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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello Sakura Cartelet/Archives, 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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Mae Young Classic 2018 page edit

This is not only a problem of spoiling, you are talking here about episodes which have not been aired yet. I don't know how the info about these episodes leaked, but please be informed that this is perfectly illegal and that you can't even prove this info is correct. So please delete this ASAP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uenoeki54 (talk • contribs) 04:44, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

I don't think it'd be "illegal" to post the information although I'd like to know how they got the information about said episodes considering like you said they haven't been released. On that grounds I'm not sure what the policy would be although I'd assume it could be deleted as violating the verifiability policy. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 04:58, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Sakura Cartelet/Archives, 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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88.206.105.202

This IP, and any others adding stuff about "Cat Creek" or lions, is Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Catcreekcitycouncil. You don't even have to warn them, just report them to AIV upon sight. Thanks for your help. Home Lander (talk) 02:14, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

Hello Sakura Cartelet/Archives, 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 Sakura Cartelet/Archives,

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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Rokh (upcoming video game) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Rokh (upcoming video game). Since you had some involvement with the Rokh (upcoming video game) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 20:38, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Sakura Cartelet

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	Thank You for your information about the Jahn Teller Metal , since I am a new one , I do not know much about the wikipedia and how to post can you teach me how to do that Living For The SCIENCE knowledge (talk) 05:44, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Camberwell Carrot

Camberwell Carrot is slang arising from the film "Withnail and I", therefore should redirect to the article about this film, and is not "vandalism". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.104.12.180 (talk) 05:05, December 9, 2018 (UTC)

Oh I see then sorry for the confusion on my part and the warning. I noticed that HickoryOughtShirt?4 had reverted your edit, but didn't issue a warning so I assumed that he had forgotten to issue a warning and lacking an explanation I had no idea of why you were changing the target of the redirect. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 05:53, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Hey Sakura Cartelet and thanks for the ping. I didn't warn them because it wasn't vandalism. See the reply I left here on my talk page. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 05:56, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Sakura Cartelet/Archives,

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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Rollbacks

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Why did you rollback everything? Those are references............ ........ .............. Like far more reliable. Whats all this talk sbout? Its an article with direct references. Pray tell, explain yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1:c685:4e4d:98e4:17aa:b92c:fc69 (talk) 18:33, December 17, 2018 (UTC)

What page(s) are you talking about? I do lots of reverts daily for various reasons. If you don't provide more information I can't give a meaningful answer. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 18:43, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

The cocktail pages. What was so horribly wrong you had to revert? Or are you just a hipster wondrich fan? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1:c685:4e4d:f04f:4ee6:ad36:4db6 (talk) 22:30, December 17, 2018 (UTC)

Oh those pages. I (and Favonian) reverted the edits to the pages because talk pages are supposed to be used for making improvements to articles based on specific reliable sources and not a place to chat about drinks or post recipes for making said drinks. Please see this page for more details. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 22:55, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Was there something to discuss? It WAS references, there is nothing to talk about. Even if it was references only with no context, you would still find a reason to revert. Whats your next excuse? You will look that much more foolish when the truth comes to light. Im going to do it again, with references only with zero context. That means anything else on the talk page that has context has to be removed also.. that would be the whole page. But somehow i think your made up rule which you self define, only applies to me. I get it. This is all you have isnt it? Thats rhetorical because i know the answer amd its sad, it really is.

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

William W Johnstone

What a fucking laugh. I looked this guy up after a book review then I saw the talk page. You admins really do just jerk off to falsely accusing people of being sockpuppet don't you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1:c617:3e07:cf8b:8bad:8ae0:1b34 (talk) 21:16, December 20, 2018 (UTC)

If you want the page to be kept present some reasons for keeping it at the AfD. Complaining about it here won't improve the chances of it being kept. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 23:25, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Lol the badmin who closed the first afd lied out his dumb ass calling people sockpuppet to keep the page. But you admins never do accept that your buttbuddies lie about that as just a bullshit way to abuse admin buttons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1:C6A9:4C7B:3580:E383:2856:89E3 (talk) 03:06, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Seasonal Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Sakura Cartelet, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, Everedux (talk) 15:16, 25 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Speedy deletion nomination of Madilyn

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Madilyn requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Tagishsimon (talk) 08:12, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Sakura Cartelet/Archives,

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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Re 2600:1700:BB90:5870:5561:90B2:F8E:5444

Do not edit my recent edits please.... thank you.... :) it is by court order.

Thanks!

(Preceding unsigned edit was made by 2600:1700:BB90:5870:5561:90B2:F8E:5444 at User:Sakura_Cartelet/Userboxes - Mdaniels5757 (talk) 23:41, 8 April 2019 (UTC))

Note: As I'm sure you're aware, there is no such thing as "4th US District Court", and as far as I can tell no order exists. Keeping an eye on them. - Mdaniels5757 (talk) 23:41, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Sakura Cartelet/Archives,

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 Sakura Cartelet/Archives,

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 Sakura Cartelet/Archives,

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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Comment by anon

I primarily work to remove content that is supportive of human rights, and believe we should hold a neutral view on politics. Are muslims people who deserve rights? No need to hold an opinion. I support neutrality on the topic- we shouldn't rush to judgement on whether they deserve rights. And I will continue to work hard to make sure wikipedia does not reflect any pre-human rights views. I also would have supported Hitler. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:12B0:3000:E16B:2154:E153:28FC (talk) 03:23, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Your revert of my edit

Those were not weasel words added by me. That statement has been intact on that page for months now because various big football editors have confirmed it. And also, Gianluigi Buffon is page too that contains that and its been lying there for years now. Dont forget that there are 8 citations supporting the statement so its not obvious to remove it. Kindly think further on your action. 117.225.123.2 (talk) 03:07, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

I haven't edited the Gianluigi Buffon page (as far as I know) so I don't know anything about the accuracy (or lack there of) of that page. As for my revert of the Petr Čech article seemed to me to be in the form of "some people say X" so it appeared to be weasel worded. I saw you reinstated the edit, however I'm not going to re-revert it. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 03:26, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Naming of the recent Syria battle.

I don't need to wait for the discussion to end, this was already called by the previous name before the discussion began, there was consensus on the name. Someone apparently renamed it without consensus and now we should wait for consensus? There is already 5 votes against 1. A4516416 (talk) 05:19, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Not all of the people who "voted" (keep in mind that article title discussions or almost any discussion on Wikipedia are not "votes") agreed that that should be the new name for the article. I think we should wait till a more clear consensus of what the best title for the article to be. After all there's no big rush that it has to be moved right now instead of (possibly) in a few days or so. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 05:29, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

So what you're telling me is even though 5 users have called for a popular name, we should stick to an unilateral name (rule breakingly) moved by an user without discussion. Please learn to compromise. A4516416 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:31, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Edits

Hello, I notice my typo updates were not added to the Frozen (2013) website. I am curious as to why you are censoring valid information, aimed at expanding general societal knowledge and improving the average life experience? Please reply with all promptness as I am truly concerned for the direction Wikipedia has taken in the past several years.

Sincerely, Frederickthewatermelon Frederickthewatermelon (talk) 23:35, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

When I looked at the edits that you made to the Frozen article, I noticed that both the word snowman was changed to thorax and a name of one person was replaced with another person. Neither of those changes were accompanied by any sort of explanation (via an edit summary or otherwise) so I reverted them with the warning message you saw on your talk page. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 23:40, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Autodesk Maya

I removed unsourced material that was added by 45.20.151.16. And 71.244.246.185 keeps adding it back without explanation. It's not right to add material without a source is it? --94.1.34.5 (talk) 19:27, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

User 94.1.34.5 is not assuming good faith. This should be taken up at the in a admins incident notice board. 71.244.246.185 (talk) 19:29, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

I'm thinking of reporting them to admins given the edit warring and edits they made to the sandbox. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 19:31, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

I've filed a report on the Administrator's noticeboard for incidents. Hopefully something will be done to solve this. Sakura Cartelet^Talk 19:41, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, I just commented on it. --94.1.34.5 (talk) 19:56, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the report I have replied to it. Hopefully they will ban this user who keep vandalizing the project. 71.244.246.185 (talk) 19:59, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Nope, the only one vandalizing this project is you, and you're the one that needs blocking. Also, keep this off this user's talk page because they don't want to read this. Sakura Cartelet, I'm sorry about this, delete it if you want. --94.1.34.5 (talk) 20:13, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

If you need to talk to me use try user page keep him out of it. Just a matter of time before you are blocked. 71.244.246.185 (talk) 20:18, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

My friend if you know any admins could you please send them a message and get them to take a look at the board. This guy is out of control and needs to be stopped. 71.244.246.185 (talk) 20:33, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Well thankfully ST47 has resolved this situation and has semi-protected the page and blocked the vandal. Sorry you got caught in this, I see they added another message to your talk page after I told them to keep this discussion off your page. Hopefully this is resolved now, though I fear they'll evade their block by renewing their IP because they even admitted to doing that on the discussion. --94.1.34.5 (talk) 21:44, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
I saw the dispute and was going to post this: " I don’t believe all this sturm und drang over a computer application. Race, religion, politics, sports, ethnicity maybe, but a computer application? What is really going on here? But decided against it, but out of curiosity I posted the identical on both talk pages and the response was from both to revert. A few minutes ago one just reverted. Maybe this is a discussion one is having with themselves just to keep the article active.I am relatively new, didn't do much but create articles (five of them) but being bored I started to check out different articles and following Arbcom and ANI, I am dumbfounded to discover that there are edit wars going on over inane articles. Stupid stuff. I just can't figure out what is going on. Religion, politics, ethnicity, I can understand, even sports(although barely, I don't get the mentality of soccer riots, but am familiar with the study that links them to testosterone. Myself watching soccer and golf is like watching paint dry, but people do get emotional over it but computer games, applications, comic books, fiction? Oldperson (talk) 00:25, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

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Linda McDermott

Hi mate! Good CSD, but don't forget to check the author. In this case it is clear that the author has a COI, and should be sent the COI notice (I have already done so). Cheers, — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)}_{(click me!)} 23:27, 16 February 2020 (UTC)