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The Signpost: 31 January 2019

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Question on adding key to category

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Hi! I see some changes you're making to categories such as [[Category:Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States|Alabama]] by adding the state as a key. What does that do? It's probably something I should include when I'm building these articles....Thanks! Jacona (talk) 13:21, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jacona It adds that to the method of sorting the category. If you take a look at the category, they are not first grouped by the state, and then by the name of the article. It might actually be better to make subcats for at least the states with the most schools, but I'm just going for consistency with what was already there.Naraht (talk) 13:38, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I'll try to remember to add the key when I use the category. There are so many articles, they certainly need to be organized in some way. Looking at the category, it's a little unclear to the reader how they are grouped. Should we maybe put some verbage on the category page explaining it? Jacona (talk) 13:54, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Jacona That would probably be best in the short run.Naraht (talk) 14:02, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock should be for a year?

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Naraht (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 108.171.130.163. This is my machine from work and I've used it to edit wikipedia for more than 7 years.Naraht (talk) 15:04, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only; that IP is directly blocked for a month for disruptive editing; evidently someone else at your work got it blocked. 331dot (talk) 15:23, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

331dot, Yamla IP block is for a year. Message on attempting to edit is "This block has been set to expire: 16:28, February 13, 2020." and the message in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlockList?wpTarget=108.171.130.163&limit=1000&wpFormIdentifier=blocklist says that it has 360+ days to go. So it isn't for a month. Yamla, may I ask what prompted a year long block?Naraht (talk) 15:52, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It's essentially blocked indefinitely. It's an open proxy, it's scansafe. You'll need to disable your use of this proxy if you wish to edit here; Wikipedia doesn't generally allow open proxies. Note that you are definitely an editor in good standing and the block is not aimed at you, it's just that you are using proxies to edit. If you have a compelling need, you may wish to avail yourself of WP:IPBE.
Thank You, I will submit that.Naraht (talk) 19:45, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This blocked user is asking that his block be reviewed on the Unblock Ticket Request System:

Naraht (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

UTRS appeal #23990 was submitted on Feb 18, 2019 23:06:17. This review is now closed.


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The Signpost: 28 February 2019

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NPR Newsletter No.17

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Hello Naraht,

News
Discussions of interest
  • Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
  • {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
  • A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
  • There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
Reminders
  • NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
NPP Tools Report
  • Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
  • copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
  • The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

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A sockpuppet?

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Hey, I know you watch the GLO pages and have an eye for interesting activity – would you mind looking at some of the contribs of the redlinked users editing the Alpha Phi page recently and tell me if anything looks sockpuppety to you? I'm trying to avoid tagging them in case I'm wrong, but there's a lot of overlaps – repeatedly inserting the word "exposé" in Alpha Phi and edits to ice cream brand-related pages, Winsor School, and random women's biographies. They're obviously experienced editors under new accounts and have similar edit comment usage (almost none) as well. Should I open a SPI? Thanks, originalmesshow u doin that busta rhyme? 03:14, 29 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Originalmess can't hurt to open an SPI. I'm watching the Alpha Phi changes. I'll try to check other edits of those editors as well.Naraht (talk) 15:52, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

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The Signpost: 30 April 2019

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Mr. Jahić - movies

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Yes, he is actor in this movies, but he have problem with IMDb. All movies are delete. He say that he was try to do it.

In this link you can see the movies on IMDb: https://www.instagram.com/p/Btvg37KBSc0/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1d2dv2yhixu1d

Thanks...

NPR Newsletter No.18

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Hello Naraht,

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
Discussions of interest

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

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Thanks! :D

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Thanks for fixing the HP Saturn register fields wikitable! :D

Thanks and regards,

Jdbtwo (talk) 17:45, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gamma Kappa Phi List of Politicians

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14:13, 20 May 2019‎ →‎Politics: None of these have information that they are members of Gamma Kappa Phi Hi Naraht, hopefully you could bring back the list. This list of Politician were members of Gamma Kappa Phi and was provided by members who gathered from the result of Philippine 2019 Midterm election information. Regarding information through citation on each of their membership, it would be impossible for us to provide this unless we would send acknowledgement through documents or other source of proof. Although I would allow you to join the Gamma Kappa Facebook Group to find this information that they are members based on their postings. Please contact us through email at info@gammakappaphi.com, and you are welcome in joining us in the quorum to provide you more information regarding this matter. Regards, AAJIM

AajimThe article on Gamma Kappa Phi is held to the same standards as the articles about other greek letter organizations. For example, for List of Alpha Phi Omega members, the fact that Jejomar Binay, Nikki Cabardo and Josue Bellosilo are listed is referenced to an article in the August 8, 2001 Philippine Daily Inquirer ( https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_lQ1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=bSUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1122,31646421 ) . Please read the Wikipedia article on Reliable Sources WP:RS , and I'd be happy to try to help find places where this information is published. Note, it does *not* have to be computer accessible, just published (and preferably by a reliable source).
As an additional comment, while there is a place for discussion of the Gamma Kappa Phi Seal and its evolution, that place is probably not Wikipedia. That section of the article is completely unreferenced and as such it would be quite reasonable to remove it. (which frankly is an issue with the majority of the rest of the article as well.
As a note, I proudly state that I am a brother of Alpha Phi Omega (United States). While I have worked significantly with the pages of many greek letter organizations in my decade at Wikipedia. If you feel this represents a Conflict of Interest on my part, I will be happy to work with you to locate someone who has no relationship with any Greek Letter Organization which exists in the Philippines. Sincerely Naraht (talk) 13:26, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Naraht, Thanks for your comments. Although I still suggest to revert the list that have deleted since some were already posted for many years when I created this page. Glad to know that you have worked on pages for decade in Wikipedia and we have almost the same period since, although not much in editing, but as contributor of some pages. It's great to know that you are also a member of Alpha Phi Omega which I supposed to join before, but instead I decided to turn to Gamma Kappa Phi. Thus, I became a pioneer member and led as organizer of school chapters. Therefore, I agreed with you that there is a conflict of interest in your part and would be a good suggestion to locate someone who has no relationship with any Greek Letter Organization, and would be feel their fair representation in editing my page. Sincerely and regards. AAJIM

Aajim After looking at Third Opinion, it indicatest that discussion needs to occur at the article web page first (I will post there), entries in the article *need* WP:Reliable Sources. Also, in terms of the phrase "my page", *PLEASE* read Wikipedia:Ownership of content.Naraht (talk) 10:20, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Palestinian Animal League

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Thanks for your advice re. Pakistan's Animal Welfare Society. I think I just basically need to significantly reduce the amount of content on my article to just include those from 3rd party reliable sources. It will be a lot shorter, oh well. Innovative Username (talk) 17:07, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Innovative Username A list of locations, for example, doesn't have to referenced to 3rd party sources, but does need to be referenced somewhere.Naraht (talk) 18:33, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New message from CASSIOPEIA

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Hello, Naraht. You have new messages at CASSIOPEIA's talk page.
Message added 06:30, 30 May 2019 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

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Page mover granted

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Hello, Naraht. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! — xaosflux Talk 14:44, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note

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Hi Naraht, as you have a very long active tenure, I'm fine with adding this flag to your account in trust you will use it appropriately. Your use-case (Moving Articles to Drafts) may be somewhat controversial (especially if you do it in large volumes) so please proceed with care and be mindful of any negative feedback. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 14:46, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Xaosflux I've got a specific area of focus in mind, Fraternities and Sororities in the Philippines. I want to go through one at a time looking for refs and if not, moving to draft. If I've done more than 30 outside of this area within a year, I'll be surprised. And I have some documentation on the ability to read first.Naraht (talk) 14:49, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 May 2019

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Sigma Delta Rho

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In case you want to review it, I just moved another local and created a new page for Sigma Delta Rho.Jax MN (talk) 06:45, 17 June 2019 (UTC) Jax MN. Have added some links,Naraht (talk) 08:21, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New category?

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I note that you have experience with category creation. I thought it might be a good addition to add one for "Defunct College Fraternities". --There will probably be a few redirects that should also link to the page, using the words "defunct" and "Sorority". I plan to add a number of the dormant groups from Bairds; this would be a good way to list them.

Care to add it? Jax MN (talk) 17:30, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jax MN What's wrong with Category:Defunct fraternities and sororities?Naraht (talk) 02:06, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hadn't seen it. Perhaps a redirect may be helpful? It seems obvious now but maybe I wasn't looking hard enough. Thinking about the casual reader... Jax MN (talk) 18:06, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Jax MN Redirects generally aren't used for categories. When a category is moved for example, a bot will move all of the article into the new category and delete the old.Naraht (talk) 02:02, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

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Hello Naraht,

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.

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The June 2019 Signpost is out!

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Your draft article, Draft:Alpha Chi Pi Omega

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Hello, Naraht. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Alpha Chi Pi Omega".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 08:14, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

College basketball and football articles

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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Phi Omega Pi, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Sigma Phi Beta (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

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Speedy deletion nomination of Delta Alpha Pi (honor society)

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A tag has been placed on Delta Alpha Pi (honor society) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://deltaalphapihonorsociety.org/about-us/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Awards and barnstars

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Naraht, I note on your user page that you maintain a tally of your edits and various points of progress toward achievement levels on Wikipedia. Would you explain how I ought to include such things on my own page, and what is fair to do so without self-congratulations? Are these barnstars and awards automated when one gains a certain number of new page creations, or edits?

I edit in spurts, as business and outside interests allow. I know that others do more editing than I do, but I'd nevertheless like to progress toward these levels, if I qualify. Jax MN (talk) 19:10, 29 July 2019 (UTC) Jax MN The edits, sure. It templates just include the number of edits (which you can get from a link at the bottom of the contributions page) and the date you started editing. They are not automated. And the Barnstars were given to me by other people, and were moved to the userpage so they don't get archived.Naraht (talk) 19:17, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 July 2019

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Ouch!

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Ouch! I fixed it for you but you might want to check your search term or whatever can refine it a bit. Cheers DBaK (talk) 12:40, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered agreed ouch. Thank You. I'm looking back though the edits now. I thought I had it set to only change inside the template.Naraht (talk) 23:13, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You're v v welcome! Good luck and have fun, cheers. DBaK (talk) 23:30, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 August 2019

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Hello Naraht,

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.

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Smallest Grid... Reference Desk/Math

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You may want to clarify for SinisterLefty that: Homework? Naraht? Really? :) hydnjo (talk) 15:04, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 September 2019

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2019 US Banknote Contest

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US Banknote Contest
November-December 2019

There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons.

In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate.

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The Signpost: 31 October 2019

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

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Hello Naraht,

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 805 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.
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Second set of eyes
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Category:Specialized encyclopedias

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Do you think this shouldnt be a container category? Rathfelder (talk) 23:14, 7 November 2019 (UTC) Rathfelder See posting to your talk page.Naraht (talk) 23:16, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2019 election voter message

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Nomination of 2022 United States Senate election in Connecticut for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2022 United States Senate election in Connecticut is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2022 United States Senate election in Connecticut 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. jaclar0529 (talk) 08:34, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Order of Omega

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You can’t just take the deletion tag off, unless you want a prop for speedy deletion Carwile2 *Shoot me a message* 20:12, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Carwile2: Actually, yes he can. Removing a proposed deletion tag is an act of contesting the deletion. You're free to nominate the article for deletion via the WP:Articles for deletion process, where the community will discuss the article, if you still think it should be deleted. —C.Fred (talk) 20:14, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Carwile2, C.Fred. If there is an AFD, I'll work with that. I know none of these sources are the NYT, but my guess is that a true AFD would work around whether or not school newspapers (and sites) could as secondary sources and whether or not fraternities and sororities count as independent to it or not.Naraht (talk) 21:24, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
C.Fred While the sources are inadequate, I don’t think the article meets WP:NOTE in the first place. If you can prove it does, I’d be happy to retract AFD Carwile2 *Shoot me a message* 00:47, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

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Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 November 2019

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Autowikibrowser

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Sounds like it might be the right tool. Where do I find documentation about Autowikibrowser? Searching for "help:Autowikibrowser" and "Autowikibrowser" did not return any documentation. User-duck (talk) 21:26, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User-duck Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser. It is software you install on your computer. I'm willing to do it if you specify exactly what you want...Naraht (talk) 21:49, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I have done over 10,000 edits (many fixing errors generated using tools). I want to learn about the tools and use them to correct some of them. I am surprised that Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser did not show up on a search. User-duck (talk) 22:23, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
User-duck have fun!Naraht (talk) 05:04, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Robert H. Davidson

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Good afternoon. I am following the bread crumb trail to the source of the photographs used on Robert H. Davidson's page, for use in a history of his battalion during the war, and I would welcome any assistance you might be able to give.

Many thanks.

Tansideout (talk) 21:21, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tansideout Not sure why you picked me. I presume this is about Robert Harold Davidson and I did make the last edit there, but that was simple capitalization. As for the photos on that page, both of them were uploaded by the same person.
The reference in the text to each indicates USMC photo, personal papers (refs 9 and 21). Moving to the actual photo entries in commons, those appear to be the only images that still exist that Dpatenge uploaded and they were uploaded in 2010. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dpatenge) But his talk page (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dpatenge) seems to indicate that he uploaded 3 more which have been deleted due to lack of infomraiton on the copyright.
He did upload other images to en.wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dpatenge and worked extensively on that and related pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dpatenge . However the last edit in those is in 2011. I'm not sure where else to go from here. Hopefully some of this is useful.Naraht (talk) 21:48, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

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A graph showing the number of articles in the page curation feed from 12/21/18 - 12/20/19

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.

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The Signpost: 27 December 2019

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