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How do you know about the Burma War?
120.144.135.220 05:56, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
- @120.144.135.220: Most of my contributions to the Internal conflict in Myanmar are made in good faith— they are mostly copy-edits, mainly grammar corrections. Any new content I add are sourced and usually concern recent or current events. I am certainly no expert in the subject, but understand that most of my contributions are made according to the sources already given, they are not based on my personal opinion or original research. I also frequent websites of organisations that provide documentation on fighting in Myanmar whilst it happens, organisations such as the Myanmar Peace Monitor, based in Thailand.
The Myanmar Barnstar of National Merit
The Myanmar Barnstar of National Merit | ||
Thanks for creating Myanmar related articles especially political parties. Ninja✮Strikers «☎» 12:55, 19 November 2015 (UTC) |
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Using Checklinks and related tools
Hi, CentreLeftRight. Please be careful when you use Checklinks, reFill, or any other ref checking tools. The responsibility is down to the editor using these tools to double-check that the readings are correct. In checking the War in Donbass article, checklinks gave you a false positive reading here which I've now rectified. Also, you changed spelling within the article to Canadian English/American English when the article is written even templated for being written in EngvarB (not American or Canadian English). This was reverted by another editor here with directing you to the MOS:RETAIN.
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- Sorry about that, and thanks for the notice. My understanding before was that most articles in the English Wikipedia are written in English (US), so I avoided using Canadian English (which is the same as British English). I'll make sure to edit in the appropriate English variant next time, and check for errors in ref checking tools.
- CentreLeftRight 05:37, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- Not worries, CentreLeftRight. It took me a couple of years to realise that the default variant was not US English after I'd had a couple of editors change pages I'd copyedited to US English even though they weren't templated, and despite the fact that the article I'd edited was using other conventions indicating otherwise. Let's just say they were less than civil about insisting this was so, and I took them at their word due to their being far more experienced than I at that time. I ended up thoroughly investigating MOS and discovered that they were wrong (and rather POV-pushy about it). Long time editor ≠ correct, nor even that they're good editors. I thought you might appreciate being armed with genuine MOS knowledge rather than being bullied by editors who have their own personal preferences. If you encounter someone who's prepared to make your copyediting experience an unpleasant one because they think they know what's what when they don't, you can now cough back with confidence! Happy editing! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:00, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Portal:Current events/2016 December 6
Hello. Why this is insignificant event?--Reddle (talk) 06:16, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
@Reddle: A meteorite landing in Russia is not necessarily a notable disaster or accident. However, I've reverted my edit and added it back.
Numbers
Thanks for edit, but there is a twist to the numbers more-than-9 or less-than 10 rule at the start of a sentence.
From The Associated Press Stylebook (2015) entry on Numerals:
"Spell out: — At the start of a sentence: Forty years was a long time to wait. Fifteen to 20 cars were involved in the accident. The only exception is years: 1992 was a very good year." RaqiwasSushi (talk) 05:42, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
- P.S. Should have explained that with edit. RaqiwasSushi (talk) 05:46, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
- @RaqiwasSushi: Made note of that. Thanks for pointing it out and correcting my mistake. CentreLeftRight ✉ 06:19, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
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Sierra Leone People's Party
Hello, you recently replaced the logo of All People's Congress from .jpg to .png. Could you do the same with the logo in the article Sierra Leone People's Party? Thanks. Sullay (talk) 23:31, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Sullay: Done — CentreLeftRight ✉ 02:07, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
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Dummy edit
Just to be clear, this edit was a dummy edit. Revert was fine, just wanted to clarify. EvergreenFir (talk) 06:37, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Infobox User
Salam friend, you should add the User infobox to your user page. I think you will appreciate it. – GeneralAdmiralAladeen (Têkilî min) 01:29, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
- @GeneralAdmiralAladeen: Cool! Thank you for showing me. CentreLeftRight ✉ 02:16, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Move discussion for Internal conflict in Bangladesh
An article that you have been involved in editing—Internal conflict in Bangladesh —has been proposed to be renamed and moved. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 16:30, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Sources needed for Days of the Year pages
I see you recently accepted an unsourced pending change to December 11. I looked for a source for this date of birth in Gabz and it was unsupported by any source there either.
You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages are no longer exempt from WP:V and direct sources are required for additions. For details see the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide. I've gone ahead and un-accepted this edit and backed it out.
Please do not accept additions to day of year pages where no direct source has been provided on that day of year page. The burden to provide sources for additions to these pages is on the editor who adds or restores material to these pages. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 03:58, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Toddst1: Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I will do my best to avoid this error in the future. CentreLeftRight ✉ 04:06, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
Copyright image Rohingya conflict
I pulled the image off of Wiki commons and did not know it was under Copyright. Thanks, I have pulled that image from another TP as well. Thanks C. W. Gilmore (talk) 21:48, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for moving things around and finding better homes for the images, I'm not always the best at that stuff. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 05:48, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
BC Political Parties
Hi CentreLeftRight, I reverted your edit on Template:British Columbia provincial political parties. The LAW Party has been deregistered since February, I think. You can browse the list of registered parties here: http://elections.bc.ca/docs/fin/Registered-Political-Parties-Information.pdf.
Thanks for your understanding! Madg2011 (talk) 19:11, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
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Wounding
A wound can be the penetrative sort, but doesn't need to be. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:19, April 24, 2018 (UTC)
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Speedy Deletion
Hi CenterLeftRight,
I removed the tag from Turkish border killings 2018 because I think that it is fine for this issue to have a dedicated article, as often occurs on Wikipedia. If you want, you can still nominate this at AfD and we can see what the community thinks.
OtterAM (talk) 14:53, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
- @OtterAM: Thank you for creating the page Turkish border killings 2018. After careful review, I determined to the best of my ability that the topic of the page was too small-scale and that it could be included in the page Syria–Turkey border instead of warranting its own page. Speedy deletion tags should not be removed unless the page has been evaluated in regards to whether it should be deleted or kept. Removing the tag prevents peer review (i.e. "community thoughts") on the evaluation and a proper conclusion. I will not re-add the speedy deletion tag, but will mark the page as unreviewed so that other new page reviewers can reassess the page in question and determine if any improvements or changes are necessary. All the best, CentreLeftRight ✉ 00:19, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for your response, but I don't think this page falls under the criteria for speedy deletion (WP:SPEEDY). To get "community thoughts" you can nominated it at WP:AfD if you intend to pursue this. OtterAM (talk) 00:31, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion declined: Trivandrum International Container Transhiment Terminal
Hello CentreLeftRight. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Trivandrum International Container Transhiment Terminal, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: An infobox is sufficient to pass A3. Thank you. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:31, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Your suggestions
You made suggestions for POV and undue in reviewing this article. I've tried to incorporate your suggestions and would appreciate feedback on how far I've been successful. HLHJ (talk) 21:55, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
@HLHJ: I have reevaluated the article Marketing of e-cigarettes and determined that at present, there is no longer substantial bias to warrant the maintenance tags I had added. I have removed the tags, but I suggest that in the future you should:
- Avoid adding suggestions to other articles (i.e. "See also: ") within paragraphs, but instead in the beginning the article or under the See also section.
- Avoid adding links to images as inline citations or as suggestions (i.e. "See also: ").
- Avoid unnecessary parentheses (i.e. brackets) in sentences, as it may suggest uncertainty (even in cases where the information is directly from a credible source).
I must clarify that this is my evaluation done to the best of my ability, and that other reviewers and editors may disagree and readd the maintenance tags. If this happens, I recommend starting a discussion on the talk page of the article in question. All the best, CentreLeftRight ✉ 00:43, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you again, CentreLeftRight, for your edits and your advice. Those are useful and concrete suggestions, and I'll do my best to keep them in mind when I'm editing. I've copied some of your edits over to overlapping content here. I've also DYK nominated it, so that may get some more eyes to check neutrality. HLHJ (talk) 01:44, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
- The article and the main article contains mass failed verification content, mass off-topic content and mass unreliable sources. Those are not articles. They need extreme rewrites. I would move them both to draft space.
- On another page I spotted problems. This content failed verification and this content is too close to the source. If this continues I would suggest editing another topic. QuackGuru (talk) 17:26, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, QuackGuru. Thanks for mentioning problems. Please, in the future, if you have problems with any of my edits, add me a notification. I'd like to hear about them, and I could easily not have seen your comments here. I've discussed your concerns on the heat-not-burn article here. It's going to take me longer to throughly look at your other concerns (you made a lot more edits) and I will do so on the relevant article talk pages. HLHJ (talk) 01:18, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- You removed the tag without removing the content that failed verification. QuackGuru (talk) 01:22, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- Response. HLHJ (talk) 02:04, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- The problems have gotten worse[1] per this.[2] QuackGuru (talk) 03:09, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- After I removed the off-topic content and removed the unreliable sources the problems got worse per this. This article is littered with off-topic content and unreliable sources and failed verification content. Based on this edit to a related page it is going to be tough to try to fix the mess. QuackGuru (talk) 05:27, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- I don't want to clutter CentreLeftRight's talk page, so I will continue to respond on the relevant article talk pages. Please, QuackGuru, ping me, especially when you post in places I wouldn't normally check, like someone else's talk page. HLHJ (talk) 06:37, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- You state you are responding on relevant talk pages. But problems are growing[3] or not being fixed. QuackGuru (talk) 17:08, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- I don't want to clutter CentreLeftRight's talk page, so I will continue to respond on the relevant article talk pages. Please, QuackGuru, ping me, especially when you post in places I wouldn't normally check, like someone else's talk page. HLHJ (talk) 06:37, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- Response. HLHJ (talk) 02:04, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- You removed the tag without removing the content that failed verification. QuackGuru (talk) 01:22, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi, QuackGuru. Thanks for mentioning problems. Please, in the future, if you have problems with any of my edits, add me a notification. I'd like to hear about them, and I could easily not have seen your comments here. I've discussed your concerns on the heat-not-burn article here. It's going to take me longer to throughly look at your other concerns (you made a lot more edits) and I will do so on the relevant article talk pages. HLHJ (talk) 01:18, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
Ruth Ewan
Hi CentreLeftRight, Could you let me know what additional information you'd need to know that Ruth Ewan deserves a page? The page was suggested as one for us to create in a session on Wikipedia editing by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lirazelf so I thought she'd have selected pages that she feels are important. Would we need to add more content — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emmadw (talk • contribs) 10:53, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Emmadw: Poor judgement on my part. Please disregard. CentreLeftRight ✉ 21:15, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: Alexander Birnie
Hello CentreLeftRight. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Alexander Birnie, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: if someone is remembered 200 years later, there are most likely some sources about them (check GBooks for example in this case). Use AFD instead. Thank you. SoWhy 07:13, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
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Help me
Are you admin in Wikipedia? Im A New in wiki, and i dont know about the editing code, and can you tell me about the how to make a good editing code — Preceding unsigned comment added by IEIWith (talk • contribs) 22:43, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
- @IEIWith: I looked at your first edits and they seem fine. If you want to create a Wikitable or something similar, you do not really need to "learn" how to create it, you can just copy it from its template page or from an exist table, much like what you did. I recommend reading pages on Wikipedia's rules, guidelines and other topics related to editing; this is how most people gain an understanding of how and what to create on Wikipedia. These pages can be accessed with the prefix Wikipedia: in the search bar. CentreLeftRight ✉ 01:11, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for reviewing Freda Rhymz
I want to thank you for helping me to review my writings on Ghanaian rapper Freda Rhymz. There are two other drafted pages, Draft:DJ Quest GH and Draft:TwinsDntBeg, can you help me review them too?? Shammahamoah (talk) 23:48, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
Why did you use the template for deleting articles on a redirect? Eli355 (talk) 19:41, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Eli355: It was a mistake that another person has pointed out. Now that I know, I will avoid making the same mistake in the future. CentreLeftRight ✉ 21:55, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Only ten moons.
Most of the sources accidentally double-counted S/2016 J 1 and S/2017 J 1, which we had known about before. Also I'm updating Wikipedia as we speak. Dreigorich (talk) 16:25, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
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- June backlog drive
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Small in infobox
We actually have a guideline, or some closed RfC, that agrees with your edit. I can't remember who invoked it a week or two ago; RexxS might know, since he knows almost everything. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:19, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
- Indeed, Drmies, the guidance is at MOS:TEXTSIZE:
It's also found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility #Font size. HTH --RexxS (talk) 14:21, 28 August 2018 (UTC)Reduced font sizes should be used sparingly. Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, navboxes and reference sections. In no case should the resulting font size drop below 85% of the page's default font size (i.e. 11.9 px in Vector skin or 10.8 px in Monobook).
Jannie Hofmeyr
With respect to deletion of jannie hofmeyr's page, can you put it into draft mode while I build up the page? Then you can review it once I'm done. Rhodydog (talk) 15:47, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello Yue, 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.
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Regarding 'Hynos'
Hynos is definitely a real brand, according to many sources. Hynos possibly even exists to this day, due to some visitors to Vietnam taking a few pictures of Hynos ads and even finding Hynos toothpaste in hotels (quite possibly a rebrand from Darkie toothpaste). I wouldn't want to have the article deleted but that's a different topic which shouldn't be settled here. I'm just trying to make you aware of it's status as a real company. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annexxation (talk • contribs) 23:25, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
Organizing
I think it is good that you are organizing infoboxes, but please try to not add commas to ideology or position-sections, because that means i have to go and remove them in places i might already have removed them in the past! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 20:36, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
Hugin post
Not sure why edit was ignored. Provided basic factual information about education and military service, and added 'Early life" to give more context for where he grew up. As for paragraph taken out, it spoke more to positions (from 40+ years ago) which don't appear appropriate for that section. EurekaMid (talk) 21:50, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Hello Yue, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update], 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.
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Joan R. Ginther's page
I declined the speedy as she has coverage in news sources all over the country and also in Europe. If you want, you could redirect it to Texas lottery where there are a few sentences about her since that would meet WP:WITHIN. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 19:17, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Nathaniel Petgrave
I'm sorry you don't find this a credible wiki page. But let's look at the other countries who get a wiki for just one murder. UK, Canada, France any crime that happens there gets its own wiki like that. But this is a serial killer a rare breed in this time. he also wrote disturbing notes in his victim's blood, also this did make national news going on CBS and Dailymail. This is a disturbing sociopath who killed 3 trying to kill 5 saying "he loved it." If they delete this then its fine I honesty don't care. But like every crime in other countries don't get national attention but they still get a wiki page such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Serena_McKay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2018_Malmö_shooting, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Freiburg_gang_rape, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Burgwedel_stabbing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flensburg_stabbing_incident I never even heard of these cases until I saw them on wiki so please this is a big story It's a serial killer who struck in the same time frame as the other serial killer in florida in 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole_Heights_serial_killer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 11S117 (talk • contribs) 19:29, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
- @11S117: Thank you for your recent contributions to Wikipedia. Please remember to establish notability in the lead paragraph or some where in the body paragraphs, and to format citations correctly (i.e. use the reflist template and citation tools). The article was flagged because there was no claim of notability in the lead and no body paragraphs were written.
- National news coverage of murder(s) does not necessarily constitute notability. The examples you provided all had coverage by national news agencies from their respective countries (some had international coverage), just not from the United States. This however, is not the reason they have established notability: Each article you listed has significant context to identify why it was covered nationally, unlike the article created, which has three grammatically incorrect sentences describing the subject, but not why they are notable.
- TL;DR: The problems are notability and sufficient context. CentreLeftRight ✉ 20:07, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
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- 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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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello Yue,
- 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.
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