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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.
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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)
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Joyous Season
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I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. — Coffee //  have a ☕️ //  beans  // 10:21, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * Have a good one, friend. You're a good egg. <3 -- a they/them &#124; argue &#124; contribs 13:57, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
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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.
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Precious
You are recipient no. 2389 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:46, 1 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm genuinely speechless. <3 -- a they/them &#124; argue &#124; contribs 18:47, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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Are you aware that Wikimedia has an unofficial discord server? I just wanted to be certain. --I dream of horses (t) (c) Remember to &#123;&#123;ping&#125;&#125; me after replying off my talk page 00:07, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

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Hello, I just sent you an email to ensure that I am actually giving the correct advice to another editor! If you do not recieve it please let me know. Thank you!JenOttawa (talk) 23:18, 10 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Seen and replied. Cheers, -- a they/them &#124; argue &#124; contribs 23:18, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

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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.

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Pride flag
Hi Alfie,

I'm a relatively new editor and another queer, angry puddle of dysphoria. Can I steal your pride flag markup for my user page? I know it's not great etiquette to put this on your talk page, and that Wikipedia's licensing theoretically lets me do whatever I want with text content, but I'd feel bad not asking and don't know how else to do so.

Thanks, JeanLackE (talk) 05:52, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , yes, you should feel free. Wikipedia is a collaborative project, you might want to give credit, but given how basic the elements are, you might not need to. Ed 6767   talk!  20:45, 31 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I have seen this, too. -- a they/them &#124; argue &#124; contribs 22:19, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

User:Alfie/UsersToMonitor
Apologies to bring this up again, but this list could be misinterpreted as WP:HOUNDING, especially considering many users on the list are editing in good faith and haven't abused their tools. If you are going to engage in monitoring of this kind, it's better to keep your list off-wiki imo, especially as a user could stumble across it and feel disheartened, harassed or defamed. In case you decide to, you can use db-g7 to request its deletion. Many thanks, Ed 6767   talk!  20:55, 31 July 2020 (UTC)


 * I have seen this. -- a they/them &#124; argue &#124; contribs 22:20, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's for the record - it's your choice to communicate regarding my concerns or simply make use of WP:BLANKING again. Left this message to avoid a WP:MfD. Ed 6767   talk!  22:32, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

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Disruptive edditing
Someone is inserting misleading informtion in the middle of my text input Please help me I have given citation but he continues to do so We are having active discussion yet he continues to add something in the middle of my text which is difficult to trace Spmunshi (talk) 06:11, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

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I need help to setup a dispute resolution request to resolve a content dispute on the #ADOS Wikipedia page. I’m new so I’m not familiar with the coding necessary to  initiate a dispute resolution  intervention. Any help you could provide me would be gratefully appreciated. Robjwev (talk) 13:49, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
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 * I'm going to assume you're referring to User talk:Robjwev, in which case you have no case for dispute resolution, but Struthious Bandersnatch does. -- Squeeps10 Talk to meMy edits 01:01, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter
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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.
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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.
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Merry Christmas
May Jesus Christ bless you and your loved ones on this day. Merry Christmas!RAJIVVASUDEV (talk) 02:20, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

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feedback please
HI Alfie! I have completed one draft of my essay at User:Vincentvikram/Always_keep_context_in_mind_when_arguing_claims. Would you be able to have a look and provide feedback. Thanks! Vikram Vincent 10:43, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:40, 1 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Appreciate it. <3 -- a they/them &#124; argue &#124; contribs 21:15, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Threat Intelligence Platform
Hi Alfie, regarding your recent edit:

curprev 21:46, 25 June 2021‎ Alfie talk contribs‎ 12,631 bytes −1,896‎ rv - unencyclopaedic, potentially promotional undothank Tag: Undo

I am curious what the concern is? To help solve the flag issues on the page, I added direct references to recognized authorities. Trying to understand how that is promotional? CyberUpdateUser (talk) 23:13, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

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