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movie wikipedia page
uncle milty what's the best way to go about putting up a wikipedia page for a movie? you rejected my page because it was advertising in your view, but there are thousands of such pages on wikipedia. i'm merely trying to include our film with those pages. Shotmovie (talk) 17:01, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
- To create an article on your movie then you should familiarise yourself with WP:FIRST and WP:RS. Then create the article with WP:WIZARD. Once you have a workable draft then it should be submitted for review. The other film pages you've seen have been through this, and most importantly they meet the criteria for notability necessary for inclusion in Wikipedia. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 18:15, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
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A tag has been placed on your user page, User talk:UV CARE INC., requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service. This is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages — user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources or advertising space. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.
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Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard#George_Mason_University is up.Dlohcierekim (talk) 04:07, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: User:Kaylaniiicole/sandbox
Hello Uncle Milty. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Kaylaniiicole/sandbox, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not egregiously far from a Wikipedia article; worth letting her improve it (especially if it's a school project). Thank you. GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:09, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- @GorillaWarfare: - There are a large number of these popping up this weekend. They are all apparently students of George Mason University class IT 104 who seem to have been told to write essays and to write them here. I have not compiled a list of all of these users so far, but feel free to look at my recent contributions if you haven't seen them already. While a couple of them begin to approach the possibility of becoming articles one day, most are just straight essays with standard essay footnotes. All seem to have be copy/pasted into place by new users with no other edits. That's why I'm thinking that some instructor or TA has suggest using WP as a web host to these students. None of them seem to have been even slightly introduced to Wiki markup or any other knowledge useful for contributing here. I understand not wanting to 'bite' the new users, but I don't believe a single one of them is here to contribute. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 00:21, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- That's interesting, do you have links to any others? GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:23, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- @GorillaWarfare: - Sure: User_talk:Dkimbrell24, User:Akurtz3gmu, User:Clauritzen/sandbox, User:Ziyadd88, User:Krohler/sandbox/Predictive_Policing, User:Adv0994, User:Zdeering/sandbox, User:Idlc123/sandbox, plus plenty more. It may be quicker to use this search for "IT 104" or this search for "mason honor code" to find live ones. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 00:34, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for the links! I've reached out to someone who may be their professor asking them to find a suitable webhost and stop publishing their articles on Wikipedia; hopefully I've found the right person and they'll put an end to it. GorillaWarfare (talk) 04:48, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)} @GorillaWarfare: There are some samples in my deletion log. I stopped deleting them to see how other admins would see them. I posted to the education noticeboard. To me it looks like a blatant batch of NOTHERE. Cheers, Dlohcierekim (talk)
- @GorillaWarfare: - Sure: User_talk:Dkimbrell24, User:Akurtz3gmu, User:Clauritzen/sandbox, User:Ziyadd88, User:Krohler/sandbox/Predictive_Policing, User:Adv0994, User:Zdeering/sandbox, User:Idlc123/sandbox, plus plenty more. It may be quicker to use this search for "IT 104" or this search for "mason honor code" to find live ones. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 00:34, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- That's interesting, do you have links to any others? GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:23, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Lil Kleine
Hi I just got noted that you reverted my addition of lil kleine to the list of rappers that start with lil for not being notable. May I know why he isnt notable? He had a number one song in my home country, or is the list only for american rappers? In that case the addition of every rapper is redundant. Or is it that he doesnt have an article in english? In that case Lil Punp should be erased as well. Regards, Niels de Groot (talk) 20:16, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
- He does need to have an article here first before being listed on that list. Until Lil Pump get an article his name is also removed every time it pops up. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 17:52, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm nearly 100% sure that Ellen Page's quote doesn't slander the article, since the section is about sexual abuse allegations, and Page states Allen as one of the abusers. I'm asking you if you can undo your edit with the reliable sources below:
- The Guardian, IndieWire and Vice. Thanks! (If you still have problems, you can reply me on here or on the article's talk page.) Sebastian James (talk) 05:29, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
- My biggest problem with it is it really has nothing to do with Woody Allen other than her lumping him into the current pile of suspects. She may regret having acted in one of his movies for whatever reason, but she doesn't claim to be a victim of his in any way. Since Woody has been completely cleared of all claims, I see no point in piling on comments from people who are merely using his name to further their own causes. Woody Allen is not "one of the abusers". --| Uncle Milty | talk | 07:19, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hello, I am inquiring about some information on making my Wiki page. I created a page as there weren't any previous existing pages. I submitted it and you deleted, saying it was advertising or something. I honestly was just trying to make a wiki for myself as I am a musician and just wanted a page so when people wiki'd my artist name they could see that it is infact same person etc. It was just supposed to be informative and provide confirmation that said artists exists, That's all. I am no expert wiki page maker, however I do have a musicbrainz profile, and I need a wiki page formed in order to create an official VEvo account. Can you please help me out here and guide me in the right direction? I was told by my tunecore rep that a wiki page and music brainz page were required for set up. Thank you again for you time and help. -Melody — Preceding unsigned comment added by MelodyAnnmusic (talk • contribs) 15:40, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not a listing service or a place to notify the world of your existence. Only people who meet the notabilty requirements will have articles. I don't know what your tunecore rep had in mind, but unless they only want musicians that have already achieved notability then he gave you the wrong advice. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 16:49, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hi. Back in August you put a speedy delete tag on Manusenssas but the account still seems to be around. Earlier today the user posted to Talk:Comma-separated values in French and it seems to my rusty abilities to be more advertising. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 16:36, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Martin of Sheffield: Thanks. Turns out they had also put the advertising including promotional external link back up on their user page, so I've tagged that for speedy deletion again. I've also reverted their addition to Talk:Comma-separated values because at the very least it is off topic there. I've also made an entry on this user at WP:AIV. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 20:02, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
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what you mean i editing a living dead person on r. kelly's autobiography on wikipedia. i edit it because wikipedia writing about his family members sexually modested him that's not true... a prostitute sexually modested him not them, correct me if i'm RIGHT OR WRONG.Johnny758 (talk) 02:23, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
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Uncle Milty - will you be able to help?
Hi there, You recently reviewed my page when I joined andrewbyron. Thanks for that! I wanted to ask for you help as fully aware there are conflict of interest rules and don't want to fall foul of them.
On Alexander Leitch, Baron Leitch wiki page – I was hoping you might be able to make two some small changes: 1. Can you add the word 'temporary' to the line in his Biography that reads "He was left paralysed". I've realised that reading it as it is suggests he is still paralysed today and he is not. 2. And is he no longer has a home in Edinburgh.
Please let me know if you can assist.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Best wishes, Andrew — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewbyron (talk • contribs) 10:58, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
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Well, "thanks" for the kind message. I see you've been here 10 years, and you love that you're an OG, and all. But to say my external links are advertising shows you've lost your way. Look, it's clear you love being a "patroller". What a title! Ah, the power. Very KGB. Very Gestapo. Very thought police. Yet I checked the guidelines for links and putting up an external link to a Stanford University site on research is hardly advertising or promotion. It's funny to me though...statistically, someday you or someone close to you will get HIV, cancer or Alzheimers. Then you'll ask yourself, should I rather have been such a fanatical "patroller," or actually helped the world of disease research through a single link on Wikipedia? Your sick friend will answer that for you...Best regards, amigo. Davieinspain (talk) 15:34, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 February 2018
- News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
- Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
- Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
- Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain
- Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history
- Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks
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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
- News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.
- Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.
- Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers
- Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs
- Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.
- Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.
- Humour: WikiWorld Reruns
New Page Review Newsletter No.10
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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The Signpost: 26 April 2018
- From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again
- Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost
- In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop
- In focus: Admin reports board under criticism
- Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide
- Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias
- Discussion report: The future of portals
- Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History
- Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March
- Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
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The Signpost: 24 May 2018
- From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals
- Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics
- News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia
- Traffic report: We love our superheroes
- Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies
- Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues
- Humour: Play with your food
- Gallery: Wine not?
- From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost
NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
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 Uncle Milty, 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: 
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. - 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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The Signpost: 29 June 2018
- Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?
- Op-ed: What do admins do?
- News and notes: Money, milestones, and Wikimania
- In the media: Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress
- Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page
- Featured content: New promotions
- Arbitration report: WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed
- Traffic report: Endgame
- Technology report: Improvements piled on more improvements
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Africa
- Recent research: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry
- Humour: Television plot lines
- Wikipedia essays: This month's pick by The Signpost editors
- From the archives: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing
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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
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Hello Uncle Milty, 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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The Signpost: 31 July 2018
- From the editor: If only if
- Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality
- Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose
- Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes
- Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else
- Technology report: New bots, new prefs
- Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons
- Humour: It's all the same
- Essay: Wikipedia does not need you
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The Signpost: 30 August 2018
- From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia
- News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend
- In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles
- Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Special report: Wikimania 2018
- Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits
- Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work
- Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies
- Humour: Signpost editor censors herself
- From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words
August 2018
Hello. I wanted to let you know that in your recent contributions, you seemed to act as if you were the owner of a page. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia. This means that editors do not own articles, including ones they create, and should respect the work of their fellow contributors. If you create or edit an article, remember that others are free to change its content. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. BLDM (talk) 01:56, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
- @BLDM: Is there a specific contribution you are referencing? I'm not aware of any recent edits I've performed that were anything more than simple vandalism reversions. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 12:04, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello Uncle Milty, 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.
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The Signpost: 1 October 2018
- From the editor: Is this the new normal?
- News and notes: European copyright law moves forward
- In the media: Knowledge under fire
- Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2
- Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom
- Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile
- Gallery: A pat on the back
- Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?
- Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle
- Essay: Expressing thanks
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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Hello Uncle Milty, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update], 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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The Signpost: 28 October 2018
- From the editors: The Signpost is still afloat, just barely
- News and notes: WMF gets a million bucks
- In the media: Bans, celebs, and bias
- Discussion report: Mediation Committee and proposed deletion reform
- Traffic report: Unsurprisingly, sport leads the field – or the ring
- Technology report: Bots galore!
- Special report: NPP needs you
- Special report 2: Now Wikidata is six
- In focus: Alexa
- Gallery: Out of this world!
- Recent research: Wikimedia Commons worth $28.9 billion
- Humour: Talk page humour
- Opinion: Strickland incident
- From the archives: The Gardner Interview