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June events from Women in Red
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Books & Bytes – Issue 50
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 50, March – April 2022 
 * New library partner - SPIE
 * 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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Thank you for reviewing my articles!
Dear Mcampany, thank you very much for reviewing some of my pending new articles! After you did so, I navigated to your Userpage, and it made me want to reach out to you with this particular enquiry – I've participated in stub article creation for Women in Red and Requested articles since I joined Wikipedia a few years ago. I had applied for Auto-patrol rights after I was eligible back then, but I was too young an editor, and Swarm was kind enough to encourage me to reapply after gaining some more experience. Alas, I got busy and never got around to it.

Now that I sit at 300+ articles created, do you think it is wise that I applied again? I admit, I've hit a few bumps in my article creations here and there, and that is what has made me hesitate thus far – you can see my contributions for the details on some of my pages being tagged for notability or being nominated for deletion (and some also surviving their nomination). However, I feel confident that I have a good grasp of article creation, and Wikipedia in general now. I sincerely seek your advice on whether Auto-patrol rights would suit my editorial level, and if re-applying would be worth it. I thank you sincerely for taking the time to read and reply, if it so pleases you. Kindest regards, Spinster300 (talk) 16:18, 6 June 2022 (UTC).
 * Hi ! That's a really good question! I don't review requests for autopatrol, so I'm not sure what admins look for. But in general, users can successfully apply for autopatrol if their articles aren't tagged for maintenance and when other editors don't have to clean up their articles after publication. When I applied for autopatrol, I had written something like 100 clean articles, and the admin who gave it to me did it after asking me to go back and add the correct "default sort" to the ones that didn't have them.
 * I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm not in a good place to say whether or not you'd pass. Personally I'd wait until it has been at least a year since one of your articles was deleted, but I'll freely admit that I tend to be pretty cautious when asking for permissions. I think you should give it a try and see what happens. Worst comes to worst, an admin will decline and your articles will stay in the queue. Mcampany (talk) 16:35, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2022
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello ,

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.


 * Reminders
 * 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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 * Notes

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:01, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Stubs
Thank you for your recent edit to W.T.P. Simarmata, but please take care not to add stub to an article which already has a specific stub tag. Thanks. Pam D  22:37, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry about that! Thanks for taking it off. Mcampany (talk) 22:39, 24 June 2022 (UTC)