User talk:FallingGravity/Archive 6

Trump

How’s all the racial stuff going? I haven’t felt like looking yet. Anythingyouwant (talk) 04:09, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Anythingyouwant: In case you missed it, the article is currently going through a heated AfD discussion. Right now I'm waiting to see how the discussion pans out before doing anything major. ^Falling_Gravity 04:22, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I hadn’t noticed that, will check it out. Anythingyouwant (talk) 04:46, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merger discussion for Fake News Awards

An article that you have been involved in editing—Fake News Awards—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. DARTHBOTTO_talk•cont 23:17, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for Protests against Faure Gnassingbé

On 29 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Protests against Faure Gnassingbé, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Let's Save Togo protest rally in August 2012 called for a week-long sex strike by women to encourage men to oppose Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Protests against Faure Gnassingbé. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Protests against Faure Gnassingbé), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

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Wrestling

Please no not remove WWE events for Sports categories. It is technically a sport. Bigbrojd (talk) 20:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Bigbrojd: Not according to Galatz. ^Falling_Gravity 20:20, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Bigbrojd: This is not a sport. It has been discussed before on the relevant wikiproject and its clear per WP:NSPORTS that they are considered entertainment. Wrestling is a sport, professional wrestling is entertainment. - Galatz ^Talk 20:26, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello FallingGravity, 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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Violation of ArbCom remedies

Hello. This revert violates bullet 1 of the ArbCom restrictions detailed at the top of that talk page. "All editors must obtain consensus on the talk page of this article before reinstating any edits that have been challenged (via reversion)." Note that the article is under ArbCom discretionary sanctions. Please self-revert and, if you wish to, seek a consensus for your edit on the talk page (your comment in talk is not a consensus). ―Mandruss ☎ 08:25, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Mandruss: I will "self-revert", but there's no consensus not to include a "See also" link, like you originally claimed. ^Falling_Gravity 17:50, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the self-revert. FTR, my editsum did not claim a consensus specifically against a "See also" link. But I dispute the "See also" link for the same reason that I and others disputed the body prose, which is why I referred to that consensus. Any further discussion of the content question should take place on the ATP. ―Mandruss ☎ 01:18, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Help : review article

Hi Let me introduce myself. I am Felix and I’m a novice in Wikipedia ! I wrote an article recently, it’s a biography of a french-american journalist : Laura Haim. Now, I’m waiting for validation from wikipedian reviewer. Would you be able to help me? I have no idea how long it could take… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Laura_Haim Many thanks for your help. Best

Felix Billybon (talk) 16:59, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Questions

Hi, I asked you two questions related to how Wikipedia functions on my talk page. Can you please reply, thanks. PZP-003 (talk) 18:19, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. if you want I can post the two questions here if that helps.

You never answered this question about the survey process so I'm posting it here below....hope that's OK

I have a concern/question about this "survey" - how long does it usually take before the survey concludes? ...Thanks PZP-003 (talk) 20:52, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@PZP-003: To answer your first question, I pretty much agree with Thucydides411's comments on your talk page. It may be frustrating to work with editors who want to remove content that doesn't align with their POV, but just reverting their reverts, without taking it to the talk page, will likely get you blocked from editing. As for your second question, the RfC survey could take a while to conclude, especially if opinions continue to be divided. In the end, some administrator will come by and decide which arguments make the most sense. ^Falling_Gravity 22:37, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please give an idea of how long (approximately) "a while" is?? PZP-003 (talk) 00:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In my experience, probably less than a month. It's ultimately up to the closing admin, and there's no firm deadline for these types of things. ^Falling_Gravity 00:42, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Chelyabinsk meteor

Hello FallingGravity!
Thanks for adding Category:February 2013 events in Asia to this article. I wonder though why you've removed Category:February 2013 events? The event was clearly of a "global" nature (at least judging from media coverage and scientific significance), and I believe the old category was adequate. Is there a reason to remove it, or to change it to the more regional "events in Asia"? I suggest to include the article in both categories. --Renerpho (talk) 01:26, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I was going off the "location" in the infobox, though including both categories seems reasonable to reflect the global nature of the phenomena (I think the eclipse articles follow a similar pattern). ^Falling_Gravity 04:39, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding it back, FallingGravity. @Dhtwiki: I see you reverted the edit, ~~maybe this is worth taking to the article talk page~~ I've taken it to the article talk page. --Renerpho (talk) 16:23, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello FallingGravity, 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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Skripal poisoning

Thanks for catching my error. I've added an updated blurb that hopefully is more accurate. -- BobTheIP editing as 2.28.13.202 (talk) 01:32, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Western Governors University

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know that I've started WikiProject Western Governors University, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of WGU. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! Paul Smith111977 (talk) 09:02, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello FallingGravity, 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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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello FallingGravity, 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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Robert Nichols (Former Unidentified Person) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Robert Nichols (Former Unidentified Person). Since you had some involvement with the Robert Nichols (Former Unidentified Person) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Home Lander (talk) 17:23, 25 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Eritrea–Ethiopia relations

On 10 July 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Eritrea–Ethiopia relations, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Step hen 02:48, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Empty category

Apologies for double reverting, but what holds you off from populating the category? The category should be fully populated when created. Like it is now, any editor may add a speedy deletion template again, at any moment, just because it is empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:26, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Marcocapelle: The category isn't empty now. ^Falling_Gravity 09:28, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello FallingGravity, 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

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DYK

"meme based on the" seems redundant? wumbolo ^^^ 14:10, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Wumbolo: What's your suggested wording? I was thinking the labelled images based on the painting are its own meme, related but still separate from the distracted boyfriend meme. I believe we are still able to tweak the DYK wording while it's in the prep area. ^Falling_Gravity 15:27, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Distracted boyfriend meme

On 22 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Distracted boyfriend meme, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that social media users made Joshua Reynolds's David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (pictured) into a meme based on the distracted boyfriend meme? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Distracted boyfriend meme. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Distracted boyfriend meme), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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) 00:01, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy

On 22 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that social media users made Joshua Reynolds's David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (pictured) into a meme based on the distracted boyfriend meme? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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) 00:02, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Did you know nominations/Windscale Piles

FallingGravity, an ALT hook has been proposed that may address the issue with the original hook that you raised in your review. Can you please stop by and see whether it does, and what else might be left to satisfy the DYK requirements? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:42, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Murder of April Tinsley

Hello! Your submission of Murder of April Tinsley at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Boud (talk) 20:49, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Murder of April Tinsley

On 9 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Murder of April Tinsley, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Indiana police believe that the person who murdered 8-year-old April Tinsley in 1988 also left threatening notes with used condoms on girls' bicycles in 2004? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Murder of April Tinsley. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Murder of April Tinsley), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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) 00:02, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello FallingGravity, 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 FallingGravity, 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 FallingGravity,

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 FallingGravity,

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.