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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Xx236, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also

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.
  • The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.
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Reply

Thanks for your concern. "Ulema" is also an English term: see ulema. The existing sources estimate between 5,000-6,000 and I've put both numbers in the article. As for why it's not mentioned in Amangkurat I of Mataram, you can add it yourself if you want. The article is still very basic. It should be noted that in the Indonesian version of Amangkurat I of Mataram, the event was already mentioned even before the article was made. Mimihitam (talk) 10:51, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

User:E tuckey mop

Is working on a project which has seen that short stubs need to be better prepared, and needs no further comment JarrahTree 06:41, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Xx236, 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: Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: 100 review coin, 250 review coin, 500 review coin, 1000 review certificate.
  • 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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Malik

Hi, are you going to fix all the links now that you have moved the article to Malik (surname)? I think the Punjabi clan does exist but I am not too fussed about that provided that the links don't go to a surname page, which would cause BLP problems. - Sitush (talk) 10:52, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

text

This will be deleted in 36 hours, so take your own off-Wiki copy if you want it. Zerotalk 09:15, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Surname

Thanks for the note. It is both a surname and a family. But it may be more useful to have an article about the surname, as other people with the same name from a different family could be added to the list.Zigzig20s (talk) 08:59, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

If Hôtel Froment-Meurice is listed as a monument historique, it should be created.Zigzig20s (talk) 09:00, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Talk page conduct

Please make sure that when you are discussing issues on Wikipedia you debate the content, not the authors. If someone has not publicly revealed their name, faith, or other personally identifying information, you should not be making attempts to do so yourself. I have removed the content in question, and further instances of making accusations and/or attempting to "out" another user will result in your editing privileges being revoked. Primefac (talk) 13:18, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Leiba Dubrovskii for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Leiba Dubrovskii is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leiba Dubrovskii until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Ymblanter (talk) 12:51, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Stella Krenzbach) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Stella Krenzbach, Xx236!

Wikipedia editor Cwmhiraeth just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

An interesting article.

To reply, leave a comment on Cwmhiraeth's talk page.

Learn more about page curation.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:44, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Friendly tip

Greetings. When you participate in an AfD, such as this one, it is useful to clearly state your suggestion, and in bold lettering too, so that closing admins are able to quickly sort them. It's useful even though you might have made your position clear through your overall commentary. Take care. -The Gnome (talk) 15:54, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

I'll be more specific. In the Dubrovskii AfD, it's obvious your suggestion is to keep the article. Yet, you should make your suggestion explicit, according to the relevant policy, and write in bold letters Keep at the beginning of your text that starts with "I have rewritten the page..." Take care. -The Gnome (talk) 09:23, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello Xx236, 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.
  • Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
Editathons
  • Editathons will continue through August. 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.
The Signpost
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Silicic acid (chemistry)

Please help! Something has gone wrong with an attempted redirect

I have created an article in my sandbox which I tried to copy to WP with name silicic acids (plural), over-writing an old article named silicic acid (singular). A redirect should point from "Silicic acid" to the article silicon dioxide, for which the singular is correct.

The problem has arisen because the name silicic acid was previously unambiguous. In common usage the term silicic acid is virtually a synonym for silicon dioxide. Then, last year, the synthesis of a new class of chemical compounds which can properly be called silicic acids (plural) was reported. The old article, named silicic acid was full of rubbish, so I wanted to replace the content and rename the article. Please note, I was previously a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Leeds University. Petergans (talk) 09:35, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Please quote reliable sources

Unsourced opinions may be deleted.Xx236 (talk) 11:05, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Pleasse stop your anti-Polish war. Why don't you write about Nazi Austrian crime4s in Poland? Xx236 (talk) 08:54, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Dude, don´t you know that there was no country with the name "Austria" at the time? But I understand your fear, since your law "to protect the good name of Poland" (Which good name? ROFL) there is no free speech in Poland and admitting the influx of Poles into the Holocaust is punished with three year prison. Accept my sympathy! Austrianbird (talk) 09:00, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Please use more formal language. We aren't certainly buddies.Xx236 (talk) 09:16, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

"Dude" is a very formal term, I didn´t you call "mate". I´ve many friends in Poland but you sure will never be on that list. And now GTFOOH!I´ve better things to do than to care for a Polish history falsifier. Austrianbird (talk) 09:41, 10 August 2018 (UTC)


Please learn about the Holocaust and other Polish crimes long before (Kielce 1918), during (Jedwabne) and even after (Kielce, 1946!) WWII were Poles killed even Holocaust survivors. It's a shame to be Polish and to deny those crimes. Read as a starter: https://www.holocaustresearch.pl/index.php?show=336 Did you know that also Polish citizens did guard the KL Auschwitz and were convicted for war crimes after WWII by Polish courts? If not, the IPN did publish a list from the Auschwitz staff, you and I can read the verdicts posted there also as they are in Polish. What about the Polish Blue Police guarding ghettos? What about eg. AK units killing Jews without any need? It´s a lot of Polish history to account for the past. PS.: What kind of people do write such offending comments on your text page as you mention "cars stolen already in Polen, etc". I hate such people. Austrianbird (talk) 10:10, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Ewa Kurek Talk page

Please don't blame the victim: [1]. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:28, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Split "German resistance to Nazism" into articles titled "German opposition to Nazism" and "German resistance to Hitler"?

It has been suggested that German resistance to Nazism be split into articles titled German opposition to Nazism and German resistance to Hitler. You can join the discussion at Talk:German resistance to Nazism#Split proposal: "German opposition to Nazism" and "German resistance to Hitler". Sincerely, HopsonRoad (talk) 15:07, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Sowjetische Partisanen 1941–1944: Mythos und Wirklichkeit

Back in 2015 you created Vladimir Nichiporovich with this source. Do you still have access to it and if so what did it say about Nichiporovich? Kges1901 (talk) 15:04, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Xx236, 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
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.
Other
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.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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Sorry - Adam Tanner

Sorry about the Tanner thing. Is there some way to speed up the deletion of my new page? (Msrasnw (talk) 11:13, 25 September 2018 (UTC))

Response to your message

Hello, You recently wrote "Please be cautious if you belong to the family Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.Xx236 (talk) 10:57, 26 September 2018 (UTC)" on my talk page. I do belong to the family, the subject of the page is my grandmother. Also, there is now some sort of template sitting on my page, stating: "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (September 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)" This is obviously about me, but i tried my best to edit everything i put on the page in such a way that it's neutral to avoid any problems and keep with wikipedia policy. I am fairly new to wikipedia (this is my first wikipedia page), so i would appreciate if you could let me know if i should simply remove this template, or if there is anything i need to do beforehand.

note: i went over the entire page and saw nothing which can be considered biased or not neutral, please let me know if you see anything otherwise.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gabrielian (talk • contribs) 12:37, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Xx236. You have new messages at Toshio Yamaguchi's talk page.
Message added 14:29, 27 September 2018 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Arkansas-White-Red and Texas-Gulf Water Resource Region

Hi, I marked these pages for deletion, but after some feedback I think it's better if I make redirects to the new pages. Is there any way to do that now that I've move copied the pages?

-Furicorn (talk) 07:44, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for October 3

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Lionel Robinson

I'm just moving the info in Clark & Robinson specifically on Robinson into Lionel Robinson, as he was much more than the company (there is a book on the man). --Roisterer (talk) 11:19, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Świdnicka Street, Wrocław moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Świdnicka Street, Wrocław, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Dom from Paris (talk) 13:43, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve Corpus Christi Church, Wrocław

Hi, I'm Domdeparis. Xx236, thanks for creating Corpus Christi Church, Wrocław!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This article needs to be sourced as per WP:GEOFEAT there is nothing in the article that suggests it easily passes. This is a candidate for deletion if nothing is added

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Dom from Paris (talk) 13:50, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

Hello Xx236, 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.

Community Wishlist Proposal
Project updates
  • ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
  • 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.
New scripts

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

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

Hello Xx236,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
  • Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
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.
With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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Holocaust editing

RE this - if you are aware of another subtopic area in Holocaust with serious distortion issues - please point them out. Contrary to your assertion, I am am cleaning up issues not related to "bad poles" - e.g. this Judeo-Communism promption - in which a drab Soviet sign in Yiddish (the language most town residents were fluent with in 1941) announcing elections (sham elections to some sort of people's council) was presented as a "Jewish" welcoming message from 1939. In any event - if you are aware of Holocaust related topics with the same degree of distortion - point them out, and I will take a look.Icewhiz (talk) 11:15, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

JVL and EJ

JVL has many articles that it attributes to Encyclopedia Judaica. However, you cannot trust that what you read there carries EJ's reliability. Not long ago I came across such an article in JVL which had only EJ (plus EJ's sources copy-pasted) as attribution, but there were extra nonsense sentences added at the beginning without warning. I believe it means that such JVL articles are uncitable. Zerotalk 21:40, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Move review: Paradisus Judaeorum

(sent out exact copy to all AfD participants - apologize if you are aware) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heaven for the nobles, Purgatory for the townspeople, Hell for the peasants, and Paradise for the Jews which you were involved in, is in discussion at Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2018 December. Input there is welcome.Icewhiz (talk) 07:13, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Xx236,

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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NPA please

I kindly request you do not call or imply that I am a Nazi (or engaging in "pure Nazism") as you seem to be doing in diff. Icewhiz (talk) 13:31, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Xx236,

News
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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Your draft article, Draft:Świdnicka Street, Wrocław

Hello, Xx236. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Świdnicka Street".

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NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Xx236,

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.

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May 2019

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in Eastern Europe or the Balkans. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Icewhiz (talk) 03:40, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

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You have shown interest in living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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Icewhiz (talk) 03:40, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Please discuss content/edits, not editors

Saying that someone is 'fighting a war' is a WP:NPA. Please WP:REFACTOR your comment and avoid NPAs in the future. Thank you, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:14, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Daniel Blatman moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Daniel Blatman, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Hitro talk 10:42, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Notice of arbitration

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism in Poland. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism in Poland/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 23, 2019, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism in Poland/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, – bradv🍁 15:05, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Warning on personal attacks while involved in arbitration case

Editors who are involved in an arbitration case are cautioned to be extra-careful and not push Wikipedia policy limits such as personal attacks and abusive behavior. Two editors on the Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism in Poland/Evidence page already cataloged extensive personal attacks you've made over the last couple of months in this topic area.
Your edits on SlimVirgin's talk page here were yet another personal attack and very unhelpful.
I would like to strongly urge you to stop attacking other editors and back away from personal interaction with other editors on this topic while the arbitration case is ongoing. Comment there, and please don't pick fights elsewhere on this topic right now. Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 08:50, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Xx236,

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.

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WP:NPA

Please do not use article talk pages to insult other editors as you've done here: [2]. If you have an issue with an editor's behaviour, please discuss with them directly on their user Talk page, or use an appropriate admin noticeboard. --K.e.coffman (talk) 00:12, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Ways to improve Stephan Lehnstaedt

Hello, Xx236,

Thanks for creating Stephan Lehnstaedt! I edit here too, under the username Domdeparis and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

Hi this really need more sources to show notability. I am surprised to see this from someone with NPR rights.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Domdeparis}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

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Dom from Paris (talk) 11:58, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

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