OK two things you might want to look at The last few months have been marked by a degradation of the process.  and  Coupled by a need to "get it right the first time," I'm not convinced that NPP is any worse now than it has been for years - back in 2009 we often had the queue run to thirty days and some articles reach the end of the queue unpatrolled. So there has been a shortage of patrollers for years. We've reduced that by running drives to appoint Autopatrollers, and there are other ideas that would help. But many of them require changes to be made by the Foundation. ''SpielChequers''