User talk:1l2l3k

Welcome
I hope you're going to contribute to the articles on enwiki too.--Udha (talk) 16:16, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:14th-century establishments in Albania


A tag has been placed on Category:14th-century establishments in Albania requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Articles for deletion/Maggie Aiono
Because you participated in Articles for deletion/Alefosio Laki, you may be interested in Articles for deletion/Maggie Aiono. Papaursa (talk) 00:01, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted
Hi 1l2l3k. Your account has been added to the " " user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or nominate them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is vital to maintaining the integrity of the encylopedia. If you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the deletion policy. If you need any help or want to discuss the process, you are welcome to use the new page reviewer talk page. In addition, please remember: The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In cases of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right may be revoked by an administrator. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:27, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Be nice to new editors. They are usually not aware that they are doing anything wrong.
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Martin Gjoka
Per this request, I spotted it on Gerda's talk page on my watchlist so I just went ahead and userfied it for you at User:1l2l3k/Martin Gjoka. Not that there's too much of interest there, it's just a one-liner  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 21:28, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Wermund Bendtsen
, thank you for reviewing Wermund Bendtsen on which you have placed a notability query. May I ask you to reconsider that template? I am in the process of chasing up all the photographers included in The Family of Man exhibition which was seen by 9 million visitors on its world tour in the 1950s. Knowledge of every photographer in the exhibition will be of value to researchers in the ongoing evaluation of this ground-breaking photography exhibition. Bendtsen was the sole Danish photographer included. For that reason and because as a result of his contribution to that exhibition he is now represented at Museum of Modern Art and at Clervaux Castle as well as having a collection at the Danish Archives. Certainly the record of his early life (at least amongst English sources - I don't speak Danish) is scant prior to his becoming a photographer, but he was evidently prominent in Denmark once he started operating professionally. His production of films (as cinematographer and director of photography) and of picture books is ample: equal to and greater than comparable photographers whose bios are on WP, American Nell Dorr for example, around whom there is no such query about notability. Thank you for your consideration of my request. Jamesmcardle(talk) 01:15, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I had tagged for notability mostly to grab your attention in regards, as I DID mark "reviewed" anyways, and it seems like I succeeded in having that attention, :-). After reading your request above I will AGF your sources and removed the notability tag. I'll leave the other, source improvement tag, though, as we don't have a death date and we are unsure if this is a BLP article or not. I will leave it up to you to remove that too, once you clarify the death year, and determine whether this person is still alive. Other improvements can be made too. --1l2l3k (talk) 12:49, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
 * , thank you for drawing my attention and for your quick amendment, and yes, I understand the date of death needs urgent fixing, so will keep working on this article. All the best, Jamesmcardle(talk) 23:02, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Thanks for reviewing Blackened death metal, 1l2l3k.

Unfortunately Barkeep49 has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

"Marking as unreviewed since this isn't eligible for G4 csd and review status happened automatically. Feel free to mark it reviewed if you think appropriate."

To reply, leave a comment on Barkeep49's talk page.

Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:45, 8 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I think that page can eventually stay, as it was improved, so I put something in the talk page in regard, as well as added the banners. Consensus can change over time. Considering the improvements, if someone brings to AFD, I will consider voting "keep". --1l2l3k (talk) 16:00, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree it was improved substantially. I wasn't interested in reviewing the sources but am not surprised someone who did marked it as patrolled. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:02, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Haha, that someone marking "reviewed" was me, but I needed you pulling my ear with that removal of CSD, which made me check the version of 2008. --1l2l3k (talk) 16:03, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes I knew in this instance it was you :). BTW if you patrol the "oldest" end of the log you might be interested in the workflow I've made sorry if I've suggested this your way already . One important thing I've found that isn't true when patrolling the newest end is really investigating the history of the page before trying to do any other NPP steps. Hope you find the workflow helpful and if you think there any additions/changes feel free to make them. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:16, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, this will be useful. Nice work, btw! --1l2l3k (talk) 16:21, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nominations
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Alfons Tracki at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with db-g7, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 06:46, 9 August 2018 (UTC) Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Summer Theatre of Tirana at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with db-g7, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 06:46, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Ramiz Kovaçi
Hello! Your submission of Ramiz Kovaçi at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:19, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Murder of the family of Robert Einstein
Thank you for the encouragement! The article has already been nominated by User:Catrìona at Template:Did you know nominations/Murder of the family of Robert Einstein.Turismond (talk) 06:34, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Alfons Tracki
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

A year ago, you were recipient no. 2005 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:43, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Chiromyiformes
Might want to check the edit history before leaving comments. :-) -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:58, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Dear, I did check the history, and marked as reviewed. Those tags are necessary in general, as the author of the article is reminded to improve the article, as much as possible. Still, I removed a couple of tags. Although necessary, I don't want to be perceived as a tag bomber, and I don't want to scare too much the author, rather help, but I did leave the 1 source thing, and I had also sent a message in his talkpage. Is there anything in particular that you would have done better in your review? --1l2l3k (talk) 20:04, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, personally, I would have probably tagged the person who changed the redirect into an article today, instead of the person who created the redirect 14 years ago. -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:13, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * You're right. It had fooled me that the person who created the redirect is still active (last edit was less than a week ago). I followed your suggestion. Too many edits today. Be well, and thanks for dropping by my page. --1l2l3k (talk) 20:23, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. :-) You have a great one too! -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:47, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Jordan Misja Artistic Lyceum
Hello! Your submission of Jordan Misja Artistic Lyceum at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:29, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 19:48, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 20:48, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Summer Theatre of Tirana
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Gaqo Çako
Ritchie333 00:02, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Serruria elongata
Please see note on your DYK review. The article was really hard to read; didn't you notice that? Yoninah (talk) 23:32, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Ramiz Kovaçi
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Jordan Misja Artistic Lyceum
Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

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NPR
I have extended your membertship of the Nerw Page Reviewer group indefinitely. Please review as many pages as you can, as often as you can. Just as important right now is that you turn out to vote at the Wishlist for the  Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements. Voting takes place 16 to 30 November. See also The Signpost special report: NPP needs You. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:51, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Tags in NPR
Hey, I just saw your edit summaries over at Mohamad Safa mentioning that "tags aren't helpful", and I wanted to ask why you felt this way. Personally, especially when editing from the back if the NPP queue, I find that tags, and particularly the notability tag are very useful both for quickly identifying at a glance whether an article has received any attention from another editor that isn't a major contributor, as well as a warning to editors that the article may soon be nominated for deletion if sourcing is not improved. If no one touches the article for several days after, I consider it safe to proceed with PROD or draftifying without fear of biting the initial editor. In the specific case of Mohamad Safa, I wasn't able to conclusively determine from translations that the Arabic sources weren't sufficient to meet GNG and thus didn't want to nominate for deletion, but nevertheless was highly skeptical of their quality and was further concerned that the subject's claim to fame appeared to be as a representative from an apparently non-notable NGO to the UN.At any rate, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on tag use while patrolling.signed,Rosguill talk 01:21, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm glad it caught your attention. I think that reviewers should really do the research on notability of each article and make a decision, otherwise another reviewer will need to go through the same path. It may take reviewing less articles, but a decision needs to be made. A tag on the potential issues of notability of an article is really not helpful; you already know that if the article has not been reviewed yet, it is likely because it's difficult to determine notability. Again, nothing personal, but I LOVE TO SEE DECISIVENESS. --1l2l3k (talk) 01:53, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

AE
I reported you to AE for violation of WIkipedia policy for undoing my edits. AND you falsely stated that I wasn't involved in the talk page, where I clearly was. Gobulls (talk) 17:33, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * You made a mistake. My reverts are at a distance of 4 days, not 24 hours. You'll learn. --1l2l3k (talk) 17:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Request
Hi, Per your advice I have made changes in the article” Baskut Tuncak” which you put on list for deletion. It was actually good and I thank you for directing me to improve the article. I appreciate if you could remove the deletion tag. I hope to have more guidance from you in the future. Thank you again, Alex-h (talk) 23:56, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Can't move the deletion tag, as it's being discussed right now, and I see a user already voting "delete" so even if I wanted to, that would not be permitted. --1l2l3k (talk) 16:16, 9 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply. I can Waite. Alex-h (talk) 23:07, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
While the article you proposed for speedy deletion was pretty poor I don't think this was an appropriate course of action for such an obviously substantial organisation. Rathfelder (talk) 23:53, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Maybe so, but this editor had the same thoughts as me. I see it expanded now, which is great. Sometimes questionable actions suscitate great edits. At this point I would vote for a keep. --1l2l3k (talk) 10:00, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

TNT Latin America
Hi there,

I guess you noticed it shortly after reverting me, but I wasn't the person who removed the redirect, I was just gnoming :-D

Anyway, good on you for reinstating the redirect. That "article" was dubious at best. --Slashme (talk) 11:52, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
Hello ,
 * Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
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Request
Hi, The article Baskut Tuncak that you put on deletion list, I have edited a few times, in total I have put more than 23 sources. His UN mandate was renewed in September 2017 for another 3 years. Is there anything else I need to do about this article? If not, I request that now after 12 days, you kindly remove the deletion tag. Thank you once again for improving my article. Alex-h (talk) 21:50, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions notice: post-1932 politics of the United States and biographies of living persons
—Sangdeboeuf (talk) 17:16, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Linda Sarsour
Greetings. Please do not use the talk page to post your personal commentary about Sarsour's "unconventional" views or any other topic. BLP policy applies to talk pages as well as articles; any contentious material about living persons that is not directly supported by a published, reliable source may be removed. Please also note that multiple sets of discretionary sanctions apply to this article and its talk page. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 17:29, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * You are misinterpreting policies, Sang: hiding against them, you are shutting me off from the relative talk pages. Your bullying tactics will be reported. --1l2l3k (talk) 18:02, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Please do so. Then it can be explained to you in detail why saying that followed by  amounts to a very selective interpretation of the source material and verges on character assassination of a living person. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 18:16, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh I'm sure it will. You are a full time "volunteer" here, so you must be right.--1l2l3k (talk) 18:24, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions notice: Arab–Israeli conflict
Any material dealing with Hamas and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in general falls under WP:1RR. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 18:30, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

773d MP Battalion
Hi, thanks for moving this page forward. Under WP:MILUNIT consensus at the Milhist project would deem it notable, but at present nobody's dug up the sources - have to go to Baton Rouge for the full answers - to provide the details and sources, though the U.S. Army Lineage Series on Military Police would help. Thus for the moment I have upmerged the article to Louisiana Army National Guard and reduced it to a redirect with a category. Feel free to come back to me with comments/disagreements. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 10:24, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Only wikilinks render as wikilinks in edit summaries. Everything else is just raw text. w umbolo  ^^^  21:29, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh well, I'm sure Sangdeboeuf will see my edit, :-). --1l2l3k (talk) 21:31, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Got nothing better to do than hound me?
— MShabazz Talk/Stalk 23:07, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Checking your contributions is a good thing for Wiki, not a bad one. --1l2l3k (talk) 23:16, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

WP:ARBPIA3
If you haven't read it yet, now's a good time. AGF — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 23:17, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I read it, and if the IP makes a useful addition not necessarily we need to revert it. The contribution was backed by a source. We keep a bunch of material in wikipedia that was added by users that are blocked or banned. How about you read the fifth pillar? We are merely trying to get to the best writing possible. --1l2l3k (talk) 23:24, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

1RR violation
Your latest edit at Linda Sarsour broke the 1RR restriction that applies to the article. Please self-revert or you may be blocked from editing. — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 23:29, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * How so? I have only 1 revert there. Where is the second? --1l2l3k (talk) 23:33, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm self reverting, just in case, assuming your good faith with this matter, :-). --1l2l3k (talk) 23:35, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm really not sure why you would ever think that a literal exact duplicate of a section should go in an article twice? There's already consensus reached on the talk page as to the material and where it belongs. Please engage in that discussion if you disagree. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 23:37, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm Ok with the current version. --1l2l3k (talk) 00:36, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Sincere apologies. You're right. The restriction was changed on 19 November. Before that, it prohibited an editor from restoring material that was removed within 24 hours. See WP:ARBPIA, particularly the last superseded version. Again, sorry. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 00:32, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * No worries, Malik. Eventually mine wasn't a happy solution. --1l2l3k (talk) 00:36, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The edit page warning still clearly states that If an edit is reverted by another editor, its original author may not restore it within 24 hours of the first revert made to their edit. So either you knew all along that the ARBPIA restriction had been amended, or you simply thought you could get away with edit warring. I'll leave it up to others to judge which is more likely. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 02:31, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, I already reverted myself, S, and I don't intend to break any rules. And, no I had not read that. --1l2l3k (talk) 02:38, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Qerim Sadiku
Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello ,

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
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See also the list of top100 reviewers.

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 * Less good news, and an appeal for some help

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3December 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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Tabiti Merge Discussion
There is currently a discussion to merge the article Tabiti into Scythian Religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tabiti Squatch347 (talk) 14:49, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year


wish you a Happy Christmas & a prosperous 2019 Alex-h (talk) 20:35, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

2019


Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

Happy 2019 -

begin it with music and memories

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17


Hello ,


 * News
 * The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.


 * Discussions of interest
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 * 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.

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NPR Newsletter No.18


Hello ,

, 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:
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * 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.

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.
 * Reliable Sources for NPP

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.
 * Backlog drive coming soon


 * News
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.


 * Discussions of interest
 * A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
 * There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
 * What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019


Hello ,

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * QUALITY of REVIEWING
 * Backlog
 * Move to draft
 * Notifying users
 * PERM
 * Other news

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello ,

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 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.
 * Backlog

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
 * Coordinator

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for  making  the occasional  mistake while  others can learn from  their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
 * This month's refresher course

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
 * Deletion tags

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
 * Paid editing


 * Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
 * Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent  enhancements to  the New Pages Feed and  features in the Curation  tool, and there are still more to  come. Due to the wealth  of information  now displayed by  ORES, reviewers are strongly  encouraged to  use the system now rather than Twinkle; it  will  also  correctly  populate the logs.
 * 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, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
 * Tools

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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Peja or Peć?
You and I had a discussion last year on my Talk Page at User talk:Narky Blert/2018.

There is an open WP:RM discussion in which you might be interested at Talk:Peć. It seems to have been going on for ever. I have no strong opinion, and have not contributed (though I lean towards Peja).

In any event, I assume that you and I can agree that 'Pec' instead of 'Peć' is just plain wrong; 'c' and 'ć' are different letters, no matter what some English-speaking editors might think. Narky Blert (talk) 23:00, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello ,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Getting the queue to 0
 * Coordinator
 * This month's refresher course
 * Tools
 * It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
 * It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
 * Reviewer Feedback
 * Second set of eyes
 * Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
 * Do be sure to have our talk page  on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
 * Arbitration Committee
 * Community Wish list

New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello ,

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
 * Source Guide Discussion

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
 * Redirects


 * Discussions and Resources
 * There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
 * A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
 * A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
 * A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
 * Refresher

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello ,

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference. In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
 * Your help can make a difference
 * Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
 * Discussions and Resources
 * A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
 * Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
 * A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
 * Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:08, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Church of Saint Roch
Please note that disambiguation pages like Church of Saint Roch are meant to help readers find a specific existing article quickly and easily. For that reason, they have guidelines that are different from articles. From the Disambiguation dos and don'ts you should:


 * Only list articles that readers might reasonably be looking for
 * Use short sentence fragment descriptions, with no punctuation at the end
 * Use exactly one navigable link ("blue link") in each entry that mentions the title being disambiguated
 * Only add a "red link" if used in existing articles, and include a "blue link" to an appropriate article
 * Do not pipe links (unless style requires it) – keep the full title of the article visible
 * Do not insert external links or references - Wikipedia is not a business directory

Thank you. Leschnei (talk) 12:56, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello ,



It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to and  who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to, , and who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
 * Year in review

has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
 * Reviewer of the Year

As a special recognition and thank you has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
 * NPP Technical Achievement Award

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello ,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our  Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but  there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

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 or its software. Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:30, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello ,

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 Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 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 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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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello ,

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.
 * Backlog status

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).

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.
 * Backlog drive

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.
 * TIP – New school articles

There is a new template available,, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
 * Misc

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 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

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
(t &#183; c)  buidhe  20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello ,

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 and, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
 * Backlog status

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: and  have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out.  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 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.

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NPP message
Hi ,

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.
 * Invitation

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
(t &#183; c)  buidhe  21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022
Hello , Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to ), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also. Software news: and  have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved. Suggestions:
 * There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
 * Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
 * Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
 * This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.

Backlog: Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!


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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023
Hello , The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day. won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
 * Backlog
 * 2022 Awards

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from  to  '''

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as and  have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.


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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
Hello , Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by  and  with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of, and also some patches from , has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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New pages patrol needs your help!
Hello , The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

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Sent by using  at 06:58, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol newsletter
Hello ,

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive
 Hello 1l2l3k:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:09, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello ,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)