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Welcome to my talk page. Feel absolutely free to leave me a message. I will reply on your talk page (everyone likes that yellow bar). :) Peace. - ] 19:45, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC) Welcome to my talk page. Feel free to leave me a message. I will reply on your talk page or ping you here.


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Hi. I saw your query on Bhadani's talk page, and could not resist giving a go here. I hope you would not mind. :) The government's policies for reservation are highly controversial, given that the public in India is very very sensitive to public policies. Many of the people here (in India) believe that the hiking of seats and reservation for the OBCs (Other Backward Classes) is only a political ploy to attract votes, while the government insists that the OBCs are econimically backward and they need the government's help. There have been mass protests against this proposal by the government. There are anti-policy demonstrations all over the country (which have been widely covered by the media). I personally, believe that reservations will only reduce the quality of the students that are churned out of the system, because due to all this the students who do not deserve to be a part of an institution would get in without merit due to reservation through their castes. And also that, the creamy layer system has not been established by the government, that keeps economically good classes at bay from the OBC reservation. Hope you find this helpful! --<font color="blue">]</font><small> <font color="blue">]</font></small> 12:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I felt really nice to hear from you after so long. My response to your quesry is here: . Thanks and regards. --] 10:11, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hi. Nice job on the flag updates. However I wanted to let you that it was my intention to do the squad pages not only as rosters but also as final rankings since the groups format is on the regular World Cup pages but the final rankings are not. The final rankings are a seldom seen curiosity I had hoped to provide as adouble to the lineups. Let me know what you think, since it was my intention to do all the squad lists from 1930-62. ] 00:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
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| Hello Darwinek. Thank you for your support and gracious comment (If you want to read some real articles about the suburbs of Adelaide ] has a few FAs about Adelaide suburbia listed on his userpage)at my ] which ended at the overwhelming and flattering result of ('''160/1/0'''), and leaves me in a position of having to live up to a high standard of community expectation. You can ] and as a result. Naturally, if I make any procedural mistakes, feel free to point them out. I look forward to working with you in the future. Enjoy your sunny Czech summer! ''']''' | ] 04:03, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
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You to me: Hello. Apart from being a Misplaced Pages administrator, I am also a university student of politology. I would like to ask you, cause you are Indian, what do you think about current anti-reservation debate. On which side do you stand? Thank you. :) - ] 25 May 2006 (UTC)
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I saw the picture of Paul Bremer you uploaded.
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Personally, I like to give the URL to the page that contains the pic, as well as the URL to the picture itself. I include the original caption on the image page too. I see it as a courtesy to the photographer, who may not have any rights, if they were a federal employee, taking the picture as part of their job. But, as a courtesy, we can still give them credit.


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Hi Darwinek,
I wasn't quite sure which parts of the ] article you thought needed sourcing. I'd appreciate if you could take a few minutes to point out the appropriate passages. Cheers, <font style="color:#22AA00;">''']'''</font><font style="color:#888888;"><sup>]</sup></font> 05:27, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


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== Polishing the Polish ==

Thank you for going over my articles! It gets better with a little cooperation. ] (]) 17:03, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
:{{ping|Geschichte}}, thank you for creating them. :) - ] (]) 23:52, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

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I was wondering what category you would suggest for conservation-based NGOs - I just added ], and there's the ] - so there now are two of them. I'm not sure what most countries use - either then could go into a Conservation in Trinidad and Tobago cat, or they could go, together with the Scouting article into a "Civil Society"/Organisations cat (not sure if other countries use something of the sort). Any thoughts? (Sorry to see the result in the Ghana match. I'm quite conflicted - I like the Czech Republic and hoep they do well, but I'm always happy to see an African team do well. Hope you beat Italy convincingly - my wife says I have to support USA, so I am hoping for the Czech Republic and USA to get through, though I would be ok if Ghana got through instead of USA). ] 14:59, 18 June 2006 (UTC)


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:Thanks, and yes, she is American. Good luck against Italy. Hope your summer's going well. ] 18:13, 18 June 2006 (UTC)


== Administrators' newsletter – January 2021 ==
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Hi Darwin. I just wanted to stop in and welcome you to my little pet project! I am more-or-less a novice with some of the advanced functions of the Misplaced Pages (as are most of the other participants of our project), so someone with your experience would be a huge asset to the project. I will likely have a limited internet-presence over the next 4 days, so if I don't respond to your comments or queries right away ... well, now you know :D. Anyway, it's 10 minutes to 4 am where I am, and my night-shift is almost over, therefore I am very tired and probably rambling somewhat incoherently haha. Take care, and again, welcome to the project. ] 10:50, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
* I think targetting some of the ''poorer'' countries is a good idea. Or at least non-english countries because they are very much neglected. One could make an interesting observation: Rich countries ''generally'' have more fresh-water lakes than poor countries. Also, I think the categorization scheme for lakes needs cleaning up, so if you are a whiz with figuring out categories, then you are certainly welcome to help with that. Otherwise, I figure just do whatever you like. Anyway, I ''really'' am getting tired. I better stop all my rambling until I get some sleep. Take care! ] 11:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
* Thanks for your work on categorizing lakes! See, I knew I asked the right guy. The problem is some of the "instruction pages" for wikipedia are difficult to understand (or even find sometimes), so I was just trying to figure it all out as I go. But now you've set me straight :D thanks! As far as mountain lakes is concerned, I have thought about maybe changing it to '''Alpine lakes''' instead. This might help clarify it a little. Ultimately what I would ''like'' to see is somehow sorting ''Alpine lakes'' by region (country, state, etc). So people could look up maybe, ''Alpine lakes of Alberta'' or perhaps ''Alpine lakes of Chile''. <br> '''But''' yes, thanks very much for your assistance. I will figure this categorization thing out yet. ] 20:20, 21 June 2006 (UTC)


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Just like everyone likes the yellow bar, these are nice also. You deserve this. You're such a humble administrator and you've contributed so much here. Take care and enjoy the summer -- ] <small>]</small> 08:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)


Darwinek, You were kind to improve ]. I apologise for the imposition, but I have created a new page: ]. It has issues. Could you point me to solutions please. Thank you for your work and contributions. ] (]) 10:01, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
== Czech footybio stub ==
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I appreciate the kind words! Too bad about your side in the World Cup.
At least you were able to give mine (USA) a drubbing!
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:The American side was arrogant too. It should be fun to watch Ghana against the Brazilians tomorrow. ] 22:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)elektrotek85


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. Perhpas, I do not have any answer. --] 17:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
:You are right perhaps. I will also try to reach conclusions. --] 17:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


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== Administrators' newsletter – April 2021 ==
I have about 20 African American students, most of them 2-3 years older than you. I'm sure they would like to know about a European guy who has an interest in African Americans. I'd welcome anything you would like to share about it. ] 20:42, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


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I think, that it is worthy to discuss the format of Teschen/Cieszyn/Těšín Silesia articels. ] has opened this topic. I think that Polish version is not the proper one in English wikipedia. The German version is better, because
Hi Darwinek,<br>
* it has long traditionin English publications
That's certainly a sensational view! Image quality is great apart from the banding in the sky, however I'm not too sure many people will like the top and bottom white border. It makes it look more artistic, but I'm not sure if a lot of people on FPC will appreciate that. Once cropped it may prove to be too low res compared to ]. But, have a go! I personally think it reflects badly on the review process on FPC when people are nervouse to nominate something. And I don't want to bore you with a rant, but recently I've become distressed with the lack of community spirit on FPC. All that aside, I think it's definetly worth a try. Good luck! --] 09:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
* it avoids Czech-Polish disputes
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: This may indeed be an interesting topic to be discussed in the future, even though this is a fringe topic area in the bigger context of enwiki. The problem at hand is, that the user mentioned above unilaterally moved bunch of articles without any consensus and proper discussion, required by enwiki guidelines. Not to mention that blanket naming changes require a broader consensus, as happened not long time ago with Kiev / Kyiv dispute. - ] (]) 23:59, 11 May 2021 (UTC)


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I have photos, http://alb.rosfcb.com/displayimage.php?album=121&pos=20 here, they have new kits from "KAPPA" and theese are the new ones. But I don't know if theese will be used on home matches so I will let it how it is and I'll update it later.


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:Hmm, they look strange as HOME kits. Yes I am from Czech rep. but I didn't know if I can write here in czech :)
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::Tak to je fajn. Odkud si že fandíš Baníčku? Jinak ty dresy sou divné no, radši bych viděl víc bílé barvy ("Dresy bílé jsou jak padlý sníh..." - to se bude tezko ted zpivat...)
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Hi, Darwinek! The answer is no, not really. All Russian cities/towns should have at least substubs written about them, so what you are doing is quite useful. It is also true that those substubs will all have to be expanded sooner or later. I am simply adding information that's readily available, as well as to maintain consistency with already existing stubs. So, don't worry about me being annoyed&mdash;I am not :) Thanks for your interest in this area!&mdash;]&nbsp;•&nbsp;(]); 16:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


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Hi I see you are still doing a good job this time on Czech places in your home country. Do you have any photographs of these places which you could use?. Because I have taken a few photos of local places which can be used to illustrate wikipedia. I think Czech already has many pictures though in the commons. Keep it up ] 08:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


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While I appreciate that you're willing to contribute to '']'' and other viperine articles, I found it necessary to remove your last edit as it had rendered that statement inaccurate. Specifically, you were editing information that I had gleaned directly from McDiarmid et al.'s 1999 publication "Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1", in which it does not mention that ''B. gabonica'' occurs in Ethiopia. If you know of a source that does mention Ethiopia as part of the range of this species, I would very much appreciate that you would add that to the article, but as a separate statement -- and please, please cite your reference! Personally, I have at least six books citing ranges for ''B. gabonica'' and none of them mention Ethiopia, so I'd be very interested to know who said that and whether it's just a report of a single specimen or not.


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Regarding your edit to '']'', in this case only the addition a few "Fauna of <''country''>" links, I'm suddenly not so sure we should be so confident in the case of Togo, despite the fact that it is currently stated as being part of the range in the article. Specifically, I just found a line in Spawls & Branch (1995) stating that Ghana and Togo are at the eastern limit of the range of this subspecies, and that they begin to intergrade here with ''B. g. gabonica'' (I'll add this information to the ''B. g. rhinoceros'' article). The distribution map supplied by Spawls & Branch indicates that the general range for ''B. gabonica'' does no include Togo (or Benin for that matter), but that there have been reports of specimens found in that area. These two countries (and at least eastern Ghana) are part of a larger region known as the ]; a relatively dry region that separates the rainforests of West Africa from those of Central Africa, as well as the two subspecies of ''B. gabonica''. I think it would therefore be safer not to add the "Fauna of Togo" category to either of the ''B. gabonica'' articles. --] 23:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
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:Did they say what happened to the poor fellow? Receiving a bite from any of the larger ''Bitis'' species while out in the bush can only be a horrible experience.
:Sure, send me a screenshot of the animal -- perhaps I can identify it. That would be fun. It may turn out to be '']''! However, even if I was convinced that it is ''B. gabonica'', I would not add any statements to the ''B. gabonica'' article based on this (kind of) evidence: that would be assuming too much. It comes down to the old adage "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." In this case, that would entail a proper identification of the snake and a reasonable description of where and when it was found. That information would then have to be published, so that everyone can have access to the information and make up their own minds regarding the source. But, since we don't have that in this case, we'll just have to wait for somebody else to do it. In the mean time, it's safer for us to just stick to what has been published on the matter. --] 00:25, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


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Thanks for sharing the photographs, but that's definitely not ''B. gabonica''. It's '']'', the common puff adder! Looks look a juvenile too. Even so, bites from specimens this size have been reported to be very painful. Here's a better photo of : note the distinctive series of chevrons down its back and the light crossbar between the eyes over the top of the head: no other species in Africa are like that. --] 10:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
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:''Bothrops insularis''? Not right now. I'm currently busy with the ] and probably will be for some time to come. I still have a quite a few articles to create and many others that are still not much more than stubs. It takes a long time to research and write any of those articles properly.
:As for whether I feel categorization of "Fauna of xy" is very useful, I'm afraid not. I see two problems. First, it's too general. Right now we may not have too many articles dealing with the fauna of Ghana, for instance, but what about in 10 years time? There could be thousands. Better to create categories that do not have the potential to become so large. I would suggest only creating categories that will never achieve such proportions, such as "Dangerous Snakes of Ghana". Such smaller categories could then be added to "Categories dealing with Ghana", for example.
:Secondly, from the viewpoint of at least some species articles, country categories (of any kind) are not always practical either. Take '']'': a species that is extremely widespread, occurring in some 40 countries across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: would it really be practical to add all of those country categories to the article? If you did, it would become rather difficult for anyone to find what they were looking for in such a long list. In other words, the current system has its limits. Unless that's changed, a solution might be to create only a category for the "Venomous Snakes of Africa" instead. Hope this helps! --] 12:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


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Yeah, until I see the extent of the differences I won't be able to tell you what can be done with it. Upload the images to commons and I'll see what I can do. --] 22:09, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
::Here's the pano, stitched pretty well - the source photos were quite good. ], ], ] --] 10:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
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== Administrators' newsletter – July 2021 ==
==slovan==
je a bol vzdy slovensky, argument, ze to bol ceskoslovensky sa mi vobec nepaci, uz vtedy v patdesiatych rokoch to bol aj v prahe chapany ako slovensky celok, inac VELKE DIKY za tvoju robotu, SUPER!!!! --] 00:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


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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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== Administrators' newsletter – June 2022 ==

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* Several areas of improvement collated from ] have been identified in the ]. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are ] on these areas.

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* Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access ] directly from user pages. ({{phab|T307341}})
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] '''Arbitration'''
* ] of the ''Rachel Marsden'' case has been rescinded following a ]. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to ] when they violate ].
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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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*If you have noticed a user with a ''good'' understanding of Misplaced Pages notability and deletion, 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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== NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on! ==

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* On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
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] '''Arbitration'''
* An arbitration case regarding ] has been opened.

] '''Miscellaneous'''
* The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is ]. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest ].
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== Primary topic page move ==

Hello, I noticed that you moved ] to ] and ] to ] few months ago. Would you please move ] to Milovice according to the same principle? I'm also giving this a move for consideration: ], ], ] and ]. No pressure, only if you have time and desire for it. Thanks. ] (]) 18:19, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
:Ahoj {{ping|FromCzech}}. Thanks for the useful suggestion. I will work on it, moved Milovice already. It is really helpful, especially with regards to links from other articles. In 2018 I moved ] to ]. Kyjov was a disambiguation page back then and many articles were linking to it, instead of linking to the article about the town. - ] (]) 20:42, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
::Thank you for your work! ] (]) 05:20, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
:::{{ping|FromCzech}} All done except for Hranice. I am a bit at odds here. On one side, both Hranice in Přerov District and Cheb District are towns, so technically on the same level. On the other side, Hranice na Moravě is clearly a more notable and important town both historically and now as well (important railway hub). I am also thinking about places like ], which is a market town but ] is a disambiguation page listing only a municipal part (without an article) of another market town. What do you think about both? - ] (]) 23:51, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
::::I'm okay with both. Choltice is a clear choice, if there is not other municipality with the same name, it is a primary topic. I wasn't convinced about Hranice either, so I put it under consideration; so let's leave it at that. ] (]) 04:34, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
::::And when you move Choltice, please, move the talk page too ;) ] (]) 05:04, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
:::::If you find other towns / market towns with similar issues, please let me know. Another common thing here or enwiki are disambiguated place names with a common meaning in Czech but not in English, e.g. compare ] to ] and ].--] (]) 17:26, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
::::::Hello, after a long time I have one more suggestion: ]. Thanks in advance. ] (]) 12:47, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

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* ] has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
* ] has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

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* ] is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed ]. There are also a number of ] associated with Wikimania around the world.
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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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*If you have noticed a user with a ''good'' understanding of Misplaced Pages notability and deletion, 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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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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Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2020. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We are just getting caught up. If you don't want to receive "old" barnstars, please just ignore this and reply (with a ping) to let us know not to send you any more. -] (]) 02:59, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

==NPP Award for 2019==
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* ] is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
* ] is open to gain consensus on whether ] is ] for science and politics.

] '''Technical news'''
* ] on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Misplaced Pages has been released.
* The WMF is looking into making a ] system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the ]. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up ] ].

] '''Arbitration'''
* An arbitration case regarding ] has been closed. The Arbitration Committee ] as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
* The arbitration case request '']'' has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

] '''Miscellaneous'''
* The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the ] before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
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# In order to '''make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed''', a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at ]. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed!

# The ''']''' section of the proposals page has been created.
Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2018. We realize this is late, but ] fell behind in some coordination activities. We have just caught up with giving out deserved barnstars. -] (]) 03:15, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
# ''']''' Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been ]. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, ] has been created.

# Two small pieces of '''charter reform''' will be decided on in a straw poll at ]. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter.
== October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive ==
# Until '''cooperation with the ]''' is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.

# There is a page for discussing the ''']'''.
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:It can't hurt to contact him - just say I suggested you could supply local information. Of course, now I don't know if you even write much on cs: :-) Even if cs: is locally considered awful, it can be considered, um, a land of opportunity! Yes! A new frontier to make into a good encyclopedia! Or something :-) Those of us doing en:-centred press get enough static from the <s>French</s> other language Wikipedians about the en:-centricity of the journalists in question. (As if we told them to ask those questions that way.) - ] 23:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)


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==Commoms flowers==
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:Good to see you back. I'm still on a (ever more tenuous) wikibreak...which basically means I'm busy (second week on classes is done, so it's getting a bit more sane; on the other hand, the academic job-hunting season is just starting, so it's going to get a lot more crazy) and a lot less stressed (since I'm not on WP all day). Hope your vacation went well and things are good with you. ] 19:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hi mate alright? I reckon you needed a break! Yes Welsh is compulsory and is taught in all the school but I live in south-east Wales not very far from England so a very small minority speak it. I know a few words and phrases as others do but I consider myself English. However if you go up into ] , ] and the] and north Wales such as ] and that they speak majority Welsh. I don't know about the strength of the Welsh football team!! To be honest I think we under achieve. SOme of the players in the past have been great e,g ] and ] but we don't really perform in relation to talent. Nice to talk, ] 14:43, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
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:::PS, or do you think Volcanoes by island is better than by region??? I notice Flores and Java have heaps, but do we really need seperate categories for say Bali or Lombok? ] 14:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hi. Wow I had no idea there were so many volcanoes in that area!!! Although thinking about it I think it lies on the Pacific plate boundary which explains so many!! Well done for covering the geography. ] 10:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Darwinek!<br>
Here's the pano stitch: ], and the obligatory edit ]:-) <br>
That panorama you mentioned is a sensational view. Quality is a little low, but it is well worth a shot on FPC - I would support it!<br>
Thanks again for asking me - and I honestly don't mind at all, feel free to bring any more panos you need stitching! --] 12:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


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Hi Darwinek, I'm letting you know I've created a category to hold a number of clean-up tasks similar to {{tl|Arabic}} for various languages, ]. So far I've made {{tl|Cyrillic}} (which you requested), {{tl|Chinese script}}, {{tl|Greek}}, and {{tl|Hebrew script}}. I'm letting you know since you seem to be the most frequent user of {{tl|Cyrillic}} and you seem to create/clean up articles from all over the world. ] ] 17:43, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


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I already made the map for each Syrian governorate, but I made the maps before each governorate had its own article. As a result, many of the maps are on the page with the city with the same name as the governorate. I will work on moving them to the right page. <small>]</small><sup>]</sup> 15:42, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
:I looked at each governorate article (some of which are still shared with cities) and each page has a map. What map did you want me to make? <small>]</small><sup>]</sup> 15:46, 14 October 2006 (UTC)


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:Hmm, tylko ze trudno troche je znalezc - moze dodalbys je do swojej glownej strony jako normalny szablon (tak jak ja zrobiłem na mojej, zerknij). Co do Ruskich - coz, jest tu kilku nacjonalistow i niestety nie udaje sie 'zakopac topora', i caly czas mamy taka niby Zimna Wojne (i nie tylko z nimi, niestety). Zerknij chocby do talku o Russian Enlightenment na portalu zeby zobaczyc co sie dzieje :( Tak na marginesie, to co widzisz na HoS to jeszcze nic, zerknij jak storpedowali Piłsudskiego :( --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]|]</span></sub> 01:33, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
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Well I expected someone to ask me that, it was about time someone did. I did so to simply add the Arabic script my friend. It's just that I'm opening 20 tabs simultaneously and changing the names to save time (I'm on dial-up - ]). Anyways, it's been translated already. :) I'm going through the whole category and finished almost 170 of them. --] 21:20, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
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==the cemetery photos==
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:It's difficult to see. There's a clear photo of a grave of a woman called "Leah" and it has the standrad hebrew transcription of ת.נ.צ.ב.ה which is acronym for "may her soul be wrapped up in the bundle of life". It says : "Here is buried (in acronym) the humble and perfect woman important and famous woman wisdom built her home miss Leah. Daughter of the deceased Moshe Gras , wife of the (can't tell) deceased Yitzchak Yehora" Amsterdam...
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:In here another woman called "Leah" and seems to stay : "an honest innocent tender gentle woman of good..." on the right another grave with the inscriptions here buried and "may his soul..." Paa son of Nachman... ] 13:14, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


'''2023 Awards'''
::That's indeed very very sad. I hope to visit the Czech republic one day, thought of Prague but perhaps should visit more. ] 13:51, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
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Ahoj Darwinek, how are you? :) I want to ask you for a favor. Could you, instead of adding the Arabic template, directly add whatever articles needing the script to my talk page. This will save a lot of time and effort, as it gets rather tiring to edit the talk page of every article, especially with my pathetic connection. It would also be a quicker method. What do you say? <font color="LightSteelBlue">↔</font color> ] - ] 16:47, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


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Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral

Darwinek, You were kind to improve Mark James Elgar Coode. I apologise for the imposition, but I have created a new page: Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral. It has issues. Could you point me to solutions please. Thank you for your work and contributions. Brunswicknic (talk) 10:01, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

@Brunswicknic: Thanks for another nice new article. It looks good. I just made the publications smaller, so they don't clutter the space, and made couple of cosmetic tweaks. - Darwinek (talk) 22:32, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

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Artur Gąsiewski birthplace

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@Naddruf: Sure, Polish Olympic Committee. I've added the reference to the article. Cheers.--Darwinek (talk) 02:11, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

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Teschen Silesia Articles

I think, that it is worthy to discuss the format of Teschen/Cieszyn/Těšín Silesia articels. Kosbit4 has opened this topic. I think that Polish version is not the proper one in English wikipedia. The German version is better, because

  • it has long traditionin English publications
  • it avoids Czech-Polish disputes

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This may indeed be an interesting topic to be discussed in the future, even though this is a fringe topic area in the bigger context of enwiki. The problem at hand is, that the user mentioned above unilaterally moved bunch of articles without any consensus and proper discussion, required by enwiki guidelines. Not to mention that blanket naming changes require a broader consensus, as happened not long time ago with Kiev / Kyiv dispute. - Darwinek (talk) 23:59, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

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Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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Katemann's place of birth

Hi. Thanks for adding to Harald Katemann's article. When I created it, I was unable to find out his place of birth. Where did you get it? Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 08:25, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

I copied the info from the German Misplaced Pages.--Darwinek (talk) 02:33, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Oh! We can't do that. We need to make sure the content is verifiable through sources in the article. See Misplaced Pages:Verifiability. I've removed the date of birth until we can find a source. Robby.is.on (talk) 07:59, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Good idea. Thank you.--Darwinek (talk) 12:41, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

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Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

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Reminder: Survey about History on Misplaced Pages

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RFA 2021 Completed

The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants) ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.

The following proposals gained consensus and have all been implemented:

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  3. Removal of autopatrol from the administrator's toolkit. Special thanks to Wugapodes and Seddon for their help with implementation.

The following proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration:

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversighter changes

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readded Opabinia regalis
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Guideline and policy news

  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

Arbitration

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  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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Deleting refs

Czy to nie podchodzi pod jakieś reguły wikipedii, żeby nie usuwać referencji do poważnych książek i zastępować je stronami internetowymi jak to robi FromCzech  ? D_T_G (PL) 05:48, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

@D T G: Trudno powiedzieć, czy jakieś reguły są tu naginane, ale na pewno to usuwanie jest niepotrzebne. Sugeruję byś przywrócił referencje do książek. Nawet nie usuwałbym tych źródeł stron internetowych gmin. Oba źródła mogą razem współistnieć. - Darwinek (talk) 23:55, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Administrator changes

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readded 28bytes

Bureaucrat changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
  • The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


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WP:AFC Helper News

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  • The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversighter changes

removed Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Olympics

Hello. I've begun a deletion sorting page for articles about the Olympics which are nominated at AfD. Hope you find it useful. No Great Shaker (talk) 15:12, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Sucha Górna

Hello, could you know how to secure this article? User FromCzech is removing encyclopedic information. Herzog von Teschen (talk) 22:51, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

@Herzog von Teschen: I believe you mean the Horní Suchá article. Since there is an ongoing content dispute at the moment, I will request a page protection. Thanks. - Darwinek (talk) 23:29, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes

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readded Ad Orientem
removed GeschichteRyan PostlethwaiteSabine's SunbirdWassupwestcoast


Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
  • When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversighter changes

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Arbitration


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Darwinek,

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 812 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 847 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.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes

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renamed Sn0wflakeVersedFenrir


CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
  • The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:55, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Darwinek,

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: 15186 articles, as of 20:00, 24 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
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  • 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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  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) 10:02, 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes

removed AAGwallaIoethLaurascudderMoriori (deceased) • NatRfl
renamed DrilnothAFigureOfBlue

Bureaucrat changes

added Lee Vilenski


Interface administrator changes

added Nihiltres

Technical news

  • user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Primary topic page move

Hello, I noticed that you moved Vítkov (Opava District) to Vítkov and Hořice (Jičín District) to Hořice few months ago. Would you please move Milovice (Nymburk District) to Milovice according to the same principle? I'm also giving this a move for consideration: Hranice (Přerov District), Holice (Pardubice District), Kunovice (Uherské Hradiště District) and Pohořelice (Brno-Country District). No pressure, only if you have time and desire for it. Thanks. FromCzech (talk) 18:19, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Ahoj @FromCzech:. Thanks for the useful suggestion. I will work on it, moved Milovice already. It is really helpful, especially with regards to links from other articles. In 2018 I moved Kyjov (Hodonín District) to Kyjov. Kyjov was a disambiguation page back then and many articles were linking to it, instead of linking to the article about the town. - Darwinek (talk) 20:42, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your work! FromCzech (talk) 05:20, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
@FromCzech: All done except for Hranice. I am a bit at odds here. On one side, both Hranice in Přerov District and Cheb District are towns, so technically on the same level. On the other side, Hranice na Moravě is clearly a more notable and important town both historically and now as well (important railway hub). I am also thinking about places like Choltice (Pardubice District), which is a market town but Choltice is a disambiguation page listing only a municipal part (without an article) of another market town. What do you think about both? - Darwinek (talk) 23:51, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
I'm okay with both. Choltice is a clear choice, if there is not other municipality with the same name, it is a primary topic. I wasn't convinced about Hranice either, so I put it under consideration; so let's leave it at that. FromCzech (talk) 04:34, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
And when you move Choltice, please, move the talk page too ;) FromCzech (talk) 05:04, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
If you find other towns / market towns with similar issues, please let me know. Another common thing here or enwiki are disambiguated place names with a common meaning in Czech but not in English, e.g. compare cs:Vápno to Vápno and Vápno (Pardubice District).--Darwinek (talk) 17:26, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello, after a long time I have one more suggestion: Staňkov (Domažlice District). Thanks in advance. FromCzech (talk) 12:47, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

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I don't, sorry.--Darwinek (talk) 16:59, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
  • An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

  • The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
  • Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
  • Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Darwinek,

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
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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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Happy Seventeenth Adminship Anniversary!

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NPP Award

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NPP Award for 2020

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For over 360 article reviews during 2020. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:59, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2020. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We are just getting caught up. If you don't want to receive "old" barnstars, please just ignore this and reply (with a ping) to let us know not to send you any more. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:59, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

NPP Award for 2019

The New Page Reviewer's Iron Award

For over 360 article reviews during 2019. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:07, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2019. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We are almost caught up. If you don't want to receive "old" barnstars, please just ignore this and reply to let us know not to send you any more. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:07, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

  • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
  • An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

  • The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Misplaced Pages has been released.
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Arbitration

  • An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
  • The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
  • Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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NPP Award for 2018

The New Page Reviewer's Iron Award

For over 360 article reviews during 2018. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:15, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2018. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We have just caught up with giving out deserved barnstars. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:15, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
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Happy Eighteenth First Edit Day!

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Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 19:30, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes

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  • The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Darwinek,

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".
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  • 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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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

Interface administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Oversight changes

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

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Happy Birthday!

Wishing Darwinek a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee!   Chris Troutman (talk) 15:58, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

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Hi Darwinek! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU 20:23, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Darwinek,

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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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

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  • Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

New Page Patrol | May 2023 Backlog Drive
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Slovak emigrants to Sweden

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

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Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
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Arbitration

  • The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Darwinek,

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

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Hello Darwinek,

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.

Reminders:

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

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Arbitration

  • Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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"B. A." listed at Redirects for discussion

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

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Oversighter changes

readded Bradv

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
  • A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

  • Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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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.
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New pages patrol newsletter

Hello Darwinek,

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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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Russian emigrants to Romania

A tag has been placed on Category:Russian emigrants to Romania indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz 01:10, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Category:WikiProject X members

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Category:WikiProject X members on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkltalk 09:32, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Misplaced Pages-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

  • Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

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November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello Darwinek:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 1800 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
  • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
  • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
  • Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
  • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
  • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:22, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

"Diviya" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Diviya has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 November 10 § Diviya until a consensus is reached. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) 03:01, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 November 20 § Category:Foreign Ministers of X

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

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Arbitration

  • Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
  • The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:53, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Norwegian emigrants to Belgium

A tag has been placed on Category:Norwegian emigrants to Belgium indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz 01:06, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

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CfD nomination at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 13 § Road accidents and incidents

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 13 § Road accidents and incidents on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (d) 06:35, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | January 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Regarding your move summary on Anna Fernstädt

Hello! I stopped by your talk page to notice you about move summary on Anna Fernstädt. You moved Anna Fernstädtová back to the original spelling of her name, stating: Official name according to IBSF and her own official website.

You were correct; this is an English Misplaced Pages and we are not required to follow the Czech way of femininizing foreign surnames. WP:EN also states articles here must use names used by native English sources unless there is one that uses "Fernstädtová" instead.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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  • An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
  • Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Nat Turner for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nat Turner 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/Nat Turner 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 until the discussion has finished.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

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  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Misplaced Pages.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Darwinek,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

Reminders:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Naturhist.saml.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Naturhist.saml.jpg, which you've attributed to Nina Aldin Thune. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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If you believe the media meets the criteria at Misplaced Pages:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Misplaced Pages:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Misplaced Pages:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. Here is a list of your uploads. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Misplaced Pages's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. --TheImaCow (talk) 19:21, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
  • On 1 May 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

removed Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

readded Joe Roe

Oversight changes

removed GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Misplaced Pages. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C

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You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.

This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

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Oversight changes

removed Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:43, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Polish minority in the Czech Republic

Polish minority in the Czech Republic has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 20:13, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration


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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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Hi Darwinek! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:31, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
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CfD nomination at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 August 26 § Category:Agriculture ministers of Bangladesh

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 August 26 § Category:Agriculture ministers of Bangladesh on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. HueMan1 (talk) 01:42, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

New pages patrol | September 2024 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 September 2024, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:43, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

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Hi Darwinek! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:38, 28 September 2024 (UTC)
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Invitation to join the Twenty Year Society

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@Guettarda: Thanks for the wishes, Guettarda. All is well. Hope you are doing well too. - Darwinek (talk) 00:25, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

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