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The Katherine Hughes (activist) draft

I've meant to improve the draft and I've had some ideas, but I have struggled to actually do anything with them. I started reading a book about Katherine Hughes (it was called 'Sweet Sixteen,' can't remember the author atm but can find this information later when my bedroom is more organized) but most of the information contained in that book (until the point I read) was about the other 15 female journalists who covered the 1914 St. Louis World Fair. It's a very interesting book actually, but I haven't read much about Katherine Hughes yet (other than that she was one of the total 16 journalists and that her birth date recorded in the book is different from other sources). I guess what I'm trying to say, is that I'm still not sure how to improve the draft at this point. I know that you also mentioned that you had some ideas earlier about the draft and since I haven't been able to think of anything to improve the article in two months, I would appreciate any improvements, if you're interested in editing the draft. One other thing to note: the book does mention that Hughes did not support women's suffrage. I'll look at my notebook for a page number, but this claim was mentioned in other sources. I thought it was strange at first from a modern perspective, but Anti-suffragism existed. Clovermoss (talk) 07:12, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi Clovermoss, thanks for reaching out. Currently I'm doing quite a bit both on Wikipedia and in real life, but I'll try to do what I can for the page as time permits. I did find the book you meniton and both the author and the publisher seem reliable, so if you would like to use it it should be fine; if the birth dates conflict, you could mention in the article that the exact DOB varies between sources. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 My talk page 14:16, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi again. I'm glad that you're considering helping. I understand that you're busy with other things. I don't mind waiting, I'm grateful for any help you can give. I don't know why I'm finding it so hard to expand my own draft. I've been expanding other articles and adding references, so it feels weird to have such a hard time thinking about how to apply that to my own draft. Anyways, I did some research for research while trying to expand the article before. I have a list of potential resources that could be very helpful of online sources in my sandbox. If you think they could be helpful, I have no problem with you looking around/using them to improve the article. Clovermoss (talk) 16:16, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
@Clovermoss: It can be hard to expand articles sometimes. I'm less busy IRL currently so I'll try to do what I can. :-)--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 18:17, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Good news! I've done some expansion to the draft. However, a lot of the information still needs to be converted into running prose, which is on my to-do list. Other than converting to running prose, do you have any other suggestions? Clovermoss (talk) 05:16, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
@Clovermoss: Awesome! Now that you've added sources following all statements in the article, it will be much easier for me to try to copy-edit it, convert to running prose, and expand it. I'll take a look now!--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 00:40, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Thank you so much for taking a look at it! I do have one question though - at what point should the draft be submitted for review? I'm thinking that once the rest of the article has been converted to running prose? Again, thank you for the all the time you've spent helping me and giving advice... I'm actually quite proud that the draft has progressed into what it has and it wouldn't have been that way without your help. Clovermoss (talk) 02:05, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
@Clovermoss: Well, once a draft has shown that it is notable, follows core policies for the most part (most importantly copyvio and sourcing), is mostly formatted correctly, it will usually be accepted. Unfortunately, I've found myself quite busy IRL recently but I'm going to try to see what I can do over the weekend.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 02:48, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Would [1] this be of any help? It's the Library of Congress information for her book about Father Lacaombe. It mentions her as the author and other general information. Clovermoss (talk) 14:59, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
There's also [2] about her involvement in the Catholic Women's League. It's from The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton. Clovermoss (talk) 15:03, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
[3] This is a wordpress website, but it has an author (that if believed, has a PhD in history), is quite detailed and cites sources at the bottom. I'm thinking that those cited sources (they're books), if accesible, could be quite helpful. If they mention Katherine Hughes, they'd be useful. Clovermoss (talk) 18:01, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks! I'll have a look.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 22:10, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

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Katherine Hughes (activist)

The article has been accepted at AFC, but I'm guessing that you already know that with the links to other articles :) Once again, thank you for all the help you've put into helping the article get there. I'm kind of excited that the article passed AFC. I know that it's all about improving Wikipedia, but I like the sense of acomplishment when I think about my efforts actually being a part of that. Clovermoss (talk) 17:08, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Yep, I noticed, Clovermoss. I'm happy I was able to help; I'll try to further expand and improve as time permits, we might could even nominate it for WP:DYK. Making creations/edits is about improving Wikipedia, but there's no problem with having a sense of accomplishment for having such an important article you wrote yourself moved to mainspace. Congrats!--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 18:44, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
I'm worried that there's one sentance in the article that could be confusing. Edmonton is the capital city of the province Alberta. Each province/territory in Canada has its own capital. The only exception to this is Ontario: Toronto is the capital of Ontario, but Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. I could look at the sources again, but I'm thinking that it's meant in the "she worked in Edmonton as the first provincial archivist for Alberta" kind-of-way. Side note: Should I put any further discussions of the article on the talk page now that it's a live article? Since you have been the other main contributor to the article I wanted to mention it here. Clovermoss (talk) 19:07, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
@Clovermoss: Wonder if something like "Hughes became the first provincial archivist for Alberta in 1908, while residing in Edmonton" would work? I don't think it matters a whole lot where you ask questions about issues like this, but for more important discussions it would probably be best to use the talk page. I am watchlisting Hughes' page and the talk page, so I'll see whenever you post something there. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 My talk page 19:15, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
Okay! I didn't want to assume it was on your watchlist (in case it wasn't/not everyone uses watchlists anyways). It's on my watchlist too, so I'll see anything you bring up there, too. I think the suggestion you just made about that particular sentance would work. Clovermoss (talk) 19:20, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
As for DYK, I read the link and the eligibility criteria. The article as-is seems to meet the criteria, since it's a new article to mainspace (1.c), I'm not sure if the article currently meets the characters of prose requirement, I'm not sure how to run the scripts mentioned. There could be several hooks; but if there was one in particular, I was thinking a hook about becoming the first provincial archivist of Alberta would meet the requirements. If you're planning on expanding the article further, I'm guessing that the nomination should probably wait? Clovermoss (talk) 19:31, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
@Clovermoss: I checked, and the article is 2,277 characters in prose size so it exceeds the length requirement. I don't think your hook suggestion is bad at all and it probably could work, but I think it would be best to have something that is very intriguing for a broad audience. I probably will expand the article further, and when I do so, I may find something that would work even better for DYK.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 21:38, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Pacific baza

On 30 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pacific baza, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Pacific baza has been rumoured to imitate the calls of tree-frogs when hunting, persuading them to return the call? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pacific baza. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Pacific baza), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Thanks for helping make The Black Dahlia (graphic novel) a English Wikipedia article  :)

I noticed that you sent a "Thank You" notification to me when I thanked User:Phospheros on his talk page I don't know how to send "Thank You" Notifications, so I'll just say THANK YOU here! I know it's late praise, and late expression of gratitude, but it was important to me, that article. From The Black Dahlia (graphic novel)'s History page, it seems yourself, and User:Phospheros and User:Worldbruce helped out a lot in making it an article. Like I mentioned, this article was important to me (Also, I've created eight other English Wikipedia articles, not counting the three English files; See [Contributions]), and I've never had this kind of trouble creating an article on Wikipedia before. I have always tried to create articles that are noteworthy on Wikipedia. It was moved to draftspace before I even had time to work on it. Is this a new thing? Is this something you might know about or have experienced yourself firsthand?  ?

Anyway, once again, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SkyGazer 512, for your help. :) I'm going by the article's history, so let me know if there is anyone else that helped out. God bless you and Best prayers to you.PeaceShield5 (talk) 22:20, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi PeaceShield5, thank you for the kind message. Quite honestly, I didn't do a whole lot; just cleaned up a little bit (and after it was moved to mainspace), but I'm happy I was able to help. Thanks notifications can only be sent for specific edits (and you can't thank people for thanks); to send one, you must navigate to the history of a page and click the "thank" option next to the edit in question. Let me know if you need further clarification on how to do this.
I understand your frustration of the article being moved to draftspace before you had a chance to work on it. This is something that happens often and not at all something to be worried about. When you first created the article, there weren't any links to sources to verify the information, and it remained that way for several hours. Having an article moved to draftspace does not mean it's going to be deleted; it just means that the mover is giving the author a chance to work on it some more before it becomes a mainspace article again. Now, are we expected for an article to be perfect in its initial creation? Absolutely not. But you should have a list of sources for all the information in any mainspace article probably within an hour of its creation; they don't necessarily have to be inline, even, as long as they aren't direct quotations or possibly controversial material. If you can't do that, that is completely understandable; people become busy or have other issues in real life. A possible option would be to start a draft of the article as a user subpage and then move it to mainspace yourself once you think it's ready. As you probably know, sourcing is very important to establish both notability and verifiability and probably the most important thing to have in an article; if an article needs a bit of cleanup or formatting fixes, reviewers can easily fix it themselves and the article is most likely not worth moving to draftspace.
I hope this helps and please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 My talk page 02:39, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

'Did you know' nomination for Milton Keynes

If it amuses you, perhaps you might do the review of template:Did you know nominations/Milton Keynes?

No need to reply. If you don't have time, you don't have time. Thank you for even considering it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:57, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi John Maynard Friedman, thanks for reaching out. I'm happy that the GA passed and that you nominated it for DYK. I don't think I could commit myself to a full review, particularly making sure that the cited source is reliable and explicitly mentions the hook content, however I've looked over the article and hook a bit and compared them to the DYK criteria. It's obviously new enough, within policy, etc. One minor issue I noticed: the hook is currently a bit long, it's at exactly 200 characters when the DYK rules states that hooks must be fewer than 200 characters. I think that "that among the smaller villages and hamlets" is unneeded detail – I'd suggest using an alt, something like "that Broughton, Loughton and Woughton on the Green, three villages in Milton Keynes, each use a different pronunciation of the ough letter sequence in English" (which is about 160 characters); adding links and bolding when necessary, of course. I hope this suggestion is helpful and sorry for not being able to do a full review.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 02:55, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Thank you, I completely missed the 200 character limit. I like your suggested reword and will apply. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:23, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

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Approved DYK nomination for Katherine Hughes (activist)

Hi, it's me again. I noticed that my nomination was approved in DYK, but I have no idea what the next steps are (or if I'm involved in them). I noticed that there's a queue and prep area, but I don't know how they work or how it affects the main page. Clovermoss (talk) 19:22, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

Hey Clovermoss, congrats on getting it approved! For now, there's nothing you have to do. At some point (usually at most a few weeks from approval), a user who is experienced with DYK will look at the nomination and if there are problems ask if they can be addressed or otherwise promote the hook to a preparation area, which is basically where hook sets are prepared. After that, an admin will move them to a queue (if they don't notice any problems), which usually takes a few days, and a bot will move the queue to the main page at the appropriate time. Basically someone could ask for you to address issues with the hook anytime during this process, but you'll most likely be notified about it, especially if you have the DYK page on your watchlist. Hope this helps!--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 21:27, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
Currently it's in prep area #2. I guess that means that it's already been promoted? Clovermoss (talk) 21:46, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
Yep, now all that needs to be done is an admin move it to one of the queues and then a bot add it to the main page at the appropriate time.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 23:08, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Katherine Hughes (activist)

On 24 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Katherine Hughes (activist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Canadian journalist Katherine Hughes became Alberta's first provincial archivist, but later became a political activist, fighting for Irish self-determination? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Katherine Hughes (activist). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Katherine Hughes (activist)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Here's a special barnstar

The Special Barnstar
I was thinking about how much of an inspiration you are to me, especially in regards to content creation. I can't thank you enough for all the help with editing when I was brand new and beyond. You answered a lot of questions, were very encouraging, and informed me about Adopt-A-User. I already thanked you for the help with PC Optimum and Katherine Hughes (activist), but I haven't given you a barnstar yet. So, here's a special barnstar! Clovermoss (talk) 19:05, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
@Clovermoss: Thank you very much for the kind words. I'm very happy I've been able to help you; I really enjoy watching you grow as an editor!--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 00:20, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

September 2019 at Women in Red

September 2019, Volume 5, Issue 9, Numbers 107, 108, 132, 133, 134, 135


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

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Technical news

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
  • The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello SkyGazer 512,

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

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  • As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

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  • The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.
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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello SkyGazer 512,

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 803 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.
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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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December events with WIR

December 2019, Volume 5, Issue 12, Numbers 107, 108, 144, 145, 146, 147


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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

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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January 2020 at Women in Red

January 2020, Volume 6, Issue 1, Numbers 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153


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Happy New Year SkyGazer 512!

Happy New Year!
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Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 05:17, 28 December 2019 (UTC)



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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [4]

Arbitration

  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello SkyGazer 512,

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
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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March 2020 at Women in Red

March 2020, Volume 6, Issue 3, Numbers 150, 151, 156, 157, 158, 159


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Order of the Crown (Italy)

A tag has been placed on Category:Order of the Crown (Italy) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:47, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

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  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

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April 2020 at Women in Red

April 2020, Volume 6, Issue 4, Numbers 150, 151, 159, 160, 161, 162


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@SkyGazer 512: Hello! I am seeking help from researchers and writers from the Wikipedia community. The IWG plc article is incomplete and lacking a lot of information for a company with sites in 120 countries. Moreover, it has a low quality grade (C-Class) and has not as yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. Could you help support improve quality and completeness? Thanks for reading and feel free to ping me back with any questions. Kate

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  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
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Happy Easter

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