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Thanks
...for the heads up. I suspect that this may be a sock, as four accounts have now expressed a very specific interest in this one musician to the exclusion of nearly everything else here. TomStar81 (Talk) 07:53, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi James. I saw that you nominated the above article (under a slightly different name) for Speedy Deletion as a duplicate of another article. I may not fully understand how things work, but i checked out both and, while i'm not sure that this one is fully notable, i don't think it's sufficiently a duplicate. I removed the Speedy template for that reason, and just wanted to drop by and let you know why; cheers, LindsayHello 08:36, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
speedy deletion nomination of stella von Schoneberg
hello jamesG5, as you see i am new at wikipedia. i had not finish the page thats why it looked like as a violation of copyrights. You can check again and tell me if its ok. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antoulasak (talk • contribs) 16:06, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Speedy deletions
- As reviewing administrator, I see that I and others have declined a good number of your speedy deletions and other deletion nomination. The level of error expected for these nominations is less than 5% at the very most--we do not want to discourage new-comers. . You really ought to gain some experience writing here before you start judging whether other people's work meets the standards. When you have done that, and are ready to start, please read carefully the pages on WP:Deletion policy, WP:N, and WP:CSD. It really is necessary to know all of that in order to do it properly. DGG ( talk ) 18:35, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'm not new to contributing & editing here but am to reviewing pages. I already realized after my first batch I was hitting too many and have backed off except in blatant cases.JamesG5 (talk) 02:14, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: Buccleuch Avon
Hello JamesG5. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Buccleuch Avon, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A redirect seems a better solution. Thank you. GedUK 13:31, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
- That's cool, it's a good alternative, thanks. That's why I left the note about the other page. :) JamesG5 (talk) 15:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of promotional page
Please explain which parts of the page are promotional — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timgcaldwell (talk • contribs) 18:59, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Timgcaldwell: Hi Tim. Please see, first, WP:COI. You're a sales agent for this company. Second, see WP:Notability. There's no indication of why the company rates a Wikipedia page. Given this, it appears to have been places solely as an advertisement. JamesG5 (talk) 19:02, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
SlideProof re-written
Hello JamesG5,
I have re-written the article about SlideProof now to make it less of an ad. What do you think about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamkrapf (talk • contribs) 11:56, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Adamkrapf, looks like a senior editor reviewed it & either because of the nature of it or because of the copyright issues they removed it. A big part of the issue was that the page was copied almost directly from sections of their website. A Wikipedia article needs to be in your own words, and it must have plenty of reliable 3rd party sources (see WP:RS) to support significance (see WP:Notability). What you might want to do is visit Wikipedia: Articles for creation which allows you to create an article & have people review it before it goes live, so you can address any issues in advance. Hope this helps! JamesG5 (talk) 15:03, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
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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.
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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.
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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
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- 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.
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- 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
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Review page
Hi. Review the Sheena Allen page. Cheers
Aghachi7 (talk) 12:10, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Aghachi7: Looks good, I removed the Stub tag since it no longer applies. JamesG5 (talk) 23:00, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
@JamesG5: Thanks for the feedback. Do review the new Samson Olatunde page. Cheers
Speedy deletion declined: Philippa Martin
Hello JamesG5. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Philippa Martin, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Being professor at a notable university or college indicates importance/significance (WP:CCSI#ACADEMIC). Thank you. SoWhy 11:50, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello JamesG5, 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 page removal
Good evening, I noticed we have been having issues with the Controversy part of the page been deleted, this is because, the Wikipedia page is been created and some parts will love to be kept off it as the page is just to serve as a general information page and nothing more.
Even though there are links online, the story behind the links are quite malicious, and that is the main reason the page is created. So not including that part will be very useful, thank you. Warm regards Illmacul8 (talk) 20:53, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Controversy Section
Good evening, I also do know, some information can be left off a Wikipedia page so as to just make it for information, Th at is what is tried to be achieved here, also, the page is not yet finished more information will be added with relevant links, i am sorry for the back and forth we have been having and should have communicated earlier. Thank you. Warm regards Illmacul8 (talk) 20:57, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Hello JamesG5, 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.
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fyi
Just letting you know tha tthe AfD you stared on a minor political activist, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ed Winters, has an SPA and other editors so, er... unusual that I started a SPI, here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Steven02511. Just letting you know as a courtesy. Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:15, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
- @E.M.Gregory: Thanks, I've been following it. I doubt Den is part of the weirdness, but a couple of the others are certainly suspicious.JamesG5 (talk) 03:15, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
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- 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.
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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello JamesG5,
- 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.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Eazystock
Hi James, thanks for notifying the issue with Eazystock. I would seek for your guidance to understand how we can make this Eazystock more like encyclopedia rather than a promotional page as oi mentioned Aankitmishra (talk) 09:12, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Aankitmishra: Please see my reply on your user page. JamesG5 (talk) 15:37, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.17
Hello JamesG5,
- 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
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Speedy deletion declined: Indooroopilly State School
Hello JamesG5. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Indooroopilly State School, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: in this context "State School" means Primary school / Elementary school - see https://indooroopillyss.eq.edu.au (this school) and http://www.indoorooshs.eq.edu.au (the 7-12 school of a similar name). Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 09:27, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hi JamesG5. For maybe 99.94% of Wikipedia admins I guess this would have been a straightforward WP:A10. I just happen to be familiar with Brisbane's inner western suburbs. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:52, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Shirt58: Thanks for explaining! When I saw the unsourced article I googled the name & all the results I found on the top list were for the 7-12 school so I missed it. JamesG5 (talk) 18:31, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Lou Arab
Re: Lou Arab You know, your type of person ruins every platform on the internet and its foundational idea. You love to delete and censor things, the very anti-thesis of what wikipedia was meant to be. And make up your bloody mind!!!! I created that page based on google search data - it showed in my area people googling his name and there was no wikipedia article about him. and contrary to your assumption (you always love to assume and know everything, detective should have been your calling, tyrant) I was editing the page, not the "subject" and i am not the subject - ping my IP i am in an entirely different province. i was editing it because another one of you censor tarantulas left a note that i shoupd add sources, and when i do, it stated I can remove the tag. Then you come along and repost the tag again now with different policy. so all those people googling can go elsewhere then and you and your power games can continue. deplorable. at least make up your bloody mimd so youre not wasting people's time. Wikipedia is supposed to be a place you find info you cant find elsewhere but for your type of person it's a place you sit on your high throne and implement your tyranny - no longer sic semper tyrannis, now semper tyrannis est.Canlawtictoc (talk) 16:09, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Canlawtictoc: Ok, a few notes here. First of all I didn't say Arab created the article, I said he's been heavily editing it. AFTER you created it he came along and started changing things around. Second, I didn't delete anything, I put it up for consensus discussion by other editors to decide if he meets the standards for Wikipedia. You might want to take a moment to read WP:GNG, the Wikipedia General Notability Guideline. Part of the guidelines is that "notability does not attach." That is to say, just because I'm RELATED to someone notability I don't automatically qualify. This article states in the lede that he's really only know for who he's married to. Second, I was the one who originally tagged the article for sources. It's not a "this is being deleted," it's a time delay thing to let people know they need to flesh the article out. After that was done I re-read it, checked the sources, and still saw no evidence. However, I'm not the be all end all of Wikipedia so I invited others to weigh in. That's how we work here. All the personal insults are unwelcome & unwarranted. JamesG5 (talk) 16:46, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.18
Hello JamesG5,
- 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
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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019
Hello JamesG5,
- 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.
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Frost Tower Articles
Hi, I think there has been a bit of a misunderstanding. A new building, named simply "Frost Tower", has been constructed in San Antonio. The old "Frost Bank Tower" in San Antonio (Frost Bank Tower (San Antonio)) is now called "City Tower". Frost Bank has sold this building. The tower in Austin is now the only "Frost Bank Tower" (Frost Bank Tower). Here are some websites for further reference:
I just wanted to discuss this with you so we can make the new article in whatever way best suits the naming conventions.
New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello JamesG5,
- 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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New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello JamesG5,
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 804 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.
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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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Some advice, please?
Hi all, I am tagging RHaworth (talk · contribs), Bbb23 (talk · contribs), and Jimfbleak (talk · contribs) here 'cause the three of you are folks who I deal with a lot when doing NPP stuff & I've run in to something I've never seen on Wikipedia before and am not actually sure how to deal with it. I hoped one of you might be able to give me some guidance and this seemed to make more sense than messaging you all individually. I ran in to a new editor recently who's been making a number of questionable edits all around one region of the country and especially dealing with some local politics & issues there. He's had several pages deleted & edits reverted with warnings about disruption and such. Given the character of some of his edits I started googling some of the places & issues, and found out that his user name is the IRL name of one of the politicians involved in his most extreme & inflammatory edits. I do NOT believe the editor actually IS the politician, his poor grammar & such make it seem more like an angry young person. IMO it seems more likely, given the substance of some of the conspiracy theories & such posted, he's either trying to lend credibility by using the name, OR trying to make the politician look bad/crazy by association with the posts. This is such a weird situation I haven't even been able to find guidance and have no idea what, if anything, can or should be done but I thought I should ask. Any guidance is welcome. JamesG5 (talk) 07:27, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
- Don't fuss. Just give me the username and I will block them for disruptive editing. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 08:31, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, nothing to add to the above from RHaworth except that if he is impersonating someone else, that's a blockable offence in itself. — Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
@RHaworth: It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Christopher_Geertsen. His user page talks about running for office in that area, but there's already someone in office there by that name, overseeing the school district he's been posting Satanic conspiracies about, among other disruptive editing. JamesG5 (talk) 17:23, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
- Learn to provide a wikilink whenever you refer to any page. In the interests of openness Christopher Geertsen should be pinged about this discussion but if you did not want that to happen, you could put his user name within a {{noping}} tag. "Several pages deleted" - no! He created one page - his user page and I deleted that only recently. I see no politician of that name. What I do see is a twenty-something year old with untidy handwriting and political aspirations. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:55, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
- "There's already someone in office there by that name, overseeing the school district" - I did not notice that: give me a link. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:59, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
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New Page Review newsletter December 2019
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello JamesG5,
- 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.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095
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Speedy deletion declined: Christian Klein
Hello JamesG5. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Christian Klein, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: being CEO of a DAX-listed company indicates significance. Not a shred of promotional language in the article. Thank you. SoWhy 13:39, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- @SoWhy: Ok. I've not seen that cited before and it doesn't appear here Wikipedia:Notability_(people) or in other guidelines I could find so I wasn't aware. Moreover, basically all the coverage I could find about him was a mention in articles about Jennifer Morgan leaving, no independent coverage at all. And since the article was originally a copyright violation of his corporate bio and there are unregistered IPs disputing the speedy the whole thing looks like an SEO/publicity post, which was my reason for the promotional bit. I'll take it to AfD. JamesG5 (talk) 22:04, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- Remember that A7 is explicitly not about notability but a lower standard that any credible assertion that the subject is somehow significant or important can satisfy (see WP:CCS for more details). Also remember WP:ATD applies to speedy deletion as well, seeing as there is no reason why - if notability is lacking - the article can't be merged or redirected to SAP SE. As for G11, it explicitly requires that the text is promotional since "intent to promote" is not an objective standard. And by the time you tagged it, it contained only neutral language. Regards SoWhy 05:59, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Black Shuck
I added new character information and the missing references this morning - the article is now ready for publication.Glammazon (talk) 12:52, 1 May 2020 (UTC)|
- @Glammazon: Your refs are still all wrong, please wee WP:REF. You also have the note about updating it in there, and the refs to the legendary monster. Also no inline refs/footnotes. And you haven't linked anything else, like the 2000 AD article. Still needs some work. JamesG5 (talk) 14:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Andrew nyr. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Isaiah Feliciano, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.
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- @Andrew nyr: Hi Andrew, I was in the middle of creating an AfD for the page. I was typing while you did that. Thanks for the notice. JamesG5 (talk) 07:06, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
RE: speedy deletion on Omnibridge Holdings Limited
Hi, Not sure why this page was marked to be speedily deleted. There is nothing promotional either and I am not working for the company of the page I created. Still new to this - how do I declare conflict of interest and what's the reason I should be stating? May I request the deleted content though so I can improve it for use? Would really appreciate that.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Raeling612 (talk • contribs) 10:09, 4 May 2020 (UTC) Raeling612
- @Raeling612: I can see the history of your talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Raeling612&oldid=936204578 and the original name of your account was BCG Group, same corporate family as Omnibridge. You're editing exclusively to promote their companies without providing proper references or indicating why they're deserving of a wikipedia page. So clearly you're an employee of the corporate group or working for them on SEO. Generally speaking we assume good faith but your conflict is clear cut here. See WP:COI and WP:PAID, there are instructions for declaring conflict. JamesG5 (talk) 13:40, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello JamesG5,
- Your help can make a difference
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
- Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
- Discussions and Resources
- A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
- Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
- A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
- Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.
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New Page Patrol December Newsletter
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- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
| Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
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Deletion discussion about Dodanduwa Weerasooriya's
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Hi JamesG5,
I do not see a reason for this page to be deleted? It's a historically significant family that hails from the South of Sri Lanka, we have deep roots in the Anglican church, Salvation Army movement, and several Anglican schools throughout the country, we have several notable figures; in the Army, Legal Profession and Religious spheres. I have given several citations and I am more than happy to give more. I do not know if you are a Sri Lankan, but I've seen a lot of other similar pages on Wikipedia, so I do not see any plausible reason as to why this has to be deleted. It's quite unreasonable of you to put this for deletion, since a quick internet search would give you plenty of Newspaper articles, publications and so on, about the Weerasooriya family. We have a 50 (plus) year old charity organisation and a 100 (plus) year old Church set up by us in the South of Sri Lanka. Please do not delete this page, it's quite unreasonable of you to, especially since you're not even from this country.
Thank you, sincerely. ShArk50008
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- @ShArk50008: Hello. First of all, when speaking to another user please place the remarks on their TALK page, not their user page. Second, I did not delete the page, I nominated it for a consensus review by other editors to see if they agree it should be removed. Third, the problem is that many of your sources do not meet Wikipedia's criteria. Fourth, please see WP:COI. You should not be creating or editing articles about yourself, your own family or your business. The fact that you're stating you posted an article to promote your family & its interests lends to why it should be removed. JamesG5 (talk) 08:07, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
@JamesG5: Hi, pardon that error. I'm assuming the only sources you're referring to is one from a blogging website, besides that every other source is from a newspaper, etc. I didn't promote anything, we simply put up an article on behalf of the family because several such other families in my country have one as well.
I do not know how you are qualified (as AN AMERICAN) to determine what families should and shouldn't have a wiki page. You don't see me doing the same about American families, of which I know nothing about. I only know about Sri Lankan families. You claim to be an expert at grammar, not Sri Lankan history and culture.
I am not trying to argue with you. As long as I attach more citations and resources, I do not see why the page should be put up for deletion, a lot of other irrelevant things get put on Wikipedia about families here, and I do not see them being deleted. Please do not abuse your privilege as someone from a first world country western nation, telling us what we should and should not put on Wikipedia, because as long as I've got plenty of resources, I do not see an issue. Hopefully we can go about this amicably. I put up the article about the Arnolis Weerasooriya, who was from the family,who brought the salvation army to Sri Lanka. His Great Grand Nephew was the former General of our Nations Army (Srilal Weerasooriya), he fought in a 30 year civil war. Others from our family are established individuals in the country in the field of medicine and law. I know plenty of people who write nonsensical wikis about very controversial political and social figures here.
Thank you James.
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- @ShArk50008: you're right. I'm not an expert. I do know how Wikipedia works, tho, and your sourcing's a mess and there are other issues with the article. But again because I am not an expert here I did not make any kind of decision, nor do I have the authority to do so. I simply listed it for a review by others, including people with more knowledge of the topic. Wikipedia operates by user consensus. You need to make your case on the deletion discussion page, the people who read it & review the page will decide. JamesG5 (talk) 08:34, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello JamesG5,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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About article Vincent Warnery
Hi and thanks for raising the copyright issue. When I wrote the article, I translated from the press release. Understand about the need to write in own words. I have rewrite the content, kindly see or change if needed. If it is still troublesome, feel free to delete the article. I just wanted to add more article about anything happens in outside english speaking world to increase representation in wikipedia! ServLord1 (talk) 03:52, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
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Resubmission regarding 'Zack: Enfrentamiento Mortal' article
Dear JamesG5: I was recently notified of the deletion of a wikipedia page i created, titled Zack: Enfrentamiento Mortal. This page was deleted due to 'unambiguous advertising/promotion'. I have since created a new page under the same title, reformatted to fit a proper, encyclopedic description. As Liz mentioned, it is not an unfinished article, as I have taken the time to properly format it and provide sufficient information for it to become a proper wiki page. Now, I write to you asking for you to keep the page up, and not delete it. I wrote this page only to add to Wikipedia's ever-growing collection, nothing more and nothing less, and I mean no harm when i post this page. If you would like to contact me, you may do so via my Talk page, or via my email at mrpancakes316@gmail.com Sincerely, OtherPancakes OtherPancakes (talk) 11:13, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello JamesG5,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 804 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 852 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello JamesG5,
- Backlog status
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
- Backlog drive
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. 
Barnstars will be awarded.
- TIP – New school articles
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
- Misc
There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 12773 articles, as of 02:00, 17 November 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
- Reminders
- Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
- If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing
{{subst:NPR invite}}
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- Notes
NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello JamesG5,
- Backlog status
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
- Coordination
- MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
- Open letter to the WMF
- The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
- TIP - Reviewing by subject
- Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.
- New reviewers
- The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
- Reminders
- Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
- If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing
{{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page. - If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
- To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.
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NPP message
Hi JamesG5,
- Invitation
For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:10, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
Board of Trustees election
Thank you for supporting the NPP initiative to improve WMF support of the Page Curation tools. Another way you can help is by voting in the Board of Trustees election. The next Board composition might be giving attention to software development. The election closes on 6 September at 23:59 UTC. View candidate statement videos and Vote Here. MB 03:31, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive
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New pages patrol needs your help!
Hello JamesG5,
The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.
Reminders:
- There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
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Sent by Zippybonzo using MediaWiki message delivery at 06:58, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Frances newton hospital and school of nursing
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created, Frances newton hospital and school of nursing, was tagged as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion and has been or soon may be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other test edits you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.
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, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 16:43, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- @The Herald: I am not the page's creator, I did a redirect and some corrections when it was created over 5 years ago by User:Sastbot
- You should notify them of the speedy. JamesG5 (talk) 18:50, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- Yea, sure. I guess Twinkle just went by the page history. Also the main article is under PROD now and the article creator is blocked indefinitely. Hence it's all moot now, IMO. Thanks and happy editing. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:34, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive
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New pages patrol newsletter
Hello JamesG5,
Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!
October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.
PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.
Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.
Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.
Reminders:
- You can access live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello JamesG5:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.