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Page Review Of "Osadolor Nate Asemota"

Please help me to review this page Osadolor Nate Asemota, the biography is for notable personality. Thank you in advance Amosflash (talk) 20:55, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Page Review Of "Irewole Samuel Oni"

Please help me to review this page Irewole Samuel Oni, the biography is for notable personality. THANK YOU Amosflash (talk) 20:56, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2019

Lab rats deflate research to be performed on the Wikipedia community.
Did you know that there was an admin who thought that the metaphor of the mop was a joke, and now they know it's not?
Rude or just forgetful? Eight-year WMF manager has disappeared; Facebook gives a million bucks, gets no love.
Heroes and unsung heroes: many good news stories about the work we are all doing together.
Plus: plagiarism from Wikipedia, user categories, and admin activity requirements.
Get yourself lost in 1730's Paris, and a wide range of other recently promoted content.
Snowman flames newbies? Or just oversensitive snowflakes?
The most popular articles of 2018 include a cornucopia of superheroes (Avengers: Infinity War)
Emergency server switch goes smoothly; technical glitches resolved; a new way to transfer files to Commons.
A tour of some of the world's greatest memorials courtesy the Prime Minister of India.
The world’s largest photo contest, a $1 million gift, Wikipedia’s birthday, WF appoints Valerie D'Costa.
And other new research publications.
A narrative to get you oriented to how this place works, and to the key policies and guidelines.
More talk pages you don't want to miss.
Four years - and nothing changed?

ANI thread for incident you involved (people you warned)

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:0716pyhao as SPA for making controversial move without discussion. Matthew hk (talk) 15:11, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2019

This may be too wordy, verbose and loquacious – and possibly redundant – but as you know, it takes others to check our work, and if there were more people in the Newsroom, we'd be able to double check ourselves and produce a better product for our readership; if you think you are up to it, you are welcome to join us and even copyedit the Editor-in-Chief's article intros.
Encyclopedias for Deletion; Corinne; scholarships; partial blocks; and administrators headcount.
This election will select 2 of 10 seats on the board. All Wikimedia users are stakeholders in the election outcome and should participate.
This month's major discussions include a WMF talk page consultation and a proposed current events noticeboard.
Horsemen of the apocalypse all represented in recently promoted content, alongside new life, pretty birds, great music, and other miscellaneous topics.
Snowed in, maybe.
Netflix shows and TV sports dominate. A US politician breaks into the top 10.
Tool labs goes kaput, bots running wild (not really), interface administrators step into the breach, new gadgets and other tech happenings.
A gallery of user signatures created by Wikipedians themselves.
When watchers want the whole truth, they wind up with the wiki! And Cultural Context Content comes out of a complete cartography.
Assume good faith even if it kills you.
The creation of the Esperanza group.
Not feeling blurbish right now.

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Frosty,

News
Discussions of interest
  • Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
  • {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
  • A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
  • There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
Reminders
  • NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
NPP Tools Report
  • Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
  • copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
  • The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
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The Signpost: 31 March 2019

The Signpost: 30 April 2019

New Administrators, April Fools, our competitors, and other associated updates
Harassment, a black hole, the Mueller Report, and Mötley Crüe - just another social media site?
Plus: another round of paid editing discussion.
April's admirable additions.
Policies and procedures, cases and controversies, and other ArbCom updates
Round up the unusual suspects
Welcoming English Wikipedia's newest admin (bot)
Photos and videos show the damage
Wikimedia Foundation data scientists are using machine learning to predict whether—and why—any given sentence on Wikipedia may need a citation in order to help editors identify areas of content violating the verifiability policy.
And other recent research results
"The future of portals", a year later
Some editors will do anything to get a laugh
What we know we don't know, and why it might matter more than you might think
Maher discusses her tenure as ED, the editing community, harassment and diversity, the WMF's 3-5 year plan, airplane travel, books, and her future.
An overview of Wikimedia Summit 2019, a working conference to discuss the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Process, preparing draft recommendations for Wikimania 2019 in August.

NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Frosty,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

  • Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
  • Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News
Discussions of interest

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250


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The Signpost: 31 May 2019

The North Face sneaks in advertisements, apologizes after being caught
Get ready to go to Wikimania in Stockholm where you might meet two new trustees
Wikipedia finds itself up against China, Pennsylvania politicians and the Detroit Tigers
Neutrality and copyright concerns lead and part 2 of the talk pages consultation.
Resignations, new cases, administrator security, and more
Who will be next to fill the throne at the top of the list?
Admin bots, approved bots, bots on trial, lots and lots of bots
The WMF keeps working to stop Turkey from blocking Wikipedia.
And other new research publications
We've been talking about paid editing forever
A debate from 5 years ago on whether we use to prohibit undisclosed paid editing

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Frosty,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.


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The June 2019 Signpost is out!

Could this be a new relationship between the Foundation and ArbCom, and between the Foundation and enwiki?
Many administrators resign related to Fram case; Wikimedia Thailand to host Wikimania 2020.
Or is it the information error?
A selection of good news and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse.
Readers look for info on what they watch, mostly Chernobyl.
Database changes, new scripts, Tech News, and more.
Wikimedia photographers surge to contribute to the Wiki Loves Earth campaign even while rogue clothing company The North Face replaces wiki illustrations with advertisements.
(DELETED ARTICLE)
And other recent research publications.
"If you don't clean up this mess, the adults are going to come and take your toys away from you."
To reduce the incentives driving undisclosed paid editing, Wikipedia could simplify the process and meet outsiders halfway.
Academic peer review meets Wikimedia.
How an Irish state-level paid editor tried to turn me into the villain.
Wikimedia community organizations elect two members for the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees.

Woohooo

Hey, Frosty. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!
Mjs1991 (talk) 06:35, 29 July 2019 (UTC)


The Signpost: 31 July 2019

WMF grants program changes position on funding random individuals globally and 100 crore people in one region
Are we ready for the sharp elbows?
Resysop requests on the ’crat board prove controversial; plus, aftermath of Framgate.
Arbitration begins setting new boundaries after the June blow-up
It looks nice and cool up in those mountains
A selection of good news and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse.
It's easy, education saves lives.
Or, how to avoid Artificial Ignorance
And other new research publications
A new record set: fewer than 500 active admins.
and don't forget the movies
Who is growing? Who is not?

The Signpost: 30 August 2019

The oldest surviving Wikipedia edit restored to article history, Wikimania, and the mystery of a disappearing Funds Dissemination Committee.
Working with leadership and the community, taking on both operational and strategic responsibilities
And the media report it all
Can we survive without IP addresses?
And some summer flicks with the usual heroes and villains
Should we break the law or publish the truth?
Or how to make a concentration camp disappear?
From streets to Wikipedia - What are editors from Hong Kong facing?
Emna Mizouni was named the 2019 Wikimedian of the Year.
A roundup of many recent publications examining Wikpedia's gender gaps in participation and content, and their possible reasons
A selection of good news and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Frosty,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 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.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
  • Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
  • Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
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, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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The Signpost: 30 September 2019

Our constitutional crisis may continue
Summary of actions around a formerly banned former administrator: Arbitration Committee action and withdrawn request for adminship
The internet may not be as stable as it seems
Luck, Serena, Bianca, 9/11, bad films, mass murderers and other good stuff
Wikipedia's footprint is equivalent to 251 average US homes’ energy use. Yes we can go green.
And other recent research publications
Wikimedia Commons is not the only place to find freely licensed photos
A selection of good news and encouraging stories that are from the Wikiverse
National libraries are planning to leverage Wikidata to interoperate and to bring information to the public

The Signpost: 31 October 2019

Sweden, Poland, Armenia, Russia, the Vatican, and clueless English pubs.
"It's time for Wikipedia to grow up."
But they aren't entirely sure they see it
A discussion on info wars, government editing and our defences.
A different point of view
An "unblockable" is blocked; a former arb resigns.
Plus a few celebrities.
The future of public broadcasting has arrived.
And other new research publications
Editing can have serious consequences.
Twenty questions to get you started.
A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Frosty,

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

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 859 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools
  • It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
  • It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes
  • Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
  • Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.


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The Signpost: 29 November 2019

"We get by with a little help from our friends"
And when will we get the second extraterrestrial edit?
Everybody wants to change Wikipedia.
A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.
Important or imprudent? Pondering portals. And an editor gets transported off-wiki for good.
Could this be the end of the Terminator?
The latest tech news and updates.
Some interesting and unusual winter and holiday images.
And other new research publications.
Some humor about the otherwise serious subject of burnout.
Veteran editor: Wikipedia is losing existential battle against spam.
Coming to the end of a long road formulating the strategy.
Only now can we say!

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

A graph showing the number of articles in the page curation feed from 12/21/18 - 12/20/19

Reviewer of the Year

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

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

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

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

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 Rosguill (talk) 47,395 Patrol Page Curation
2 Onel5969 (talk) 41,883 Patrol Page Curation
3 JTtheOG (talk) 11,493 Patrol Page Curation
4 Arthistorian1977 (talk) 5,562 Patrol Page Curation
5 DannyS712 (talk) 4,866 Patrol Page Curation
6 CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) 3,995 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 3,812 Patrol Page Curation
8 Boleyn (talk) 3,655 Patrol Page Curation
9 Ymblanter (talk) 3,553 Patrol Page Curation
10 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 3,522 Patrol Page Curation

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

Redirect autopatrol

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

Source Guide Discussion

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

This month's refresher course

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

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The Signpost: 27 December 2019

You can buy "cleaners" but you might not come away clean.
Active administrators and articles achieved are marking milestone metrics, but in diverging directions. Plus, the first time any court has found there exists a constitutional right to read Wikipedia.
Son of Wiki-PR.
Praise for possibly pansophic Wikipedia from a Nobel laureate collides head-on with real-world events in December.
Regarding integrity of information presented by Wikipedia, as well as the processes and people who ensure it remains trustworthy.
ArbCom election results and status of open and requested cases.
We may have scrambled the headlines a bit.
Customise your Wikipedia experience
Messages of holiday cheer from us to you.
16 recent papers, and other research news
A look at different approaches taken by Wikipedia's founders in 2002, as seen from the perspective of nine years when it was written; nearly twenty years ago now.
A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.
There's still a long way to go.
Eight years after our last interview, WikiProject Tree of Life continues to thrive.