Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Resources

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New page feed

Reviewers

Curation tool
Suggestions

Coordination

Backlog drives

NPP backlog

Articles: 7818 ↑282
Oldest article: 10 months old
Redirects: 7330
Oldest redirect: 6 months old
Article reviews: 2251
Redirect reviews: 4308

There is a large articles backlog
There is a large redirects backlog

This page is designed to be a collection of resources and links useful to New Page Patrollers (NPP).

Shortcut

WP:NPP/RES

NPP links

Reports

Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog chart/daily – raw data
Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Graphs
Wikipedia:Database reports/Top new article reviewers – grouped by day, week, month, etc.
Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reports
- unreviewed new articles by creator
- unreviewed new redirects by creator
- unreviewed articles with merge tags
- AfD created by NPPs in the past week
Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reports/Easy reviews
- Unreviewed articles marked for AFD
- Probable DB-R2 candidates
- Probable DB-R3 candidates
- Unreviewed disambiguation pages
- Unreviewed AFC-accepted articles
Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reports/Fast article reviewers
Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reports/Autopatrol – a short list of autopatrolled articles chosen at random (for autopatrolled monitoring)
Popular unreviewed articles – a short list of unreviewed articles with a lot of pageviews

Notability

Notability guideline
- General notability guideline (GNG)

Subject-specific guidelines

Also refered to as subject notability guidelines (SNG)

Academic (also known as: NPROF, PROF, SCHOLAR, ACADEMIC, TEACHER)
Astronomical objects (also known as: NASTRO)
Books (also known as: NBOOK, BK, NB)
Events (also known as: N(E), EVENT, NEWSEVENT, NNEWS, NEVENTS)
Films (also known as: NFILM, NOTFILM, NF, FILMNOT, MOVIE)
Geographic features (also known as NGEO, NGEOG, NGEOGRAPHY, NFEAT)
Music (also known as NMG, NMUSIC, NM)
Numbers (also known as WINI, NUMBER)
Organizations and companies (also known as ORG, CORP, NCORP, GROUP, COMPANY)
People (also known as BIO, NBIO, PERSON, PEOPLE, BLPNOTE)
Sports (also known as ATH, ATHLETE, NSPORT, NSPORTS)
Web (also known as WEB, NWEB, WEBPAGE, WEBSITE, WEBNOTE)

Unofficial "practical" guides

Deletion

Articles for deletion – community discussion
Speedy deletion – obvious cases for deletion
Proposed deletion – obvious cases for deletion that do not meet the Speedy deletion criteria
Today's deletion discussions
Deleting BLPs
Guide on participating at AfD

Permissions (PERM)

Right / Pseudoright	Current list	Requests
New Page Patroller	List (does not include sysops who also have the PERM)	requests
Autopatrolled	List	requests
Redirect autopatrolled	List (does not include those with regular Autopatrolled)	requests

Gadgets and user scripts

Shortcut

WP:NPPSCRIPTS

Gadgets can be installed via the 'preferences' link in the top right of the page, and User Scripts must be installed at your your common.js page (instructions).

Gadgets

Twinkle – Variety of useful tools. Configure Twinkle to log your CSDs and PRODs.
HotCat – For adding categories to pages.
MoreMenu
MarkBlocked – Strikes out blocked usernames. Helps you know when to check for CSD G5.

Core user scripts

User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks.js^(info) – adds links at the top right of each page to quickly view windowed history, talk, page logs, etc. Note the link to the NPP flowchart on unreviewed new pages, which opens in a sub-window and contains clickable links.
User:DannyS712/copyvio-check.js^(info) – 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.
User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) – tool for easily selecting revisions for copyright violation tagging.
User:Evad37/rater.js^(info) – tool for quickly adding Wikiproject templates to talk pages.
User:Schminnte/PageCuration.js^(info) – adds a link to Special:NewPagesFeed at the top of the page near 'sandbox'.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js^(info) – tool for easily moving pages to draft.
User:SD0001/StubSorter.js^(info) – tool for looking up and adding stub tags.
User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js – Adds links next to article titles to indicate when an article was previously deleted. Helps you know when to check for CSD G4.

Other useful scripts

User:Þjarkur/Highlight homographs in title.js^(info) – Catch sneaky people trying to recreate deleted articles using look-alike characters from foreign alphabets.
User:Bradv/SearchLinks.js – adds links to various search engines to quickly look for sourcing in the left side toolbox.
User:DannyS712/copyvio-check.js – Adds "Check for copyvio" link to the info pane of the Page Curation toolbar. Clicking it runs an Earwig copyvio check.
User:DannyS712/Logs.js^(info) – Add an easy link to a page's logs, to check for previous deletions, move-to-drafts, etc.
User:DannyS712/New pages feed.js^(info) – Add an easy link to the new pages feed, directly below the "recent changes" link in Vector.
User:Danski454/stubsearch.js^(info) – tool for looking up and adding stub tags.
User:Enterprisey/delsort.js^(info) – tool for sorting AfD discussions.
User:Insertcleverphrasehere/copyvios.js – adds a link to the 'more' menu that opens Earwigs copyright violation tool in a new tab.
User:Music1201/MyCSD.js – Adds a CSD log link to your topbar.
User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter.js^(info) – Highlights references green, yellow, or red depending on their rating in the new page patrol source guide, WikiProjects, and other places.
User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/DetectSNG.js – Scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords such as "National Football League" and, if found, displays them at the top of the article page, to help with determining SNG eligibility.
User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/DontForgetG12.js – Puts a big orange "Copyvio check" button at the top of unreviewed drafts and articles.
User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/NotSoFast.js – In Special:NewPagesFeed, highlights articles newer than 15 minutes red and newer than 1 hour yellow, to remind you not to patrol them yet.
User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/NPPLinks.js^(info) – Adds WP:BEFORE, copyvio check, duplicate article check, and other useful New Page Patrol links to the left menu.
User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/ReviewStatus.js^(info) – Displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/WatchlistAFD.js – Automatically adds to your watchlist any article you NPP "mark as reviewed" or AFC accept, so you can see if they get AFD'd.
User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages.js^(info) – Highlights unreferenced passages with a red background color.
User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/WRStitle.js^(info) – Adds a Wikipedia reference search (WRS) link to articles, to assist with Googling for reliable sources. WRS is a Google custom search engine that only searches reliable sources.
User:SD0001/W-Ping.js – Allows you to set a reminder to appear on your watchlist about a page
User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js^(info) or User:Bradv/Scripts/Powerbar.js^(info) (whichever you prefer) – Adds a simplified on-screen new pages feed on the left or right of the page (respectively).
User:Vanderwaalforces/checkTranslationAttribution.js - Displays a warning when unattributed translations are found without the proper template on the talk page.
User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/googleTitle.js – Adds Google links to articles, to assist with Googling sources.
User:Sohom Datta/PageTriageUserspaceLogger.js^(info) – A script that logs all deletion nominations made using the curation toolbar to the correct twinkle userspace logs.

Other useful tools

NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
NPP Unreviewed articles graph to check realtime unreviewed articles.
NPP unreviewed redirects graph to check realtime unreviewed redirects.
NPP new page reviewers graph to check realtime new page reviewers.

Curation templates

Communication

Template:Sentnote-NPF – Comment left to article creator while reviewing
Template:Taggednonote-NPF – Notice of improvement tags to article creator
Template:Unreviewednonote-NPF – Notice to NPP editor after unreviewing a reviewed article
Template:Unreviewednote-NPF – Notice to NPP editor after unreviewing a reviewed article with comment
Template:NPR invite – Invitation to become an NPR reviewer

Deletions

Discussion

Template:AfD-notice-NPF – Nominated as a Article for Deletion (AfD)
Template:RFDNote-NPF – Nominated as a Redirect for discussion (RfD)

PROD

Template:ProdwarningBLP-NPF – Nominated for Biography of Living Persons proposed deletion (BLPPROD)
Template:Proposed deletion notify-NPF – Nominated for Proposed deletion (PROD)

Speedy Deletions

Template:Db-notice-multiple-NPF – Multiple speedy deletion criteria

General

Template:Db-nonsense-notice-NPF – WP:G1 – Patent nonsense
Template:Db-test-notice-NPF – G2 – Test page
Template:Db-vandalism-notice-NPF – G3 – Vandalism or hoax
Template:Uw-repost-NPF – G4 Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion
Template:Db-author-notice-NPF – G7 – Author request
Template:Db-attack-notice-NPF – G10 – Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate, or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose
Template:db-negublp-notice – G10 – for articles about living persons that are unsourced, entirely negative in tone, and have no neutral version to revert to

Template:Spam-warn-NPF – G11 – Spam/Promotional
Template:Nothanks-sd-NPF – G12 – Copyright
Template:Db-disambig-notice-NPF – G14 – Unnecessary disambiguation Note: Labeled as G6 in the toolbar

Articles

Template:Nocontent-warn-NPF – A1 – No context
Template:Db-foreign-notice-NPF – A2 – Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project

Template:Nocontent-warn-NPF – A3 – No content
Template:Db-notability-notice-NPF – A7 – No indication of importance (people, animals, organizations, web content, events)
Template:Db-a9-notice-NPF – A9 – No indication of importance (musical recording)
Template:Db-a10-notice-NPF – A10 – Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic
Template:Db-invented-notice-NPF – A11 – Obviously invented

Redirects

Template:CSD R2-warn-NPF – R2 – Cross-namespace redirect
Template:Redirtypo-warn-NPF – R3 – Implausible Typo

Articles for Creation (AfC)

AfC feed
- AfC submissions (filterable format)
- AfC submissions (table format)
AfC intro
AfC discussion
AfC Helper script
List of those with the AfC psuedoperm (allows use of the helper script)
Current AfC psuedoperm requests
Future of NPP and AfC

Plagiarism