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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
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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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(t · c) buidhe 01:58, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

removed A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
  • The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration


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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

"Meetup/NYC/Housing and Homesteading Wikipedia Editathon" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Meetup/NYC/Housing and Homesteading Wikipedia Editathon and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 12#Mainspace redirects to meetups and editathons until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 15:39, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
  • The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:01, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

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) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Nylon article

Hi, I noticed you reverted my edit becuase of lack of citation. Everything I wrote was either already cited or very clear and obvious earlier in the article (ex. nylon is dervied from petroleum) or totally self evident (ex. wool is renewable becuase it is dervied from grass). I dont see the problem with these claims. They are incontrovertible aspects of wool and nylon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mackss94 (talk • contribs) 16:36, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Undoing mistakes regarding the "new" Cruzeiro

I changed the location of the text and some information. The Cruzeiro Novo standard was already introduced as a temporary measure, quite similar to what happened in México with the Nuevo Peso Mexicano between 1993 and 1995. It was to allow the distinction of new currency, produced mainly by the Casa da Moeda do Brasil and put into circulation by the Central Bank of Brazil from 1967 onwards in the form of coins and from 1970 onwards in the form of banknotes and the old standard banknotes, mainly issued by the American Bank Note Company and Thomas de la Rue and put into circulation by the Brazilian National Treasury until the constitution of the Central Bank of Brazil in 1965. The information on the collection of the provisional "new" Cruzeiro banknotes, as well as the old Cruzeiro banknotes, are based on a series of documentation present in the Central Bank of Brazil archive and the citation to the tender is present in the article in Portuguese dealing with the Cruzeiro standard redenominated in 1970. --Computabilize (talk) 03:58, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Please include that in your edit summary, then; unexplained content deletion warnings are best avoided by doing that whenever a change involves a large removal of content. Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 04:00, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Keep up the great work! ^^ -- TNT (talk • she/her) 05:03, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks! Another for the pile. Kirbanzo (userpage - talk - contribs) 05:04, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Bored Ape

Hey Kirbanzo, you reverted my edit by saying there is no source: isn't https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/16/bored-apes-nft-project-gets-official-apecoin-token/ + https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/16/22981916/apecoin-dao-launched-bayc-bored-ape-yuga-labs a trustfull source? regards 2A02:2455:465:9600:615B:224C:2B6C:41C0 (talk) 22:44, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

perfect, thank you. 2A02:2455:465:9600:615B:224C:2B6C:41C0 (talk) 15:32, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
  • When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:13, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Never be afraid to make bold edits

If you feel something meets the WP:DRAFTIFY criteria feel unashamed, and go ahead. But only do it if it has not been draftified previously to save accusations of move warring. Prior draftification suggests AfD assuming the article fails a notability criterion. There is a possibility that the editor we have both tripped over is an enthusiast or us UPE. I've asked them the first formal question about UPE 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 20:57, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

I hear you, I was just being cautious about it. I'll still hold off since this person is clearly going to revert whatever draftifing I do - might end up bunching them together as a mass delete later though, especially if UPE is established. Kirbanzo (talk - contribs) 21:03, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
I've taken the naïve approach, and batted most of them back to Draft space, nominated a few for deletion, and warned them against disruptive editing. It feels UPE rather than fan. But it may just be a mega fan with a misunderstanding. If they get moved back to draft space please don't wait for (eg) me to act. Just do what you feel is correct.
Not sure whether you want to turn your earlier AfD comment into a formal opinion on deletion or retention. If so please do it well and wisely and in whatever direction you see fit 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 21:17, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Declined Wikipedia Post

Hi,

I'm trying to get my wikipedia article published and it seems like you've declined me twice. I just want to know where my article is going wrong as I don't necessarily agree with the replies made. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaidanammar (talk • contribs) 21:35, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Please read WP:Reliable sources, WP:NCORP, and WP:What Wikipedia is not. Following those guidelines should address my concerns. Kirbanzo (talk - contribs) 21:43, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Albanian mafia

Added source,seite is empty. 2A02:908:D93:7680:D82E:FF4D:88A4:6708 (talk) 20:34, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for resolving that concern. Kirbanzo (talk - contribs) 20:35, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

On attribution of translated articles

Thanks for watching over translated articles, and being concerned about Wikipedia's licensing requirements regarding articles or content copied or translated from other Wikipedias. Regarding the advice which you added to a user talk page regarding attribution of content translated from Spanish Wikipedia, please note that:

  • an edit summary attribution statement compliant with WP:TFOLWP is sufficient; nothing else is needed.
  • there is no need to add the {{translated}} template to the Talk page of an article containing translated content (although it's nice to have).

Please see WP:CWW and WP:TFOLWP, which provide suggested wording for the edit summary attribution. This guideline is an interpretation of Wikimedia's wmf:Terms of Use, in particular, the Attribution section under § 7. Licensing of Content. The edit summary-plus-hyperlink method is one of three methods of valid attribution (another is listing all the authors of the original content); there is no requirement for anything on the Talk page. The Talk page template is a nice-to-have, and I do it for my translations because it's helpful to other editors, but it's not a requirement. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 23:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification - I'll keep it in mind for similar situations. Kirbanzo (talk - contribs) 23:05, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Attacking isn't the worst thing

I would rather someone attack me than be super friendly to me enough to induce a strong squish when they don't want to be friends. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.28.99.54 (talk) 00:20, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Regardless of that, be civil. This isn't an Xbox call of duty lobby in the late 2000s, we're all trying to work together here, even if we disagree once in a while. Kirbanzo (talk - contribs) 00:22, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Red or Dead (Novel)

Hi, It's been awhile now, but when you first tagged this page for A1/A3, it had only been 4 minutes (5:40->5:44), WP:NPP recommends at least 15 for brand new pages, to let the author time to get the article out onto the page. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 08:20, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Msg

Did you not see my edit summary, please do not revert legitimate edits.--142.167.135.137 (talk) 00:40, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, missed it, sorry. You're good now. Kirbanzo (talk - contribs) 00:41, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:34, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

The article covering entheogens, my addition.

I reference Herodotus, "The Histories" trans. Robin Waterfield Oxford University Press 1998. Specifically Book IV paragraph 73-75 where purification rituals using cannabis are described.2600:1700:6640:7280:9943:214:8FE3:4B05 (talk) 22:13, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

2022 Los Angeles Mayoral Election

Hi Kirbanzo! You removed my edit on the 2022 Los Angeles Mayoral Election where I included that professional baseball player Matt Ladrech supports Rick Caruso. I am unclear why it was removed as I provided sources: https://twitter.com/MattLadrech/status/1519053718641160196?s=20&t=_lj7qXtGDJJiJmDlwYvZ1w https://www.milb.com/player/matt-ladrech-682414

Please let me know — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.82.101.169 (talk) 04:00, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Kirbanzo,

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 816 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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Sent 05:18, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
  • The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:55, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Kirbanzo

Thank you for creating Armed Forces Medical Services.

User:North8000, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Nice work!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|North8000}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~ .

(Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

North8000 (talk) 13:10, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Kirbanzo,

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[a] 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.[b]

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: 10420 articles, as of 14:00, 16 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.
  • 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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Notes
  1. ^ not including another ~6,000 redirects
  2. ^ The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:02, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

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.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Technical news

  • user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:29, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Daito Manabe has been accepted

Daito Manabe, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Jovanmilic97 (talk) 22:37, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

readded Valereee
removed Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
  • An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

  • The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
  • Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
  • Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
  • Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Kirbanzo,

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.
  • To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:24, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

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