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Advocacy in Wikipedia
HI Hagennos, I have been meaning to swing by and say "hi" and talk with you about the disruption around OPNsense. This is a followup to my comment at WP:COIN about OPNsense/PfSense here (please read that)
I work on conflict of interest and advocacy issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. You've been part of the group advocating for OPNsense.
I appreciated your comment here very much - it reflects an orientation to the mission of Wikipedia and the policies and guidelines through which the volunteer community realizes the mission. Please do keep WP:YESPOV and WP:Advocacy in mind when you work on stuff you are passionate about in the real world, and as you said in your comments, please always try to use high quality, independent sources, and just summarize them, neutrally. It will help keep things calm and not roiled.
Happy to discuss, if you like. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 17:28, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Removal of Release information from OPNsense
@Jytdog. I noticed that you had removed the latest release information for OPNsense from the article which I edited. In my view this is important from a security POV as this is a network firewall and regular releases are important from this perspective and is something that any security professional would be looking for when they look for information. This is similar to the infobox of other software distributions like FreeBSD, firewall disributions like IPfire and security products Avast_Antivirus. Your comment was that this is not encyclopedic and is not a web-host which I think is not applicable as this is an important info.
Another info that I believe is important is the languages supported which was also removed earlier as these are some of the information that is required. Also the infobox template that was used has all these info which is the right content for such articles.
Hagennos (talk) 17:58, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- Please post this at the article talk page. That is where discussions of content go. I will reply there. Jytdog (talk) 18:08, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: HashCash Consultants
Hello Hagennos, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of HashCash Consultants, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Let the AfD run. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:13, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion contested: Abish Mathew
Hello Hagennos. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Abish Mathew, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 isn't applicable.Has worked with a quite-notable group and on a G-Search, is found to be covered by the media.Seek other deletion-alternatives, if you wish. Thank you. Winged BladesGodric 03:38, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion declined: Shanmugam Saravanan
Hello Hagennos. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Shanmugam Saravanan, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Let's let the AfD finish, it's looking like it'll result in consensus to redirect anyway. Thank you. Callanecc (talk ā¢ contribs ā¢ logs) 10:31, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)
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Objection regarding proposal to page deletion
Sir/ Madam,
I am here to intimate you that, please speak to the author and later propose the article for deletion. I am speaking regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Samuel George Institute of Engineering and Technology Please, withdraw your nomination and retain the page from deletion. Thank you, Krupa Vara Prasad 11:00, 23 January 2018 (UTC) āĀ Preceding unsigned comment added by Krupa Vara Prasad (talk ā¢ contribs)
- @Krupa Vara Prasad: Hi. Wikipeida policies do not mandate notifying the author as this article failed WP:ATD. The article was nothing other than a page created as WP:PROMO and fails [WP:GNG]. I suggest that you use the WP:AfC to incubate the article and have it reviewed before moving to Mainspace to prevent further deletions.
- I am also tagging your user page for WP:CSD as it violates WP:NOTWEBHOST and is not a location for your CV/Resume. Hagennos (talk) 18:45, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
I respectfully disagree with your nomination of the article for speedy deletion. First, moving it from draft space to article space is not a reason to delete. Second, I think that the article makes a credible claim of significance and should go to AFD, where it already is. I think that the AFD should just run. Speedy deletion is only used for specific reasons, and being moved out of process is not a reason to delete, let alone to speedy-delete. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:53, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
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WTL:AIRPORTS
Hi Hagennos, Thanks for helping patrol new articles. This is much appreciated. However, I have undone the A1 on this article as this category does not apply. The topic is clear (passenger statistic by destnation from bangalore airport). This is likely a candidate for a merger or AfD (for technical reasons as no other CSD categories really apply. I am discussing this article with a connected editor right now. This has some history it seems. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 18:50, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Hagennos, I respectfully disagree with your nomination of the article for deletion. You mentioned that the artcile "fails to meet WP:GNG", however, both the 2nd and the 6th reference came from sources that are independent of the subject, and both sources should be reliable since they are well-known international organizations (Gomocup and Gomoku World) in their specific field. Moreover, the 4th reference was added after your nomination, which is another reliable source independent of the subject. ACcreator (talk) 00:21, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @ACcreator:. I do not consider AIEXP or Renjunet to be reliable third party coverage as this is closely associated with the subject. Third party coverage normally is satisfied with Newspapers, Technical Sites etc. Let the AfD run. Hagennos (talk) 01:20, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion declined: Noyyal Ninjas Cricket Club
Hello Hagennos, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Noyyal Ninjas Cricket Club, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: I have no clue about cricket but there are plenty of potential merge/redirect targets per WP:ATD if the team is really non-notable. If you are interested in learning more about how speedy deletion works, I have compiled a list of helpful pages at User:SoWhy/SDA. You can of course also contact me if you have questions. Thank you. SoWhy 12:52, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: Fitri Maskon
Hello Hagennos. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Fitri Maskon, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: refereeing matches in a notable league indicates significance. Thank you. SoWhy 12:53, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
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Lead paragraph in Thrissur
I restored the paragraph you removed in Thrissur. I see no reason to remove it. The first couple of paragraphs of an article are meant to summarize the article, even if they are duplicating content that's already present in the article. ā Stringy Acidtalk 18:55, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Stringy Acid: The lead of that article was a confusing mess of information and does not confirm to MOS:LEADPARAGRAPH and the purpose of lead as per WP:LEAD. This information is available directly under the lead and etymology so that is an appropriate place. If you feel that this is to be restored please discuss on the talk page of the article before any further changes
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System C
I note that you have flagged this page for deletion on the grounds that the company was acquired by McKesson. However McKesson sold the company back to it's original owners in 2014 and no longer have any interest or share in System C Jwironmonger (talk) 11:41, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
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File:GSLV Launch.jpg
I advise you to crop the photo to show only the launcher. If the fair use rationale is found to be valid, the image will be downscaled to a very small size. Without a crop we'll end up getting a picture that is too small to properly illustrate the launch vehicle. Gazoth (talk) 05:34, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
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As an FYI, we typically hold all Catholic bishops to be notable, and I don't think I've ever seen an AfD close as anything other than keep regarding them. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:16, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
@TonyBallioni: Thanks for the tip. I have closed the Afd --Hagennos āÆāÆāÆ Talk 14:25, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
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Note on WP:INDICSCRIPTS
Hi Hagennos, I noticed that you removed non-english scripts from Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. This edit was incorrect because although your implementation of the guideline was correct the above article does not come under the stated guideline. WP:INDICSCRIPTS is applicable to all articles which are in WP:INDIA or predominantly under WP:INDIA. The war article is shared between WP:INDIA and WP:PAKISTAN and is thus exempt from this guideline. All non-english scripts (relevant to the subject) can be included in this page. This is also true for those article which are shared between WP:INDIA and WP:BANGLADESH and so on. Please let me know if you have any further questions on this. Happy editing. Adamgerber80 (talk) 14:24, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
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AFD
Are you sure about adding Abar Tora Manush Ho to the AFD nomination, which covers an entire different set of articles.At any case, this clearly passes our encyclopedic notability guideline.~ Winged BladesGodric 05:45, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Winged Blades of Godric, I tied a WP:BEFORE and could not find any references to substantiate the claim that the film won an award. The BFI site does not count as WP:RS and even that has no mention of the award. --HagennosTalk 05:53, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Winged Blades of Godric Another point which I forgot to mention was that as per the article the film was of 1973 vintage, but the Bangladesh Film awards did not start until 1975 and it does not have any mention of this as per 1st Bangladesh National Film Awards --HagennosTalk 06:14, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- Hmm..The event of BNFA award is a hoax.But, it has mentions in offline sources and a book on Bangladeshi Cinema covers it pretty extensively.Anyways, you may wish to seek a fresh stand-alone AFD.~ Winged BladesGodric 08:31, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
System C
I disagree with your comment on the System C entry that this is not a notable company. System C is the second largest provider of hospital information systems in England (the largest UK supplier), the largest provider of child health systems (42% of England), the largest provider of social care systems (49% of local authorities), and a significant provider of maternity, business intelligence, and shared care systems. The company employs over 600 people from 10 offices. That surely qualifies as a notable company. It has a broader footprint in health and social care in England than any other software company. It is also the largest UK based vendor. āĀ Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwironmonger (talk ā¢ contribs) 11:32, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Jwironmonger: Wikipedia notability requirements are very clear for companies as per WP:NORG, WP:ORGDEPTH and should also satisfy the general notability as per WP:GNG. The mere fact that a company employs X number of people without satisfying the notability requirements are not sufficient. If you can find independent references then it will satisfy the notability requirements. I tried a WP:BEFORE prior to listing the article and I could not come up with anything other than passing mentions or primary sources and PR releases. --HagennosTalk 13:47, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Don't delete Draft:Suresh Manickavelu page
I am not trying to create an article about 'Suresh Manickavelu'. It is just a draft. As an Wikipedia user, i have the privilege to create drafts. kindly request you not to delete the Draft:Suresh Manickavelu' Page. I am not creating an article just a draft. āĀ Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.176.34.17 (talk) 06:49, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Bitcoin
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The StingĀ : Get your eyes checked, please
Explanation for the edit was RIGHT THERE. Please do not revert again without bothering to look first.
And second, it would be better if you looked at the actual edit FIRST to see if it made sense, rather than just blindly reverting something without even bothering to see what it is.
The section I deleted added nothing to our information about that movie. It was trivia and not even important trivia. Nothing came of it, it was meaningless, even the person referred to didn't bother to follow up on an ALLEGED case of copying. Which it obviously was not, since there have been MANY similar works of fiction.
thank you 116.231.75.71 (talk) 06:06, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
LEAVE THOSE STUPID PAGES *ALONE*, YOU F*CKING A**HOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D:< āĀ Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.143.152.90 (talk) 06:46, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion declined: John Morales (meteorologist)
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- @SoWhy:Ā ??? I am confused. You declined my speedy deletion on John Morales (meteorologist) stating that winning three Emmy Awards is a clear sign of significance. The page is about a meteroligistĀ !!!. So there is no question of Emmy Awards --HagennosTalk 15:27, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
- I think you confuse Primetime Emmy Awards with Emmy Awards. The former are a subset of the latter but there are Emmy Awards for other things as well, including news reporting (see News & Documentary Emmy Award). So it's entirely possible that he did win multiple Emmys. Whether that is verifiable is not something that speedy deletion deals with nor is notability. That's what WP:AFD is for. When it comes to A7, all that is needed is a credible claim of significance. And that exists. If you are interested in working in this area, I suggest you check out my link above. Regards SoWhy 16:00, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
- @SoWhy:Ā ??? I am confused. You declined my speedy deletion on John Morales (meteorologist) stating that winning three Emmy Awards is a clear sign of significance. The page is about a meteroligistĀ !!!. So there is no question of Emmy Awards --HagennosTalk 15:27, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
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
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- As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
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Hello Hagennos, 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 teamĀ here.
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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello Hagennos, 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.
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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Hello Hagennos, 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) ā A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.
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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
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- Community Wishlist Survey ā NPP needs you ā 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 ā 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 Hagennos,
- 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 26,554Ā reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285Ā edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
- Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760Ā reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001Ā reviews), Semmendinger (8,440Ā reviews), PRehse (8,092Ā reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306Ā reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016Ā reviews), and Elmidae (3,615Ā reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year ā Barkeep49 for only sevenĀ months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.
See also the list of topĀ 100 reviewers.
- Less good news, and an appeal for some help
The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640Ā holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
- Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019
At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3Ā December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
- Training video
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Notability of railway stations
You were interested in this topic last year. There is a new RfC on the topic: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Trains#RfC_India_railway_stations and private discussion at User:Cesdeva/sandbox7 Rhadow (talk) 14:29, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hello Hagennos, you were involved in an AfD that you subsequently withdrew. You might be interested in this one: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hapa Road railway station. There are currently 2,800 articles written about the 8,500 India railway stations. Two thousand of those are stubs and several hundred of those are single-source sub-stubs. The inclusionists point to Wikipedia:Notability_(Railway_lines_and_stations)#Stations as policy that presumes notability, but I don't read it that way. Rhadow (talk) 15:25, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bentonville West High School until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. RhinosF1(chat)(status)(contribs) 08:24, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Cartosat-2F for deletion
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NPR Newsletter No.17
Hello Hagennos,
- 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 ā 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 ā 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 ā Low ā 2393 High ā 4828
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NPR Newsletter No.18
Hello Hagennos,
- 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
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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019
Hello Hagennos,
- 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 Hagennos,
- 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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WikiProject India
Namaste, Hagennos. We would like to inform you about the recent changes to the WikiProject. As you may know, the old newsletter for WikiProject India ceased circulation in 2010. Now we have re-launched the newsletter in a new way. As a member, you are cordially invited to subscribe to the newsletter. Thank you.
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New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello Hagennos,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
- Getting the queue to 0
There are now 803 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.
- Coordinator
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
- This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
- Tools
- It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
- It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
- Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
- 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, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
- Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
- Arbitration Committee
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
- Community Wish list
There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.
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