User talk:Jeff G./Archives/2023/January

Happy New Year, Jeff G.!


Happy New Year! Jeff G., Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

— Moops  ⋠ T ⋡ 03:23, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

— Moops  ⋠ T ⋡ 03:23, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, you too!  — Jeff G. ツ 11:42, 2 January 2023 (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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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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— Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talk • contribs) 19:03, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Please close your divs and sign your work.  — Jeff G. ツ 13:16, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

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Hello from Redbeard012969
Hi Jeff G.,

Thanks for your email regarding my recent contributions and how they seem to be for promotional or advertising purposes.

I assure you they are not. My intent is to simply update artist pages who have done work for my company in the recent past. I am including citations, links, and images where I feel they offer value to the reader. The images I use are wholly owned by me.

Please let me know what I can do to avoid the perception of conflict. I am excited to be a Wikipedia contributor.

Thanks!

Redbeard012969 Redbeard012969 (talk) 17:39, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Redbeard012969: You're welcome. Your ownership of physical prints of the works of photographers and comic book authors and illustrators is immaterial - we need permission from those photographers, authors, and illustrators via WP:VRT. See also c:User talk:Redbeard012969. I am also sending you information about your conflict of interest.  — Jeff G. ツ 13:11, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Jeff G. I am the photographer and author. And the illustrators are the ones in the pictures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redbeard012969 (talk • contribs) 15:12, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Redbeard012969: So please send permission via VRT as author and photographer, and have the illustrators send permission via VRT as illustrators, and report the received ticket numbers.  — Jeff G. ツ 23:55, 9 January 2023 (UTC)