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Shortcut WP:AALERTS Article alerts is a subscription-based automatic article-monitoring system used to give "status reports" to subscribing WikiProjects. The reports are created and delivered by AAlertBot, operated by both Hellknowz (who also is the sole coder of the bot) and Headbomb.

For notification about cleanup tags, such as {{no footnotes}} and {{disputed}}, see cleanup listings.

For notification about recently created articles that could be of interest to your project, see InceptionBot.

Article Alerts was introduced in The Signpost in an article from 23 February 2009. See also a follow up article from 17 July 2023.

Search Article Alerts for specific topics that interest you. If you find one, add it to your watchlist! You can also browse the subscription list.

Article Alerts is an automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles tagged by their banners or placed in their categories enter various formal workflows (such as Articles for Deletion, Requests for Comments, Peer Review, and many more).

First AAlertBot browses all the workflows in its scope, then checks for WikiProject templates/categories on these pages. If a subscribing WikiProject/Taskforce is found, AAlertBot will update a customized report called Article Alerts for that particular WikiProject or Taskforce. (An example of such a report can be found here.) Reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what is happening, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. So it is a good idea to request for a bot to place your WikiProject/Taskforce's banner on articles from relevant categories, so AAlertBot covers more articles. (See also Tips and Tricks.)

Originally, the Article Alerts relied on ArticleAlertbot (coded and updated by B. Wolterding, operated by Legoktm) from September 2008 to April 2010 (see bot approval). Following several months of downtime, a new bot AAlertBot was developed (coded, maintained, and operated by Hellknowz, and co-operated by Headbomb) from December 2010 onwards (see bot approval).

Report issues and problems with the Article Alerts reports on the bug reports page. Requests for new features should be made at the feature requests page.

Workflows covered Edit

– implemented (may not be fully formatted/data populated)

– not for now (not in priority list)

– implementing (taking a while or need to do something else to get this working)

– under consideration (haven't examined the issues/process to say if currently plausible/worthwhile)

AfD – Articles for deletion
TfD – Templates for discussion
RfD – Redirects for discussion
CfD – Categories for discussion
FfD – Files for discussion
FfD (COM) – Deletion requests (on Commons)
MfD – Miscellany for deletion
PROD – Proposed deletion
FAC – Featured article candidates
FAR – Featured article review
FLC – Featured list candidates
FLRC – Featured list removal candidates
FP – Featured pictures
FTC – Featured topic candidates
FTRC – Featured topic removal candidates
ACR – A-Class review (project-specific)
GAN – Good article nominations
GAR – Good article reassessment
GTC – Good topic candidates
PR – Peer review
RfC – Requests for comment
RM – Requested moves
TFA – Today's featured articles
TFAR – Today's featured article requests
DYK – Did you know nominations (approved)
MRG – Articles for Merging
SPL – Articles for Splitting
AFC – Articles for Creation
ITN – In the news
OTD – Selected anniversaries
CP – Copyright problems
ON – Article alerts/News

Sample Edit

The table below shows an example of WikiProject Video games article alerts report.

Article alerts

Did you know

25 Sep 2023 – Venetian Blinds (video game) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by AdoTang (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2023 – The Sims 2: Pets (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vaticidalprophet (t · c); see discussion
11 Sep 2023 – The Sims 2: Open for Business (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vaticidalprophet (t · c); see discussion
07 Sep 2023 – The Creative Gene (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by PantheonRadiance (t · c); see discussion
03 Sep 2023 – Music of 428: Shibuya Scramble and Canaan (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by IanTEB (t · c); see discussion
31 Aug 2023 – Cybermorph (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Grandmaster Huon (t · c); see discussion
31 Aug 2023 – BattleSphere (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Grandmaster Huon (t · c); see discussion
31 Aug 2023 – Mario Party DS (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by The Green Star Collector (t · c); see discussion
07 Aug 2023 – Inferno (Counter-Strike) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by NegativeMP1 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

22 Sep 2023 – Hive Games (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TheTechnician27 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
21 Sep 2023 – Random dungeon (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Moonreach (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
20 Sep 2023 – Portable Island: Te no Hira no Resort (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ferret (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
20 Sep 2023 – NihongoUp (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ferret (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
20 Sep 2023 – Mouth Sweet (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ferret (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
19 Sep 2023 – Athena Massey (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wikishovel (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
18 Sep 2023 – List of video games with PS1-style tank controls (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Soetermans (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
18 Sep 2023 – List of Brawlers (Brawl Stars) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Soetermans (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
18 Sep 2023 – Disney Sing It: Family Hits (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by QuietCicada (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
17 Sep 2023 – Eden Star (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by QuietCicada (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

(16 more...)

Proposed deletions

19 Sep 2023 – List of Carry Lab games (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Voice of Clam (t · c): concern
21 Sep 2023 – DSLink (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by QuietCicada (t · c) was deproded by Zxcvbnm (t · c) on 21 Sep 2023
13 Sep 2023 – Doraemon 2: SOS! Otogi no Kuni (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by UnexpectedSmoreInquisition (t · c) was redirected to List of Doraemon video games#PlayStation (talk · edit · hist)
12 Sep 2023 – Carry Lab (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Tutwakhamoe (t · c) was deleted
12 Sep 2023 – Alhambra (video game) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Vrxces (t · c) was redirected to Alhambra (board game)#Video game (talk · edit · hist)

Redirects for discussion

24 Sep 2023 – Neighbours: The Adventure (talk · edit · hist) →Neighbours was RfDed by Pppery (t · c); see discussion
22 Sep 2023 – Wither skeleton (talk · edit · hist) →Minecraft was RfDed by QuicoleJR (t · c); see discussion
20 Sep 2023 – Kurasshu Bandikū Faibu: ēt Kurasshu to Korutekkusu no Yabō (talk · edit · hist) →Crash Twinsanity was RfDed by ArcticSeeress (t · c); see discussion
16 Sep 2023 – Tumblr sexyman (talk · edit · hist) →Sans (Undertale) was RfDed by Lizardcreator (t · c); see discussion
15 Sep 2023 – Helena Mankowska (talk · edit · hist) →Lady Dimitrescu was RfDed by Edward-Woodrow (t · c); see discussion
04 Sep 2023 – Mamu (Nintendo) (talk · edit · hist) →Characters of the Mario franchise#Antagonists was RfDed by QuicoleJR (t · c); see discussion
30 Aug 2023 – Vixy Reinard (talk · edit · hist) →List of Star Fox characters was RfDed by QuicoleJR (t · c); see discussion
22 Aug 2023 – The Attack (TV Series 2015) (talk · edit · hist) →Kevin Pereira was RfDed by Duckmather (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

17 Sep 2023 – File:Calculator (Nintendo Switch) icon.png (talk · edit · hist) (on Calculator (Nintendo Switch)) FfDed by ClydeFranklin (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Subscribing Edit

All subscriptions are done by placing the {{ArticleAlertSubscription}} template on the /Subscription list. See the /Subscribing page for details/guide.

News request Edit

Note: the news requests are not currently implemented.

If something is happening that you think WikiProjects should know about, then let us know and we'll include it in the articles.

Bug reports Edit

Please report bugs, missed articles, and any other mishaps on the bug report page. Don't think someone else will do it, because that someone else might think you'll do it, and then neither of you will have reported the bug. It is also possible that the error is specific to your project, so you might be the only one to have seen this error.

Feature requests Edit

Have an idea that you think would improve the reports? Share it with us, and we'll see what we can do about it.

Feedback and questions Edit

Having troubles setting up Article alerts? Leave a message on our talk page, and we'll try to help as best we can.
Think Article Alerts is the greatest thing since sliced bread? Think it sucks because it doesn't actually cover Featured deletions? Let us know.

Tips and tricks Edit

Remember to watch your project's Article Alerts pages.
Did you know that you can monitor your project's Article Alerts using RSS and Atom feeds? Go on your project's /Article alerts history page, and there should be a " RSS Atom" in your toolbox located on the left of the page.
You can incorporate Article Alerts in navboxes for the users of your WikiProjects (see {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Member Navbox}} for example).
If a related WikiProject is also subscribed to Article Alerts, you can transclude their report on your Project's homepage, and monitor their articles too.
Request a bot to place your WikiProject's banner on the articles located in categories relevant to your WikiProject. You will probably end up with some unrelated pages, but at least you've extended Article Alerts to cover many articles you might have missed.
InceptionBot (previously AlexNewArtBot) is a bot which produces a list of recently created articles that could be in your project's scope. Going through the list to do some tagging will ensure that ArticleAlertbot picks up these articles as well.
Consider subscribing to cleanup listings to see articles that need cleanup (covers cleanup tags, such as {{expert needed}}, {{POV}}, {{page numbers needed}}, etc.)