User talk:Etothepi/Archives/2019/September

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Biography

Why did you delete my article?

Puquitaultimate —Preceding undated comment added 19:08, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi. Unfortunately, the article does not yet meet our guidelines for reliable sources. These are important to establish whether the subject is in fact notable. Like the other reviewer said, you need sources that are independent from the subject and provide significant detailed coverage of him. Your draft has not been deleted, but these issues need to be addressed before you resubmit it. It would also be worth your time to revise the wording of the article, to make it less promotional in tone. Hope this helps! •≈20+π^{(talk to me!)} 19:36, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Blessings, did you read every source that I entered? Of course, this article is important, because in the Dominican Republic that character is very well known. He is a friend of the well-known writer Junot Díaz and Frank Báez. I can list the articles, where they came from and tell them if they are reliable or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Puquitaultimate (talk • contribs) 21:16, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

RC4WD

which parts of the article i uploaded are as advertisement? Hope to the answer from you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schandog (talk • contribs) 18:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC) Please answer me this question because I do not intend to write an commercial article there!

Purple Wifi

Let's go to town on this Purple WiFi article. Obviously paid editing. HappyValleyEditor (talk) 02:51, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm AnAwesomeArticleEditor. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Ii3 سایت, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. AnAwesomeArticleEditor (talk) 11:51, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Upload in wrong language

I accidently created a Samlino.dk danish content site on the english wikipedia. I would like to create it in the danish site - How can I delete the english site? Whynotwikipedia (talk) 16:41, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

I will put in a request for deletion noting that you have asked for it. Prmcd16 (talk) 16:42, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

That's great. Thank you for your help. Whynotwikipedia (talk) 16:55, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

made a mistake

It was a mistake to create Inverst beta henfald in in the english section, so you can delete it right away.

What I did afterwards was to create a translated version in the danish section, where it rightly belongs...

Martin Schmidt

physics teacher

GUX-Aasiaat — Preceding unsigned comment added by Holretz (talk • contribs) 23:56, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

It has been deleted already. Thank you for your understanding! Prmcd16 (talk) 23:58, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted

Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

See also:

Wikipedia:Reviewing, the guideline on reviewing
Wikipedia:Pending changes, the summary of the use of pending changes
Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators. Katie^talk 15:51, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Draft:Rah Deluxe

I removed the speedy deletion template because the page is a draft, which I noticed after I tagged it. As I recall, drafts should be tagged only in unusual circumstances. I removed the notice from the user talk page but informed the user that I believed the page was an obvious hoax and it would be tagged if it is moved to main space. I think that was the right way to proceed. In any case, thanks for noticing and giving me a thank you. Donner60 (talk) 22:57, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

If I am wrong, don't hesitate to point it out. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 22:58, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Dates

Hey, so let me put my birthday in pages 2003 and August 7th! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.167.44.205 (talk) 15:57, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

No can do. You do not meet the guidelines established at WP:BIRTHDOY Prmcd16 (talk) 16:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Panda! Go, Panda! (company) edit

Hi Prmcd16! I just wanted to let you know that this edit was made by the creator, who blanked the page. I went ahead and tagged the article for db-author. If you have questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach me on my talk page. Happy editing :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 02:57, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Château de Wressle

Hi Prmcd16,

I'm new on en: Wiki and thought the sandboxes were off limits which it appears is not the case. Maybe you can tell me how to put that draft out of reach for delation for some hours. LouisAlain (talk) 23:18, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi LouisAlain, I'm not sure how the content got from your sandbox to a published article, because I see it in both places, including the {{notenglish}} tag... If you want to keep it as a draft, you could blank the article (NOT the sandbox,) which should get an admin to delete it fairly quickly. Then you can keep editing in your sandbox and create it as an article when you are ready. Prmcd16 (talk) 23:27, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Re: April 2016

These text linked to Lists of Square Enix franchises, and we have the navbox. --MMMMDDDDDDDD (talk) 08:19, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Bummer article

I was trying to put in that Wiktionary redirect template but I couldn't find the right template. Now which template is it? All I was just trying to do is give a link to the Wiktionary entry, but I just couldn't find the right template for this job. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 03:05, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Draft: Bill Dewbre

Hello! I saw your decline of my draft. This is the first page I have ever created and it's my first time on Wikipedia. I made a few changes to the page, but I was wondering what else I can do to make the draft acceptable. Specifically, are there any sources that I should remove or wording that is off?

LaineZizka (talk) 15:47, 2 July 2018 (UTC) LaineZ

User group: New Page Reviewr

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019.

Based on the patrols you made of new pages during a qualifying period in 2016, your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed.

New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.

Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Prmcd16. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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New Page Review - newsletter

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

Breaking the back of the backlog

We now have 803 New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action.

If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.

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. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.

Getting the tools we need - 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey: Please vote

With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation.

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BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

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RC Patrol-related Proposals in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey

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New Page Review - newsletter #2

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

Please help reduce the New Page backlog

This is our second request. The backlog is still growing. Your help is needed now - just a few minutes each day.

Getting the tools we need

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Robert Blake Whitehill

Thank you for contacting me, I'm new to Wikipedia and try to follow the guidelines by not putting anything promotional in it, only fax. Robert is a friend of mine, a self published author, so it's notable that his novels have become very popular among readers. It's a success story for other riders to have hope it's possible to be able to make a living as a writer without having a big publishing house . i've seen many entries on Wikipedia on subjects that are very narrow interest, that's why I thought this would be a legitimate entry.

I would appreciate any guidance you could give me, I couldn't even figure out how to edit the title to make them  all caps.

Sincerely, Tamra — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1010:B06E:C491:6C6D:FFC3:FC61:834C (talk) 20:45, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Ipigott. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Sarika Bhattacharyya, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Ipigott (talk) 15:13, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Duncan Napier page

Hi. I wanted to thank you for your welcome on the page I reviewed, Duncan Napier. I'm afraid it will take me a long time to understand how Wikipedia works as the instructions seem pretty opaque but if I do anything wrong please just let me know on the Duncan Napier talk page. Thank you. MonicaWilde (talk) 20:04, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi Prmcd16. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
Rollback should never be used to edit war.
If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 12:48, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Your signature

Looks like you have an extraneous  at the end of your signature [1]. Please fix! Thank you :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:26, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal: thanks! I think that was an artefact from when I accidentally doublesigned. I thought I had removed everything but I guess not... And here's the proof -->prmcd16 👽 ^(u)•(t) 20:28, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Ping

Hello there Prmcd16! I'm JustAGuyOnWikipedia, and I noticed that you do what I used to do. Use the @ sign to reply to others. To properly ping others you must use the {{re}} template to ping. Best regards, JustAGuyOnWikipedia: Is ONLINE. (Merry Christmas!!!) (talk) 22:56, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to STiki!

Hello, Prmcd16, and welcome to STiki! Thank you for your recent contributions using our tool. We at STiki hope you like using the tool and decide to continue using it in the future. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Prod

Hi, As per WP:PROD an article creator is allowed to remove a prod and it cannot be replaced. They are however not allowed to remove AFD or Speedy Delete tags, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 02:59, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

True. Mea culpa. --prmcd16 👽 ^(u)•(t) 04:23, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Helo

I have an account but I am on mobile phone sometimes78.87.91.110 (talk) 19:21, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

@78.87.91.110: There's nothing wrong with IP users, we just encourage them to make accounts for the convenience. But you have one so go ahead and disregard that I guess. Happy editing! --prmcd16 👽 ^(u)•(t) 19:25, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

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New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 803 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

Your last chance to nominate yourself or any New Page Reviewer, See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. Elections begin Monday 20 February 23:59 UTC. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.3

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.

Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 803 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.

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New Page Review - Newsletter No.4

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 803 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!

But do remember: Rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. Do not over-tag. Make use of the message feature to let the creator know about your maintenance tags. See the tutorial again HERE. Get help HERE.

Stay up to date with recent new page developments and have your say, read THIS PAGE.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.

Technology update:

Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Wikipedia:Page Curation/Suggested improvements
The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:
- User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js adds a link to the new pages feed and page curation toolbar to your top toolbar on Wikipedia
- User:The Earwig/copyvios.js adds a link in your side toolbox that will run the current page through

General project update:

Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Noticeboard has been marked as historical. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers is currently the most active central discussion forum for the New Page Patrol project. To keep up to date on the most recent discussions you can add it to your watchlist or visit it periodically.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.

Technology update:

Rentier has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.

General project update:

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!

Technology update:

The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: T175225

General project update:

On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.

Technology update:

Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.

General project update:

The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, Etothepi. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

Outreach and Invitations:

If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive

A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update:

ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1^st and run until January 29^th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

The total number of reviews completed for the month.
The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, 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.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Wiki Loves Food

Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grant success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 08:54, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Dealing with seemingly obsessive removal of BLP content

Hi :) You might be very right in reverting this edit, but I personally would recommend using an edit summary when doing so. The other editor's edit summary was "revert plus some other poorly or unsourced BLP-violating material", and the edit did remove material that seems to have been only referenced by dead links and a "citation needed" template. If you think that it should stay in the article anyway, or that this removal is vandalism, it could be helpful to explain this in the edit summary. This is somehow confusing to me because normally, Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion. (1)

Thank you ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:55, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

You're right about the edit summary. But given that Jackie Warner was not the only article this guy has been hounding and that he's an IP, something about his actions just isn't sitting right with me or the other editors in the dispute. etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 23:59, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Request on 15:30:12, 16 May 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by December26th

December26th (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Rufus Martin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi there, Thank you for reviewing my page. Im not Rufus but I'm "close" to him as Wikipedia is concerned as im his brother Quentin. I do think he is a notable person for the work he has done with the Hanging Tent Company as it has been shared and published many times by many different media outlets including the Sunday times and Design Boom. Should I express the wide reach of the roomoon through linking the articles that are about it? Maybe a picture of the tent itself, it is quite unique in its design and operation. Thank you so much for your help and I really appreciate you s[ending some time to review my piece thank you.

December26th (talk) 15:30, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

@December26th: Please do add those references, but I'd still caution you to avoid "promoting" his work. I appreciate what you're trying to do, just be careful and remember what Wikipedia is not. etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 15:46, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Your review of Draft:Ryan Wilson (poet)

Thank you for your review of Draft:Ryan Wilson (poet), but I'd like to point out a mistake in your review. Disclosure: I didn't write the draft, Ottava Rima did, but he is not permitted to publish the article.

You commented "All of the sources are primary." but the following webpages look much more like secondary sources for information about Wilson:

WP:RSPRIMARY defines a secondary source as " a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere."

The Catholic University of America (#1) source reports Wilson's education, works and awards and would be difficult to see as anything other than a secondary source.
The Boston University piece (#2) discusses Wilson's Pushcart nomination and publications. Again, that's a secondary source for the information.
The "Dappled Things" report on the 2015 Jacques Maritain Prize (#3) discusses Wilson's submission How To Think Like a Poet (which is a primary source, of course), but Meredith McCann's article can't be anything but secondary as commentary on Wilson's work.
The West Chester University "Poetry Center" page (#4) reports on Wilson's win of the 2017 Donald Justice Poetry Award and gives some background. This one could be seen as an original write-up on the win, or it may be reporting an earlier publication. That is difficult to determine, so it's not clear whether this is primary or secondary.

Now I'm not sure if you'd like to rescind your comment and look again at the notability question. You should be looking for either WP:GNG: "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject"; or WP:AUTHOR: "widely cited by peers or successors / work ... has won significant critical attention". I know that's a harder task, but it's worthwhile doing to get the best feedback to editors whose tasks you review. I hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 15:59, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

That's fair. I suppose I put that because all the sources are connected to him in some way, but I understand your point. I'll rescind my edit. etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 16:06, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Well, all the sources used in an article always have to be connected to the subject somehow, or they wouldn't be very useful! But I know what you mean. It's the presence of previously published sources, which a second source then discusses, that makes the second one into a secondary source, so that's a good test to apply. I should add that the article is still a bit thin on the independence of some of the references, and some editors will cavil at the use of a blog for one source. That's debatable in this case, but it still leaves the subject borderline for notability, in my humble opinion. We'll see if it gets sent to AfD, but it can always go back to draft space if opinion is that it falls short of GNG. I hope you don't mind but I've reclassified it as "C-class". For most projects, there is a tick-list of criteria for B-class and I usually defer to a member of the project to make that assessment. Thanks again for all your hard work reviewing, and I hope you find the feedback useful. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 16:44, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Talk:List of Ireland Test cricket records

This should not be B class as list, should be list class FYI. Thanks as it is a list --Quek157 (talk) 18:34, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Looks like you fixed that? thanks! etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 18:37, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

yup, normally we don't give B class, don't trust the ORES score, it is always one class higher. --Quek157 (talk) 18:39, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you Sir for reviewing my article! Markoulw (talk) 11:08, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

AFC and copyvios

I've had to revdel quite a large amount of text from pages you've accepted at AFC, and I see you've had a few accepted articles deleted as well. Please make sure to always check the copyright status of a page before reviewing it, and make sure that any page you're accepting fixes any potential AFD or other old deletion issues. Primefac (talk) 18:15, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

@Primefac: Thanks, I'll bear that in mind etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 18:17, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Another thought - I just saw your |cv| decline here - I removed about three paragraphs of text, but unless I'm missing a different source, there is still a large quantity of content to review. Removal of the offending content and a {{revdel}} request is probably better in those situations. A cv-decline should really only be used if the content (after removal) isn't sufficient for an article (i.e. there's only a useless paragraph or two left over). Primefac (talk) 14:08, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Aye, I'll tag it as {{peacock}} instead. etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 14:11, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

08:55:52, 19 May 2018 review of submission by Trittya Yelane

Trittya Yelane (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Trittya Yelane (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Trittya Yelane (talk) 08:55, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

@Trittya Yelane: did you have a question about my review? etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 15:28, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

12:05:07, 19 May 2018 review of submission by Fasal ul Abid

Fasal ul Abid (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Aravind V (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Fasal ul Abid (talk) 12:05, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

@Fasal ul Abid: did you have a question about my review? etothepi

@Etothepi: yeah, i do have, i believe your deletion is invalid. Kindly do a re-review and approve the article to main space if it meet the requirements.

👽 ^(u)•(t) 14:15, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Charles B. Brooks

The editor working on Charles B. Brooks is confused by the tag at the top of the page as am I.

I took a brief glance at the history and it looks like you concluded that an article started in that editor sandbox should be moved to draft space and then you decided it was acceptable so moved to mainspace.

I see that they requested a review, which presumably triggered the move to draft space.

I think everything is fine and that template ought to be removed but I want to check with you first before removing it.

@Sphilbrick: not sure what that template is doing there... go ahead and remove it. etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 14:35, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Done --S Philbrick (Talk) 21:33, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Please exercise due diligence before speedying

Duck Donuts

Kingoflettuce (talk) 16:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Mea culpa etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 17:00, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Trouted

Self-trout You have been trouted for: hasty CSD (self trout) etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 16:59, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Request on 11:04:08, 21 May 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by 111.93.108.242

111.93.108.242 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Aravind V (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Dear Etothepi, this article not available in the main space, I strongly believe that this article meets the Wiki guidelines and please do needful to publish this content. Thank you.

111.93.108.242 (talk) 11:04, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing Insilico TechServices, Etothepi.

Unfortunately Quek157 has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

sorry I have to undo your patrol. nothing seems right, corpdepth is not there and I rather try csd if not prod this

To reply, leave a comment on Quek157's talk page.

Quek157 (talk) 16:44, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Judith Neelley and Lisa Ann Millican page

ETO STOP UNDOING MY EDITS ON LISA MILLICAN AND JUDITH NEELLEY. THIS IS OUR FAMILY AND EVERYTIME WE FIX IT U DELETE,IT AND I'M SICK OF IT, IF YOU WANT IT DONE RIGHT THEN FIX IT WITH WHAT I WRITE. THIS IS MY FAMILY! Jzbailey222 (talk) 16:48, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Jzbailey222, please don't shout. Since you have been reverted a couple of times, now, the best course of action is to the discuss the matter on the article's talk page. Other editors will join in the discussion and a consensus will form. I know this is likely a very emotionally charged topic for you, but please remember to be civil and courteous to those responding. Primefac (talk) 17:01, 21 May 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

The ETO person or whoever it is who keeps undoing my edits to include a family member who is fighting judiths parole STOP! This is NOTYOUR FAMILY ITS MINE.if im not doing it right fix it but STOP ERASING IT Jzbailey222 (talk) 16:59, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Please see Primefac's response above and stop shouting at us etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 17:04, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

A quick note

Hi Etothepi; there's no need to remove a {{working}} tag from a request on the GOCE Requests page when you take a break (diff for context only); you can just leave it in place and continue the c/e when you wish. This avoids unnecessary friction between editors if another editor decides to accept the request in the meantime. The only times you should remove it are a) if you're un-accepting the request or b) if you've finished the request (please replace it with {{done}}). I've thus reverted your removal. Thanks you for your help with the requests, it's always good to see new copy-editors at the page. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 02:40, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

@Baffle gab1978: cheers! etothepi 👽 ^(u)•(t) 02:50, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

03:34:16, 24 May 2018 review of submission by IDSS-AI

IDSS-AI (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Intelligent Decision Support System (IDSS) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This article is authentic, and need approval from you to publish.

IDSS-AI (talk) 03:34, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

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.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

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, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

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May 2018

WP:UAA reports on users with no edits

Generally, there is no reason to report usernames with no edits whatsoever. Per WP:UAAI: "Wait until the user edits. Do not report a user that hasn't edited unless they are clearly a vandal. We do not want to welcome productive editors with a report at UAA, nor do we want to waste our time dealing with accounts that may never be used." The exceptions are obvious hate speech or names that attack a living person/Wikipedia editor, those are blockable even without any edits, but other run-of-the-mill violations need not be reported unless and until they at least attempt to edit, and you should be able to clearly explain what the problem is if it is not immediately evident.

For whatever reason, every day dozens, if not hundreds of accounts are created that never make one single edit. It is our responsibility as admins to conscientiously review every report a user makes at UAA, so we have to check for contribs, deleted contribs, and tripping of the edit filter for every one of these reports, only to find out there's nothing there and therefore no problem to be solved. So we add the {{wait}} tag to the report, it goes to WP:UAA/HP for a week or more, and must then be reviewed again to see if the account has since become active before removing it. That's time that could be spent doing more productive things, but you basically obligate admins to do it by making such reports. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:45, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

@Beeblebrox: Sorry about that. I do appreciate all the work you guys do! The last one I reported seemed blatant enough though...•≈20+π^{(talk to me!)} 19:07, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

It is pretty blatant, and is exactly the sort of thing that should be reported iff they have made even one edit. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:47, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Gotcha •≈20+π^{(talk to me!)} 01:56, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Amiens International Film Festival has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Amiens International Film Festival. Thanks! Legacypac (talk) 22:17, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

May 2018 GOCE drive bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Etothepi for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 17:15, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your help in bringing the copy-edit backlog to a new all-time low! – Reidgreg (talk) 17:15, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

The Voice of Death review

Hi, recently you declined the article I submitted for "The Voice of Death". I have updated it with more links and sources, but there are very little sources to find on the subject. I have also updated some data (corrected a name) and have shortened the summary. It is my hope for one day all of the tales collected by Andrew Lang and Mite Kremnitz to have proper articles as several are lacking one altogether. I have kept this in line with several other (accepted) articles for obscure folktales and hope you will find this draft acceptable for publishing until more information can be discovered. Thanks! saintfighteraqua (talk 06/13/2018 —Preceding undated comment added 00:18, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Draft:Bhurit Bhirombhakdi was declined

Hi Etothepi, It seems this article was declined again by advertising aspect. I believe that right now, the tone has already changed to be more concise and neutral. Please kindly specify how would this article be improved. Bananabacon (talk) 10:44, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Removed Blacklisted Content [2]

Hello Etothepi, Thank you for the quick feedback. Have removed the blacklisted content from the article. Kindly review it again. Mark prj (talk) 16:05, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Request on 11:51:05, 26 July 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Alltheory

Alltheory (talk · contribs)
- User:Alltheory (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi, I have got written permission from PranicKolkata.com to upload their content to Wikipedia. Can you reupload the article please?

Alltheory (talk) 11:51, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi, please review our copyright policy in depth to understand why we cannot accept this content. If you have further questions, just leave me another message! Hope this helps. •≈20+π^{(talk to me!)} 15:30, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

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.
Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
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

Editathons will continue through August. 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.

The Signpost

The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019, 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.

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 Etothepi/Archives/2019, 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.

New scripts

User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

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

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

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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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

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.

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

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
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
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NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

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

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

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

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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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Etothepi/Archives/2019,

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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