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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive is on!
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Talk page archive of deleted page
Hi @Modussiccandi: you deleted an article per Articles for deletion/2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis but there exists a talk page archive for it at Talk:2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis/Archive 1. I wonder if that should've also been deleted or maybe moved and archived somewhere else, because currently, it is completely orphaned, with little reasonable chance of being found. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 08:53, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * thank you for contacting me about this. This one was a messy deletion with a huge number of links and redirects. My first instinct would be for this to be deleted under G8, but I can see a scenario where editors might want to consult the contents of the page. On balance, I'd say it's in order to delete since their was a consensus that 2019–2021 Persian Gulf is not a topic to be suitably discussed in one article and I don't believe it will be coming back in this form. Let me know if you object. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 09:06, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure, I was just cleaning Category:Archive pages whose parent page is a redirect and this page showed up there and I had no idea what to do with this. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 09:11, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2022 November newsletter
The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is
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During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or the overall leader in this field.


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Deletion review for 2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis
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Precious anniversary
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 * Thank you, time seems to fly on this website. I hope everything is going well for you. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 08:22, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Nicky Lu
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A barnstar for you!

 * thank you very much for this nice surprise! I'm still learning on the job though... All best, Modussiccandi (talk) 19:27, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
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Please Help and Reply.
Ankur Verma is been protected for whatever reasons, I kindly request you to remove so that it can be resolved by his team. Please delete or solve whatever is the issue so that new article could be made. Qpms (talk) 11:59, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * thank you for reaching out. The Ankur Verma page was protected because several attempts were made to publish a promotional article on the subject, which is against Wikipedia's purpose. I would have to take a look at any proposed article about Verma before I could consider lifting the protection. I realise this must feel tedious to you, but the page has had to be deleted several times already. Thank you very much, Modussiccandi (talk) 13:52, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for the reply. I hope that the issue will be solve out and the article could be made again with all the suitable sources. Qpms (talk) 16:20, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * no worries! Make sure to check in with me when a suitable article is ready. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 16:30, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * @Qpms, as a suggestion, create the article in draft space and wait for it to be reviewed. Yes, it can take some time, but WP:THEREISNODEADLINE.  Be patient and work with the system.  Ravensfire  (talk) 23:52, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

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Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup!
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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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Please Help!!!
A new article has been made with all suitable sources. Please look after it and post it in Mainspace. Qpms (talk) 09:02, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Please Help!!!
A new article of Ankur Verma has been made with all suitable sources. Please post it in Mainspace. Thank you. Qpms (talk) 09:03, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I will have a look at the draft and get back to you. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 10:01, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * the draft looks much better than before. But before I go into detail, can I ask you to carefully read WP:COI and follow the instructions at WP:DISCLOSE? If this draft will become an article, you must disclose to the community any connection to :::Ankur Verma you might have. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 10:06, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your response. I am just helping out the Wikipedia page for editing. I hope the draft of Ankur Verma will posted in Mainspace soon. Qpms (talk) 17:04, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Are you saying that there is no connection whatsoever between you and Verma's team? If so, what did you want to say by this: Ankur Verma is been protected for whatever reasons, I kindly request you to remove so that it can be resolved by his team.? Modussiccandi (talk) 17:28, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

I know his team, he is my friend… I am just helping out to make edits…I am not doing for any monetary reasons…That’s all I mean!!

I hope the request of posting the draft to Mainspace will be resolve soon.

Thank you! Qpms (talk) 18:02, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks for letting me know. Since you're a friend of the subject, you have what we call a conflict of interest. Before we can talk about your new draft, I need you to declare this conflict of interest by following the instructions at WP:DISCLOSE. Feel free to reach out again once you've done that. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 11:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

M. Olesen
Hey mate! Thank you for notifying me on these changes. Olesen and myself shared the same school (although we were in different years and of course, different sections). As for his language section, he did attemp the Danish linguistic section and graduated on the 29th of July 2019. Unfortunately the European School of Luxembourg does not keep records although he can be seen here with this siblings and parents the day of his graduation, wearing the traditional graduation hat from the Danish section: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218247009504424&set=t.100000448736981&type=3 or in this Instagram post from his personnal account: https://www.instagram.com/p/B039KgcgvdY/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I doubt FB/ IG links are reliable enough though on Wiki?

Also, as he was not born in Luxembourg, naturalisation process are a little more complicated in comparison to those born in the country of foreign nationals parents. The process can only be started at 18. Although, it can be speeded up in cases like Olensen's.

Let me know! Greg
 * thank you for getting back to me! I fully believe all of what you say. The problem is that we haven't got reliable sources about these details. Since we're dealing with the bio of a living person, we need to take extra care with verification. Instagram and Facebook, as you say, aren't suitable for usage on here. So as it stands, it's better to leave this information out unless we can find a rock-solid published source to back it up. Regardless: it's great to see someone care about Olesen's article. Footballers from Luxembourg are a pretty niche topic I'd say. (My own interest in him derives from me following his team very closely.) Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 21:31, 24 January 2023 (UTC)


 * No worries! I will try my best to find reliable sources, although I could also ask him in person (even though I am sure he has better things to do!). Thank you for your interest on Luxembourgish football, you are one of the few ones! I allowed myself to upgrade the status of some players of the national squad, as their actual teams were outdated.
 * Best,
 * Greg Gregori-luxair (talk) 06:42, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Draft Creation request
Hello, I've been instructed to contact you as the administrator who closed the discussion for Lelo Sejean, since I've requested the availability of a draft creation based on an extensive online background check I conducted on this footballer, encountering sources by the Australian Football Database and its monthly report of Australian footballers abroad. The page didn't meet NG requirements previously, it may now, it may or may not satisfy Football Notability and Notability of Footballers, but I've only researched as far as football based content and all valid credible and verifiable references which are completely related to football. Despite its previous deletions, could you AT LEAST have a look at my version based on the sources that I'll include? The subject DID receive on going coverage in English between 2017 to 2020 Here I can see there MAY be personal disputes or indifferences between editors who are connected directly to the subject and may dislike him and removed the subject from the page and the subject's name from various connecting pages, BUT verifiable references from a credible source, the Australian Football DataBase, link him to having played in Paraguayan Football. Thanks :) Ze-wee-mon (talk) 23:13, 25 January 2023
 * I would be happy to have a look at a new version of the article. You will have seen that participants at the latest deletion discussion recognised that there was coverage available on him but felt that it did not reach the standard we're looking for. The article also has a long history of being re-created, so I hope you'll understand my caution. Fee free to share a link to the work you have done on Sejean. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 13:16, 25 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, I've almost finished creating MY version of a draft on the subject. I'm not sure what your stance is on the subject, be it for-or-against, hoping MY version is nothing like the previous re-created and deleted ones. Trust me, after not being able to create the article myself it took diligent research to put this together and to just contemplate requesting a review for it, only because of the credible and convincing sources I found.
 * After reviewing the latest deletion discussion of the subject that you suggested, I can unfortunately say that some comments in favor of deleting it seemed like personal disputes against the subject, which is why I'd like to reiterate that there MAY be personal disputes or indifferences between editors who are connected directly to the subject and may dislike him, BUT credible and verifiable references link him with having played in Paraguay. I understand the rationale but I don't see how things are improved by unjustly deleting the subject's name from the pages of all the Paraguayan clubs he played for when factual information is documented on the Australian Football Database that he HAS played for these clubs in Paraguay. As you'll appreciate, I've not included anything at all relating to the subject's personal life, something that was discussed in the deletion discussion. Just give MY version ago if it's about a fair review.
 * This article could be deleted on a technicality, for instance: no full international caps = not notable according to WP:ATHLETE. But realistically, this is EXTENSIVELY PREPARED and a SIMPLY WRITTEN and REFERENCED STUB about a footballer who just happened to have not yet reached Wiki's standards. Anyone else who played one game in Australia's top division is of lesser importance or notability than the Australians playing Abroad list. Annually, their coverage lasts longer, and the Australian top division only runs for six months.
 * As far as my research went, it was the best I could do, but:
 * English Language coverage from 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 is Here and Here
 * Spanish Language coverage from 2021 and 2022 is Here and Here
 * The articles cited are specifically about the subject and cover a span of six years (2017 to 2022), thus more than mere news or WP:ONEEVENT and the subject hasn't played for a national team. Australia's SBS ran an interview on him and ABC Color wrote a piece on him, and as far as I researched ABC Color is major Paraguayan newspaper and it's one of the most widely read daily newspapers in Paraguay. To be in the largest newspaper in Paraguay SHOULD contribute enough to meet the significant coverage criteria, further solidifing his notability.
 * He's profiled in the Australian Football Database Here (it only lists 2013 as his only Paraguayan club, this part needs to be updated, so do other Player Profiles on the DataBase)
 * As an Australian playing abroad, he had coverage during 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, until it was discontinued Here so someone from the AFDB team was obviously following his career for it to be of any significant importance.
 * He was in a circle of young Australian footballers from a generation that looked elsewhere for national youth team opportunities, which was a debated discussion in forums years ago, for apparently choosing Lebanon like Andreas Govas, Dean Bouzanis and Paul Giannou picked Greece and Aleks Vrteski and Daniel Georgievski picked Macedonia Here
 * I've found interviews on YouTube with Paraguayan television channels Here, Here, Here, and Here and I didn't even include these in my Draft but they are available content on YouTube about the subject.
 * His name is also listed on the Paraguayan Athletics Federation's official page over successive years as an athlete in competitions between 2015 to 2022.
 * He has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject and SHOULD pass
 * WP:BIO#Basic criteria, through having many reliable independent sources. I didn't mind creating the draft, at least give MY VERSION a read since it's been creating from a neutral perspective and by the stance of:
 * The subject has multiple articles written about him in two languages that override any notability issues, over the course of six years.
 * The subject MAY NOT have previously met Football Notability but has plenty of news articles about him specifically and in two languages over the course of six years, passing General Notability Guidelines.
 * His career is notable for an Australian player
 * IMPORTANT: In MY version there isn't any factual information relating to the subject's personal life which was the center of dispute in the latest deletion discussion of the subject's page. Hope you appreciate this fact.
 * I understand that the main criteria at WP:BIO is "A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject". Regardless of any national team games played or not, if someone's writing about a subject specifically in a newspaper then it SHOULD demonstrate a certain notability, thus the GNG. Many other unimportant things pass these requirements. In the sources supplied, he certainly gets more than a trivial mention.
 * At the end of the day, notability is about being "worthy of note", and it is only in special cases that a non-national team football or non-professional footballer is likely to be worthy of note. So it's up to you to decide and I'd hope that you enjoy the draft I prepared.
 * I'm about to create a draft for another two-time deleted page about Dimitri Hatzimouratis, If you're interested in approving it for me then I'd be keen on showing you what I've prepared.
 * Thanks :) Ze-wee-mon (talk) 06:51, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello again, it's Draft:Lelo Sejean. Thanks :) Ze-wee-mon (talk) 07:00, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * there's a lot of information to process here. The bedrock of notability, as you recognised, is WP:GNG: the subject needs significant coverage in multiple reliable sources independent of the subject. The details of his sporting exploits are irrelevant so long as these criteria are met. I have now gone through the sources you provided. My problem is that all of this coverage is of the same nature: a trivial piece of information about Sejean filled with quotations by him. That sort of coverage is neither substantial nor independent. On these reasons, I don't see any of the English-language sources you point as contribution anything to his notability. The Spanish-language pieces are better, but I'm not convinced that either of them exceed the level of a basic news reports, which don't contribute to notability either. Since he hasn't played at a high level, we are looking for proper, in depth-coverage in high-quality sources. Listings in databases and interviews are no good either: the former are not significant, the latter are not independent. After reading through what you provide, me hunch is that the community correctly concluded that Sejean should not be the subject of a Wikipedia article. His problem, in short, is that he is no more than a regular lower league footballer (see WP:MILL) who happens to have attracted a lot of coverage, most of which does not reach the required standard. In summary, I don't think the situation has changed much since that last deletion discussion. I would recommend the following: submit your draft (admittedly much better than what we had before) for review. If another reviewer with awareness of the past discussions approves of it, you will have a much better shot at convincing me that the creation protection of Lelo Sejean should be lifted. I know this process might take some time, but you will need the judgement of more than just one experienced Wikipedian to overturn established consensus. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 10:00, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello again and thanks. Incase you'd like to review this, please feel free Draft:Dimitri Hatzimouratis - Thanks :) Ze-wee-mon (talk) 05:58, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I have taken a look at your draft on Hatzimouratis. Here's my assessment: judging from the sources your draft presents, the player is quite some way removed from being suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. Remember, we are looking for significant coverage (several developed prose paragraphs) in high-quality sources that are not connected with the subject. None of the sources used in the draft contribute towards this standard. The sources from ozfootball.net are simply statistics. The article from The Corner Flag mentions Hatzimouratis in passing. The soccerway profile, again, is just a statistics compilation. In summary, I would decline the submission of this draft as would, I'm sure, every other AfC reviewer. The only thing that could improve this draft's chances is adding sources that discuss the player's life/career in more depth than just statistics or mentions in passing. Modussiccandi (talk) 12:48, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Happy First Adminship Anniversary!
 Wishing Modussiccandi a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman ( talk ) 19:20, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * thank you! This is very much appreciated. Modussiccandi (talk) 20:04, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

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