User talk:NorthBySouthBaranof/Archives/2019/December

Malia Bouattia
Despite your unnecessarily snide comment, this has nothing to do with my "personal beliefs". Look at Category:Black British people and tell me how many of the people in it are of North African descent! Is Category:British people of Algerian descent a subcat of it? No. See Black British, the main article for the category. The Wikipedia category and article use the traditional definition of "black" as used to refer to people specifically of Sub-Saharan African descent, not to the catch-all "not white" definition we sometimes see (the latter being why "reliable sources" have referred to her as black). Under the latter definition, British Asian people are also considered to be black, but I don't think you'll find any of them in the category you just readded. So actually, your personal opinion is completely inconsistent with that of the Wikipedia community. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:00, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Has nothing to do with my opinions. We have cited reliable sources which describe her as Black British - they were removed without comment by an anon, but I have replaced them. Those cited reliable sources are controlling at this point. You have cited nothing to the contrary. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 17:09, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Merely common sense and consistency. I have told you why sources would call her that and why we wouldn't. She is clearly British Arab, not Black British. But okay, so be it, I can't be bothered to argue. Let her be the only person in that category who's not of Black African descent. Wikipedia shines again. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:00, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Neutral Point of View Noticeboard discussion
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New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course

Sockpuppet
The Edit5001 user may be linked to the anti-immigration socks from the Center for Immigration Studies (see) or the socks from the Gatestone Institute page (UberVegan, JBlackCoffee52). Snooganssnoogans (talk) 15:17, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year NorthBySouthBaranof!
Happy New Year! Hello NorthBySouthBaranof: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 05:23, 28 December 2019 (UTC) Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks (static)}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

Bad little Voice
Thank you! Bad little Voice of Tenor! Happy new year, NorthBySouth! Bishonen &#124; talk 19:37, 31 December 2019 (UTC).