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I see that you have added two or three references. I am quite sure this person is notable. The prod template gives a week for editors to reference the article properly. Anyone may remove it if they feel that sufficient references have been added. But remember, especially when it comes to a living person, every assertion in the article must be cited. Harry the Dog WOOF 18:08, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
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Re Kumar Anish
editHi Mydreamsparrow,
I was actually going to come and a drop you a note about the Kumar Anish article.
The first concern is Wikipedia:Notability (people). I'm struggling to see that this chap is much beyond a yoga practitioner who happened to write a book in 2005, and came up with the GOPI method (or perhaps this is just a modification of his own teacher's method?). I'm not actually sure which section of biography a yoga practitioner fits into. If we look at Wikipedia:Notability (sports) there's no section on yoga. Due to his book, etc you could maybe argue Wikipedia:Notability (academics) or Creative professional, but not sure either is really correct, and one apparently not overly significant book probably doesn't quite qualify him. Just using the general notability guidelines he doesn't quite seem to make it. Perhaps if the GOPI method was well known (e.g., there is no article on it and Google doesn't indicate much about it as a prominent specialist yoga technique from what I can find), or if he was a prominent author (a single book ranking outside the top 10 million on Amazon probably doesn't quite cut it) it would be different. If you take if from another perspective, I'm sure you could understand that Wikipedia doesn't want articles on every local personal trainer in Australia for example, so these people do genuinely need to be notable.
The other concern is Wikipedia:Verifiability and WP:Reliability. While there was nothing in the article that appeared to be offensive, similarly there was not a lot that seemed to be verifiable. There is particular sensitivity about Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, both for ethical and legal reasons, and in essence claims should be able to verified by reference to reliable secondary sources. Unfortunately very little of that article did so, with the references you provided not verifying the claims made. Many were simply links to the website of the organisations mentioned. Not only was Anish not mentioned on the linked pages, when I did advanced searches of the site he was not even mentioned anywhere on the sites. These cannot be used as references as they do not verify the claims made in the article. To be honest I can't help but think you know him personally and have written it partly through what you simply know or what he has told you (for a while I thought it may have actually been a Wikipedia:Autobiography). Nonetheless, if you do know him closely this then borders on WP:Advertising which is frowned upon, and brings up the issue of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.
Another page I'd suggest you read is Wikipedia:Citing sources. This contains a thorough discussion of how to cite sources (just providing URLs to the homepage, or even a subpage, of a website as you have tended to be doing is not recommended). There are even some automated tools that help you to create good citations that I highly recommend (I use one myself).
I realise that you are quite new to Wikipedia (perhaps introduced by Muhammad?) and a glance through your talkpage indicates problems with a number of your articles, some of which have already been deleted. Just as general advice could I perhaps suggest that you perhaps channel the initial enthusiasm you are showing for creating new pages and information into creating fewer but better articles, and improving existing articles. Indeed working through and improving an existing article can really help you to see what makes a good and bad article.
Also you may or may not be aware of the Wikipedia:Did you know process. This gets new articles onto the mainpage and can attract a lot of eyes to them and gives you a bit of acknowledgement for your work. However the other benefit to you would be that it gives some independent review to your articles providing you with a bit of feedback if things are lacking, or a pat on the back if they're really good. This would also let you look through other new articles to see what they contain and check out some of the feedback being given about them, which is far less personal than people reviewing your work.
Again I would like to welcome you to Wikipedia and congratulate you for your enthusiasm for adding content. I note you have also added some lovely photographs! I know I have sprouted an awful lot of information above and linked to lots of advice pages, but there's lots to navigate here! Many new users find the Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user program very helpful for this reason, and some users have very well structured processes in place to help new users. While I'm not part of that process, if you want further advice or clarification about anything I've said, etc, feel free to ask. I notice that some more refs have been added to this chap's article, so I'll go and check them out at some stage and see how they shape up, but in the meantime feel free to strengthen them or anything else in the article with anything I've suggested above.
Cheers, --jjron (talk) 11:12, 16 January 2013 (UTC).
Thank you so much for your guiding. I will be much careful in future. Mydreamsparrow (talk) 11:28, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, You didn't mention any reason at the nomination. Would you consider the original? --Muhammad(talk) 10:02, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Listed Manjula Chellur DYK nomination for discussion
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Hello! Your submission of Manjula Chellur at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Tito Dutta (contact) 19:48, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
- Reply in that DYK discussion page! --Tito Dutta (contact) 19:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
- Please see new note on DYK talk page. Yoninah (talk) 19:05, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
- Hi, regarding your question about this nomination. You nominated an article that was too short by DYK rules, and another editor, Esemono, has been working on expanding it. Since everything written in a Wikipedia article must be verifiable, I removed some of his expansions because they were just padding the article and were not mentioned in the sources. There was also a problem with close paraphrasing, which means that you quoted the source directly rather than present the information in your own words. You have to be careful about quoting verbatim, as this is a copyright issue. After Esemono expanded the article with more sources, the character count increased to an acceptable level and the nomination was accepted. We're now waiting for an administrator to move it to the queue for the Main Page, and you'll be notified on your talk page when the article appears on the Main Page.
- For future nominations, please read WP:DYK or contact me on my talk page with questions. Best, Yoninah (talk) 10:32, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
- Please see new note on DYK talk page. Yoninah (talk) 19:05, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Manjula Chellur
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Welcome to Signpost
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edit...for your kind congratulations. As for the font, you're welcome to it; I stole it myself, long years ago, from someone whose username I no longer even remember. :-) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 08:55, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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Repost of Sana Althaf
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This should be fixed. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:53, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
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I have noticed that you often edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! (summary usage [1]) - 220 of Borg 20:47, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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Excuse me, but it's customary at FPC for a nominator to provide some description of, and rationale for, a nomination with the nomination. Sca (talk) 21:19, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
Noise
edit- What do you think about the noise/loss of detail in File:Dian HP playing the keyboard, 2015-08-22 01.jpg and File:Sitok Srengenge reading a poem, 2015-08-22 02.jpg? Worth giving a shot? (Sitok would need an article first, of course...). Once I write an article on Emha Ainun Nadjib, I want to nominate this image of him. It has so much character!
- The lighting situation wasn't very camera friendly though. No extra lighting. Just three bare bulbs on the roof of the building. The white background was likewise very minimalist and may be an issue. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:28, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- I feel, if you give a try for these pics nominating, that may spoil your reputation, seriously, the pics are having excellent EV but the high level of noise reduction seriously effected the sharpness and still I can see the noise. IMO this is not a better composition Chrizz.... Sorry. DreamSparrow Chat 04:03, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- I have a reputation? </joking> As I said, very poor lighting conditions. Deliberate at the hands of the event organizers, but... sigh. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 05:08, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
- I feel, if you give a try for these pics nominating, that may spoil your reputation, seriously, the pics are having excellent EV but the high level of noise reduction seriously effected the sharpness and still I can see the noise. IMO this is not a better composition Chrizz.... Sorry. DreamSparrow Chat 04:03, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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editJust to note, I did some additional cleaning on the image - removed some scratches, tears, - and most surprisingly - some stamps and notes at the bottom edge, etc, etc, and uploaded over. Obviously, if the image changes, I need to notify all voters of this fact. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:24, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
Somebody has created again an article for this actress. I suggest your Draft:Sana Althaf and the new one be merged, I think the combined article, with sources, will stand now. Her third film has been released, and it looks like she's making another one. Kraxler (talk) 15:50, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Kuchipudi Performer DS.jpg is schedule to be Picture of the Day on October 30, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:43, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
An alt images was added to the nomination. Could you check it, and modify your !vote according your preference. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:07, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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Ohhhh..... Thank you so much Haffy. Wish you the same. DreamSparrow Chat 16:21, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
- Naaaa, who got much time for all this Haffy ? Busy with profession!!
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An alternative image was added to the nomination 3 days ago. Could you indicate which version(s) you support? Thanks, Armbrust The Homunculus 12:13, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- It would be really nice if you would re-visit this FPC, and update your !vote. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 18:07, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
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Many Thanks Haffy !! : DreamSparrow Chat 17:05, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Shrinika performing Abhinaya (Kede Chhanda Janilu Tuhi).jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 3, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-02-03. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:42, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
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Napier Museum photograph
editHi Augustus, I would like to ask your permission to use the photograph Napier Museum Thiruvananthapuran DSW New.jpg in our travel app.
Could you please share the copy right format that we have to give in the app.
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Snake photo
editI'm not an expert on modern photography, I should warn, but I'd be inclined to vote support, albeit with some caveats: The two colours adds a lot of value, but it has relatively poor focus, so it needs that hook. I'd say try it, but it might not pass Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 05:15, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- I'm definitely glad I encouraged you to submit it now. Congrats! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 15:18, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
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Happy Christmas
It's an excellernt picture. There are somer white specks on his robes, but I think they really were there. Stilll, might be wise to remove them as distractions. Your thoughts? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 00:47, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
- Adam Cuerden, Of course, the white specks can be removed. If you suggest so, I shall remove those dots and upload an Alt version. DreamSparrow Chat 15:53, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks
editI like to give you my heartiest gratitude for the medal. It inspires me. Keep helping, thank you sir.
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In the interests of making the vote clear, can you have a look at my question at that page? Cheers. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 14:02, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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Sorry again, but could you clarify there if you're alright with replacement or not? Cheers! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs 21:05, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
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I have unreviewed a page you curated
editHi, I'm UnitedStatesian. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Pedro Miró Roig, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.
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Thanks for the star
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Hi Thanks lot. --RajeshUnuppally 06:29, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Two uncurated pages
editHi, I have two pages that have yet to be reviewed. These are Babu Saheb and Kinwar. I would appreciate if you could take the time to look at them. Thanks.ChuckAlor (talk) 15:19, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Title of your article Vanitha Mathil
editI doubt that's likely to be its most common name in English language sources. See WP:COMMONNAME. Doug Weller talk 06:35, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry, busy today. I'll try to get back tomorrow. Doug Weller talk 21:27, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
Can you discuss this to merge --RajeshUnuppally 07:09, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello Mydreamsparrow, can you let us know what your concerns for notability are so we can look at how to address them? We are discussing it on my talk page. Thanks --Hic et nunc (talk) 19:33, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nominations
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- You also nominated 2019 Thai League 2 saying there wasn't enough context to understand what the article is about. The article has an external link to the league, it has an internal link to the league and tells you it is about the 2019 season.
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- {{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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- 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.
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Lawyers and law students' signatures needed for Supreme Court amicus brief in favor of publishing the law
editHello, given your userbox I thought you might be interested in helping Carl Malamud's case for the public domain, crucial also for Wikisource: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/25/happy-law-day.html . Best regards, Nemo 21:07, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.18
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
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Hey, I'm trying to set up a wiki page for my company and I really think you can help me. If you wish to extend a hand of support, contact me at prince.paul@litmus.com Thanks & Regards Prince Paul Princepcub3 (talk) 06:54, 11 June 2019 (UTC) |
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- 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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Hi I'm Barkeep49. I've declined the WP:BLPPROD you placed at Maria Sole Agnelli. The BLPPROD criteria is quite strict - no sources are to be present in order for it to be placed. In this case there were two books listed as sources making it ineliegible for the tag. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask them here (please ping me) or to leave a question on my talk page. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 02:21, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
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Flag icons, etc.
editHi there, re: these changes, we don't use flags in infoboxes per WP:INFOBOXFLAG, and there's no need to add someone's citizenship when it can be inferred by their nationality. Only in cases where their nationality might differ from their citizenship might that be appropriate. The |citizenship= parameter is rarely used. See Template:Infobox person instructions. Note also that the parent and relative parameters are for notable people, i.e. people who already have Wikipedia articles. So his father Sivan and his brother Sanjeev should not be included unless they are independently notable. Obviously their names could exist elsewhere in the article. Lastly, we do not use Indic script in either the Infobox or the lead, per WP:NOINDICSCRIPT. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:13, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Cyphoidbomb, Thank you so much for your kind review. I will take more care in future. DreamSparrow Chat 11:52, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Bibin George (October 7)
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New Page Review newsletter November 2019
edit Hello Mydreamsparrow,
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
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- 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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Help in cross checking!
editHi, I want your help in cross checking some bio infobox parameters in Shamsheer Vayalil article. The matter is: two days ago I left a message on a wikipedia user talk page User:Authordom for adding some missing bio infobox parameters such as nationality, title and degrees(MBBS and MD in alma mater column) in Shamsheer Vayalil article. The reason for asking him for adding these parameters is that I am new to wikipedia and don't have enough knowledge in formatting bio infobox. He added those parameters in the article. Today I found that he is blocked from editing wikipedia because he vandalized one of the wikipedia article. I think he might have violated wikipedia policy in Shamsheer Vayalil's article also and I'm afraid that I might also be accused as a culprit like him.So can you please cross examine the various parameters which he added in Shamsheer Vayalil article because you hold a experience editor service badge? Thanks. 786 harsh life (talk) 07:38, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
- 786 harsh life is merely the latest sockpuppet of somebody whose other user IDs have been blocked. To learn more, please read this. -- Hoary (talk) 08:14, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
edit Hello Mydreamsparrow,
- 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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