User talk:Drewmutt/Archive

Heya, life is doing whatever it does as of late.
Therefore, I may not be terribly responsive or active for a bit.

I'm trying to great a wrestling page called championship Wrestling from Arizona & your stopping me from creating it — Preceding unsigned comment added by WrestlinGGuyJJ (talk • contribs) 20:55, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Questions Regarding Your 20:06, January 10 Edit

Hello Drewmutt,

I hope this is the right way to connect with you. I wanted to ask about my article

1. REDIRECT Draft:National Storage Affiliates Trust, [1], which you reviewed on January 10th. You commented that the article did not have enough reliable, independent sources.

I am hoping that you can provide some advice on how I can bulk up these citations. My initial submission cited third party news articles (in the storage industry media space, so verified by the company's peers) or an SEC filing for every statement of fact. Is the problem that storage industry trade magazines are not independent enough, or should I refrain from using the SEC filing to verify any information?

Thanks very much for your assistance and review.

Aislinn

Aislinnlily (talk) 17:30, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

01:18:24, 22 January 2018 review of submission by Samjackson55

• Samjackson55 (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Accor Plus (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi Drewmutt,

You recently rejected my Wikipedia article titled "Accor Plus" due to the "sources being too niche." Could you please highlight the sources in the text which you think are adequate for Wikipedia? Also, what constitutes a "niche" source?

Looking through wikipedia, i see some articles with no sources and plenty of areas where it just says "edit source." Could you please explain how these articles pass the review and get published?

Thank you!

Sam

Samjackson55 (talk) 01:18, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

How to improve page? (Your edit on 23:09, 19 January 2018)

Hi Drewmutt,

Thank you a lot for your recent feedback on the SafeCharge page I edited earlier.

Could you let me know what edits I could make to avoid deleting? I updated the content with additional references and removed "Awards" section to avoid advertisement looking texts.

Many thanks in advance for your feedback, Blanka.szamos (talk) 10:04, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Can you please review and remove the deletion tag of Kyle Bent (Fbofficl (talk) 05:51, 26 January 2018 (UTC))

Your GA nomination of Death of Brian Douglas Wells

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Death of Brian Douglas Wells you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 00:01, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ed!: Thanks for taking a look! Feel free to take your time, and thanks again!

Cal Net

Hi, I have a message on my page that I think was directed at you. Let me know if you need help with this. Best, Nicnote^{say hello!}_contribs 00:29, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Death of Brian Douglas Wells

The article Death of Brian Douglas Wells you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Death of Brian Douglas Wells for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 00:40, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ed!: Phenomenal feedback, thanks tons! Looking forward to improving it this week! Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 00:50, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello! This one is still open. Thought I might ask if you were going to do any more fixes? —Ed!^(talk) 01:24, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Murder of Brian Wells

The article Murder of Brian Wells you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Murder of Brian Wells for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Example -- Example (talk) 01:01, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Death of Brian Douglas Wells

The article Death of Brian Douglas Wells you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Death of Brian Douglas Wells for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 01:02, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Drewmutt, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
• We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

• We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

• ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
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Deleting the page Prakti Design

Hi Drew,

You recently deleted the page Prakti Design noting that it's promotional and advertising.

Can you please share the deleted content that I can use to rewrite the article to republish it on Wikipedia.

Also, it'd be great if you can point out the specific sections that you think is promotional, which I will edit and remove from the article.

Thank you

Best, Sathyamkt (talk) 06:29, 12 February 2018 (UTC)Sathyamkt

GAN review request

Here's the link Ralph Abernathy. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 22:44, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Ping... as we're days out from the end of Black History Month. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 03:01, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

ConnectWise AfD designation

Hi, Dremutt. I'm quite new here and have responded in the discussion regarding the AfD designation you added to the new ConnectWise article. If you have time, can you let me know if there's something else I need to do to satisfy your concerns? Trying to learn to navigate the processes and get this right! Wordgirl60 (talk) 13:55, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Deletion Exo Platform

Hello, I want to have acces on the page to modify the sources ... Otherwise, quote me the references to remove and the necessary recommendations to optimize this page and to be publish...

Can you help me to have an access to modify with recommandations... Please Bjaouane (talk)14:25, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Bjaouane: As you have been repeatedly told in multiple venues, on- and off-wiki: There are no reccomendations we can give you which will lead this article to remain on Wikipedia with the sources you have been providing. -- Thanks, Alfie. ^{talk to me | contribs} 16:21, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

@Alfie: The changes were for another page Software and I have never changed on this page. Otherwise, I can improve and optimize in order to keep it. So, if there is a way to modify the source code thank you for helping meBjaouane (talk)17:42, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

@Bjaouane: No. As we've repeatedly said (and was mentioned at the AfD), neither the company nor the software are notable. We've been unable to locate sources demonstrating the opposite, and you've had ample chances to do the same. -- Thanks, Alfie. ^{talk to me | contribs} 19:04, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day LA, March 31

Wikipedia Day LA 2018

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15:51:21, 21 March 2018 review of submission by Gliderceo

• Gliderceo (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:DevHub (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Included more sources including TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Mashable...who in technology are considered notable sources. Please let me know if I should include more. Gliderceo (talk) 15:51, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Drewmutt, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

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News

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Fixing

[2] Starting from leftmost column, with brackets indicating text should be in subscript

1. D infinite h should be D[infinite h]
2. C infinite v should be C[infinite v]
3. O h should be O[h]
4. T d should be T[d]
5. D [vd] should be D[nd]
6. C nh should be C[nh]; # also, C nv should be C[nv]; # also, n[sigma v] should be D[n]
7. no errors
8. S2n should be S[2n]

also, every balloon that indicates a decision branching (is it X? If yes, go to Y; if no, go to Z) should have a question mark. Some do, some don't. They all should.

Thanks. DS (talk) 02:24, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Any progress? DS (talk) 23:55, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Stub spacing

Sorry about that. Haven't been editing Wikipedia for a long time and thought they went at the top. Zchrykng (talk) 15:21, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

@Zchrykng: No worries, buddy! Heh, I've been meaning to take a break too, but the FOMO is real :P Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 20:19, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Arts Datathon!

LA County Civic Arts Datathon!

Please join us for the LA County Arts Commission Civic Art Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Beginners are welcome! We'll provide training for new editors. (See the meetup page for more details.) Friday, April 27, 2018, 9:00-5:00 Bob Hope Patriotic Hall, 1816 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015. We hope to see you there! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:09, 25 April 2018 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here, and follow us on Twitter . To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

Talk:Benton fireworks disaster/GA1

Drewmutt, I'm not sure whether you're receiving pings at the moment, so I thought I should remind you of your GA review of this nomination, which is awaiting a response from you. If you're no longer able to pursue the review, please let me know and I'll try to find a new reviewer for it. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:10, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Please respond to this or at the review. As the one who opened it you are supposed to close the review. If you need help let me know. If you have abandoned it let me know and I will take over. AIRcorn (talk) 11:11, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

I see you have edited since these meassages, so I a going to assume you have abandonned this. Please try and be a bit more communicative in the future. AIRcorn (talk) 22:57, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Join me since you seem neutral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:International_Christian_Church#Sources_within_Page

I'd like your followup thoughts

Coachbricewilliams28 (talk) 19:08, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deleting

Hi. You nominated deletion for Mah-e-Tamaam and Parchayee, its because some editor have done vandalism edits to that pages like Teen Drama etc due to which i think you thought its non-notable. Please check again. Coutygirl (talk) 19:20, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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May 15 Article for Deletion

I'm curious why you are proposing deletion of the article for the band Dollshot. Sources include features in WNYC's Soundcheck, NPR's All Things Considered, New Music Box (a peer reviewed and highly reputable source) and numerous listings of concerts showing activity in and around NYC. These are all reliable, independent and non-self published sources that show the notoriety of the band.]

Artaria195 (talk)Artaria 195

Artaria195, Drewmutt apparently felt that the band does not meet our criteria. However, the place to defend the article is at the deletion discussion itself; go there and make your case for why it should be kept. Primefac (talk) 15:09, 16 May 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Drewmutt, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags

• Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

• A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. 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.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
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Possibly missed edit conflict?

I noticed that this edit removed some other comments and even the following subsection without anything obvious in the edit summary to say you were redacting. Something to revisit? — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 06:09, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

nvm, fixed by someone else. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 04:57, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Mistress Belmont concern

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Vladimir Andrejić

Check it better, there is much more then just links to music, if you dont understand serbian give to someone else that do — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.217.22.219 (talk) 03:37, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

An Invitation

Click "show"; I hatted this, so it doesn't take too much of your talk page.
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Nice userpage, Andrew! (Hey, I tried )

Your willingness to try a different, vibrant font, the message on your userpage, and your helpful demeanor on wiki and on IRC (from what I have witnessed) makes me want to invite you to help out at WP:WER. We really could use the support, ideas, and mindset of individuals like yourself.

Click "show"; I hatted this, so it doesn't take too much of your talk page.
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Perhaps you are interested? (Sorry, but I do like your template font.)

Cheers, JustBerry (talk) 18:45, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

P.S. There is no structured commitment per say. It is more me letting you know about it, seeing if you have ideas, seeing if you want to help out, etc.. --JustBerry (talk) 18:48, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

speedy deletion on the page

Hi Drewmutt,

Kindly note that my article "Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group" has been deleted in speedy and I would not even find the "Contest this speedy deletion"button to explain my reasons. Would you please help to retrieve my article for modification. In addition, I have visited "cartier (jeweler)", a similar page for reference and their writing approach is still similar to my article. That's why I would like to seek your advice on why my article was deleted and how to improve. Thanks a lot for your help. Look forward to your reply.

Kittychan1132 (talk) 04:58, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Kittychan1132, you seem to have missed my message to you yesterday; the page has been restored to Draft:Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group. Primefac (talk) 12:59, 12 June 2018 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

I missed your message, Thanks Primefac for your help. Kittychan1132 (talk) 02:27, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Drewmutt, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Regarding about the Articles for Review... thingy

Hi, Drewmutt!

As you may have known, you have rejected my sort of, well... userpage. I assume I know why it was rejected:

• First off, I am ridiculously sorry for having wasted your time by accidentally clicking on the Request review button.

• Second of all (and last but not least), as I will now state this: I confirm that I'm still a tiny weeny bit new to the Wiki; I wanted to create myself a userpage. And I made the sudden mistake of not following the creating a userspace instructions correctly, which made me believe that I was supposed to send an Articles for Review request.

Again, I'm ridiculously sorry for wasting your time and thinking it was a test edit; is it fine if we could like... resolve this, or something?

Thanks,

- pivotman319 (give me a heads up thru user talk.) 19:06, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Pivotman319 - All you need to do now add {{db-self}} to the top of the draft and you'll see it disappear by tomorrow. Btw...Keep up the good antivandalism work — FR ⁺ 09:39, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Thanks for all your help! Falconik123 (talk) 22:29, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:AvinashJagarwal9019/sandbox

Hello, Drewmutt. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "sandbox".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. — MRD2014 ^Talk 23:30, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Mistress Belmont

Hello, Drewmutt. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Mistress Belmont".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 22:56, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dash Johnson (July 3)

Hello Drewmutt,

Per your response I have created a question in Teahouse. Would you mind providing feedback?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse#Real_Life_Superhero — Preceding unsigned comment added by NdajiyaSuberu (talk • contribs) 00:40, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your help, cheers, Rich Rscott187 (talk) 03:01, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Sunspot Solar Observatory

Hi Drew. I'm off to a function in a little while (and besides that, I have not been involved in potential copyright violation cases on Commons for G*d knows how long); could I ask you to look at these uploads and figure out what to do? I doubt any of them are "own work", some are clearly tagged or watermarked with copyright holder's name. Thanks! Sam Sailor 18:37, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

@Sam Sailor: Sure thing buddy, I'll take a look thanks for bringing this up. Enjoy your function! (hopefully not recursive) :P Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 20:29, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, friend. I followed up on c:User talk:NM-state, think they meant no harm. Sam Sailor 08:21, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

@Sam Sailor: Fwiw, my very knowledgable guru Majora helped close out a couple of the offending images, but most seemed okay. So, feel free to thank him :P Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 16:49, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

He is notable

Eric Foster White is notable because he meets Wikipedia's Notability guidelines for writing charting singles. If you get rid of his article, then get rid of Veit Renn, Kristian Lundin and other songwriters.I've included more than enough sources. JC7V7DC5768 (talk) 18:26, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

@JC7V7DC5768: I cordially disagree with you, and re-added it. It's probably best we let an un-involved editor to decide to keep it or not, as we appear to disagree. Because some other articles exist, it doesn't justify having another article that shouldn't be. This is a particularly good example, since the article on Kristian Lundin was heavily padded with promotional language, and is still woefully undersourced. As a side-note, I've noticed that you've been adding some peacock phrasing to the article, which I'd advise against. Hopefully this helps clear up some things, feel free to reach out with any other questions. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 18:32, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

I guess writing Grammy nominated singles, and chart topping singles doesn't make someone notable. Just because it has that tag, doesn't mean it will get deleted. Over 60k articles have that tag. JC7V7DC5768 (talk). The article was reviewed and put in article space. And i wasn't adding peacockery. I am sure he is most known for his songwriting than for touring with Frank Sinatra. Please get more editors to look at this 18:34, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

@JC7V7DC5768: The notability guideline is somewhat loose with that. Getting a Grammy nomination is an indicator of notability, but simply working on a album, in some capacity, seems a bit of a stretch. Yep, I'm aware that tag doesn't mean it will be deleted, although I took you up on your offer to nominate Veit Renn for deletion as it seems under-sourced and I didn't see any evidence of it meeting the inclusion criteria. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 18:40, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for being too strong. I will look for better and more sources for EFW. I am a newbie. If i have to move it to Draft Space again I will. thank you JC7V7DC5768 (talk) 18:42, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

@JC7V7DC5768: No worries! Wikipedia is a whacky place, so I don't blame anyone for being frustrated. Glad you reached out. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 18:44, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Veit Renn

Hi Drewmutt, there is actually a biography of Veit Renn link: https://books.google.com/books?id=qWSKswEACAAJ&dq=%22Veit+Renn%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqg8Hq9abcAhVIq1kKHXt9CN0Q6AEIKTAA I know it's not independant, but does it satisfy notablity?? JC7V7DC5768 (talk) 20:02, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Notability for Cyril Ogwu

Hi Drewmutt,

You recently rejected my Wikipedia article titled "Cyril Ogwu" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Cyril_Ogwu)due to the "sources being too niche." Could you please highlight the sources in the text which you think are adequate for Wikipedia? Also, what constitutes a "niche" source? Looking through wikipedia, i see some articles with no sources and plenty of areas where it just says "edit source." Could you please explain how these articles pass the review and get published?

Thank you! Libertydavid — Preceding unsigned comment added by Libertydavid (talk • contribs) 20:55, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello Drewmutt, 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.
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Editathons

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Strength is in Unity

Hello, What I meant on the redirect section was I tried redirecting the page to the title Power is in Unity, because it is another name for a coalition, if you know how to redirect it, please redirect it to Power is in Unity, so that if someone writes Power is in Unity, the link leads to the Strength is in Unity (coalition)

Thank you, - The Olympian of Sports (talk) 19:25, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@The Olympian of Sports: Ahh, gotcha! Done and done, here. Let me know if you have any other questions! Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 19:30, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, I had one more question, could you please tell me how you do a redirect, so I can try it. - The Olympian of Sports 19:33, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@The Olympian of Sports: Sure, the official guide is here, but in a nutshell, you create a new page with #REDIRECT [[WhatEverYouWantToLinkTo]]. Hope that helps! Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 19:36, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so much, if, I have any problems I will contact you for help. - The Olympian of Sports 19:40, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

GawkBox

Hey there Drewmutt -

I noticed that a recent article of mine was marked for deletion according to Wiki policy of "too soon". I read the rule and I have to say that I disagree with the deletion nomination. The company is real. It has users. It makes products. I think deletion improper in this case.

Respectfully, Gusbenz (talk) 19:42, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Drewmutt, 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

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

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.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

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.
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Vain vales asks you to create 17th Lux Style Awards quickly.Pakistanis are waiting eagerly

O please hurry up in reviewing Draft:17th Lux Style Awards.These are the Oscars of Pakistan. 18th Lux Style Awards are coming soon. You have not even created 17th Lux Style Awards.You should be ashamed baby.

Forrest Mims

hi.

you rolled back my edit. the quoted text is clearly wrong (as can be easily understood from the next few sentences in the quote, Mims means that sensors can double as emitters, not as "detectors" which is mere synonym for sensor). i actually went to the quote source, to verify, so i can correct the error. i found that the error is in the source itself, and as explained in Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Original wording, when source contains a mistake, add "sic". true, i did not add either [sic]]'' or {{sic}} as MOS recommends, and instead wrote [sic.] - however, i do believe one of them is needed. please consider rollbacking your rollback (i do not want to do this myself - i was accused recently of edit-waring, and have no desire to fight). peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 23:34, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

Hello, I'm Brassmonger. I noticed that you made a comment on the page editing in User:Brassmonger that didn't seem very civil, so it has been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Brassmonger .Wal 21:57, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

/* United States */ added 4D meat section

Replying to your review on the 4D meat draft:

Comment: The section in animal slaughter (here) seems a better home for this information, as much of it is simply quoting policy it doesn't seem to warrant its own standalone article. I'm happy to make a redirect from "4D Meat" to it once you're done."

Done! Thanks if you can make that redirect! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dlyp (talk • contribs) 23:00, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

@Dlyp:, done and done! See 4D meat. I also cleaned up some of your additions there, nothing too major. Now time to go get me a steak ^_^ Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 23:33, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

09:53:34, 12 October 2018 assistance on submission by Bobmarley2345

• Bobmarley2345 (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:3devo (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi Drewmutt,

I understand your concerns regarding credibility and your call to us to use mass media outlets, but the reality is that desktop extrusion for 3D printing is still a new industry, with specific media outlets on the rise. 3DPRINT.com, 3DprintingIndustry, and 3ders are far from niche blogs, and I would encourage you to make research on that.

https://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/3dprint_mediakit_080918_v2.pdf https://www.facebook.com/3dPrintingIndustry
https://www.3ders.org/

These are newsworthy sources for our young and growing industry. As 3DPrint.com and 3dPI have around 700K followers each.

I am confident that we can resolve this situation.

Bobmarley2345 (talk) 09:53, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Bobmarley2345, hi there. If these sources are not niche, then what else do they report on other than 3D Printing? For instance, CNN is far from a niche source for that reason. Regarding the amount of followers, that doesn't help establish notability, as followers can be bought wholesale. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 20:38, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

October 18, 2018 - Thanks on IEC 61360 and request for review

Hi Drewmutt,

I would like to thank you for your acceptance review of IEC 61360 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IEC_61360&oldid=860013927).

Could I get you interested in reviewing Draft:IEC Common Data Dictionary? - It is a related topic (the IEC CDD is an application of IEC 61360) and the article has been pending for quite some time..

Thank you! Thadlich (talk) 15:02, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the review and also for the feedback! Thadlich (talk) 16:03, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

Hello Drewmutt, 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.

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Project updates

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• 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.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

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

Hello Drewmutt,

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If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

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I am requesting to take down reference to the IRC channel at Wikipedia:Questions

For your information, please see: Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 27#Suggest Wikipedia does not mention IRC as a source for help

Seahawk01 (talk) 02:52, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Very unpleasant interaction with you on IRC chat

Drewmutt, I must say I found our interaction on IRC chat very unpleasant. You took drastic action on the article I was working on by throwing it into draftspace with no discussion with me first and no attempt to improve the article on your part. This is the opposite of what Wikipedia is supposed to be about: open collaboration.

Also, I have pinged you twice on my Talk page and you have ignored it. So let me bring the discussion to your doorstep:

• removed logs
• Wikipedia:Teahouse#had article moved to draftspace
• Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 27#Suggest Wikipedia does not mention IRC as a source for help

As an aside, I notice the majority of your posts on other users pages are to inform them that you have declined their article submission. I don't see any sign of you actually collaborating with other users.

Seahawk01 (talk) 03:40, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You don't own the page, see WP:OWN. Consultation with you is not required to draftify a page. What did that pastebin link contain? It shows that it's taken down to me. SQL^{Query me!} 04:41, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) SQL, it was a log of the IRC chat, posted despite the prohibition on public logging. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:03, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Premeditated Chaos, Thank you - that's more or less what I suspected. SQL^{Query me!} 05:04, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

I should add that I read it before it was taken down and IMO it showed that both Drewmutt and Dragonfly67 were reasonably patient and polite, and it was Seahawk01 who was refusing to listen and collaborate. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:05, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Premeditated Chaos, I have my own BNC logs from that day, and that was my interpretation as well. SQL^{Query me!} 05:34, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

DragonflySixtyseven - Courtesy ping here since you've been mentioned. SQL^{Query me!} 05:35, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

@SQL: @Premeditated Chaos: @DragonflySixtyseven: why not join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:IRC Seahawk01 (talk) 02:45, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Seahawk01, Because I don't really want to pile on there, and I don't have anything new to add. I am obviously aware of the discussion, and don't require any further pings to it. SQL^{Query me!} 05:15, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Drewmutt,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

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Yanfeng Automotive Interiors

I took off the speedy tag you placed because User:Legacypac had just moved the article out of draft space. Seems to me the courteous thing to do is find out what Legacypac was thinking though I do agree that the article is rather spammy. Discuss further at User talk:Legacypac UninvitedCompany 21:28, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

It is the largest maker of automotive interiors in the world, suggesting notability. [3] Also the 2nd largest car parts maker in China and 32nd largest globally. At some point companies become notable under WP:NCORP or we should just ban all company pages here. Legacypac (talk) 02:49, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Legacypac, heh, we're definitely on two different sides of the world, because banning all company pages doesn't sound like a bad idea to me :D Would much rather we not have a company included than to be an SSO strategy. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 19:05, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

	Happy Holidays! May your winter holidays be filled with joy, laughter and good health. Wishing you all the best in 2019 and beyond.

--Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 04:52, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

@Cameron11598: Huggggzzzz! ♥ Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 18:05, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Hey man, just wanted to say Merry Christmas! ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:05, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

@Premeditated Chaos: How dare you. You and I both know I celebrate Trismas! ♥ Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 18:06, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Trismas? 0.O --Cameron₁₁₅₉₈ ^(Talk) 19:49, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Edits and tag removal

You recently placed an advertisement tag at The Arctic Playhouse. I made edits to remove puff and advertisement wording and left comments on the talk page. When you get a chance would you mind looking it over again? I generally would not have accepted such an article but AFD results have allowed inclusion with regional sources. In one case a split was allowed even though forking was not needed (premature) since the subject was covered under a NRHP building article. Thank you for your involvement and Happy New Year, Otr500 (talk) 15:32, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing The Arctic Playhouse. I have undone your removal of 2,000 characters of what you call puffery. This is a non-profit community theater group and is an important project in revitalizing the village of Arctic, West Warwick, RI. The words you removed are significant in reflecting the focus and mission of this growing asset to Arctic. --Hshinc (talk) 00:16, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

@Hshinc: Hi there! Firstly, it's important to note that Wikipedia isn't for promotion. The "focus" and "mission" of a group, by definition, are self-promoting. An example of peacock language I removed was the following...

"The Arctic Playhouse has had the opportunity to engage the community in the performing arts by hosting open auditions, providing a venue for local artists to work their craft, and allowing a growing and active community to be involved in the theater."

This language is not from any reliable cited references, and it appears to simply be the opinion of the author. Terms like "engage the community" and "growing and active" are so loose, I have a hard time believing any reliable source would state that. Hopefully this gives you insight into why I removed what I did, and feel free to ask any other questions you may have. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 19:15, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

GuySpy Page

Hi, you have recently put the GuySpy page to draftspace by saying that it doesn't have enough sources and citations. Every information in the article had a link to a reference from different media outlets. Can you please be more specific which part of the article requires more citations? I cannot even find the latest version. Can you please send me the link to it?

Thanks,

Iglesias1977 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iglesias1977 (talk • contribs) 19:51, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

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New user landing page

Hi Drewmutt, in the history of Wikipedia:New user landing page is saw that you ever created this beautiful thing to help fresh users find their way and reduce the production of useless pages. On the Dutch Wikipedia (nl.wikipedia.org) we want to start a similar kind of project. I was wandering if we can use the source-code of the 'New user landing page' thats in use on EN-Wikipedia at this moment. My plan is to change a couple of things but since there is a license on everything on Wikipedia, we don't really know how to attribute you. Is it possible for us to use the source (of te full project, so not only the first page) without attribution or can we attribute you in another way. I hope it won't be a problem because we will use it for a cross-wikipedia project, not for an external webpage or something like that. Please ping me by adding [[User:DutchTom|DutchTom]] to your answer, because I'm not very active on EN-Wiki since NL-Wiki is my home. DutchTom (talk) 16:46, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Heya DutchTom! Firstly, thanks so much for the compliment, it was quite the chore to get something everyone could agree upon, as you can imagine. So, as far as I understand, if you mention the source in the edit summary, you should be covered. Send me a link once you get it up, it'd be great to see my lil' Dutch baby! Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 19:52, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Will do, thanks! It looks amazing! DutchTom (talk) 19:55, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Drewmutt,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – 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.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
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Regarding the Speedy Deletion of "Episode - Choose your Own Story" Article - 02:20, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello Drewmutt. I have recently gotten in contact with the company which created "Episode", and I would really appreciate if you could email me the script regarding this article which was deleted, so I can make further adjustments and submit again. I know it's been over a year and I do understand if you have already lost the file.

Thank you.

Kind regards

L_weiwei_yt

(talk • contribs) 11:12, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Hey!

Hey Drewmutt! You ever going to work on Puggle again? Lol. Yoshi24517^Chat _{Very Busy} 07:09, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Heya Yoshi24517! Glad to hear from ya! I've been so distracted lately, I haven't really had a chance to maintain it. If there's a desire out there for me to do so, I might get back into it. But, yeah, it's something I've been meaning to work on. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 21:03, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Baby Cage

Hey, I was wondering if you were just planning to create a stub or if you were going to write a full article. I don't want to step on your toes if you were planning on doing significant expansion other than just give you references I've found so far, but if you were just planning on a quick stub I'll happily work on expanding it. Umimmak (talk) 20:54, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Heya Umimmak, I'm done with it for the time being, although it's such a fascinating topic. Feel free to expand it to your heart's content! Bonus points if we can find a PD photo! Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 21:02, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Well at the very least Emma Read's patent is in the public domain, so I was planning on using that as a sure bet. Umimmak (talk) 21:05, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

@Umimmak: Nice! Ya I was slightly confused about who actually invented the thing. They two refs seem to conflict. Maybe Lafferty invented it and Read patented it? I dunno. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 21:09, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Well it looks like someone added a proper photograph for use in the fr:cage à bébé, namely File:Baby_cage.jpg, but I'm skeptical that is in fact a free image based on its page on Getty Images [4]. I'm not sure how to request a second look at WikiMedia Commons though. talk) 21:16, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, that image is problematic. I’ve requested speedy deletion as a copyright violation. —AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 21:43, 29 March 2019 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

UC Irvine edit-a-thon on May 17, 2019

UC Irvine edit-a-thon on May 17, 2019

Dear fellow Wikipedian, You are cordially invited to an edit-a-thon this Friday in Orange County, focused on gender equity. The event is a collaboration between UCI and Women in Red. Friday, May 17, 2019 10:00 am – 4:00 pm PDT (UTC-7) Langson Library, Room 228, at University of California, Irvine Points of contact: Logistics: moderator, Prof. Adriana Briscoe Schedule: facilitators, Roger Bamkin & Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight For more details, including the registration link, please see the meetup page. Everyone is welcome! We hope to see you there.

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NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Drewmutt,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

• Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
• Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:V1

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Draft:V1, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• The page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. (See section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do.
• It is a draft which has not been edited in over six months. (See section G13 of the criteria for speedy deletion.)

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. CptViraj (Talk) 16:30, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Drewmutt,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Request on 20:53:02, 12 July 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Yourepartofit

• Yourepartofit (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Mint 400 Records (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I'm requesting assistance because I am joining Wikipedia to focus on record labels in Northern New Jersey because I lived there in the 1990's. Most of the labels I wanted to focus on have already in depth Wikipedia pages some of which I am still compiling information to add to. Two labels I wanted to focus on that had very little about them was the 60's label Command Records which I have added to and the record label Mint 400 Records which is currently one of the biggest record labels in North New Jersey. It was stated they don't have enough substantial resources about them or not reputable resources? I don't quite know how to substantiate that the label has been a staple of Northern NJ for over a decade with over 250 releases and about 100 bands signed. They seemed to have been written about by every major music writer in Northern NJ, so I'm not sure what Wikipedia needs in order to approve the page.

Other labels I would like to write about in this area include: Little Dickman Records, Rhyme & Reason Records, Pyrrhic Victory Recordings, Dromedary Records and Killing Horse Records. I'm not quite sure how to substantiate their existences either to write about them. They all exist and they are very well respected and well known in the North East USA. Is this something that just is not going to be able to be on Wikipedia?

Yourepartofit (talk) 20:53, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Southern California Wiknic & Bonfire invitation

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Drewmutt,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
• Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Drewmutt,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 813 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

• It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
• It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

• Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
• Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill (talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 (talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG (talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 (talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 (talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn (talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter (talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth (talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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FYI

I renominated this article for AfD. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 18:55, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Notability tag

I see you tagged the Emma Mills article for notability reasons. The article has citations from periodicals that cover her and assess her work (Contemporary Authors, the major book trade publications) as well as more mainstream media coverage. Care to elaborate here or on the talk page? DiamondRemley39 (talk) 20:20, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

@DiamondRemley39: Hi there, I tried finding out what "Contemporary Authors" was, but from the little information I could find on it, it's user-submitted, and lacks the type of reliability and editorial oversight to qualify as a reliable source. The other sources cited, are also not widespread reliable media coverage therefore the article appears to fail inclusion guidelines for authors, meaning it could be nominated for deletion if qualifying additional references cannot be found. Hope this helps! Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 01:25, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Did you not read the Wikipedia article on Contemporary Authors? It's not thorough but it does communicate that CA is an edited reference publication (in existence for more than 50 years; perhaps you once used it in school). It profiles... contemporary authors... and gathers reviews/coverage. Your local library may have a paid subscription to it. The content of Contemporary Authors is published by Gale and is vetted by editors; it is not "user-submitted" as are Ancestry, Wikipedia, etc. in that users cannot go in and edit something. In the Emma Mills article, Contemporary Authors is the source for two pieces of information: her date of birth and the name of her YouTube channel, that latter of which is easy enough to find in other sources, and the former of which isn't vital to the article, though it is literally vital information.

Mills meets WP:AUTHOR #3. There is a decent number of reviews in School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, etc. (all of which are reliable secondary sources). The starred reviews are critical praise. And yes, these are "reliable media coverage." The write-up in Bustle and a Q&A with PW provide biographical coverage. When you write "the other sources cited, are also not widespread reliable media coverage", do you mean all of the other seventeen sources were some combination of not widespread or not reliable or not coverage, or just some of them didn't cut the mustard? If some, which ones? Can you be more specific in explaining how she appears not notable? And can you point me to where the guidelines for biographies of living people articles call for "widespread" coverage? I think this is my first time hearing "widespread." Thanks for reading and for caring about inclusion standards. --DiamondRemley39 (talk) 03:06, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

@DiamondRemley39: Hello again, I feel your heart is in the right place, and I can't sleep at the moment, so hopefully I can help explain a bit better. There's multiple "levels of action" an editor can take when they have concerns about an article falling short of notability requirements. I chose the least disruptive method: a tag saying "It's possible this thing is notable, just needs more references"... which I feel it does. Regarding Contemporary Authors, it does sound familiar from school. So does the phonebook. Inclusion in either is proof of existence, but not of notability, which biographies require. Truthfully, the other sources you mention are in the same boat. WP:GOLDENRULE addresses this.

Anywho, it looks like you've been around a bit, so I'm not going to bore you with heaps of guidelines. Suffice it to say, Wikipedia is about chronicling what is already established in the world. How do we know it's established? Many people know about it. There's exceptions to this this, I have a lovely rant about it, but biographies aren't one. How do we know many people know about it? Because the information about it is in-depth, from a reliable source with a proven history of editorial oversight, fact checking, and reaches the masses. PW, from what I gather, you have to buy, and it ain't cheap.

Read Bustle's about us. Compare this against CNN's, which I'm surprised they even need/have one. Night and day. And speaking of which, it's time for me to hit the hay. Hope this helps. Drewmutt (^ᴥ^) talk 04:50, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

And I believe my brain is also in the right place ;). First, re: the phone book comment: not a great comparison, and I never said it proved notability, I was just saying it's a longstanding, edited, published topical reference work. Re: CNN vs Bustle: Yes, a very serious international news company that has an "about" page... I suppose your point is that it is a more serious widespread media source than one that caters to women under the age of 34. Don't confuse "limited interest" publications with "genre" or "niche" or "industry" publications. There are many women under 34; there are many people who follow popular fiction. Publishers Weekly and Kirkus are free online and "reach the masses". PW had millions of visitors last year.

Perhaps you should nominate the article for deletion if you feel it doesn't pass muster. I'd prefer that to the tag. Not that you should be moved to act by my preference, but it would cause the article to sink or swim, and we could have this wrapped up in about a week. Several of the articles I've started on popular female writers have survived the process, and if this one doesn't, then I know that Mills is below standard and can draftify until she gets a Newberry Honor or something. Sleep well.--DiamondRemley39 (talk) 11:48, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Notability of The Why Foundation article

Hello Drewmutt,

Thank you for looking over the article. Since you added the notability tag I've worked on cleaning up the references. I've removed some weak ones and added some that seem stronger. I would appreciate it if you would take another look and tell me if the article has established notability. To make it easier for you I'm giving you a list of links to the references that I believe live up to the notability criteria. At least two of these references have been deemed worthwhile by another helpful user, Lopifalko, you can see our conversation here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lopifalko/Archive_3#The_Why_Foundation_Article

References mentioned by Lopifalko: https://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/m_features/there-are-over-forty-million-people-living-in-slavery-around-the-world https://www.documentary.org/feature/why-world-foundation-promotes-human-rights-through-docs https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/medier/dr2-mister-markant-journalistisk-chef

New references to be reviewed: https://dailytimes.com.pk/539993/discussing-human-rights-through-films-the-why-film-festival-2020/ https://fyens.dk/artikel/mennesker-til-salg-k%C3%B8b-en-slave-for-581-kroner-2018-10-15(8) https://globalnyt.dk/content/serie-af-dokumentarfilm-saetter-fokus-paa-moderne-slaveri https://danwatch.dk/seks-nye-dokumentarfilm-skal-aabne-verdens-oejne-for-moderne-slaveri/?cn-reloaded=1 https://pleasure.borsen.dk/fri/artikel/11/223192/.html

DR (Danmarks Radio), Fyens Stiftstidende, Globalnyt, Danwatch and Børsen are all considered reliable newssources in Denmark.

Thank you for your help so far, and if you decide to continue I would very much appreciate it.

--Kammarad (talk) 11:05, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Drewmutt,

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.

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

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Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice

Hi Drewmutt, you are receiving this notice because you are listed as an active Articles for Creation reviewer.

Recently a list of reviewers by area of expertise was created. This notice is being sent out to alert you to the existence of that list, and to encourage you to add your name to it. If you or other reviewers come across articles in the queue where an acceptance/decline hinges on specialist knowledge, this list should serve to facilitate contact with a fellow reviewer.

To end on a positive note, the backlog has dropped below 1,500, so thanks for all of the hard work some of you have been putting into the AfC process!

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello Drewmutt,

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.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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Qing dynasty edit

Hello, Drewmutt. I recently received a message notifying me of an edit to the Qing Dynasty article that I did not create. The edit was removed by you over 3 years ago. This is probably due to a shared IP address error, since I do not have a user page. Rest assured, I will never edit a page unnecessarily if it is not useful to do so. Yours faithfully An anonymous user — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.172.186 (talk) 09:34, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Abedelnasser Abulrob protection

Hello, Drewmutt. Recently you add protection to Abedelnasser Abulrob article. I would like to edit it according to Wikipedia rules. Please lower protection level again. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards David — Preceding unsigned comment added by Orajisto (talk • contribs) 14:14, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Drewmutt,

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.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Your AFD nomination

Hey there, just wanted to make sure you saw how the close of your recent nomination went, since you never really showed that you had seen or understood the concerns brought up. You're free to remove sourcing that you feel is puffery. But you can't just cut them out, and then nominate it for deletion like that. Those sources still count towards meeting WP:GNG even if they're overly positive. A better approach probably would have been to reword the prose so it wasn't so overly positive. Deleting the content wholesale was still...okay...but deletion of the entire really wasn't ever an appropriate approach. FYI. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 16:31, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Drewmutt:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2700 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Drewmutt,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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LA to FA 2022

Dear Drewmutt, You're invited to a zoom call, taking place on February 11, with the goal of improving the article on Los Angeles to Featured article status! I often find it daunting to approach the Big Subjects on my own—so if you, like me, want a time to sit down with fellow dedicated editors and tackle something important and complex, this is the zoom for you! I, unfortunately, have no way to transmit snacks over zoom; but I trust you to exercise good judgement and discretion in selecting snacks of your own. Hope to see you there—if you're interested, add your name here! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 00:19, 10 January 2022 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

WP:AFC Helper News

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

• AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
• The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

"European Pain Federation EFIC®" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect European Pain Federation EFIC® and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 15#European Pain Federation EFIC® until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. BD2412 T 04:45, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Drewmutt,

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.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 813 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 859 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

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

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Drewmutt,

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).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 9443 articles, as of 06:00, 24 May 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

Reminders

• Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
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• If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

New Page Patrol | July 2022 Backlog Drive
On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Drewmutt,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination

MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

Open letter to the WMF

The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

TIP - Reviewing by subject

Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.

New reviewers

The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.

Reminders

• Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
• If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
• If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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history split

Hello Drewmutt, an article you created, Honor walk, had some history from an unrelated article you were sandboxing. I've split the original history to: User:Drewmutt/sandbox/Baby cage. If you do not want that page, you can tag it for speedy deletion at any time. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 18:47, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

NPP message

Hi Drewmutt,

Invitation

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here!
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(t · c) buidhe 21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Drewmutt,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

Suggestions:

• There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
• Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
• Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
• This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.

Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

Reminders

• Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
• If you're interested in instant messaging and chat rooms, please join us on the New Page Patrol Discord, where you can ask for help and live chat with other patrollers.
• Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
• If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Drewmutt,

New Page Review queue December 2022

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

Reminders

• Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
• There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
• Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
• If you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

New Page Patrol | May 2023 Backlog Drive
On 1 May, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of redirects patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Article patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here! There is a possibility that the drive may not run if there are <20 registered participants. Participants will be notified if this is the case.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Drewmutt,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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