Gilo1969

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User talk:Citysupersale

Apologies - we more or less edit-conflicted. I wouldn't normally have given a softerblock immediately after your uw-username without giving them time to reply, though it seems fairly clear this is another one who thinks WP is a free advertising noticeboard. I wish the sign-up page said, in letters of fire, "Wikipedia is not a place for you to tell the world about yourself or your band, group or company - if that is what you want to do, this is not the site for you". Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:28, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User talk:Ivan Clarin

User talk:Ivan Clarin, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:Ivan Clarin and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User talk:Ivan Clarin during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. The Banner talk 06:43, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Tony Fulton

how can my page be posted? ( Tony Fulton)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fultsfults (talk • contribs) 16:02, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Martin Brodeur

I reverted an update to the Brodeur page which included his statistics from the current season. The wp:hockey convention is to wait until the end of the season before updating statistics. I didn't realize until after I made the change that the page was somewhat locked and you had approved the earlier change. I've never encountered such a lock. If you are the moderator of the page and want the mid-season update, then please disregard my edit. 69.159.30.50 (talk) 23:14, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Hamdam Foundation

Hello Gilo1969. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Hamdam Foundation, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to schools. Thank you. GedUK  12:57, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Banned user?

You tagged Kamlashanker Vishvakarma with (among others) {{db-g5}} (speedy deletion because created by banned user). I don't see any evidence that the author has been blocked or banned. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Please see the comment on the article talk page - this is a direct recreation of multiple pages created by User:Kamlashanker who was then blocked. This is very likely to be a sockpuppet. Regards,  GILO   A&E⇑ 15:36, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks! WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:36, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Might this be a candidate for WP:SPI? WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:39, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Could be; I have no idea how to go about starting one. Often the admin checking the speedy sorts these out without any further intervention.  GILO   A&E⇑ 15:43, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kamlashanker). WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:45, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!  GILO   A&E⇑ 15:49, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Darren J Webster

Hi Gilo1969.
Came across what seems a rather promotional new article Realta Entertainment Group and noted that you had previously CSD'd the users first 'article' Darren J Webster on 9 December 13. Does User:Darren J Webster look anything like that page? Seems rather promotional too. 220 of ^Borg 00:26, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Gilo1969 and 220 of Borg

Yes, the article about Realta Entertainment Group is new. It is a real company based in Campbell, CA and just released BandFuse: Rock Legends

What I don't understand is the big deal or why anyone is making a big deal about this is when I see pages for such companies as Electronic Arts among many other game publishers as well as their titles. Before you go and delete what was a lot of work, speak with me directly before making that call. Darren J Webster (talk) 07:27, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

• I have WP:indented your message for clarity. This indenting is standard practice on WP. Hope you don't mind. 220 of ^Borg 13:20, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

It comes down to WP: Notability.

• Electronic Arts has been around a long time-over 30 years - is or was the No.3 games company world-wide and produced a great many notable computer games. Realta has been operating for about 5? There is no comparison. See also WP: Other stuff exists.
• You have a WP: Conflict of Interest (COI) when you are writing about yourself, your company, or your companies products, which I have already advised you about on your talkpage.
• The 'fuss' is that Wikipedia is an on-line encyclopaedia, unfortunately a lot, a lot, of non-notable (at least yet) people see it as a venue to put their resume, advertise their new business/ organisation or advertise their product etc. Others want to use it as a WP: soapbox to propagate their personal theories or inventions. Others see it as a venue to seek justice, accuse people of crimes or to 'Make the World Right' (according to their point of view). All these are not allowed. 220 of ^Borg 13:20, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Why post tags without due diligence?

This is regarding Lachit Borphukan article that I am trying to translate in Indian languages. I am trying to provide same English article in regional language by translation for the millions of Indians who still cannot read English articles on Wiki. Letting you know that I am removing the speedy deletion tag that you posted on my article. I hope over-enthusiastic users such as yourself use the privileges with self-restraint. J J Parikh 22:51, 29 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Parikhjigish (talk • contribs)

Committee of Union and Progress

Would you be interested in joining a discussion about this article? --Kansas Bear (talk) 06:07, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Wgolf. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Nether Haddon, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Wgolf (talk) 22:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Why is my article bad?

Hi Gilo,

Why did you nominate "The Brand New Design Awards" for the deletion. I`m not sure for the reason. There are many competitions submitted to wikipedia. Why is this one different? example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Design_Award). It serves the purpose of educating people about the contest, exactly like my example before. There are many important people involved in the project that creates a bigger and deeper array of information about the person.--Dodikbobik (talk) 20:59, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

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	JNKA Awards
	ICHC IVT HOLDINGS is Back Irate158 (talk) 14:34, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

EpicRealms

Apologies - I just AfD'd it as you CSD'd it. I suspected it probably could be an easy CSD but the web content GNG is one I am less familiar with. Please feel free to re-speedy if you believe it appropriate. S.G.^(GH) _ping! 17:40, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Micrommata aljibica and other articles

Hey Gilo,

So, I noticed you reviewed Micrommata aljibica and marked it as fine. I'm not seeing any inline citations, or any references, just external links - that's not 'fine' ;). In the future, when you encounter articles without inline citations or explicit references, please tag them as such. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 18:04, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Oops

Sorry Gilo, I messed up my archiving. Rebel Redcoat (talk) 22:53, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Raw History" article in Satya

@user:Gilo1969 Rynn Berry, the author of the article, has a Wikipedia article (written during the 3 months after his death). I believe that cited authors should be linked to their Wikipedia articles, when those articles exist. I have added that link. Please don't revert that without having a conversation with me and the others involved in that article, including Dilip Barman. MaynardClark (talk) 15:51, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done using last/first/authorlink parameters.  GILO   A&E⇑ 21:14, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Phill24th. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Luap Restsae, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Phill24th (talk) 19:33, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

CSD

Hi Gilo1969, I changed the CSD template on Qatar olympic & sport mueseum as its a copy vio - I hope you dont mind. Flat Out let's discuss it 11:12, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

Sorry! I'm a new user on Wikipedia, and I'm still learning how to make a page! I am working on My Jolly Sailor Bold, and it was to my surprise that somebody wanted to delete it, may I continue working on it without further deletions? I am a new user, after all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IBCPirates (talk • contribs) 17:11, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Could you check out my page again and see if it's worth being summited to be an actual page. IBCPirates (talk) 21:39, 14 April 2014 (UTC)IBCPirates

Gilo, it's me TravisFrye, I'm wondering if you liked my article, named "Robin(Teen Titans GO!)", did you like it?

--TravisFrye (talk) 20:32, 19 April 2014 (UTC)Travis

Hi Gilo: Please review this article: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Viloteau). Viloteau was one of Judicaël Perroy's students. My piece about Perroy is not any different in its tone than the one about his student. I have worked it and re-worked it with JimBleak (another reviewer) for the past ten or so days until I brought it up to his acceptable level. He asked me to post it and said he would support it. When I did you nixed it. Is there anything else I could do to meet with your approval? Thanks. Zinjanous (talk) 05:59, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Soliciting comment...

Hi! Would you care to review or comment at my FA nomination for Marquee Moon, an article about a rock music album? Information on reviewing an FA nomination's criteria is available at WP:FACR. If not, feel free to ignore this message. Cheers! Dan56 (talk) 23:03, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning up my mess

Hello Gilo. Thank you for deleting my unnecessary page. I wish I could have one it on my own, but I did not know how. I have been working steadily for several days now with little sleep and just copied the wrong link... and here we are. Thanks again, and i will try to do better. --DrX (talk) 01:13, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Sorry about the spurious page and speedy delete necessary. I was trying to add a picture to my user page but for some insane reason, the android beta app created it as a normal page. Apologies for either my stupidity or the buggy app, either way. AndyRatchick (talk) 20:30, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Garbage genres discussion

Hello. You're a past editor in the Garbage articles, would you mind giving your input on the latest discussion? Talk:Garbage_(band)#Genres. --Lpdte77 (talk) 01:47, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Lisa McGregor

Just a quick note - I declined the A7 tag on this as there is a small amount of magazine coverage about her and skincare company. Might be worth sending to AfD, I haven't had a look for any other sources myself. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 20:51, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Help Can you Review My page

I think I have fixed my issues with the SWAK Designs page. Please help!! I believe it is encyclopedial now and not promotional in any way. I have also added notable sources. Marcyguevara (talk) 19:20, 9 July 2014 (UTC)marcy

Altered speedy deletion rationale: User:Artistneeraj

Hello Gilo1969. I am just letting you know that I deleted User:Artistneeraj, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, under a different criterion from the one you provided, which doesn't fit the page in question. Thank you. GedUK  11:50, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Help about My article pls: User:Hsamgh

hello gilo, can you tell me what i have to do in my article (chobert). thanks. can you tell me whats difference between chobert and hundreds of other jewellery brands in Wikipedia?

Re:

Well you failed to answer me on this point. Anyone with remote intelligence would have worked out that my first edit was in error in having confused left from right at the spur of the moment when examining Roxy the Dog's edit. Either way, it did not justify your use of rollback because in doing so you also reverted a constructive and summary-explained edit; in these cases the procedure is to perform the donkey work manually, or to invite the person who made the error to do the task. Regardless, your use of templates and your behavior over the Maradonna incident makes it clear to me that my presence as a constructive editor has not hit home with you, and you continue to believe I am a vandal. This same fantasy is what led to my 48-hour block. So let me tell you something, I am going to be watching your edits like a hawk - minor ones, major ones, the lot, and I promise you, the munute you step out of line, I'll have your stinking guts - it will be AIV, ANI, the lot. I don't care if it was an accidental click of rollback on a non-vandalism or partial non-vandalism affair, or something even simpler, the moment you slip up, you're out of here son. Be warned, I am onto you and keeping tabs of your edits. The 5th Doctor (talk) 00:55, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Shocking...

I've declined your nonsense tag - it's actually coherent. I'd already declined Mr X, but your post would have come in so soon after my prod that you wouldn't have seen that. Nonsense at CSD really has to be gibberish or 'jytcttytyjtrfgb' stuff. It's quite uncommon. I can't think of another speedy for this - I don't think even 'test page' comes into play. Peridon (talk) 19:33, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Samuel Muthui

It took me a mere 5 seconds to find a source with this person's biography. While I was improving it you nominated it for speedy delete. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 14:50, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing A Strange Encounter, Gilo1969.

Unfortunately Mz7 has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

I found that the article is about an album by the band Thirteen Senses. It doesn't appear to be very notable, so if no evidence of notability can be found I think the best course of action would be to redirect the article to Thirteen Senses.

To reply, leave a comment on Mz7's talk page.

I have marked the page as reviewed again. Mz7 (talk) 20:00, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Basic life support

An article that you have been involved in editing, Basic life support, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. G. C. Hood (talk) 01:04, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Altamel. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Pong Research, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Altamel (talk) 03:13, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

I moved the page to its proper title, since it wasn't a test page, but I unreviewed it since the page might still be promotional and NPP patrollers might want to have another look. Altamel (talk) 03:16, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Sorry but i edited that just to see whether it edits really or not!!! no other intentions :) HiMMC (talk) 10:12, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Wikicology. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, The Fifth Vertex, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Wikicology (talk) 11:31, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Party in the Graveyard

I have declined your A9 speedy on this because, although the band were not correctly linked from the article, they do have their own article at Ghost Town (band). I will point the author to WP:NALBUMS and say refs and more info will be needed if it is to be kept. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 18:57, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	hi..will you please help me by telling me..why deletion happen? Leelagupta (talk) 11:47, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

why you hatin on my page

what should i add to make it up to the "Gilo code" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinswag (talk • contribs) 12:57, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for cleaning up after me. This is a good reason not to edit when the family are running around me. ;-) The Whispering Wind (talk) 22:19, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Unbiunium

so you tagged it for speedy deletion can you merge the words from extended periodic table to the page i created because element 120 and 119 have a page and 121 does not also can i create element 122??

Confirmation of Permission to Re-Use articles copyrighted and written by me - Angela Lear - on the subject of Interpreting Chopin's Music.

Gilo. I have tried writing to you a number of times related to the article I sent in on the subject of Interpreting Chopin's Music, Notes on Interpreting Chopin, Chopin's Grandes Etudes, etc.. without response. In the messages I received from you there was an offensive suggestion of plagiarism and a demand for the deletion of my work: article Interpreting Chopin's Music. As I have tried to explain in my previous messages, my articles have been published elsewhere in professional and amateur journals in addition to various Internet sites - so it is a question of me confirming the re-use of my articles as the copyright owner and author, which I have confirmed. So, I am definitely not guilty of plagiarising myself and my own work. I feel I should have been given at least the time to respond with this information before deletion. Could you please advise about this? To re-instate the article? Thankyou. Angela Lear

Without Prejudice Adlear (talk) 15:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks from me too

Hi Gilo1969. Just wanted to say thank you for doing the housework on my behalf at New (album) and Wings over America. Best of all, I've now learned how to get 'round those embedded links for the future. Thanks! JG66 (talk) 11:15, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Deletion of Larry L'Estrange

It says that Larry L'Estrange is up for speedy deletion. I have changed the page to comply with copyright guidelines.

Also, it is in my best wishes to make this page as my great-uncle, yes Larry was my great-uncle, would've celebrated his 80th Birthday this year. Please take this into consideration and get back to me ASAP — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabloem (talk • contribs) 21:37, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

TAKE A GANDER

Please take a look at the Edward Braddock page and how you contributed and what happened to me because of it. Please reply as to what you found. Thanks108.11.229.138 (talk) 22:11, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Gilo

I just tried to add an informational page for Square Tail Brewing Company. I tried to follow the format of other Maine Breweries but it was flagged for deletion. I included a newspaper article. I did not list the brewers guild but could do that to support the page.

Please can you help me understand any issue so that I can get the page listed.

Regards

Gary — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cresgar (talk • contribs) 05:22, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion: Abdul Rauf

Hi Gilo1969:

Is the article acceptable in its present form now? At the moment it is very basic but I am sure it will be duly updated over time by other editors. And of course I will add further information as I can find it to enhance the article.

I am not sure how I go about contesting the speedy deletion. Can you help me with that? - --EditorExtraordinaire (talk) 21:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

The article JayBleeng

It was previously deleted as well as the creator of the original article was blocked for attacks yesterday, just wanted to point that out as I saw you put a tag on the page. Wgolf (talk) 22:07, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

Good morning Gilo,

Over the course of the last 6 hours you have deleted a page that I had created, Tiddalick.

Your reason for this seems to be that you see the article as Spammy or Advertising. On this basis, you should delete the Angry Birds page, and any other Video Game page for that matter.

Can you please elaborate on your decision to nominate Tiddalick for SpeedyDeletion?

Is there a way for me to access the deleted page so that I can recover the deleted data? I realise the page wasn't finished yet, I was intending to add to it today.

Thanks,

Russell Elfenbein Cyber2024 (talk) 00:02, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Health effects of pollution

this article is copied from the US government public domain source, {http://www.epa.gov/region07/air/quality/health.htm , and cannot therefore be deleted as a copyvio. It is however an inferior duplication of the article Air pollution,and I deleted it as such. DGG ( talk ) 16:29, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Stop adding deletion

I already contested deletion don't add deletion againCloaked in Daggers (talk) 01:22, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

The Molotov

We've been asked multiple times, as a political Australian Rock band that has been going for over 7 years, why there isn't info about the band, it's stance & it's history on Wikipedia. I began writing an article, hit save only to be told you deleted it so I would appreciate knowing why. Scart69 (talk) 12:42, 10 March 2015 (UTC)SCART69

Ian Beale

Gilo, sorry if I have offended you it was just a bit of witty banter you need to chillax bro. I didn't know you loved Ian Beale so much. You are clearly very moved by Ian's story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IanBealetoplad (talk • contribs) 00:29, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

LEAVE ME ALONE YOU COW I'LL TAKE LEGAL ACTION PISS OFF I'M ONLY TRYING TO HAVE SOME WITTY BANTER I'M NOT STARTING ON YOU BUT IF YOU WANT WE CAN TAKE THIS OUTSIDE. SQUARE GO — Preceding unsigned comment added by IanBealetoplad (talk • contribs) 00:35, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Mina Roshdy

Hi. I've changed your tag. I consider it a blatant hoax - if he/she really is a professor of dentistry at that uni, it's a bit odd to say the least. A11 is really for things that could be true (but who cares?). Things like the new word invented by Fred Bloggs last week, the new drinking game ('Cider Ping' - but not the computer command...), or the new sport sweeping the nation (that is played by one bunch of kids at one school in Poison Flats, Arizona). We assume good faith (cough) and call it made up. A person isn't made up in this sense unless they're fictional (in a book etc) - and then it's prod time. The person here may be real, but the article is misinformation - that is, hoax. Peridon (talk) 13:03, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

I changed it to an A7 (unremarkable person), because looking at the username, it appears to be an autobiography, and so it's likely the information is true, but they're just not notable. I also issued the user an autobiography warning. Joseph2302 (talk) 14:05, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Coinsecure

Hi, Page was marked patrolled please help... I was still working on page.. New here.. Droidmaxxx (talk) 02:56, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Droidmaxxx, create the page at User:Droidmaxxx/Coinsecure and follow the advice on your talk page. Wikipedia can be a welcoming place, but it is intolerant of certain activities, like advertising. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:01, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

It does seem a young editor is patrolling every single article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Newrunner769 I keep on finding these odd articles patrolled by him or her-not sure what to tell them though! Wgolf (talk) 00:24, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	hi autumn nolan 17:34, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Hey dude, just because your unaware of who the "HodgeTwins" are doesn't mean that, you are obligated to apply a speedy deletion to it. Read up on them and make adjustments with me. Thanks - also I contested your deletion with some good references. Thanks. Jaydash3 (talk) 23:47, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Jamie Dornan's image

There has been a conflict over the use of the infobox image in the Jamie Dornan page, I'm hoping that a vote to choose a preferred image would settle the dispute. I am therefore writing to those editors who have ever edited Jamie Dornan page to voice their opinion in the Jamie Dornan Talk page so we can reach a consensus. I would welcome your opinion. Hzh (talk) 13:31, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Greetings

I am not contesting the reversion of my edit in the BICD1 article, but I don't understand (my lack of knowledge) your reasons for doing so in the edit summary. You use terms I thought I knew what they meant, but now I'm not so sure. Best Regards,

  Bfpage |leave a message  11:12, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Miki Sudo

You recently listed Miki Sudo for A7 CSD, which has since been contested (by me) and removed by another editor. At the time you listed the page, it read: "Miki Sudo competes in the Nathan's Hotdog Eating Contest." If you had looked up Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, you would have seen that it is a very prominent competitive eating competition, making the page's contents at that time constitute a claim of significance. Note that according to WP:A7: "The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify on Wikipedia's notability guidelines." You might want to consider using WP:PROD for cases like this in the future.

I also noticed that you listed the page for CSD a mere 2 minutes after its creation. Note that WP:NPP#Special:NewPagesFeed recommends "A good rule of thumb is to wait about 15 minutes after the last edit before tagging the article". I appreciate your work in reducing the backlogged new pages queue, but please try to exercise more care in the future. A2soup (talk) 04:22, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Apples and oranges

Hi. Regarding this reversion, just so you know, International Piano Archives is now a wikilink, being a redirect to University of Maryland Libraries#International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM). The citation contains a link to the IPAM's own external website.

I won't be objecting to your reversion, but just be aware we're discussing apples and oranges here. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:03, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Hess Truck

Hi Gilo1969

Sorry I did not realize creating a Hess Trucks page would be a copyright infringment but for some reason I am having trouble deleting it. Could you possibly delete it for me? Thanks and sorry for the trouble

Conklinj (talk) 18:41, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Alexiulian25 (talk) 18:50, 31 July 2015 (UTC)put back my article, the one before you deleted, to read it and see and wonder why people delete it

Charlie attack

Hello,

I just don't get what the problem is with the mention of the Charlie attack in the 2015 page. It is a mystery to me why this event is supposed to be kept silent. Do you consider it to be not significant enough? The eradiction of the rubella and the resignation of the FIFA president are mentioned... Can you enlighten me, please? La Halfeline (talk) 11:10, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Kneeph

Sorry, it appears to exist. I've tagged it with things (including possible lack of notability and lack of references). You're welcome to try a different direction... Peridon (talk) 20:58, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Note of Thanks

Thanks for listing Kanthar sasti Kavasam page for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RajaRajan Tamilian (talk • contribs) 15:39, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Fix my page

Hello can you please fix my Jamar Q Chiles page....his reference link is www.jamarqchiles.com and he is a notable poet and motivational speaker out of Bloomfield College Thanks Newsistrue (talk) 15:39, 24 September 2015 (UTC)Newsistrue (talk) 15:33, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks you

Thank you Gilo for fixing the Cuban Fire! page. Sorry that I was trying to do too many things at once and did not see the #s in the imbedding were wrong. Thanks Shelyric (talk) 07:21, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Make a page

Hello can you please make a page of "Indrajit Sharma".I will give you the details of him.He is a 15yrs old boy who have created a social messaging Android App.He is a writer,video presenter,programmer,social worker and philosopher.He has wrote many stories in hindi which are very famous in India.They are"Garib hone ke intezaar mein" and "billi ki farmaish". Thanks Inder9804 —Preceding undated comment added 07:50, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

fix my page microearners

hello sir, I've created one page MicroEarners_Limited a official registered company from companies_house and many users looking for the info, and wikipedia is a main source of info around the world, so please fix my page, thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itkorai (talk • contribs) 21:42, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Rollback

I have granted the "rollbacker" permission to your account. After a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, contact me and I will remove it. Good luck and thanks. – Gilliam (talk) 11:33, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Sorry

Pls I'm sorry don't report me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronald McDonald is back (talk • contribs) 09:15, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

my Popeye edit was true

i edited Popeye because i was the cameraman for popeye

Popeye

I edited Popeye because it was true i was the cameraman for popeye OfficialBarabbas (talk) 16:10, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015

Hi Gilo1969

I am new to posting to Wikipedia. I tried to post a new page/item 药物流行病学(meaning pharmacoepidemiology) which is a Chinese version translated from an existing page 'Pharmacoepidemiology" but I got a message saying it was in a category of "speedy deletion" due to its repetition to the existing page "Pharmacoepidemiology".

Can you please advise the posting requirements if I would like to create Chinese version of some pages in English that is my speciality area?

Can you also please advise how to add 中文 (meaning Chinese) under "Languages" on the left panel so that the item in English can be linked to that same item in Chinese?

Thanks

A xiao888 (talk) 05:33, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

I don't know if you got to see this, moving this from the talk page for your edits page. Nothing was changed when moving. Adog104 (talk) 17:06, 19 October 2015 (UTC)Adog104

World Peace Sign

World Peace Sign

The World Peace Sign is an Icon in the Making. This isn't some fly by night promotion or publicity stunt. This is an American Icon that will be a symbol for the world to be proud of and will stand as a visual reminder that the World needs individuals spreading peace worldwide. However, it is not proper to call the Peace Sign the World Peace Sign. The World Peace Sign is the World Peace Sign. I am sorry if the website is not the way it would be if we had $$ and big stars promoting it, but it is an honest start and its worth having an article explaining what it is. Leo J123 (talk) 23:24, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

User Talk: O.murad001

Gilo, I am new to customizing pages on wikipedia. Companies have been telling me to make one but it seems that making wiki's about people is a violation. I was directed to speak with an administrator to appeal this case as well. What steps can I take to insure my page stays up? I am an MMA Fighter who has a rare undefeated amateur record with two belts majoring in business about compete around parts of the Bahamas, Thailand, and China; I believe that is a page worth posting about. Please, I can sure use your help on how to properly submit my page.  [[User:O.murad001|O.murad001 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 15:24, 21 October 2015 (UTC) 

Speedy deletion

Hi Gilo,

I shan't contest your deletion of the page as I precipitated myself in posting, thinking that I was saving a draft rather than publishing - forgive the newcomer error, please. All the best! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.133.84.45 (talk) 15:07, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

I am a producer turned DJ and have been travelling around the country at playing at various festivals and events. Multiple news papers have published my interviews and stuffs. how do I proceed with it? Anshammer (talk) 17:19, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Gilo, I am lost and I can use your help. I wanted to make a wiki about myself due to the fact that I am an amateur mma fighter who is undefeated with a record of 6 wins and 0 losses. I have been my companies to make one but i can not seem to find a way to make it stick. I did not write my article in an advertisement form, and i believe my article does have significance due to my perfected start and motives. Wikipedia also mentioned I can appeal to keep my page up because it does not seem like there is much difference between other person's wiki's and my one except experience. Can you possibly edit my article so it can be properly posted? I can sure use the help.

Answered on User talk:O.murad001's talk page. Altamel (talk) 18:18, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks.

Thanks for fixing my sloppy citation on the Geraldton page relating to the MRO. Mistral2099 (talk) 05:35, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

SPEEDY DELETION OF MY PAGE CONTENT

WIKIPEDIA DOESN'T HAVE A PAGE NAMED AS "A BAG-PACK TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP" THEN WHY YOU DEMANDED A SPEEDY DELETION FOR THAT PAGE AND I CONTEST FOR SPEEDY DELETION, STILL IT GOT DELETED. SO GIVE AN APPROPRIATE REASON TO ITS DELETION. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93 shubh (talk • contribs) 09:44, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikilinks in citations

Hi Gilo. This surprised me. Could you direct me to the quideline behind the edit, please?

Trafford09 (talk) 12:36, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Wikilinks in title parameters do not link to anything when there is also a URL linking the title. See here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:06, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Help, Could you please Review Sheyene Gerardi's page please

Hi Gilo, I personally edited the page and deleted the repeated content, I also fixed some misspellings, added the picture that was already there (which is the most recent one), and add all the links to support the information. Could you please review it again, it looks "very similar" but its not the same you first deleted. I very much appreciate if you could check it and if its anything missing i will love to fix it. Looking forward to it. Thank you very much. ""carpar17"" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carpar17 (talk • contribs) 02:55, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Regarding my article I created and was proposed to be deleted

@Gilo1969: Dear Gilo, I hope you will see my message here, i updated the article RATEB Y. RABIE, KCHS with many creditable sources and references, is that good? and will the article be deleted or it is accepted now? Khaderhan (talk) 12:17, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Supercunnin. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, B.E.d Notes, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Supercunnin (talk) 18:36, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Deletion tag

Apologies for replacing your speedy deletion tag in Creating Category:Tennis player navigational boxes, that was by accident. Thanks for your help, Gap9551 (talk) 21:01, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Courtship disorder for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Courtship disorder is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Courtship disorder until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — James Cantor (talk) 17:05, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

about my article dj satti

i want you to check my talk page i mentioned quite breifly why this article should not be removed . thanks  ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ARTISTMANIA (talk • contribs) 22:42, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Danielle Deckard

Hello Gilo1969. Thanks for patrolling new pages – it's a very important task! I'm just letting you know, however, that you shouldn't tag pages as lacking context (CSD A1), content (CSD A3),or significance (CSD A7) moments after they are created, as you did at Danielle Deckard. It's best to wait at least 10–15 minutes for more content to be added if the page is very short, and the articles should not be marked as patrolled. Tagging such pages in a very short space of time may drive away well-meaning contributors, which is not good for Wikipedia. Attack pages (G10), blatant nonsense (G1), copyright violations (G12) and pure vandalism/blatant hoaxes (G3) should of course be tagged and deleted immediately. Thanks.. An inexperienced editor deserves a decent opportunity to work on an article they're creating, and four minutes is not adequate. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 13:31, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Please do not delete my wikipedia article about the most lawfirms with lawyers, it is in no way advertising, just useful information. These lawfirms are probably very wealthy and do not need such advertising anyway! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joseph iskander (talk • contribs) 22:50, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Grey Art thanks

Thanks for your help. As you can see, Anne is new & I'm a little rusty on citation templates. StarM 03:50, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Undoing?

Hello,

Would you please tell me the reason of undoing this edit? The way I edited/ Wikifyed the Persian spelling style of the name, is both standard and usual performance. Please look at the article Iran, Tehran, and most articles related to Iran and Iranian/ Persian features.

Cheers, Hamid Hassani (talk) 13:56, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Thomas Willwacher

FYI, I have contested the CSD on this, as I believe there may be a WP:CCS due to the proof mentioned. I have not removed the CSD, just contested on talk. I leave it to a mix of your and/or the reviewing admin's discretion. Murph9000 (talk) 15:31, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Christopher kool ammitsøe

Is it the mentioned attack page or a second one?Xx236 (talk) 11:41, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Battle of the Department of Mysterys

Hello Gilo, You have declined my article and I wish to update you on the reason why this article needs to be published. This article has been written to describe the Battle of the Department of Mysterys from the book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Six teenagers go on to retrieve a prophecy about the connection between the two masters and end up being ambushed and a battle beings inside the Department of Mysterys. They are soon joined by students from a older order who has more experience than the rest. I wish to provide more details on the actual battle itself. Erikaseth (talk) 03:39, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Why have you deleted references and external links from the page I'm trying to create for Steve Clarke (Drummer) ?

Steve Clarke (Drummer)

Hi the page I'm trying to create seems to have changed since i put it up, references and external links have disappeared can you tell me why this is ? TMBT (talk) 16:57, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) There have never been any references in Steve Clarke (Drummer). If none are added in the next few days, the article will be deleted. Biographies of living people must have references. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:33, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Help I'm new to Wiki

My name is Christy Forquer and am brand new to Wikipedia -- meaning I am the admin assistant to Gary Morsch - who several years ago had a wiki page created but it hasn't been maintained. He has asked me to learn how to add more current information to the page and how to delete any out dated material I thought I was understanding how to add update information to his wiki entry....but it appears I have violated the wiki procedures today 3/13/16. I saw where one of the organizations which he founder and is currently the president of didn't have an external link - Docs Who Care - I thought I was simply updating it the most current web address. I also deleted what was a link to an external page that no longer existed - Manhattan Initiative. it appears I did this incorrectly.

Please let me know how I can get back on the right track with Wiki. I want to learn the correct process in which to provide the most current and reliable information concerning Dr. Morsch as possible.

Thank you Christy Forquer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drgarymorsch (talk • contribs) 18:43, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

إليك وساما!

	وسام حامي الويكي
	tnx football 20:27, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion?

You requested Speedy Deletion on a user sandbox Unified101/Sandbox2. To my understanding, Sandboxes are not marked for Speedy Deletion. HullIntegrity^\ talk / 17:34, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

I have moved the page in question to the User space, as it was created in Article space (presumably) in error, and the redirect left behind has been tagged for speedy deletion as it is not required. Regards,  GILO   A&E⇑ 17:37, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

The People v. Guy Martin

My name is Adam Campbell-Sing and I'm an up-and-coming YouTuber and comedian, new to Wikipedia. I'm here to assure you that I'm absolutely NOT here to promote stuff, I'm here to provide reliable information. I just published a novel yesterday called The People v. Guy Martin, and I just found out it was contested for speedy deletion.

I work hard on everything, including my content on my YouTube channel, so therefore you should not delete information of my hard work, that would be a big mistake.

Kind regards, FamilySing01 (talk) 02:39, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

NPP / AfC

Hi. Just a reminder that in just over a week at Wikimania there's going to be a cross-Wiki discussion about the systems of control of new pages. This is a round-table rather than a presentation or a lecture. On the agenda are reforms to the new article reviewing systems and ways to help new users better understand our content policies. If you are going to Italy and would like to take part, please check out the conference schedule, and I look forward to seeing you there. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:43, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Robert Blue Moon

I feel as if my article for Robert blue moon should not have been deleted this article is about an up-and-coming artist out of Orlando Florida who has garnished a lot of musical plays on his artist Collective SoundCloud he has been performing at countless music festivals has been featured in articles. I even provided a link to a news article that was written about him along with his artist Collective. The significant importance is he's a musician who is garnishing so many views and is soon to be written about on the source hip hop magazine which is one of the top Hip-Hop magazines in the world. He is no different than a musical figures such as Mick Jenkins or Raury who all has performed at the same music festivals he has performed at such as the youbloo. festival I mentioned and Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival those are two artist also have Wikipedia pages. please answer because i am finding the reasoning to be wrong.

http://www.famunews.com/2016/02/famu-alumni-in-artist-collective-aim-for-the-moon/Moonshine2424 (talk) 23:33, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Contested deletion

Article [Kroen Group C.V.] should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because, Kroen Group is an (first Georgian) software company based in Rotterdam the Netherlands. See page of Chamber of Commerce with the registration. https://www.kvk.nl/orderstraat/bedrijf-kiezen/?q=kroen+group+c.v.#!shop?&q=kroen%20group%20c.v.&start=0&prefproduct=&prefpayment= and www.kroengroup.eu for more information about the company.

With friendly regards,

Evgeny Guridze — Preceding unsigned comment added by Engin.guridze (talk • contribs) 23:10, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Not signed in.

Tried to make an edit in this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Americans

The section characterizing Americans as "gun loving" should be edited, and have 'culture of violence' removed as its very subjective. Also, "gun loving" should be moved from negative stereotypes to positive stereotypes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CDBE:6590:C1FB:238B:D617:2445 (talk) 04:22, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because...

I disagree the speedy deletion for this page because this is an "first Georgian" ' software company'. I have early say it to you. We are not an Educaitonal Organisation.

And you says that Kroen Group C.V. is not an credibly company? Have you visit the site of Kroen Group C.V. or Chamber of Commerce page with the comprehensive details of that company.

When you have a good reason to show this message say it when not do not edit this page.

Best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Engin.guridze (talk • contribs) 19:18, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Faiz Syed for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Faiz Syed is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Faiz Syed until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. for (;;) (talk) 14:23, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Hussein Ahmed Chalaby article

Hello! I want to inform you that this article should not be deleted because it is about another person, it is not meeting the criteria of speedy deletion!

If you didn't mind, could you please inform me about the details why you want this articly to be deleted?!

Thanks.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kamarankurdi1990 (talk • contribs) 15:29, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Please

I would like for you to send me the article "The Battle of Dong Hill" so I can have it for my own enjoyment and seeing as you are the one who deleted it, I am making the assumption that you are able to view it(I am new to Wikipedia). I would be quite pleased if you could fulfill this request. If you decide that you want to send me the article, you can email me at ethanb611@gmail.com. And I would like to thank you in advance in the chance that you do help me out. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gaping Meteor83 (talk • contribs) 02:38, 9 September 2016 (UTC) A simple copy and paste of my article would be just fine btw Gaping Meteor83 (talk) 02:39, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	You excellent work patrolling new pages has not gone unnoticed. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:00, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of NZRE Empire

Why was NZRE Empire nominated? It was a micronation. Why don't any of the other micronation pages get nominated and we do? --Numberguy6 (talk) 20:48, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

References

Please help me understand how I can make my page more credible.

Hello!

Thank you for reviewing my page Hilary Corna. Could you please explain further what I need to improve? I really am not understanding the guidelines for "Credibly Indicate" and "Generally Accepted at notable" and its quite confusing to me, even after I read through a lot of the information you provided. I really don't want this page to get deleted, so could you please help me improve the page please? What other sources or information should I include? Thank you! --Nihonchique (talk) 03:50, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

death of nasser

Hi, There is a lot of references talking about Death of Nasser for this article of Nasser can not support that information look this a this --Reza Amper (talk) 17:33, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing my edit error, I'm guessing the mistake I made was adding an sto the end of user in User:MordeKyle/iRacing? MordeKyle (talk) 22:26, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Yep, easily fixed though. Regards,  GILO   A&E⇑  22:46, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion

Hi,

I understand that you have put my page "IGWC Slammy Awards" up for Speedy Deletion. Could you please elaborate?

These awards are genuine between the community of Wrestling fans on Instagram and IGWC has been a phrase recognised and coined by the community for years.

I know I'm not the only one in this position, either. I would like to invite you to take a look at these awards (although not in physical trophy form but as a form of recognition and something to work towards) as soon as the voting starts as, although they will be starting small, they are real.

Have a good day. Bigbrojd (talk) 22:25, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Evil Edna

I declined your CSD nomination, but only because there is a more famous Evil Edna that should be a redirect. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:19, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Hey Gilo need your help

Thanks for getting reaching out so promptly. I'd like to set up a page for myself, but am struggling to do so. Any advice would be much appreciated. - Brandon Pantano — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brandonpantano (talk • contribs) 22:52, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I have moved the page to User:Brandonpantano/sandbox so that it does not get deleted. Please read Wikipedia:Your first article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:35, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Dafuniks

I removed the speedy deletion tag you had placed on the new article Dafuniks, because I added sourced information. If I made a mistake, please let me know. Margalob (talk) 01:42, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

User group: New Page Reviewr

Hello Gilo1969.

Based on the patrols you made of new pages during a qualifying period in 2016, your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed.

New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.

• Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
• You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
• Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
• Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.

The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:34, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Gilo1969. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter

Hello Gilo1969,

Breaking the back of the backlog

We now have 819 New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action.

Mid July to 01 Oct 2016

If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.

Second set of eyes

Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.

Getting the tools we need - 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey: Please vote

With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation.

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BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))

New Page Review - newsletter #2

Hello Gilo1969,

Please help reduce the New Page backlog

This is our second request. The backlog is still growing. Your help is needed now - just a few minutes each day.

Getting the tools we need

ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO VOTE

• Improve the tools: Vote here.
• Reduce your review load: Vote here

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Great working with you. Have a happy holiday season and a great 2017. Quis separabit? 22:55, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing Michael Craughwell, Gilo1969.

Unfortunately Kudpung has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

Wrong CSD criterion

To reply, leave a comment on Kudpung's talk page.Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:21, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello Gilo1969,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 819 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

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New Page Review - newsletter No.3

Hello Gilo1969,

Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.

Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 819 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.

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Can you please help me?

Hello, I was not trying to create a page for advertising. I simply thought I would try to add a page that doesn't exist of a company that's established. Can you help me with the edits etc? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drlawrencecohen (talk • contribs) 00:41, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:International_Union_for_Vacuum_Science,_Technique_and_Applications

Hi Gilo!

Thank you for setting the draft page for me. I have added the basic information about this Union. Would you please check if it is ready to be posted on the official page?

Thank you for your help.

Ivan

IvanGeoPetrov (talk) 14:14, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Vanjagenije. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Neville Sigauke, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Vanjagenije (talk) 10:26, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

This was an automatic message. I declined speedy deletion as the article was soft-deleted. Therefore, I unreviewed it. Vanjagenije (talk) 10:27, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4

Hello Gilo1969,

Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 819 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!

But do remember: Rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. Do not over-tag. Make use of the message feature to let the creator know about your maintenance tags. See the tutorial again HERE. Get help HERE.

Stay up to date with recent new page developments and have your say, read THIS PAGE.

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing Ankit Singh, Gilo1969.

Unfortunately Jupitus Smart has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

Consider changing your twinkle options to prevent automatic review of pages you have tagged for CSD. The author removed the CSD tag and the article ended up as reviewed.

To reply, leave a comment on Jupitus Smart's talk page.

Jupitus Smart 05:30, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Dieter Neupert

Hello Gilo1969. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Dieter Neupert, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: it's a mess but significance is claimed. Use WP:AFD if non-notable. Thank you. SoWhy 12:02, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
• Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.

Technology update:

• Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Wikipedia:Page Curation/Suggested improvements
• The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js adds a link to the new pages feed and page curation toolbar to your top toolbar on Wikipedia
  • User:The Earwig/copyvios.js adds a link in your side toolbox that will run the current page through

General project update:

• Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Noticeboard has been marked as historical. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers is currently the most active central discussion forum for the New Page Patrol project. To keep up to date on the most recent discussions you can add it to your watchlist or visit it periodically.

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Removed CSD Tag

Just to let you know, your tag, (which I felt was accurate) was removed from Eye Judah. It didn't seem like a revert, so not sure if you got a notice about it. Just an FYI. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 23:59, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	A barnstar for you! Tallahassle (talk) 18:43, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.

Technology update:

• Rentier has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.

General project update:

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
• Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
• Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!

Technology update:

• The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: T175225

General project update:

• On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
• Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
• We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.

Technology update:

• Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.

General project update:

• The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
• Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

Outreach and Invitations:

• If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive

• A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
• Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update:

• ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
• The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1^st and run until January 29^th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

• The total number of reviews completed for the month.
• The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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Category:Wikipedians who like Black Mirror

Hey! I saw that you edited the article Black Mirror and thought maybe you would be interested in this new user category I created?-🐦Do☭torWho42 (⭐) 10:46, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Drive Review

When re-reviewing some of your reviews, I came across a large number of your patrol actions where you patrolled articles where the article was very undersourced, or with no sources at all. In many cases you didn't PROD or tag obvious candidates, such as GBU-8 for example. I do notice that your CSD log is ubiquitously red for January, so I assume that you are conservative in your deletion nominations. I'd suggest being a little less conservative as there were a few articles that I saw that really should have been PRODed at the very least, or sent to AfD. I also noticed that Chang Kang-myoung had a copyvio that you missed, so I would suggest being a bit more vigilant for these and remembering to check for these by running articles through a copyvio detector. In short, be a bit more careful in the future, and have another look over the tutorial. Still, your work was mainly good, so thank you for your efforts. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 07:52, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Drive Appreciation

		Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar
		For completing over 250 reviews during the 2018 NPP New Year Backlog Drive please accept this Special Edition Barnstar with 250 commemorative coin. Thank you for helping out at New Page Patrol! There is still work to do to meet our long term goals, so I hope you will continue your great work. Cheers! — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 07:52, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

		Geneva Drive
		For maintaining a streak of at least 50 reviews per week during the 2018 NPP New Year Backlog drive, you are awarded the Geneva drive. Well done! Keep up the good work. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 07:52, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
• We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

• We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

• ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
• Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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I Need help

I Need Help creating my own userbox can you help me. i didn't know how on the Super Mario Wikipedia. Thefanofmariobros. (talk) 00:37, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Help

Hi please can you add Turkish Cypriot before english in the introduction of Kem Cetinay he is Turkish Cypriot born British it would be helpful.

References

Remove speedy deletion tag

Hello sir pls you put a deletion tag on my contribution please i made a search on the subject before creating it. thank you Clever west (talk) 21:24, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Sir Can You please Remove the Deletion tag from an article named Mubashir Channa, it should not deleted because the article is about a famous artist. Thank You Sir i hope You will Delete the Tag .(talk) 21:24, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Speedy deletion declined: Cotton king

Hello Gilo1969. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Cotton king, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article claims coverage in reliable sources. Thank you. SoWhy 10:43, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Can you delete 007DavyBiceps wikivisually

Hello sir, I would like to say. Someone is just created something about me long time ago. I would like to say, everything is false. Firstly I wasn't born in 1999. All i want is someone will delete

https://wikivisually.com/wiki/User:007DavyBiceps

Thank you, Have a good day <3 Realdavy (talk) 20:50, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags

• Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

• A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
• The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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Gramercy Blazer

Hi Gilo1969

I created new article on Gramercy Blazer it is important article about clothes style this not a advertising but it for learn please do not delete Gramercy Blazer thank you StarWarsGlenny (talk) 19:04, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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Scattered Across the Night Sky of Nagano

Hi. Just out of curiosity, how do you know that Scattered Across the Night Sky of Nagano is a self-published book? El principita (talk) 01:43, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

• It is published by Blurb, Inc. which is a self-publishing platform.  GILO   A&E⇑  09:59, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Gilo1969, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

• There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
• Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
• There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

• User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Gilo1969,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

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Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

Training video

Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minute video was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Großherzogliches Friedrich-Franz-Gymnasium und Damit Verbundenes Realprogymnasium

I removed {{db-context}} from Großherzogliches Friedrich-Franz-Gymnasium und Damit Verbundenes Realprogymnasium because the title is clearly about a high school. The redirect is to a red link, so I think that the redirect should be removed until an article about the high school is created. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:00, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Help with editing an article about the composer

Hello!I ask for help in editing an article about the composer Rudolf Schumann, help me to make the article good and help with a good translation. I took information from other Wikipedia in other languages. Thank you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumann 91.205.239.8 (talk) 10:24, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rudolf Schumann and Shumann Rudolf, if you're interested. – Jonesey95 (talk) 10:39, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Gilo1969,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
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St Mark's Eve

You will notice that I raised the question on the talk page for April 24 last year about St Mark's Eve. No one said anything against removing it nor did anyone argue against the points I made. If you had replied there, I would not have removed it unless it was clear. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 14:29, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Gilo1969,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

• Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
• Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Gilo1969,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Gilo1969,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
• Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Gilo1969,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 819 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

• It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
• It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

• Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
• Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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My recent revert

Your recent edit to Ayodhya dispute‎‎ removed what I though was a useful wikilink to shebait, so I reverted it. I was puzzled by the edit summary fix citation with wikilink embedded in URL title because I didn't look closely and it didn't seem to have anything to do with your edit. I have since restored your edit and put the wikilink where it belongs - earlier in the paragraph, in the text itself rather than embedded in the title. Sorry for stepping on your toes. Thank you for your work to clean things up! YBG (talk) 06:30, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill (talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 (talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG (talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 (talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 (talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn (talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter (talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth (talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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day-of-year articles

Hi, while reviewing pending changes, be aware that all new entries to day-of-year articles require inline citations per WP:DOYCITE, thanks! Schazjmd (talk) 21:26, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Gilo1969,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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Iran Khanoom

Hello,

This article describes a project that evolves around a person, and to describe the project—which is quite popular and well known in the Iranian community—one needs to know about who it is based on.

Also, according to notability, the person who is the subject of this project is indeed an interesting character, worthy of notice, and very well known among Iranians. Please consider not deleting this in the future. Amiraria14 (talk) 07:03, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello Gilo1969,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources

• A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
• Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
• A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
• Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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Nomination for Speedy Deletion

You recently nominated the TraderNick and A1 Trading Company draft pages for speedy deletion.

A1 Trading Company Draft

The A1 Trading Company page was left in draft until I could get the substantiating links to establish referential credibility. This is why I left it in draft after the the previous reviewer indicated a need for further citations to establish notability.

Nicholas Syiek

As for the TraderNick/Nicholas Syiek page, I accidentally created the page instead of drafting it in Sandbox then submitting it for review. To be clear, it was a mistake to publish the page instead of establishing it as a draft after submitting it from my sandbox as I did with the aforementioned A1 Trading Company page, which, as I mentioned is waiting on source credibility from industry news coverage currently being published. I will add these citations as soon as possible to correct the deficiency noted in your assessmenty. I wanted to wait until the A1 Trading Company page was complete before doing so. I wasn't even halfway complete with the Nicholas Syiek article before I accidentally published, and apparently this, understandably, is your rationale for nominating the corresponding company page for speedy deletion as well, although it is clearly still in draft.

Although new to the Wikipedia platform and editing/publishing pages, I do understand the need for a clear and discernible process for publishing articles and for establishing their notability through an evaluation of their encyclopedic value. I hold that these articles, once properly substantiated with the reference sources I am waiting, most notably from reputable industry news publications, are any more "promotional" in nature than the average company entry.

I further contest the assertion that the articles I've produced are any more fraught with impartiality concerns than the average biographical or company description entry.

I apologize for my deviation from the typical Wikipedia draft/submission process with the Nicholas Syiek article, and ask that you take a moment to consider my plea, and moreover to reconsider your decision to nominate these articles for a speedy deletion.

Thank you for fair and honest assessment.TheNetOutcome (talk) 21:50, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of List of eponymous medical treatments for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of eponymous medical treatments is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of eponymous medical treatments until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Boleyn (talk) 08:41, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Just an FYI

Hello. Recently, you asked for a speedy deletion of Elijah Joyce with the general reason of no sources except institutions. I want to let you know that Metro Buckeye Conference is not an institution. CurrentWeather (talk) 23:35, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Can you explain your speedy deletion nomination of Elijah Joyce?

I see you requested a speedy deletion of Elijah Joyce. I would like to know your exact reasoning for it. I have read the reason you stated for the speedy deletion and it is false. Please respond. Thank you. CurrentWeather (talk) 23:48, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for reverting (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Concerns_and_controversies_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics&diff=next&oldid=976512468), just didn't notice it was inside Template Cite News. PoetVeches (talk) 14:21, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Gilo1969,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	Patrol Page Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	Patrol Page Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	Patrol Page Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	Patrol Page Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	Patrol Page Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	Patrol Page Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	Patrol Page Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	Patrol Page Curation
10	Utopes (talk)	3,958	Patrol Page Curation

Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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Barboni Giuseppe page

Why the page is in speedy deletion? Webboeu (talk) 22:03, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Waheed Alkhan Page

Hello!

I work for Mr. Alkhan and the written Biography in the GlobalMusicGarden was also written by himself. He tasked me to make his page and write his biography on Wikipedia as well and therefore we're not infringing any copyrights.

Best Regards

Faustina

Hi :) I got a notification saying: "Editor's summary: fix citation with wikilink embedded in URL title." I wasn't sure if it meant that you fixed something for me (thanks) or if you wanted me to fix something (how/where, specifically?) Or was this about something else unrelated to my recent edits, and I got the notification since I added the page to my WatchList? Anyway, thank you and I hope to hear back soon, Follow.your.inner.heroes.2.the.work.you.love.2021 (talk) 04:44, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Gilo1969,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

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URL Wikilink conflict

Dear Gilo1969. May I please ask you for some help. You have enormous experience (13 years of Wikipedia editing!). You corrected me (apprentice-reviewer) on my review of the article Gallic Wars, nominated for A-Class by User:CaptainEek, concerning an error "URL Wikilink conflict". You fixed it by removing the wikilink on the |title= parameter, but I feel that link should well be there. The nominator put it there and it is important for the reader to know that there is a Wikipedia article written about the cited book. At the same time, of course, the |url= parameter that I added is also important as it allows to click through to the book on the Internet and read it. I do not understand why an error is thrown. IMHO there is nothing wrong. What triggers the error? With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 10:15, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It's an error. The title can link to only one page: either a URL or a Wikipedia page. Choose one. You can provide a second link outside of the citation template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:20, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Dear Jonesey95. Thank you very much. Do you mean it is a bug in {{Cite book}}? Has it been reported? Best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 18:28, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

No, it is a deliberate feature. A given bit of text can be linked to only one thing; the error message tells you that there is an attempt to link to more than two things, and an editor needs to choose one of them. There is an explanation at Category:CS1 errors: URL–wikilink conflict. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:35, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Dear User:Jonesey95. Not really one thing as {{Cite book}} throws well an error when the parameter |url= is used together with a wikilink in the |title=, but tolerates wikilinks in the parameter |publisher= e.g. Cambridge University Press, together with an address in the parameter |url=.

I found four examples for the error thrown when the |title= contains a wikilink in my experience:

• Brewer, John Sherren, ed. (1864). [[Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII|Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII]]. Vol. 2.1. London: Longman & Co. OCLC 681160152. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
• Burke, Bernard; Burke, Ashworth Peter (1909). [[Burke's Peerage|A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage]] (71st ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 28297274. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
• Cokayne, George Edward (1887). [[The Complete Peerage|Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant]]. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). London: George Bell and Sons. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
• Goldsworthy, Adrian (2007). [[Caesar, Life of a Colossus]]. London: Orion Books. ISBN 978-0-300-12689-1. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
• Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1855). [[The History of England from the Accession of James the Second]]. Vol. 3. London: Longman Brown Greens & Longmans. OCLC 1046525672. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)

It seems this happens each time that Wikipedia has an article of a book, which is quite often. I think this should not be so and regard it as a bug. Such errors do not seem to be thrown in similar circumstances in {{Cite encyclopedia}}, {{Cite journal}} or {{Cite web}}.

With many thanks, best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 20:41, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

All of those templates will generate the same error. Those citations are trying to apply two links to the same string of text, which is just not possible. It's as if you were trying to drive two cars at once, or put two different mailing addresses on a single envelope. The reason that no error is generated by a wikilink in |publisher= is that there is only one link for that text; there is no parameter called |publisher-url=. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:08, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Also note that in your examples, the wikilink is ignored (there is no link to the article), and the title is displayed in a non-optimal way. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:46, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Oh, I do understand now: the limitation is not on the side of the programming interface (how the parameters arguments are captured by the system) but on the side of the user interface (how the functionality is exposed to the user). The title, as shown on the interface, is used as the button to open the website (e.g. Internet Archive) where the book can be read, and there is no separate "button" available for opening the Wikipedia article about the book. So the interface design would have to be changed to accommodate this. This would of course be a major change. The present one is not always ideal, but that is a different subject. With many thanks for your expert-time, best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 13:16, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Gilo1969,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 819 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 860 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

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Revert reason?

Hi Gilo1969, as you hadn't provided a specific summary when reverting in Special:Diff/1094259846, I'm left puzzled somehow. Was there a good reason? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:28, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Gilo1969,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 14338 articles, as of 18:00, 18 April 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Gilo1969,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination

MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

Open letter to the WMF

The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

TIP - Reviewing by subject

Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.

New reviewers

The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.

Reminders

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For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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Reverting edits that are not vandalism

When an edit is wrong but not vandalism, kindly note that policy is to remove the "Undid revision 99999999999999 by User:XXXXXXXX" message, and explain things simply in your own words. It's totally off-message to leave in the anti-vandalism data. Many thanks, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:55, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here!
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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Gilo1969,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

Suggestions:

• There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
• Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
• Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
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Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Gilo1969,

New Page Review queue December 2022

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Gilo1969,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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New pages patrol needs your help!

New pages awaiting review as of June 30th, 2023.

Hello Gilo1969,

The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2023 Backlog Drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Articles will earn 3x as many points compared to redirects. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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New pages patrol newsletter

Hello Gilo1969,

New Page Review article queue, March to September 2023

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello Gilo1969:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2400 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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How Gilo1969 did you come across my wikilink error so quickly? Mcljlm (talk) 13:15, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | January 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 January 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Merry Christmas

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Gilo1969,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 May 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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