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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
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Request on 09:43:35, 30 July 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Spartan195455
Can you be a bit more specific about house style?

Spartan195455 (talk) 09:43, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Blank email - oops!
Hi Gbawden, Yes, that certainly sounds like something I would do, send a blank email late(-ish) at night, my time. (My time zone is UTC+10 - I sometimes joke that that's an advantage, as I can catch vandalism almost half a day before it happens. ) I'll see if I can find a draft and re-send it, or send a summary. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:15, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Doh.. found it in my trash. need to check my filters. Thanks for the kind words :) Gbawden (talk) 13:07, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Request for Submission Re-Review (America ReFramed Episodes)
Hi Gbawden, Thank you so much for your review. I have added in sources from majors news outlets such as NY Times and the Huffington Posts and have requested a re-review. Please let me know if there is anything else I can add so the article is efficiently supported by reliable sources.

User12224User12224 (talk) 18:37, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018
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Social media and interpersonal relationships
Hi Gbawden, thank you for reading and reviewing my article, Draft:Social media and interpersonal relationships, which was declined on 14 August 2018. I reviewed the policy that you referenced, WP:NOTESSAY, and wanted to ask for your assistance in understanding what defines an essay compared to an encyclopedic article. I asked for help at the AfC help desk here, but I also wanted to reach out to you directly for guidance. My takeaway from the WP:NOTESSAY policy is that articles should not have original research, personal opinions, or personal feelings.

I agree with this policy and did my best to implement it. To that end, every sentence in my draft article is a condensed paraphrase of a reliable secondary source, from journals like the Annual Review of Psychology and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. I can point to exactly what paragraphs of what source I was paraphrasing for each sentence that I wrote. When one paragraph cited one source, I footnoted only the end of the paragraph, as described in WP:CITEFOOT, rather than at the end of every sentence. Please advise me what I can do to better conform to WP policy. I appreciate your help and guidance. Thank you, Romhilde (talk) 04:32, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

About Revaz Lordkipanidze
Dear wise colleagues, our article has been published for several years in Wikipedia and now, after project debates and the significant discovery, it has essentially strengthen. Already almost a month, as it is as the project. Friends in different countries are waiting for the publication of this article. They are interested in issues of competition, economic policy and efficiency. Please move this project to Wikipedia publications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Revaz_Lordkipanidze + Congratulations with the Transfiguration of Christ - He is Goodness for all Nations+ Philanthropic Academy (talk) 10:01, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Use of the Unreferenced Tag on Lists
Hi Gbawden, I'm confused by something you did today to two articles I created. Both of them are lists; List of commanders of USAFE and List of commanders of Tactical Air Command. You placed an Unreferenced tag (template) on both of them. Here is my rationale for not referencing the articles... 1st, if you open the link on each one of the pages of the generals listed, that article will explain that the general was in command of that organization... 2nd, lists on Wikipedia do not have the same referencing requirements as other main articles. For that reason, you'll notice most lists do not get an article rating when they are assessed. Instead, where a "grade" normally would appear on the talk page, you see the word LIST instead. Let me know if you are okay with removing the Unreferenced tag. Thanks. -- TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 18:36, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi - my understanding is that everything has to be referenced - including lists. While I accept your reasoning that if they have a WP article you can find the refs there most lists on WP do have their own refs - take a look at Vice Chief of the Army Staff (India) for example Gbawden (talk) 06:21, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * When I created my lists, I used List of commanders-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command as my model. The first half that only shows commanders has no reference. The second half that discusses vice-commanders does... I suppose for each and every general listed, I could simply list their official military biography site, but that also seems pointless. Let me think about it, I suppose. -- TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 15:14, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I have noticed that a number of US lists like that are unreferenced - I would simply add a few refs - a reference is better than no reference Gbawden (talk) 06:18, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Adding references should be easy. Every one of these generals has an official AF bio fact sheet to cite from. TadgStirkland401  (TadgTalk) 17:40, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Sheer Mag
Hi,

There are several there of Sheer Mag from the same show. I've replaced it with one that includes both Tina (singer) and Hart (bassist) as there don't seem to be any that include more than a couple of members at a time. Lewishhh (talk) 10:55, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Chun In-Bum Page Clarification
Hello Admin,

I hope I'm contacting you in the correct way (new to Wikipedia), and thanks for your feedback on the In-bum Chun article. His name is currently listed following the Korean naming tradition of putting the family name (Chun) in front of the given name (In-bum). According to my understanding, the usual presentation of Korean names in English is to put the family name first, but I may be mistaken. Should I change the order of the name to the Western orientation?

Thanks in advance,

SRI-RMS (talk) 22:41, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Review
I accepted the article Belmont Stakes 1949--it is parallel to the other articles on the individual races; it could use additional sources, but it is very probable that it would   be kept at AfD even in its present form -- and that is the standard for reviewing.  DGG ( talk ) 04:32, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback . Although I would have liked another ref, I will remember that standard for future Gbawden (talk) 06:45, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Reminding you also that there is no need of secondary sources for routine CV data, & even this early version  of  Blaire Van Valkenburgh   had adequate sources  to prove the named chair, which is enough for notability  under WP:PROF (Iacceptedit)
 * and that we do not decline an article because of an error like having improper inline links, as at William Lawton, because that wouldn't prevent a pass at AfD. (there are other major problems with the article--see my decline there)
 * There's a lot of judgment involved in reviewing--it is necessary to identify the most important problems that will keep it from being accepted at AfD. If there's a reasonable chance the subject might be acceptable, explain them in some detail. New users cannot be expected to sort out our boilerplate. (If it's hopeless, than going into detail is unnecessary) This sort of judgment can only be learned by experience. I'm  not trying to discourage you, & I will try to help you further as I see problems.  DGG ( talk ) 23:21, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Faisal Macroo MaC!
I have received message on speedy deletion of user page at 13:16, 30 August 2018 (UTC) which seems unrelated to me. Please clarify why i am receiving this message. Nirjal stha (talk) 16:04, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Naming convension
Hi Gbawden

I will in future leave the middle name and only mention it in the article. Thanks for informing me.

Barry Ne (talk) 09:30, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018
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Request on 20:02:54, 9 September 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Macgirl
Thank you for reviewing my entry on Michael Kirchmann. However, I see that it has been declined and the reason given was that it reads like a resume.

Would you be able to clarify this statement? I would very much like to improve the article and re-submit. Suggestions on how to improve the article are welcome.

Re: your comment "Well the product list and recognition for a start. The whole thing is written as if to promote him - hence my comment that it reads like a resume.Gbawden (talk) 17:17, 11 September 2018 (UTC)"

I understand your concern; however, it is customary for Wiki entries for architects and engineers to include a list of projects and awards. Indeed, projects completed and awards received are essential to the notability of the architect in question; architects with few awards and few notable projects wouldn't be considered worthy of an entry, and not including such information would throw into question why the subject is being written about to begin with.

Some examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rem_Koolhaas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Childs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Calatrava https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Viñoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Rafael_Viñoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Holl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Tomasetti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Cloepfil

Would it help if the lists were shorter? Perhaps they could be pared down further.

Following up on my comments above. Please let me know specific suggestions for how to improve the article. Thank you. 108.46.165.90 (talk) 14:54, 17 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macgirl (talk • contribs) 01:00, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

macgirl (talk) 20:02, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


 * Project news
 * The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
 * As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.


 * There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See New pages patrol/Coordination for more info to see if you can help out.


 * Other
 * A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.


 * Moving to Draft and Page Mover
 * Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
 * If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
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Have your say!
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AfCs
Just a reminder that when an article is both non-notable and promotional, we can now decline for both reasons. It increases the chance that it will get properly fixed.  DGG ( talk ) 18:15, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Warut_Woratham was declined
Hi Gbawden, I need some advice about this article https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Warut_Woratham Seems like this article was rejected because it looks like advertisement / memorial.

As a fan of him, I intend to create this article because, he is really notable and famous superstar. There is nothing related to advertisement at all. Would it possible to tell me which parts read like advertising/memorial ? This is just a real fact that most people are commonly known.

Much appreciated. Locallion (talk) 07:28, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CL, October 2018
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Review of submission by jdphurst
Hi, You rejected my submission for Clapton Community FC. I would like some clarification about your decision. The reason you gave was that clubs below level 6 or who have not competed in an FA Cup competition do not qualify. However, this is not the case. Many clubs at the same level have their own articles. 4 other clubs in the same league have their own articles.

The fact that Clapton are a new club should also not disqualify them. AFC Liverpool have their own article. They play at the same level. What is more, Clapton competed this year in the FA Cup.

I would be grateful if you could explain your decision. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdphurst (talk • contribs) 19:38, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
 * Backlog


 * Community Wishlist Proposal
 * There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
 * Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!


 * Project updates
 * ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
 * There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.


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I have unreviewed a page you curated
Thanks for reviewing Archery at the 2018 Invictus Games, Gbawden.

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

"Sorry but htis article is totally unsourced it should have been at easy tagged as such aso there are some formatting problems there a re olympic flags floating around there that do not have their place in any article that doesn't deal with the olympic games"

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

Dom from Paris (talk) 10:41, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Draft: Dr. Melissa Johnson Submission
Hi Gbawden! Thank you for looking over my wikipedia submission. I will edit the submission to add appropriate footnotes and inline citations. However, you have commented that she does not meet WP:NACADEMIC. However, I believe she does. The criteria are that she meet one of the conditions, and she meets several as follows: 1. The person's research has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources. Dr. Johnson has conducted much research in the area of honors education which is a subject that has little research. Her many papers have shown the impact of honors education and the difference between advising for honors student vs. regular students. 2. The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level. Dr. Johnson was recognized as a Fellow of the National Collegiate Honors Council which is one of the highest honors a person can receive in their professional career. 5. The person holds or has held a named chair appointment or distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research (or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are uncommon). Dr. Johnson is a professor at the University of Florida and has been appointed chair of the professional development committee of the National Collegiate Honors Council. If I make the changes to the inline citations, will you reconsider her submission? I think it is important to have more women in STEM at the University of Florida recognized for their achievements. Thank you.

Sophia.paulitz (talk) 17:48, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Amit B Wadhwani
Dear Gbawden Can you please help me improve this draft?

Dear Gbawden I have made changes in the draft and resubmitted it. Can you please give a review on priority. It is little urgent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aishwaryagandhe (talk • contribs) 08:38, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLI, November 2018
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Douggie Reece article.
Hi Gbawden

Thank you for you comments re the Douggie Reece article. I have not completed this article as I only started it three days ago.I had no intention of wanting this article posted until it is finished. However whenever I work on it then try and save my work, it seems to go through as though I want it posted, which I do not yet! As I stated!! I have only just started this article with only about two paragraphs written at this time. I have plenty to add to this project which will include reference's to specific sections. I did receive another notification from Boleyn yesterday who pointed out what I needed to rectify and things I had to address. Which I thought I had done as was requested. So I was very surprised on getting a reply from another party. I have posted a Bibliograph with page reference to Douggie Reece. As well as References applicable to the currently written two paragraphs. I have in a copy of "Hello Magazine" Number 946 dated 28th November 2006 where on page 124 Douggie Reece was interviewed regarding his time with Dusty Springfield. How can I post this? I really would like to finish this article. Can I save my work without it being posted? If so How? I did write ***Work In Progress*** as I hadn't finished! (talk) 12:24, 14 November 2018 (UTC) UALRIGHTFRED

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
Hello ,
 * Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
 * Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.


 * If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.


 * We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.


 * With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:27, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Yoco
Hello, i created a page about Yoco, this start-up which notority rising in the world of Fintech companies. I invite you to participate in the discussion to avoid the deletion of the article, we need more and more articles about south african companies :) Regards, MathieuPaul1977 (talk) 16:42, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018
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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.
 * Reviewer of the Year
 * Thanks are also extended for their work to (15,059 reviews),  (12,760reviews),  (9,001reviews),  (8,440reviews),  (8,092reviews),   (5,306reviews),  (4,153 reviews),  (4,016reviews),  and  (3,615reviews)., , , and  have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only sevenmonths, while , with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top100 reviewers.

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
 * 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.
 * Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

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Draft:Vicensia Shule
Hi Gbawden, I am usually working on swwiki here in Tanzania. At this present editathon one of our participants came up with the above named draft which you declined. Be so kind and explain your decision. I try to advise her. Maybe best on the draft talk page. It find it not very helpful to just stick a summary notice on an article. We try to get new contributors and that is why we have been asked over and over again to try to be a bit welcoming. So please be so kind and give a bit of detail. Kipala (talk) 11:30, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards
Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Wikipedia's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIII, January 2019
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Comment: Far too promotional, reads like a press release Gbawden (talk) 09:44, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Removed all content which promotes business or company. Removed description of the business as well. Only kept the press releases of his in the Indian Blockchain sector. Have kept his websites in references, If you want, can remove that.I reviewed Wikipedia's code of conduct and appreciate your suggestion. I'm new to Wiki and hope write and contribute genuine and better articles. thanks Wikiexpert1234567 (talk) 10:41, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Request on 12:43:01, 11 January 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Andrew93Ch
Hello!

I want to thank your for the review of my band draft article. I read the "Wikipedia:Notability (music)" and is written at the point 9 "Has won first, second or third place in a major music competition". We did this. I inserted the reference web page where is proven that the band took the first prize at a Folk Music Festival. Do we need to get more notoriety in our country in order to have a wikipedia page?

Thank you!

Andrew93Ch (talk) 12:43, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Request on 13:06:11, 11 January 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Andrew93Ch
Okay. I understood. Please give me some examples about "reliable sources", because I don't understand.

Andrew93Ch (talk) 13:06, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Request on 13:16:08, 11 January 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Andrew93Ch
Ok. Thank you very much for the information!

Andrew93Ch (talk) 13:16, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Articles for creation: Joseph A. Cappucci
Hello, I'm WikiFixur. Thank you for reviewing and approving the recent article for creation Joseph A. Cappucci; however, there is a slight issue with the article. If possible, I ask if you could fix it or give me advice on how to fix it. As of now, the article is titled Joseph A. Cappucci when in fact it should be Joseph J. Cappucci. Please advise if you could fix it or give me advice on how to fix it. Thanks. WikiFixur (talk) 17:00, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIV, February 2019
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Review of Michael Linnington Page
Hi Gbawden. You posted a note on my Draft page for Michael Linnington that it needed work. Could you take a look and let me know if you see anything you recommend? Once live, I plan to create links to it using existing mentions of Michael Linnington throughout Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Michael_Linnington Thanks! G J Lee (talk) 21:45, 8 February 2019 (UTC) It reads too much like an advert but it covers the main things. Read pages of other senior officers to get an idea. Gbawden (talk) 12:26, 9 February 2019 (UTC) Thanks for the feedback and the photo! I'll take a look and see how I can get it more inline with others.G J Lee (talk) 12:35, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Terry Dempsey
Do you have the Beeld article from 12 February? Conlinp (talk) 12:08, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I found it on FB but there is a link to https://www.netwerk24.com/Nuus/Algemeen/terry-dempsey-was-n-kosbare-man-se-dogter-20190211 that I can't get to. Gbawden (talk) 12:31, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Nope can't find it apart from behind the paywall. Found five various stories from 3 papers. Might help. Email me and I will send as PDF's. Conlinp (talk) 13:41, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Emailed to you. Let me know if they turn up and are readable. Conlinp (talk) 13:53, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

File:RADM M. R. Terry Lloyd.jpg
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Incomplete DYK nomination
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Terry Dempsey (songwriter) 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) 08:21, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Image you kindly added
Hi, I was very pleased to see that you had added an image to the page Daithí Ó Ceallaigh. However, through no fault of yours, the names in the original are not in the right order. Ó Ceallagh is NOT in the middle, but on the extreme right. I don't know how to fix this. Could you? If you want to confirm that it is the case, either check the external link (video) or the photo that comes up if you click on reference 5. Aineireland (talk) 20:08, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Done! I just edited the WP page and edited the description on commons. Gbawden (talk) 06:01, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLV, March 2019
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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
 * Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
 * db-blankdraft was merged into G13 (Discussion)
 * A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
 * 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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Your draft article, Draft:Chief of the Navy (South Africa)


Hello, Gbawden. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Chief of the Navy".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 11:47, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Marvin Brooks
Hello Gbawden. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Marvin Brooks, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: '''went through AFC, so possibly controversial, G11 text was later added and can be handled with reverting. Use WP:AFD instead.''' Thank you. So Why  11:18, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Fair reasoning. Thanks for letting me know Gbawden (talk) 11:37, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVI, April 2019
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Deleted Article Mikki Koomar
Mikki Koomar article was deleted for non notability but I am willing to know the notability criteria for Indian Models. If some model is show stopper in fashion week. It means a model is famous in that particular region. I want to know your opinion.--Babitahamdard (talk) 10:30, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion Balmoral Girl's Primary School
Hi there, thank you for the time taken to view the page. I agree that primary schools are not normally notable, however I have amended the article to include the fact that this was one of the very first formerly whites only primary schools to voluntarily desegregate. In the context of education in South Africa this makes the school notable. Your comment would be appreciated or if you feel this needs further expansion.Andrewalt (talk) 06:52, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVII, May 2019
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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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req
thank you for tagging my article as a South African one. I would really appreciate your assistance in trying to stop my article from being deleted - i feel that the other editors are not placing fair importance on the media coverage my subject has received, perhaps because they are unfamiliar with local news agencies? Would love your input on the deletion discussion and any advice you may have. Articles_for_deletion - Michael_%22Micl_Snr%22_Norman Ash Glover (talk) 07:00, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure you can. From what I read he has won awards for a short film but thats it. He would need to win a few more to make him notable. The notability requirements are quite strict Gbawden (talk) 08:10, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Ashlee Nyathi
Hello Gbawden. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Ashlee Nyathi, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: '''claims significance and RS coverage. Whether that is enough to establish notability is for WP:AFD to decide, not speedy deletion.''' Thank you. So Why  09:39, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVIII, June 2019
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DYK nomination of Desmond Barker
Hello! Your submission of Desmond Barker 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) 08:15, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

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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DYK nominations and QPQs
Gbawden, I just noticed that you used the same QPQ—Template:Did you know nominations/Teisha Shadwell—for two of your current nominations:
 * Template:Did you know nominations/Desmond Barker
 * Template:Did you know nominations/Henry Meintjes

As it happens, you have an unused QPQ, but you assigned it to Template:Did you know nominations/Terry Dempsey (songwriter) when you created the nomination page on February 19, and then did not finish the nomination process by transcluding the nomination. So the nomination has been in limbo ever since.

Did you want to resurrect the Dempsey nomination? If so, we can do so; just let me know. The QPQ review for that nomination, which you'd forgotten the name of, was Template:Did you know nominations/Mikhail Popkov. It's still available to be used for Dempsey. If you're not interested, you could use it for one of the two listed above, leaving the Shadwell for the other one. Just be sure that the QPQs are linked.

Please let me know if you have any questions; if you elect to proceed with the Dempsey, I'll do what's necessary to get it into the pool of nomination awaiting a review. Thanks, and best of luck going forward. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:26, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks for your note. Despite being on WP for a while I am still finding my way with DYK. I don't know why I didn't transclude Terry Dempsey. Is it possible to get this back in the queue? I will also do a new QPQ for Henry Meintjies. Thanks once again. Gbawden (talk) 06:18, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIX, July 2019
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Request on 17:36:20, 15 July 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Ionicscribe
I posted a draft of a new entry Suzanne Weil last night. I received feedback from Gbawden that there is a problem with the footnotes. I thought I had very thoroughly annotated everything that needed annotating. And that the sources are all legitimate. Can you be more specific about what I need to do? Such as some of the sources are not legitimate? Or the formatting is incorrect? Or I need to do something in the body text of the entry? I'm happy to do it, but can't tell from your message about what I need to do.

Thank you! Ionicscribe (talk) 17:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Ionicscribe (talk) 17:36, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The reason was in the decline message. Citations need to be inline - see WP:ILC Gbawden (talk) 06:27, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Henry Meintjes
valereee (talk) 00:02, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Did you know
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Did you know. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 04:09, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Belle Delphine
Why'd you delete my article? I know she wasn't worthy for an article earlier this month but she definitely is now. Just look at all the reliable sources by searching her up. AdrianWikiEditor (talk) 02:07, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Desmond Barker
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at WP:REFUND
You are invited to join the discussion at. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:10, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Gbawden. For some reason, seems to have wanted to ping you about something at at the aforementioned REFUND request. I noticed the REFUND request and then tagged file accordingly, but not sure what any of that has to do with you. Maybe you removed the file from some article where it was being used? -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:13, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi . I am an admin on commons and deleted the file. I have since undeleted it - he would now need to add it back to the article Gbawden (talk) 12:20, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying. That explains alot. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:21, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019
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The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019
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DYK for Terry Dempsey (songwriter)
valereee (talk) 00:02, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Backlog Banzai
In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:39, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

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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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXI, September 2019
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark
G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:37, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXII, October 2019
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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

The Bugle: Issue CLXIII, November 2019
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The Bugle: Issue CLXIV, December 2019
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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.
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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.
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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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Mark Pack
Hi there - you declined the page creation for Mark Pack - since he has now won the Lib Dem presidency I would argue that he is definitely notable (especially as this means that he is currently sitting as Lib Dem interim leader, alongside Ed Davey - please could you reconsider in light of this new information Guyb123321 (talk) 13:11, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Please resubmit and someone will review it Gbawden (talk) 15:55, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Battle of Quifangondo
Howzit GB,

I just opened a peer review for Battle of Quifangondo, which I'm hoping to bump up to GA status in the near future. As I seem to recall seeing you around a number of South African milhist-related articles in the past, I thought you might be interested. Any thoughts and/or constructive criticism would be much appreciated! Thanks, -- Katan gais (talk) 01:17, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Request on 18:16:09, 16 January 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Gregorywall
This article has been totally rewritten and there is no plagiarism. Please cite your reasons for leaving the plagiarism notice in place?

Gregorywall (talk) 18:16, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Request on 21:05:31, 16 January 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Gregorywall
Seems a little harsh to reject an entire article for one sentence concerning one allegation. What if that sentence was removed, would the article be accepted. The rest of the article had reliable sources.

Gregorywall (talk) 21:05, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * WP requires that articles be referenced. When I declined this in 2018 there were no references at all Gbawden (talk) 06:20, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Request on 08:03:42, 17 January 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Oilenroc
Good afternoon,

I need help in improving my article, made changes to meet wikipedia's standard but I don't know if I addressed all issues, I'm not a writer or editor I'm just helping a friend create his own page/article (Gines Serran Pagan) about his works, but I'm already getting lost in direction in creating one its been 2 months but I don't know where this article would lead me. Please help.

Kind regrads, Oilenroc

Oilenroc (talk) 08:03, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXV, January 2020
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Request for verify Swarup Solanki (entrepreneur)
https://www.jagran.com/punjab/jalandhar-city-shiv-sena-pradarshan-15653088.html https://www.jagran.com/punjab/jalandhar-city-shiv-sena-want-action-angaist-anty-social-people-16990420.html https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/filmmakers-anubhav-sinha-hansal-mehta-and-writers-mayank-tiwari-gaurav-solanki-speak-on-adapting-from-real-life-stories-negotiating-trolls-the-cbfc-and-the-repercussions-of-having-a-political-opinion/articleshow/70457275.cms

News and his works for political party an entrepreneur career make him notable — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.91.239.19 (talk) 13:23, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

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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.
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 * 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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The Bugle: IssueICLXVI, February 2020
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March Madness 2020
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DYK for Magdalena K. P. Smith Meyer
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The Bugle: Issue CLXVII, March 2020
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New Image of SANDF
I want to replace your current SANDF organisational one with a 2019 version based on the SANDF 2018/19 Annual Report - File:SANDF Organisation Chart 2019-page-001.jpg. Unable to size my image properly. Are you able to help? Conlinp (talk) 05:34, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi I used visio to create org chart. If you have visio its easy to recreate or I can help if you need Gbawden (talk) 17:04, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXVIII, April 2020
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Draft: Albers School of Business and Economics
Per your recommendation, I removed the costs section on my draft: Draft:Seattle_University_Albers_School_of_Business_and_Economics Would you be willing to give it another look and review? Thank you! EastIrving (talk) 19:59, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLXIX, May 2020
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DYK for Brian van Mentz
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Michael_T._Franken
Please visit the Michael_T._Franken and review my work. I've tried to address the COI tag by improving sourcing and removing 3 POV phrases. --KevinCuddeback (talk) 23:42, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi. Looks good. Do you know Michael? That would be my only COI concern. BTW that pic was a copyvio so I replaced it Gbawden (talk) 10:24, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for asking. I do not know Michael Franken. KevinCuddeback (talk) 11:16, 19 May 2020 (UTC)


 * FYI on this, the page's creator was, whose first edit was to declare a COI on their user page. Marquardtika (talk) 19:44, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

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rejection of sarah roberts article
Hi there--this article was rejected for not meeting WP:NACADEMIC criteria; I've updated the article to include citations showing that she meets #1, #2, #3, and #7. Dr. Roberts meets #1 by creating the field of commercial content moderation (she is cited on Moderation_system), #2 by winning an EFF Barlow Pioneer Award, #3 as a Carnegie Fellow , and #7 for her work on commercial content moderation Can you please review? Thanks! Moonraccoon (talk) 20:56, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi. Associate profs are unlikely to be notable and I see her cite count isn't very high. You are welcome to resubmit and let another reviewer take a look Gbawden (talk) 06:39, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Just pointing out that "Associate profs are unlikely to be notable and I see her cite count isn't very high" is a broad generalization that is not consistent with the standard suggested at WP:NACADEMIC. -- Zim Zala Bim talk 01:53, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

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DYK for Servaas Theron
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Nomination of Arne Söderlund for deletion
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Template:Did you know nominations/Jitse Groen
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DYK for Thomas Wallace (RAF officer)
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The Bugle: Issue CLXX, June 2020
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Declining Submission for Afc Draft:Team Robocon LDCE
I added some more reference in it. You mentioned they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions), but this reference has a whole 23 minutes of video on it. And that video is published by DD National, it is the largest terrestrial television channel in India. The other references I used were Independent as well as Reliable like The Times of India. If still you are not convinced then guide me further, as I don't have much experience on Wikipedia.Anandjpanchal (talk) 14:40, 17 June 2020 (UTC)Anandjpanchal (talk) 16:55, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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Mike Day Article
I respect the Wiki guidelines for notability, so I understand why the deletion proposal process exists. But in the case of Mike Day, I would point out that in all the nation's wars -- Revolution to GWOT -- is there any other documented case of someone sustaining 27 or more gunshot wounds and then eliminating 4 or more enemy fighters?

I checked on Amazon, and the book is the #1 title among new Iraq War-related releases -- just ahead of Admiral McRaven's book.

I am not promoting Mike's book. I bought it and I read it -- that's what made me think "Hey, why doesn't he have a Wiki bio page?" I mostly write about tech companies, and this is my first military-related article.

There are plenty of run-of-the-mill, self-serving GWOT memoirs that tend to come from company-grade officers who left the military after their initial service commitment -- these are the "so there I was..." types with all their predictable twists and turns. Mike Day's book is not *that*, and neither is his story. Gpage1010 (talk) 13:12, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXI, July 2020
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
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Lisa Savage (politician) rejection for lack of notability
Thanks for your quick response to my submission. It has been a while since I submitted anything as a new article to wikipedia so the rules have changed some. I will work on finding better sources, she has been written about many times, but I understand that I need to be focusing on articles which are just about her and not so much about other candidates in the race and I'll remove references to her campaign website. I am wondering since there is no good source for people who have endorsed her that is not her website, should I simply remove the entire section on endorsements? Thanks for your assistance. --Paxus Calta (talk) 12:28, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi. Please read WP:NPOL - generally candidates are not notable until they have won the election - unless there is something else that makes them notable Gbawden (talk) 12:30, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I hear this. There has been media coverage both before he candidacy for her activism and since she has been involved.  I have resubmitted the article removing the weak external references and including almost all MSM sources.  I understand it might still be rejected, but the new one is a much stronger article.--Paxus Calta (talk) 20:59, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Tagging of User:Saifisaman/Draft/Saifisaman
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Your draft article, Draft:Damir Dojkic


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The Bugle: Issue CLXXIV, October 2020
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Paul Doherty (politician)
Hi Gbawden,

I was wondering if you could elaborate on the decision to deny approval for the page 'Paul Doherty (politician)'?

The criteria for WP:BASIC states:

People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.

If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources may not be sufficient to establish notability.

There is now a total of ten sources on the page that fall into the requirements on the first line. Furthermore the depth of coverage requirement appears met since the sources provide both quotes from the subject and in some cases an image of him to accompany it.

This appears to also satisfy the criteria for WP:NPOL:

Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.

Could you review or elaborate upon this for me please?

Kind Regards,

Broxigar2020
 * Quotes from the subject are generally not regarded as reliable - I can say anything I want about myself. I don't see that he meets GNG - and neither did 4 other reviewers who reviewed the article. Most of the references are just passing mentions, not the in depth detail we require. And you can't use journals that he contributed too as a source. Sorry but he just isn't notable until he is elected to something Gbawden (talk) 06:23, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

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Rejection page Samefko Ludidi
Dear Gbawden, I recently created the page 'Samefko Ludidi' that has been rejected based on the notion 'page is merely promotion'(11 nov 0840hrs). I've used at least 4 existing pages of comparable people as a template (Timothy Noakes, Freek Vonk, Mark Jenkins, Victoria Koblenko). Did I put too much detailed info in there?

Thanks for the feedback! Huub
 * Its about how the article is written. You have written it like an advert, not an encyclopedic article Gbawden (talk) 14:21, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your swift feedback, that definitely helps. I will start working on it. H. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LucassenH (talk • contribs) 13:20, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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Draft: Dr. Shahid Siddiqui
Hello Gbawden, I have resubmitted the document with the proper references which you have suggested. I am thankful for your guidance. Can you please review it again, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xainwah (talk • contribs) 06:52, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021
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Draft: Michael J. Szrama
Respectfully, I submit that Mr. Szrama is sufficiently notable. The same award merited a Wikipedia page for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Hochul_Jr. who is otherwise known for failing to get a job he applied and for marrying the (probable) next governor of New York. I appreciate your review and your interest. Thank you.Bobmedford (talk) 16:16, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi. WP is an encyclopedia and anyone included has to reach a level of notability - they cannot be run of the mill as this person appears to be. Take a look at the notability guidelines here WP:N Gbawden (talk) 06:26, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

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Draft:List of Thomas & Friends Characters in real life
I have another idea for this comment that you typed. Please, remove the table from this draft when I'll finish to work and enter it at the article List of Thomas & Friends characters. I'll send you a message when I finish. Regards.--General electric p30ch (talk) 09:44, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

I'm ready. Now you can remove the table here. Also you must send me a message. Regards--General electric p30ch (talk) 09:16, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi. I don't see a table. You don't need me to make the changes. Be bold. If you are uncertain discuss on the talk page and don't forget to source the info you add Gbawden (talk) 09:20, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * See below the template of declined subsmission. Regards.--General electric p30ch (talk) 09:34, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXX, April 2021
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Rejection of My Content Page
Please review my revisions, I already did my research. Leonemanuel1122 (talk) 06:42, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

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