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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
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Kuzhur Wilson
editHello there, Have edited Kuzhur Wilson page that was moved by you to draft. Could you please take a look... Kuzhur is a poet who writes in Malayalam, a regional language and has a wiki page in Malayalam. His works have been translated into other languages - I have added relevant links, removed a few and edited out information that do not have any source. Thank you, Bhairavimajunukali (talk) 08:23, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
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editYour draft article, Draft:Král železný, král zlatý
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Scratch that PROD, I have reverted it and added WP:PRIMARY references to at least show info for each school, and added reflist and updated the official website. The article needs a loooot work though. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 09:44, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
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Praxidicae
editoof! You might want consider not templating the regulars. Better sometimes to type a note. Cheers, Dlohcierekim (talk) 01:50, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Mexican Society of Physics
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NPR Newsletter No.17
editHello Eastmain,
- 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.
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Oh my goodness!
editThank you for finding many useful references to put up to Xiamen Bridge. Now nobody can say that it's lacking references. You're such a good helper, I just wanted to stop by and tell you (I also thanked your draft edits). Woshiyiweizhongguoren (🇨🇳) 01:36, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
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Drew Binsky
editHere there I think we can agree to remove the notability thing on Drew Binsky. That's because we have a page for Nuseir Yassin. IsraeliIdan (talk) 13:14, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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Your opinion related to a legal case issue
editHi. I am asking for your advice related to a properly stated conflict of interest edits to a Benjamin Wey's article. I created a discussion at WP:Law and invited you to participate, acknowledging your experience in editing Wikipedia. Thank you in advance! --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:00, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Julia M Carson Transit Center
editHi,
Saw your post on the talk section of the article Julia M. Carson Transit Center. In case it gets deleted, I thought I would answer your question here about the older version of the article. It still exists at Draft:Julia M. Carson Transit Center. Stephen! Coming... 16:09, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Sjb72:. Thanks for the information. If you think the draft is ready, could you approve it and merge its history with the existing article? I'm not going to say that all bus stations are notable, but I think this one is adequately referenced. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 17:00, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm rather rusty with page moves and merges, so I think it best if someone with a bit more experience has a go at that. Stephen! Coming... 17:12, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
41st Avenue
editI believe Boundary Road (Vancouver) is more important than 41st Avenue so I removed a PROD done by the same person as PROD'ed 41st AveAerostar3 (talk) 03:43, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Aerostar3: Thank you. If you can find even more references from reliable sources about Boundary Road and the other Vancouver-area roads that have been tagged for PROD or AfD, please add them so that nobody will be able to claim that Boundary Road lacks notability. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:05, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
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NPR Newsletter No.18
editHello Eastmain,
- 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
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- 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
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Thank you for considering the article, examining it and giving it a try.
That is, Praxidicae considers that it is the same article. How could it be the same as the 2015?
Even Praxidicae did not take the cost of examining it.
I look relevant this article more than, some other examples that explain in the page of discsion of the article, since it is required by the articles:
Praxidicae only eliminates and eliminates, users as I create and create, and try to keep the encyclopedia.
I hope that bureaucracy changes one day.
And I hope that one day too, and stop being threatening this article (Corina Smith) with the elimination.
Thank you...
Erickespinal26 (talk) 12:47, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hi, while you were correct in this case, please do not remove G4's from articles, but instead let an admin decide. You do not have the ability to determine whether or not G4 is applicable as you cannot see the deleted article history. You basically were correct through pure luck this time. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:46, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- @TonyBallioni: Not by pure luck, but by observation. The old article was from 2015 and the new article had significant text relating to the period after 2015, and was therefore different. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 13:49, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- Nope. It is 100% possible for G4 to apply in those circumstances. The question is substantially identical, not word for word identical with no changes. It is impossible for you to know this as you can't see the deleted text. Please don't do it again. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:51, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- @TonyBallioni: Not by pure luck, but by observation. The old article was from 2015 and the new article had significant text relating to the period after 2015, and was therefore different. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 13:49, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
May 2019
editHello, Eastmain, I saw that you made a draft for a new article at User:Eastmain/René Levasseur. Short term hosting of potentially valid articles and other reasonable content under development or in active use is usually acceptable. But in this case, you haven't edited your draft for a long time. If you wish to improve the draft yourself, please do. Otherwise, you may consider donating it to WikiProject Abandoned Drafts (a participant can help). Thank you. GretLomborg (talk) 18:28, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
'Heartland Alliance' Wikidata item
editHello, I see you linked an article I created (Heartland Alliance) to a Wikidata item ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30141628 ). I'm afraid I'm not at all familiar with Wikidata and I can't find a lick of human-readable info on that item page that explains why it would be linked to this article, and no others. It seems to refer to a directory of research institutes? Perhaps I'm missing something but Heartland Alliance is not a research institute, curious if you can help me understand how this is relevant. Walkersam (talk) 22:09, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Walkersam: Thanks for your note. I have undo that edit. I don't remember making the edit, but it has my name as the editor. Odd. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 23:34, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
editThe Original Barnstar | |
Thanks for weighing in about keeping the page Barry J. Gillis. Hopefully it's not deleted. Much appreciation to you Eastmain . Barryjedmonton (talk) 23:44, 2 June 2019 (UTC) |
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Theroadislong (talk) 10:31, 5 June 2019 (UTC)Nomination of NCAA Division I Baseball Championships recent history for deletion
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RfA
editShould you be interested, we can have a go at it. Lourdes 05:29, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Real Food Healthy Body (June 16)
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- Thank you for creating zh:蒋单单 on Chinese Wikipedia! However her notability is really doubtful. Though she has some significant coverage from some media, those media are Citizen media and not that reliable. Just FYI, before nominating it for deletion on our project, we normally list it at zh:Wikipedia:关注度/提报#蒋单单 and wait for 30 days to give sufficient time for improvement and after 30 days if the sourcing is still a problem, someone might nominate it for deletion. Viztor should have watied for 30 days. And it seems that Viztor has withdrawn their nomination for deletion. But thanks for being bold to creating an article on Chinese Wikipedia anyway! --94rain Talk 04:24, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Plazmatick (June 28)
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Discussion
editThere is an on-going discussion at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#Alternatives to deletion in which you may be interested. Otr500 (talk) 11:43, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019
editHello Eastmain,
- 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.
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Draft:Wertachtal transmitter site
editHello, special thanks for translating "my" article "Centre d'émission de Wertachtal" to English. I reviewed the English article, so that it could be moved to the article-space. If you would do, please make a rename to "Wertachtal transmitter site" instead of "Wertachtal transmitter center" before moving. I also left a comment on the talk to the draft.
Thanks!--OldfashionFreak (talk) 13:15, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
- @OldfashionFreak: The article has now been published at Wertachtal transmitter site. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 14:21, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Wertachtal transmitter site has been accepted
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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
editHello Eastmain,
- 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.
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Peak Scientific (September 25)
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- @Barkeep49: Could you please take another look at the references? They include two daily newspapers and https://www.insider.co.uk/ , which appears to be reliable. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 15:38, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
- Eastmain, do you have a COI? If not and you think it should be in mainspace there's nothing wrong with you doing that. If you'd want a second pair of eyes you can unreview your own stuff now so a NPP would look at it. If you have a COI or something else preventing you from moving it feel free to ping me again and I'll explain what I saw from the sources. I'm not trying to be evasive here just pointing out that if you think something belongs in mainspace and improve it well that's a great outcome for the encyclopedia. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:17, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases (September 29)
edit- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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- Hi Eastmain - apologies if I've misunderstood what happened here, this draft looked like you were still working on it, I assumed you had submitted it accidentally. If you'd like do discuss, or I've misunderstood, please let me know. GirthSummit (blether) 09:26, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
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WikiProject Canada 10,000 Challenge third anniversary
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You may use the above button to submit entries, or bookmark this link for convenience. For more information, please see WP:CAN10K. Thank-you, and please spread the word to those you know who might be interested in joining this effort to improve the quality of Canada-related articles. – Reidgreg (talk) 22:34, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
editThe Admin's Barnstar | |
Thank you for your decision in changing the name of Christ University according to the recent amendments, even though there was a huge discussion and fighting over it. Tobin Koshy 06:30, 16 October 2019 (UTC) |
New Page Review newsletter November 2019
editHello Eastmain,
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 805 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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New Page Review newsletter December 2019
edit- 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.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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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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editYour draft article, Draft:Min Minxin
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! DannyS712 (talk) 08:30, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
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Nomination of Nathalie Bondil for deletion
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Your draft article, Draft:Precision and Future Medicine
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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
editHello Eastmain,
- 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.
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