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Great Backlog Drive 2011

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At the beginning of the Great Backlog Drive 2011, the backlogs were at the following levels:

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Backlog	Number	Numbers @ 16/02/2012
Copy to Commons	22,699	9,752
Images Lacking a Description	12,636	8,380
Images Lacking An Author	5,696	5,393
Incomplete Renaming Requests	4
Inappropriate Compression	2,155	1,853
Watermarks	11	227
Images which should be png	182	490
Articles which may no longer need images	7,792
Articles needing coordinates	179,251	170,378
Articles with topics of unclear notability	31,553	54,262
Articles with trivia sections	5,091
Wikipedia articles needing context	4,574	4,598
Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction	2,740	3,562?
Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention	2,497	2,985
Wikipedia external links cleanup	52	2,352
Articles that may contain original research	8,735	9,205
NPOV disputes	6,417	7,733
Accuracy disputes	4,677	6,040
Wikipedia articles in need of updating	101	5,073
Self-contradictory articles	75	214
Talk pages requiring geodata verification	4
Wikipedia license migration needs review	1,874
Images of people replacing placeholders	1,922	877
Copied and pasted articles and sections	42	144
Wikipedia files with disputed copyright information	104	1,706
Disambiguation pages in need of being split	9
Articles to be split	659	101
Articles needing sections	963	277
Articles to be merged	16,085	15,125
Articles to be expanded	99,287	94,795
Non-free Wikipedia file size reduction request	156
Non-free Wikipedia files with red backlink	82	94
Non-free Wikipedia files lacking article backlink	29
Articles with improper non-free content	139
Wikipedia files that transclude the Non-free media rationale template with no Purpose specified	100	150
Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup	111	10
Underpopulated categories	3,578	1,128
Articles needing expert attention	5,004	5,615
Articles needing cleanup	41,681	26,430
Orphaned articles	182,026	174,264
New Page Patrol	12000
Articles with broken or outdated citations	70	82
Pages with missing references list	14	288
Articles with minor POV problems	819	464
Articles with unsourced quotes	622	696
Wikipedia articles needing factual verification	2,838	3,468
Articles with dead external links	92,412	100,635
Articles lacking reliable references	23,665	37,364
Unreferenced BLPs	21,261	56,775
Articles needing additional references	99,011	224,424
Articles with unsourced statements	193,259	222,323
Articles lacking sources	312,781	235,751
Copyright infringement investigations	thousands (no automatic count)