User talk:VQuakr/Archives/2022

MOS lead comment

VQuakr, I'm posting this to your talk page and @Starship.paint:'s since Soibangla appears unwilling to discuss the issue on their own talk page. All three of us have asked that Soibangla be more contentious about adding content to article bodies first and then adding the content to the lead when reasonable. [1][2][3]. Previously Soibangla has had issues with good citation practices in their edits (something they did improve). I understand Soibangla has had issues with my criticism of some of their edits but I think we can all agree that following the MOS shouldn't be controversial. Is there a good, non-confrontational way to fix this? Springee (talk) 14:37, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

@Springee: no, there's no good non-confrontational way to fix it if they're not interested in voluntarily improving. Soibangla seems to think it's reasonable for them to assume that editors should follow them around, sweeping up the messes they create without ever improving, and they are clearly not interested in being civil. So either they get what they want and we quietly sweep up after them forever (not a good option), or community action is pursued to force them to do better (not a non-confrontational option). VQuakr (talk) 17:27, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Your characterization of me is grossly incorrect. soibangla (talk) 17:33, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Soibangla, I think the real concern here is that you are a very prolific editor and often in controversial topic areas. Unfortunately your edits often, in the view of other editors, violate MOS:LEAD. Do you think it is reasonable to add content to the lead if the material isn't in the article body? The edit from earlier today was certainly good content but it should have been added to the body and summarized in the lead. A while back MelanieN commented about your citation practices. You acted in good faith and fixed the issue. Please do the same here. Springee (talk) 17:58, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

@Soibangla: I'm basing it solely on your behavior in November and last month. It's a characterization of your actions, and your actions unfortunately indicate a need for improvement to be forced on you. Everyone: I'm not really interested in hashing this out on my talk page; I don't think it's the ideal venue. @Springee: I think they've answered your question for you here. VQuakr (talk) 18:32, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Despite my effort to defuse a conflict with you, you deleted that and now say my actions indicate a need for improvement to be forced on you. Fascinating. soibangla (talk) 18:40, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

soibangla, I will respect VQuakr's request and this is my last post here. Please take this as constructive feedback and make sure new content is in the body before/at the same time as adding it to the lead. Springee (talk) 18:58, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

@Soibangla: as I noted in the edit summary, you said you weren't willing to discuss further. Hence the removal. Now, you're discussing further. The only way you are going to "defuse conflict" is by changing your editing habits to align with our policies and guidelines. VQuakr (talk) 19:06, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

I said I wouldn't discuss it further, not that I wouldn't read any response, and I'm discussing it here only because you removed it. I took notice of the feedback I received and as always I will endeavor to improve, but I find the intimation of seeking sanctions for the Wikipedia equivalent of occasional parking tickets to be excessive. Should I expect an ANI/AE notification from you? soibangla (talk) 19:27, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Oh good lord. So you wouldn't have responded if I replied, but you will respond if I remove the post? That's nonsensical. Communication is two-way; if you say you're not going to discuss then you're wasting both of our time by posting to my talk page. Sanctions are the solution to disruptive editing when direct communication is ineffective, as it has been so far with you. That doesn't make us mean and it doesn't make you a victim (even though you seem very eager to paint yourself as one); it's a direct result of your own behavior. Similarly, you and only you control whether this has to be escalated in order to get the disruption to stop. So only you know the answer to your final question. VQuakr (talk) 19:42, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

You're Invited! Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia

On, Friday, February 25, 2022, Oregon State University will be hosting an online editathon focused on Black history of the Pacific Northwest. You can learn more here and/or register here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:26, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Portland Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon: March 12, 2022

You are invited! An Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon will be held in Portland, Oregon, on March 12, 2022. Learn more here!

Wikipedia is one of the most-visited sites on the internet—and it’s created by people who volunteer their time to write and edit pages. Learn how to edit Wikipedia and be a part of shaping our understanding of our world. In this workshop, volunteer Wikipedia editors will be on hand to train participants on how to get started editing pages and offer ideas for which pages you can pitch in to help improve. Show up at any point during the four hours to get started!

Also: Free burritos!! We will be providing vegan, vegetarian, and meat burritos from food cart Loncheria Las Mayos. Alder Commons has a large, fenced playground. Children are welcome! Some computers will be available to borrow, but if you have a laptop, please bring it to use. We will also be leading an online training for new editors at 11am-12pm PST. Please feel free to join that training if you are not able to show up IRL.

This event is part of the international month of events organized by Art+Feminism, which is building a community of activists committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:37, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

"October(poem)" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect October(poem) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 6#October(poem) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 19:10, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello VQuakr/Archives,

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 815 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.

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Editing newsletter 2022 – #1

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23:15, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

A certain editor at Talk:Thomas Jefferson

I've seen that you've had extended interactions with a certain editor at Thomas Jefferson's talk page. I'm at my wits end with them right now, and I wondering if you had any advice for dealing with them. If anything, though, I just wanted to commiserate and know that I'm not alone in my current level of annoyance. Have a good one. Anwegmann (talk) 02:21, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

@Anwegmann: publicly complaining about an almost-named editor isn't going to end well for anyone. Just remember this is an internet encyclopedia and will still be here if you need to step away for a couple of days to unwind. VQuakr (talk) 16:06, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello VQuakr/Archives,

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: 12068 articles, as of 12:00, 7 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.

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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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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WP:BLPN post

Hi VQuakr, I don't know yet if I'd do anything about it but I'd be grateful to know if you became aware of recent situations regarding the Depp v. Heard article due to this post at WP:BLPN. Perhaps to provide balance of other thing said, I'm extremely proud of my contributions to that and related articles which I think largely stand on their own merits. Many thanks, GregKaye 08:17, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello VQuakr/Archives,

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.
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NPP message

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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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Editing news 2022 #2

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

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Requested move of Sorbonne

An editor has requested for Sorbonne to be moved to Sorbonne (building). Since you had some involvement with Sorbonne, you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so). -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 14:05, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Check the talk page on mintpress

Regarding recent edits in it Bobisland (talk) 22:21, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

A beer for you!

For your efforts in good faith edits with that other editor on the AW page. Truly a marvel how some people can persist in such ways for so long. Thanks for being so agreeable, even when we may disagree. — Moops ⋠T⋡ 20:30, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

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Electronic Harassment and William Binney

Hello VQuakr,

I recently added the fact that William Binney declares himself to be a target of these attacks.

"Ex NSA Technical Director and whistleblower William Binney affirms to have become a victim and is currently working with his wife (physicist Katherine Horton, also a victim) on gathering evidence on the practice."

This fact is:

a) Certainly true, as you can see his statement on the referenced video

b) Certainly relevant to the subject, as he is probably the highest profile case ever to go on record.

And you removed it. Why did you do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Galmeida28 (talk • contribs)

References

@Galmeida28: see WP:PRIMARY. To consider including coverage of this we would need at least one reliable secondary source. The subject's claims from a zoom video convey zero weight. VQuakr (talk) 16:13, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

@VQuakr: That would be the case if I had written he *is* a victim , but I've written he *affirms* to be a victim. And this affimation falls on the third case of the link WP:PRIMARY you've put: "A primary source may be used on Wikipedia only to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge." Any educated person with access to the video can confirm he stated he is a victim.Galmeida28 (talk) 17:29, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

No. VQuakr is correct. — Moops ^⋠T⋡ 17:30, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Why? Why my argument is not valid? Galmeida28 (talk) 18:07, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

@Galmeida28: see WP:WEIGHT. Content discussions should be had at the article talk page at Talk:Electronic harassment not here, but this is quite straightforward. We're an encyclopedia; we don't source content to Youtube. VQuakr (talk) 18:08, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Thats right. — Moops ^⋠T⋡ 17:04, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

December 2022

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Thank you for making repairs to the Twitter suspensions article. Cheers! 98.155.8.5 (talk) 04:58, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, VQuakr!

Happy New Year!

VQuakr,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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