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Ways to improve Roderick Morison

Hello, זָרַח,

Thanks for creating Roderick Morison! I edit here too, under the username Boleyn and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

This has been tagged for 2 issues.

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Boleyn (talk) 05:39, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

May 2019

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:03, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: What original research are you referring to? Zerach (talk) 20:46, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

I see that the words "personal analysis" link to "original research", which is not helpful. I will consider editing the template to correct that. You do, however, seem to be editing largely for the purpose of publicising a point of view. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:54, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Ways to improve Idith Zertal

Hello, זָרַח,

Thanks for creating Idith Zertal! I edit here too, under the username StudiesWorld and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

This person is clearly notable, but it could be expanded from FR.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Secular Right

Hello זָרַח,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Secular Right for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

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Strippergate (Israel) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Strippergate (Israel). Since you had some involvement with the Strippergate (Israel) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:06, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

English date writing formats

Hello, זרח! I've seen that you have done some edits in Yair Netanyahu's page, among them switching his birth date from July 26 to 26 July, perhaps thinking there was a writing mistake. Thus I've felt it is necessary to specify that both forms are correct, the former (July 26) is used in American English and the latter (26 July) in British English. Your edit in this regard was not needed. Ekomik (talk) 03:22, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Thanks for creating Boutilier v. the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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Maybe add some the date here?

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Willbb234 (talk) 11:30, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Jabotinsky date of death

The date of death is 3 August 1940, Saturday night, before midnight (כ"ט בתמוז). The books did a mistake. I add more sources from newspapers and more to the page Ze'ev Jabotinsky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Efi hoory (talk • contribs) 20:31, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

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Nomination of Ari Hoffman for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ari Hoffman is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Autopatrolled granted

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File Mover, New Page Reviewer

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New Right

Hello Zarah. With regards to your undo of my edit on the New Right article, I was attempting to correct this edit by Kimpire, which was made about 30 minutes before mine. If anything needs talk page consensus, it would be their changes (which changed New Right from being a party to a faction, which I was reverting).

In the meantime, I have restored the article to the (stable) version prior to the Kimpire's change, although it means the loss of the details like the change in what Tzalash stands for which I had addeed. Cheers, Number 57 21:41, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

To an old friend. ♠Vami_IV†♠ 08:57, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018

On 4 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Irish Occupied Territories Bill would make doing business with Israeli settlers punishable by five years' imprisonment? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Sorley MacLean

On 7 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sorley MacLean, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Scottish poet Sorley MacLean once called upon the Red Army to invade his homeland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sorley MacLean. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sorley MacLean), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Yeter ve-Haser

Hi, User:זָרַח, as for your question to me, the phrase "Yeter ve-Haser" is the transliteration of the Hebrew words for "plene and defective scriptum," which in Hebrew are יתר וחסר, sometimes referred to as such by editors who speak Hebrew here on Wikipedia, as well as Jewish seminary students. Its use as a phrase, of course, is restricted to a small Hebrew-English speaking audience.Davidbena (talk) 06:40, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Yang Bowen

Hello זָרַח. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Yang Bowen, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Yang Bowen (with Pinyin diactitics: Yáng Bbówén) is the Chinese name order (family name first, given names after that) of Bowen Yang. It's just a coincidence that it looks like Bowen, which can be either an given or family name in English. Appears to be a plausible WP:REDIRECT. Please let me know if you disagree. Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 09:27, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Shirt58, I am well aware of Chinese name order. But Yang is not Chinese, he is an American citizen born in America who performs in English, not Chinese. He doesn't write his name that way and neither does anyone else, so how is it a plausible search term? This redirect makes about as much sense as one to Sarah Silverman with her name typed in Hebrew letters, because she is of Jewish ethnicity. Zerach (talk) 09:46, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Cast the First Stone (hardcore punk album)

Why did you not move Cast the First Stone to Cast the First Stone (album) or Cast the First Stone (Ensign album)? Please {{ping}} me when you respond. --Jax 0677 (talk) 20:00, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Jax 0677, Well, because there are multiple albums called Cast the First Stone. I've now moved the page in question to Cast the First Stone (Ensign album), if you prefer that. Fiamh ^{(talk, contribs)} 21:34, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Irish Language Act

On 12 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Irish Language Act, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Northern Ireland Assembly has not sat for more than two years, partly because of disagreements over an Irish Language Act? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Irish Language Act. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Irish Language Act), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Failed ping

My ping to User:זָרַח at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 October 10#Congregational Church "was not sent because the user was not found". It's confusing to sign posts as "Zerach" which is a pipe covering User:זָרַח which is a redirect to user:Fiamh, and makes we wonder why you're not editing as "Fiamh". Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:23, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Shhhnotsoloud, I am. I changed my username a few days ago because זָרַח is hard to type. Fiamh ^{(talk, contribs)} 11:24, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

@Fiamh: Ah, I see. It's nice to meet you! Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:26, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Irish Language Act

Do we know whether Adams said "an" (the indefinite article in English) or "an" (the definite article in Irish)? [Rhetorical question, I won't pursue]. --Red King (talk) 18:21, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Red King, In Irish, it would never be an Acht na Gaeilge because, in genitive phrases, all but the last article is dropped. That's why it's "an cumann" but "Cumann na mBán". Fiamh ^{(talk, contribs)} 22:11, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

I'll go and stand in the corner :-) --Red King (talk) 13:51, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Cathal Ó Searcaigh

I may be missing something obvious, and it's not a major issue... but I can't quite see the logic of removing Cathal from "Category:Irish-language poets", since that's what he is! The only poetry he writes and has ever written is in the Irish language. It's his job, his main activity. Have a look at his list of publications. The only poetry of his in English is in translation by others, never by Cathal himself. Occasionally he will write a little bit of prose in his second language, English, in which he is fairly fluent, but Irish is his medium; and poetry too. Dmhball~enwiki (talk) 19:27, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Dmhball~enwiki, Yes, he's in Category:21st-century Irish-language poets, which is a subcategory of Category:Irish-language poets. According to category tree rules, if an article is in a subcategory, it shouldn't be in the parent category. Fiamh ^{(talk, contribs)} 22:57, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Ah, that makes perfect sense now. Thanks for the prompt explanation! Dmhball~enwiki (talk) 00:10, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Links to CFD discussions

Hi, at this discussion you mentioned that you couldn't find the previous discussion from the page history. Tracing page history can a bit of an art… but you can also try the talk page; in this case, Category talk:American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent has a prominent link to the discussion.

Hope this helps! – Fayenatic London 09:08, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Minor change

Just wanted to let you know that I changed your closure at CFD from "keep" to "withdrawn". Although the outcome is the same, we usually do it this way to show that the discussion closed before reaching consensus. I would have supported deleting the Self-Identified category; the best we can do at this point is remove any remaining entries that are not supported by reliable sources. –dlthewave ☎ 11:29, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Buidhe public,

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

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 814 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Query

What is your prospect for this article, Crimes of Nazi Germany? It is currently an indiscriminate, unreferenced list/hodgepodge. Hrodvarsson (talk) 03:41, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Hrodvarsson, it's a disambiguation page. I noticed that it was a redlink and thought that something should be there. Fiamh ^{(talk, contribs)} 03:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

It's not listed as a disambiguation page. And it's unclear what "crime" means in this context. Hrodvarsson (talk) 03:55, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Author link

• Instead of putting wikilink brackets around an author's name in a cite template, it's better to use |author-link=. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 07:06, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Muster Green

Hi Fiamh, thanks for reviewing my article, the Battle of Muster Green! I just wanted to thank you and also let you know that I've since fixed the close paraphrasing problem that was holding back the DYK from being approved using Earwig's Copyvio Detector - a fantastic tool indeed. Regards, TheBestEditorInEngland (talk) 22:08, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Estrela report

On 7 November 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Estrela report, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Edite Estrela MEP received 80,000 emails in opposition to a nonbinding European Union resolution in favor of sex education and other reproductive rights? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Estrela report. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Estrela report), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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Nomination of Crimes of Nazi Germany for deletion

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Template:Did you know nominations/Rosika Schwimmer

Thank you for your work on the GA review. But as the GA reviewer, it's inappropriate for you to also review the DYK. BTW your DYK reviews should explicitly confirm that the five main DYK criteria have been met. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 15:10, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Expert opinion

Please forgive the intrusion; I am sorry to bother you & won't bother you further after a quick request. I hope you will revisit your thoughts regarding the article in light of a recently posted expert opinion. Sorry again for the intrusion. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 18:55, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Removal of unsourced material.

If a statement is unsupported by reliable sources, it cannot stay.

1. Independent Australia is not a reliable source for anything. It is a political blog.
2. Where, precisely, in The Guardian does anybody say that the bill is widely criticised? We can't just make stuff up. We need an actual source.

Please discuss, with regard to policy, before edit-warring. Thanks. --Pete (talk) 09:24, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Skyring, So edit it to say "is condemned by the Guardian and Independent Australia". Blogs are reliable for their own opinion per WP:ABOUTSELF and Independent Australia's viewpoint may well be DUE here since it has received coverage in RS. Fiamh ^{(talk, contribs)} 09:30, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Pish. Editorial opinion does not make for an encyclopaedia. This doesn't seem to have made a splash in the mainstream, which is obsessive in its political coverage. What's the hurry? It's not legislation yet. Give me a good reason to keep this bit of fluff. --Pete (talk) 09:35, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity

On 16 November 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Irish republican O'Donovan Rossa claimed that the phrase "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity" was typically used as an excuse for inaction? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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I'm sorry to bother you... In the BF43 FAC, you deleted "Oppose" from the header of your section. Did you also mean to delete or strike through the statement, "Unfortunately, I have to second Nick-D's oppose"? Thank you for your time. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 14:59, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Concentration of land ownership

Hello! Your submission of Concentration of land ownership at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! RockMagnetist(talk) 17:41, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for Unhappy the Land

On 3 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Unhappy the Land, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Unhappy the Land argues that the Irish are not the "most oppressed people ever"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Unhappy the Land. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Unhappy the Land), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Concentration of land ownership

On 13 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Concentration of land ownership, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that concentration of land ownership has been linked to deforestation in 48 developing countries? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Concentration of land ownership. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Concentration of land ownership), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

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

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

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

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

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

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

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

Redirect autopatrol

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

Source Guide Discussion

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

This month's refresher course

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

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DYK for Wilhelm Keitel

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Famine Inquiry Commission

On 26 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Famine Inquiry Commission, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Famine Inquiry Commission has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Famine Inquiry Commission. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Famine Inquiry Commission), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Palestinian Jesus for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Palestinian Jesus is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Palestinian Jesus 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. Scaleshombre (talk) 17:26, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Oľšavica

On 27 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oľšavica, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the sermons of Greek Catholic priest Michal Mašlej inspired the villagers of Oľšavica to hide Jews during the Holocaust even though German soldiers were quartered in the village? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oľšavica. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Oľšavica), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 9 reviews between October and December 2019. Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:31, 11 January 2020 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space

Þorgrímur Þráinsson POV template

Hello Fiamh
You put POV template on the Þorgrímur Þráinsson article. Could you please point which parts of the article caused it and help me to understand if these parts could be fixed or removed in order to resolve the issue? Kind reagrds Paderojo (talk) 11:28, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Buidhe public,

Source Guide Discussion

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

Redirects

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

Discussions and Resources

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Refresher

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

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

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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon

Hi, would love it if you could contribute some Ireland articles towards this next month!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:59, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland

Hello, Fiamh. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 12:16, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Galtee case

Hello, Fiamh. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Galtee case".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! JMHamo (talk) 10:53, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello Buidhe public,

Your help can make a difference

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

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

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

Discussions and Resources

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

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

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Buidhe public,

Year in review

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

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

Reviewer of the Year

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

NPP Technical Achievement Award

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

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

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18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Category:B'Tselem has been nominated for deletion

Category:B'Tselem has been nominated for deletion. 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 the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Editor2020 (talk) 04:53, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Buidhe public,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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November 2021 backlog drive

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