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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Renamed user cdb78c3737e6b7f6ba7e28cedcc6608711202eee, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Other
Moving to Draft and Page Mover
  • Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

Hello Renamed user cdb78c3737e6b7f6ba7e28cedcc6608711202eee, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal
Project updates
  • ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
  • There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
New scripts

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

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

Hello Renamed user cdb78c3737e6b7f6ba7e28cedcc6608711202eee,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
  • Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Renamed user cdb78c3737e6b7f6ba7e28cedcc6608711202eee,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

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.

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Please participate to the talk pages consultation

Hello

Our team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on a project to improve the ease-of-use and productivity of wiki talk pages. As a Teahouse host, I can imagine you’ve run into challenges explaining talk pages to first-time participants.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis – to ask questions, to resolve differences, to organize projects and to make decisions. Communication is essential for the depth and quality of our content, and the health of our communities. We're currently leading a global consultation on how to improve talk pages, and we're looking for people that can report on their experiences using (or helping other people to use) wiki talk pages. We'd like to invite you to participate in the consultation, and invite new users to join too.

We thank you in advance for your participation and your help.

Trizek (WMF), 08:37, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Please participate to the talk pages consultation - link update

The previous message about the talk pages consultation has a broken link.

The correct link has been misinterpreted by the MassMessage tool. Please use the following link: Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019.

Sorry for the inconvenience, Trizek (WMF), 08:48, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Renamed user cdb78c3737e6b7f6ba7e28cedcc6608711202eee,

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.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
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Request on 18:51:06, 3 May 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Timolsky1


Hi IVORK - I set up a page a few months back - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Horne_Section_Podcast - and you kindly reviewed and said it required citations. I added these as soon as I could but haven't heard back from anyone - is there something else I need to do to resubmit this for approval - any help appreciated, this is the first page I've ever made! Thanks. Timolsky.

Timolsky1 (talk) 18:51, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

GFDL

Tijuana Vuidanegra (talk) 14:23, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

@Vuidanegra: Tijuana, yes? What about it? — IVORK Discuss 00:06, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Renamed user cdb78c3737e6b7f6ba7e28cedcc6608711202eee,

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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ForeverAlone listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect ForeverAlone. Since you had some involvement with the ForeverAlone redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Lmbro (talk) 19:58, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Renamed user cdb78c3737e6b7f6ba7e28cedcc6608711202eee,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Nomination of Dimitri Livas for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Dimitri Livas 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/Dimitri Livas 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. signed, Rosguill talk 00:13, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

About edits

Sir please review a report from times of India don't delete all part .and you should also be neutral Kuswaha (talk) 11:38, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

If there is an article about that you need to include that in your writings to back it up. Also take care in spelling and capitalizing as well as sticking to an encyclopedic tone Kuswaha — IVORK Discuss 13:19, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Dimitri Livas

Hi IVORK. Did you copy your initial draft of the Dimitri Livas article from Draft:Dimitri Livas? If so, what inspired you to start working on this draft? – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 00:18, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Howdy Lord Bolingbroke, the subject posted a job on Airtasker per the disclosure on the talk page and I took it up based off his interviews/books being enough to push past the notability reqs. But yes, I was able to track down the draft version through a mirror site then add more so didn't need to WP:REFUND— IVORK Discuss 01:24, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
I must admit, I find it rather troubling that you did not post the paid contributor disclosure on the talk page until after I asked about your motivation for working on the article. Why didn't you post the disclosure as soon as you moved the article into mainspace? – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 01:57, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
That's understandable Lord Bolingbroke. It has been posted now to avoid confusion. I took the article up in good faith believing it would be enough to be kept. — IVORK Discuss 02:03, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
Is this your first time editing for pay? – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 02:05, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
You can find my account through the disclaimer link (unsure if you'll need to log in). With that you can plainly see it was just this article and creating a template in another users sandbox for them to use, which isn't something that needs to be claimed as out of the mainspace and no actual content. — IVORK Discuss 02:08, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
OK, thank you for clarifying. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 02:11, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
@IVORK: in a similar vein, please ensure you are in full compliance with WP:COI and WP:PAID. For example, you are required to provide a link on your userpage to any sites on which you advertise editing services. In addition, you must provide adequate paid disclosures for all content created/edited for pay—even that in sandboxes, userpages, and off-wiki—as noted in Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure#How to disclose. Thanks. SamHolt6 (talk) 17:02, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
No worries SamHolt6, I've added the disclaimers, but to clarify, I haven't advertised services, only taken up public offers on Airtasker. Hence the lack of a direct link. — IVORK Discuss 23:18, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Renamed user cdb78c3737e6b7f6ba7e28cedcc6608711202eee,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
  • Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
  • Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
Not English
  • A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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"George F. Beck (geologist)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect George F. Beck (geologist). Since you had some involvement with the George F. Beck (geologist) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Utopes (talk) 00:43, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

October 2019

Stop icon This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at User:AnUnnamedUser, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. From AnUnnamedUser (open talk page) 01:25, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Stop icon This is your only warning; if you introduce jokes into articles again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. From AnUnnamedUser (open talk page) 01:33, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello IVORK, From AnUnnamedUser (open talk page) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
Thanks for telling me! I did not know at all what "help me" means. The4lines (talk) 02:40, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Assistance with AWB

Any chance you can help at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Bulk/automated move pages? comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 19:28, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Renamed user cdb78c3737e6b7f6ba7e28cedcc6608711202eee,

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.
  • It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes
  • Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
  • Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

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Drafts

You very correctly marked User:Trinath123/sandbox/Freelancertohire-Top Freelance Website to find online jobs in 2019 as advertising. But this is such blatant advertising that it really is better removed immediately. The best thing would have been to mark it for speedy deletion G11. I've deletede it accordingly--tho you won't now be able to see it, the title indicates sufficient the total inappropriateness for an encyclopedia . DGG ( talk ) 10:10, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

checkY Obv can't explain my thought process with it being one of many handled yesterday making it hard to remember the content, but I'll be more thorough. Cheers — IVORK Talk 21:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Konsus move

Hello IVORK. Please see this edit where I opened up a full move discussion and moved your comment over. Adjust if needed. I guess the upshot is that we should't do the move. Or perhaps the Superside article should be nominated for deletion if no references can be found that name it as Superside and describe a company mission that matches what the website now says. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 13:22, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Never mind, I added refs 4 and 5 to the article which confirmed that the company had rebranded and changed its name. So I undid the full move discussion. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 13:46, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

re: thanks for note on nidmwiki/sandbox

thanks or the note. I am new on wiki, and I didn't realize that by 'submit' in my sandbox, it is an official request for review. I was just writing up something to show another newbie friend how to edit and input citations. Anyway, it is ok to decline as I didn't intent to publish it anyway. Nidmwiki (talk) 20:13, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Cyprus Airways

Any reason why this was only up for redirect discussion for two hours when a lot of users in Europe are in bed. We cant assume after only comment that others would support the arguments. MilborneOne (talk) 15:24, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Morning MilborneOne, I had acted off the request from the uncontroversial RM/TR section. The policy of WP:AVINAME as linked and page already using the new name as it's cover image as well as the majority of references using it, it seemed a clear pass by WP:COMMONNAME. WP:RM/TR is for exactly that, uncontroversial moves. Which I had deemed it to be, prior to seeing the RM. If you wish to move it back and start the longer process, you're more than welcome to. — IVORK Talk 21:37, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
One could make a case that the original Cyprus Airways that existed for sixty years may have had a better claim to the article name than a new-starter that has been operating for two years with just two aircraft so not that straight forward or uncontroversial, it should have at least given European users a chance to at least see it rather than shut down the discussion after a few hours in what is the middle of the night here. MilborneOne (talk) 14:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
Ok, no worries MilborneOne. As aforementioned, you're more than welcome to revert and push it to a full WP:RM again should you desire. — IVORK Talk 23:13, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi IVORK. Thanks for your reviewing my sandbox draft. I'm completely baffled about the copyright issue. I went to the article at The Progressive that you linked me to and see nothing in there that appears in my draft. Would you mind letting me know which Sentence, passage, or section appears lifted from the Progressive article? That'd be super helpful. The only copyright issue from my end concerned something that is not on the page: awaiting permission to use a copy of the book cover. I wrote both to Beacon Press and the artist who created that cover image. Also, should I post this querie on a talk page elsewhere? With thanks. PaulThePony (talk) 15:17, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi PaulThePony, I only conducted an inital check, saw it had won awards and had no immediate issues (I didn't conduct a copyvios report) so moved it from your sandbox to the draftspace. I mainly just clear out Category:Pending AfC submissions in userspace denying/moving articles rather than accepting. I see you've talked with TrainOfKnowledge since posting this so will assume he has been able to catch you up with what section was actually the copyviolation. Any further Qs, feel free to post back here or {{ping|IVORK}} in the relevant section — IVORK Talk 21:47, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks so much IVORK for clarifying your role and for transporting it over to the draftspace. That is much appreciated. You have the coolest graphic with your name! --PaulThePony (talk) 22:21, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

@PaulThePony: Thanks, but as I'm sure you've seen the copyvios template has been redacted as the only "copyright" flag was from a direct quote. The article definitely appears to be up to scratch, once the image is added / determined it can't be added, I'd be more than happy to publish it. — IVORK Talk 23:33, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

You've delivered to me very good news. I'm so happy to read this from you, IVORK. I've just removed the info box awaiting the image. Therefore, what I'd like to request is for you to publish the page at this time. When the image issue is worked out, I'll put back the whole of that box. Let me know if that poses any problems. Again, many thanks. --PaulThePony (talk) 00:34, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

I guess additional to this I somewhat agree with MPS1992's take on it being a bit heavy on promotional content with his latest comment on your talk page. But should that be resolved, happy to proceed. — IVORK Talk 23:17, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

I worked on that very thing for several hours within the last 24, IVORK, and think I have that resolved, with thanks to MPS1992 for steering me to examine and attend to that. I welcome you taking a peek. It reads much less like the praise-loaded back page of some paperbacks. The passages are more substance/content-centered than about praise--and will do more right away. It would be great to have this up on Thanksgiving as that's a day people might want that information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulThePony (talk • contribs) 23:56, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Balloon Boy Hoax

Pleas watch this video, it IS the evidence that this case is NOT a hoax. Please just watch it, or do you not like the truth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axgyj7g5XZY — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:DB:E3C0:4E00:4958:80C7:1A6A:7712 (talk) 23:00, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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Request on 00:29:21, 10 December 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Ahjazzer


<!— Start of message —> I thought I was getting up to speed on how to navigate Wikipedia. I was certainly do well about a week ago. I have been encouraged to pursue my subject due to his notability. I didn't complete my entry because I want to get feedback about whether or not I was doing it right, especially my bibliography. I had completely my biographical text. But apparently it all was just rejected wholesale without attempting to address what I was doing right or wrong. Is there anyway that what I have been working on all day can be retrieved? I don't want to do this all over again, including completing the bibliography this time, only to have it rejected and then to be lost. I need help! User:Ahjazzer (K. Kramer)


Ahjazzer (talk) 00:29, 10 December 2019 (UTC

G'day Ahjazzer, I merely declined your sandbox submission as it had no content. If you wish to have questions answered about Draft:John Rennie Short, I suggest you do it there so relevant reviewers can assist you. — IVORK Talk 03:48, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Request on 16:27:24, 11 December 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Ahjazzer


<!— Start of message —> Good morning, IVORK. I uploaded an incomplete draft because I thought that it would be accepted as such and given advice towards an appropriate, submittable Draft. I now realize that was an error. Part of the reason I did so was to get some guidance about the format so far, so that I would not have to wholesale revise, especially in terms of the bibliography, upon submission of the completed text. The introductory text had been edited according to all the constructive advice that I had received regarding my initial submission in late November. Unfortunately, it appears that the document has disappeared, quite unfortunate since I don't have the revised text, which is my mistake. Fortunately, I do have all the bibliographical references, revised according to Wiki Editors' recommendations, saved in a separate folder, and even though the introductory prose portion was not saved, it will not be hard to recreate it based upon the recommendations on the initial Wiki Editors. Can you guide re the possible retrieval of this document? Ahjazzer (talk) 16:27, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


Ahjazzer (talk) 16:27, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello again Ahjazzer, your sandbox has never been deleted nor had substantial content. If you're not talking about that or Draft:John Rennie Short can you point me to the article you are? — IVORK Talk 22:59, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

RE Mall Wiki Page

Hello! This is regarding the Three Central Mall. I understand that there are thousands of malls but some malls of equal or less notability have Wiki Pages. Is there a way to get this on Wiki? Can I consolidate similar malls into 1 wiki to improve notability as a collective? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Populland16 (talk • contribs) 07:37, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Cheers

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry

This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true.

No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well I. MarnetteD|Talk 11:32, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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