User talk:MarcGarver/Archive 44

Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
 Hello :

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a  month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is currently a backlog of over articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!

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The Signpost: 25 July 2021
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HeiQ Materials AG‎
I noticed your fully-justified revert in HeiQ Materials AG‎ yesterday of promo material added by an IP. Just so you're aware the same edits popped up again this morning from a newly-registered user with a username matching the company's director of marketing. I reverted and warned him of COI, but it might be worth you keeping the article on your watchlist to stop any future corporate spamming of their own article. 10mmsocket (talk) 07:22, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Help
Hey, my account was block forever on Ukrainian wikipedia by user:Yakudza because he decided that I used open proxies. However, I have never used them. The real reason I was blocked is that I started a discussion in local teahouse about abusing of checkuser rights by one of the checkusers of Ukrainian wikipedia. And right after seral hours I was blocked. That is a direct violation of Wikipedia rules. I demand truth and justice. Please review my case and my account and you will find I didn't do anything wrong. --Пушинко (talk) 16:51, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 August 2021
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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello ,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our  Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but  there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

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 or its software. Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 September 2021
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Redirect correction
Reg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Omkar_Rai - Edit

Subject is individual whereas redirect is an entity. Can you assist to give an option for soft redirect, if required, so that community can reach to designate page.

RufinaSmith (talk) 15:46, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2021
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Precious anniversary
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The Signpost: 29 November 2021
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Fixed your talk page archiving
Hi! I took the liberty of fixing the auto-archiving settings at the top of this page. --rchard2scout (talk) 14:35, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * thanks, much appreciated. MarcGarver (talk) 14:42, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2021
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