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Archive 30 ← Archive 35 Archive 36 Archive 37 References Thats my point exactly, its not that hard to add references instead of just deleting the injuries and "being rude about it". That's all YOU had to do about it just find the references and as far as my "deletion" of the stuff i would have added references but there really arnt any except for ONE. So yea you could be nice about it as well instead of trying to be a "jerk" back about it. Dw122339 (talk) 17:08, 25 July 2018 (UTC) I wasn't rude about it. They had no references, and referencing an injury or disappearance (which could be kayfabe) is a lot different than referencing the existence of a person, like Andy Shepherd, on the roster. WP:PW/RS has a lot of references you can use to reference articles with, so you have options there. If injuries are so easy to reference, I don't understand why no one uses proper references and actually does it. It's been going for years on Wikipedia, since I joined back in 2005, and not much has changed since. It doesn't seem like people will take the time to reference injuries/disappearances, so we have to remove it. — Moe Epsilon 17:13, 25 July 2018 (UTC) If you have been around for that long and its been going on for that long, then why not actually be the first to step up to the plate and start referencing things. Injuries are actually easy to reference since WWE announces injuries and surgeries and what not. People tend to get lazy with wiki thinking that it would be perfectly fine to just add injuries and other things when no one ever comes along and bitches about it not being referenced so they dont actually put it with it. Look I'm not blaming you for anything except not taking time to actually add references and I'm guilt of that sometimes as well we all are but you kinda are doing a double standard here deleting stuff and bitching cuz someone one add references to injuries. Its not as easy to find references to people being signed when they are behind the scenes and are a nobody. You managed to get what one out of 6 or 7? Dw122339 (talk) 17:29, 25 July 2018 (UTC) I'm not saying that you should have been able to reference them all (you can't sometimes), but the person you removed had their own article and a reference easily available to grab and use for what you needed to. You seemed so focused on just blanking anything not referenced that you missed that one entirely. Besides the other announcer (who is brand new to WWE), they probably won't be referenced. Not everyone is easily referenced and if we can't find a decent reference, they should be removed. Injuries are sometimes announced, and sometimes they aren't, and dirtsheets can't be reliably used for Wikipedia. Regardless, it's ingrained in Wikipedia culture that "anyone can edit" and any little thing that happens on TV will be edited to articles. The reason it can't be changed is because new injuries/changes happen all the time like a revolving door and editors may or may not take the time to fix it. I am not here 24/7 and I don't have time to babysit articles — I don't own them. I have to rely on other editors who are making the changes to do it themselves. Every once in a while I check in and remove stuff like I did, because otherwise editors will think it is okay to do. Anyways, if you can find references for injuries, just re-insert them as you see fit. Just check WP:PW/RS to see if it meets the criteria of being reliable before you post it and it should be fine. — Moe Epsilon 17:51, 25 July 2018 (UTC) NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018 Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. () Hello Moe Epsilon, 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. 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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. Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 20:49, 21 October 2018 (UTC) Contesting speedy Just curios why you are contesting [1] and [2]. Both have already been to AfD and were deleted, and now recreated. - Galatz גאליץשיחה Talk 17:32, 6 November 2018 (UTC) Because consensus can change, and the last consensus was formed between two editors which includes yourself. Since then, Dawkins and Ford have won a championship and been on NXT for half a year. AFD can determine if that is enough now. — Moe Epsilon 17:51, 6 November 2018 (UTC) Ok thanks - Galatz גאליץשיחה Talk 18:29, 6 November 2018 (UTC) NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018 Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. Hello Moe Epsilon, 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. 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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. See also the list of top 100 reviewers. Less good news, and an appeal for some help The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 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 3 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 Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minute video was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC) File:Youlovewhoyoulove.ogg Hi Moe Epsilon, It looks like the file version you uploaded for File:Youlovewhoyoulove.ogg is corrupted, I'm not able to get it to play on multiple players. Do you have a working version? I didn't want to revert to the long version that was originally uploaded (FU issues), so wanted to ask you before just outright deleting. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 16:02, 21 December 2018 (UTC) Hi @Xaosflux:. I'm not sure what your issue appears to be with the file. I can play it straight from the file page with no issue. Although, since the last time I've ever played it, there does appear to be some kind of crackling noise at the beginning of the track. I can re-create the file and upload it again and see if you can hear it, but I would try other .ogg files and see if you are able to play those as well just in case. — Moe Epsilon 20:02, 21 December 2018 (UTC) I was able to get it to play with one player, perhaps whatever is causing the cracking noise is also causing the transcoder fail on this file (which is how I ran across it). — xaosflux Talk 20:31, 21 December 2018 (UTC) Xaosflux: I went through my external hard drive to find the backup of the original file and for some reason it too makes the cracking noise, so either we can undelete the previous version prior to me changing it, or I can record a new version of the audio and upload over the current. — Moe Epsilon 18:38, 27 December 2018 (UTC) Thanks for the follow up, I don't think there is a rush - but if you have the chance to remaster the sample it should be a net positive for readers (listeners :D ). Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 18:45, 27 December 2018 (UTC) Xaosflux: I uploaded a new version of the audio sample and played in on another browser and it worked perfectly. When I tried on my normal browser it didn't seem to work but I think that has something to do with the cache. Would you see if the new file works good for you? It doesn't appear there is a transcoding error anymore. — Moe Epsilon 23:34, 27 December 2018 (UTC) Plays and the MW transcode now is reporting: completed 2018-12-27T22:19:03. Thanks, — xaosflux Talk 01:30, 28 December 2018 (UTC) No problem! :) — Moe Epsilon 01:33, 28 December 2018 (UTC) fair use of album cover images I was trying to explain to a fairly new user why he couldn't put File:Albert Flasher.png on the The Guess Who article, and could only be used on the article about the actual recording. I was going to point out to him that that there were no album cover images on the article on the article on The Beatles, when I saw that File:Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.jpg was on the page (as well as the Paul McCartney article) and you reviewed the use of it on The Beatles article on 11 May 2011. Can you explain to me how that situation differs with the TGW/AF situation? Thanks --rogerd (talk) 21:23, 13 February 2019 (UTC) @Rogerd: There is one major difference I suppose. The article on The Guess Who is being used to show what they looked like "during their hippie years" as the user said in his edit summary. Non-free images can't be used in this manner. For an album cover, there needs to be significant content or "critical commentary", about the album and album cover to warrant its inclusion in the article. The Sgt. Pepper album article, the article about the various people on the cover and the main Beatles article extensively cover the contents of the Sgt. Pepper album cover and the album itself, with the album cover being positioned next to the critical commentary to merit it's inclusion. I didn't review it's inclusion on the Paul McCartney article and that doesn't appear to have any reason for its inclusion and I'll be removing that. — Moe Epsilon 21:42, 13 February 2019 (UTC) Thanks, I appreciate it. Some of the nuances of the fair use rules are sometime lost on me. --rogerd (talk) 03:24, 14 February 2019 (UTC) I posted a reply to the original user on User talk:Tarcil#The Guess Who image. I think I restated what you said accurately. If I didn't, please correct me. Thanks again. --rogerd (talk) 20:06, 14 February 2019 (UTC) I read what you wrote and that should be helpful to their understanding. A relevant link to policy you can include when discussing it can be WP:NFCC#policy criteria #8 "Contextual significance: Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding." 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Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of DannyS712 (talk) at 19:17, 17 May 2019 (UTC) Dean Ambrose I suggest you step away from the Dean Ambrose/Jon Moxley talk page. You've been going back and forth with Wicka wicka and parts are uncivil with certain language being used that is acceptable on Wikipedia. If an admin needs to be brought in to resolve your dispute with Wicka wicka, so be it. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 03:40, 5 June 2019 (UTC) Saying the word "fuck" isn't uncivil, I don't care what you say. I was suggesting he calm down and actually reply to what I'm saying instead of spamming lines of text at me. If you don't like it, the don't let the exit hit you on the way out. — Moe Epsilon 07:32, 5 June 2019 (UTC) It has now been taken Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. You want to look at it and decide if you want to add anything. Mr. C.C.Hey yo!I didn't do it! 15:13, 5 June 2019 (UTC) WJBscribe Arb case request Thank you for your excellent statement in this case request. However I think you might be missing a word of negation in your final paragraph, specifically in the sentence "If you want the Foundation to continue to side-step ArbCom, then all of you need to follow the policies as written and act accordingly (and yes, I mean civility as well)." - I think it should start "Unless you want..." or "If you don't want...". Thryduulf (talk) 22:22, 13 June 2019 (UTC) Thank you Thryduulf, you're right. Sometimes I'm not the best in wording things the way I intend, but I think most people get the way I speak by now :p I'll be changing it regardless. — Moe Epsilon 22:40, 13 June 2019 (UTC) Don't worry, we all make mistakes like this! Thryduulf (talk) 23:02, 13 June 2019 (UTC) Just came to leave thanks for that clear statement too. – SJ + 17:20, 15 June 2019 (UTC) Not a problem, Sj. 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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. Stay up to date with even more news – subscribe to The Signpost. Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:38, 30 June 2019 (UTC) Woohoo Hey, Moe Epsilon. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Mjs1991 (talk) 00:11, 10 July 2019 (UTC) 2005 seems like so long ago.. — Moe Epsilon 00:15, 10 July 2019 (UTC) New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019 Hello Moe Epsilon, 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. Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:15, 11 September 2019 (UTC) Happy Birthday! Thanks :) — Moe Epsilon 14:38, 24 October 2019 (UTC) New Page Review newsletter November 2019 Hello Moe Epsilon, 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 804 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. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC) A survey to improve the community consultation outreach process Hello! 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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noisy Cricket 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. TTN (talk) 17:43, 12 December 2019 (UTC) 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. Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well. Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year. Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year. Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days Rank Username Num reviews Log 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 10 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 3,522 Patrol Page Curation (The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here) Redirect autopatrol A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III. Source Guide Discussion Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information. 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. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC) New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020 Hello Moe Epsilon, 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 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here 16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC) New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020 Hello Moe Epsilon, 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 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:52, 18 June 2020 (UTC) Happy First Edit Day! Happy First Edit Day, Moe Epsilon, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! ~SS49~ {talk} 08:34, 10 July 2020 (UTC) Happy First Edit Day! Thanks for the first edit day wishes you guys. I'll be back to editing at some point hopefully. Currently being tested for COVID-19 (Florida is a mess). Take care for now, — Moe Epsilon 20:16, 10 July 2020 (UTC) Eurymachus Hi Moe Epsilon, wondering if this or this file might be suitable to add to the article. Thank you for your time. :-) Lotje (talk) 09:58, 20 July 2020 (UTC) Hello Lotje. I would say it's probably not best to add an image. Eurymachus refers to a few people, so much like a disambiguation page, we don't add images to those. — Moe Epsilon 14:28, 20 July 2020 (UTC) Happy Birthday! Thanks :) — Moe Epsilon 03:46, 25 October 2020 (UTC) ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. 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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 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 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here 18:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC) Happy First Edit Day! New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021 New Page Review queue September 2021 Hello Moe Epsilon, 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. 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If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 23 November 2021 (UTC) Proposed deletion of List of Ring of Honor personnel The article List of Ring of Honor personnel has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern: Everyone has been released from their contracts and are now free agents, as ROH as a whole is now on ice until April 2022, when it's reported to return in some form or another (we'll see about that - one of those "we'll get there when we get there" deals). But just the same, for now this article serves no purpose, as everyone is gonna scatter on their own adventures since they are no longer bound to ROH. Vjmlhds (talk) 13:46, 12 December 2021 (UTC) While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Vjmlhds 13:46, 12 December 2021 (UTC) I've contested the prod on the article as it would be better suited as a redirect to the alumni article than to be straight deleted. — Moe Epsilon 13:51, 12 December 2021 (UTC) I'm actually fine with that. I wasn't trying to be a meanie (blue or otherwise) by proposing deletion, but with everyone now being released from their contracts and becoming free agents, it just didn't make sense to have a roster page when there is now no roster. BTW, very cool font on your talk page. Vjmlhds (talk) 13:57, 12 December 2021 (UTC) Thank you. I understand, I've been following the shutdown of ROH the last month and was curious how/if it was going to be handled, but this about does it. I'd rather it redirect anyways just in the off-chance it re-opens and we can preserve the history. — Moe Epsilon 14:13, 12 December 2021 (UTC) New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022 New Page Review queue March 2022 Hello Moe Epsilon, 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 804 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 852 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. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent 05:18, 23 May 2022 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:GRRRLS cover.jpg ⚠ Thanks for uploading File:GRRRLS cover.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 13:00, 15 June 2022 (UTC) New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022 New Page Review queue June 2022 Hello Moe Epsilon, 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 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. 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: 12465 articles, as of 08:00, 15 November 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. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Notes MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:01, 24 June 2022 (UTC) NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on! New Page Patrol | July 2022 Backlog Drive On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here. You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. (t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC) Happy First Edit Day! Thank you. — Moe Epsilon 04:39, 11 July 2022 (UTC) New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022 New Page Review queue August 2022 Hello Moe Epsilon, Backlog status After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details. Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day. Coordination MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years. Open letter to the WMF The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive. TIP - Reviewing by subject Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list. 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Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:24, 6 August 2022 (UTC) NPP message Hi Moe Epsilon, Invitation For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 20 August 2022 (UTC) October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here! You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. (t · c) buidhe 21:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC) New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022 Hello Moe Epsilon, Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section. Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also. Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved. NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022 Suggestions: There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed". Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial) Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue. This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar. Backlog: Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. 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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 29 November 2022 (UTC) New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023 Hello Moe Epsilon, New Page Review queue December 2022 Backlog The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day. 2022 Awards Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone! Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.) New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD. Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see. Reminders Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter. There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord. Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist. If you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM. To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive New Page Patrol | May 2023 Backlog Drive On 1 May, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of redirects patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Article patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here! There is a possibility that the drive may not run if there are <20 registered participants. Participants will be notified if this is the case. You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:12, 20 April 2023 (UTC)