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You were a participant in the just closed 2nd nomination for deletion.
"She breaches." Captain Ahab and his White Whale. 'They pull you back in.' – Michael Corleone 7&6=thirteen (☎) 00:15, 10 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Why would you close Draft:Soviet Boris Yeltsin without having a discussion? Personally, I don't see how your position is "obvious" and think it would be better left as a comment instead of a close. I do agree with the nominator that I see no reason for keeping this as a redirect and would like to see it deleted, possibly as a vandalism-ish creation. -- Tavix (talk) 01:43, 14 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hi J947, I reverted your blanking of the redirect and closure of that RfD because nobody even suggested blanking as an option (hence no opposition) and because it was not even a day old. I don't see any basis for that close in policy and it reads to me as a left-field supervote of a discussion that has barely started, let alone drawn to a close. eviolite (talk) 03:43, 17 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
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{{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
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At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 807 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 855 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
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Hello J947,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
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Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
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Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 12747 articles, as of 06:00, 7 July 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
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Hello J947,
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
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For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
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Hello J947,
Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.
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Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
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Regarding your recent edit on 2022–23 Plunket Shield season (which I'm about to overwrite with a slightly more clear explanation), I'm reasonably confident that Wellington's 167 run match aggregate is the lowest ever in the Plunket Shield. They did score lower in an 1887 first-class match, but the Plunket Shield did not exist until 1907, so it would still be a Plunket Shield record. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any actual database listing to confirm this, but many news reports (including NZC's own) refer to it as being a Plunket Shield record, so absence any evidence of a Plunket Shield match with a lower single-team aggregate it should be okay to go with. SellymeTalk 08:51, 12 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Hello. You're "updating " South African cricketer biogs with en dashes for seasons rather than hyphens, but in some cases – not all – you're introducing errors. For example, with Gerald Bond, you've updated "1929-30" to read "from 1929 to 1930", when the reference is to the single South African cricket season of 1929-30, which began in autumn 1929 and concluded in spring 1930. Fine to make it "1929–30", but the other is wrong. Johnlp (talk) 12:30, 20 December 2022 (UTC)Reply
Hello J947,
The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
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Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.
Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.
Hello. I see you have initiated a discussion for possible deletion of this page. Request you to please look into International cricket in 2024 page as well. Thanks,Vikram Maingi (talk) 14:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
I've just read the big red message on the discussion. I shouldn't have joined it 3 years ago! -St3095 (?) 13:20, 18 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
Kia ora! I'm hoping to start up WP:AUCK again as a more active project, so I thought I'd check in with everyone on the list who still edits. Are there any Auckland-related projects that you'd like to work on/currently working on? --Prosperosity (talk) 22:02, 4 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
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I wanted it to get deleted, not speedy deleted. Should I renominate the redirect, should the discussion get reopened, or something? ErceÇamurOfficial (talk) 16:00, 9 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
The redirect Michael King III has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 10 § Michael King III until a consensus is reached. ErceÇamurOfficial (talk) 10:59, 10 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
In regards to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Rollback of Vector 2022 you stated that I really don't think this is something editors should decide; leave it to developers and more importantly ask the readers. And it is truly, IMO, too late now. Besides: I'll keep using old Vector, but is this change so horrible? How do you feel now, months after the discussion and with certain improvements added?
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Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.
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GMAFB! Talk about ham-fisted CSD patrol. You should do better. Toddst1 (talk) 16:25, 27 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
The redirect Adult use has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 27 § Adult use until a consensus is reached. Toddst1 (talk) 16:27, 27 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
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You're correcting hyphens to en dashes in various articles mentioning cricket seasons, which is mostly fine, but you need to watch that some of the corrections don't change the meaning. In Nummy Deane, for example, changing『From 1925–26』to "From 1925 to 1926" makes a different meaning: the first means "from the 1925–26 South African cricket season onwards for a period of several years", while the second means a shorter period covering a maximum of two calendar years. Cricket seasons outside the UK usually straddle two calendar years and the convention is to use a hyphen or en dash, rather than an oblique: northern hemisphere soccer seasons tend to be similar. I'm afraid you have to read the context, which will slow the process of correcting them up a bit. I'll change Deane back to what it should be, but there may be others. Thanks. Johnlp (talk) 07:41, 7 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
I spent an entire afternoon fixing incoming links to these pages all over the project; per the incoming links, there is nothing to break. The only incoming links right now are from tracking pages that I created to enumerate all of the pages in the Signpost's space to clean up nonsense pages and misplaced directories like this one. jp×g 22:40, 22 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
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In regards to the National Geographic Channel RfD which you closed as no consensus, I don't think I would've closed that with any result just yet. I !voted on it quite late (after 8 days) because it wasn't getting a lot of traction at RfD, but it ended up being closed when my comment (the only comment there) wasn't even 24 hours old, hence not enough time for others to weigh in. User:Edward-Woodrow had a pretty valid rationale for starting the discussion and I was curious if he had a response in regards to mine about the presence of "HD". Utopes (talk / cont) 04:18, 23 September 2023 (UTC)Reply
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You mentioned cover art and I nominated it with leading examples (not being sure which you wanted and having got no feedback in that discussion). Still trying to figure out what vitality is and looking for feedback in that discussion.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:21, 10 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
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Your recent comments are spot-on. I'm really frustrated btw. Grnrchst made some questionable nominations and he still gets a second and a third for everything with no scrutiny. And what really worries me is that he's coming for earlier American politicians next. We could be seeing removal proposals for Daniel Webster, William Jennings Bryan, Stephen Douglas, John Hancock (because Grnrchst might not understand why those fellas are important, Piotr will support any American politician removal, and Blue will support any proposal I oppose)...and those proposals would essentially start with three supports, meaning most of the remaining editors would have to be rallied to stop them. SMH pbp 02:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
It seems pretty obvious that we need to propose a quota increase for politicians, at the expense of pop culture and miscellaneous topics. pbp 17:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
It hasn't been a great last 48 hours. Interstellarity voted to remove a bunch of American politicians without any rationale. Totalabe accused me of making tit-for-tat nominations. Nobody seems to understanding my analogies. Why do I feel so alone? pbp 13:23, 30 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
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I have question to you. I found you one of the most gentle and friendly users over the years in Vital articles project. I have question to you as my English is not very good. Could you please made in my !name nomination to add William G. Morgan to the level 4? Just as you did nomination to add Cat in the name of ios2019... I were repeating myself but I think that William G. Morgan definietly is vital as the person if we was in Volleyball Hall of Fame and if Volleyball is the only sport which at short page had globally more pageviews than Association Football. Volleyball is popular sport in many other countries than USA, for example in Indonesia is more popular than Rugby. Actually I could do that nomination by myself but I am not sure it would be ellegent from my side to fourth time nominate that during few years but I think this person is justfar more than enough vital at the level 4 and just because of sometimes we had not many active editiors to gain 66% then that does not mean this man does not deserve next chance to be added. Dawid2009 (talk) 12:42, 11 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
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Just wanted to thank you for the message even though it got reverted. I also removed the whole discussion from V5 because I'm too embarassed, hopefully nobody minds. It really sucks to be like this, but oh well, it's chronic. Thank you again! The Blue Rider 
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You used this term a few weeks back in a VA discussion. Curious for a little deeper explanation pbp 14:07, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
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