User talk:Joseywales1961/Archive 15

ITN recognition for Terry Venables

On 28 November 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Terry Venables, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 08:10, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive

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Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!

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Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas, Joseywales1961! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. And for all the help you've thrown my way over the years. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 14:49, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Onel5969 ^{TT me} 14:49, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Season's greetings

~ ~ ~ Merry Christmas! ~ ~ ~

Hello Joseywales1961: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:47, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

	Happy New Year!
	Hello Joseywales1961: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 22:19, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

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Ralf Teckentrup

I wasn't able to find much of anything that would be useful on that article, which is why I went ahead and posted the AFD. It seems you have, though, and edited it as such- Is it possible to get rid of the afd now? Njsky (talk) 02:14, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Njsky, I can't close it because I have voted keep, you can withdraw the AfD by closing it yourself as nominator or if you don't know how just state withdraw on it and an uninvolved editor can close. Thank you for your contributions and have a nice day Josey Wales ^Parley 11:32, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thank you. Njsky (talk) 18:41, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Disruptive editor help

Hi Josey, hope you're doing well. I have been following the edits of user Hrksmp, who has created at least a dozen biographical articles about various Bangladeshi politicians and made numerous further edits, almost all of which have been entirely citation-free. Despite the numerous reverts and talk page messages, these article creations are still ongoing. I'm not sure if this qualifies as disruptive editing so much as bad editing, but I'm also not sure what to do about it. Other editors have added references to a few of them so Hrksmp is most likely not fabricating this whole-cloth but it is extremely poor form for BLPs. Would you suggest getting an admin involved here? I'm reaching the end of my rope as nothing seems to be getting through to them that these types of articles aren't accepted, or acceptable. Cheers, Kazamzam (talk) 14:49, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Kazamzam probably no harm to ask an admin to intervene, I'd say it's poor editing rather than trying to be disruptive (although I did give a level one warning yesterday) - looks like there was en election in Bangladesh recently and they are trying to add new MPs (meaning they would ultimately be notable so no point going to AfD) I'm putting whatever I see in to Draft space. Longer term it could be an issue of WP:CIR, I'll also keep a lookout on the new pages feed. Many thanks Josey Wales ^Parley 16:19, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

NPP Awards for 2023

		The New Page Reviewer's Bronze Award
		For over 1,000 article reviews during 2023. Well done! Keep up the good work and thank you! Dr vulpes (Talk) 02:53, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

request to remove unreliable sources template

Hello, thanks for reviewing the article Philippine School for the Deaf . I changed one of the references that cites a page on blogger/blogspot. If I met the requirement, would you mind to please remove the below template. Thank you.

PhilipNalangan (talk) 03:42, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi PhilipNalangan, thats done, thank you for improving the artcle (you are allowed to remove those tags yourself once the aricle is improved to deal with whatever problem is noted - It's only speedy deletion and articles for deletion tags that the creator can not remove). Have a great weekend. Josey Wales ^Parley 12:11, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

GRT

Hi Josey, the article entitled Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people (UK) is the one that should stay, the one that needs to be speedy deleted is Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK. It was my mistake, so apologies there. Boynamedsue (talk) 19:27, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Boynamedsue I'll change the tags, thanks for the update Josey Wales ^Parley 19:30, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

To remove unreliable sources template

Hi! Could you please point out to me the unreliable sources in Will Joseph Cook's wiki page so that I can remove them/replace them with something reliable? Thanks. Jettasno1fan (talk) 15:17, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Jettasno1fan, the cite highlighter tool show references 13 - 18 are classed as unreliable sources (see the screenshot of results below) many thanks for your efforts in creating articles for Wikipedia!

Josey Wales ^Parley 20:02, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

HI, thanks for your response. The red highlighted ones are just to link the songs/EPs to Spotify. I have put the other established music journals and websites to talk about these EPs and songs. The Spotify links are just for those who wish to access the music. I have seen users use Apple Music links to link music. Jettasno1fan (talk) 11:58, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Holidays

Josey will on holidays getting some winter sun until the 15th of February - unlikely to be on Wikipedia too much during this period

Josey Wales ^Parley 22:16, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

January 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		This award is given in recognition to Joseywales1961 for collecting more than 500 points during the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 22:31, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

January 2024 NPP backlog drive – Streak award

		Planetary Gear Award
		This award is given in recognition to Joseywales1961 for collecting at least 100 points during each week of the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 23:01, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

January 2024 NPP backlog drive – Re-reviews award

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		This award is given to Joseywales1961 for doing over 25 re-reviews, in the January 2024 NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to the drive! – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:28, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

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ITN recognition for Charlie Bird

On 17 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Charlie Bird, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 05:13, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Joseywales1961,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 May 2024, 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. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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