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Happy New Year!

New Year cats

Mudwater,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:27, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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@Northamerica1000: Thanks. Happy new year to you! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 23:03, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Mudwater, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
• We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

• We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

• ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
• Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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2nd Amendment

What is wrong with the compromise I have proposed? ---- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Washington-Art-Movement (talk • contribs) 02:44, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

@Washington-Art-Movement: Feel free to start a new section on the article's talk page. That would be the best place to discuss this. Thanks. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 03:13, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Alert

This message contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you that sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

Merely a formality; it does not look like you've been notified in the past twelve months. --K.e.coffman (talk) 02:17, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

New Brewery - Keg Grove

A new brewery to keep an eye on for addition to List of breweries in Illinois is Keg Grove Brewing Company in Bloomington. They're not open yet, if that's a necessary criteria, but they expect to be soon. Here's a weblink - https://keggrovebrewing.com/ . mwalimu59 (talk) 15:35, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

@Mwalimu59: Thanks for the tip! Yes, actually being open for business is a criterion for being added to the article. So I'll add this to my notes about breweries to watch for, definitely. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 22:45, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

@Mwalimu59: Well, today was the grand opening, so, cheers! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 22:04, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

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

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Non-free rationale for File:JeppsonsMalort.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:JeppsonsMalort.jpg. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under non-free content criteria, but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia is acceptable. Please go to the file description page, and edit it to include a non-free rationale.

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified the non-free rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F6 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. If you have any questions, please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 08:26, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Brewery name convention

I'm contacting you as an active contributor on brewery articles and/or member of WikiProject Beer. There is some discussion going on as to how we should name our brewery articles. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Beer#Change_brewery_titles? and Talk:Greene_King_Brewery#Requested_move_10_May_2018. If you are interested, please comment. SilkTork (talk)

@SilkTork: Thanks for the heads up. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 22:35, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

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

ACTRIAL:

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

Deletion tags

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

Backlog drive:

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

Editathons

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

Paid editing - new policy

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

Subject-specific notability guidelines

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

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
• The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

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Workingman's Dead

Didn't mean to step on any toes with my recent change to the Workingman's Dead personnel chart. Yes, the credit on the album has always stated that David Nelson played accoustic guitar on Cumberland Blues. I'm 100% certain that is in error as musician credits oftentimes are. Nelson has an easily identifiable finger picking style as evidenced by his work with the New Riders. And that's what I've always heard on the electric guitar break on that cut. Chukmunk (talk) 05:07, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

@Chukmunk: Hello. Thanks for the note. Usually I'd say it's best to go with the album liner notes, but you might be on to something here. If you change the article back, with an edit summary briefly explaining your reasoning, I would not object (though I can't speak for other editors). — Mudwater ^(Talk) 10:27, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

• I believe that the documentary From Anthem to Beauty talks about this. 208.44.170.115 (talk) 13:17, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

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

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

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

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

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moe. band name

The information you provided is inconsistent with the rules which clearly state:

However, if the title of the article is the stylized version of the name (e.g. iPod, deadmau5), it should be given in the boldfaced title recapitulation at the beginning of the lead (i.e., without a "stylized as" note), and used throughout the text (and, in most cases, in other articles that mention it). 208.44.170.115 (talk) 13:11, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, but, let's keep the discussion at Talk:Moe (band)#Band name in lead sentence, where other editors are more likely to see it. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 22:53, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

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

June backlog drive

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

New technology, new rules

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

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

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

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Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day to you and yours. Since you have labored so much to improve rock and roll topics, check out the labors of Garcia here at 3-24-90 (fair use). Yep. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:21, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Thanks. May you too have a happy one. "P.S." Yes, the labors of Garcia are many indeed! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 16:59, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: How you like dees, eh? — Mudwater ^(Talk) 23:55, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Nice. That's quite a bit of work. I guess that makes you a "real" deadhead, eh? Ha! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Yes, I'm an obsessed fanatic all right! Er, I mean, yes, I enjoy their music quite a bit. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 19:18, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Who are the Grateful Dead, and why do they keep following me? North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:19, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

If you get hungry, check out this new article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:19, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

I'm a pumpkinhead! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:09, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Nice! My favorite part is the entry for pumpkin ale. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 14:38, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Pac Man?

I like the pumpkin pie image in the lead, because it looks like Pac Man. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:00, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Also, if you look at it, it looks like the pie is smiling. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:02, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

• Also, here's a new addition to the GD article (diff), with some minor touch-up edits afterward. The article could still use more content about the Dead's financial reign in concert sales in the 1990s. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:11, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Nice! By the way, I've enhanced the Jerry's Disco article somewhat. I added a little prose paragraph in the section for each band or musician, and expanded the info about the "with other artists" albums. It's far out, man! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 15:14, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Birdees in the treetop. "I ain't ready yet, to go to bed, think I'll take a walk downtown instead". Oooooh, aaaaaah... North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:40, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

More Disco stuff, with Clemons, here. A bit slow in tempo, but there it is. Garcia Band. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:13, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

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

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

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

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

Other

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

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

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

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Interesting article

Not sure if this would fit into the Lesh article or not, but check out this news. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:36, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

• Blistein, Jon (September 29, 2018). "Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh Donates $10,000 to Christine Blasey Ford". Rolling Stone.

Here'a another unrelated, but also interesting article. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:02, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

• "Captain America Digs Deadheads: The Grateful Dead Meet Marvel". Relix Media. January 23, 2018.

• Misc tidbits from the past: Grateful Bob, Standing Room Only. Ha ha!

@Northamerica1000: Thanks for the links. That one about the comics is pretty good, I hadn't seen that before. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 00:38, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

[1] "Considering all the alternatives, this country could use a lot more deadheads!" It's quite open-ended, yet somehow makes sense. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:39, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

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

Backlog

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

Community Wishlist Proposal

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

Project updates

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

New scripts

• User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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Boo!

Happy Halloween!

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Hello Mudwater:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
    – North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:35, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

@Northamerica1000: Thanks! I hope that you too have a spooktacular Halloween. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 07:42, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

New!

Something new; see right. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:01, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000:Very nice! It looks really good. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 05:12, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Well, it was pretty easy. Ports are all automated now, so the initial creation was performed simply by substituting {{Basic portal start page}} on the page. Then, bells and whistles can be added, such as the banner image atop. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:15, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

More Halloween goodies. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:01, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

And last, but not least, Bobby & Phil Duo in Chicago, 3-10-18. Images found on Flickr, uploaded to Commons tonight. I didn't even know about this mini tour of show runs until tonight.

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"Line up a long shot, maybe try it two times, maybe more
Good to know you got shoes to wear, when you find the floor
Why hold out for more"

– Happy Halloween! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:36, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Those pics are a good find. I've added one of them to the Reunions of the Grateful Dead article. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 10:58, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

All right. Hey, Wikipedia works! I forgot about that article too. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:40, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

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

Hello Mudwater,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

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

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

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

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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

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

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Mudwater,

Reviewer of the Year

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

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

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

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

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

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

Training video

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

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Happy, happy!

Hello Mudwater: Seasons greetings to you and yours this holiday season, and have a Happy New Year! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:38, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Thanks! You too! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 14:19, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Pigpen! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:22, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

It might be six o'clock, it might be eight, It don't matter if it's getting late... Season's holidays! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:03, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Paradise waits? North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:23, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

The last time. Have a groovy New Year! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:33, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000: Thanks. I'll drink to that! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 23:55, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

I want the sound of thick air, or in lieu of that, I'll take thick beer! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:32, 30 December 2018 (UTC)