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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello Vexations/Archives, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules
  • New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
  • Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
  • Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
Editathons
  • Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.
The Signpost
  • The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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"failed verifications" on Tina Frugoli

Hi, I noticed you places a few "Failed verification" tags on an article I wrote on the artist "Tina Frugoli." I am taking it from your tags that you have actually read these sources (most of which are not available on line) to verify that the subject is not mentioned in them. The instruction page for that template says: Use this tag only if: 

  1.) an inline citation to a source is given,
  2.) you have checked the source, (my emphasis)
  3.) the source does not support what is contained in the article, and
  4.) despite the source not supporting the article, the source still contains useful information on the topic."

Can I ask how you checked these? Thanks! A loose noose (talk) 02:05, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Ooo, I also see you placed a "better source needed" tag on the final reference. The reference is to the L.A. Times-- do you think a better source is even possible? That tag is intended to be used for sources which are self-published or otherwise unreliable, but I am not sure this one can be called "unreliable" here. Thoughts? A loose noose (talk) 02:10, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

A loose noose Yes, I actually check the sources, and I have not found any mention of Frugoli. It's part of the new page patrol review process. In fact, I have not found much mention of Frugoli anywhere. Though my Gale subscription ,I found one mention in the Ventura County Star, about a bike path, where a Tina Frugoli provides a quote. The LA times citation is a simple announcement of an event, even if it is the LA times, it is not written by a staff writer and not subject to editorial control. If you have other text than what I quoted, then please provide it. As for the other sources, if you have page numbers, please provide them. Vexations (talk) 02:27, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:List of box office records set by Deadpool

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm PRehse. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

PRehse (talk) 23:57, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Hemmingwell was redirected

Hemmingwell was redirected, what do I do? It was chosen to be directed by afd decision but I have improved it and it just needs sources.

Eric Bjornlund

Hi Vexations! I believe I am responding to your message regarding edits to the Eric Bjornlund page. I do not have a financial stake in creating the page. I do believe that democracy activists working in the US and overseas need to be more prominently featured on wikipedia, however, along with celebrities, sports leaders, and business men and women. For that reason, I am creating a series of Wikipedia pages highlighting those engaging in this work. Thanks for your efforts to keep Wikipedia working! Lizapren (talk) 12:31, 4 August 2018 (UTC)LizaprenLizapren (talk) 12:31, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! I will work on the Bjornlund page based on your requested revisions so we can remove the flags. Really appreciate your help! Lizapren (talk) 12:38, 4 August 2018 (UTC)lIzaprenLizapren (talk) 12:38, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello Lizapren Wikipedia should have articles about people, regardless of what they are, who have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. As editors, we merely summarize what those sources say. 12:52, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force

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Innovit page deletion

Hi Vexations, as noted on the "contest this deletion" page for Innovit, this page should not be speedily deleted because it is intended to be a purely informational, non-promotional entry backed by reliable sources. If the article does appear to be promotional, it is simply written according to the sources. The references come from legitimate sources, and, given the chance to update or recreate the page, the content can be toned down and address the "not in citation given" tags placed on the page before it was deleted. For instance, the third source from Becker’s Hospital Review directly supports Innovit's work in the healthcare and supply chain industries, but more language from the source could be inserted to eliminate any missed connection between the source and the Wikipedia entry -- and thereby address the "not in citation given" tag.

If the deletion can be lifted from this page for updates to be made, that would be much appreciated. If not, that would be fine too for the reviewing administrator to even move the article to a userspace where I can improve the article. I'd like to create the best page possible while meeting administrator guidelines to help improve Wikipedia, not spam an article. Jahub (talk) 21:52, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Jahub We are in disagreement over what constitutes a independent, reliable source then. The sources cited are by employees of the subject. That's a problem. Vexations (talk) 22:04, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi Vexations, I was granted to update the page in the Sandbox. I've stripped all the promotional language and links from the page. Let me know what you think, and if this now meets Wikipedia guidelines. Jahub (talk) 22:47, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film

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Thank you again

@Vexations: thank you again for your very prompt reviews, this time of Fritz Neugass and Gita Lenz. Jamesmcardle(talk) 11:04, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:List of housing cooperatives in Canada

Thank you for reviewing Ilene Erskine

Hi Vexations, thank you for your comment. I've now clarified references and added examples of work. Ilene Erskine is a Scottish printmaker known for specialising in three-plate intaglio etching, an unusual printmaking technique. Like many women artists, Erskine works at a "domestic" scale, showing small scale works mainly in group exhibitions, in multiple venues. This can referencing difficult, though the list to date gives an idea of popularity and impact. I would like to make a case for retention, as a professional artist who developed considerable skill during her career - Mary (talk)

—Preceding undated comment added 20:27, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello MaryHutchison, do you see how it's problematic that a sentence fragment in the Sunday Herald: "the soft delicacy of Ilene Erskine's flower etchings", is used to support the statement "Her subjects are mainly domestic: interiors, still lives, bric-a-brac and flowers, interpreted with a freedom and vividness that gives her work wide appeal." That's not what the source says. If she has not received significant coverage, we can't just "fill in the blanks" ourselves as it were. We can only summarize what has been written in independent, reliable sources. --Vexations (talk) 20:44, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry Vexations, I was relating this to the subject flowers, but as you say not close enough, and realise also this is more a comment than a review. I'll check the placing of all the references more carefully. I do understand the wider issues too MaryHutchison (talk) 21:41, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Sarah Jeong

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NPR vs system improvements

Hi. I'd be curious to know how many NPPers would support not participating in the 2018 Community Wishlist Survey. and MER-C's We do know how the wishlist process works, and disagree with it on the simple premise that popular, urgent and necessary aren't the same thing, and the only thing that counts is being popular.. (I think also Barkeep49, would be interested in this too, because I'll not be posting anything again on WT:NPR as it does not have a structured coordination.).

One thing is for sure: The requirements for NPR are absolutely not an item for a wish list for comfort and convenience gadgets. NPR is a major function and software package and it must be kept up to date to respond to reviewers' needs, otherwise they just won't use it. And that's precisely what's happening. The backlog is nearly back up to the same level it was previous to the recent drive.

One of the very reasons we pushed hard for ACTRIAL is because the folks at the WMF refuse to upgrade the tools they made to the standards we require now. There is one tool: Page Curation/New Pages feed. One tool - one project, supposed to be being used by the reviewers coping with an influx of anything up to 1,000 new pages per day and not only is Page Curation/New Pages feed still incomplete after 6 years, it's now full of bugs. There is only one hoop, and that's the person responsible for software development. Anyone in charge of WMF policy would know how important these things are. Being told that the WMF doesn't have money or resources is the kind of nonsense we were fed by a junior contractor until his bosses told us none it was true. This isn't something for an Xmas stocking filler - Page Curation is big stuff, it's our only firewall against unwanted content. Respect is required for the 1000s of volunteers who provide the basis for the WMF's salaries - imagine a world where all the reviewers suddenly downed tools... – Kudpung กุดผึ้ง 13 April 2018

Well, there are a couple of ways this issue could be addressed. The most radical would be for all reviewers to go on strike and let the backlog build up to tens of thousands of pages again. Not difficult, because there are only about 40 or 50 of the so called 650 reviewers who are active in any way (many of them have never even used the tools they were granted). Not a good solution though, because in industrial action both sides always either lose, or the final compromise leaves no one really satisfied. This worked, exceptionally, for ACTRIAL because we had developed local scripts which we could deploy and I put the WMF under a deadline to either help, or we would implement our own filters.

Three months ago on AfC Process Improvement May 2018 I said "...I'm concerned with ... keeping backlogs at NPP and AfC down to a minimum, and above all, maintaining the dwindling interest of our Reviewers to keep reviewing. NPP is a thankless task. "

One could mention DannyH (WMF)'s Xmas wishlist in NPR newsletters, or even in The Signpost, but I have already mentioned to the de facto NPR coordinator(s) of the disadvantages of a) too frequent newsletters b) newsletters that are too long c) newsletters that do not convey a compelling prose, and d) there is also the fact that a growing number of users on the newsletter list are removing their names (this does not include the actions of spammers, socks, and vandals). There are probably fewer than 30 or 40 who are interested in the WMF's Wiki's Got Talent show where the winners are selected purely for their popularity rather practical need. This is not enough to get through the WMF's Juke Box Jury into the Top Ten. Community Tech or Growth Team - whatever it is now called - is is still the same people and exclusively responsible for analysing and addressing the top 10 wishes, which like last's year multi-layer blocking tool was heavily supported by users with long block logs.. Currently among the 350 staff there is no 'go-to' person for serious requests.

Another strategy would be an open letter to the WMF signed by hundreds of users, but again, getting them to sign would be like herding cats. The same would be for an RfC demanding action from the WMF. Although the Wikipedias pay the WMF's (sometimes extremely high) salaries through the donations the volunteers' content generates, there is no true leadership or central management there, our interlocutors are software developers who fail to recognise end users' needs but they have the final say in what they choose to develop, and if they don't personally like it (as is the case here) they won't do it.

Out of courtesy, I have also pinged MMiller (WMF), Roan Kattouw (WMF), Trizek (WMF) (Salut! Benoît), and Halfak (WMF) who I believe from his job description is somewhat vested with powers of decision, at least deciding what gets accepted or rejected at Phab - with the constant reshuffling of staff and renaming of departments it's extremely difficult to know who really does what. It's what the UK Prime Ministers do when they reshuffle their cabinet, it's still the same people in charge and it's a tactic for putting off what they promised the people in their election campaigns, and the temptation is to procrastinate until the people give up asking.Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:36, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

BLP artists, their galleries, and categories

@Vexations: Thanks for reviewing and editing my recent submissions. I'm trying to better understand two things for the future:

  1. Not being able to mention, link, or refer to an artist's galleries is very strange. I've read through the WP:NOPROMO, WP:EL, COI concerns, etc. I've also read back through your talk pages and seen some of the debates about this previously. You seem to have some knowledge of the contemporary art system, I'm sure you know the significance of these gallery relationships? It's certainly encyclopedic information, especially where the artist has connections to multiple galleries. It would be like not being able to mention on Tim Cook's page that he's the CEO of Apple. Can you help me understand how to better address this?
  2. the categories I'm choosing are regularly being replaced with different categories. How do I determine what the correct, up-to-date categories are? Or just don't worry about this and more senior editors will add the categories?

thanks! Edwardjones76 (talk) 01:04, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi Edwardjones76 The gallery relationships should be mentioned if they have received significant coverage. If they haven't, don't mention them. Artists frequently switch galleries, and there usually isn't anything about the relationship with their gallerist that has a significant impact on their work. If it does, then sure, bring it up.
The categories are ideally "as far down in the hierarchy as possible". So instead of "Artists", use Artists by period>Sculptors_by_period>Contemporary sculptors>21st-century sculptors>21st-century German sculptors if that happens to fit the subject. I like WP:HOTCAT because it makes it easy to find relevant subcategories. All the best, Vexations (talk) 02:00, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Vexations Great, thanks for clarifying. The logic is a little tortured but I understand the intent. I'll take a look at WP:HOTCAT. Best, Edwardjones76 (talk) 17:49, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Growth team updates #1

Welcome to the first newsletter for the new Growth team!  

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Please comment on Talk:List of IMAX DMR films

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12

Newsletter • August 2018

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

What do you make of this

... is this someone with an unusual ability to learn wiki syntax quickly and a genuine interest in internet entrepreneurs and real estate, or a single undisclosed paid editor or a sleeper account from a sockfarm? If so, which one? Any or all. The pages are blatant examples of paid editing. Drumeo is purely a vehicle for advertising, not only for Drumeo, but all the sources are ads too, so the Drumeo article could be a front for some of the sources it links to. Drumeo may not be related to the other articles and it would be difficult to tell due to the short time that the WMF allows CU searches to go back in time. The answer is certainly to discretely a CU off line to run all the checks so as not to cause the author to panic before they are caught. The UPE warning you put on one talk page is a good start. When you have other evidence take it to COIN. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:07, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the help with Daniela Simpson page

@Vexations:I'm still learning, so I appreciate the guidance. I'm a little late to reveal this, but I do have a close connection to the subject on this page. I will continue to mention this in future discussion on that Talk Page.

  1. Honors and Awards - Thanks - I now understand that press releases aren't strong independent sources. The following source is arguably more trustworthy. https://www.drugstorenews.com/center-store/nerds-receives-innovative-product-award-sweet-snacks-expo/
  2. Education - I recommend the removal of this section, as neither are independently verifiable.
  3. Personal - recommend the removal of this section as well. There's one mention out there, but it was during an interview that I myself conducted, so that's not independent either. http://www.coldhardflash.com/2005/02/brno-inferno.html

Aaron Simpson (talk) 05:01, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Atlantic306. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Anis Bennaceur, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Atlantic306 (talk) 11:03, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, there's some definitely some CoI there. Thanks, Vexations (talk) 11:13, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks from NPP

The New Page Patroller's Barnstar

Thanks for your recent work reviewing redirect, disambiguation pages, and new articles. Keep up the good work. Cheers, — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 05:00, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Incidentally, I see that you are a member of Wiki-project stub sorting, what is your favorite script for stub sorting? — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 05:00, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Insertcleverphrasehere Thanks, I was just messing around with some database queries to see what I could find. Stuff like unreviewed articles by NPPers and even an unreviewed 'good' article. The unreviewed disambiguation pages were pretty easy to review. Low-hanging fruit, as it were. I'm not very active at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting, but I used User:Ais523/stubtagtab2.js. Vexations (talk) 23:17, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you.

Thank you for your insight. You left a thoughtful comment about how to improve my writing style in the Teahouse recently. It was helpful and really resonated.Ogmany (talk) 14:56, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Hip hop music

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Please comment on Talk:Led Zeppelin discography

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Vexations/Archives, 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).

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Dark wave

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Please comment on Talk:Since I Left You

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thanks for moving articles to draft

I appreciate it. I realized after that I committed a big faux pas, so I appreciate you making the correction. I'll contribute more effort and release the articles into the wild. -Trilotat (talk) 04:58, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Gerhard Richter

I noticed you were working on Gerhard Richter, you might like d:Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator/Gerhard Richter to get some inspiration what to write about next. Multichill (talk) 14:06, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that link Multichill, I wasn't aware that project existed. I had this: User:Vexations/lists/Works by Gerhard Richter I'm not particularly invested in Richter, but it seemed absurd that we had so little on his work, so I just translated the German articles. Vexations (talk) 14:12, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, it sure is weird. Maybe we're not that good at living artists? On Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Creator you can find plenty of other painters. Multichill (talk) 14:51, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

typo in the title of Ethel Larcombe

Hi Vexations, I was looking over the Women Painters of the World page. There was a red link to Ethel Larcombe, but when I double-checked there is a page for Ethel Larcome (missing the b). I feel very confident that the title of the article should be changed to Larcombe as the opening words to the article refer to Larcombe. The spelling with a b appears in the book.

I do not have the capability to change the title. In the past you have helped me with this type of correction. Could you work your magic again? Best, WAU WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 15:56, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello WomenArtistUpdates You couldn't move the page because that the tiles was already used as a redirect to Ethel Thomson Larcombe, the tennis player. I moved Ethel Larcome to Ethel Larcombe (artist) instead and changed Ethel Larcombe into a disambiguation page. Then I created Ethel Larcombe (disambiguation) as a redirect to the disambiguation page. Now I just need to go and check for incoming links to all those pages and make sure they point to the right person. Always happy to help. Vexations (talk) 16:49, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you Vexations!WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 17:43, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Buddy Williams (country musician)

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Thank you.

Thanks for your suggestions on the Jacquelynn Baas[1] page. I have deleted several refs and added some new "third-party" refs. However, in some instances, because the ref is to a book publisher of a book she wrote, it seems this should be ok? Thanks again, still quite new at this but particularly interested in joining effort to add more women in the arts to Wikipedia.Ninazurier (talk) 19:36, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Growth team updates #2

Welcome to the second newsletter for the new Growth team!  

The Growth Team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Our plan for the next quarter is ready

After consulting with many communities on the best ways to increase retention, we will focus during the next 3 months on these projects:

  • Understanding first day: to see what new editors do right after creating their accounts. We will be careful with user privacy, and we hope to share initial results in December.
  • Personalized first day: this idea will also help us learn a lot about new editors by adding some optional questions to the new editor’s registration process. We hope to share initial results in December.
  • Focus on help desk: we plan to invite or redirect people to the local help desks where they can ask questions to help them make their first edits. We hope to have an initial experiment running in December.

You can read about the details of this plan on our team page.

How did we get to this plan?

We have set up our plan based on the 8 ideas we were considering. You can read about our analysis in our team updates, and detailed discussion on each idea.

We are looking for volunteers

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Please comment on Talk:Here (Alicia Keys album)

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Please comment on Talk:List of Humans episodes

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AfC notification: Draft:Andrea Scrima has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Andrea Scrima. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 08:40, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

Hello Vexations/Archives, 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

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 20:49, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:George Soros

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Charles of Bourbon Hunting Coots on Lake Licola has been accepted

Charles of Bourbon Hunting Coots on Lake Licola, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

Vexations (talk) 21:12, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

rm copyvio of The Hanged Man

The copyvio you removed here, I copied from here, so it's necessary to have a look there. Greetings and thanks for your edit. Tajotep (talk) 08:14, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Tajotep, Sorry I missed that. But in that case, attribution is still required. Please refer to WP:COPYWITHIN, thanks, Vexations (talk) 10:27, 2 November 2018 (UTC)


Review for English/French speaker

Hello Vexations. I am contacting you because you are a speaker of both English and French. I have created the page Draft:Pierre_Jovanovic nearly 2 months ago, and I am waiting for a review. Could you please consider having a look at it ? Please excuse me if my request is improper. I am learning the ropes. Best regards. Micha Jo (talk) 08:27, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Micha Jo, Sorry, spirituality and monetary policy are not my areas. AfC is busy, and the wait can be long. Please consider that we're an encyclopedia run by volunteers, and we have no deadline. Thanks for your patience, Vexations (talk) 10:45, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Vexations, Thanks for your answer. One question. I am now autoconfirmed. it is OK is I move the page myself to mainspace? Regards. Micha Jo (talk) 10:47, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Micha Jo, That depends. Do you have a conflict of Interest Do you work for the subject, his agent, publisher, have you been paid, or was writing the article part of your assigned duties? Are you a friend, a member of his family, etc.? In that case, it should go through AfC, and you should pay close attention to the COI editing paragraph in the page I linked to. Vexations (talk) 10:54, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Vexations, thanks for your comments. I have absolutely no relations with the subject, never received any money. I just read some of his books and watched his videos on Youtube. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Micha Jo (talk • contribs)
In that case, you don't have to go through AfC. You can move it to mainspace. Please do not copy/paste it into a new article, but move it to (Article) space. See WP:Moving a page. The article will enter the NewPagesFeed, and will be reviewed by a new page reviewer eventually. Until that review is complete, the page will be noindexed, which means that the html will include 
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>
and search engines will not index the page. All the best, Vexations (talk) 11:46, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Comments at the Community Wishlist

I would ask you to think about removing/striking your comments as not helpful to the cause at the Wishlist. While there is understandable frustration we're in a position to hopefully rally the community behind some improvements. There's no need for "neutrals" to be dissuaded from supporting our ask because of bitterness - even if those who have been around this issue understand why that bitterness has accumulated. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 21:20, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

I see. Barkeep49 In that case, I'll also resign the reviewer tools. Thanks for your feedback. Vexations (talk) 21:56, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
I would hate to see that, as I've always thought of you as a good reviewer (and in fact made this comment today after patrolling one of your articles). I am sorry if my comment caused hurt as it was my not my intent. I've appreciated your experience and hope you continue with the project. I think we're in a good position to rally the community towards improvements of the toolset and you've been a part of that. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 22:04, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Barkeep49 I am deeply hurt, yes. I have always had the best interests of the project at heart. But if I can't speak my mind, I don't see that I have a future with NPP. Vexations (talk) 22:12, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
I have always thought you have the best interests of the project at heart. And I thought your comment asking that they clarify their mixed messaging only showed that best interest. I would certainly say every reviewer can and should speak their mind about NPP, as many of us have on various user talk pages and certainly at our main project talk page. My thinking is that people who don't understand the background, or even use enwiki, will be voting at that page and so we want to put our best foot forward. In rereading your comment I can see that perhaps this was your meaning and I read the wrong tone in your request - and if so I'm sorry for that error on my part. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 22:19, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Barkeep49 I wrongly assumed that to participate in NPP, a thankless task if there ever was one, would mean other participants would have my back. I am an idiot for believing that. Shame on me. Vexations (talk) 01:03, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
Vexations, I have had my share of disagreements with you (over an artist, if I recall correctly), but, I would hate for you to move away from new page reviewing, we've got a shortage of reviewers and a backlog of articles as it is, losing a great reviewer wouldn't help new page reviewers with their cause, so, I would like for you to reconsider your decision of renouncing your new page reviewer right. Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 01:07, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
And now I see that you've decided to semi-retire from Wikipedia, I really hope that you'd reconsider decision and opt for continuing with Wikipedia in general and new page reviewing in particular. Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 01:09, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
Maybe this is for the best. Someone should go and tell DannyH (WMF) that I am resigning because everybody at NPP is terrified that he's not going to give them what they desperately need in retaliation for being a bit blunt. I can no longer tolerate the situation. Want to talk about editor retention? I'd be happy to. Yes Danny, I'm resigning NPP because of you. Vexations (talk) 01:19, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
Vexations, I am afraid that I don't have enough context to piece what you're saying into a coherent thread. But, if I am inferring the Community Wishlist thread linked by Barkeep49 and your comments here correctly, there's some kind of [shortstanding] conflict between new page reviewers and the Wikimedia Foundation? Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 02:46, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
SshibumXZ, Its a longstanding conflict. The WMF thinks that editor retention and whatnot are important, but doesn't seem to ascribe any value to essential processes like NPP. Vexations, I'd like to point out that the Page curation tools ARE configurable for different language wikis. This simply requires copying the various .js pages found on en.wiki and translating them, and configuring them for whatever templates are used on that wiki. Each Wiki has different deletion rules so the tags will all be different, but that is all configurable from the .js pages. I don't know if the PC tools are in use on any of the other wikis.
Most wikis aren't as difficult to manage as En.Wiki, as none of them have the volume of new pages. But it would be worth looking into other large wikis such as the german wikipedia to see what tools they use. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 08:38, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
Insertcleverphrasehere, has anyone managed to implement it? Vexations (talk) 12:35, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Semi-retired<ß

Dear Vexations, i'm very sorry to see this. I appreciated your thoughts on writing on art very much! Ik wens u alles goede! --Gyanda (talk) 14:50, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Growth team updates #3

Welcome to the third newsletter for the new Growth team!  

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Two Growth team projects to be deployed in next two weeks

We will be deploying the "Understanding first day" and "Personalized first day" projects on Czech and Korean Wikipedias in the coming weeks. See the new project pages below for full details on the projects, and our project updates page for their progress.

  • Understanding first day: learn about the actions new editors take right after creating their accounts. We will be careful with user privacy, and we hope to share initial results in December.
  • Personalized first day: learn about new editors' objectives by adding some optional questions to the new editor’s registration process, and personalizing their onboarding. We hope to share initial results in December.

Third Growth team project begins

  • Focus on help desk: direct newcomers to the local help desks where they can ask questions to help them make their first edits. We hope to have an initial experiment running in December.

Best practices for helping newcomers

We are going to direct newcomers to help desks. But what's the best way to reply to a newcomer there? We have gathered some best practices for successful interactions, based on community experiences and some external documentation. The page has also been reviewed by some experienced community members who suggested some changes. That page is now open for translations. Comments and suggestions are still welcome!

We are still looking for volunteers

Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new mid-size wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities. Discover how you can involve yourself or your community.

Also, please share this update with your community and interested people!

Learn more about us

You can visit our team page to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and our project page for detailed updates on the projects we'll work on.

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