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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

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 * Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news
 * DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under.

Arbitration
 * A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
 * Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
 * The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

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 * Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
 * The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
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Guideline and policy news
 * Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

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 * Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

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ARS Public School (3rd nomination)
You were a participant in the just closed 2nd nomination for deletion. "She breaches." Captain Ahab and his White Whale. 'They pull you back in.' – Michael Corleone  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 00:15, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
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Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 12
Why would you close Draft:Soviet Boris Yeltsin without having a discussion? Personally, I don't see how your position is "obvious" and think it would be better left as a comment instead of a close. I do agree with the nominator that I see no reason for keeping this as a redirect and would like to see it deleted, possibly as a vandalism-ish creation. -- Tavix ( talk ) 01:43, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I just simply don't see any point in having a wasteful discussion. Keep it or delete it; there's utterly negligible difference and only one of those buttons is available to me. G6 it if you want, I won't complain. — &thinsp;J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 18:48, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Its not eligible for G6. Maybe G3? It's not obviously vandalism though. Would you be willing to reopen the discussion so I can have the discussion that I think the redirect deserves? If you think discussion is wasteful you are free to not participate further. -- Tavix ( talk ) 21:06, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I've reopened it. — &thinsp;J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 21:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The affected pages were not undone though. I have reverted Draft:Soviet Boris Yeltsin and Draft talk:Soviet Boris Yeltsin. Jay (talk) 07:31, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

User:Inclusionist~enwiki/test5 RfD closure
Hi J947, I reverted your blanking of the redirect and closure of that RfD because nobody even suggested blanking as an option (hence no opposition) and because it was not even a day old. I don't see any basis for that close in policy and it reads to me as a left-field supervote of a discussion that has barely started, let alone drawn to a close. ev iolite  (talk)  03:43, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 * (sorry, was making a response as you removed it – I think it's important) not discussing the redirect anymore but the entire point of the close was as a left-field supervote. I would have preferred if one of the participants had disagreed with my close, given I chose an option which I assume would satisfy all. It's completely out of procedure, I acknowledge that, but I saw the discussion as pointless. — &thinsp;J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 03:52, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22
 Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script
 * LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!

Updated scripts
 * SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
 * Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).
 * ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Pending requests
 * Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages
 * Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot
 * Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books
 * Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous
 * User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
 * Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts
 * Ahecht:
 * draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
 * massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
 * watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
 * Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
 * Caburum:
 * UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
 * Chlod:
 * CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's copied templates.
 * DaxServer:
 * BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one inside a   tag block into an.
 * FlightTime:
 * OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend Clear to the top of each section on the archive page.
 * Jon Harald Søby:
 * diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
 * warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
 * JPxG:
 *  PressPass  adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
 * CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
 * TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like track listing and get total runtimes.
 * Nardog:
 * CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
 * IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
 * TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
 * NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
 * ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
 * CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
 * LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
 * QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
 * Novem Linguae:
 * DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
 * NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
 * UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
 * VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
 * WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
 * P.T.Đ:
 * TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
 * Qwerfjkl:
 * editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
 * RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
 * talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: | |  (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a talkback notice). It also adds a [] link next to section headers.
 * Rublov:
 * diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
 * Rummskartoffel:
 * auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
 * generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
 * share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
 * show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
 * Tol:
 * VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a citation needed tag.
 * Venkat TL:
 * ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
 * Vukky:
 * StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Opabinia regalis
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Opabinia regalis
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Guideline and policy news


 * Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.


 * Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration


 * Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.

Miscellaneous


 * The functionaries email list () will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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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) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
 * AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
 * The template db-afc-move has been created - this template is similar to db-move when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Happy Birthday!
 Wishing J947 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee!   Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 11:07, 6 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you all! :) — &thinsp;J947 ‡ message ⁓ edits 22:55, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
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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.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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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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 * Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
 * If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
(t · c)  buidhe  20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
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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.
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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.


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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
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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:
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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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Plunket Shield lowest score
Regarding your recent edit on 2022–23 Plunket Shield season (which I'm about to overwrite with a slightly more clear explanation), I'm reasonably confident that Wellington's 167 run match aggregate is the lowest ever in the Plunket Shield. They did score lower in an 1887 first-class match, but the Plunket Shield did not exist until 1907, so it would still be a Plunket Shield record. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any actual database listing to confirm this, but many news reports (including NZC's own) refer to it as being a Plunket Shield record, so absence any evidence of a Plunket Shield match with a lower single-team aggregate it should be okay to go with. Sellyme <sup style="color:#009933;">Talk 08:51, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * thanks for that. I was surprised the lowest would be so high, but I suppose in the distant past where double collapses like so would've been more likely, there were fairly few Plunket Shield games played (and I forgot it wasn't created until last century). Thanks for your work creating this article by the way – I've kind of observed from sidelines that it's tough for us to keep up to date with all the cricket happening, so it's solid work!  J947  † edits 08:58, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

South African cricket seasons
Hello. You're "updating " South African cricketer biogs with en dashes for seasons rather than hyphens, but in some cases – not all – you're introducing errors. For example, with Gerald Bond, you've updated "1929-30" to read "from 1929 to 1930", when the reference is to the single South African cricket season of 1929-30, which began in autumn 1929 and concluded in spring 1930. Fine to make it "1929–30", but the other is wrong. Johnlp (talk) 12:30, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you for telling me. I've corrected all the errors I could spot, and will be more careful. (I do know about cricket; simply haven't been examining the text close enough!)  J947  † edits 22:18, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 01:03, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023
Hello , The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day. won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
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Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from  to  '''

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as and  have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.


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International cricket in 2024–25
Hello. I see you have initiated a discussion for possible deletion of this page. Request you to please look into International cricket in 2024 page as well. Thanks,Vikram Maingi (talk) 14:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

I shouldn't have joined the discussion
I've just read the big red message on the discussion. I shouldn't have joined it 3 years ago! - St3095  (?)  13:20, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, don't worry.  J947  † edits 03:12, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Auckland
Kia ora! I'm hoping to start up WP:AUCK again as a more active project, so I thought I'd check in with everyone on the list who still edits. Are there any Auckland-related projects that you'd like to work on/currently working on? --Prosperosity (talk) 22:02, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * sorry I can't commit to that, no. You can remove me from that list; I don't think I ever was involved with that dormant WikiProject.  J947  † edits 22:13, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries! I can take your name off the list. If you're interested in saying hi (even if you're not planning on editing Auckland articles!), we've restarted regular online and in-person meet-ups - the next one's on the 18th of March. --Prosperosity (talk) 22:18, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive
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Michael King III
I wanted it to get deleted, not speedy deleted. Should I renominate the redirect, should the discussion get reopened, or something? ErceÇamurOfficial (talk) 16:00, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * You can renominate the redirect if you want.  J947  † edits 00:53, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
 * done ErceÇamurOfficial (talk) 09:30, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

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Hello, question for you.
In regards to Requests for comment/Rollback of Vector 2022 you stated that I really don't think this is something editors should decide; leave it to developers and more importantly ask the readers. And it is truly, IMO, too late now. Besides: I'll keep using old Vector, but is this change so horrible? How do you feel now, months after the discussion and with certain improvements added?

Before you answer this question, please read my user page to see why I am asking you this question. You do not have to answer this question at all if you wish. If you do answer this question, could you please state if you are okay with your username being used, possibly publicly? Thank you-- DisposableUser12345 (talk) 01:49, 14 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, happy to answer this (if only briefly). I've actually used the new skin on and off, much more than I thought I would, as much of my Wiki-work involves checking how the interface works for readers. I've found it pretty good, to be honest, in a large part due to unlimited width being enabled. In that sense, it's just a slightly modernised version of the old skin with a much improved search bar. It does disrupt with some internal workings, but that's only inevitable. The sense outside of Wikipedia seems to be that it's just a solid change, and in the end the RfC and general outrage from editors was a big kerfuffle over nothing, particularly given that the WMF were never really going to revert the change. But I am very grateful for the addition of the unlimited width option, which makes the new skin arguably a slight improvement over the old one for me. I'm fine with my username being used. Thanks,  J947  † edits 04:02, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
Hello , Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by  and  with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of, and also some patches from , has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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Adult use
You don't think Adult use is a misnomer for Legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States? GMAFB! Talk about ham-fisted CSD patrol. You should do better. Toddst1 (talk) 16:25, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
 * There are no other things adults could use?
 * Adults only use marijuana in the US?
 * for the purposes of R3, a misnomer is an incorrect name. This is a correct name. It is ambiguous, yes, but that doesn't suddenly qualify it for R3. Instead, it should be sent to RfD. This is not the correct use of R3, which is intended only for things like "Unuted Srates". And even if it was a misnomer, which it isn't, it would hardly be considered implausible either, as it seems like it would be a pretty common search term. It's also likely to be kept at RfD. The opposite of what qualifies for uncontroversial speedy deletion.  J947  † edits 21:07, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

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Cricket seasons
You're correcting hyphens to en dashes in various articles mentioning cricket seasons, which is mostly fine, but you need to watch that some of the corrections don't change the meaning. In Nummy Deane, for example, changing "From 1925–26" to "From 1925 to 1926" makes a different meaning: the first means "from the 1925–26 South African cricket season onwards for a period of several years", while the second means a shorter period covering a maximum of two calendar years. Cricket seasons outside the UK usually straddle two calendar years and the convention is to use a hyphen or en dash, rather than an oblique: northern hemisphere soccer seasons tend to be similar. I'm afraid you have to read the context, which will slow the process of correcting them up a bit. I'll change Deane back to what it should be, but there may be others. Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 07:41, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * good to see you've remained vigilant. Extremely foolish of me to make the same mistake a second time, but, er, I won't do it a third. To be honest, I actually reminded myself to not commit that error whilst applying the fixes – but then got distracted. At least the two you fixed were the only two, so thanks for picking it up again. Apologies.  J947  † edits 09:13, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry to appear to be picking on you: I'm here so seldom these days that I'm very much a chance vigilante. I'd actually forgotten our previous encounter. For long-forgotten reasons I have several long-forgotten South African cricketers on my watchlist, and I'm always intrigued when they pop up on my notifications, because so few people take any interest in them... Thanks for the work you do, and for your serially positive response. Johnlp (talk) 11:52, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm interested, so there's one! Under the massive dark cloud of apartheid, there was some interesting cricket being played in SA. Very thankful for the work you've done on these articles, improving many from the barest-boned stubs – don't belittle it! :)  J947  † edits 04:59, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Signpost/Issue
I spent an entire afternoon fixing incoming links to these pages all over the project; per the incoming links, there is nothing to break. The only incoming links right now are from tracking pages that I created to enumerate all of the pages in the Signpost's space to clean up nonsense pages and misplaced directories like this one. jp×g 22:40, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * you can't fix links in edit summaries, external backlinks, bookmarks, habitual searches, etc. R3 specifically excludes R from page moves for just this reason.  J947  † edits 22:46, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I highly doubt that there are external backlinks to the Signpost's internal templates for embedding issue numbers; bookmarks and habitual searches will return a deletion summary and move log that links to the new location of the template. As for the historical integrity of the Signpost's historical structure, I can assure you that I have been spending the last eight months trying to document and preserve it. One of the major hurdles to making comprehensive documentation for the project is that it's existed for twenty years and has a very large number of pointless pages that don't do anything (or did something once, in 2008, have since been superseded, and still sit around in the namespace with no indication as to what they do or why they exist). A good example of this is the templates. Here are the prefixes used for Signpost templates:
 * What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. jp×g 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward.  J947  † edits 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. jp×g 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward.  J947  † edits 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. jp×g 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward.  J947  † edits 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. jp×g 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward.  J947  † edits 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. jp×g 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward.  J947  † edits 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. jp×g 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward.  J947  † edits 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. jp×g 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward.  J947  † edits 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * What is the reason for it being this way? I will tell you: there isn't one. People just made templates where-the-hell-ever for twenty years, and nobody ever wrote down how or where they went, and the result is a completely impenetrable jungle of bullshit. You can't write templates to parse these, you can't go through them with scripts, everything requires you to hardcode insanely complicated edge case handling for each of the 14 template prefixes -- why? To a large extent, it seems like a self-reinforcing problem: for the most part nobody bothers to try to fix the problems because they are so bad and so deeply rooted, and the ones who do (note that there were similar attempts in 2009, 2016 and 2018) abandon them because at every step of the way people will object that it's hypothetically, somehow, possible for something to be broken by fixing typos from 2008. I feel it is also condign to reference the last time someone was browsing G6 nominations and brought up this objection: it required me to spam the bajeezus out of RfD with dozens of nominations for typo redirects and preload templates that hadn't been used in decades, of course all of which reached a resounding consensus to delete, although it did manage to delay the Signpost cleanup by about a month and create a mountain of bureaucratic busywork for RfD regulars/closers. jp×g 23:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Look, I understand – I thought myself that that string of Signpost templates having to be brought to RfD was a waste of time. But at long-term former titles for main templates that fail R3 on 3 counts, I draw the line. If you must have R from moves deleted (for unknown or purely minorconvenience-related reasons), then a big RfD bundle nom is the path forward.  J947  † edits 23:36, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Other British monarch requested move discussions currently taking place
Since you recently participated in the Charles III requested move discussion, I thought you might like to know that there are two other discussions currently going on about other British monarch article titles here and here. Cheers. Rreagan007 (talk) 22:27, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

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National Geographic Channel HD
In regards to the National Geographic Channel RfD which you closed as no consensus, I don't think I would've closed that with any result just yet. I !voted on it quite late (after 8 days) because it wasn't getting a lot of traction at RfD, but it ended up being closed when my comment (the only comment there) wasn't even 24 hours old, hence not enough time for others to weigh in. User:Edward-Woodrow had a pretty valid rationale for starting the discussion and I was curious if he had a response in regards to mine about the presence of "HD". Utopes (talk / cont) 04:18, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
 * , it's a particularly uncommon search term so therefore I didn't see a need for it to be discussed at length. If E–W wanted to rebut your argument he could have done so, having edited many times since. So as it stood it was "This isn't a name for it" v "This is a name for it" for an unwieldly long redirect. In the worst case scenario, it being not a name, no one would find it anyway. I thought a relist might solidify the consensus one way or another, but to not import. Feel free to revert the close if you want, as I acknowledge I'm an outlier at RfD in closing ill-attended discussions that way.  J947  † edits 04:27, 23 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree the close was a little premature; a relist would probably be more appropriate in my opinion. A note: I couldn't rebut ' argument because I didn't see it. I only occasionally check through older RfDs I've started (I very rarely watch log days). Cheers, Edward-Woodrow  •  talk  12:15, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

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VA5
You mentioned cover art and I nominated it with leading examples (not being sure which you wanted and having got no feedback in that discussion). Still trying to figure out what vitality is and looking for feedback in that discussion.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:21, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll give a brief description on what vitality is, can't really commit to much else at the moment. It's obviously importance, but addressed from a more historical, more academic, less Western-centric viewpoint than we would normally envision. If Wikipedia could only have 50,000 articles, what would they be? The best way of finding out more than that is to have a look through the VA4 list and VA4 discussion archives and see what's on the list and what isn't, and why.  J947  † edits 07:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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American politicians va removals
Your recent comments are spot-on. I'm really frustrated btw. Grnrchst made some questionable nominations and he still gets a second and a third for everything with no scrutiny. And what really worries me is that he's coming for earlier American politicians next. We could be seeing removal proposals for Daniel Webster, William Jennings Bryan, Stephen Douglas, John Hancock (because Grnrchst might not understand why those fellas are important, Piotr will support any American politician removal, and Blue will support any proposal I oppose)...and those proposals would essentially start with three supports, meaning most of the remaining editors would have to be rallied to stop them. SMH p  b  p  02:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I think a quota discussion would have been a lot more productive than what we're seeing play out. Even if there were a consensus to reduce the number of American politicians listed, at least the right politicians would be cut. That might be a better approach in the future – food for thought. The block supports/opposes from some individual editors are infuriating. I'd appreciate your input at the passing hurdle discussion, by the way, as well as the many other meta discussions underway – they're discussions that would definitely benefit from extra eyes.  J 947  ‡ edits 03:35, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I've voted in the hurdle thread. Also flummoxed by Piotr's comment on cities...50 for the entire U.S.?   Does he understand how large the U.S. is?  On the one hand, I'm tempted to ask him to propose a quota change for the U.S....but the anti-American sentiment (mostly from people completely uninformed about the country) means a quota reduction to 50 might pass and I sure don't want that.  p  b  p  05:07, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The degree of the anti-American sentiment is really just absurd. As I said, I'm hardly one predisposed to be biased towards America; much the opposite. But bulk removals that even I think are highly unwarranted are passing.  J 947  ‡ edits 22:20, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

It seems pretty obvious that we need to propose a quota increase for politicians, at the expense of pop culture and miscellaneous topics. p b  p  17:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * On this topic, I've got an idea I want to run pass you: should we create a permanent thread for quota increases and decreases? The reason why I haven't proposed many of them is because it's difficult for such a proposal as moving pop culture to politicians, although most people would support at least one half of that change, to pass. If we have a thread for quota changes then we could have increase nominations and decrease nominations and one increase and one decrease could be passed at the same time (to ensure that the overall quota remains at 50,000). Otherwise, you have to argue two changes – often in entirely different areas – in one thread, which is a pain. If you follow me.  J 947  ‡ edits 21:57, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I've voted in one of the split threads. Now I'm wondering what will happen when the earlier American politicians are nominated for removal...which of those do you believe should be retained and which should be chucked?  p  b  p  20:57, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll probably mostly defer to you to be honest – I think I'm quite a bit less knowledgeable about pre-war American politics. P. B. S. Pinchback is one whose inclusion looks weak.  J 947  ‡ edits 21:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Pinchback is another first so he may slide on that account. I'm probably going to userspace defenses of the people who need defending.  Another troubling removal is the proposal of Plymouth, Mass and Salem, Mass...removal is losing 1-3 but our friends who blindly vote "remove" on anything American haven't showed yet.  p  b  p  20:47, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

It hasn't been a great last 48 hours. Interstellarity voted to remove a bunch of American politicians without any rationale. Totalabe accused me of making tit-for-tat nominations. Nobody seems to understanding my analogies. Why do I feel so alone? p b  p  13:23, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm sure that as this lot get more experienced with VA they'll begin to understand the mistakes they're making. Right now the best you can do is try and make changes that seem to have popular support at the moment (like the jurist removals, which will surely almost all pass). We can revisit politicians later.  J 947  ‡ edits 22:20, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

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Adding William G. Morgan to the level 4
Hello J947

I have question to you. I found you one of the most gentle and friendly users over the years in Vital articles project. I have question to you as my English is not very good. Could you please made in my !name nomination to add William G. Morgan to the level 4? Just as you did nomination to add Cat in the name of ios2019... I were repeating myself but I think that William G. Morgan definietly is vital as the person if we was in Volleyball Hall of Fame and if Volleyball is the only sport which at short page had globally more pageviews than Association Football. Volleyball is popular sport in many other countries than USA, for example in Indonesia is more popular than Rugby. Actually I could do that nomination by myself but I am not sure it would be ellegent from my side to fourth time nominate that during few years but I think this person is justfar more than enough vital at the level 4 and just because of sometimes we had not many active editiors to gain 66% then that does not mean this man does not deserve next chance to be added. Dawid2009 (talk) 12:42, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I've done so here. Feel free to vote on it.If this doesn't pass, it's probably best to wait a few more years before you try again.  J 947  ‡ edits 21:47, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks Dawid2009 (talk) 21:55, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
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 * RefRenamer by Nardog is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names in VisualEditor if we wish for it in the next survey. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418".

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 * Nardog: MoveHistory can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.
 * User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.
 * User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.
 * User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
 * AutoEd/unicodehex.js will no longer replace legacy MediaWiki dot-entities (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.



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 * Many of our favorite scripts such as User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
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 * To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
 * We want...
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 * A WP:3O requesting and responding tool, similar to Terasil's classic edit request tool
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 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

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 * Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
 * Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
 * User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
 * Chlod:
 * Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
 * Attribution Notice Template Editor (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor and supports more templates than copied ones.
 * Infringement Assistant allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate Copyright problems noticeboard.
 * User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
 * Enterprisey
 * diff-permalink-2 allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink
 * archiver is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.
 * /parent-cats highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories.
 * User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet adds an access key shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by Nardog and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh.
 * User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay loads a bunch of fonts to add correct rendering supports for "esoteric" languages.
 * User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped will make piped links irresistible (or else).
 * User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js adds an WP:AutoEd function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! Configure away!
 * Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
 * User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
 * Nardog
 * /CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with ) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
 * /RCMuter: Hide specific users, perhaps User:MediaWiki message delivery, from the Watchlist and Recent Changes.
 * /VitalTopicon makes you see the vital article topicon on WP:vital articles.
 * m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
 * Novem Linguae
 * DraftCleaner fixes formatting of new articles.
 * GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
 * ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
 * SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
 * User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
 * User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages adds a button to highlight all unreferenced paragraphs in reds, and can even do it automatically.
 * Still hate Vector 2022's floating TOC? User:Phlsph7/UnfoldedNumberedTOC(Vector2022) might make you give it a try.
 * Quite a bit of pages at Special:WantedCategories either exist now or got removed. User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/hideUnwantedCategories automatically hides those.
 * User:SuperHamster's Tools/View it! generates a gallery of images for a given subject on any Wikimedia project utilizing Structured Data on Commons. Images can then be added as needed.
 * Terasail
 * ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
 * /HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
 * ...and any more, all available at WP:US/L.

Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the scripts since last issue. Help us out here! <span style="color: rgb(6,69,173); text-decoration: inherit;">Aaron Liu (talk) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

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Just wanted to thank you for the message even though it got reverted. I also removed the whole discussion from V5 because I'm too embarassed, hopefully nobody minds. It really sucks to be like this, but oh well, it's chronic. Thank you again!  The Blue  Rider   01:30, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No probs. Mental health is a pest. I was thinking you left at first (partly why I reverted my comment), so it's a big relief that you haven't.  J  947  ‡ edits 01:46, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

"Politicky politicians"
You used this term a few weeks back in a VA discussion. Curious for a little deeper explanation p  b  p  14:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It was really just a statement that I don't think the most well-known politicians are necessarily the most vital. Those sort of politicians that are known for being controversial or outspoken figures aren't the most influential, etc. They're sort of like metapoliticians, playing the game rather than doing their job, to put it another way.  J 947  ‡ edits 23:06, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius:1em; box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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Cscr-featured.svg Featured script

 * Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.

Farm-Fresh error go.png Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
 * Aaron Liu has created What redirects here from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; their fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
 * Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
 * AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
 * Mesidast/Tidy citations is a fork of Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations is a fork of Waldyrious/formatcitations. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.



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Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
 * Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
 * Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
 * To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
 * We want...
 * ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
 * ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
 * ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

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 * A simple script to second or archive proposed deletions
 * A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like this demo
 * A WP:3O response tool that can automatically remove the relevant request from the 3O dashboard
 * A byte filter to be split from Nux/LongTableFilters
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

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 * DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in edit filters.
 * Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script adds an option to use Web2Cit (which WP:ProveIt also uses) instead of Citoid to generate citations in the Visual Editor.
 * Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
 * CopyVio detector, Adiutor.pngǵu/Adiutor (pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
 * Eejit43's redirect-helper script demo.png43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
 * /afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
 * /ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
 * /redirect-helper (pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
 * /rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
 * User Info Popup screenshot 1.jpg2/UserInfoPopup (pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
 * Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
 * Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
 * Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable highlights phrases commonly used in spammed and POV'd paragraphs.
 * FormattedEditRequest-in-work.pngDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest (pictured) generates a wikitext-formatted diff view of any changes you've made that you can copy and paste anywhere.
 * PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
 * Qwerfjkl/massCFD creates mass WP:CfD nominations.
 * Rublov/refspace highlights footnote spacing errors in red.
 * Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.

Edit-listings

 * Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
 * Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
 * Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs adds the edit filters that an edit tripped (if any) to a user's contributions page.
 * Nardog/ExamineMore makes it so the paging at Special:AbuseFilter/examine actually works, pending a fix to.
 * NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.

Appearance-ricing

 * Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
 * Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
 * GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink replaces the [ ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?
 * En.WP VPP Screen Shot 2024-01-13 with custom CSS.pngey/common (pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
 * Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
 * Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
 * Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022) reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.
 * For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
 * Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.
 * Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing Tab toggle the visibility of the tiny [ ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
 * The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

Permissions required!

 * Ahecht/potd-helper: A script to post the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.
 * Selective Rollback dialog.pngniez
 * /AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
 * /Selective Rollback (pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
 * Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter automates (nearly) all the work needed to post a DYK hook.

QOL shortcuts

 * BrandonXLF/SVGEditor lets you edit any file that is an SVG, straight from the file page.
 * DanCherek/UAABotRemover adds a portlet link to enable a removal shortcut of faulty reports from Usernames for administrator attention.
 * DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage helps you destroy webhost-ers' hopes and dreams with a user-friendly dialog box.
 * ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js adds a "link" button right after the "reply" button while the WMF struggles to reach feature parity with Convenient Discussions.
 * Isaacl/copy-comment-link-to-clipboard does exactly what you'd think it does, but in Wikitext.
 * FenrisAureus/SimpleStatus adds a shortcut at the top to edit your /Status subpage while providing a pre-made template.
 * Fred Gandt/addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole: What a mouthful! Yet all it does (no offense) is add another button on top of the Lua module debug console.
 * Guarapiranga/GlobalWatchlistLink adds a link to metawiki:Special:GlobalWatchlist next to the normal watchlist.
 * Nardog
 * PasteToCommons adds a paste handler to upload the pasted image to Wikimedia Commons.
 * Unpipe tries to detect violations of WP:NOPIPE and fix them as much as possible.
 * Ohconfucius/tometricunits automatically adds unit conversions of imperial units in brackets after their uses per MOS:UNITS.
 * Suntooooth
 * /flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
 * /randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
 * Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline fix templates.

Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!

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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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