User talk:Andrew nyr/Archives/2023/June

Be bold!
Today I stumbled upon the article of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and was intrigued by the banner at the top declaring that the article was "written like an advertisement." ("This article contains content that is written like an advertisement.") With a bit of research, I found that it was you who left that banner at:

23:56 on May 19, 2020 diff hist +47‎  Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School ‎ Added  tag ( TW).

What concerns me about that banner is that in my research I found that – although the writing of the article appeared like an advertisement to you and that disturbed you enough to leave a banner about it – that you made no effort to correct the article yourself. You just popped a banner at the top declaring a problem. Adding such a banner to an article implies that in your opinion you think that someone should correct the problem. I would like to encourage you that before you leave banners, you be the someone who makes an effort to correct the issue so that no banner is required. I see that you are an experienced Wikipedia editor so I probably do not need to remind you that Wikipedia encourages editors to be bold. With your experience, I have no doubt that you have the ability to correct any article written as an advertisement whether you have knowledge of the subject or not. Before leaving a banner, ask yourself if you can fix the problem so that no banner is required. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia and I wish you all the best. MarydaleEd (talk) 02:39, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
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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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