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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Technology update: General project update: If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:16, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
 * Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!
 * The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: 
 * On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
 * Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
 * To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

Invitation to join Women in Red

 * Hi there, Zakhx150. I'm so pleased to see you've become a member of Women in Red. If ever you run into any problems, just let me know. And if you have any general problems about the project or suggestions for improvement, don't hesitate to comment on the WiR talk page.--Ipigott (talk) 17:01, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the invitation and the welcome, it would be a pleasure to continue contributing to this important project. Zakhx150 (talk) 13:37, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - October 2017
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Your GA nomination of Colorado potato beetle
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Colorado potato beetle you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:01, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking on the review ; great to have you on board and I hope you find the article in a suitable state to start off with. I may be a bit intermittent on response times over the next few weeks, but I'll get on any additions/changes as quick as I can. Any helpful advice gratefully received. Cheers. Zakhx150 (talk) 12:56, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * It's in a very good state, I have little to say about it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:01, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Colorado potato beetle
The article Colorado potato beetle you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Colorado potato beetle 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 Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:21, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

November editathons from Women in Red: Join us!
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Technology update: General project update: If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
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 * We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.
 * Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.
 * The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2017
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13:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Colorado potato beetle
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - November 2017
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Outreach and Invitations:
 * The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
 * Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!
 * If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: . Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive
 * A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
 * Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

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New Year's resolution: Write more articles for Women in Red!
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New Years new page backlog drive
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:


 * The total number of reviews completed for the month.
 * The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

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.

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2018
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Hi Zakhx150, Nice to meet you! Thank you for review the Sioux Chef's Indigenous Cookbook page. I acted on your comments and provided a context section.. am still somewhat new at this so please let me know if that is what you had in mind. I think that content does also somewhat respond to your comment about the positive review section also, as it shows that Sean is one of quite-a-few in that genre (not a ground-breaker as much as a provider of more-intensive content), and I also included a comment to the effect that some are skeptical at the viability of the approach (returning to that original diet).

There is lots more content that I would be happy to include, I'm really proud of Sean's work especially with all the terrible stuff that has happened in MN towards Indians - including the recent 'scaffold' exhibit. I'm rambling now. I'll stop. But please do see what you think and let me know if you have time, but also I really appreciate your work overall reviewing new articles and working on the 'women in red' initiative and all. Thanks again! ClarityKTMpls (talk) 2:40, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Doryphora synonimized?
Hi Zakhx150, I just happended to stumble upon this edit. In the summary you stated "doryphora is a synonym of leptinotarsa". This is a bit puzzling. In the first place because you do not mention a source for that claim. In the second place because the name Doryphora is older than Leptinotarsa. Doryphora was first published by Illiger in 1807. Leptinotarsa was published by Chevrolat in 1836, but several authors consider that name a nomen nudum, and attribute it to Stal, 1858. If these names are considered synonymes, the older one takes precedense, and in that case Leptinotarsa would have to go. So which source did you base your edit upon? And are there more pages where you made edits to the same effect? Wiki klaas   14:59, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi . I cannot possibly remember any sources for making an edit 6 months ago so feel free to remove that specific claim - however I do remember that the creation of the additional genera pages came about whilst improving Colorado potato beetle to GA standard. As a break from those I'd gone higher up the taxonomy and started making new pages for red-linked genera in the Chrysomelinae tribe Doryphorini. Its very unlikely that claim would be made in any other articles given its context.Zakhx150 (talk) 09:36, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. In that case I already found the other similar edits you made. It sometimes happens that a generic name is synonymized with another generic name while the higher order taxon of which it is the type keeps the old name (see ICZN Art. 40 for justification), but in that case the old name of the type genus was found to be a junior synonym. Of the genera contained in tribe Doryphorini, Doryphora is the oldest name. As long as tribe Doryphorini is recognized, and no older name for Doryphora is available, there has to be a genus Doryphora, even if one cannot find it in the databases upon which most of Wikipedia's content seems to be based (like ITIS, EoL and so on). If there is any message in this, it is that these databases are highly unreliable: they are incomplete in some respect (vast numbers of names are lacking) and overcomplete in another (vast numbers of junior synonyms are listed as valid names). The fact that Doryphora decemlineata was moved to Leptinotarsa doesn't make Doryphora a synonym of Leptinotarsa. I saw you listed Richard Jacques' The Potato Beetles as one of your sources, so I expect you had access to it. There may be something on the tribe in Chapter 1; The classification of potato beetles. Two species are discussed in Subsocial Neotropical Doryphorini (Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae): new observations on behavior, host plants and systematics. Their absence in databases may be because of their Neotropical distribution, so they were not treated in major works on insects of America, north of Mexico. Here you can find an image showing the generic character.  Wiki  klaas   13:41, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Noam Weisbrod
Recently you added a maintenance template to the Noam Weisbrod article. As part of a COI edit request I was reviewing, I rewrote much of the article and removed the template. I wanted to ask if you could visit the page at your earliest convenience in order to garner your support of this change. If it still does not meet with your approval, please let me know asap and I will re-add the template. I look forward to your response on the article's talk page. Thank you for your time. Spintendo  ᔦᔭ   14:58, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter
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Backlog update: New Year Backlog Drive results:
 * The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
 * We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!
 * We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

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Elizabeth Hartley (archaeologist)
Hi. I see that you've added a date of death for Elizabeth Hartley (archaeologist). Do you have a reference for this fact? I've looked online and can't find any. Best, Pichpich (talk) 20:56, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, yeah I have added that in and flagged on the talk page that I'll add in a reliable ref as soon as it becomes available. Feel free to remove in the interim if you so wish.Zakhx150 (talk) 11:53, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages! ACTRIAL:
 * ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing
 * Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, 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.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
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 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking  place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled
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Wiki Loves Food
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Wiki Project Beetles
Thanks! My first project is to expand Tetropium fuscum as this is a species I have worked extensively on. I am a bit alarmed by the lack of articles on Coleoptera plant pests, I might move on the Aromia bungii next which might get a did you know? out of it, due to the damage caused in Italy. I am heading over to the outbreak location in July so can grab some images as well. Million_Moments (talk) 11:35, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Event coordinator
Hi, the English Wikipedia recently created a new user permission for editors involved in off-wiki outreach work, event coordinator. This new permission allows users to mark accounts for confirmed for up to 10 days, and also allows them to create accounts for events without rate limits without some of the features of the account creator right that aren't used at edit-a-thons and other events. I have added the event coordinator permission to your account and removed the account creator permission, as you appear to have been using it mainly for outreach work.This should have no noticeable impact on your ability to create accounts, and will give you the extra ability to temporarily confirm accounts if you need to. For more information, you can see the information page on the right, or you can ask me if you have any questions. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:46, 22 May 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.
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 * Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
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Women in Red June Editathons
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:15, 29 May 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Invitation to participate in study
Hello,

I am E. Whittaker, an intern at Wikimedia with the Scoring Team to create a labeled dataset, and potentially a tool, to help editors deal with incivility when they encounter it on talk pages. A full write-up of the study can be found here: m:Research:Civil_Behavior_Interviews. We are currently recruiting editors to be interviewed about their experiences with incivility on talk pages. Would you be interested in being interviewed? I am contacting you because of your involvement in Wikipedia’s Women in Red project. The interviews should take ~1 hour, and will be conducted over BlueJeans (which does allow interviews to be recorded). If, so, please email me at ewhit@umich.edu in order to schedule an interview.

Thank you Ewitch51 (talk) 20:27, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

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.


 * Editathons
 * Editathons will continue through August. 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.

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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.
 * The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

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Proxy

 * Ok, I'm struggling to understand how to get the block removed then? I'm currently writing from an organisational, networked pc. I'm trying to add content as part of the legacy of our GLAMwiki collaboration (Glam/YMT). The whatismyip.com website also says that the IP isn't running an open proxy. Any wisdom?? Zakhx150 (talk) 12:20, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I have independently verified it is running a proxy on port 1723 (specifically, PPTP). You'll need to contact your network administrator for more information, I'm afraid. --Yamla (talk) 13:13, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Get ready for November with Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:41, 14 October 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

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.


 * New scripts
 * User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing copyvio-revdel on a page.

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DYK for Gilling sword
Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 10 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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