User talk:Zppix/2017/February

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New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello Zppix/2017,
A HUGE backlog

We now have 816 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

  1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
  2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
  3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:11, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Pedophilia

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Pedophilia. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Declined speedy deletion

I declined your speedy deletion nomination of Merak Mail Server under CSD A7 because A7 does not apply to software products. Thank you, Appable (talk | contributions) 18:32, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

 Acknowledged @Appable: My bad I forgot about that :) Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 21:32, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

David D

In case you wish to comment: [1] He's certainly persistent. Meters (talk) 22:18, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

And talk page access removed. Meters (talk) 22:06, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
@Meters: Yep, hey let me know if you need anything I'm usually around. --Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 22:06, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Regarding Article Sources Validation


I have included news articles from thehindu.com and medianama.com, both of which are major press outlets. Are these sufficiently important outlets?

  • Currently taking care of this one, shall comment there soon. SwisterTwister talk 08:44, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Kristen Stewart

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Kristen Stewart. Legobot (talk) 04:24, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

09:36:24, 16 February 2017 review of submission by Nikachoo


Hi, i was wondering if you could please help me so that my submission does not get declined again. how do i add references? do i need to add citations also?

@Nikachoo: I suggest doing the The Wikipedia Adventure tutorial, then try editing your submission again. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 17:00, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

Your last chance to nominate yourself or any New Page Reviewer, See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. Elections begin Monday 20 February 23:59 UTC. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Daddy Yankee

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Daddy Yankee. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.3

Hello Zppix/2017,

Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.

Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 816 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.

Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:35, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Milo Yiannopoulos

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Milo Yiannopoulos. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Request on 09:43:41, 28 February 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by Jim2017OW


Hi. Thank you for reviewing the article I drafted. It is greatly appreciated. I'm not sure what more I can do with the article. I had already removed a lot of text. I had already avoided any 'salesy' language and kept it factual. I'm also not sure I understand the review statement as the article only contains references to/from independent, third party, verifiable, published sources and there are no references to self created articles. (References include the online sites of 'proper' newspapers.) Any specific assistance/suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you for your time. Jim2017OW (talk) 09:43, 28 February 2017 (UTC)


Jim2017OW (talk) 09:43, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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