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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco, 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
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.
Other
Moving to Draft and Page Mover
  • Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal
Project updates
  • ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
  • There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
New scripts

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

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

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
  • Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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Yeah. The information I gave on the late Walter Patrick Bissell was 1000% accurate. I garnered the information from the book "People Who Dance". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dane Youssef2600:1700:AB10:3E40:5CD7:4E47:4141:3309 (talk) 06:31, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.


Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.


Training video

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Please keep a watch on Yudirai account. He is the person vandalizing Mangalore related articles with poor Tulu content

I request you to please keep a watch on this user account Yudisthir Shivaprasad Rai Yudirai(talk).
He is the same person who is repeatedly vandalizing Mangalore related articles with Tulu/Tulunadu content, using multiple accounts.
Yesterday, the Mangalore article got protected from IP edits due to his Tulu related vandalisms.
On 18th July 2018, the Tulu Nadu received page protection from his IP related vandalism. But, since Yudirai(talk) user is autoconfirmed, he again vandalized that article the very next day.
He has also vandalized the Bunt (community) article as well. The user account Bunt56(talk) is a sock-puppet of Yudirai(talk).
He could certainly vandalize the Mangalore, Dakshina Kannada articles once again.
223.186.240.27 (talk) 09:54, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Vandal IP series

42.109.129.29 this IP is repeating vandalism in Jomonte Suvisheshangal after warnings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:D28A:1AD0:111F:7E67:EA0C:42A3 (talk) 13:45, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Seasonal Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019.
Happy editing,
Everedux (talk) 15:09, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

no seriously you said come here if i had questions and I have questions

Or is there a better way to contact you? Email is fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.225.220.46 (talk)

@68.225.220.46: What's up? Please sign your comments by using "~~~~" at the end of your comments. 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco (talk) 06:38, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I hope you are having a nice day! 68.225.220.46 (talk) 06:52, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

@68.225.220.46: Thanks! And thanks for signing your comment.49ersBelongInSanFrancisco (talk) 06:53, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of User:Red marquis/sandbox/Mechanical Animals Tour sandbox

What's with the speedy deletion tag? It's a personal sandbox. The contested material contained therein is not meant for publication in the final article. It is material I am going to be working off of in my own words once I get around to working on that article. I've already contested your speedy deletion request. -Red marquis (talk) 07:15, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

@Red marquis:Hi Red marquis! Sorry to hear that you're frustrated. Unfortunately, the rules against copyrighted content apply in user space as well. Take a look at Wikipedia:How to use your user space: "You can put more or less anything on your user page, as long as it does not break any other rules (for example, no copyright violations or insults directed at other users)". Also WP:USERFY#NO: "Wikipedia's licensing requirements and the copyright policy apply to all pages posted anywhere on Wikipedia." Sorry again that it was a frustrating experience and I hope you continue editing! 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco (talk) 06:00, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco,

News
Discussions of interest
  • Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
  • {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
  • A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
  • There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
Reminders
  • NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
NPP Tools Report
  • Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
  • copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
  • The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
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NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco,

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
Discussions of interest

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco,

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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Speedy deletion declined: Sam Kassoumeh

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Sam Kassoumeh, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: co-founding a notable company indicates significance. Thank you. SoWhy 05:57, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Dumraon gharana

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Dumraon gharana, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: not about a band but a style of music. Consider merging with Dhrupad. Thank you. SoWhy 07:23, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco,

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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Speedy deletion nomination of FrankySM4/LGBT adoption in the United States

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

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

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created, FrankySM4/LGBT adoption in the United States, 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 tests you 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. Lopifalko (talk) 05:20, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

RE: Republic of China Edit

Hey 49ers, thanks for fixing that edit. I was looking to revert the edit including a link to Taiwan, but forgot to I had a browser extension that does text replacement, and inadvertently made the edits you saw. I have disabled it now to prevent future issues. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KhazadSanci (talk • contribs) 05:38, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Reverted a bit of vandalism that you'd previously cleaned up. Just FYI.

Just FYI, I saw that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F._Collins had been vandalised, and that you'd previously reverted the same vandalism. I cleaned it up but don't intend to watch that page for long, so I figured I might ping you. 174.113.14.25 (talk) 21:20, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco,

First and foremost, thank you for your username...as a life-long Niners fan, I believe they should have found a way to stay in the City, and despite their recent winning ways (and the Raiders impending move to LV), it remains difficult to be a Bay Area football fan while they play in the South Bay.

With regards to my recent edits to the Carrol Quigley submission, I don't believe that they necessitated citations to the extent that you have demanded. He is still the greatest historian of the 19th and 20th centuries, and perhaps the greatest that the world's history has ever seen.

The Wikipedia entry under his name is woefully under-researched, and I believed, that as a student of his works for over 15+ years, I would be singularly qualified to add several statements that attest to his prominence.

I would appreciate it if the powers that be would re-analyze my additions and maintain them. Upon such analysis, it will be clear that I did not vandalize the page.

- Alex — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aangalet (talk • contribs) 09:19, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


vital capacity

Hello, I am a doctoral student and noticed a slight mistake in the vital capacity wiki. I tried to add a citation but have never edited a wikipedia page before :) Generally, with obstructive lung diseases (asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, etc.) lung volume is normal or increased because of air trapping as there is decreased alveolar elastic recoil. https://vula.uct.ac.za/access/content/group/9c29ba04-b1ee-49b9-8c85-9a468b556ce2/DOh/Module%204%20_Toxom%20II_/toxom2/NWHITE/Graphics/1-20.png

Hi 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco

Thank you for bringing the my mistake to my attention.

The reason for the Wikipedia article was a a reference to the business Lady Lash. Entering it's 10th year it has reached some big milestones and achievements.

The article was meant to be showcased like other similar business achievements on Wikipedia.

For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephora

If I am incorrect and you able to help identify the reason it appears differently?

Warm regards

Matt

Hi 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco

Thank you for bringing my mistake to my attention. But this is not a mistake. I saw some broken links on washing machine posts, so I thought that broken links are not the right sign for Wikipedia. So I gave a link to the post on my official website to fix them so that Wikipedia is not inaccurate in Google's eyes because of the broken link. Since I also wrote a washing machine-related article on my website, I thought that I should fix that broken link. Please do not change my link. I have not come here for any spamming. You can trust me. Thank You

Warm regards SumitUk17

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco,

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.
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.
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Julie Carlson article

I see that you tagged the article for speedy deletion - then the page creator removed the deletion notice and edited the article. I've restored the article to the previous version with the deletion request on it. MurielMary (talk) 06:59, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

List of Yale University people article

Am I a joke to you? TheREALdanielkim (talk) 01:41, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

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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.

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Plese help me

Block this person he is a disgrace he is raisist he posted the n word on my sand box!!!! Vandalism!! 😡😡😡😡 Maokn (talk) 06:02, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

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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.

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Rat Parties edit rejection

Hi Apologies. I am new to this, have now read the guidelines and can see you were correct TimeGruV — Preceding unsigned comment added by TimeGruV (talk • contribs) 06:42, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism

You want to call facts vandalism? Sneakysnakestrikesagain (talk) 06:09, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

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I'm writing this message simply to ask about the reversion of my edit within the McCollough effect page. I understand that my simple reversion of a well-meaning edit is, in many ways, unconstructive, especially given that this reversion was made by a non-logged in IP with no other edits. However, I would like to also point out that the edit being reverted was sudden and not discussed in the talk page, with the reversion in question mentioning the reasoning, and I was hoping to understand how such an edit may be either entirely unwarranted, or perhaps improved in the future.

Thank you for your time, and have a good day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.71.125.58 (talk) 06:18, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

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Hello 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco. Just a note that if you notice users who have a blatant corporate/organizational username and are also writing about their company/organization (eg. MediaOnePak), you can report them to WP:UAA.

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

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A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

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
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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.

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18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

bah

you're a jerk that didn't fix the error. but hey, you increased your edit count. well done! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.12.186.49 (talk) 21:35, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

We have been noticing your edits

49ersBelongInSanFrancisco,

We have been noticing your edits. It looks like you are trying to take out your personal grudge/anger on the organization through your edits . You are also trying to mislead the public by using terms like "linguistic chauvinism". We will be tracking your IP address and also your location and make a formal complaint to the cyber police. Please email me if you have any differences with the organization (jayeshgowdag@gmail.com) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bgs job (talk • contribs) 15:29, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Who died and made you god of the Crestone, Colorado page? I'm just trying to insert some honesty into the self-serving dreck that is currently on the page. Have you ever actually been to the place 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco?! It's a cesspit of people that are so geriatric and stoned that they have no idea of reality. They'll protest the dumbest crap, but they won't lift a finger to protest the Baca Grande POA or the town government that is ripping them off left and right. Seriously, Strong ruined the place by giving all the prime lots to these pseudo-religious organizations. No mention of how they divided the lots up in narrow little 1/4 acre lots, no mention how they essentially painted the roads to make them look like they were paved from the air, so they could sell lots to people that had never been here. There is no mention of how those same roads are still, after 40 years, not paved. No mention of embezzlement. No mention of anything negative. The article is a whack job to make the place seem like some Shangrila. And who in the hell calls this little dried up retirement village "New Age Religious capital of the world"?! And here you are, keeping the article whitewashed. Geh zum Teufel! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.41.160.19 (talk) 06:37, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Do you suspect sockpuppetry?

On the page West Hempstead, New York, the account For The Boyz was blocked for vandalism. Shortly after, the account Joeefnvyyhteb6 was created and more or less vandalized the same page and section (Notable people). I suspect sockpuppetry. Do you? Johnnyconnorabc (talk) 01:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

@Johnnyconnorabc: I reported Joeefnvyyhteb6 to AIV immediately after their first edit because it seemed to be the same vandalism. I don't know if they're the same person, but they also seemed to be not interested in building an encyclopedia. Both users seem to be blocked now. 49ersBelongInSanFrancisco (talk) 01:50, 24 January 2021 (UTC)


but it didnt — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shoot2kill97 (talk • contribs) 03:02, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

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