User talk:Ilyushka88/Archive 3
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What the bloody heck!
For your life! I did not did an edit on the Antenna page! It was someone else who did it! Stop blaming on me, you little brat! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.87.164.13 (talk) 19:26, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Victor Olunloyo
Although Victor Olunloyo was a governor in Nigeria for a few months a few decades ago, the daughter, Kemi Olunloyo was always a nobody. She is a credential fraudster and currently wanted in Georgia, USA for several felonies. You can look them up on the Newton County, Georgia, USA Sheriffs page. The daughter is not a journalist. She does not even have a job in Nigeria. She is not a pharmacist either. She has not been registered as a pharmacist since 2006.
It is no wonder that Wikipedia is not recognized as a source by any decent learning institution.
If you don't believe me, check out her Twitter account where she trolls Nigerians every day. Her Twitter is @HNNAfrica Yes, she constantly tries to defraud people. She has been reported numerous times to Nigerian police.
Verify your info! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.140.237.235 (talk) 23:22, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hello. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. It means, that although everyone can help improve it, not all kinds of edits can be accepted. For example in article Victor Omololu Olunloyo, replacing "He is the father to Journalist" with "He is the father to the crack head" does not appear constructive, or add any encyclopaedic content to the article. Ilyushka ☃Talk!Contribs 22:09, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
Precious
fighting vandalism
Thank you for quality contributions to articles on Armenia and Assyria, for fighting vandalims with countless reverts and warning messages in almost ten years, for adding infoboxes, including about yourself, - Elias, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hey, Gerda! Thank you very much! I appreciate you taking the time to give me this :) I had a pretty long break in editing, but came back a few days ago, and will continue trying my best in editing and fighting vandalism. I hope you have a great day. Again, thank you! Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 22:22, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
No subject/headline
I think you made a mistake on one of my edits. I forget which one you edited but i believe my edit is correct — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hooooooo123 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hey, Hooooooo123! I think you mean when I reverted this edit you did? Well, I had a look at Wrexham A.F.C.'s honours, and the wikipedia article seems to be correct. Replacing all the honours with "nothing" is not very constructive. Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 18:55, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
I love Chester, Wrexham is our rival, we believe that the sheep have no history. Plus we won 3-2 at the Deva and we are only 4 years old. Chester are better than Wrexham We hate wrexham and we hate wrexham we hate wrexham and we hate wrexham WE ARE THE WREXHAM HATERS WE HATE WREXHAM WE HATE WREXHAM — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hooooooo123 (talk • contribs) 18:59, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for switching it back — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hawkeye75 (talk • contribs) 00:39, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Tony Geary
Tony Geary, how is he doing? Is he well? Doreine (talk) 20:08, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hello, Doreine! I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe you contacted a wrong person :) Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 06:03, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
George Stephanopoulos
I was looking at the George Stephanopoulos article and I saw the line "political operative for the Democratic party" which sounded odd to me so I checked the history. I saw it was added by a random editor and that you had already undone that addition once, but it was added back in. I tried to remove it, but got some kind of error. Could you remove it again? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.177.77.13 (talk) 23:24, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hello there! I was looking at the page history, but did not see any edits I had done concerning this. Sorry, but I won't do any edits (excluding undoing vandalism) to articles where I am not familiar with their subject. What kind of an error message did you receive when you tried to do the edit? Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 06:02, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
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Is it illegal to have fun? Nikboy17 (talk) 23:37, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Nikboy17: Hey there! Of course it's not illegal to have fun. It's just that countless people use Wikipedia to search for information about a subject (in this case about WrestleMania 32); that's why it should be avoided to write your opinions about the subject. Basically all text added in wikipedia articles should be neutral in tone and citable. -- Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 23:59, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
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User talk archive pages
I noticed that several of your user talk archive pages were nominated for deletion under WP:CSD#U1. However, that criterion does not apply, by its own terms, to user talk pages. Could you please remove the speedy delete tags from any of those pages if I haven't removed those tags yet? If you still want those pages deleted, please take them to WP:MFD instead of requesting speedy deletion. Thanks. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:44, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
- Hey there, Metropolitan90. My apologies. I forgot that WP:CSD#U1 does not apply to user talk pages. Sorry for the extra work this caused to you. Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 17:54, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Barnstar of Diplomacy |
| Thanks for being a mensch. Bearian (talk) 12:38, 25 August 2016 (UTC) |
- Thank you, Bearian! Much appreciated :-) Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 19:19, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
Hi
Can you just tell me more about that deletion proposal,I added 2 references about that article is it okay now? Laurentmekaj (talk) 01:14, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
- Hey there, Laurentmekaj! The article no longer qualifies for deletion under the given circumstances. Give me a minute, and I will try to further develop the references listing! :) Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 01:20, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
Brytiago
Hello Ilyushka88 I am new on Wikipedia and yes, I do not understand many things here, I don't know if it's because I am using a Laptop or something. I created my first Page for an artist called Brytiago He is a new latin artist from Daddy Yankee's recording lable. So sooner or later someone must write his biography, and many people are searching for his bio while it is only available in some Latin sites that not so many can find and understand. I tried to read how to verify an article but I couldn't find anything helpful and plus I am Spanish. Everything in my first page is right I don't know why I received that message not only once but twice! Can you help me a little bit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Era.lmtwgr (talk • contribs) 20:39, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
- Hey there, Era.lmtwgr! You didn't get the same message twice I think, but the first one was a welcoming message with useful links to get you started. The reason the article Brytiago is up for deletion, is that the article has no sources at all. If you could add any reliable sources, then the tag should not longer be there. It doesn't matter if the reference is not in english as long as the cited info is reliable. Please read Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources for more info :) Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 20:49, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
Nope, the first message was from the person who requested to delete my page and I will be honest... Reading aallll these things will take sooooo much tiiiimmeee!!! How do people even do that haha! Anyway it's okay even if they delete it, because sooner or later someone else will write all these things again and create a page with the same name "Brytiago" Thank you for everything :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Era.lmtwgr (talk • contribs) 21:02, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
- Being discussed at WP:UND#Brytiago. Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 22:36, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Speedy Deletion of Hussein Ahmed Chalaby
Hello,
I have noticed that you suggested speedy deletion for the named article about a someone. May we know why you did this? Could you please remove the note that you put on the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurdishwriter (talk • contribs) 21:45, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
- Hey, Kurdishwriter! In my opinion the article about this person does not meet the notability criteria. Please see WP:YFA for more information. Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 21:49, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
- Well, ok thanks. delete it as soon as possible like it has never been written and also I hope you delete this section, because I do not know how to delete it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kurdishwriter (talk • contribs) 21:55, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
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- Thank you very much, Gerda :) Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 17:22, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks!
Thank you so much for making this edit, I found what you reverted very offensive! Again, thanks so much! VibeScepter (talk) 21:14, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
- Happy to help. I hate vandalism. Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 21:34, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
- I also hate vandalism, but the one you reverted stood out the most, it's my LEAST favourite edit to have been done on Wikipedia, ever! VibeScepter (talk) 16:15, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
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Reverted Removal from adopter list
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- Thank you, NJA! Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 21:26, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, the tag you placed is absolutely correct. But... I can't think of any articles that could possibly link to it. Can you? Dr. Vogel (talk) 16:28, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hey, Dr. Vogel! I can see that you solved this by yourself :). Thank you. I removed the orphan-tag from the article. Ilyushka88 | Talk! Contribs 19:18, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
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New Page Review newsletter December 2019
- Reviewer of the Year
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
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| 1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
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- This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello Ilyushka88,
- Source Guide Discussion
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
- Redirects
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
- Discussions and Resources
- There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
- A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
- A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
- A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.
- Refresher
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095
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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello Ilyushka88,
- Your help can make a difference
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
- Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
- Discussions and Resources
- A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
- Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
- A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
- Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271
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New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello Ilyushka88,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
| Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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| 1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271
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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello Ilyushka88,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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November 2021 backlog drive
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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello Ilyushka88,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 805 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 848 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello Ilyushka88,
- Backlog status
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
- Backlog drive
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. 
Barnstars will be awarded.
- TIP – New school articles
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
- Misc
There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 13820 articles, as of 16:00, 3 December 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
- Reminders
- Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
- If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing
{{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page. - If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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