User talk:AmericanAir88/Archive 8

For adopting F, a barnstar!
Thank you. Much appreciated. AmericanAir88(talk) 17:38, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
The article E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 00:20, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice
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About Black Ruby article
Hello AmericanAir88, you created the Black Ruby article in 2018. I clarified at that time I was an employer of the movie studio Ave Fenix ​Pictures out of Chicago. I wanted to ask your opinion and hopefully guidance about the deletion of the article you approved. Why did that happen? (Highlighting the fact that the same editor proposed deleting all our movie pages on May 11th) The article appears to be deleted because it lacked references that showcased significant coverage with in-depth information, but I do contend that the references were always significantly obvious and multiple in relation to the article. I do not understand how a group of references can be enough for a reviewer and not another? I do need to mention what strikes me is that two days before this happened an email was sent to our film studio asking for precise wordage to be removed from several of our Wikipedia articles in relation to a movie. Within 48 hours all of our studio and movie pages on Wikipedia were proposed to deletion. I would like to know to whom I have to escalate this fact, which seems to be an organized act for the deletion of all our articles. Also, I would be grateful in your assistance to recover the article if that possibility still exists, and improve it, if that is the legitimate reason behind its removal. (I am sending the same message to all reviewers who approved the Drafts of the articles). Thanks!--Michael.j.schwartz (talk) 06:12, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

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.
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 * 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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Hope you have recovered
You are missed. -Ad Orientem (talk) 06:19, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

I miss you too. I still have lingering symptoms, but the big thing is that work has been crazy due to the pandemic. I am getting another COVID test soon. I should test negative as I hope the lingering symptoms are just post-virus stuff.

Trust me, I really want to be back. I miss Wikipedia so much. I miss users like you and.

I will be back. I promise. Hopefully it will be very soon. I have just been so busy with work since the virus screwed things up.

See you really soon.

User:AmericanAir88/NHLtoGA Drive
Hey,

I'm not sure if you're still working on this but I'm currently trying to get the 2018–19 St. Louis Blue roster to GA status (see my progress here. Maybe we could collaborate since we are working towards similar goals. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:47, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * That would be great. I have been extremely busy, but it is a great idea. Contact me for any help.

AmericanAir88(talk) 01:12, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Amusement Park notification
There are recently-posted discussions at WikiProject Amusement Parks you may be interested in contributing to, located here: WT:WikiProject Amusement Parks. Thank you. --GoneIn60 (talk) 15:27, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
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Talk:E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)/GA1
AmericanAir88, I noticed that you've been a bit more active of late, so I'm hoping you'll soon feel well enough to return to your GA nomination here and start working on the issues raised in the review. Thanks, and feel better! BlueMoonset (talk) 04:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

2020 Stanley Cup playoffs
I hope that you're healing well. This message is in regard to your proposed splitting of the 2020 playoff article. It appears that we have reached consensus in the conversation so if you're not opposed to it I would like to remove the tag from the article and declare the conversation complete. I will wait until you have a chance to respond before doing anything. Deadman137 (talk) 16:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
The article E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 01:21, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

September Women in Red edithons
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October editathons from Women in Red
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November edit-a-thons from Women in Red
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December with Women in Red
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Translate an article in Russian
Hey AmericanAir88! I see you can translate Russian articles to English. Since you are interested in aviation, can you translate this article? Thanks!--Fernandokaiserbr (talk) 12:14, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Hey. Ive been really busy. I will try to do the translation over time. Thanks for reaching out. AmericanAir88(talk) 00:41, 4 December 2020 (UTC) Okay then, it was just an advise, it's not that urgent.--Fernandokaiserbr (talk) 10:23, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

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.
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A New Year With Women in Red!
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Happy New Year!




 AmericanAir88 , Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! North America1000 06:05, 3 January 2021 (UTC)


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Thank you! I really hope to get active again in editing. I have been so much. I hope you are doing well. AmericanAir88(talk</b>) 02:09, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Sharecare article assistance
Hi AmericanAir88! I work with Sharecare and am helping flag appropriate updates to the article (Reaching out instead of making the edit myself in keeping with Wikipedia Terms of Use & conflict of interest rules). Do you have a moment to review my request at Talk:Sharecare? It remains unanswered though I included the edit request template and have posted to a few relevant WikiProjects.

I saw that you've assisted other users with a conflict of interest before, so I thought you might have helpful perspective or guidance here. I also see you've had a lot going on recently so I hope this finds you well recovered on all fronts! Any feedback would be welcome, and thanks for any consideration. Thanks! SCbhaynes (talk) 20:19, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

April editathons from Women in Red
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Nomination for deletion
An article you created or have significantly contributed to has been nominated for deletion. The article is being discussed at the deletion discussion, located here. North America1000 11:48, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

May 2021 at Women in Red
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GAN Backlog Drive - July 2021
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Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
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August Editathons at Women in Red
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What happened
(I honestly do not know who else to ping, but I really hope people see this. Ive met so many great ppl)

As you can tell, my activity has not been the same at all since March 2020. I have had different updates over the time, but they aren't the most detailed and I really want to explain the lack of substantial activity.

After my failed RfA, I felt very down but I still maintained activity. Back in 2019, I had a goal of even increasing my activity and helping Wikipedia as much as I can. However, In March 2020, I contracted COVID-19. I got it from commuting to NYC and it hit me bad. I was very sick for a 1.5 months and had to deal with others around me getting the virus. I felt awful and to this day, my smell and taste are only 85% back. I was unable to do Wikipedia during that time.

I made it clear that once I recovered I would be back to 100% editing power. However, it did not happen. Summer 2020 was a turbulent time. Work, personal life, and the world situation caused me to still not be at my editing capability. In the Fall and Winter of 2020 I thought editing was going to get back to the swing of things. I think I even mentioned to people I was coming back. I did admittedly have a big gap during the holiday season.

However, after March 13th 2021, my activity began to plummet for some reason. I found myself just getting busier and dealing with multiple things. Life, work, and other projects. I am so ashamed in my activity for April, May, and June.

I realized that I need to bring AA88 back. I want to be back to the way things used to be prior to 2020. I want to edit and help clear those backlogs. Do whatever it takes to help out.

Bear with me, I will be back. I will ease into it and there may be ups/downs, but I, AmericanAir88, will never leave Wikipedia. I hope to see you all soon. Please spread the word with the projects of Wiki that I am returning overtime.

Best, <b style="color: blue">AmericanAir88</b>(<b style="color: darkred">talk</b>) 21:22, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi AA. I recall running across an earlier report of yours, and by coincidence thought of you and upon checking in saw your message here. Just want to let you know that you're not alone, there are other covid long-termers on Wikipedia I'm sure. One of them may even have caught it on an AA flight, back in March 2020 when Dr. Fauci was still saying you didn't need to wear a mask, and major airport terminals were still crowded with few ppl wearing masks and very little social distancing in queues. Please don't feel ashamed, there's no need for that; this is a volunteer project. I always have more work to do than time to do it, so if you need help finding stuff to do, I can suggest things, if I have a better idea of your talents and interests. Regards, wbm1058 (talk) 22:25, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks man. Suggestions are appreciated.

UPDATE: Still one month from this announcement I did. Been really busy this August. <b style="color: blue">AmericanAir88</b>(<b style="color: darkred">talk</b>) 02:43, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

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)

Orphaned non-free image File:1995 NHL Logo.png
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Nomination of List of water parks in the Americas for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of water parks in the Americas 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 Articles for deletion/List of water parks in the Americas 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.

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