Citations edit

Please help with Rencontre East its needs citation clean up. Thank you! --NL19931993 (talk) 04:45, 16 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

NL19931993 You're right - they're pretty horrible! I have started on Rencontre East and will get to the other one in a day or two. Cheers, PKT(alk) 15:37, 16 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
  Done .......PKT(alk) 23:54, 16 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
Awesome, while your on a role 51st Newfoundland and Labrador general election and Newfoundland and Labrador Alliance are terrible too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NL19931993 (talkcontribs) 02:45, 18 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
Possible help?--NL19931993 (talk) 03:45, 9 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
I found that, in at least two of the four articles above, that you @NL19931993: added the bare URLs as references. Not cool. That's making work for somebody else, namely me. If you're adding references, please fill them out better - it's not difficult, especially when the article/website is in front of you.
I have now taken care of the 51st NL Election article, leaving the NL Alliance article to be completed. PKT(alk) 18:48, 22 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Smith Carter edit

Thanks for the rating. Any advice for what I can do about those pesky tags? :) ZarhanFastfire (talk) 02:22, 4 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

Blue Jays edit

Nice job, I noticed the list was shrinking rapidly. From here on, I figure we just start on the to-do list and gradually improve articles whenever possible. HalifaxRage (talk) 18:33, 4 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report edit

Guild of Copy Editors 2019 Annual Report
 

Our 2019 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Overview of Backlog-reduction progress (a record low backlog!);
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes, and the Requests page;
  • Automated archiving of requests;
  • Membership news and results of elections;
  • Annual leaderboard;
  • Plans for 2020.
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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020 edit

 

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Source Guide Discussion

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

Redirects

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

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

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

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Review of Ellwood Walter (businessman) edit

Thank you for reviewing my page Ellwood Walter (businessman). I was wondering if you could review a similar page at: Draft of Elwood Walter, No. 7. It is in draft mode and needs to be reviewed. The Elwood Walter was a notable Sandy Hook pilot boat that was made for the N. Y Pilots. I have made the following additional changes and waiting for someone to review it again:

Changes made to Elwood Walter, No. 7 edit

  1. Citation for The New York Times Memorandum
  2. Citation for New York Morning Courier
  3. Secondary source from Charles Edward Russell
  4. Citation for Shipbuilding and the Nascent Community of Greenpoint
  5. Citation for Ellwood Walter, No. 7, taking off the crew
  6. Added image of Elwood Walter, No. 7
  7. Added references to other wikipedia pilot boats, eg. George W. Blunt, No. 11
  8. Belongs to category:Sandy Hook pilot boats
  9. Elwood Walter, No. 7 was named after Ellwood Walter (businessman)

Thanks, Greg Henderson 00:18, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Jodi Kovitz error edit

Whoops - seniors moment - that was a high school in calgary. Fixed it to be Forest Hill Collegiate Institute and linked. Much appreciated.

GOCE March newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate.

January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here.

March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now!

Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone!

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Museums edit

Thank you for your help with List of museums in Ottawa. I've begun to add references. Is using the museums website a good reference? Can you take a look at what I've done so far if you have a second? Thanks again! Gizapink (talk) 15:19, 19 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Gizapink: Yes, I believe using a museum's site is a good reference for the purposes of the list. A purist might tell you that an independent 3rd party reference is better, but ya gotta start somewhere! Regards, PKT(alk) 15:32, 19 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
As for the work you've done so far, it's better to not use just a "bare URL" but to use the cite web template. In your editing window, at the top you'll see "> Cite" - if you click on that, another line will appear with "Templates v" and cite web is in the dropdown menu. Please give the reference a title (the name of the museum is enough) and its URL, of course.....PKT(alk) 15:37, 19 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Olunikay Adeliyi edit

The edit that says that they have the talent of a singer and rapper has been for a long time. DO NOT, and DO NOT revert my changes to an article if you have no reason. Donnola 3 (talk) 00:51, 24 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

I have provided the reasons for removing that stuff on your talk page. You have chosen to ignore it. PKT(alk) 16:03, 24 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
The user Donnola 3 got himself blocked by April 6th........PKT(alk) 13:57, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Editor of the Week edit

  Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of editing articles about Canada. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Clovermoss submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Editor PKT as this weeks Editor of the Week. They registered their account 13 years ago, and have made more than 185,000 edits since then. PKT is a self-described wikignome, and I've often come across them making small, but much-appreciated edits. PKT often edits articles about Canada and Canadians, and their breadth of contributions is vast and noteworthy. They often access the quality of new articles included as part of WikiProject Canada. They have also made extentsive contributions to articles about Canadian cities like Windsor, Ontario, Newmarket, Ontario, Markham, Ontario, Barrie, Aurora, Ontario, Georgetown, Ontario, Thornhill, Ontario, Whitby, Ontario, Owen Sound, Milton, Ontario, Cambridge, Ontario, etc. The list goes on and on and on. In addition to all of that, they've also made extensive contributions to sports coverage of Canada. In conclusion, I think that PKT is more than deserving of the Editor of the Week Award.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

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Proud Canadian
PKT
 
Editor of the Week
for the week beginning April 5, 2020
13 year veteran editor with more than 185,000 edits, many about about Canada and Canadians. A self-described wikignome. Vast and noteworthy breadth of contributions. Active part of WikiProject Canada. Extensive contributions to articles about major Canadian cities and to coverage of Canadian sports.
Recognized for
contributions to Windsor, Ontario, Newmarket, Ontario, Markham, Ontario, Barrie, Aurora, Ontario, Georgetown, Ontario, Thornhill, Ontario, Whitby, Ontario, Owen Sound, Milton, Ontario and Cambridge, Ontario.
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Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7  15:31, 5 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Well-deserved! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 13:36, 10 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
Congrats! Alaney2k (talk) 16:32, 26 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

"Mădălina Diana Ghenea - Wikipedia" listed at Redirects for discussion edit

 

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mădălina Diana Ghenea - Wikipedia. Since you had some involvement with the Mădălina Diana Ghenea - Wikipedia redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Regards, SONIC678 17:51, 14 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

List of museums in Ontario edit

Good work cleaning up List of museums in Ontario. That was a lot of work. Looks great. Gizapink (talk) 18:45, 21 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks very much!.......PKT(alk) 18:59, 21 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Demographics in electoral districts ("Most of") edit

Some of the electoral district articles contain some statement in the demographic section (or the lead if it doesn't have one) saying that it has the most of a certain demographic, then cites census data for that district but no proof that it actually has the most (Ex. 1,2,3). Are there any reliable sources that could prove any of these statements or should they be removed? Username6892 18:54, 5 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello @Username6892: - in my experience, this is a bit of a good news, bad news answer. Good news: StatsCan census data is definitely a reliable source for Ethnic data for Federal ridings. Bad news: Statscan data doesn't seem to add up very easily....I find it best to put the data into a little spreadsheet and plug it to get it to balance before entering numerical data into Wikipedia articles. If I were inclined to update the Ethnicity data for Markham--Thornhill, for example, I would get the data from here and massage it to come up with data to update the article with.
In short, Statscan data is definitely reliable to support statements that a certain demographic is prevalent in a Federal riding, but it's not as nice and clean-cut as I would like it to be. Cheers, PKT(alk) 19:09, 5 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Also, in this article, the map appears to be incorrect. Do you know the source file for it? Username6892 00:09, 6 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Username6892: Disclaimer: I'm not much of a maps or images guy - other editors know a lot more about this stuff than I do. Answer to your question: No, I don't. You can get more info by clicking on the map you're interested in, then clicking on the blue "More details" button in the bottom right of the image. That should get you to a page titled "File:(name of file)", and when you scan down you might find what you're asking about. BTW there are 3 maps in that article, but that's another story, I suppose :) PKT(alk) 00:31, 6 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
I had meant the one in the top right corner with the coordinates . Username6892 00:35, 6 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Pat Day edit

Hello, on the Pat Day page under the riding section, 8th to last line, can you please correct "Day was the regular rider on Hall of Fame filly Safely Kept" to "Hall of Fame filly Lady's Secret" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:6C3:4081:A10:1938:DE09:B339:8027 (talk) 23:14, 12 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

No. I would need a solid reference to do that, and the reference on the sentence doesn't appear to mention either filly. BTW, I'm not a horseracing guy. PKT(alk) 00:44, 13 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello Sir edit

Hello,

anything wrong? Were my sources wrong? I read dn(date needed) in the upper caste,so,I thought to clarify. Dinopce (talk) 13:33, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=num2I4NFGqIC&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false Following is from the above page:

"The Census of 1931 also listed Kayasthas as one of the upper castes." Dinopce (talk) 13:37, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello @Dinopce: - whatever information you were trying to convey should be added to either the article you're referring to, or its talk page. Not on my talk page. My edits were merely general maintenance, intended to either fix issues such as ambiguous links, or to bring attention to issues in the article that I couldn't fix but should be fixed by others. I am not interested in India's caste system. Have a good day! PKT(alk) 13:44, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Ok.Sir. No problem! Understood your point. I'm new here. So,I don't know too many things.
You're free to delete this discussion after reading my message. Bye. Dinopce (talk) 13:47, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
No problem - I'm glad I could help! ....PKT(alk) 13:48, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Belleville Ontario edit

PKT, I am truly sorry about this. I will undo anything that I can, and undo untrue data that I have written. I just changed it now and I will not touch it again until they release the new population if they ever do. I will verify that the new population is correct with you if they ever do new population in 2020. Again i'm truly sorry and I will come and verify with you if I ever do any edits again if you want me to. You have been doing it a lot longer then I have.

Thank you!

-Confragoner — Preceding unsigned comment added by Confragoner (talkcontribs) 21:20, 19 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

GOCE June newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC.

Current events

Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests.

Drive and blitz reports

March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020.

Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page.

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020 edit

 

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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.
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Natalie MacMaster edit

I'm not claiming to have any particularly deep knowledge about her beyond having heard some of her music on the radio, but she was already categorized in both Category:20th-century Canadian singers and Category:21st-century Canadian singers. Those categories were added by "Fishhead2100" three years ago, and I just don't have enough knowledge about her career to have questioned tha. If you dispute it, I have no objections, but I just wanted to clarify that the only reason I added her to the "women singers" category is that she was already in other singers categories. Bearcat (talk) 18:52, 23 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your contributions to women's ice hockey! edit

Thank you for your recent edits and your post at WT:HOCKEY regarding notability for women’s ice hockey leagues. I’d like to extend an invitation to join the WP:WHOCKEY task force, if interested. You appear to be an editor of some distinction and, while I have no expectation that you will join our small group, your experience would be immensely valuable. Regardless of your decision, please know that your contributions in the realm of women’s ice hockey are sincerely appreciated.

 

Thank you for your contributions to women's ice hockey articles. I thought I'd let you know about the women's ice hockey task force, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women's ice hockey. If you would like to participate, join by visiting the Members page. Thanks!

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.

                 Current and upcoming events

September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today!

Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

Drive and Blitz reports

June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here.

August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above).

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The Civility Barnstar edit

  The Civility Barnstar
Few editors apologize when having sent a non-ideal warning; even fewer apologize to the affected user, and almost noone does it as professional, kind and calm as you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:07, 26 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! edit

  The Invisible Barnstar
PKT, Thank you for your review of the Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award - Comedy article. LorriBrown (talk) 20:11, 20 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

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December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.

                 Current and upcoming events

Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now.

Drive and Blitz reports

September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive.

October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz.

November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests.

Other news

Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above).

Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February.

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter edit

 

Hello PKT,

 

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.

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"Glovers Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador" listed at Redirects for discussion edit

  A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Glovers Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_December_22#Glovers_Harbour,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Mdewman6 (talk) 01:25, 23 December 2020 (UTC)Reply