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==[[Image:Nuvola apps kdmconfig.png|25px|2 people|link=]] Participants ==<br />
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# {{User|Markvs88}} (I am going to start with all merges beginning with the letter "M"... for no particularly good reason!) 20:28, 27 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Ebe123}} Overpopulated backlog. ~~[[User:Ebe123|<span style="text-shadow:#9e6d3f 2px 2px 1px; color:#21421E; font-weight:bold;">Ebe</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Ebe123|<span style="color:#000000">123</span>]]~~ → <small><span class="nowrap">[[User talk:Ebe123|report]]</span></small> 20:40, 27 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Mark Miller}} This user has merged 1 article from the February articles for merger list [[Drakula (1920 film)]] <br />
# {{User|Extra999}} going to help and keep this project going 03:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Northamerica1000}} 00:50, 4 March 2012 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Cerebellum}} - Working on AfD merges. --[[User:Cerebellum|Cerebellum]] ([[User talk:Cerebellum|talk]]) 01:02, 8 March 2012 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Wikishagnik}} - Working Merge and wikify tags<br />
# {{User|OlEnglish}} - Certainly support this project and will try to help when I have time.<br />
# {{User|Thegreatgrabber}} - Work on some random things, applying templates, just help along.<br />
# {{User|Gsingh}} - I have begun merging articles starting from Feb 2009, will work on articles of any topic. [[User:Gsingh|Gsingh]] ([[User talk:Gsingh|talk]]) 04:28, 25 April 2012 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Coastside}} - Interested in working on scientific articles<br />
# {{User|BDD}} I like working on the full backlog rather than the AfD one, where there are many simple fixes, including stale tags and discussions just waiting to be closed.<br />
# {{User|Wbm1058}} I operate [[User:Merge bot]], which updates [[Wikipedia:Proposed mergers/Log]]; Longer term project: analyzing procedures in search of improvements to alleviate the backlog here.<br />
# {{User|GenQuest}} I have been working on mergers (through the [[Wikipedia:Proposed mergers|PM noticeboard]]) since October 2012. I have been doing a bunch of the Afds also, since the backlog has grown to over 125. I try to do a copyedit on the finished product whenever my editing time allows. [[User:GenQuest|<span style="color:Purple; text-shadow:brown 0.1em 0.2em 0.1em;">GenQuest</span>]] <small><sup>[[User talk:GenQuest|<span style="color:Purple; text-shadow:brown 0.1em 0.2em 0.1em;">"Talk to Me"</span>]]</sup></small> 22:52, 29 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
# --[[User:NickPenguin|<font color="darkgreen">Nick</font>]][[User talk:NickPenguin|<font color="darkblue">Penguin</font>]]<sub>([[Special:Contributions/NickPenguin|<font color="blue">'''contribs'''</font>]])</sub> 01:22, 25 February 2013 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Skr15081997}} I had done more than 50 mergers last year, and I am already a member of Mergist Association . [[User:Skr15081997|Skr15081997]] ([[User talk:Skr15081997|talk]]) 17:16, 15 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
# [[User:Iamozy|Iamozy]] ([[User talk:Iamozy|talk]]) 02:29, 6 February 2014 (UTC) Interested in science, especially, biology, neurology, and medicine.<br />
# {{User|P199}} (Working on long-overdue dead or stale merges. Have been working on this sporadically for the last few years already...) 21:16, 3 March 2014 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Logical1004}} Working on dead, or Indian election related or Physics related merges. [[User:Logical1004|Logical1004]] ([[User talk:Logical1004|talk]]) 17:40, 24 March 2014 (UTC)<br />
# {{User2|Capankajsmilyo}}<br />
# {{User|Klbrain}}, particularly Pharmacology and Medicine. I'm working on old merge proposals.<br />
# {{User|Onel5969}}, will try to help out as I can. Came here through the AfD merge backlog.[[User:onel5969|<b><font color="#536895">Onel</font><font color="#FFB300">5969</font></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Onel5969|<i style="color:blue">TT me</i>]]</sup> 21:40, 24 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Serial Number 54129}} Anything except lists, which seem extra complicated.<br />
# {{User|Kvng}}, 21 June 2016<br />
# [[User:Adityavagarwal|Adityavagarwal]] ([[User talk:Adityavagarwal|talk]]) 18:29, 21 February 2017 (UTC)<br />
#{{User|Sophie means wisdom}}<br />
#{{User|nerdgoonrant}} 24 Aug 2017<br />
# [[User:AmericanAir88|AmericanAir88]] ([[User talk:AmericanAir88|talk]]) 01:50, 6 November 2017 (UTC)<br />
# [[User:M G Tuffen|Million_Moments]] ([[User talk:M G Tuffen|talk]]) 12:10, 13 July 2018 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|BRES2773}} Will really work on anything.<br />
# {{User|The Duke of Nonsense}} 20:26, 30 July 2018 (BST)<br />
# {{User|Path slopu}}14:28, 23 September 2018 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Pcamellon}} (I am interested in working on articles realted to technology, science music, computer science and electronics. Maybe other topics but these are my prefered ones.19:31, 24 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Trialpears}} Hoping to reduce the backlog and discuss potential improvements to the process. [[User:Trialpears|Trialpears]] ([[User talk:Trialpears|talk]]) 10:08, 20 April 2019 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Robertsky}} Willing to help in any way possible. [[User:Robertsky|robertsky]] ([[User talk:Robertsky|talk]]) 14:07, 20 September 2019 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Newslinger}} 08:23, 22 October 2019 (UTC)<br />
# {{User2|MarcMyWords}}<br />
# {{User|WikiAviator}} 04:42, 6 April 2020 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|kashmorwiki}}Hoping to reduce the backlog [[User:Kashmorwiki|Kashmorwiki]] ([[User talk:Kashmorwiki|talk]]) 17:13, 17 October 2020 (UTC)<br />
# {{u|TimothyBlue}} as part of NPP and AfD. <span style="font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;//&nbsp;[[User:TimothyBlue|Timothy]]&nbsp;::&nbsp;</strong>[[User talk:TimothyBlue|<strong>talk</strong>]]&nbsp;</span> 14:14, 24 October 2020 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Tsistunagiska}} If I offer both hands to help then it will keep me out of trouble. A concept my brothers will agree I need to do more often. So here I am. --[[User:Tsistunagiska|<span style="color:#b76e79">'''A'''</span><span style="color:#be4f60">'''Rose'''</span>]][[User talk:Tsistunagiska|<span style="color:#b87333">'''Wolf'''</span>]] 17:19, 22 April 2021 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Felix QW}} Will help where I can, when I can.<br />
# [[User:Karthanitesh|Karthanitesh]] ([[User talk:Karthanitesh|talk]]) 00:44, 19 January 2022 (UTC)<br />
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# {{User|Samee}} 20:10, 18 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Quasihuman}} (I plan on working on closing merge discussions and doing simple merges. Also interested in working out new ways of streamlining the system.) 23:03, 25 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
#{{user|Intwizs}} Badam.. tsss (drum sounds) <br />
#{{user|Dondegroovily}} still grinding thru them 21:34, 27 February 2012 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|The_mobot}} - Working on merge - going to try and get as much of it done as I can<br />
# {{User|Khatie Lou}} - Will work on random articles to merge.<br />
# {{User|DoctorKubla}} - I'll do what I can.<br />
# {{User|Karl.brown}} - I'm still learning... 05:27, 5 April 2012 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Kelpso1}} - I'll do as much as I can starting right now. 05:47, 11 April 2012 (UTC)<br />
# {{User|Dark Silver Crow}} - Working on random articles to merge when able.<br />
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# {{User|NewYorkActuary}} 14:59, 29 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
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* '''16,000''' to be merged: March 2, 2012<br />
* '''15,000''' to be merged: May 7, 2012<br />
* '''14,000''' to be merged: June 16, 2012<br />
* '''11,500''' to be merged: January 9, 2014<br />
* '''12,400''' to be merged: November 26, 2015<br />
* '''9,600''' to be merged: December 12, 2016<br />
* '''5,861''' to be merged: July 1, 2018<br />
* '''4,626''' to be merged: October 7, 2018<br />
* '''3,000''' to be merged: May 2, 2020<br />
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