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:Glad to have recognition. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 13:15, 2 March 2015 (UTC) :Thanks {{U|MBlaze Lightning}}. Hope this year brings you lots of happiness and good health! ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 17:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)


== Why are you deleting my edits? == == Happy New Year ==


Hey, OccultZone. After taking the effort to have your ban lifted earlier this year, I'm surprised to see that you have stopped editing. Are you taking a break, or have you left us for good? Whichever is the case... Happy New Year! ​—] (])​ 18:08, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
please explain!
:{{yo|DoRD}} Thanks DoRD! I was taking some break from en.wiki mostly due to real life commitments. I am now slowly getting more in touch with the events here. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 17:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)


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:{{yo|Jaggajat}} Which article you are referring to? ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 23:35, 3 March 2015 (UTC)


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I have received two emails from you regarding your latest block, and I received two regarding your previous block. It is clear from various talk page posts that you have also sent emails to other administrators in relation to your blocks. Except when there are particular reasons why content needs to be confidential, it is better for messages to be on-wiki, so that they can be seen by everyone. There are several problems which can arise if you send emails to several editors in relation to an instance, including the following:
# Different editors may spend time duplicating things which have already been done by other people, as there is no way of knowing that others have received and responded to emails.
# There can be doubt as to what has been said. In this case, for example, there have been suggestions that some of your emails have been threatening. If such accusations were made about talk page messages, it would be possible for others to assess whether the accusations were justified or not, but with emails nobody except the sender and recipient of the emails can be certain exactly what was said, so that it is more difficult to assess whether the accusations are valid.
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# Anyone who in good faith puts time and effort into looking into what you have said, only to then find that the matter has already been dealt with by someone else, is likely to be annoyed, and to be less sympathetic to you in the future. Obviously, this can happen anyway, but it is more likely to happen if communication takes place by emails to individuals, rather than in talk page messages visible to everyone. Also, when it does happen, if what you have said is open to everyone, it is more likely that it will be put down to unfortunate accident, rather than you being blamed for the problem.


== April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive ==
Of course you are free to use emails, but I strongly urge you to do so only when there are exceptional reasons why content needs to be kept confidential, and in the rare occasions when there are good reasons for sending emails to several editors about the same issue, I think you should almost always inform all of them that you are also emailing others. <small>''The editor who uses the pseudonym''</small> "]" (]) 15:19, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::{{yo|JamesBWatson}} I've sent no email to any admin in relation to block except you to be honest. Anyone else who I had contacted, like Worm, it was regarding the oversighting a non-offensive content at first. Since he was using the same email system, I just happened to discuss more.


G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the ] is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:
:: You really think that I would ever send a threatening email? Bgwhite made that malformed accusation twice, that I am sending threatening emails to Swarm, I understand that, but even such accusation would require proof, and for more clarity, you can check, Swarm himself said that I never sent him any threats but only asked about the possibility of rev del on logs, since it can be used only on offensive summaries. I always mention whenever I email. I had also mentioned above once when I had emailed you. When I emailed Swarm I had notified him.


* tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
::It is first time ever that I have to email multiple editors, only for avoiding a person, who you are aware of, following and bludgeoning the sections everywhere.
* adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
* updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
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::I must add that most of my emails included nothing but just one or two questions, just like I mentioned one above. As well as with you before, I had once asked you last year, through email that if continued unarchiving by a single editor is allowed or not. Finally, you are correct with what you are saying and hope I have clarified what I've done. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 15:41, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:::To be 100% clear about this, I never suggested that I believed you had sent threatening emails. What I said was that it is impossible to know what you said, so nobody can make an independent assessment of whether you did or not. If you had said whatever it was in a talk page post, we would all be able to see what you said, and if it wasn't threatening then we could all tell Bgwhite not to be so stupid, but as it is we can't tell. I will also say that there was nothing at all objectionable in any of the emails you sent me, and I certainly did not intend what I wrote to suggest that I thought there was objectionable in what you emailed to anyone else either. However, I also see nothing in your emails to me that could not have been said openly, where everyone could have seen it. <small>''The editor who uses the pseudonym''</small> "]" (]) 15:58, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::::Consider checking , I am amazed that there was no edit conflict when I just rewrote my message a bit. Problem was that I was blocked at the time, thus I could only email at that moment and just mention here. Yes and that's why I asked if you "really think", after all you are only saying that it is doubtful when such messages accusations appear, but it is not doubtful at all when same messages are accessible for all. That's very correct. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 16:04, 2 April 2015 (UTC)


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{{U|OccultZone}} since I am one of the admins who received some of your emails, I suggest that in the future you use the on-wiki routes for solving disputes and conflicts. I share {{U|JamesBWatson}}'s concerns. I understand that you do not have much experience as a user but we are here to help you. -- ] (]) 17:13, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:I've received yours as well and this is going on since the last year. This might be first when I had to complain about one of the fault that I really couldn't discuss here. But then again, I have some point and reasons that why sometimes emailing has been important in my case and especially in the recent times. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 17:26, 2 April 2015 (UTC)-->


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I started an ANI discussion. See .]<sup>]</sup> 18:54, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:Consider linking to the SPI. Thanks. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 18:55, 5 March 2015 (UTC)


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{{Ping|User:OccultZone}} correct format for filing sock.--] (]) 18:57, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
:It is unclear and it looks like you are only mentioning some of their edits. You have to outline that how multiple accounts are abused by the editor in question and it should be more than just "revert" or editing same articles. You can provide diffs that show a similar type of behavior. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 19:04, 5 March 2015 (UTC) :Thanks! ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 17:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
::So, how to withdraw sock investigation. See --] (]) 07:54, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
:::You can write on the SPI that you are withdrawing the report. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 08:59, 6 March 2015 (UTC)


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:{{yo|Swarm}} Have you counted? I had made 2 reverts in last 2 days because they concerned ]. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 01:35, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


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{{unblock reviewed | 1=I had made only two reverts in 34 hours,, because they concerned ]. In fact I was the one to open discussion right after first revert, check . ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 7:37 pm, Yesterday (UTC−6) | accept = I see no reason for {{User|Swarm}}'s block. No prior warning was given. Two reverts in a five days, one of which I can understand (rape of 71-year old nun) doesn't make a pattern or warrant a block. ] (]) 06:50, 23 March 2015 (UTC)}}
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First of all, I had made only 2 reverts in last 34 hours. Let me explain you some of other aspects that even if I had made more reverts, I was still exempted from the 3rr.


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:My edits were also removing the COPYVIO, check , Zhanzhao has plagiarized them.
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Swarm, I have to ask you, how you could make these blocks without even reading the complaint of WP:ANEW or without checking the content in question? ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 05:16, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


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:{{u|Swarm}}, he's only made two reverts over two days (not counting the initial removal of the information). 72 hours seems high for someone with no previous block log or formal warnings on their talk page. Can you clarify your block reasoning for me? ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 05:56, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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::: Sorry to jump in on this, but since I'm being brought into this by OccultZone, I'd like to point out that I was not the one who added the copyvio text, I just reverted content that is pre-written before. The onus is on you, OccultZone, to point out which post I, personally, was supposed to plagiarised, since you are accusing me of it. I am fairly certain that somewhere earlier in the history of the article, you will notice that someone else was the one who originally added that. My fault and mistake, as is Swarms, might have been to not notice that it was copyvio, which can easily be addressed with copyediting, if you would have only pointed that out earlier that it was a copyvio issue than all the other tangents you were going off on. ] (]) 06:06, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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::::It will be you who will be considered as the violator of the copyrights since you were eager to restore the content that is also violating a good bunch of policies. In fact Zhanzhao, it is more clearer that you were abusing that IP and the new account for keeping your preferred content. Given your history of abusing sock puppets on this article and propagating your views without making any disagreement with other violator of ], ], and other guidelines. It is simply obvious. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 06:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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::::: Gauntlet thrown, challenge accepted. Please do file another SPI, cos I'm 100% sure I will be vindicated. In return, I expect you to apologize to me after its been proven that those were not my socks. And the administrator/clerk who does the Checkuser should also point out that OccultZone has been making frivalous sock accusations when things does not go his way. Deal? PS: I've copyedited the identified copyvio writeup, so thats not an issue anymore. The attack on the swiss takes key points, but is written quite differently from the source. Next time, if you're concerned about copyvio, JUSt SAY SO.] (]) 06:35, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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::::::I understand that you are using an outdated excuse of "copyediting" for deflecting from the gross BLP violation that you are committing on that article and using socks. I mean you could've disagreed to some degree with other blatant sock account, but why you would disagree with yourself? It was proven that you were violating the ] policy and you are still doing it now. If they hadn't sympathised and considered that you were aware of ] guidelines since you were blocked a few years ago for evading your block, none of us would've been blocked today for removing your content that has violated ], ], ]. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 06:43, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


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:::{{ping|Swarm|Padenton|Zhanzhao|Human3015}} Occult, I don't know Swarm and this certainly doesn't arise to taking it to ArbCOM. I see no malice in Swarm's actions. I personally would have protected the page (I just did for 72 hours) and blocked TCKTKtool, but other admins would probably agree some more blocks were warranted. I do not understand the block of you, Padeton or Human3015. If you and Padeton got blocked, Zhanzhao should also be blocked for reverting too. In the end, Swarm made a judgement call. This shouldn't go any further.
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:::I'm conflicted on unblocking Padeton and Human3015 because I'm in territory I've never been in. If I unblocked Occult, then I should be fair and unblock them too. However, Occult, Padeton, Zhanzhao and Human3015 are at fault. While I don't think it reached block level, all four of you were involved in an edit warring. On the plus side, a talk discussion did get started. Towards the end, it got confusing with a sock puppet entering the fray. I think with the sock puppet entering, things completely broke down and went to hell.


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:::Zhanzhao, thank you for taking this matter to DRN. I wouldn't have done the revert you did at the end, but DRN was the right call. ] (]) 07:57, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
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::::: Actually TCKTKtool was the one who brought it to DRN. But I posted on the Talk page of the article in question about the DRN, just to keep everyone in the loop. As for OccuoltZone taking popshots at me being TCKTKtool/IP's sock or vice versa, do feel free to run a thorough check on me against them. Guess its too much to hope for a gentlemanly apology after its proven to be unfounded? ] (]) 08:06, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
:::::After multiple instances of socking, you must have learned new ways. Given your history of socking on this article and behavior, it is simply obvious. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 08:19, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Vtk1987 and Padeton had made only 2 reverts. While Human3015 made one revert. Yes they should be unblocked because the article is now protected. ] explains how Zhanzhao, TCKTKtool and IP are same person. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 08:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
::::I am highly wondering that why Swarm or anyone would make these malformed blocks, and go offline right after I had pinged him on my talk page. He is usually online at this time but due to some reasons(that we don't know of) he has not yet responded. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 08:19, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


== Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced ==
:::::OccultZone, stop taking potshots at {{U|Zhanzhao}}. You only filed a case and nothing is proven. You do owe Zhanzhao and apology for saying they are a sockpuppet and that they are wikilawyering. If they are a sockpuppet, then you gloat at seeing the blocked message on their user page, otherwise stop. In this latest round, Zhanzhao has done nothing wrong except for their last revert. You have made the unfounded accusations.
:::::I also told you to drop about being blocked. Stop accusing Swarm of "malformed blocks" and any other conspiracy theories. Swarm live in Florida and is asleep, which I'm about to go do.
:::::Drop it. ] (]) 09:11, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
::::::I did that because even for making an allegation, one has to be sure about it. Good night and I will surely see what will happen next. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 09:14, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
*The accusations here are ridiculous. Of course I spent a significant amount of time fully reviewing the situation, just as I would any other ANEW report (something {{u|Bgwhite}} apparently didn't do, as their unblocking rationale doesn't even make sense). Do you really think I just arbitrarily slapped you with a 3 day block for two reverts because I hate you? You've been edit warring over that content for quite a protracted period of time and were continuing the same edit war as of the ANEW report. ANEW ''doesn't'' require any certain number of reverts, contrary to that untrue and ridiculous claim that 3-4 reverts are required. An edit war can contain multiple parties on each side (and in this case, did) and that does not excuse editors from participating in the edit war, and editors can be blocked without violating ]. The block (and every other one) was perfectly in accordance with blocking and edit warring policy. BLPCRIME is meant to ''prevent harm'' to persons accused of committing crimes. Your BLP defense is debatable at best and it's certainly not a "gross" violation. Sources were provided and no living persons were identified in the text, thus the argument that it was in dire need of removal to prevent harm isn't a particularly strong one. BLPCRIME isn't a blanket ban on any mention of allegations of crime in an article. Next, the article is under discretionary sanctions and any uninvolved administrator is authorized to impose blocks (or other sanctions) to facilitate the smooth running of the project. I'm not sure whether you're aware of this so I declined to invoke it, but just as an aside, a higher standard of collaborative conduct is expected on that article, especially from editors who should know better. Another thing, no warning was given? Seriously? Apart from the fact that there's no requirement to warn someone before blocking them for edit warring (in fact policy specifically states that a warning is not required), you shouldn't ''need'' a warning, as you're supposed to be familiar with that policy already. Lastly, feel free to elaborate on which text was a copyvio. Obviously you can remove copyvios without it being considered edit warring. However I find it hard to believe that ''all of that'' text you were edit warring over was in copyright violation. I'll let this go as I don't really care that much, but just to be clear, I completely reject your arrogant, self-righteous condemnation of the block as abuse of the tools and stand behind it as fully in accordance with policy. ] ] 15:23, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
:*ANEW report requires at least 3-4 reverts in 24 hours, not just 2 reverts in last 5 days and not those edits that were removing the violation of ], ], ] all together. There were concerns about the obvious sock puppetry that you haven't even mentioned in your explanation. Your claims regarding the "protracted period" are also incorrect, I had made 4 edits in last 8 days. Yes it is necessary that the editor had to violate the 3rr or made a few reverts in a small period of time, you cannot block someone for making only 1 edit in more than 30 hours. ANEW board also reads that an editor has to be warned before they would be even reported. Where I was reported? Just point me out. Can you find any warning for edit warring since they day I have joined en.wiki or even last few months? We are aware of discretionary sanctions, and also know that how it works, but first let us complete the discussion about ]/3RR and how it works? I had also listed 3 other editors that you blocked for reverting an obvious sock, and only about 1 - 2 times under 24 hours. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 17:33, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
:*{{ping|Swarm}} Occult, Swarm is completely correct in stating that 3RR etc. doesn't ''require'' three reverts. Swarm, perhaps in the future you could note that in the block template? Putting a stop to what you believe is a long-term period of disruption is much different (in my eyes) than the standard definition of edit warring, and I suspect Bgwhite may have been confused by your interchanging of the two. Moreover, this may just be my opinion, but a block for something like that should be prefaced with a warning; there's no obvious step over the line like 3RR. Best, ]&nbsp;<sup>]]&nbsp;]]</sup> 18:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
::*3rr doesn't require 3 reverts, it can be also 4 reverts in 48 hours. But then again, 2 reverts in 2 days is certainly not edit warring, or 4 edits in 8 days. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 18:13, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
:::*You weren't reported, and you didn't need to be. You weren't warned, and again, you didn't need to be. And again, while 3rr is a brightline that you're not even accused of crossing, edit warring isn't defined by a certain number of reverts in a certain period of time. It's defined as "repeatedly each other's contributions". Slow-moving edit wars involving multiple parties are no more productive or exempt from policy than one editor who violates 3rr immediately. Of course 2 reverts in 2 days does not necessarily demand a block for edit warring. However your self-victimization as if that's the ''reason'' you were blocked is simply not on point. You were one of many editors involved in this edit war, and you were blocked for your role just like the rest, having performed at least ''nine'' reverts this month alone over this issue ( ), with plenty more repeated examples of you reverting additions of "non-notable" incidents lasting over the course of several months. For that, your behavior stood out as among the most problematic within the scope of the incident I was reviewing and you were given a longer block. True, you're clearly a serious editor in good standing with a good reputation, and I appreciate that. And there's no beating around the bush regarding the fact that well-established editors routinely get special treatment and much more leniency from administrators, which is why I'm not surprised by your unblock nor very torn up about it. But again, I can say with 100% confidence that this block was perfectly justifiable, and your blatantly ] attitude, along with your accusations of abuse and threats regarding ArbCom were so far beyond the pale that it's shocking. And that, coupled with your complete failure to understand what problematic behavior might've gotten you blocked in the first place completely convinces me that this immediate unblock without any consultation with the blocking administrator was nothing short of a bad move. No hard feelings, though. ] ] 19:59, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
::::*Edit warring is also defined by the type of edit that has been made and if it is exempted from the 3rr or not. What made you count 9 edits as 9 reverts? Have you even checked that most of those edits concerned the same policies(], ]) and I was also reversing a sock puppet who often misrepresented the sources. I was not even alone.(Not to talk about the sort of information that he was adding) That's something that you have again not addressed in your message when you were recently asked to do so. How many revisions I had made in last 30 days including the previous month? Have we counted it? Or how many reverts I had made in last 60 days? Not even 12. I am amazed that you are ignoring the violation of ] by other editor. Then again, your blocks didn't just involved me but also other 3 editors who you blocked for reverting an obvious sock. They didn't reverted for more than once or twice. Reverting an obvious sock is another exemption like I have told you, and when you had already considered an IP and an account as one person, you should not even count any reverts against the sock puppet 'revisions' per ]. In both of the messages, you have sure made repetitive explanations to justify these blocks and they are not compelling. Let me also point your another misrepresentation, can you provide how listing any non-notable allegations is actually policy based? We don't list every incident unless the involved entity has own article or the incident has it's own article. When you are making multiple incorrect blocks and you are still not understanding that you cannot block anyone without even learning about the whole situation, the exemptions, without even counting the amount of revisions, and without even looking into the content in question, anyone would want to think about your understanding of blocks. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 22:34, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


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* OccultZone, unfortunately when you asked me to look at the block, I was away from home without internet access, which is why I didn't respond. I see the block has been lifted, but I have had a quick look anyway. (It has had to be a quick look, as right now I have very little time.) I must say that on the basis of my quick check (which included checking all the edits that ] posted above) I have not seen anything that looks to me like edit-warring. Yes, over the course of several weeks you made several edits that reverted other editors, but most of them were reverts of quite different material. It is true a number of reverts spread over a long period can be edit-warring, but only if the reverts are so closely related as to effectively amount to continuing the same dispute over essentially the same content, and that really does not seem to be the case. It would be absurd to extend the concept of edit-warring to cover a number of unrelated edits over a long period, just because they all undo something done by some other editors. <small>''The editor who uses the pseudonym''</small> "]" (]) 20:01, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
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:You reverted seven times in a two hour period. There is no excuse for that. In addition, I'm getting close to doing a civility block for accusing people of being socks when the SPI report came up with nothing. Stop accusing people at ]. Either you discuss what is at hand or you keep silent, no attacks. I highly suggest you walk away from Rape in India for awhile. ] (]) 21:11, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
::DoRD had told the concerning IP to stop abusing IP for further abuse of ]. And '''you are yourself aware of it'''. He even blocked one of the sock recently. Are you saying that the potential sock puppetry of this article must be ignored and no one should talk about it? Well that is how others would think if they have been redirected to this page, even if they have got proofs. Also the SPI has further strengthened with more evidences, you cannot treat a old SPI or old evidences as a rationale for a block or rejection of ongoing sock puppetry.
:::You also know that you are <u>highly involved in this article</u> and you are asking me to "walk away" from it. You have made major edits on this article recently and you have also discussed your edits. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 23:47, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


== NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018 ==
{{unblock reviewed | 1=I had already stopped reverting at the IP's talk page per my own admission on multiple namespaces. How much more proof you require? You are using this block for influencing an article where you are heavily involved especially when you are asking me to "walk away" from an article where I hadn't edit warred. :Still I would tell the background. Originally I had the doubt if the IP,(that was being abused for socking, per this CU's and behavioral evidence) is even allowed to revert on their talk page or not. ::If I had to edit war on IP's talk page with intention, I wouldn't be even asking to Kuru if IPs are allowed to revert or not. Neither I would've stopped after reading his comment. And I had already '''left a dummy note''' in edit summary because '''I knew''' that this can be further used for blocking me if I don't clarify it well.<br> ::<u>Didn't I made every single attempt to avoid block?</u> And any circumstances of others believing that I was edit warring or having even a single doubt that I was actually edit warring or wanted to continue? I had myself admitted that I wasn't aware. But you are using that obvious accident as a rationale for block, because you want to influence decision of an article where you are ]. :Was there any warning on my talk page regarding this edit warring on IP's talk page? You had once said yourself in a block that "<u>No prior warning was given</u>". ::Furthermore, check my 50 or more edits from last 4 hours? Were they reversion on IP's talk page? Nope. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 22:33, 29 March 2015 (UTC) | accept = The edit warring had already stopped {{diff|User talk:72.196.235.154|prev|654061887|at 17:55}}, as OccultZone finally understood that it was okay for the IP to remove the block notice. ] (]) 01:02, 30 March 2015 (UTC)}}
:::Also I had myself asked {{U|Kuru}} if IPs are allowed to revert or not, I '''wasn't being''' told that I should stop reverting and I had stopped reverting already. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 22:47, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


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*{{U|Bgwhite}}, the edit warring had already stopped {{diff|User talk:72.196.235.154|prev|654061887|at 17:55}}, as OccultZone finally understood that it was okay for the IP to remove the block notice (the block did not take place until 21:06). I'm not sure you should have blocked OccultZone regardless, as you might be considered involved, due to your editing on ] and its talk page. I am unblocking now. -- ] (]) 01:02, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


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*On 06:02, 29 March 2015, Bgwhite first reverted to his preferred version, then he protected this article, even after knowing that he was not allowed to protect this article, and certainly not as "persistent vandalism", since none of these edits were ].
*On 08:27, 29 March 2015, he imposed full protection, and he had reverted to his version. His reason was again "persistent vandalism", though there was still no vandalism.
*During this same day, I had an edit war on the UTP of a IP sock who was vandalizing atleast one namespace, and he got blocked after he himself filed a report on AN3. Before he was blocked, I had doubts if ] applies on the UTP of IPsock as well, I myself attempted to ask the admin who had blocked this IP, that whether an IP is allowed to remove messages from talk or not. You can see that I accepted his rationale and I tried to make every attempt to avoid anyone from thinking that I was going to revert, I even left a dummy note in the edit summary that the previous edits that were opposing my reverts are correct.
:However, 4 hours(3 hours and 59 minutes) later, Bgwhite blocked me for 24 hours and for something that he never discussed nor I was warned by anyone. He is not addressing that how reverting was totally intended or I was still reverting. But Bgwhite told me to "'''walk away''' from Rape in India", he also told me to stop addressing about sock puppetry that includes this kind of IP hopping, while one CU just blocked the technical master of another IP. This IP has been edit warring on this article for over 2 weeks.


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How these actions are not violating ], and shows the failure to adhere to ]? Forget about a block, I didn't even deserved a warning because after , it is affirmed that it was over. Would somebody even warn after that? When the ] is inappropriate. Even my next 60 edits that came before the block speak for themselves. And when the admin is involved, he should not make such block because ].


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Apart from these 16 hours, I am not aware of any other actions of Bgwhite except one, where he has violated any of the above policies, it can be because I haven't checked his history of blocks yet. The one incident I know of, I consider that he was involved in content dispute with the major editor of that article(]), editor was {{U|EEng}}, Bgwhite blocked only because EEng had said "self-satisfied roving enforcer". I cannot find any warning by Bgwhite prior to the block myself, though I can be pointed to the diff where EEng was warned. {{U|John Vandenberg}} had considered that block to be outrageous. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 02:07, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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{{U|OccultZone}} I understand complaining about your block and explaining why this is unjustified by your point of view. I do not understand why you involve previous block cases. -- ] (]) 08:10, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:I mentioned the block of EEng because IMO it is meaningful to mention any past incidents when we are talking about the new incidents, falling under similar categories. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 08:15, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


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::OccultZone, you sure know how to make enemies out of friends. You sure don't know when to stop. I did unblock you this past week, but you now have made me regret that decision. I sincerely apologize to {{U|Swarm}} for doing that. You asked me to help in the ] mess. Ironically, I made reverts to your preferred version. The "major edits" I made was out of discussion that you participated in and agreed with. Funny how you claim I'm involved, but have done things that appear to be on your side. You need to read ], {{tq|... or whose prior involvements are minor or obvious edits which do not speak to bias, is not involved and is not prevented from acting in an administrative capacity in relation to that editor or topic area.}} I didn't have any bias against you, if anything, I had bias for you. Also, one doesn't need to warn on a 3RR block and one can still be blocked if the reverting has stopped.
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::Face the facts... You broke the rules. You reverted seven times on somebody's else's talk page in a two hour span. The same person you accused of being a SP. The same person you had reverted in the past. The SPI case you filed turned out to be false. Today, you accused yet another person of being a sockpuppet. You are already asking other people to join in the conversation and emailing people about me. Hmmm, I remember the emails you sent me last week on how you want to take Swarm to Arbcom, punish him and make him pay.


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::You have learned nothing. You keep doing the same patterns. You sure know how to burn a bridge. I'm done. I will no long leave a message here. I will not respond to any more of you help requests like I have done in the past. Please don't send me any harassing emails like you did Swarm. ] (]) 09:06, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
::::Editing same article and making major edits, acting as a disagreeing editor on multiple occasions, such actions speaks for themselves and defines an editor to be heavily ]. Those edits, that I have mentioned at the top considerably shows your signification involvement with the content and those edits are not minor or obvious, they are rather speaking of your point of view. In this sense you didn't had to protect this article, label any other version than your favorite version as ], block anyone who has contributed into this article, tell others to leave this article, and any of the other roles where an administrator should be uninvolved.


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::::I don't see any facts here at all, first {{U|Bgwhite|you}} will have to have to provide a policy that would backup your misjudgment that "one can still be blocked if the reverting has stopped". You are actually admitting that there was no reverting being done neither there was any possibility that I was going to revert. Which rule I had broken and which seven times revert you are talking about? There is no rule mentioning that a block should be enforced when a problem has been already solved, and at least the problem that I had myself tried to figure out. ] of this policy defines that "{{blue|once a matter has become "cold" and the risk of present disruption has clearly ended, reopening it by blocking retrospectively is usually not seen as appropriate.}}" <!--Where an ongoing or serious concern persists, a number of processes exist to allow discussion and possible sanction of a user due to serious or persistent misconduct".--> When the blocks shouldn't be used? This block fails all of those ].
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::::If you cannot backup with the right policy for your argument, then your arguments holds no water. My SPI didn't turned out to be false, because this particular IP and its technical master are currently blocked. If we take a look at the behavior evidence and compare with the other accounts, we can really find clear similarities that are also passing the ]. I have to write that again, because you have either ignored to read it above or you are repeating the same point. If we take a look at their behavior evidence we find no difference between them. Furthermore, it is affirmed that the sock puppetry has carried out by a single editor since 2010. Most of the evidence has been discovered after the SPI, through which we can see that the sock master has been edit warring and move warring by abusing same accounts on a same article and using sock puppets on other articles for evading 3rr, as well as other namespaces like voting in same ban discussions, deletion discussions, deletion review, accepting own article submissions, etc. That alone passes the ] test. Check ] and how many recently viewed it. Most of the bytes and diffs are newly discovered and the case is under investigation. You are talking about the things that you haven't even touched and you are providing a misleading context. Are you now saying that it was a bad decision to overturn a block that was again made without any prior warnings(no warnings since I joined en.wiki) or it constituted any violation? Looking at the rationales of other admins, it seems like none of my actions even required a warning and one was already far from blocking. And more obviously no one would want warn me of edit warring after carefully.
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::::I would also like you to backup your other malformed accusation, of "harassing emails", it can be confirmed any day through the mail system as well as by Swarm that none of my email involved any harassment. I had rather asked a simple question about a policy that I hadn't discussed with him before. You've been already told about that before when you had made this false accusation about something that you haven't seen or confirmed, and you are not getting it at all. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 10:43, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
], and still rising. There are around 640{{nbsp}}holders 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.


{{U|OccultZone}} I think ] is right on the block. ] is absolute. I see not exceptions like as "the reverting has stopped". The unblocking admin, ] assumed good faith and never wrote that you did not violate the rule or that you should not have been blocked. the reason that the rule is absolute is that usually the person who reverts thinks they are right. Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not. I ve been to a similar situation myself. -- ] (]) 11:36, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:] is absolute only when the edit warring is obvious. Here it wasn't and as , it has been already clarified. Diannaa has considered it as a "bad block". In no sense it was a blockable offense, there was no warning or any indication that I was going to make any revert per my own admission. I can be convinced otherwise if any of those requirements were fulfilled. That way it didn't even constituted a single warning, none of the Bgwhite's own block rationale describes it, instead he is asking me to stop contributing on an article where he has majorly contributed as well as stop addressing the obvious socks, without looking at the recent block or similarities that they share per ]. Totally inappropriate blocks are quickly reversed, they are distorted because they weren't even needed at first place. Blocks have procedures and Bgwhite has not followed them per ], none of his reasons comply with the ] where block is required. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 11:59, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


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] blocked the IP for edit-warring. In fact the IP was right in removing noticed from their page. My point: You are edit-warring even if you were not aware of that -- ] (]) 12:08, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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:Issue was totally different. IP was wrong when he was continuously creating deletion entries of a non-existing AfD. Such edits are considered as ] since he had also refused to create an AfD per his statement on AN3, and Kuru had seen the AIV report. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 12:19, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
:*If this block hadn't been overturned, it would be considered as a established block in greater extent and Bgwhite would be repeating the same episode even if he would be seeing small conflict and include any new reasons. At least per the note he left, Bgwhite would be making longer blocks on me, whenever he would see me addressing IP hopping or any forms of socking. Blocks would also include any mention of this concerning article anywhere on whole en.wiki because he had cleared it himself in his own note, "highly suggest you walk away". Next time he would just say "Had warned and blocked you before for the same." I am not the only editor who he disagreed with, that's why I am expressing the consequences. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 14:05, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
*You're within your rights to delete my comments, but just so we're absolutely clear, that message remains a documented administrative warning that I would advise you not to disregard. Just a friendly reminder. Best, ] ] 05:18, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
:*{{yo|Swarm}} Your statements included no evidence. Though its good that you agreed that the block was inappropriate. But you accuse that I am responsible if a sock is edit warring and making personal attacks on multiple editors, you regard vandalism as non-vandalism even when IP had himself refused to create AfD per his own statement, while continued to create malformed entry of a non-existing AfD. You also talk about edit warring on multiple pages without providing another namespaces where it was being done, "stop violating our policies" which policy? And then you ask me to address any concerns in appropriate fashion, though you have failed to provide even a single diff for any of these unfounded accusations that you have made. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 05:24, 31 March 2015 (UTC)


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OccultZone has asked me to look into his past couple of blocks. I consider myself uninvolved, I've not editted in India-Pakistan articles, and have not had significant interactions with any of the parties (though I did nominate ] to be an admin a few years ago).
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I'm aware that India-Pakistan articles are under discretionary sanctions, and those sanctions do extend to the ] article, which both blocks have been centred around. OccultZone is certainly aware of these sanctions, they were discussed with him , where he was explicitly told that 1RR could be invoked with respect to India-Pakistan articles.


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Looking at the recent blocks. The first was for "edit warring" - edit warring does not require 3 reverts in a 24 hour time period, but rather a pattern of edit warring. OccultZone appears to have only made one revert at the time, but there was certainly a pattern - in the preceding 2 months, OccultZone had made 13 reverts to the page, including 2 on 12th Feb, 3 on 5th March, 2 on 14th March and 2 on 21st March. That's 4 minor edit wars in 2 months. The arguments given by OccultZone are not clear cut - as Swarm points out, ] is not pressing when no personal details about BLPs are given.


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Regarding the specific incident, on 22nd March, there was an edit war, involving multiple parties. No one party appeared to be the instigator and so I would have recommended protecting the page in those circumstances. That said, given the history of the individuals, blocking each was also a reasonable course of action (though 72 hours does appear excessive) and I am surprised that ] overturned it unilaterally. I'll be dropping him a note on that and on other things I've spotted.


Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},
With respect to the second incident - OccultZone made 7 reverts to an IPs talk page in a short period. I do understand the confusion there - I've seen it regularly that users do not understand the rules on talk pages. A block is often warranted when a user goes past the bright-line of 3RR, even if the edit warring has stopped, as prevention goes beyond the immediate prevention of short term edit-warring into the longer term threat of future edit-warring. However, I'll ] that OccultZone did not realise that the IP could legitimately blank his user talk page and so am willing to believe this will not happen again. As such, no block is necessary, though again the block was not inappropriate.


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:Above, JamesBWatson had reviewed those reverts of last 2 months, and he didn't considered any of them as edit warring because they are totally different from each other and some of them are partial reverts. You can also see the timespan of these edits. Block on 23 March was highly inappropriate because I had received no warning neither there was any offense that worth even a warning. Did it? I wasn't even reported. Even right now there are concerns about the on-going sock puppetry that you haven't mentioned. On ] alone there was a huge influx. You haven't highlighted the concerns over sock puppetry above. ] was not the only matter, other matters included ], ] and that was only 1 revert from last 34 hours.
*NPR is not a binary ''keep'' / ''delete'' process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The ] and its associated ] clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See ] of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the ]. 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.


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:Should we ask that why this article had no edit war since its creation, and why it is having edit war only since 5 March 2015? I am willing to be convinced otherwise if there was any. I can be also reminded if there are any other article where I have edit warred since I have joined en.wiki.
* ] – 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.
:Furthermore, recent block was inappropriate because it was made by an involved admin as ]. You haven't highlighted that above. Also on the talk page of the IP, Calton has restored to the version that was being reverted by the IP. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 10:45, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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::Callanecc advised you that 1RR could be used if you edit warred. You edit warred and now I'm considering 1RR. I fail to see the confusion. I certainly welcome any comments from ] on the matter, but I don't see that he'd disagree. You're complaining about sockpuppetry, but at least of your report has been confirmed inaccurate and the checkuser in question has told you to <s>stop filing frivolous reports</s> <u>get better evidence</u>, yet you do not seem to have accepted that. If you are confident in your evidence, file it - or perhaps even contact the checkuser in question with your new evidence to ask if it's worth filing. Either way - don't bring it up here, don't bring it up at the talk page. Keep it separate, keep it at SPI. Finally, I don't agree Bgwhite is involved. He has given an appearance of possible involvement, so I've asked him to refrain from using his tools further, but I do not see anything untoward in his actions. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 11:54, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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:::Callanecc's discussion and concerns were actually about TopGun's removal of topic ban, if it would lead to edit wars. He asked me to refrain from any potential edit warring, he won't see who is right or wrong except under special circumstances, and such consequences can lead to 1-rr. TopGun and me had content dispute on about 4 different articles, but we already sorted them out ages ago. You want to see a recent example of our harmony? Check this: ]. Tell me, if that cannot be considered as an improvement? We are having no conflicts since this year at all.


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:::I have made only 2 edits since in last 8 days thus I wonder if it would be constituted as edit warring. I had asked if there is any other article where I have edit warred since the day I have joined? Proof is my talk page, that I was never warned for edit warring until 23 March when I had a block for 2 different reverts in 5 days. And if we are going to take only this article in account, can we find any edit war before 5 March on this article? This article is being affected by edit war because of sock puppetry and I've been told that it is being investigated.
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:::What could be constituted as ] then if these actions don't constitute as involved? He made 2 reverts in 2 hours, over the exactly same content, and everytime he imposed a greater kind of protection, without ever discussing the new content on the talk page. He didn't used the option "Content dispute" for protection, he instead used the reason "Persistent vandalism" as the reason, while none of these edits are vandalism or copyvio or violation of BLP.


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::::If you are indeed saying that this is the only article you've ever edit-warred on, the simple thing to do is to topic ban you from "Rape in India". Edit warring is never a solution. Bgwhite has no prior history with the article, came in and helped. Every party agreed that his help was good, including yourself. Again, sockpuppetry accusations need to be kept to SPI. If you keep spreading them around, I will be blocking you. Finally, can you please forward to me (or Arbcom) every email you've sent to Swarm and Bgwhite in the past 2 weeks? I'm unhappy with some of the accusations that are going round. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 07:41, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


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:::::Worm, consider trusting me a little. My edits cannot be conceived as edit war on this article. Now I've made over 800 edits in last 24 hours(I think) and none of them were normal reverts. In fact I asked for a page protection on a page where edit warring was on going and I am a major editor there. I know you are thinking that I am being a trouble on this article to some sort and I understand your circumstances. Do a sanction, that is indeed doubtful, or whether it is wanted or not, cannot be conceived voluntarily? What if I said that <u>I am not going to edit this article for an indefinite period of time?</u> Yes we will review the situation, when the things will seem better than they are now. After all, I have got thousands of other namespaces to edit and create, I can put my efforts there instead. That's better that I should open a new SPI, its good that you came to show a way. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 07:44, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

::::::I'm currently deciding between 1RR on all India/Pakistan articles or a topic ban from Rape in India. Or both. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 07:55, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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;Your help can make a difference
] can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ], your help could really make a difference.
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;Discussions and Resources
*A ] on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
*Also at the Village Pump is a ] about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
*A proposed new ] for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
*Also ending with no change was a ] to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

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== New Page Patrol December Newsletter ==

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;Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by {{noping|Rosguill}} who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to {{noping|JTtheOG}} and {{noping|Onel5969}} who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to {{noping|John B123}}, {{noping|Hughesdarren}}, and {{noping|Mccapra}} who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by {{noping|DannyS712}} which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the ].
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;Reviewer of the Year
{{noping|John B123}} has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

;NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you {{noping|DannyS712}} has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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== New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

Please join ] - there is increase in the abuse of Misplaced Pages and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including ]. Even our review systems themselves at ] and ] have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

] are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection ].

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently '''706''' New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Misplaced Pages or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
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Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described ].
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== November 2021 backlog drive ==

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== New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the ], but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only ] have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently ] New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All {{NUMBEROFADMINS:R}} administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a ''good'' understanding of Misplaced Pages notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{tq|<nowiki>{{subst:NPR invite}}</nowiki>}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Misplaced Pages or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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== New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

;Backlog status
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new ] on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000{{efn|not including another ~6,000 redirects}} at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.{{efn|The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.}}

In the last 30 days, ] have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

;Backlog drive
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by ] and ], will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up ]. ] Barnstars will be awarded.

;TIP – New school articles
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Misplaced Pages's projects and policy pages. ] has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

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:{{NPP backlog}}

There has been significant discussion at ] recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

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== New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022 ==

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

;Backlog status
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators {{u|Buidhe}} and {{u|Zippybonzo}}, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to {{u|Dr vulpes}} who led with 880 points. See ] for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the '''other 600 reviewers''' to do more! Please try to do at least '''one a day'''.

;Coordination: {{u|MB}} and {{u|Novem Linguae}} have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. {{u|MPGuy2824}} will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

;Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at ]). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it ]. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

;TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated ].

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;New reviewers: The ] is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read ] exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page ].

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For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see ], and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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== New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022 ==

Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},
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Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The ] finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the ]. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

'''Awards''': Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to {{Noping|MPGuy2824}}), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to {{no ping|John B123}} for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the ]. Check out the new ] also.
'''Software news''': {{Noping|Novem Linguae}} and {{Noping|MPGuy2824}} have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently ]. The ] has also been improved.
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*Reminder: ''an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more.'' (from the ])
*Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
*This ] puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.

'''Backlog''':] Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the ] to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
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* This is a wonderful example of a type of dispute that I don't like getting involved in, and a large part of the reason why I usually keep away from the admin noticeboards unless something I am involved in comes up there. However, since my earlier contribution in this case has been referred to here by OccultZone, and since ] has pinged me, I shall make a few comments.
# When I responded to OccultZone's earlier request to look at his/her block, I was very careful to emphasise that my comments were based on a quick look at the evidence which had been given in the discussion on OccultZone's talk page. I also very deliberately wrote "I have not seen anything that looks to me like edit-warring", '''not''' "I have not seen any edit-warring". I did that because I did not know the full history. It is certainly possible for an editing history which includes a large number separate reverts to be disruptive enough to justify a block, even in cases where those reverts are not sufficiently closely related to be evidently "edit warring" to a casual observer. In such a case, whether to describe the disruptive editing as "edit-warring" or to use a different form of words is perhaps open to debate. I think I would probably not have used the expression "edit-warring".
# If there were special circumstances which justified regarding this as edit warring, despite it being largely a matter of widely-spaced and not very closely related reverts, then it seems to me that it would have been helpful if the blocking administrator, when his action had been questioned, had explained those reasons, rather than just giving a few diffs which did not make it clear that it was edit-warring. However, the fact that, on the basis of the evidence presented, I did not see evidence of edit warring, does not mean that there wasn't any, or that had I known all relevant history I would have concluded that there wasn't any.
# I do think that for an administrator to unilaterally lift the block without discussion was at best open to question. If the block had not already been lifted by the time I came on the scene, I would first have checked the relevant history more thoroughly than I did, and if after I had done so it did not seem obvious that the block was justified, then I would have consulted the blocking administrator, as often a blocking administrator is aware of reasons that are not obvious to a reviewing administrator.
# At the time when I wrote my comment, I did not remember that 1RR can be applied to this topic area. It is possible that had I recalled that fact, it might have affected what I wrote.
# I totally disagree with the statement "if an admin, who has protected the page, is also proposing his content on the article, acting as an disagreeing editor, other editors would be under-pressure to agree with him since he is the one after all controlling the whole article and protecting anything against his version". It is nonsense to suggest that anyone is "under pressure": anyone can ''just as easily'' express disagreement with the administrator in question as with anyone else. It is also nonsense to describe the scenario in question as the administrator "controlling the whole article and protecting anything against his version". Protecting an article and then '''proposing''' a change is not protecting the version with that change, nor is '''proposing''' changes by any stretch of the imagination "controlling the whole article". There is no reason on earth why an administrator who has protected a page can't then make suggestions as to how it should be edited: that is not at all similar to making edits and then protecting the article to preserve those edits. (Note that these comments are based on accepting OccultZone's account of what happened, namely that an administrator protected a page and then proposed changes; I have not checked whether that is an accurate account or not.)
# In my opinion, the fact that OccultZone is making so much fuss about blocks that are now over and finished, rather than moving on, is itself disruptive. <small>''The editor who uses the pseudonym''</small> "]" (]) 11:15, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::{{U|JamesBWatson}} See below. Shall we discuss this article and its edits later please? ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 11:29, 1 April 2015 (UTC)-->


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Under the India-Pakistan discretionary sanctions, I'm hereby imposing a topic ban on "Rape in India". Per ], this includes not only the ] page, but also parts of other pages related to the topic. The period is indefinite, per your agreement above. I will consider overturning this if fresh evidence comes to light, especially regarding the SPI you say you intend to file. Otherwise, as this topic ban is under discretionary sanction, ] should go through the appropriate channels. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 11:06, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
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{{hat|I would welcome if anyone, including DoRD, would like to investigate further with the newer and far better evidence that I've got and there is finally no doubt concerning the evidence, in previous case I had re: the technical evidence, but this time there are none. This discussion is becoming lengthier, any related replies can be posted below. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 23:09, 8 April 2015 (UTC)}}
:{{U|Worm That Turned}} Consider mentioning on the restriction page that I am not allowed to edit this article and its ATP. Otherwise if I mention the diffs of this article during an SPI, it would constitute as a violation of ] because topic ban says that "any mention and anywhere in whole en.wiki" is forbidden. Thank you. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 11:11, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::I'm happy to explicitly allow mention of the topic for the purposes of filing a ''single'' further SPI. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 11:13, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:::That's correct and although it is more appropriate if you regard it as ''SPIs'', sometimes it is not just one editor who is socking, like it happened before on ], ], etc. If I have to mention SPIs elsewhere I would directly contact you from here. Alright? ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 11:14, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
::::{{yo|Worm That Turned}} Pinging in case you missed the above required modification of this entry, re: exemptions from sock puppet investigations. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 11:07, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::I didn't miss it. I'm not modifying it. If you want to submit that single SPI, you can refer to the diff where I said it's fine. If someone is unhappy with that, you can refer them to me. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 11:11, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::{{yo|Worm That Turned}} This account is much older than Zhanzhao, that's why any new SPI would be needed to be filed under his name, not under Zhanzhao. That's why I echoed "SPI{{blue|s}}", because this would be a new namespace that is not yet created. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 11:14, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::You're fine to create a single new SPI. Either as an extention of the old one or in a new namespace. However, I'm not leaving this open indefinitely to create lots of SPIs. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 12:13, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::::{{yo|Worm That Turned}} I am confident that I am nearing to the completion of this quest. You can help me by wholly exempting from any SPI discussions. Please do the needful? ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 08:58, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::::Check your email for additional details. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small>
:{{ping|Worm That Turned}} You might be interested to see ] before considering any changes to these restrictions. ​—] (])​ 15:18, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
::All I am saying is that this matter will need to be discussed with a previously involved CU(like DoRD, Ponyo) before anything will be done. Because details are tough and only a CU or the one who is qualified with technical evidence can understand better. After hearing from worm, we will see. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 15:23, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
:::Let me get back to you. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 06:57, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
::::Since {{U|Worm That Turned|you}} have used the checkuser facility and also made CU blocks in the past, I have found a better solution. If you allow, I can mail you the evidence related with this case that I regard as highly compelling, after that you will have no doubt when you will be modifying the restriction. Thank you. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 16:57, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::I have used the checkuser facility in the past. I've also asked for it to be removed and have no interest in going down that road again. However, I've discussed the matter with some people I trust. My understanding is that the users are not the same, both technical and behavioural evidence point to that. Indeed, I spoke to one of the specific checkusers who has looked into the case and despite you implying that that checkuser agreed with you on behavioural evidence - he says that there is specific behavioural evidence that points the other way.
:::::So, no. You will not get my blessing to file more SPIs. I will not be modifying the restriction. As you pointed out above, the topic ban only covers Rape in India, so it is plausible that you could file a new SPI without hitting that topic. My advice on that echos DoRD's and Callanecc's. Don't do it. Drop the matter. Move on. If you go down that route, you are liable to be blocked for harassment. ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 07:23, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::{{yo|Worm That Turned}} Filing SPIs are not an harassment, unless the evidence has been presented that way. There is a reason why the policy says that it is not required to even notify the suspect. Solution is that I can talk with any other CU involved in blocking any of the related accounts. Although the evidence would somehow link to this subject, because the diffs that I would be citing would be somehow related with the subject. They will surely strengthen the evidence.
::::::Let me explain this way: if I edited any of my above sections where I have talked about my blocks, it would be a violation of topic ban because in those diffs I was talking about the subject from which I have been topic banned. If I cited them elsewhere it would be a violation as well. Like I've told, this is wholly different case because the master is different, it has to do nothing with Zhanzhao really but much to do with this subject. That's why I am asking for the exemption, and I believe that I have clarified the matter. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 07:31, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::{{ec}}Filing repeated SPIs on the same accounts, when you are told that they are not connected, is harassment. You can talk to the checkusers. If one of them believes I'm wrong, then I'll listen. But I advise you, you've had 2 checkusers say no so far. They're a busy group and don't take well to "asking the other parent". ]<sup>TT</sup>(]) 07:37, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::::Thanks a lot for your kindness. Again, this master is <u>{{blue|wholly different}}</u>, nothing to do with Zhanzhao, we can think of ] but there is no need when we have something better to think about. Hope you will be active. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 07:40, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::With regards to the two emails that you sent me, I don't understand why you are asking me to review SPIs going back to 2013; the data will all be stale. I understand that you say you have new information, however with multiple Checkusers (including {{U|DoRD}} and {{U|Callanecc}}) telling you to drop the stick and move on, it does seem very much like a form of admin shopping (or Checkuser shopping in this case) to come to me. Please discuss this with Checkusers who are more familiar with ''this specific case''. If I have blocked a sock in the past that you believe is related to this case I can provide information to the reviewing Checkuser if they ask for it, but I'm not going to wade through reams of behavioural evidence in a case where the technical evidence that discounted socking is now stale and unavailable to me.--]<sup>]</sup> 17:25, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::::::{{yo|Ponyo}} Just clearing one thing, Callanecc had not checked any of the accounts because he hadn't played any role of a checkuser here. Main problem is that when the same checkuser(DoRD) seemed to have declined, you have to look for another who had blocked any older account as a CU. This issue might not be important for anyone else, anyone would say 'drop the stick', but that's important for me because this is the best way to get rid of this topic ban. I haven't said that I would be opening that SPI myself. I would like to hear from {{U|DoRD}} if he wants to discuss, and I wonder if he would want to, though it would be great if he would. He would know about everything else that I have just discovered. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 21:20, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
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== U have given wrong info about prostitution in India. On foreign girls ==
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Regarding page move, I am not sure that the word ''stupa'' in the title counts as a proper noun which is what your page move changed. If it is not, it should not be capitalised. In any case, it is not currently in agreement with the article text. ]] 12:42, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
:Check , 's' should be written in upper case. ] <small>(] • ] • ])</small> 13:15, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
::Ok, but my point is that you have left the article inconsistent. It should be one thing or the other throughout. ]] 20:06, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
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2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting

As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Misplaced Pages. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Misplaced Pages Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:30, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2018!

Hello OccultZone, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2018.
Happy editing,
—MBL 11:19, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Thanks MBlaze Lightning. Hope this year brings you lots of happiness and good health! OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 17:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Hey, OccultZone. After taking the effort to have your ban lifted earlier this year, I'm surprised to see that you have stopped editing. Are you taking a break, or have you left us for good? Whichever is the case... Happy New Year! ​—DoRD (talk)​ 18:08, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

@DoRD: Thanks DoRD! I was taking some break from en.wiki mostly due to real life commitments. I am now slowly getting more in touch with the events here. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 17:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Margit Sebők for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Margit Sebők is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Margit Sebők 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.WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 18:05, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive

G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:

  • tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
  • adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
  • updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
  • creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Tim Jonze for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tim Jonze is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Tim Jonze (3rd nomination) 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. SpinningSpark 18:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Rights restored

Hello OccultZone. Per your request at WP:PERM, I have granted your account autopatrolled, rollback, and pending changes reviewer rights. Please let me know if you have any questions related to these rights. All the best, Mz7 (talk) 01:05, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 17:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

Hello OccultZone. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia; if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.

  • URGENT: Please consider helping get the huge backlog down to a manageable number of pages as soon as possible.
  • Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
  • You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
  • Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
  • Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.

The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. Swarm ♠ 02:53, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 17:04, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello OccultZone, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also

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.

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, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

  • 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.
  • The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.
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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello OccultZone, 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.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

  • As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
  • Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: 100 review coin, 250 review coin, 500 review coin, 1000 review certificate.
  • Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. (Purge)

Hello OccultZone, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

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.

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.
The Signpost
  • The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello OccultZone, 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
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.
Other
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. 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.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js: Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js: Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js: Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js: Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js: A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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Have your say!

Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello OccultZone, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist 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

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WikiProject banners

Hi OccultZone

I see that you added the {{WikiProject Football}} banner to Talk:2018 Longford Senior Football Championship.

The first sentence of 2018 Longford Senior Football Championship says that it is a Gaelic football tournament. The {{WikiProject Football}} banner is for association football, a different sport. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:53, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello OccultZone,

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 Misplaced Pages 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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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, OccultZone. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello OccultZone,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Misplaced Pages since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Misplaced Pages's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Misplaced Pages in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders 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.


Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December 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.


Training video

Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minute video was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Misplaced Pages's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello OccultZone,

News
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.
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Embed

I have been trying to embed a Infobox military person template into the Infobox person template for James Bonner (Patriot). Something isn't working. Would you take a look at this and let me know what is wrong. Thanks. User:G._Moore Talk 22:07, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello OccultZone,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, 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:

  • 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.
Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill 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.

Backlog drive coming soon

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.

News
Discussions of interest

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

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What's

your relation with this account? ∯WBG 16:29, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi, WBG. Because of his restriction against commenting on sockpuppet investigations, OZ is reluctant to answer, so he contacted me. I believe that the restriction is inapplicable in this situation, so he could reply, but I will comment anyway.
I know of no connection between UnpredictablePrashant and OZ. Considering the amount of amount of scrutiny OZ has received, I think that that account would have been discovered at some point if there had been a connection. Of course, feel free to get in touch with me if you have any other questions or concerns. —DoRD (talk)​ 12:05, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello OccultZone,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

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.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

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.

Backlog

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.

Move to draft

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.

Notifying users

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 Misplaced Pages. 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.

PERM

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.

Other news

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.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Backlog Banzai

In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:38, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello OccultZone,

Backlog

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.

Coordinator

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

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, 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.

Deletion tags

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.

Paid editing

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.

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.
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

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.

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.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark

G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:37, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello OccultZone,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 810 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Misplaced Pages article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Misplaced Pages or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools
  • It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
  • It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes
  • Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
  • Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

A graph showing the number of articles in the page curation feed from 12/21/18 - 12/20/19

Reviewer of the Year

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

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

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

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

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 Rosguill (talk) 47,395 Patrol Page Curation
2 Onel5969 (talk) 41,883 Patrol Page Curation
3 JTtheOG (talk) 11,493 Patrol Page Curation
4 Arthistorian1977 (talk) 5,562 Patrol Page Curation
5 DannyS712 (talk) 4,866 Patrol Page Curation
6 CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) 3,995 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 3,812 Patrol Page Curation
8 Boleyn (talk) 3,655 Patrol Page Curation
9 Ymblanter (talk) 3,553 Patrol Page Curation
10 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 3,522 Patrol Page Curation

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

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

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

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Misplaced Pages:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello OccultZone,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello OccultZone,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources
  • A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
  • Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
  • A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
  • Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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Nomination of Political kidnapping for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Political kidnapping is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Political kidnapping until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. Prisencolin (talk) 22:01, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello OccultZone,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 DannyS712 bot III (talk) 67,552 Patrol Page Curation
2 Rosguill (talk) 63,821 Patrol Page Curation
3 John B123 (talk) 21,697 Patrol Page Curation
4 Onel5969 (talk) 19,879 Patrol Page Curation
5 JTtheOG (talk) 12,901 Patrol Page Curation
6 Mcampany (talk) 9,103 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 6,401 Patrol Page Curation
8 Mccapra (talk) 4,918 Patrol Page Curation
9 Hughesdarren (talk) 4,520 Patrol Page Curation
10 Utopes (talk) 3,958 Patrol Page Curation
Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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18:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive

Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello OccultZone,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Misplaced Pages and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Misplaced Pages or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.

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November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
  • On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
  • Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive.
  • Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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(t · c) buidhe 01:58, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Review Request Gail Carpenter

Many few years ago you rated the Gail Carpenter article as a bio stub. I recently added some more material and references. I see it at at least C but maybe ready for the B rating. Can you please review that article once again? Thanks! Jrcrin001 (talk) 17:12, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello OccultZone,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 810 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 848 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Misplaced Pages notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Misplaced Pages or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello OccultZone,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Misplaced Pages's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 15284 articles, as of 18:00, 25 December 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

Reminders
  • Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
  • If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Misplaced Pages notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
  • If you are no longer very active on Misplaced Pages or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Notes
  1. not including another ~6,000 redirects
  2. The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

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

NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

New Page Patrol | July 2022 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
  • Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive.
  • Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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(t · c) buidhe 20:26, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello OccultZone,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination
MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
Open letter to the WMF
The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
TIP - Reviewing by subject
Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.
New reviewers
The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
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Invitation

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations opening soon

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are opening in a few hours (00:01 UTC on 1 September). A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:52, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting opening soon!

Voting for the upcoming project coordinator election opens in a few hours (00:01 UTC on 15 September) and will last through 23:59 on 28 September. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. Voting is conducted using simple approval voting and questions for the candidates are welcome. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:27, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Correction to previous election announcement

Just a quick correction to the prior message about the 2022 MILHIST coordinator election! I (Hog Farm) didn't proofread the message well enough and left out a link to the election page itself in this message. The voting will occur here; sorry about the need for a second message and the inadvertent omission from the prior one. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:41, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
  • On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting closing soon

Voting for the upcoming project coordinator election closes soon, at 23:59 on 28 September. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. Voting is conducted using simple approval voting and questions for the candidates are welcome. The voting itself is occurring here If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:14, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello OccultZone,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

Suggestions:

  • There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
  • Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
  • Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
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Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello OccultZone,

New Page Review queue December 2022
Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

New Page Patrol | May 2023 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 May, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of redirects patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello OccultZone,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

Reminders

New pages patrol needs your help!

New pages awaiting review as of June 30th, 2023.

Hello OccultZone,

The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2023 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled.
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New pages patrol newsletter

Hello OccultZone,

New Page Review article queue, March to September 2023

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.

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