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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Anaxial,

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

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

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.

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Do I win a prize?

Could you check an edit you made 10 years ago? Search for word 'projecting'. Somehow I think you meant to type "projecting above the surface." Shenme (talk) 03:00, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Very probably. Anaxial (talk) 19:00, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate. January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here. March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now! Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone! Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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English variant?

Can you please explain this edit? I didn't respell "coloured"; I simply deleted the word as unnecessary. What does "sandy to light grey coloured fur" explain that "sandy to light grey fur" doesn't explain? Also, note that "grey" is the standard British spelling, and I didn't touch it. I think you made a small mistake here, but please clarify what the word "coloured" adds to the description of the animal. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:31, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello Anaxial,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources

• A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
• Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
• A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
• Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

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Discussion of mammal taxonomy

You may be interested in the discussion about mammal taxonomy taking place at WikiProject Mammals. I saw you were a major contributor to the silky anteater article. Enwebb (talk) 16:02, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

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Why do you interfere with my edits you f**king a**hole? Rahul ZL Pillai (talk) 16:21, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

That is explained on your Talk page. Further information can be found here: WP:BLPREMOVE. Anaxial (talk) 16:26, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Complaint

He is an atheist and has no morals,no humor,and a big liberal. 2001:5b0:4ed4:bf48:442f:ce78:251f:29cd

My family built this country, you know. (talk) Don't interfere with my legitimate sources! —Preceding undated comment added 08:55, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Edit question

Why did you revert my edits? Aren't there eutherian (placental) mammals in South America and Australia? I don't understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Firekong1 (talk • contribs) 21:41, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

There are (though not Antarctica), but the following sentence already stated that all living eutherians are placental mammals, so it didn't need adding that this is true regardless of the continent they are on, and some of the existing info was removed by the edit. It was clearly a good faith edit, but it removed information from the paragraph, rather than adding it - which I assume was not the intent. Anaxial (talk) 21:49, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

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Complaint

Hello,

You have, a few months ago been editing the Yangtze Finless Porpoise and I have been exceedingly clear of my legitimate sources - in this case WWF, and you have been calling it "disruptive."

Please could we discuss this matter further and you to revoke the orange warning.

Thank you, SaveTheSharks7 (talk) 18:25, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

I have no problem with you including the WWF status in the article, if that is what you wish to do. The issue is that that is not what you are writing - you are changing the official IUCN Red List status to something that your source does not support. (You also forgot to change the reference, stating that this page backed up your statement, when you intended to rely on a different source, but that's a lesser issue). The WWF does not set the IUCN status, and the source you are using does not claim that it does. You cannot use a WWF source to make a claim about what an entirely different organisation says, but only about what the WWF itself says - this would be included in the body of the article, in the section on "Conservation". Put the information there, with the supporting ref, and it's absolutely fine. Anaxial (talk) 18:46, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Another complaint

You're so annoying! I worked for 2 hours on my paragraph and you removed it! From what I can tell, there is no way to retrieve it. ): 73.235.138.84 (talk) 23:47, 9 September 2020 (UTC) _ERROR_USER_

It's perfectly possible to retrieve it (I have included it below). However, the rule that sources must be provided is, unfortunately, a key one on Wikipedia. Include the source, and you're fine to put the information back in (without the "fun fact" tag, and without including it twice in the same article). Anaxial (talk) 05:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Caracals love cotton candy ice cream. In 1970, an ice cream vendor noticed that a caracal had broken into his cart and had scooped out his cotton candy ice cream with its paws, and was licking the ice cream happily. It is reported that the caracal loves foods with high levels of sugar because of its very insensitive taste buds.

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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is that I'm in quarantine. I put that in the recent summary. Loser. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.188.181.13 (talk) 20:55, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

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Re: English types used on European bison

Thanks for getting back to me. My concern with the article was that it was unofficially made to use British English, despite there being no official header saying so. I know the animal is native to Europe, but it isn't native to the UK or even found there. If you could add an official header for British English (like on the United Kingdom article) I would understand. That just isn't the case however. Ddum5347 (talk) 18:05, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

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December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now. Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive. October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz. November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests. Other news Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above). Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Seasonal tidings and cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Anaxial,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	Patrol Page Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	Patrol Page Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	Patrol Page Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	Patrol Page Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	Patrol Page Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	Patrol Page Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	Patrol Page Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	Patrol Page Curation
10	Utopes (talk)	3,958	Patrol Page Curation

Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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Good job on clearing up all those Natureserve links! Jack (talk) 12:10, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

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Cyrillic- Question

Hello, sorry I didn’t explain my edit, I removed it because I noticed a little mistake, I believe the statement confused the Cyrillic alphabet with the Glagolitic alphabet, and the Cyrillic alphabet is not based off of the Greek one, the Greek alphabet was something to look at along with other alphabets to get an idea on how to set up the alphabet but the Cyrillic alphabet has almost nothing in common with Greek or the way the Greek alphabet is set up therefore I’m not sure what the Greek script has to do with any of this, even the Glagolitic alphabet has nothing in common with the Greek, they only have around 2 letters in common which are also in several of other alphabets such as the Proto-Bulgarian and Phrygian alphabet therefore I decided to remove that statement because it isn’t accurate and misleading, it confuses people, also thank you for writing back and letting me know! Is there any way I can get revert/get back my edit? :) Tanuuk (talk) 01:27, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

The issue there was that you removed three separate references all stating that it was, indeed, based on the Greek alphabet. So what I'd suggest is adding something to the effect of 'while many scholars believe that this was based on the Greek alphabet [sources as at present] it has also been argued that [your explanation above, with refs to support it].' That could be quite lengthy, so it probably belongs in the article text, with a quick summary in the lede (the first paragraph). That would, I think, be better than simply removing a well-sourced statement. Anaxial (talk) 05:46, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Yonenaga's Atlantic spiny rat

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Bornean ferret badger article

I just wanted to thank you for your contributions to and suggestions for this article. - Ghost1590 (talk) 14:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

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GOCE June 2021 newsletter

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Greetings, and apologies

Hello there. I edited the pages for bilbies, bandicoots, elephant shrews, and leptictida and stated that they resembled each other due to convergent evolution. I did not understand why you removed them, but I'm simply curious. In addition, it was not me who referenced leptictida in the elephant shrew's page, it was there long before I edited it, and it gave me the idea to put in the pages for bilbies and bandicoots as well. I simply added them in due to it being a good case for convergent evolution, as I have seen quite a few examples of it on wikipedia, such as in the article for waimanu comparing it to loons, and vice versa (both of which were not sourced). I would like you to let me know what I should do, as I am not editing it out of malice, only from what I see on the rest of wikipedia. Thank you very much. Firekong1 (talk) 13:46, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

I understand that the edits were in good faith. It just seems to me that the animals aren't all that similar, so I think we just need a source that says they are an example of convergent evolution, and in what respect they converge. Anaxial (talk) 15:40, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

I understand now. Thank you very much. I hope I can be allowed to make a collage comparing all 3 animals and showcasing their traits, and possibly put it on the page for convergent evolution, if such a thing is allowed. Firekong1 (talk) 20:40, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

I don't see why not. Anaxial (talk) 21:57, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

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Apologies

I remember that there was an edit on eutheria that stated that all mammals on all 7 continents (minus marsupials and monotremes) are eutherians, but it has been removed. Why was it removed? I ask out of curiosity, just to make sure. Firekong1 (talk) 18:01, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Are you referring to this edit: [1]? If so, although I didn't make that edit, it seems to me to be tightening up the phrasing by removing extraneous information. Placental mammals are eutherians, so that's all we need to say. "All placental mammals indigenous to the following continents [list] are eutherians" says the same thing but takes longer to say it. One could also argue that it ignores the placental mammals that aren't indigenous to continents because they live only in those areas so that it might even be seen as misleading (although true as stated). So the statement was, I presume, removed due to general copyediting. Anaxial (talk) 18:22, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

I see. Thank you. I was curious as to what had happened to it. I wasn't the one who added it in, but I was confused by the way it was phrased, so I figured that I'd add in more info. I'm not asking for it to be re-added, mind you, I was simply confused to why it was removed. And in any case, the phrase is somewhat true, but it should've stated that eutherians/placentals are widespread across all 7 continents. Firekong1 (talk) 19:19, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

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type species

Type species names can predate genus names, a type species name predating the genus name description means that the species was originally assigned to a different genus and was moved to a new genus forming the type of the new genus: from type species "For example, the type species for the land snail genus Monacha is Helix cartusiana, the name under which the species was first described, known as Monacha cartusiana when placed in the genus Monacha." Lavalizard101 (talk) 10:41, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Yes, but that's exactly the issue. The changes I have been making are to cases where the type species name was claimed to include a genus name that wasn't created when the species was named. In your example, for instance, it would have stated that the type species for Monacha was Monacha cartusiana and not Helix cartusiana, which is the correct name. The type species should be the original name in the description of the genus, not one it was given later as the edits I was reverting repeatedly claimed. Now, if I knew what the original genus name was (Helix in your example) I would have changed it to that, but in the vast majority of cases, there was no reference and no way to deduce what it might have been - although, in a few instances, one could guess. In some cases, the alleged type species wasn't even described until a few decades after the genus was named, which makes it even less likely that they're really the type species for that genus. Anaxial (talk) 10:50, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Sometimes older species have their original names lost/unknown, they are still the types however. Lavalizard101 (talk) 10:46, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Also some of these had their original names listed on the species article. So could have been fixed rather than removed. Lavalizard101 (talk) 11:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

The problem there is that the original name of the species isn't necessarily the original name of the type species - it might have been moved to some other genus in between the original description and the naming of the genus, and the genus author used that newer one. Where I could confirm that was not the case, I amended as you suggest, although it's possible I missed some. I see you've tracked down one correct name already, so thanks for that. Anaxial (talk) 11:10, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't want to come off as rude but most of the ones I have so far checked were listed with references on the species article, taking me all of two seconds to verify the original name was the name of the type species, further even if the species was reassigned twice before being moved to a new genus, the original name would still be the type due to priority. Lavalizard101 (talk) 11:24, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

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Kerala Symbol Provide Wikipedia

The Government of Kerala declared it as the official Kerala state animal. Elephants in Kerala culture are famous among the world. Kerala, Symbol, Mammal Indian Elephant. 117.230.87.191 (talk) 15:34, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

What is your source for this information? Anaxial (talk) 15:35, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Sorry

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Types of botanical families

I'm inclined to agree with your edit to Musaceae, but the edit comment is not quite correct. The type of a family is the type of the genus from which the name is formed (ICNafp, Art. 10.9). The type of a genus is the type of a designated species (Art. 10.1). The Code does not use the terms "type species" or "type genus", but they can both be used in relation to a family to identify the underlying type. The type of Musaceae is the type of Musa (the "type genus") and hence the type of Musa acuminata (the "type species"). It's usual to stop at the genus for a family (which is sanctioned by Art. 10.9), but it's not actually wrong to go down to the species level. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:09, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Rani Begum

Hello Anaxial. There is user name Waqar ahmed khawaja who is writing wrong information on Rani Begum. I am keep fixing the problem but this person isn't stopping he has also previously vandalised the page. Again he wrote married to nisar ahmed khawaja and son Waqar Ahmed khawaja. Please see to it and tell him to not do it again.(2400:ADCC:105:2200:C958:7346:ED82:FDF4 (talk)) — Preceding undated comment added 13:32, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

While I cannot do anything directly, you may wish to use the WP:DRN or WP:ANI pages, which may be able to provide assistance. Anaxial (talk) 17:48, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

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Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

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How

how do i add the citation. Javalsta (talk) 11:05, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

I have replied on your Talk page. (Although I note you immediately deleted the explanation...) Anaxial (talk) 12:45, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

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IP range 2601:647:4180:6010::/64

2601:647:4180:6010::/64 appears to be a long-term problem. The anon adds/changes content w/o citing sources or updating sources. I have reverted a fair number of them. Examples:

• this edit to Thorold's deer changed the genus in one place, but not the info box nor other places, and did not update the source.
• Aepypodius 16 August 2022 no source for type species. Also no source for the type species authority and authority linked to a dab page.

I'm not sure if this is the same individual, but is in the same IP range. I reverted a number of them.

• Nilgai on 30 April 2022 ES: "The nilgai is not an antelope." Changed to "bovine" (it does look like one)
• Mesechinus 1 May 2022 No ES. Added Type species of "Mesechinus dauuricus". The source gives "Erinaceus dauuricus".
• Mogera 1 May 2022 No Es. Sets type species as "Mogera wogura", but not found in source. bucknell.edu gives "Talpa wogura".

You might want to keep an eye out on these. Any suggestions? I'm not an expert in this area. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 05:32, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

They seem to be the same as User:Independence Reno, who has since been blocked due to these kinds of edits. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:21, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Also User:99.197.203.168 seems to have the same edit patterns. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:27, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

The latter IP is in California, the others, Pittsburgh, PA. No date overlap, visiting? I don't think it's a proxy. Thanks for the info. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 12:12, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

I am aware of this problem, and have reported the IP previously, although I believe the IP block instituted on that occasion has recently expired. Good to know that there's a named account now associated with it, as it makes it easier to demonstrate sockpuppetry should it recur. I don't have many non-mammalian pages on my watchlist, so obviously I don't see everything, and I'm not actively looking for these edits, but I'll keep an eye where they do appear and I happen to notice them. Anaxial (talk) 17:40, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Need to write a bot to watch out for this guy. Thanks! Cheers Adakiko (talk)

Looks like they may be back as User:2601:647:4180:6010:0:0:0:DFEC. Three edits, all to IR's articles. One is a good edit. One I've updated. The third (Colinus) I will have to check tomorrow when I have better access to resources. - UtherSRG (talk) 02:07, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

I removed a number of the anon's edits and reported to AIV here; made virtually the same edit and left similar ES as Independence Reno. Looks like I reverted HBC AIV helperbot5 in the process. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 10:14, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Rangeblocked six months: Special:Contributions/2601:647:4180:6010:0:0:0:0/64 Cheers Adakiko (talk) 00:24, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

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Hello Anaxial, thank you for fixing my edit :) I edit pages32 (talk) 00:30, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello

I apologize for my edit on eutherians. It was not my intent to seem as if I was adding redundant information. I was an unexperienced editor back then, and I was simply trying to fix the information.

Also, please forgive my late reply. I'm not completely familiar with how wikipedia's messaging system works. Firekong1 (talk) 03:11, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Not a problem. I don't even remember the issue now... Anaxial (talk) 08:42, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Ah I see. Thank you anyways.

Firekong1 (talk) 14:03, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Sorry

For some reason Wikipedia isn’t letting me log in or edit/request things. I’m the guy who tried editing the Untitled Monsterverse Show (Godzilla and the Titans) which was for some reason edited to have a title it was not given but rather part of a description for it… for whatever reason. 2601:182:F00:B970:E155:C6CE:B778:7668 (talk) 11:56, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Just request a page move. That should sort it. Anaxial (talk) 11:58, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

That’s what I’m saying it won’t let me do, not sure why… been having trouble getting mobile to work at all. 2601:182:F00:B970:E155:C6CE:B778:7668 (talk) 12:03, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

You can edit this page, but not the Talk page of the article? Or you can't edit WP:RM#Technical requests? Either way, that's odd, but it may be better to wait until you get a better connection, as without the relevant sources I can't help on that one, I'm afraid... Anaxial (talk) 12:08, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Technical Requests.

yeah my phone has been wonky… it’s probably just my phone cause it’s not just this site I have issues with editing and all. Also still won’t let me log in. 2601:182:F00:B970:E155:C6CE:B778:7668 (talk) 12:15, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

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Stop trying to cover up an Assassination!!!!

It is a well known, verified, and Notable fact that Aaron Swartz was politically Assassinated. 2601:642:4C02:236B:4953:BDF4:DBFC:DF64 (talk) 20:33, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Then provide a reliable source. Anaxial (talk) 20:34, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

There are references and citations for Joseph.

There are references for the Joseph 2601:642:4C02:236B:4953:BDF4:DBFC:DF64 (talk) 20:58, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

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Neither of those links even relate to the subject, let alone support the claim. Anaxial (talk) 21:40, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

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Could you please stop changing the title of this article? There is no use of massacre in the Peruvian media nor well know international news outlets. This is being changed by politically motivated persons, please Stop.

Could you please stop changing the title of this article? There is no use of massacre in the Peruvian media nor well know international news outlets. This is being changed by politically motivated persons, please Stop. 2A04:EE41:7:6028:9459:A0A3:1231:87A1 (talk) 11:32, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Could you please discuss this on Talk page? Also note that the article title has not changed, and the text should match it. You are also close to violating WP:3RR. Anaxial (talk) 11:33, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

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My edits on Carnivora

Just to do it right next time: my mistake was to remove the wrong pair of closing curly braces? 94.218.76.27 (talk) 13:48, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I hadn't seen the actual stray ones (since there was no indication of what you were trying to do) but could see you'd deleted some that were essential and had to put them back. Obviously, a WP:AGF edit, as I said at the time, so no problem. Although it might be an idea if you check the page after you've made the edit to see if it had the effect you expected. (As indeed, I did myself when my edit conflicted with Jts's, requiring me to revert myself... these things happen). Anaxial (talk) 13:52, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

No worries. I did check the page, once in preview (which looked quite different from the committed result), and then in the committed result again. The offensive braces were gone and also I noticed other changes in the appearance of the page I didn't see any harm. 94.218.76.27 (talk) 14:04, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

And btw. about a decade ago I was blocked for trying to be helpful and changes like this. Glad the atmosphere has changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.218.76.27 (talk) 14:08, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

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Hi. I noticed you editing the NFU Mutual page. I am concerned about an alarming flurry of edits there taking out well sourced matters that are needfully in the public domain concerning misseling and accounting concerns that are being aggressively purged. The page came off enhanced protection literally hours ago and it is all happening again. AliCapper (talk) 09:35, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

I only made some copyedits (capital letters in the wrong place, a section header with only one subsection, that sort of thing) so there may be somebody else better placed to deal with that.Anaxial (talk) 09:37, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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Type of Psittacara

I've reverted your edit to Psittacara - the type species is the senior synonym (ie earliest) which for the white-eyed parakeet is Psittacus leucophthalmus Statius Muller, 1776. Your link to H&M4 has:

"PSITTACARA Vigors, 1825 M - Psittacus guianensis Linnaeus = Psittacus gujanensis J.F. Gmelin, 1788; type by original designation = Psittacus leucophthalmus Statius Muller, 1776"

The final text is the important bit: Psittacus leucophthalmus Statius Muller, 1776

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The key part of the Code is "The name of a type species remains unchanged even when it is a junior synonym or homonym, or a suppressed name". So the idea that the type species is always the senior synonym is, I fear false. In this instance, the phrase "type by original designation" refers to the junior synonym P. guianensis, so that is the type species, not the senior synonym. Anaxial (talk) 11:33, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Goodness - have I really got it wrong for so long? Thanks for your replay. I'll read the ICZN page here and get back to you. - Aa77zz (talk) 12:26, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

If you are correct, and it seems that you are, then over the last several years I've specified the incorrect binomial names as the type species for many genera. It is common for authors to use a junior synonym. I typically only give the English name of the type in the text but give the binomial name in the taxobox. Going forward I need to include the binomial names and synonyms in the body of the articles to avoid the "easter egg" link in the taxobox. - Aa77zz (talk) 13:15, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

I've reverted my change to the Psittacara article. - Aa77zz (talk) 13:20, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

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the marine otter is a marine mamal

that's why they call it "marine"

if you need a source that it (not the sea otter) is the smallest marine mammal for the sea otter article, you'll find two in the lede to the marine otter article 128.114.255.22 (talk) 07:56, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Then, by all means, add the ref - that's why it says "citation needed". (I found a number of sources that say the opposite, but they're not recent, so definitions may have changed). Anaxial (talk) 08:58, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

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Broken links are best removed; just changing icons doesn't help much. Nemo 16:29, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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Infobox issues

I was just looking through my watchlist [2]. It was a bit odd to see but you're not wrong. I figured I should try to explain what was going on from my perspective? I was reading the page in the app at the time and the infobox was quite clearly broken there... which isn't usually the case for infoboxes. My edit did fix the issue but I didn't realize it must have caused issues on the desktop side for you to have reverted me. But your revert doesn't seem to have made the app display a broken infobox again so I suppose everything was a weird fluke of some kind? Beats me. Courtesy ping to JTanner (WMF) in case this is useful. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 06:20, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I figured it wasn't intentional, although from the desktop I couldn't see whatever the original problem was. Your fix added a pipe in the middle of one of the fields, splitting it in two and making the bottom section of the infobox disappear. But all working properly now, so far as I can see. Anaxial (talk) 19:06, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

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