User talk:Carwil

Porvenir Massacre article
Well done for starting the Porvenir Massacre article and for writing a balanced overview of a controversial issue. I'm putting a barnstar on your page in recognition of your contribution.

Your constructive contribution
Hello, Carwil. It is nice to meet you personally on your talk page. Let me quote User:Macrakis:
 * Wikipedia has tremendous potential, but it is discouraging to see how much effort we have to spend to deal with mindless vandalism, puerile boosterism and nationalism, and crank POV-pushing. It is also time-consuming to correct well-meaning but ill-informed enthusiasts, and to try to educate people about good research practices, but at least there you feel you're acting in an educational role.  --Macrakis 18:27, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I personally have family (wife kids), day job, sport activities. All those topics come before editing Wikipedia on my TODO list, generally. Anyway stay well. AgadaUrbanit (talk) 18:13, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Arbitration
It looks like you have not been notified of the additional scrutiny the topic area is under. This is your notification of that. The case page mentions a "warning" but please look at this as no more than a simple heads up on it since the only concern was that revertlike edit at Psagot. Not a major concern but it is slightly annoying and could grow into a larger problem if editors start knee-jerking. SO to make sure everyone is on the same page: "As a result of an arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee has acknowledged long-term and persistent problems in the editing of articles related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, broadly understood. As a result, the Committee has enacted broad editing restrictions, described here." Cptnono (talk) 23:02, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Autopatrolled
Hello, this is just to let you know that I have granted you the "autopatrolled" permission. This won't affect your editing, it just automatically marks any page you create as patrolled, benefiting new page patrollers. Please remember:
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barnstar
 The Donald Trumpstar

for lauditory work at Presidential transition of Donald Trump LavaBaron (talk) 02:55, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Complimentary Gamergate Notification
Avono (talk) 18:57, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Talk at Wikipedia Day 18 NYC
I very much enjoyed your talk at Wikipedia Day 18 NYC on Sunday. I was poking around and found a couple of things that might be of interest. First, there is a project at Open Street Map called Open Historical Map, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map that maybe a good home for creating thematic maps that reflect what has happened to people in a more balanced way. Their FAQ page could use some text on the problems you are trying to solve.

I suppose you are aware that we have a commons:Category:Maps of indigenous peoples of the Americas which has a number of maps that may meet part of your goals. In particular I was struck by File:Young folks' history of the United States (1903) (14775227994).jpg which does not have a modern state boundary background and was in a book for children from 1903. I wonder how authoritative it is and if it should be used in one of our introductory articles--agr (talk)

Edit-a-thon at Vanderbilt for REAL Symposium
Hope you can join us this saturday. We could use your help! --Heathart (talk) 17:09, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thanks for editing with the Black Lunch Table!

Heathart (talk) 19:56, 23 March 2019 (UTC) 

Invitation to discus the rule on whether to include the victims names
Dear Carwil,

I hereby invite you to discuss a possible new rule on whether or not the name of victims should be included on various articles (i.e. Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Santa Fe High School shooting.

The discussion can be found here: Village_pump_(idea_lab)

TheHoax (talk) 17:23, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia Reviewing
Dear Carwil,

I had a question as to why a new page is deleted even if there is citation in it. What is the main reason for it. Kindly waiting for your response.

Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terminatorwil (talk • contribs) 10:54, 15 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi,, thanks for joining to and contributing to Wikipedia. Most deletions of new articles, including the Chuka article you recently discussed happen due to questions about whether the subject is notable enough to merit their own page. Different portions of the encyclopedia have developed standards such as those for actors. So yes, there must be a citation but also evidence within the citations that the subject (1) has significant independent coverage, and (2) meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. Often, as in this case, the coverage of the subject in a foreign language context is better known to the new article writer than to the editors discussing the matter. Your role as the writer is to find, translate and include the relevant information to show that the notability criteria are met. And if they are not to gracefully put your editing skills to work on notable topics.--Carwil (talk) 18:09, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Proposing revisions to Public charge rule
Hello Carwil! I am the co-founder of a company, Boundless Immigration, that helps individuals apply for green cards and U.S. citizenship. Before that, I worked on immigration policy in the Obama White House.

After reviewing Wikipedia’s Public charge rule article, I have suggestions for improving it. For example, the current article does not distinguish among the three different public charge regulations that have been finalized (or are soon to be proposed) by DHS, the State Department, and DOJ. It also does not clearly distinguish between the two separate parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act that deal with public charge as a grounds for inadmissibility vs. deportability.

This is an area I know reasonably well, having developed a wide range of public education materials and legal analyses of the public charge rule(s) through Boundless. Yet because of that intersection between my position with Boundless and my work on the public charge rule, I believe I may have a conflict of interest if I directly edit the article.

For more background, here’s a link to the resources that Boundless has made available about the various public charge rules: https://www.boundless.com/public-charge-rule

And here is a draft Wikipedia article about the company: Draft:Boundless Immigration. I am in the process of editing and updating the draft, with the required COI disclosure.

If you agree that I do have a COI with respect to the Public charge rule article, would you be willing to review my suggestions on the talk page of the article and, if you agree with them, make the revisions? I would appreciate your feedback on any proposed changes you do not agree with, of course. I could use the Simple conflict of interest edit request form if that's helpful. I am also happy to make purely technical improvements to the page, such as adding in-line citations, if you would like for me to do that. Thank you in advance! Messier6 (talk) 02:05, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice
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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
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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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DYK nomination of Villa Tunari Massacre
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DYK for Villa Tunari Massacre
—valereee (talk) 00:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Human genetic clustering
I have submitted the page on human genetic clustering for deletion at Articles for deletion/Human genetic clustering. I saw that you contributed a section a while back and wanted to notify you.Citing (talk) 15:40, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Human genetic clustering for deletion
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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.
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Proposed deletion of File:Notes from the Second Year cover, New York Radical Women.jpg


The file File:Notes from the Second Year cover, New York Radical Women.jpg has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Non-free cover art whose non-free use in The personal is political fails WP:NFCC (WP:NFC). While the essay may be Wikipedia notable, there's no reason to show the cover of the publication it appeared in unless the cover art itself is the subject of sourced critical commentary; so, basically this file's non-free use in WP:DECORATIVE in the article about the essay and removing the file from the article is not going to be detrimental to the reader's understanding of the article per WP:NFC. For reference, the file was also being used in New York Radical Women and Shulamith Firestone, but these uses didn't have the separate specific non-free use rationale required by WP:NFCC; so, the file was removed from those articles per WP:NFCCE. The file's use in those other two articles also doesn't seem to satisfy NFCC#8 and simply adding a rationale for each would not make the file's non-free use in each policy compliant per WP:JUSTONE."

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File:Notes from the Second Year cover, New York Radical Women.jpg listed for discussion
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Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
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Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict...please fill out my survey?
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Nomination for deletion of Template:El Alto municipal election, 2010
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Cabinet of Evo Morales 2010-2015
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Cabinet of Evo Morales 2015-2019
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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.

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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.

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Template error
In Wiki Ed/Vanderbilt University/Research on Conflict and Collective Action (spring 2022), there is a template error because main is not used as intended. For the illustration, it can be changed to. Can you make this change in the Wiki Ed location? MB 20:53, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Sacaba and Senkata
Hi! I see that you're the primary editor on the articles Sacaba massacre and Senkata massacre. I am currently working on rewriting the bio article for Jeanine Áñez and in doing so I intend to substantially shorten the Senkata and Sacaba report and charges section to only what is relevant to Áñez in particular. I just wanted to make sure that everything in that section is already covered in the respective Sacaba and Senkata articles so as to avoid possibly removing important information. Thanks! Krisgabwoosh (talk) 01:25, 8 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for asking, . As of now, I've copied out anything of use in this section except for the last paragraph, which should probably remain on Jeanine Áñez anyway. Collaborative greetings to you.--Carwil (talk) 21:41, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest. Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
 * AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Hermitage enslaved population
Template:Hermitage enslaved population has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 08:45, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Erasure of an indigenous group
Hi Carwil! I recall that in your WikiConference North America plenary last year, you discussed an example of editors contributing to cultural erasure by prematurely declaring the Wukchumni language extinct. I just came across a related example that I wanted to draw to your attention. The last male member of the Amazonian Juma people died of COVID-19 last February, but he had three daughters who married into other tribes and several multiethnic grandchildren. An editor (since blocked) changed the article last October, stating without sourcing that the daughters had also died and the tribe gone extinct. Searching, I couldn't find any coverage indicating that, but the edits stuck around until I just reverted them today. This is clearly a poorly monitored area, but even so, falsely declaring an entire ethnic group extinct for more than 6 months is a pretty egregious error. (Courtesy pinging UnitedStatesian who previously reverted at the article and Ponyo who blocked the editor later for socking.) &#123;{u&#124;  Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:23, 27 April 2022 (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.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
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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.


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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
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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.


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 * 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.


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NPP message
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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.
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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".
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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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Hi! I'm currently working on expanding Wikipedia's article on David Choquehuanca, the vice president of Bolivia, and was wondering if you could provide some insight, specifically regarding his policy as the country's foreign minister. In a 2020 article, you touch on "diplomacy of the peoples" and the ideas of "Vivir Bien". Perhaps you could point me to some sources you consulted on the topic? Cheers! Krisgabwoosh (talk) 22:39, 17 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for asking… In terms of biographical sources, I recommend:
 * Quiroz, Mauricio. 2015. David Choquehuanca: El Tejedor Que Hilvanó El ‘Proceso de Cambio’. La Razón, January 22.
 * Svampa, Maristella, Pablo Stefanoni, and Bruno Fornillo. 2010. Balance y Perspectivas: Intelectuales en El Primer Gobierno de Evo Morales. La Paz, Bolivia: Le Monde Diplomatique, edicion boliviana. (In print.)
 * I'm aware of the problems with using interviews on Wikipedia, but the book includes an extensive biographical introduction, and the interviews offer a unique up-close perspective.
 * The section of my book that profiled Choquehuanca was cut in response to the publisher's recommendations to shorten the text, but I can share it over email, as well as this article, which I think you can cite here.
 * Cheers! — Carwil (talk) 02:33, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Good stuff. I'll see what I can incorporate into the article. Thanks for the aid! Krisgabwoosh (talk) 08:18, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Good stuff. I'll see what I can incorporate into the article. Thanks for the aid! Krisgabwoosh (talk) 08:18, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

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Requesting some article expansion help
Greetings @Carwil

Hi, I am User:Bookku, On Wikipedia I engage in, finding information and knowledge gap areas in Wikipedia and promoting expansion of related drafts and articles. Came across your  user profile (from article history Gayle Rubin).

Requesting your visit to Gender power gap and help expand the topic areas if you find topic  interesting. Wish you very happy Wikipedia editing.

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Wikiedu: Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples
I edited Wiki Ed/Vanderbilt University/Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples (fall 2023), fixing a links in links lint error. If you go to page history and look at, you can see that the display is bollixed for Week 8, but it's fixed in the latest version.

I encourage you or someone to copy the change back to the dashboard. I do not know how to do that.

Also please be aware that this course page violates several Wikipedia style standards:


 * Wikipedia style is to use bold, not ALL CAPS, for emphasis ("SUNDAY NIGHT")
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 * Wikipedia style is to use "straight quotes" not “curly quotes”. (“A perfect Wikipedia article…”)
 * Wikipedia style is to use logical quotes, meaning period goes inside the quote if there was a period in the original, otherwise the period goes outside the quote. You violate this, as well as the straight quote rule, in “Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia.”
 * Wikipedia style is to use unspaced em dash (—) or spaced en dash ( – ), not a hyphen ( - ), as a separator: (In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment)

It might be a good idea for the course page to be compliant with the manual of style! —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:40, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

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November Articles for creation backlog drive
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New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive
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Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident
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Talk:Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
A-class requires two impartial reviewers. Please see Content assessment/A-Class criteria. Best. Schierbecker (talk) 19:14, 21 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I didn't know that; I've opened a section on its Talk page and posted notices to relevant WikiProjects.-- Carwil (talk) 19:56, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
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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.

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DYK nomination of Sitdown strike
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Precious anniversary
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DYK for Sitdown strike
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