User talk:Bruxton/Archives/2022/August

NPP Drive awards

		The New Page Patrol Medal of Merit
		This award is given to Bruxton for 337 reviews in the July NPP backlog reduction drive. Your contributions played a part in the 9895 reviews that took place during the drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 08:06, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Fri/Sat/Sun Aug 12-14 with Saturday flagship Wiki World's Fair at Queens Museum

Aug 12-14: Wiki World's Fair for Wikimania in NYC

Queens Museum, venue of our Saturday flagship event, with the Unisphere just outside. You are invited to join the local Wikimedia NYC community for its flagship event to be held all-day on Saturday August 13, 2022 at the Queens Museum, in the context of the 1939/1964 fairgrounds at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. There will also be smaller sessions for much of August 12-14 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) as hybrid local gatherings for the global online conference Wikimania 2022. You are also encouraged to sign up for a lightning talk! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Flagship event: Saturday August 13 Wiki World's Fair (RSVP on-wiki). 10:00 am - 5:00 pm + evening (Queens Museum and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the evening Queens Night Market) Other sessions (subject to change, see full Agenda): Friday August 12 Evening welcome reception in Queens 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Sunday August 14 Morning global breakfast banquet + Afternoon closing ceremony in Brooklyn 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:01, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Bruxton/Archives/2022,

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

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Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Help review

Hello sir I created a page Dj Kelblizz, help review it Favouredprince (talk) 00:19, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

@Favouredprince: I see someone tagged your article for speedy deletion.

@Girth Summit: what do you say about my visitor? Bruxton (talk) 00:35, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping. It wasn't who I thought it was going to be, but it was an LTA - I've blocked and requested global lock. Girth Summit _(blether) 07:35, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

@Girth Summit: These editors are coming to me for some reason. Thanks for checking! Bruxton (talk) 21:53, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Can you please review my page , why do you all bite me here , Favouredprince (talk) 00:36, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

@Favouredprince: Not at all, I definitely did not bite. I clicked on your article and it is tagged CSD. Bruxton (talk) 01:12, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Can I get your email address ? Favouredprince (talk) 01:18, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people" revert

Hi, I was wondering if you had meant to revert all the edits since the one adding the copyedit tag, or just the one adding the copyedit tag. I generally limit myself to WP:0RR on contentious pages like that, so that's why I wanted to bring it up. If you did mean to revert my edit that's also completely fine. Cheers! TartarTorte 13:40, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

@TartarTorte: Thanks for the message. I edited an old version. Just went and fixed my edits. Thanks for the headsup! Bruxton (talk) 14:01, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

NPP message

Hi Bruxton/Archives/2022,

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.

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:10, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Chicago Rising from the Lake

On 21 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chicago Rising from the Lake, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake was meant to show the city's rebirth after the Great Chicago Fire but it went missing twice and was eventually found by a Chicago firefighter? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chicago Rising from the Lake. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Chicago Rising from the Lake), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

7,648 Views 318.7 per hour

DYK for Sensory friendly

On 22 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sensory friendly, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that people with sensory processing disorders often require sensory friendly environments which are designed to accommodate their condition? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sensory friendly. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sensory friendly), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:03, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

3,950 views 164.6 per hour

You are unfriendly

Sorry i have to note this: You are unfriendly. Your behaviour[1][2] is turning wikipedia to a kind of closed-shop-area with an odor of Not invented here. Pls. note the existing corresponding[3] + [4] + [5] content. This is not the idea we started this open project. --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 08:48, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

@Ｔｏｍ: That is great, so you should have no problem getting it approved through draft when it is ready. In the future it is best not to put an article in main space before you have added any references. And it is best not to revert the new page reviewer, and then spend two days messaging them. Transfer this negative energy into working on your article and it will be back in main space soon enough. There is no rush. Bruxton (talk) 13:54, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Sorry. I am just so pissed off, the second time about this "draft carousell" (see my disc) that i think about to spend no more energy for en:wp. That's it if you like to read my deep feelings. --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 13:59, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:American Accountability Foundation logo.jpeg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:07, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

MLEC

The page Meriwether Lewis Electric Cooperative that you pushed to a draft has been submitted for review, as requested. Would appreciate it if you could go in and approve it in the queue. It's been sourced beyond the primary source initially listed and expanded slightly. nf utvol (talk) 01:53, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

August songs

August songs

pics and thoughts on 13 August -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:44, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Look at the church where I heard VOCES8. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:02, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Merge discussions

Do not disrupt merge discussions because you don't like the outcome. Be less of annoying busybody next time. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:05, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

I am sorry you feel that way @Hemiauchenia:. I thought it was clearly a WP:BADNC to close your own proposal. I also thought participants of the AfD should be notified. Bruxton (talk) 19:14, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

I think you did the right thing @Bruxton CT55555 (talk) 19:33, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

@CT55555: One editor has reverted at the article three times already. I contacted the closer Sandstein. But perhaps I will go to WP:AN. I think it is important not to have a one sided discussion and a BADNAC Bruxton (talk) 19:35, 30 August 2022 (UTC)