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September 2021

Feedback request: Society, sports, and culture request for comment

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

Hello SMcCandlish,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.

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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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Feedback request: Biographies request for comment

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September thanks

Thank you for improving articles in September, - a good harvest! On Peace Day, Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:07, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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Books & Bytes – Issue 46

Issue 46, July – August 2021

Library design improvements deployed
New collections available in English and German
Wikimania presentation

Read the full newsletter

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Re the RFC you contributed to in Assange talk

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Hi - you recently contributed and voted in an RFC on the Julian Assange Talk page and showed some support for option F. Another editor has pointed to a difficulty with that wording which I have addressed with the following slightly altered version:

 “Assange received the emails when Rich was already dead, and conferred with Guccifer 2.0 (a persona thought to have been created by Russian hackers) in order to coordinate the release of the material."

I would be very grateful if you could let me/us know if the changed wording meets your approval so I can substitute it for the existing F option. Thanks Prunesqualor billets_doux 13:37, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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Do me a favour...

and check out the main page talk. Then tell me if I'm crazy. Primergrey (talk) 12:02, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Main Page? Not sure what I'm looking for. None of the threads seem weird. I didn't see you on there except one comment, to change "wasn't" to "was not" (which is a good correction per MOS:CONTRACTION). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:33, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

It was taken care of, I guess. It had to do with ITN using the "historical present" tense and causing offence to both logic and literacy. It seems, for now anyway, that I'm not crazy. If this qualifies as pestering then I wholeheartedly apologize. Otherwise, have a great week. Primergrey (talk) 02:24, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Not at all. I have infinite patience for style trivia. :-) — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 16:59, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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