I don't care if you think I'm being rude when undoing vandalism.Synergetics (talk)17:00, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
You also weren't undoing vandalism, you were disagreeing with someone about the appropriateness of content. It was an editor acting in good faith who you happened to have a different opinion to.Accusing obviously good-faith editors of vandalism is something you've done before. In that previous case and in this one (the Peter Attia edit) I think you were in the right about the content issue and your edits were therefore helpful. But if you talk to other editors like that in the process, you do damage to the project, and you risk getting yourself blocked. So I suggest just...don't?AntiDionysius (talk)17:08, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
As to your first sentence: absolutely not. I talk that way to editors who are not acting in good faith. In this case, at the time the edit was made, a simple internet search on any major engine for the terms "attia epstein" would have resulted in a full page of results from mainstream journalistic outlets. So that wasn't a good-faith mistake; that was someone doing PR cleanup for a public figure. That was someone using Wikipedia to lie. And the language you saw as offensive, again, was "The world's ass." Just that. You think that's a bigger problem than using Wikipedia to lie. Civility is a mug's game.Synergetics (talk)17:15, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
that was someone doing PR cleanup for a public figure - That's simply false, but okay.
you took it upon yourself to delete my edits. Do you know her? I do. I had dinner with her and her husband. They both were pleased with the update. What's wrong with you and your outdated information?~2026-91343-3 (talk)16:51, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Couple of things. First of all, while I get that having your edits reverted is frustrating,please try to be civil. We're all here to improve the encyclopaedia, even if we don't always agree.
Oh and fourth: as well as your edits being unsourced, they were also highlypromotional, notneutral in the way Wikipedia should be. This is one of the reasons you're not supposed to edit articles about your friends - most people don't feel neutrally about their friends.AntiDionysius (talk)16:59, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
It was an issue of civility, yes. Saying"This user does not seem to listen to any reason given so I would recommend ending any argument in one message and not continuing." is a problem both because it'sattacking someone personally - saying they are incapable of being reasonable - and because it discourages other users from discussing things with them, whendiscussion is how everything gets done on Wikipedia.
The overarching principle is that you should comment on content, not on people. If you think someone is violating Wikipedia policies, you canget help with that. If you have a disagreement that you can't work out between you, there areavenues for resolving that. But if you're not going to do either of those things, the best solution is just to move on. Sometimes on Wikipedia people will do something that annoys or upsets you, or have political views you find very objectionable. But such is life.AntiDionysius (talk)18:35, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
