User talk:SL93/Archive 8

DYK for Orobanche uniflora
Mifter (talk) 00:04, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

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DYK for Antirrhinum filipes
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Louise Nixon Sutton
Vanamonde (talk) 00:02, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for The Brainwashing of My Dad
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Elena Georgieva
Mifter (talk) 02:13, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Nellie Griswold Francis
Mifter (talk) 01:56, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for The King of Ping Pong
Mifter (talk) 01:41, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Fort Custer Maze
Mifter (talk) 01:42, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Personal attacks
SL93, sorry, but I consider those comments at Wikipedia talk:Did you know personal attacks, and they certainly are disruptive since they distract from the discussion. You may find plenty of room to disagree with TRM but questioning his credentials is not OK. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 22:12, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I honestly wasn't trying to, but I can't make people believe me. SL93 (talk) 22:13, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * It should be OK to me though. Many people in real life even don't believe me or go as far as to insult me and treat me like a freak. As someone with Asperger's, I should honestly just get used to it. SL93 (talk) 22:19, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't know if you were trying or not, but calling him an idiot and saying ... well I won't repeat what you said. This has nothing to do with treating someone like a freak; if you didn't intend to insult him, that's great, but the words themselves were insulting. Note that I am telling you this as a fellow editor, not slamming a template down or suggest a block. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 22:27, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I called Floquenbeam an idiot after he/she called me one. SL93 (talk) 22:28, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Right--you insulted two editors. If you like I can tell Floq what you think of his comment--but if you claim that TRM hasn't created content this last decade, you can expect some backlash. Drmies (talk) 22:33, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I thought all I insulted was that editor after being called an idiot. I would rather you not talk to Floq about it because I don't feel like being called names again. SL93 (talk) 22:38, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Twin Bing
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DYK for The Big Treehouse
Mifter (talk) 05:19, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:49, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kingsley, Iowa
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DYK for Tomostethus multicinctus
Mifter (talk) 03:25, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Aiming for FA with something...
Mainpaging is fun - I have done it a few times. One gets a feel for how much content there is and the ease of getting it to FA-hood. Kingsley, Iowa I feel is a little scant but FA status might be achievable with some work. For instance, Puddletown I just reviewed for another editor, and he was able to find out a bit more stuff so it makes for a more detailed well-rounded article. Anyway, might be a time for Peer Review or maybe try get a few more GAs done and then choose one to punt to FAC. Just sayin' Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:15, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kingsley, Iowa
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 * Thanks very much. SL93 (talk) 21:38, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
 * As a potential model, you might want to look at (and comment on) Jerome, Arizona, which is at Featured article candidates/Jerome, Arizona/archive1. Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:16, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Twin Bing
Mifter (talk) 00:05, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK Query
You pointed out that some phrases from the Noor ur Rahman Barkati article were too close to the wording of the source. Is it possible to fix this issue by changing some of the English sources with Bengali sources? RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 09:22, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I took care of it for you. SL93 (talk) 17:52, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Please have a look at the DYK. I have made some changes. RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 05:26, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I have accepted the hook. SL93 (talk) 05:37, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: .za Domain Name Authority (ZADNA
Hello SL93. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of .za Domain Name Authority (ZADNA, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: administrating a country TLD (.za) clearly indicates significance. Thank you.  So  Why  09:13, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Kudpung. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Beauty & the Beast (1982 video game), and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 18:57, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Babette Hughes
Mifter 00:02, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

RE: DaCast
Is it possible for me to see what changes there are in the article as compared to the version that was deleted? After all, I only nominated the original article for AfD in the English Wikipedia after having nominated the Spanish version, which had been translated from the English version, for the same reasons (promotional content and the presence of several single-purpose accounts). As an admin in the Spanish Wikipedia, I can review the content of the (now deleted) Spanish version of the article, and it's pretty much the same as the current English version, which seems to have been created by a fresh new single-purpose account. Sabbut (talk) 19:03, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I think notability has been shown in this case. SL93 (talk) 19:23, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

00:34:35, 13 June 2017 review of submission by NRRyder
I was hoping for a clarification on the largely unsourced nature of this article. In the introduction I have included many relevant resources to both foundational material and modern results. In the introduction I also mention that the meat of the article is sourced from a recent article which provides an elementary proof of the desired result. For this reason I do not include references in the body of the article (since it all comes from the one reference in the beginning).

I was hoping you could clarify if my introduction needs more references or if I should keep re-referencing the main article I pull the proof sketch from.

Thanks for your time!
 * I understand what you're saying. I went ahead and accepted the AFC submission, but I tagged it as uncategorized because I'm not sure what the proper Wikipedia categories would be. SL93 (talk) 00:52, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Hospital de San Carlos
You mentioned at my Talk page, during Articles for deletion/Hospital de San Carlos, that you had found sources to support a Hospital de San Carlos article about the one in Spain. There are several sources mentioned in the AFD, either the same or different than what you referred to. Go ahead! -- do ncr  am  05:44, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Kingsley, Iowa
Mifter (talk) 00:27, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Recent reviews
I've noticed you've actually been missing several G11 and G12 cases at AfC recently (some of them clear cut spam as "Our company", "We", etc.), so remember it's important that but to especially state the need to comply with our COI policies. I always take the time to fully read each Draft based on this or even quicker if it's instantly G11 or G12. Let me know if you have questions or need help, SwisterTwister   talk  03:25, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't really miss them. I just choose to deny it based on one criteria and there is no way to check multiple at once. SL93 (talk) 03:29, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * As for DaCast, I don't believe it's blatantly spam. SL93 (talk) 03:32, 16 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I wasn't concerned with DaCast as although it's still promotional, the NYT is the best source so there's that. The relevant Drafts are Draft:Achilles the K9, Draft:Contobox, Draft:NOVA Employment, Draft:Brayola, Draft:Ever Widening Circles and Draft:Xplor which were either both G11 and G12 from the company website (Checking for copypaste found it to be sometimes either half of the page or similar) or clear G11 if not copyvio. SwisterTwister   talk  03:58, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I guess I can leave a comment about every single issue that I find, but I thought it wasn't a big deal if it was actually denied and not put into article space. SL93 (talk) 04:00, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Actually, still looking in, I noticed St. Peter's Church, CNI was not only G11 but also G12 from their website. SwisterTwister   talk  17:10, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

21:03:35, 19 June 2017 review of submission by Johnloxone
Hi, Thank you for taking the time to read my submission. I was curious as to which changes I could make before resubmitting. Similar companies in the industry have wiki pages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control4), which I looked to for guidance in avoiding coming across as an advertisement.

Thank you,

John

Request on 17:18:01, 21 June 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by Aidandiprima
Hi there SL93, you declined my submission for Philip J. Miller's article, found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Philip_J._Miller

I understand why it was declined (a lot of the sources are not independent). I have made some changes to focus more heavily on 2 pages that I believe are independent (FACS and CastleConnolly). Could you look this over and see if this is an improvement on what was there before? I got some help from the live chat channel who mentioned that my NYU webpage source, crunchbase, and his website were not independent sources, and that I needed more credible outside sources.

I have also taken out a lot of information that wasn't pertinent and that I couldn't find an independent source for.

I have added in a handful of external links to newspaper, magazine, and website articles where Miller is mentioned. Do these help to add to his notability?

Please let me know if this looks better and/or will be enough for submission. If not, I would appreciate any guidance on what could be changed.

Thank you, Aidan

Aidandiprima (talk) 17:18, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Batman and Harley Quinn
IronGargoyle (talk) 00:03, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Thanks for reviewing Krod Records, SL93.

Unfortunately Domdeparis has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

"Hi I have some serious reservations about the notability of this page. For me it fails WP:NORG and notably WPORGDEPTH; It was created by a SPA user that has created a walled garden around it with about a dozen associated pages almost all of which fail WP:NMUSIC and WP:GNG"

To reply, leave a comment on Domdeparis's talk page.

Domdeparis (talk) 16:33, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Anissa Rawda Najjar
--IronGargoyle (talk) 01:39, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

00:51:40, 6 July 2017 review of submission by Adams.street
I have tried to adjust the tone and content to remove any hint of advertisement. I'm writing you now to ask if the new version looks and feels better to you. The problem I'm having is that it's a young company and there are not a lot of articles written about it or the founders or the people who work for it. If you feel it still sounds too much like an advertisement, can you give me some specific examples in response to this query? Thank you very much. I appreciate your time and effort. ˜˜˜˜Adams.street

DYK for Hotel Manger
IronGargoyle (talk) 00:04, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:09, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Five years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

... and six --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:56, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Penstemon digitalis
Alex ShihTalk 00:04, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Nujoom Al-Ghanem
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

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I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Tags aren't enough
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 * We will have to disagree on that. There is no requirement to nominate the articles for deletion for new page reviewing so you are clearly in the wrong. SL93 (talk) 15:38, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Doris Frankel
Alex ShihTalk 00:01, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK for The Broken Cord
IronGargoyle (talk) 12:02, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
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DYK for Poetry in Motion (film)
Alex ShihTalk 00:03, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
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DYK for Elizabeth Mounsey
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COI editing at RL360°
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DYK nomination of Mary Dranga Campbell
Hello! Your submission of Mary Dranga Campbell at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Elisa.rolle (talk) 23:09, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
 * SL93, I wanted to check to see whether you still wanted to withdraw this, after the subsequent posts on the nominations page. If so, I'll close it. Just ping me from here either way. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:46, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * User:BlueMoonset I would like to close it. It's not worth dealing with anymore. SL93 (talk) 23:11, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for letting me know. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:41, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

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15:38:42, 26 September 2017 review of submission by R.19
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Helo, thankk you for your help on this article. Can you please explain to me why the article was declined? I have added external, secondary references for each fact stated in the article so I just am trying to understand what else to do. Thank you.

R.19 (talk) 15:38, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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Nintex page
Hey there -- I'm working for an agency on behalf of Nintex to post a page on their behalf. As one of the Wiki users who declined it back in June, I was wondering if I would be able to send you the current draft so you can vet it for any potential problem areas. The issue last time was that the page read as overly promotional and lacking notability. The new version corrects for both of those. Let me know if you'd be able to review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:246:1:BB40:38D1:57AF:49C:A184 (talk) 03:35, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

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General help
Hi, I am coming under constant "deletion" attack for articles that are about a major issue in reliability engineering. I started out with one editor stating the article was too technical, so I changed it down. Then another claiming it is too original, and I proved it is not, and another claiming it is not notable, and also had to show them that this subject is a major one. I did realize that the way I posted the article was the main issue, so I changed it and created a new page. This new one was then attacked for not being encyclopedic.

Frustration is an understatement: No matter what you do someone will have an opinion. I don't mind that, I do mind the opinion involving immediate deletion. Don't people give a chance to anyone here? IS this another Facebook? I have a subject that is not yet covered by Wikipedia, its preventative maintenance optimization, which is a relatively old subject and is used by millions of companies world wide, and is a complete sector of reliability and industrial engineering. There is a lot of information on preventative and planned maintenance engineering, and what I feel is that a lot of editors do not know what they are editing. Its like asking a 6 year old to edit an article on neuro-science. If the editor does not understand the subject they should move on or ask someone that does understand it to deal with it.

My bottom line is this; can you help me with editing my first articles and subjects. Have you got tips? Pointers? etc. All my articles will be subjects not companies or people.Gina Kano (talk) 02:24, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Disruptive Power of Repair Management Method DPRMM This is the page I would like you to help me with, and help me contest the deletion. Gina Kano (talk) 02:27, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:
 * WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags
 * Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:
 * A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons
 * There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy
 * Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
 * The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

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Nomination of List of human superheroes in DC Comics for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of human superheroes in DC Comics is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/List of human superheroes in DC Comics until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 05:58, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

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 * Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
 * June backlog drive


 * New technology, new rules
 * New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
 * Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
 * Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.


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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


 * Project news
 * The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
 * As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.


 * There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See New pages patrol/Coordination for more info to see if you can help out.


 * Other
 * A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.


 * Moving to Draft and Page Mover
 * Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
 * If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
 * Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
 * The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
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Nizamani
Since you took part in the original AfD, please note Articles for deletion/Nizamani (2nd nomination). I have informed the other participant in that original discussion. - Sitush (talk) 14:32, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
 * Backlog


 * Community Wishlist Proposal
 * There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
 * Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!


 * Project updates
 * ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
 * There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.


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DYK for Deccan Chargers in 2009
Hi. Thanks for reviewing Template:Did you know nominations/Deccan Chargers in 2009 but I didn't understand the current status of the nomination. It was not completely promoted and also now other editors can't see in Template talk:Did you know because it was already reviewed. Can you please provide me some info on what is the current status and do I need to do anything? Thanks. Sagavaj (talk) 20:16, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I can see the hook at Template talk:Did you know/Approved. I don't know why I can't see if on the regular page. SL93 (talk) 22:12, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Can you also suggest on the further steps to be taken? Thanks. Sagavaj (talk) 23:30, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * There are no further steps for the reviewer or the nominator. All that’s left is for someone to take it from the approved hook page and promote it to a prep area. It can take awhile becuse of the DYK backlog. SL93 (talk) 02:01, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Article you moved from sportsflashes to sports flashes should be undone
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sports_Flashes&diff=868124185&oldid=868123896&diffmode=source

you have moved the above article from sportsflashes to sports flashes, but i have checked on the media channel page where it is mentioned as single word everywhere. Appu bhatnagar (talk) 12:09, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I moved it because of how I saw it referred to in the news articles. SL93 (talk) 12:18, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Phạm Thận Duật
Hi, I see you're getting the hang of template closures. To avoid undoing and re-closing, you might want to preview your initial closure to make sure that pesky line: }} appears at the bottom. And sometimes, the only problem is that the last }} symbol is absent. Keep up the good work! Yoninah (talk) 14:02, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
Hello ,
 * Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
 * Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.


 * If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.


 * We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.


 * With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm MB. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Sulawesi root rat, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

MB 03:20, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Prep 2
Hi, thanks for promoting the special occasion hook. In future, please remember to add a hidden note, in this case to special occasion hooks to keep them anchored in the right set. Thanks again, Yoninah (talk) 01:01, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I thought I could remove the original note because it was added to the prep and I didn't know to add a new note. SL93 (talk) 01:02, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Rosalie Housman
Hello! Your submission of Rosalie Housman at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 04:07, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

My apologies
I apologize for erroneously reverting the change in Kate McComb's name in the lead. Since the longer name remained in the infobox, I assumed that the change was made to match the name in the title. (I have seen that done with other articles.) I should have read the article's talk page first; then I would have seen the relevant discussion. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:18, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It's fine. Thank you. SL93 (talk) 02:19, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
Hello! Your submission of Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 19:58, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK
Hello, what concern was there here? The only concerns mentioned were "some sentences... lack footnotes"? Which ones? Every paragraph has numerous footnotes and has had so all along. The "Honours" section is sourced detail by detail in the main text itself. Then there was my being unable to edit for about three weeks (not a month, as the same reviewer claimed) due to ongoing problems. The reviewer even stated "The article is new enough, long enough, stable, and neutrally written... the hook fact is cited inline and verified". I honestly didn't think I even had anything to fix. But for the sake of clarity I've just moved the exact same footnotes that mention what he won (and which were there all along) to the "Honours" section. --Leitirlad (talk) 02:42, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You can bring it up to Narutolovehinata5 and see if they think it should be reopened. To be fair, not everything had citations until after the closure. We do have stricter rules for the main page, but all that I did was close it because it was already marked for closure by someone else. SL93 (talk) 02:55, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * SL93 (talk) 02:57, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * For one thing, the last sentence of the last paragraph of the "Career" section didn't have a reference. The "Honours" section really needed at least some footnotes: being in the article body alone is insufficient, especially for DYK standards. If you still feel that the nomination should be reopened, you can leave a message at WT:DYK and see if there will be consensus to do so. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:04, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, will do. Sorry for any bother. --Leitirlad (talk) 03:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Anna Shelton
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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you. I'm glad that I managed to find that print book to fill in the missing dots. SL93 (talk) 14:09, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Clara Lanza
Vanamonde (talk) 12:02, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Cecil Cowles
Mifter (talk) 12:03, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Kate McComb
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello ,

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
 * Reviewer of the Year
 * Thanks are also extended for their work to (15,059 reviews),  (12,760reviews),  (9,001reviews),  (8,440reviews),  (8,092reviews),   (5,306reviews),  (4,153 reviews),  (4,016reviews),  and  (3,615reviews)., , , and  have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only sevenmonths, while , with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top100 reviewers.

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
 * Less good news, and an appeal for some help

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
 * Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

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DYK for Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha
Alex Shih (talk) 12:02, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Helza Cameu
Vanamonde (talk) 12:02, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for LOL (2006 film)
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Lila Gene George
Hello! Your submission of Lila Gene George at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 18:20, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Rosalie Housman
Mifter (talk) 12:02, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Mantispa styriaca
Mifter (talk) 12:02, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Astragalus crassicarpus
— Maile (talk) 12:01, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Prep 6
Hi, thanks for filling this prep. I don't know if you noticed that you placed 3 women's sports hooks in this set. I swapped one with Prep 5. In so doing, I noticed that there was no credit line for Pat Marsh (ice hockey), and added it there. Best, Yoninah (talk) 13:54, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. I was trying to update the prep area during our Christmas Eve and everyone was being so loud during it (I wanted no part in it because I'm an introvert). SL93 (talk) 17:17, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of VideoThang


The article VideoThang has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "An article on a defunct freeware product whose notability has been queried for 5 years. The 3 brief product reviews from 2008 do not appear sufficiently substantial to demonstrate its notability under WP:NSOFT, WP:PRODUCT or WP:GNG criteria."

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. AllyD (talk) 22:02, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Suggesting an alternative
So I intentionally did not suggest an alternative, if I had I would not be able to actually review and approve it and not help move the process on, sorry. MPJ-DK (talk) 05:19, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Jane Odell
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK
This is regarding Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts DYK currently on Queue 6. The article in question contains Gyan Publishing House reference which is not a WP:RS per this & is listed on WP:MF. I suggest removing the ref from the article and pulling the DYK down if possible. - 58.27.134.35 (talk) 09:18, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Lila Gene George at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with db-g7, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 09:02, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't know what happened. SL93 (talk) 15:09, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Somehow the nomination template was removed from WP:DYKNA. Do you want me to honor your second request for a withdrawal and just close it? Yoninah (talk) 16:31, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes. SL93 (talk) 16:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * OK. I'm sorry it didn't work out. Yoninah (talk) 17:46, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for A Summer in a Sea Shell
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy New Year, SL93!


Happy New Year! SL93, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 23:23, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

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

Fixed your DYK submission for you
Hi there, I fixed your DYK submission for you. diff. cheers. -- D Big X ray ᗙ  20:17, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Geolycosa pikei
Hello! Your submission of Geolycosa pikei at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:15, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Why We Have a Body
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Annie Nowlin Savery
Hello! Your submission of Annie Nowlin Savery at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 17:37, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Capnobotes fuliginosus
– Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Geolycosa pikei
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 00:01, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Annie Nowlin Savery
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 00:01, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Leptoconops kerteszi
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 00:03, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for International Encyclopedia of Women Composers
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Hello! Your submission of Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 18:08, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of The Green Marker Scare
Hello! Your submission of The Green Marker Scare at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:12, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Victoria Loke
Alex Shih (talk) 00:03, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 Reminder
Hi. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I just wanted to remind you that you have signed up to compete in this year's WikiCup! There are about 2 weeks left before the first round ends – if you haven't yet made your first submission, there is still time to start; if you have already started, keep up the good work. See your submissions page: here. Good luck!

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DYK for Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for The Green Marker Scare
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for The Bellboy and the Playgirls
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for When Night Falls (2012 film)
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Frankenstein vs. The Mummy
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Dublin Oldschool
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17


Hello ,


 * News
 * The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.


 * Discussions of interest
 * Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
 * db-blankdraft was merged into G13 (Discussion)
 * A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.


 * Reminders
 * NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD  because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.


 * NPP Tools Report
 * Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
 * copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
 * The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828 Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review. Stay up to date with even more news – subscribe to The Signpost.

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April 2019
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:02, 25 March 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

(Please excuse this post if it is a duplicate!)

Declined article about Cabka Group
Dear SL93,

you have declined my article about the Cabka Group 4 months ago. Here ist the link to the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Cabka_Group

I asked in the help forum what I can do to improve the article. They said the main problem is, that we are not the author of the German wikipedia text and just copied this. We know the author of the German Wiki text. If he applys for the publication of the english text, will that be okay for you? Or do you have some other problems with this article?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Best regards MSWR07 — Preceding unsigned comment added by MSWR07 (talk • contribs) 08:15, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 Reminder
Hi. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I just wanted to remind you that you are a current participant in round 2 of this year's WikiCup! There are only a few days until the second round ends – if you haven't made you first submission for this round yet, there is still time to start; if you have already started, keep up the good work. See your submissions page: here. Good luck!

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May you join this month's editathons from WiR!
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NPR Newsletter No.18


Hello ,

, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
 * Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
 * Reliable Sources for NPP

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.
 * Backlog drive coming soon


 * News
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.


 * Discussions of interest
 * A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
 * There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
 * What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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June events with WIR
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:42, 22 May 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Thank you
I noticed I already gave you a writers barnstar last year, so I'll just thank you for creating Virginia Bedell (I was notified because your article created a link to Carolyn Pendray). Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:13, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:The Dentist (1932 film).jpg
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:03, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of Gamm (record label)
You sent me a message asking for my opinion on whether to delete this article. I cannot imagine why. I hope you will not circulate every user of Wikipedia with this sort of request. This is just spam. JMcC (talk) 07:13, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Apologies. It seems I created the article to disambiguate. JMcC (talk) 09:09, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

July events from Women in Red!
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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019


Hello ,

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important. Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR. The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever. NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so  you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations. Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for  the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging. Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway. School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * QUALITY of REVIEWING
 * Backlog
 * Move to draft
 * Notifying users
 * PERM
 * Other news

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Speedy deletion nomination of Studiometry


A tag has been placed on Studiometry requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about web content that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 04:54, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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Closure of Template:Did you know nominations/Jew with a coin
You closed Template:Did you know nominations/Jew with a coin. I also commented at User talk:Narutolovehinata5 (inappropriate use of "fringe topics" - on an article sourced to scholarship and NEWSORGs). I request that you reopen this for an un-inovlved review. Prior commentators were involved, and furthermore raised issues with specific hooks. There are no tags on the relevant pages, they are stable, and MyMoloboaccount only objected (I'll note that without any real policy basis) to Joanna Tokarska-Bakir - leaving several other suggested hooks - main, ALT1, ALT4 - as hooks present in the article and un-objected to on the nomination page. Icewhiz (talk) 06:24, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Catherine Despard
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Episcia cupreata
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Mary Robinson Foster
Hello! Your submission of Mary Robinson Foster at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 04:33, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Eunice Lea Kettering
Hello! Your submission of Eunice Lea Kettering at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 00:13, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I can't promote it now since I reviewed the new hook refs, but I want to thank you for writing a much better hook. Yoninah (talk) 00:23, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It's fine. SL93 (talk) 00:25, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Women of '69, Unboxed
Hello! Your submission of Women of '69, Unboxed at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! valereee (talk) 18:28, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 2
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DYK for Mary Robinson Foster
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Slender glass lizard
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Your GA nomination of Slender glass lizard
The article Slender glass lizard you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Slender glass lizard for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Casliber -- Casliber (talk) 20:22, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Slender glass lizard
Hello! Your submission of Slender glass lizard at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! – MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 00:06, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Eunice Lea Kettering
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Dardanus deformis
— Maile (talk) 12:03, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for George Dashnau
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Floy Little Bartlett
valereee (talk) 12:01, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for reviewing Thuy Trang! And please feel free to sign my autograph book! I used to invite anyone I've had a positive wiki-interaction with to sign it, but kind of forgot about it for a while, so now I'm back to using it. lol — Hunter Kahn 11:32, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Ann Peterson
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Women of '69, Unboxed
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Gara Medouar
Hi, thanks for your good work on hook promotions. I was wondering, though, why you promoted this double hook to Prep 3 when the reviewer first wrote that it was unsatisfactory. We're waiting to promote the two separate hooks instead, but the nominator said that an image would be forthcoming, so we're still waiting. Could you return this to WP:DYKNA please? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 18:11, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The reviewer stated, "The two hooks covering four articles can be promoted separately." with a tick. I can return them, but there is no requirement that a hook nominated with an image needs to be promoted with that image. Pinging reviewer SL93 (talk) 18:17, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

I haven’t heard anything from the reviewer yet or anyone else so I’m guessing that this isn’t an issue. SL93 (talk) 21:25, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Why? Things move slowly at DYK. I pinged the nominator on the template. Yoninah (talk) 22:06, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I still don’t consider it an issue because of how images work in DYK. I see that you undid my closure which is fine. SL93 (talk) 22:10, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Ruspolia nitidula
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Chelymorpha cassidea
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Hey there. Salutations
Re what you believe I added to "The Debut (album)" it was just one of those things I do on a regular basis, not necessarily at DYK, but whenever ...   At times, I've run it on hook articles in the next Queue to go live, but no one ever noticed before.

You've probably discovered this nifty tool: At the top of any Page/history are several tool links,  One of those says "Fix dead links". Have you tried this, by the way? It tells you to sign in ... on my browser/skin the sign-in is in the upper right. I also click the little box " Add archives to all non-dead references (Optional)", because I think it's good practice to leave a visible trail to what we do. Then click on Analyze, and it goes - lickety-split - and repairs dead links. Some days, I just sit here and run that tool on some of the oldest articles I worked on or created.

But, then, you probably already knew about that tool. I love it. — Maile (talk) 19:47, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Misty Talley
valereee (talk) 00:02, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

A Barnstar for You!

 * Thanks so much. I appreciate it. SL93 (talk) 00:48, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Patricia Marshall
valereee (talk) 00:02, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Love Not Money
SL93, I was wondering whether the nominator had adequately addressed the issues you raised in your review of this nomination. Can you please stop by when you get the chance to move this forward? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:54, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , The nominator hasn't fixed the issues and hasn't edited the article since August 6. SL93 (talk) 01:56, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I should have checked that before querying. At any rate, I followed up on their talk page, and they've posted to the nomination now after commenting out the material with the problematic sourcing. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:42, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Betty Paul
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Leila Ernst
Hello! Your submission of Leila Ernst at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:43, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Magdalene Visaggio
— Maile (talk) 01:36, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Hellraiser: Judgment
If you don't mind me asking, in your personal opinion, do you believe that Hellraiser: Judgment is close to FA quality? I am thinking about nominating it, but I'm not quite sure.  Dark Knight  2149  02:30, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure, but I have only ever reviewed GAs and nominated GAs. SL93 (talk) 02:38, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not being much help with your question. I haven't entered anything with featured articles because I find it to be daunting for me. SL93 (talk) 03:31, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * It's alright.  Dark Knight  2149  14:36, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Welch
— Maile (talk) 12:01, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/On Her Shoulders (film)
SL93, this particular DYK review had the involvement of both Cwmhiraeth and Yoninah, so I was hoping you could look into promoting it the next time you're putting together a prep set since they can't. It was approved six days ago, and it's the oldest nomination that's approved, dating back to June 15. Thanks for taking a look at it. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:49, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I promoted the hook, but I can't put together a whole set because I'm busy and leave for work soon. SL93 (talk) 18:56, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time to promote the hook so quickly—I didn't mean it had to be part of a set, just that when you did next make a set it might make a good component thereof. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:03, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Enter the Anime
valereee (talk) 12:01, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello ,

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
 * Backlog

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
 * Coordinator

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for  making  the occasional  mistake while  others can learn from  their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
 * This month's refresher course

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
 * Deletion tags

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
 * Paid editing


 * Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
 * Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent  enhancements to  the New Pages Feed and  features in the Curation  tool, and there are still more to  come. Due to the wealth  of information  now displayed by  ORES, reviewers are strongly  encouraged to  use the system now rather than Twinkle; it  will  also  correctly  populate the logs.
 * Not English
 * A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
 * Tools

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

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DYK for Leila Ernst
valereee (talk) 00:02, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Matt William Knowles
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Ephemera simulans
— Maile (talk) 12:01, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Thuy Trang
Hi, I saw your post and your deletion of the post on my talk page. (FYI you should not edit another user's talk page, even to cross something out.) If mentioning that Trang was part of the Power Rangers was important, the hook should not have been so long with two different hook facts. As the supply of queue sets was running low and I was trying to build prep sets to promote quickly, I didn't discuss this through the usual channels of posting at WT:DYK. I hope it will get a lot of hits nevertheless. Yoninah (talk) 17:52, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I removed it because like my edit summary stated, I wasn’t worried about it anymore. Where does it say that I can’t remove my own comments from a user’s talk page, for future reference? SL93 (talk) 18:09, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I understood from WP:UP that editors can edit their own userpages but not others. I think you could have just added another post, "No worries" (as you said in your edit summary) and leave it at that. Yoninah (talk) 18:13, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Pholiota squarrosoides
valereee (talk) 00:02, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann
valereee (talk) 12:02, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Roper (company)
valereee (talk) 12:02, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Slender glass lizard
valereee (talk) 12:02, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

dyk
Hey, SL93! You've been sounding kind of frustrated at DYK recently. When I (or anyone) ping you to an issue at DYK talk, it's not to allocate blame. It's because as someone involved in the process, you might know more about the creation or review of the article than I do, and you might have an opinion on the question raised. When I'm checking a set, I'm basically doing 8 re-reviews plus checking other things, which means I don't have time to get really familiar with sources, and sometimes that I don't have time to read the nom template as closely as necessary to fully understand all the discussion that was happening. Often I'm checking hooks on subjects I don't have ANY knowledge of. I don't expect any one person along the process -- which could include creator, nom, reviewer, promoter, mover -- to know everything. I just want to let them all know I have a question, and because DYK is time-urgent, I ping them. --valereee (talk) 12:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Sometimes when I'm pinged, it feels like it is pointing a finger at me. I know it shouldn't feel that way. What does get me annoyed is when I am pinged not for an error, but because someone thinks that a hook isn't interesting when that hook already reached the prep area. For the slender glass lizard hook that is currently on the main page, the hook was considered acceptable by two editors and it still was brought up on the DYK talk page. SL93 (talk) 13:03, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * SL93 (talk) 13:03, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I don't consider interest when I'm checking a set. If the nom, reviewer, and promoter thought it was good enough, I consider it a subjective thing that the hook isn't particularly interesting to me. When I ping you, it's really just to let you know there's a discussion you may be interested in and that your input may be helpful with. I don't like to make more than just tweaks to hook without getting input from involved editors. :) --valereee (talk) 13:28, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Julie Dretzin
Hello! Your submission of Julie Dretzin at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:01, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

October Events from Women in Red
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DYK for Jan Fortune (writer)
valereee (talk) 00:04, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

QPQ review
Sorry for inexplicably going missing after starting an unfinished QPQ review.

Thank you for doing the right thing and issuing the final approval where I should have.

Awmcphee (talk) 23:18, 26 September 2019 (UTC)