User talk:bradv

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Bradv,

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

Crisco 1492

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Awarded in recognition of your steadfast vigilance in protecting the integrity of Wikipedia. Your tireless efforts in preventing vandalism and safeguarding the quality of content are invaluable. Your dedication to maintaining the reliability of this project is truly commendable. PerspicazHistorian (talk) 15:34, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Declined G4 on Shibu Chacko MBE

Thanks, I recalled participating in the previous AfD but could not remember how identical it was. Off to AfD it goes... Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:09, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hold off on that AfD - I just moved it to draft space. – bradv 21:10, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. They're a sock. Now deleted as G5. – bradv 21:15, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:20, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CSD decline

Just a note on the CSD you recently declined: I run such pages through Google Translate to see if there are glaring issues. This one turned out to be blatantly promotional. TornadoLGS (talk) 21:22, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Which one? – bradv 21:23, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This one User:Fjellhamar forskningsinstitutt/sandbox TornadoLGS (talk) 21:26, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand this need to police people's sandboxes. This isn't hurting anyone. Plus, "promotional" really doesn't count when it's written in Norwegian, on the English Wikipedia, in a completely hidden and unindexed page. Surely we have bigger problems to deal with. – bradv 21:30, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Eh, fair point. I mostly do it so it's dealt with before they get a chance to move their vanity pages into mainspace. TornadoLGS (talk) 21:55, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, didn't mean to grump at you. That's a fair perspective, but in this case there's no imminent risk of disruption, and we need to balance that risk against the risk of frustrating or demotivating new editors. – bradv 22:04, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I can see that, though I do think it good to discourage WP:NOTHERE-type behavior, though I understand that has to be balanced against AGF. TornadoLGS (talk) 22:09, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]