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I need help creating a page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hurracane913 (talk • contribs) 18:39, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft: Tehreek i Soutul Auwliya

Hii, why it has been selected for speedy deletion? Ttttt321 (talk). 19:38, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I don't quite know what happened with your edit here, but it has sent me (and probably other people) notifications of 5 year old messages. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:21, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Kudpung: Oh crap, I didn't think about notifications. I had way too many archive pages and was trying to consolidate them a bit. I probably just pinged everyone I've ever interacted with. That's...really not good.

@admin: Is there any way I can undo the notifications or am I screwed? --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 06:40, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't worry about it for now. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:08, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pretty sure (like 99% sure) you can't undo a ping, and if you revert your edit you might ping everybody again. Just leave it as is. :-) Katie^talk 09:37, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Glapz sockfarm

Hello. I just want to let you know that the Glapz LTA is probably not WP:LTA/CCCC. CheckUser never actually confirmed even a tenuous connection (such as useragents), in any case. He is probably User:Jeffman12345, another vandal that this LTA has claimed to be on multiple occasions. I just thought that you should know this. LTAs are known for impersonating each other (such as the Willy on Wheels troll house and the "Fuerdai" vandal LTAs), so don't let this impersonation end up confusing you. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 02:00, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@LightandDark2000: Hmm, that makes things even more confusing. You might ought to chime in over on WP:AN, that discussion is probably why he's messing with my page right now. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 02:02, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Nathan2055: There's no need to open an RfC to ban either of them. Both CCCC and Jeffman12345/Glapz are de facto site banned, according to the sockpuppetry policy. (Jeffman12345 has actually been banned on en.wiki a while back.) Given the cross-wiki abuse, they're essentially de facto Globally Banned as well. There's no reason to open up an official RfC unless things get extremely serious (otherwise, it just draws unnecessary attention and energy). LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 02:06, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Cruz 70

Hi, agree with your merge proposal. The creator of the draft left in 2015 so I think you can go ahead with the merge if you like, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 20:08, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Atlantic306: Sounds great, I've added it to my wiki to-do list and I'll take care of it when I get some time. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 00:11, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Balipara Foundation page review

Dear Nathan, Thank you for reviewing my efforts to draft a wiki article on Balipara Foundation. I have made the necessary changes. This foundation was the first one to recognise the efforts of Jadav Payeng in 2013, later on he was the recipient of Padam Shri in 2015, a very prestigious recognition of Government of India. This is one of the many things they do, to preserve and protect the nature and bio-diversity in North East of India. Any guidance to improve the article will be valuable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kalpesh.popat (talk • contribs) 05:58, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Africa Policy Institute drafts

The two "alternate" drafts are not independent. They are by different user accounts, but I don't think by different humans. The two are too similar to be a coincidence. I have filed Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Munenejohn. Thanks for noticing that the multiple spamming. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:52, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon: Looks like they did end up being socks, and a few other associated accounts were found at the same time. Thanks for the help! Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 05:23, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fully Feathered Baskets draft article

Hi there-

I am new to writing an article and lack many aspects of Wikipedia experience. Thank you for your attention to my draft regarding fully feathered basktes and for helping to move it forward in the process.

I now have drafts for two more articles I've written, but I do not know how to post them as drafts as I did the one on fully feathered baskets. I am no longer able to access my sandbox to play around with them as I did the basket article because it is pending approval. So the new articles are only in a Word document, but written in the special Wikipedia edit writing style.

How am to propose these new article for consideration? I look forward to hearing from you. Merry Christmas! Hu Nhu (talk) 06:28, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cool handshakes author

Hi Nathan,

I am the author of cool handshakes that you nominated for deletion. You are completely right that I am just a new editor with nothing to write about. This was an assignment for school, and the teacher gave me with no parameters and no answers to any questions, so it really just became a "get it over with assignment". Trust me I did not feel good about hitting publish and frankly, I am so glad that there are people who check the content on Wiki. I am so sorry for wasting your time. Cool handshakes were on the list of requested articles and when I read it, I also was confused about what constitutes a "cool handshake". There are literally no benchmarks, and I am so glad the semester is over. I am so sorry. Alexandrapantry (talk) 02:48, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Europa School UK

Hi Nathan - thanks for reviewing my attempt at a stub. I have revisited the page and added links to a local newspaper article about the bilingual uniqueness of the school together with several video clips to the local MP making representations to Parliament and Ministers at the Department for Education to protect provision at the school of the European Baccalaureate qualification it offer following Brexit uncertainty. I hope you might revisit the page and reconsider given the uniqueness of the school. ESUK (talk) 19:42, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Submitted American Ethane

Thank you for reviewing Draft:American Ethane previously. I've added more to American Ethane and resubmitted the article for creation.216.248.99.93 (talk) 21:31, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ODEM Wikipedia page

There are some notable references that are included in the References section. Are they not enough? Please clarify. Also, please clarify how this reads like an advertisement as the language appears neutral. I would love to make the changes to get this approved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Odemio (talk • contribs) 08:31, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For some reason it is not allowing me to upload a picture, saying I don't have the rights, but the photo is not under copyright — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrFishStix (talk • contribs) 15:31, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Page resubmitted

Hi Nathan, You asked for more sources on a page I was trying to create - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dadisetti_Ramalingeswara_Rao_(Raja) Added and sent the page for moderation request again.

This page is of a sitting MLA. His information is easily verifiable.

Thank you :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crownaditya (talk • contribs) 13:23, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 08:16:35, 7 January 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Jackhuang2018

Jackhuang2018 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Najing Technology (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello,

I would like to create "Najing Technology" at Wikipedia since there's nothing English information about this high-tech company (found 2009 in China). This is a Chinese company without any English information, reference and source, How could i cite the reference by English? That's WHY my introduction about Najing Tech on wikipeida is always rejected! What can i do next?

Thank you very much. Jackhuang2018 (talk) 08:16, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jackhuang2018: Chinese sources are perfectly adequate, we do not require sources to be in English as long as they otherwise pass as reliable sources per our guidelines. The problem with your existing draft is that it does not have reliable sources: Wikipedia articles shouldn't cite other Wikipedia articles, the Bloomberg page only shows that it exists, and the company's websites are primary sources. Add some additional sources, including Chinese ones, to showcase the company's notability. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 08:54, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Cardano ready for submission?

Hello @Nathan2055:, I pinged you, because I saw you where also previously engaged in Cardano (cryptocurrency platform) talks: contribution. Thank you for your input so far. Do you think this article is ready enough to be submitted as an article for creation? Or do you have any suggestions? If so, please post your comments or just your approval on this talk page. Thank you, --FlippyFlink (talk) 10:32, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Nathan

Hi Nathan, thanks for appreciating my editing efforts on Wikipedia. I am learning everyday and it is encouraging to receive acknowledgement from you :)

Here is some bubble tea as a thank you for your thanks. SeraneNorton (talk) 10:18, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for help

Hi,

I was looking for some small help. I created a new article in my user sandbox now the article stands transferred at Draft:Kithaab. The article has already received copyedit support from two Wikipedia Teahouse volunteer editors and has been recommended as complete and ready to be submitted for approval. Requesting your kind support in process of reviewing and accepting the article Draft:Kithaab. Thanks in advance and warm regards.

Bookku (talk) 14:41, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 12:31:23, 10 February 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Akhilrajendra

Akhilrajendra (talk · contribs)
- User:Akhilrajendra/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Dear Mr. Nathan,

I am new..rather first timer in order to attempt to create a page on wikipedia. Kindly assist me with the required changes, which shjall make my article eligible enough to get published here.

Best Regards

Akhil Rajendra Akhilrajendra (talk) 12:31, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Tanya Davis (artist) for deletion

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Creating A news company profile

Hello, Nathan i wanted to create an Article but each time i publish the article it goes missing from the Wikipedia site, how can i create an article successfully without it being deleted — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndreaBunks (talk • contribs) 13:01, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Why won't my edit stay on the page?

Hi, I'm wondering why my edit won't stay on the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.64.114.162 (talk) 07:30, 2020 July 8 (UTC)

@148.64.114.162: Hello! If you're referring to your edits to Chad Hurley, it's because you didn't cite a reliable source. All content on Wikipedia has to be verifiable to a reliable source but most especially when it's information concerning living people, which fall under an even stricter policy on citations than our other pages. So just locate a reliable source discussing the divorce and add that to the article along with your statement. Thanks! Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 23:00, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wario's voice

Hi, my name's Oliver. I removed the citations that you restored because they lead to forums, which Wikipedia doesn't accept as a reliable source; I replaced them with more reliable sources (the recently-added commercial page for Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins on Behind the Voice Actors). Bladerunner09 (talk) 01:26, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Niziu

Hello the page NiziU is being edited without fonts by the user, a huge query and without fonts. --Barbiiee20 (talk) 01:28, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My first edit war

Greetings!

Thank you for your offer of help, it came in very timely. I have never participated in edit wars before. In the last month, I ran into a previously unknown participant in the Wikipedia project, who constantly makes edits with inaccurate information in List of football stadiums in Belarus.

You can see the history of my edits in Wikipedia (Belarusian and English versions), Wikimedia Commons and Wikidate. I live in the Republic of Belarus and have been involved in football stadiums for over a year. I recently completely updated the list on the English Wikipedia: the list now includes all operating large stadiums, names have been translated from Belarusian into English, the actual capacity of sports facilities is indicated, shows the playing teams as of 2020.

A participant unknown to me found the Torpedo stadium in Minsk in the old version, which is currently in disrepair. The Football Federation of Belarus did not accept this stadium for official matches. Everyone in Minsk knows about it! Football club Torpedo Minsk ceased to exist. He cannot play in an indoor stadium, as he does not exist!

I explained all this to an unknown user in the description for my edits. However, he stubbornly continues to ignore me and introduces false information to the list of operating stadiums, thereby misleading the readers of Wikipedia. If he really cares so much about this stadium, why not edit an outdated version of the article about Torpedo Stadium? The article about a football club that no longer exists is also out of date. He does not make changes to it.

In similar lists of other countries, no one indicates the stadiums of former teams in disrepair. This is absurd! I even suggested a user unknown to me to create a separate list of inactive stadiums in Europe and add it there. All options offered by me were ignored, my edits are constantly canceled.

Therefore, I ask you to help me in this matter. Is it possible to protect the list from edits by any users for 30 days to stop the war of edits? Wikipedia readers will not suffer from this, but will only be protected from inaccurate information.

P.S. I keep the same list in the Belarusian Wikipedia, there are no edit wars there. All administrators know me, I always follow the rules of Wikipedia.

Thanks for your attention! --Football Beetle (talk) 13:23, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No what you mean

I considered that, but it's tagged for deletion as well. If that;s declined, I'll histmerge. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:09, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Mariahjustice/sandbox the gift that keeps on giving. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:10, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Deepfriedokra: There's three in total: Draft:Mariah Justice, User:Mariahjustice (now deleted), and User:Mariahjustice/sandbox. Considering the user is "Mariahjustice" creating articles about "Mariah Justice", it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to see that it's an attempt at an autobiography. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:15, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Internet censorship topic

Hi. Internet censorship topic is Semi-protection and I can't add information about internet shutdown in Iran, at the Shutdowns part of the topic. It's link of the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

There are some useful things about Iran internet shutdown, you can help me to add (only two or three sentence is enough): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–2020_Iranian_protests#Internet_shutdown

♡Thanks HappyBird6858 (talk) 13:00, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

thanks

i didnt know how to crete it as a personal page, thanks alot anyway — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haronte (talk • contribs) 22:37, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but...

...what was the point of this? Drmies (talk) 23:41, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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How do I put a new footnote in the middle of an article that already has footnotes. Will they automatically Reoder?

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In response to your messages on my talk page

Nathan2055: Thanks for your messages on my talk page about the request to create an article. I wanted to reach out to you personally rather than asking a gneeral question on the AfC page because there are unique circumstances associated with my requests. I recognize that the List of general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Area (LDS Church) pages already exist. I am a longtime contributor to both since the mid-200os, not long after I started editing Wikipedia. But there is a problem with editing those articles with the information on the user subpages. As I mentioned in my request, the Church announces the changes in the spring that will go into effect on August 1 of each year.

But to update the two pages in question with information about changes that have not yet gone into effect (which was the case with both articles) would violate WP:CRYSTAL since those changes are subject to change sometimes before they actually go into effect. The recommended solution to this problem through talk page consensus is to establish subpages (which has been done through my user page for the last half-decade or so). I accordingly created subpages for this year's changes (which can be found here and here.

The problem I run into year after year is that, once changes are made to the subpage, simply copying over those changes to the main articles off of which the original subpages are based does not allow the edit history of those subpages to appear on the main article pages. In previous years, I have had another editor help me with merging those page histories, as that individual had some administrative tools he/she could use for that purpose at that time, but in the interim, that user no longer edits Wikipedia as frequently, and may no longer have those tools at his/her disposal.

If the content from the user subpages is copied and pasted into the existing articles of that title, then the issue arises of how to transfer the edit history of those copied-over subpages to the main article space. If you know of a way around those issues, then I'd appreciate hearing from you. If not, I guess I will just copy the text from the subpage to the main page and refer anyone who has questions on those changes back to the history of the subpages. Just let me know either way. In the meantime, thanks for reaching out to me about this. I appreciate hearing from you. --Jgstokes (talk) 03:39, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright Image

Hi Nathan2055.

I just saw your copyright claim against an image on my Tom Nolan draft. I just wanted to clear this up and if you agree so you could possibly delete this claim? The image is directly from https://www.tnfreestyle.com/gallery.html Tom Nolan / TNFreestyles official website and he states all images are copyright free and free to use anywhere. Hopefully you agree this makes the image usable. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tnfan99 (talk • contribs) 23:54, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Very helpful redirecting a wiki draft page to its rightful place, thank you! Tnfan99 (talk) 20:58, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

redirect in draft space?

Why would you create Draft:Explosive Removal and Destruction Service (EOD) (Belgium)? It doesn't appear to be from a move, so I'm struggling to understand what purpose that serves. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:17, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Chris troutman: It was cleanup from this move by UnitedStatesian; per Special:WhatLinksHere/Draft:Explosive Removal and Destruction Service (EOD) (Belgium) it was linked from Exsap's talk page, so I added back the redirect which had been suppressed to reduce any possible confusion for the new editor. After all, redirects are cheap. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:38, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's not cleanup. There shouldn't be a redirect in draft space. How will it function? You would have to submit that redirect to AfC after the draft itself is promoted, which is silly. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:36, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with @Chris troutman:; it is clearly an error and should be deleted. Redirects are cheap does not apply in the draftspace, where novice editors can easily (and wrongly) think misformatted titles are actually correct, and then create new drafts with the same misformats: (do a quick search on how many drafts use (movie) as a disambiguator if you don't believe me). I plan to bring this one to RfD with the next batch of similar redirects, as I did at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_July_23#In-draftspace_redirects. Unless, that is, you want to save everyone the trouble and apply the {{db-author}} tag to it. UnitedStatesian (talk) 06:16, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Chris troutman and UnitedStatesian: Fair enough. I've G7d the redirect in question, and I'll look through my logs and see if there are any more like that one that should be similarly deleted. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 07:02, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! 13:25, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Tagging of Draft:Space DC

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Draft:Space DC. I do not think that Draft:Space DC fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because he copied content is largely short factual statements, which have reduced copyright protection. While they should be paraphrased, IMO they do not reach G12. Similarly, the essentially factual statements, while they do not all belong in an article, are not at the G11 level, IMO. . If you wish, you may try using the simple proposed deletion (PROD) process, or the full articles for deletion (AfD) process, instead. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 22:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ProveIt dates

Hi, Nathan2055, I saw in this edit that you used ProveIt. I have used it as well, but I am still exploring it. In that edit, did you have to manually change the Date format, or is there a way to select that in ProveIt? Does it depend on having a {{Use dmy dates}} (or similar) template or does ProveIt add that? Finally, was that edit summary auto-generated by the tool? Thanks, 2pou (talk) 22:35, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Response to your comments on the draft page

HI Nathan2055,

This is with reference to your comment regarding the Wiki Page for Suresh Kohli. He has not created a Biography for himself as he passed away in March 2016. This is an initiative people who have read, watched and learnt from his work. Creating a Wikipedia page is with objective of spreading the content related to the vast body of work by Suresh Kohli in Literature, Literary Film Making and Literary Documentation. Therefore we request you not to delete the content.

Awaiting your response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kohlisuresh (talk • contribs) 13:30, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Draft:Axcient

Hello Nathan2055. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Axcient, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: ineligible for speedy deletion - G11 previously declined. Thank you. $Salvio$ 18:55, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Salvio giuliano: All right, I've opened an MfD instead: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Axcient. Thanks for letting me know. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 19:59, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

John D. Rees page

Nathan, Thank you for your message about moving the Draft/John D. Rees. I have made a horrible mistake. When I did move I renamed my username to John D. Rees not realizing that it would try to change my username. I thought it was replacing my username to the name of the article. Now what do I do? I think someone deleted it. I can access it through your email message but not when I log in to Wikipedia. I really don't have a conflict of interest. I'm retired and I'm not getting paid by John. He asked if I could set up a page for him. I thought I could but apparently this is viewed as a conflict. I don't work for him or the Department anymore. I retired almost 4 yeas ago. I do not plan to post any negativity or anything disrespectful. Should I have him get someone else to create his page?

I am really new to this and would like to do more.  Not sure that I can digest all the directives. Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.

Smko47 (talk) 17:57, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reliable Source

Nathen the reliable source was Instagram. The post was features Artist Paul Wall and Jdagr8 both being seen in the music video. Which was released. How ever I will provide a link to the actual song, Hopefully that will be enough along with the video. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Josethewonderful (talk • contribs) 18:36, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Draft:Robin S. Brown

Thanks, MDanielsBot (talk) 04:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you and a question

Nathan, thank you for moving my file - Kentucky's First Prison. I got a message about someone going to delete it and I'm really confused as to why? Can you explain it a little easier for me to understand. I'm old and new - old as in age and new as in to all this. ha (thought you could use another smile!) I'm really enjoying creating but the snags are a bit overwhelming. Thank you for taking time to assist me. You are GREAT! I appreciate your feedback. Sharon Smko47 (talk) 21:36, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nathan, I hate to bother you again but I just got a message from a Zoozaz1 that said my Kentucky's First Prison was rejected. She doesn't understand! She thinks it should go under Kentucky State Reformatory Wikipedia page. They are two different prisons but had the same name. The first prison (the reason I called it that) was Kentucky State Reformatory until 1910 then the name changed to Kentucky State Penitentiary (another prison in another part of the state now has that title also on a Wikipedia page). We are talking about 3 different prisons in 3 different locations. It's really simple, the flood of 1937 made the "First Prison" uninhabitable and it was torn down. The First Prison (that was known by both names) was located in Frankfort, Kentucky and now no longer exists; the Kentucky State Reformatory on your Wikipedia page is located in LaGrange, Kentucky and the Kentucky State Penitentiary is located in Eddyville, Lyon county, Kentucky. I'm talking about a completely different prison and its history is important to "stand alone," and not be combined with the other two. I can't find a way to chat with Zoozaz1. Is there any way you can help me with this? Please. Thanks. Smko47 (talk) 00:17, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Smiling

Thank you Nathan for the quick response. Now I am smiling. Have a great evening. You deserve it! (smile) Smko47 (talk) 21:42, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Problem Child Soca page

Hello.

I see my page has been deleted. Can you please tell me where I can find it so that I can try to edit it again to meet Wikipedia requirements? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TerriAnneBaker (talk • contribs) 14:38, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(by talk reader) @TerriAnneBaker: Hi. Unlike Twitter and Facebook, no one gets to have "a page" on Wikipedia. This is an encyclopedia and our volunteer editors write the entries. You could ask at WP:REFUND to have an article un-deleted but, assuming the subject is not notable according to our standards, there would be no point in attempting to create it here. Chris Troutman (talk) 14:42, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging of Ahmass Fakahany

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Ahmass Fakahany. I do not think that Ahmass Fakahany fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because There are multiple claims of significance here including the CEO and COO positions. The tone is factual, and the article seems to be neutral, so this is not a G11. If you wish, you may try using the simple proposed deletion (PROD) process, or the full articles for deletion (AfD) process, instead, if this was an article, or another process such as MfD or XfD as appropriate. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 22:40, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gil Grant

Please see the comment I left at User talk:UnitedStatesian#Gil Grant. I get that this was a mistake, but it's important that you check the history of articles before moving them to the draft namespace. – bradv🍁 02:09, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. Ashish v chuncha (talk) 06:45, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I would like to know how to improve my article,which u recently moved to draft and I unable to make it live. Article name Harsha CM Gowda. He is an kannada television actor ,works in the serial name "brahma gantu" . Also I have added reference links. --Ashish v chuncha (talk) 06:45, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Stub cats

Hello, a very minor point; the stub cat (at the end of an article) should have two blank lines preceding it per WP:WSS#General rules. Cheers. Eagleash (talk) 20:02, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gratitude

Good day to you Nathan2055. I owe a great deal to you for moving AfC Kolathur(Chennai). Once again, 'Thanks'.

Helppublic (talk) 09:37, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 16:58:02, 12 August 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Alice75232b

Alice75232b (talk · contribs)
- Tia Blassingame (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Draft:Tia Blassingame (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Thank you for the feedback concering my document Draft:Tia Blassingame. I received several messages about it and I am unsure of the next steps. Do I simply add my edits to the published article or wait for feedback from the Talk:Tia Blassingame page?

Navigation seems to be my biggest hurdle so far, so your feedback is appreciated!

16:58, 12 August 2020 (UTC)alice75232b

Alice75232b (talk) 16:58, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Paracommando Qualification (Belgium Armed Forces)‎; 19:27 . .

Hi Nathan2055, with my Draft: Paracommando Qualification (Belgium Armed Forces)‎; 19:27 5 Aug 2020, are you able to delete the other duplicate copy of this draft last edited sometime prior to the 5 Aug 2020, and then I can re-summit the 19:27 5 Aug 2020 Draft

Thanks for your assistance

Exsap — Preceding unsigned comment added by Exsap (talk • contribs) 02:42, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Society for Corporate Governance

Hey there. Looking for advice because there seems to be a bit of systemic disconnect here. But legitimately seeking your thoughts. Even though there were warnings that new page submissions could take months, the page I created earlier this week was unceremoniously denied in less than two days. By a single individual. Who, if you look at his page, indicates interest in lots of areas, none of which are related to the subject matter of the article in question.

Wouldn't it make sense for this process to be more deliberative, involving multiple reviewers with at least a passing knowledge of the subject? I could understand not having heard of the organization about which I wrote (before you ask, I have no relationship with the organization - I became familiar with them while in an earlier career), but anyone who's involved in corporate governance, investor relations, securities law, etc holds this organization in very high esteem. I was surprised they didn't already have a page! This is also one of the reasons there aren't sources that go in depth describing them: because anybody who knows of them already knows them. There's no need to say more than their name if they're referring to their work or an event of theirs. They're that important!

I mentioned that I had done some dabbling in Wikipedia about a decade ago with a different account (I lost the password). Things have changed since then. There are tons of articles in existence with much less sourcing than I had even done. It seems like the only fault of my article was that it wasn't created back then. Have you observed the pendulum swinging toward articles needing to be fully formed before they can even be approved? Are stubs no longer allowed? Lukevdl (talk) 18:19, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(by talk reader) @Lukevdl: I disagree with your assessment. Here's why: first, Zoozaz1 was right to decline Draft:The Society for Corporate Governance because the subject fails WP:NCORP. You seem to speak from a point of bias, where your familiarity with the organization blinds you to what our notability criteria actually require. For example, LinkedIn as a source fails WP:SPS and is therefore, not allowable. The subject's website also isn't a permitted source for notability. Second, our Articles for Creation process is volunteer-run, like everything is. While you could ask editors at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Companies for a review, editors in a topical WikiProject do not necessarily participate in draft reviews. Our draft reviewers often don't have expertise in the areas covered by the hundreds of drafts waiting for a review. Third, the wild west era of ten years ago has ended. We have since written an essay explaining why your argument about other articles is invalid. Whataboutism is really not the way to go and yes, you need to really develop an article to get it approved. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:46, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Chris troutman: Ouch! No bias here. Like I said, I was only tangentially aware of the organization. This was probably (hopefully?) cut and paste though so I won't take offense. Although we can be nostalgic, I think it's great that the Wild West Days are over - it seems there is more diligence in article approvals these days (so I won't take too much offense at accusations of "whataboutism" either since that's not what I was saying at all). This is clearly an improvement. What I'm suggesting is that a further improvement (and we all want to constantly be improving, don't we?) would be for reviewers to actually have at least some level of awareness in the subject matter they review. And further that there be more than one voice in the review process. That would be a way to cut out bias on all sides. And of course, the inevitable human error (I'm sure regular Wikipedia editors are guilty of that from time-to-time). I will endeavor to update the submission with additional sources when I have the time. Your fellow volunteer (and human being), Lukevdl (talk) 20:17, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Lukevdl: I encourage you to improve and re-submit your draft. But when you claim "anybody who knows of them already knows them. There's no need to say more than their name if they're referring to their work or an event of theirs. They're that important" but the cited sources don't assert that, I wonder how else we would describe your belief about their notability as opposed to what WP:N says. I apologize if what I said came across as a personal attack. Our notability criteria are often very specific in what needs to be met, and you seem to claim that you know the subject is notable and surely someone in the field would ascribe to your same belief. This is the benefit of AfC reviewers that don't know the subject because they don't have the unexplained common belief without evidence. Please correct me if I'm mis-characterizing your position. Perhaps you stumbled into this discussion without appreciating the intricacies that editors like me would point out. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:27, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request you Republish -Paracommando Qualification (Belgium Armed Forces)

I am unable to Find a Duplicate for Paracommando Qualification (Belgium Armed Forces), So there is no reason for you Nathan2055 to remove my work from Wikipedia, yes I admit I initially did not cite things as per the standards required by Wikipedia, But subsequently this was completed and was Published and was on Wikipedia for 5 Weeks or so and then it was removed, Considering this was my second Draft and the most detailed and Largest to date at that time, I think you could have at least have cut me a bit of slack,

Can you please reinstate Paracommando Qualification (Belgium Armed Forces) as it gave the reader of Wikipedia references and a understanding to specialist training carried out by members of the Belgium Armed Forces that is accurate, detailed, supported by 8 references and is balanced.

Regards,

Exsap — Preceding unsigned comment added by Exsap (talk • contribs) 02:49, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Review Request

Hi Mr Nathan2055

You have put two tags on my Wikipedia pages AFC submission but it is not yet reviewed so could you kindly check? or i should create the page direct? Draft:Nick Wrenn Draft:Misbah Mumtaz

Memon KutianaWala (talk) 09:11, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

	Thanks
	Bless you for your work. Keep it up Emmalexs (talk) 00:09, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Help to publish a page for approbation

Hello sir. I tried hard to publish a page for more than 2 months following all rules of wikipedia. But the page did not approve. Please advice me sir. It will be my pleasure. And this work very urgent for me. Your advice will be very helpful for me. Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alisumon09 (talk • contribs) 21:48, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(by talk reader) @Alisumon09: Did you get paid to write User:Alisumon09/sandbox? Chris Troutman (talk) 23:26, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

yes brother. i get paid to write — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alisumon09 (talk • contribs) 09:21, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Alisumon09: Then you have a conflict of interest which you are required to disclose. Further, your clients probably aren't notable and if you create a draft you need to make a clear case how they meet WP:N. Chris Troutman (talk) 13:17, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Brother. When i triqqed to submit a new page it was rejected at the cause of duplication of previous rejected pages. When i go for editing to the rejected pages it was deleted. I face a big problem.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Alisumon09 (talk • contribs) 12:40, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Then it sounds like your client has been pushing too hard for something that cannot be done. This is the problem with taking paid work. You'll have to tell your client that he's not welcome on Wikipedia. Sorry. Chris Troutman (talk) 16:43, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can i make a new fresh page at the same page title brother? Chris Troutman Alisumon09 (talk) 17:33, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No. Sometimes this happens that someone wants to advertise here, creating articles that get deleted. They hire one person after the next to keep doing the same thing and then the community disallows any more creations because it's a waste of our time. It's impossible, now, to advertise that subject which is why you need to find a different client. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:17, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Brother. This is not for advertising. There are many medical process which are invented are not discussed in any wikipedia page. So i think It's not for promotion or advertisement. Brother Alisumon09 (talk) 18:53, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

how do I create articles on wikipedia?--Rowbro (talk) 03:31, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

how do I create an article on Wikipedia?--Rowbro (talk) 03:45, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article transfer

Please transfer the article to Amir Sarkhosh. Their original name is I was completing when you transferred it.--Mojtaba236 (talk) 18:48, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gurbachan Singh

THe article was created in Feb 2006. The "sources" were created in 2012, 2013 & undated. I suspect any copying was from Wikipedia rather than to Wikipedia. In any case an article dating from 2006 is more deserving of repair than G12. Cabayi (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sir How to join in a Project

Sir, Please let me know how to join in a Project and join in group activities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rahulsoman (talk • contribs) 19:07, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Nathan2055: Hi please reply Rahul Soman^{Discussions - contribs} 22:07, 19 September 2021 (UTC)`[reply]

Thank you!

Hello Nathan2055 - thank you for approving my Winmill and Kelly draft articles, and for your kind welcome. I really do appreciate it - have a nice day!! CourtauldGill (talk) 09:08, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sir, my draft is fully Authentic, the topic is a football coach of Asian Football Confederation i have given proper references also, still my draft was not verified can you plz help me in it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darzubair786 (talk • contribs) 06:03, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sir, my draft is fully as per Wikipedia rules but still it got rejected, the topic is the football coach at Asian Football Confederation. Plz help sir — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darzubair786 (talk • contribs) 06:07, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article

Hey how to publish the article into main space not as a draft Djdjdjdj12345 (talk) 19:06, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Streetsound

hi - thanks for moving the page to draft i got hung up on that - also your note about adding (magazine) would be welcome ..can i do that? streetsound the magazine was and often is still confused with the uk record label sreetsounds

thanks Chris Torella (talk) 20:38, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

HI Nathan - can you confirm my 2nd draft is in line for review? just want to make sure i did it right?

thanks Chris Torella (talk) 14:29, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article move

Sir, can you please move the draft to Article Seeram Sambasiva Rao IAS, You also reviewed it before.--Chennai Passangai (talk) 19:57, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Chennai Passangai - No. First, are you Seeram Sambasiva Rao? Second, are you working for Seeram Sambasiva Rao? Third, post-nominals should not be used in article titles. Fourth, the subject does not satisfy general notability or political notability.

Note to Reviewer

It appears that you accepted a draft that didn't satisfy the MOS as to article title standards because it included unnecessary post-nominals. Although this wasn't the case here, unnecessary post-nominals or qualifiers are often a sign that the submitter is gaming the names of titles. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:19, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 22:43:21, 23 August 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Thomas9877

Thomas9877 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:VVG SQUAD (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Because it needs to be moved to an article. And also it look like a good draft for it to be become an article.

Thomas9877 (talk) 22:43, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Thomas9877 - No. User:Nathan2055 was right in saying that the draft has too little context. It also has no references. I suggest that you ask for advice at the Teahouse before resubmitting it. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:09, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

An administrator told me that the draft does not demonstrate notability.Thomas9877 (talk) 00:17, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And also that because I just started on the draft Thomas9877 (talk) 00:18, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm doing all at once. I have already told an administrator that I will edit the draft once a week. I'm not doing all at once. Because sometimes I am a busy personThomas9877 (talk) 00:20, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - Jamie Morgan

Hey Nathan, thanks for going over the Jamie Morgan submission. Appeciate your expertise and input! MaskedSinger (talk) 04:28, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Carr Collins Sr. Disruptive Editing (Warning)

Carr Collins Sr. Is not properly sourced. Do not revert changes, disruptive editing isn't welcomed on wikipedia. If you wish to remove the text added then please add more appropriate sources to the page then you may remove the following lines KingOwnageXV (talk) 23:27, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. You can find the sources from google. Btw Im just a supporter of the team. What you need is for me to link articles? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banetmp (talk • contribs) 21:24, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please tell me when you can so i can add links and sites — Preceding unsigned comment added by Banetmp (talk • contribs) 21:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Still bizarre. He hasn't edited in 24 hours, and that is all right. He has been warned by multiple editors including administrator User:Nick Moyes. If he causes any more trouble, I will file a report at WP:ANI saying that he is not here constructively, but for now I will leave him alone. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:58, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Resubmission ... AfC ... Chennai Book Fair 2020

{{Wikiproject Chennai Book Fair 2020}}

Helppublic (talk) 06:07, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox delete and redirect

I'm very new to WP, so bear with me on this question as I'm now very confused. See the comments on my talk page about the copy/paste from my /sandbox page to my draft article on Draft: Cathrine Countiss. That was certainly not my intent. As I explain, I started the draft from scratch using the wizard and just used the sandbox as a practice area before-hand after finishing the tutorial. The "history" really isn't relevant in my view as it was never meant to reflect my work on the draft. However, it was merged but I see now that the merged history has been reverted back on the draft, but when I click on the sandbox link on my account it still shows as a re-direct to the draft and goes there instead. So, now I don't have a sandbox area? The /sandbox page was created automatically by WP. If I create another new article in the future will it get redirected as well? If this draft becomes an article, will it still show as being redirected from my /sandbox page. Sorry for all of the questions. Your help in understanding what is happening would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. MarcusGarland (talk) 01:00, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why have you removed my :Paracommando Qualification (Belgium Armed Forces)‎

Dear Nathan2055,

I had my Paracommando Qualification (Belgium Armed Forces)‎ on Wikipedia for over 6 weeks, and you have decided to interfere and remove my approved and published article, I have advised you to remove the the inferior copy of my draft if there is two copies, Why are you undermining my research and my contribution to Wikipedia's Belgium Military History ??, I have to question your motives and delaying in resolving this issue that you have in part created, through not taking an overview approach to publishing of Drafts. and already Published Items.

What have you got to say about my (1)concerns and (2) what are you going to do to fix this issue up and by what date.

Kind Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Exsap (talk • contribs) 23:59, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: User talk:106.217.15.146

Hello Nathan2055. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User talk:106.217.15.146, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: May potentially be relevant to ongoing Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/0lesson . Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 09:53, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Marvel Animated Universe

Can you remove the protection level in Marvel Animated Universe page as they're officially confirmed it's existence now.

Advice please re Eric Malthouse

Dear Nathan2055 I have now placed a conflict of interest statement and userbox on my user page. I hope this appropriate. Neutron6 (talk) 14:20, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Request on 23:07:40, 1 September 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Elena Medvedev

Elena Medvedev (talk · contribs)
- User:Elena Medvedev (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

Elena Medvedev (talk) 23:07, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Elena Medvedev: I'm sorry, I don't know what you're asking about. If you're wondering about Draft:Paul A. Levne, I declined it because it appears to have a substantial amount of content taken directly from another website. Wikipedia has a very serious policy on copyright violations and requires that all drafts be written in the author's own words. I would also take a look at Help:Referencing for beginners and improve the sources used in your draft so it can be shown to pass our guidelines on notability and verifiability. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 00:06, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Laura Meakin Page

Hi there Nathan! I got your message. I'm looking for some help as I enjoy making edits on Wikipedia and have enjoyed doing so. When I was making some edits I noticed that someone had tried to create a page on me as an actress but was unsuccessful so I decided to start a page as I would be accurate in putting the correct information about myself and just got a message back to say declined. Do I need to get someone else to create a page other than myself, say from a producer from one of the television shows I am known for as its extremely hard navigating this and feel that there is a obvious need to have a page that has correct information on myself as an actress. Look forward to hearing from you. Laura Laura Amy Meakin (talk) 02:09, 2 September 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laura Amy Meakin (talk • contribs)

Draft:Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati (University)

Hi Nathan2055, thank you for your message. With "Draft:Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati (University)", I began my new page entry in wiki. I do not know how it works. It seems that it is under review. I am an alumnus of Visva-Bharati (University). There are thousands of them like me as it is ove 60 years old. I suspect, if wikipedia has a page on department of social work, many others will start contributing on it with adequate reference. Thanks for your message. sdb — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sattwickdb (talk • contribs) 03:42, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for editing my submission regarding my late husband. I'm (obviously) new to this; I thought I had submitted the piece in June! (Nothing like a careful reread of the instructions!) Anne Oeakwari (talk) 19:14, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

About Submission

Hi, Thank you for correcting me. I was trying to create a user page and not a wikipedia article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PassivMusic (talk • contribs) 22:00, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@PassivMusic: I have replied to you at User talk:PassivMusic#About Submission, but long story short it should be taken care of. Thanks for letting me know, and I'm glad that I could be of help! Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 22:17, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Submission acceptance - thank you!

Thank you very much for your expeditious reply to my draft submission - I wasn't aware I could have made the page myself, so many thanks for helping me around! Please keep up your excellent work, as you are a great service to this community and the world :) Kiril kovachev (talk) 22:39, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanking you

@Nathan2055: thank you for your generous messages and edits. I wanted to know when the old that is temporarily on hold bio of my account to be reviewed by an admin moved to my user space.

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Eagleash. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, User:Eric Bruhl Cartman/sandbox, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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Eagleash (talk) 09:22, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Nathan2055...

... for moving my draft to the right location. Oscar Waldoosty (talk) 00:40, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Barbara Zecchi"

Hello Nathan2055, I hope this message finds you well! I'm writing about my Draft"Barbara Zecchi". On Sept. 4, you sent it to "Copyright Problems" and left me the message that "Unless the copyright status of the text on this page is clarified, the problematic text or the entire page may be deleted one week after the time of its listing (i.e. after 22:18, 11 September 2020 (UTC)). That is today. As instructed, I promptly responded on Barbara Zecchi's talkpage. On Sept. 8, MurielMary wrote on the "Copyright Problems" page: "Please see updated information about this article on its talkpage. Appears that the material allegedly copied is open source? Please review and retract copyright violation notice if appropriate, thanks". I realize that the "Copyright Problems" page has a backlog. I don't mind waiting. Or am I supposed to do something else? Can you please advise? Thanks, Lunaandmaya (talk) 18:08, 11 September 2020 (UTC) LunaandmayaLunaandmaya (talk) 18:08, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Nathan2055, it's User:Lunaandmaya again. I'm sorry to bother you once more, but I'd like to alert you that my article Barbara Zecchi is no longer listed on the "Copyright problems" page. It was removed along with all the other articles that were flagged on Sept. 4. User: MurielMary's note is also gone. I was hoping to see it cleared, because I had immediately provided evidence of non-infringement on talk: Barbara Zecchi, but, apparently, it is still flagged. I'm not sure why it no longer appears on the Copyright problems page. As you know, I'm still relatively new to Wikipedia, so I do apologize for all my questions. I have been working on this first article with the help of many wikipedians for over a month, and I'm sure you can understand how unsettling it is to be accused of plagiarism. I would really appreciate it if you could look into it. Thank you! Lunaandmaya (talk) 13:51, 12 September 2020 (UTC)LunaandmayaLunaandmaya (talk) 13:51, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Nathan2055, It looks like my AfC is back on the Copyright Problems page. Please disregard my previous message. Once again, thank you Lunaandmaya (talk) 23:54, 12 September 2020 (UTC)LunaandmayaLunaandmaya (talk) 23:54, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

what is a talk header please help

Please help me I have been working so hard for this. can you edit it for me ? i dont know what is talk header or whatever else needed?

review of my sandbox-z

Hello Nathan2055 - thank you for reviewing my sandbox - just in case you were puzzled to find it empty, I should explain that I was using it to draft an article which I published directly, William Pettigrew Gibson, rather than going through the AfC route - my first 'red link' publication, and my 14th article in the 3 months I've been editing on Wikipedia! I will aim to use this method in future, so will probably not have any more sandbox drafts to be moved into Draft space. Really appreciate all the help you've given in recent weeks. Many thanks and best wishes! CourtauldGill (talk) 09:57, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

review of User:Mrmxf/Sandbox

Hi Nathan. Thanks for reviewing my User:Mrmxf/sandbox article. It looks like the auto date checker is interpreting the name of a published SMPTE standard ST 2067-2 as a date and throwing the error. As a wikipedia newbie, I can neither tell if this is important nor how I might fix it. All inputs of wisdom greatly appreciated. --Mrmxf (talk) 08:24, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging of User:Chesterthechest/sandbox

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on User:Chesterthechest/sandbox. I do not think that User:Chesterthechest/sandbox fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because Anything that is an even moderately reasonable attempt at a draft for an article, even if not likely ever to be approved, is not subject to U5 deletion, particularly in a sandbox. If you wish, you may try using the simple proposed deletion (PROD) process, or the full articles for deletion (AfD) process, instead, if this was an article, or another process such as MfD or XfD as appropriate. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 01:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I also see that you rejected (as opposed to merely declining) thid page as an AfC reviewer. May i ask why? I see nothing to justify rejection here. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 01:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I further note that just before you tagged this for U5, a U5 tag was removed by Atlantic306, a very experienced user. WP:CSD says If an editor other than the creator removes a speedy deletion tag in good faith, it should be taken as a sign that the deletion is not uncontroversial and another deletion process should be used. In future, please do not replace CSD tags after they are validly removed. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 01:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Page swap

Just as a note, User:Andy M. Wang/pageswap can be used even for round-robins like the variety you did at Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, though a {{db-move}} at the main redirect would probably work just as well. Not the end of the world, just thought I'd mention it. Primefac (talk) 19:11, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Draft: SQL Knowledge Graph - Citing Company Sources

Hi Nathan! Thanks so much for the feedback. I am busy putting in the rest of the article with citations. I did some research on the company creating the technology and extracted information from the product pages. How do I go about citing a product page? Thanks again!!

ASGutman (talk) 17:43, 20 September 2020 (UTC) September 20, 2020[reply]

New template:db-moved

Having seen your custom G6 CSD's, I thought I'd tell you about a new template I made yesterday: {{db-moved}}. It's meant for the same kinds of pages as {{db-move}}, but where you got it out of the way and completed the move already with your extendedmover powers. Jackmcbarn (talk) 20:12, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Nathan...

I wanted to let you know that for some reason I'm "not" able to save anything after I edit my article page each time...including images, text...etc. I was doing just fine for the past three days working on my new proposed Wikipedia article "Binoscopes and then it just stopped saving anything. In fact three image files of Binoscope images of the total of seven I had inputted earlier in the week just went away. (See following three files) I cannot input them into the article again. I tried several times.

Also I had Tagged (footnoted) four items in my Binoscope article in the typical Wikipedia style and format and they are still there when I edit my article page, but now for some unknown reason they have a red flag behind each of the four Tags. I verified each of my "Tagged" items and each one is correct. Three of the "Tagged" items are from three of my published books on Binoscopes too. I'm not sure why they are Red flagged?

I was in the process of writing a summary in the final section "Astronomical advantage"...but after several attempts and for some unknown reason again, I'm not able to save anything after I finish editing a page. Everything was just fine until I got a message from another Wiki user "User:Þjarkur|Thjarkur" this morning about my title "Binoscopes"...he suggested another name: ""binocular astronomical telescope" (in my opinion...not a good title). However, just after his message...everything in my Binoscope article I mentioned previously decided to play havoc on me and even a couple of the article sections "Binoscopes light gathering power" and "Types of binoscopes" I had written previously just disappeared. Perhaps you could take a look at my "Draft:Binoscopes" page and see if you can identify the problem and perhaps suggest a fix?....

Thanks again in advance,

NamronpbNamronpb (talk) 02:06, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Solved My Problem

Hello Nathan...

I was able to solve my own problem/issues as I described them in my previous message I sent you earlier. After a little bit of head scratching...the light bulb finally turned back on again. The missing images, text and citations (4) returned in good order and I was able to continue working on my Wikipedia article draft on the subject of Binoscopes again...full speed ahead!

Thanks again in advance,

Best Regards,

NamronpbNamronpb (talk) 07:56, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Draft talk:Kwame Osei Despite

Hello Nathan2055. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft talk:Kwame Osei Despite, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: This talk page was separated from its subject page due to incorrect page moving. Instead of deleting it, I reunited it with its subject page. Thank you. Jackmcbarn (talk) 20:05, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Poet,& Doctor, Ian Bamforth

Hello Nathan. I have received a message from you today relating to my failed attempt to get an entry for Iain Bamforth He is a well established writer & I was surprised to find he didn't have an entry I was so convinced that I would have no problem that I may have done him a disservice by not making a good enough proposal. He is a very well thought of person in the fields of both literature & Medicine, who in fact has a new book just being launched this week: Scattered Limbs a Medical Dreambook

I would appreciate any help you can give me to correct this oversight. DonLorenzo11 (talk) 07:39, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft: Pedro Ontaneda

Hi. I have not submitted a Wiki page before. Thank you for your acknowledgment October 4. I believe the page is ready to go. I'm not sure what else is needed. I added tags "Biography" and "Mathematics". Any further advice to get this up and running would be appreciated. Fac109 (talk) 13:50, 5 October 2020 (UTC)Fac109[reply]

Correction Officers' Benevolent Association moved to draftspace

Sources. I have used the New York Times, NY1, the Daily News, and the Department of Justice. There are over 16 different sources. Any help would be appreciated in terms of sources. 08:41, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Project Zorgo pending review for 21 hours

Hi Nathan2055, I just wanted to let you know that I reviewed Draft:Project Zorgo despite your "under review" template due to the fact that the template sat for 21 hours without further edits or a review being posted. Please don't leave that template sitting on a draft for more than 12 hours without posting a review. If you don't intend to complete a review, that is fine, just please revert yourself so that it gets added back to the queue so that others have a chance to see it. Thanks, TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:58, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ving Vodka deletion

Hi Nathan,

I'm not sure if this message got to you so I thought I'd try to contact you directly:

Draft talk:VING Organic Vodka From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Contested deletion[edit source] This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (Ving Vodka is an extremely important spirit to be notated on Wikipedia for the public in regards to how the industry is changing to organic spirits in the alcohol business. Ving has affected the industry globally. As stated in the text, Ving provides education and clean consumption options that didn't exist before. Please reference the articles, awards, and press the brand has garnered. Also, there is no other spirit in the world that is focused on wellness and health in the spirits industry. There are many, many other brands on Wikipedia that have similar or, less education attributes that can clearly be misconstrued as advertisements pages for the brands eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%27s_Vodka, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvedere_Vodka, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Goose_(vodka), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Head_Vodka, etc. In addition, it's very important for Wikipedia to be up-to-date on women-owned businesses and how important they are to American economic growth and to inspire young women to start their own businesses. Vonge, LLC, Ving Vodka, and Flo Vinger have been certified by the WBENC, which is the most respected women's business certification. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have or address any Wikipedia concerns. ) --FrankCarlotta1 (talk) 23:16, 10 October 2020 (UTC) FrankCarlotta1 (talk) 23:19, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Histmerges

I'm honestly surprised I haven't said anything to you before now about this (and if I have, apologies for the extra message), but if there are two pages that were "copy/pasted" and only one author, then a {{histmerge}} is not necessary; the process exists to provide attribution when someone does a copy/paste (i.e. so that User B isn't violating the copyright of User A's previous work). When it's all the same editor, there is no longer that attribution issue. Primefac (talk) 11:59, 11 October 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)[reply]

I need your experienced review asap please

Hello, Recently I added 2 updates to the artictle I created and also still waiting to get approved. However there is a user timtrent also known as fiddle faddle keeps telling me that I am a paid editor and i will be blocked to edit etc. I am not a paid editor why he is saying that? can you please check what you see wrong? or check what you see that I am doing wrong that this person is keep coming at me. Please help me understand thanks Bobby lee swagger (talk) 17:54, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 17:16:32, 12 October 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Ecl 17

Ecl 17 (talk · contribs)
- User:Ecl 17 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi Nathan. Thank you for reaching out. i did not realize the copyright issue, when i first tried to post the article, however, I will make sure there are no such issues in the future. Also, I wanted to insert a film poster for the same title, which i ended up uploading insted of inserting it to the article "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pela_Adhi_Akshar_film_poster.jpeg.jpg". how can i retreive it back and insert into the article. please help. thank you.

Ecl 17 (talk) 17:16, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don't Breathe 2

@Nathan2055: There is a discussion ongoing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don't Breathe 2. Since you published the draft to the mainspace, we would like to have your opinion on the matter. Cardei012597 (talk) 19:22, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Questions RE Photo Removal

Hey Nathan!

We've had some images removed from our draft due to suspected copyright violation. How may I go about confirming that I have the rights to the images?

Thanks! Cjuliano19 (talk) 15:50, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No one paid me for any article. I am feel the lack of firearms people on Wikipedia is crazy. As sources not being reliable, I think court documents and federal FEC complaints should suffice. Are you letting your bias show through? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GunGuyUSA (talk • contribs) 16:17, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Move to draft space

You moved a bunch of my stuff to Draft main space. I thought that is where I had it, what did I do wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zlorelli (talk • contribs) 22:43, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

External Resources added

Dear Nathan,

I've added a number of reliable resources to the article about DecodeChess. I'd highly appreciate you have a look. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GideonDC (talk • contribs) 10:56, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Shannon Global Energy Solutions

Hello Nathan, I've been working on an entry for Shannon Global Energy Solutions. Jimfbleak has been helping me with those edits, since the article was removed this summer because it wasn't up to Wikipedia's standards. With Jimfbleak's input and review, I've reworked the entry quite a bit. On Oct. 17, 2020, Jimfbleak suggested on my talk page that I submit the entry to get a reviewer's input. I'm contacting you because you had reviewed a previous version on July 31, 2020. I hope this is the correct approach. If not, I apologize and please let me know if I should take a different tack to obtain a review of the new article. Thank you very much. Lakewood66 (talk) 22:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gilead Duvshani

Dear Nathan, I re-edit it, and like the 2 other editors told me, inserted the footnotes, but something still doesn't work in them, please hele

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C#Your_submission_at_Articles_for_creation%3A_Gilead_Duvshani_%28September_17%29

מתיאל (talk) 16:42, 21 October 2020 (UTC)מתיאל[reply]

Resubmission of draft article

Hey Nathan, Thanks for your work. I have added references to the initial article Keeping It Real Art Critics. Notability in the Netherlands is clear, but I'm writing in English because 49% of KIRAC viewers are international (according to their website). Hope this is not a problem. Thanks for your time and I hope the page (my first) constitutes a relevant contribution. (Bowsnehru (talk) 19:42, 23 October 2020 (UTC))[reply]

CV declines

For what it's worth, you don't have to move G12 tags to the top of a draft if you decline as cv, it still shows up in the category and the decline template is also pretty obvious (as far as "copyvios" goes). Not the end of the world, just trying to save you a few edits. Primefac (talk) 21:01, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Lawrence, journalist and CEO of Asia House

Hi Nathan, thanks for your help in response to my new article creation about Michael Lawrence. I have tried to follow the conflict of interest guidance by disclosing my employment with Asia House. Is there anything I else I need to do to have the article published? I have also added links where they are extant to to show that everything is true. Please let me know what else I can do to publish the page. As Chief Executive of Asia House and former Global Editor of Thomson Reuters, Michael is of public interest.

Thank you very much for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MercadierDCFC (talk • contribs) 10:11, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: Trent Gardner

Hello Nathan2055. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Trent Gardner, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: being a member of notable bands and being signed to notable labels both clerly indicate significance. Thank you. So Why 11:43, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Buse Arslan Akdeniz

Hi, you moved this article to draftspace saying it was undercited, how many citations do I need? It's a stub article. Limorina (talk) 19:39, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New section

Hi Nathan. I wanted to see what the status is of my page that I wrote on Shadi Martini. Is there something else I need to do? Or must I just be patient and wait to see it published? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thor890 (talk • contribs) 18:36, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

CTB Article/Logo Concern

Nathan - I just received your message about the CTB logo and potential copyright issues. The company did provide me with the logo. How do I make sure this is known so it isn't prevented from being used. CTB understands that anything on Wikipedia can be used without permission. This is the first page I've ever attempted to publish, so I'm definitely green when it comes to this issue. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jthorp72 (talk • contribs) 21:22, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

CTB Article/Logo Message - Followup

Nathan,

A followup to my previous message. As I did more research on the topic, I believe the issue is the registered trademark symbol that is currently with the logo. If I remove that symbol, would that solve the problem?

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jthorp72 (talk • contribs) 14:05, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

Hey Nathan!

Just a well-meant suggestion, you might wanna remove that "personal attack" counter from your page. It makes you look over-sensitive and maybe even a bit butthurt as people attacking you is just kind of an inevitability if you're a moderator of any sort, especially if we're talking about something as big as Wikipedia. Again, just a suggestion. ~CJ Melon (talk) 11:09, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Conceptual Engineering

Hi Nathan2055! May I please ask why you unmarked the above submission as "under review"? Thanks. Manuel Gustavo Isaac (talk) 21:54, 29 October 2020 (UTC)Manuel Gustavo Isaac[reply]

Confused about web series editing

Hi Nathan, thank you for the kind welcome. I do a lot of edits for web series', episodes that run between 5 to 10 minutes. They of course do not get the same coverage as bigger shows but they still get notable mentions and are distributed and/or released by notable companies (Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc.). I would never just work on a show that was posted on a YouTube channel that no one ever heard of. However, a user took down my article after I provided the more critical coverage that was needed to publish it, he first accused me of being "compensated" which is ridiculous and then he kept stating it didn't reach "film standards", but these are not films, these are small web series'. There seems to be no rules written about web series' so how how can he say it doesn't follow the rules? I see plenty of web series' on Wikipedia that people seem to be fine with.

Below was one I submitted that is on Amazon Prime and Apple TV (it's not like it's on Youtube or Vimeo, you have to pay to watch it) and has notable producers and distributors. It would be greatly appreciated if you could look at it, thank you very much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Becoming_Jiff

--Drwho92 (talk) 01:48, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MLW

Thanks for the help navigating the draft space. It's still mostly new to me. Let me know if you need me to do anything further? Have a good evening StarM 02:24, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Imperial Point, Fort Lauderdale edit

The draft doesn't exist as I switched it to over Cypress Creek, Florida. Draft:Cypress Creek, Florida is Imperial Bay. Good luck along the way finding 150 articles I made without references. Miggy (talk) 5:27 P.M EST 1 November.

@Miggy72: You...do realize that all of your edits and moves are logged right? I can see exactly what you're doing and what pages you are creating or moving. Either stop this move warring and help contribute constructively, or you will probably be blocked for disruptive editing soon. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 22:32, 1 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes @Nathan2055: You realize I'm trying to find references for Imperial Point so keep it like Cypress Creek, Florida. Miggy (talk) 5:41 P.M EST 1 November.

@Miggy72: That's fine, but why not leave it in draftspace until you find sources? If you keep move warring over it, someone is going to eventually just give up and send it to Articles for deletion instead. That's not a good outcome for anyone. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 23:41, 1 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft Sastha Aravind

Hi sir, Since you have reviewed the article, Can you please tell me, what is the particular problem with the article, how do I resolve it?

Which resource/source/citation has a problem? Vasudharini (talk) 19:19, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Looking forward to take the discussion forward and in depth to understand the issue.

Initially the first one, they said was a copy of another profile hosted on the web, I redrafted it completely to add only the achievements with references. They say it is promotional. On what basis can it be promotional, when the genuine achievements have been posted. It does not even have any details with regard to the institution or work place he belongs or anything else. Vasudharini (talk) 19:23, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Naira Seyidova

Please delete this copy page. An error occurred while editing. Thanks. Xəyal Haşımov (talk) 21:56, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Xəyal Haşımov:

In progress: I have requested a history merge from Draft:Naira Seyidova to Naira Seyidova to fix the erroneous page move. Thanks for letting me know! Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 22:30, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Naira Seyidova

I think that you made a good-faith mistake in tagging the article for a history merge from the draft. If you look at the history of the article and the draft, you will see that the draft has been declined repeatedly, moved into article space, and then moved back into draft space. It has not been reviewed or approved for article space. The originator is move-warring to get it into article space. Now there is a draft in draft space and a fragment of the article is in article space. The originator seems to be trying to game the system to sneak it into article space. We, the Wikipedia reviewers, do not want to allow an article to be sneaked in without review, and that is what is being tried. Rather than history-merging, what needs to be done is to have the article either reviewed or deleted, not washed. I know that you were trying to maintain quality of the encyclopedia, as I also am. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:11, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon: Yes, of course. I intended to send the article to AfD following the history merge, as is standard procedure when a new user move wars in and out of draftspace, but I was waiting for the history merge to be completed as extraneous edits on either page tend to make things more difficult for the admin doing the histmerge. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 23:13, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I have now tagged the article for AFD before waiting for the history merge. Okay. You can be the good cop. I am being the bad cop. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:23, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon: Eh, that's fine. I'll copy over the relevant missing sections while the histmerge is pending. To be clear, the article probably should be deleted, I just wanted to make sure all the steps were done in the best/smoothest possible order. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 23:26, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Nathan, the article has been rewritten

Hello Nathan,

Thanks for looking the article up. I have rewritten the article on Banga rice. Can you take a look at it again. Thanks

Ochisky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ochisky (talk • contribs) 22:02, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nathan, Copyvio like this needs to be WP:REVDELeted from the draft's history after a clean version has been achieved. You have the tool installed to make it easy. Cabayi (talk) 11:46, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Warning about delete tagging

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What to do to make it right

Hello nathan,

What can I do to make the page right? I have followed the guidelines so far but it seems something its still missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ochisky (talk • contribs) 16:06, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft Article moved to another space

Thank you, Nathan. I am still finding my way around Wikipedia, trying to understand what works and how it works! [[User:AfricanLibrarian|AfricanLibrarian]] ([[User talk:AfricanLibrarian|talk]] (talk) 18:31, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nathan! I noticed that you flagged my article biological data https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Biological_Data&action=edit&section=1 for speedy deletion, and I would really appreciate if you could remove that tag so my article is not deleted! I am a student editor at UC Berkeley's Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy, and my assignment this semester was to create an article about biological data. I understand that the article was underdeveloped, and the move to the mainspace was part of the instructions I had from my lab that week. I am continuing to work/ edit the article, and moved it back to the sandbox, but I am still a bit new to this and would appreciate if you could guide me a bit instead of flagging my article for deletion as I cannot get a grade for my course if I am not able to create an article about biological data! Any advice or help would be appreciate from a fellow Wikipedian! Thanks Lilmeowmeow3161 (talk) 01:17, 15 November 2020 (UTC)lilmeowmeow3161 Lilmeowmeow3161 (talk) 01:17, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Toyota ASV

Hello! I have found that the draft page Draft:Toyota ASV, was declined by a user in October. I have worked on the page a little, but I want to see if it was an improvement from the original submission. You may be wondering why I am asking you, but on the draft, I see that you were the one who declined it. Hoping to hear your response, User talk:DestinationFearFan.

Also, the previous user that created this page is bunnyrabbitbunny. (if you need this)

Photo Delete?

Dear Nathan, just a very quick question how do I delete a photo?

John — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnhoye1 (talk • contribs) 11:57, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Before I AFD...

Could you give me an idea of what sources pushed you to accept Silence and Light? It's not a criticism, but I just...don't see it myself. Praxidicae (talk) 15:57, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User Page (PremierePrush)

Thanks for approving me Nathan! I will work on making my page even better!

Nasrollah Minbashian draft to article

Dear Nathan,

Thank you for your time in reading through the articles on Gholam Reza Minbashian and Nasrollah Minbashian.

I have added sources to the latter and re-posted it as an article.

I hope this is OK.

I hope to that you and yours are well in Atlanta - we're under a partial lockdown here in Paris.

Kind regards, Nicholas Sowels — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicholas Sowels (talk • contribs) 17:32, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion tagging

Hello, Nathan2055,

First, thanks for all of the work that you do! It is greatly appreciated. You are doing a lot of the legwork of tagging pages that need to be examined later by admins.

Second, I think you need to be careful when you are tagging pages on the basis that they have been created by blocked editors. Several pages that you tagged were redirects that actually weren't created by a blocked editor but by one of our regular, friendly editors here. And when I look at the article that they redirect to, they aren't always created by a blocked editor either. We don't want to delete articles that do not fit the criteria so please do not look at the contributions of a blocked editor and tag all of their page creations without looking at each page and see its edit history and whether the blocked editor really was the page creator.

Personally, if the blocked editor made a minor contribution and was not the primary editor of the page, I don't think a deletion makes any sense since it is likely many of these deleted articles will not be recreated. But I know that other admins are more strict about this than I am. Anyway, thanks again for your help and please look over each page before you tag it. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:10, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: Thanks for the message! While I'm not sure which redirects specifically you're referring to, yesterday I tagged a large number of redirects that were the result of page move vandalism by sockpuppets of Wiki wolfname (talk · contribs). The problem, of course, is that those redirects show up as being created by whoever reverted the vandalism, as opposed to the one who performed the initial page move, and it requires digging into logs and the page histories of other pages to see what actually happened. I definitely wasn't just tagging pages at random, I'm fairly certain that all of the ones I tagged yesterday were the result of bad page moves.

As for whether to delete in the case of sockpuppetry, I tend to take a more strict approach to WP:BMB, simply because I see a lot of accounts get blocked for sockpuppetry and then try to argue "but I have all of these good contributions, clearly that means I need to be unblocked" without every acknowledging the actions that actually got them to be blocked in the first place. Now, obviously that can result in a bunch of edits that would potentially be welcomed from a different editor to be reverted or deleted, and that's not the best of outcomes, but it's a very slippery slope, and that's a lot of the reason why LTAs love using it to game the system. Of course, I'm not an admin, so I'm limited to just tagging the cases I see and leaving it for someone else to make the final judgement call, but that's the thought process I have when tagging things.

In any event, thank you for your help (I'm pretty sure a solid 2/3rds of the last 3-4 months of User:Nathan2055/CSD log was ultimately checked and/or deleted by you, so "help" is a pretty big understatement!) and let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 20:21, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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BridgeUSA

I am new to editing Wikipedia articles and I have been working in activism for nearly 2 decades. I have discovered an enormous vacuum in the coverage of these 501(c)(3) organizations and the development of comprehensive 501(c)(3) lists of environmental non-profits and other comprehensive non-profit lists are incomplete - a fact I am personally trying to reverse.

This article has been profoundly sourced - if the voice is your concern, it doesn't change the fact that this is ultimately suppressing users ability to access information about 501(c)(3) organizations, which is very much to the detriment of everyone.

Though I have worked as a freelance and ghostwriter in the political and environmental sphere, I have no financial incentive to create this material outside of a general desire to improve access to information - this article was intended to reveal a vast number of legitamate charity organizations which are not represented in wikipedia despite pretty overwhelming evidence that they ought to be included. I believe you deletion is hasty - i would appreciate notes on the voice, but everything in the article is paraphrased from established sources - and your suggestion for deletion came immediately, which strikes me as a bit knee-jerky. This is an established 501c3 with refs? — Preceding unsigned comment added by FamousRoger (talk • contribs) 20:51, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Pan redirects

why did you create them? Starzoner (talk) 19:42, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated. Is there anything else I need to do to submit my article for creation? Puffer Fishman (talk) 22:39, 25 November 2020 (UTC)Puffer Fishman[reply]

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Thank you 4thd.au (talk) 03:40, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Adam Jensen Page

You are wrong. I am not using copyrighted material. Those pages you listed are nothing but archive pages that take information from other pages. They do not have a copyright claim. I have taken a lot of the info from the artists own page, which is expressly copyright free. Please do your research before making baseless claims. NOTHING IN THE PAGE IS IS COPYRIGHTED. NOTHING. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Puffer Fishman (talk • contribs) 22:02, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator note I have responded to this editor's comments, but have done so on their talk page. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:41, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that the sources you are citing as "copyright violations" are just pages that copy and paste from elsewhere. You are attributing copyrights to random flakey websites. I would suggest contacting these websites by email and checking on your claims. Queen of the North (talk) 22:42, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Queen of the North: While it is true that some of those sites look like content harvesters that may have copied content from Wikipedia without attribution, it's questionable that they would be pulling from draft articles, and This cached Google page from 14 November 2020 predates the 22 November creation of the draft in question, and which contains some phrasing identical to what was found in the draft's lede. Whether the content originated at flaky website A or B, the content had to originate somewhere, and whomever wrote it would be the copyright holder. If Adele writes a new song and a couple of people paste the track onto their websites illegally, Adele still owns the copyright, and the content is still copyrighted. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:53, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Moving Yusria Mohmmed Article to draft

I see that you think it better to move the article to draft but as iam trying to improve the article and is does has an article in the Arabic Wikipedia but referencing need improving in the English on so iam tagging it as astump to have help in improving it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ola.mahadi (talk • contribs) 22:20, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

redirects

Regarding redirects, wh y do you keep recreating them? Starzoner (talk) 23:10, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Re SPI

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Victoria based gang

Pressa2020 (talk) 21:28, 11 December 2020 (UTC) I would like to confirm that all the info I used is accurate. I grew up in this city.[reply]

A post about a reverse image search

Hi Nathan,

My name is Mantas a fellow tech geek :)

I'm writing you because I found one of your post about a reverse image search -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_image_search

We just released a service called kleptofinder.com where Instagram users are able to find stolen and republished pictures all around the world. Do we have any chance to be mentioned in the post mentioned before?

If you would like to try this tool just let me know, I could generate a promotion code for you to check the functionality.

No pressure, Mantas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.250.34.135 (talk) 19:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comfy Synth article

What should I do to get an article approved? Comfy Synth is just one year old as a subgenre and has recently established itself with various music companies such as Cloisterphonic, Dungeons Deep Records, Vicious Mockery Records, Phantom Lure and Knekelput. Many of the artists have had their music published on both vinyl records and cassette tapes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Degegon (talk • contribs) 13:59, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Page help: Antioch International Movement of Churches

Hi Nathan,

This page is really having trouble with an editor that does not have a neutral point of view (Jengaboot?).

Any positive reference to the church has been removed, and there is a real attempt to shed things in a certain light in such a way that violate's Wikipedia's neturality. Any ideas? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PacificKnight001 (talk • contribs) 15:49, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

the transfer

Hello my friend, the article was mistakenly transferred to this name. Please return it to its original name, ie Sahar Khodayari Thanks.--محمد پورمند (talk) 00:45, 22 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft for SR840

why does Florida State Road 840 redirect to Dixie Highway (Broward-Palm Beach)? I want to unredirect it so I can submit an AfC Firejore (talk) 16:54, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Murat Kayak draft

It would've gone a lot quicker if the non-logged-in editor had stuck to non-significant changes. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 🎄 00:15, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Help me add Bobbie Shaw Chance references in order. Thanks (DNMB (talk) 00:13, 28 December 2020 (UTC));

Help me add Bobbie Shaw Chance references in order. Thanks (DNMB (talk) 00:13, 28 December 2020 (UTC));[reply]

(talk page stalker) Nathan2055: DNMB asked the same question on Wikipedia talk:Talk page guidelines. I put things back the way they were and moved his "additional" unused reference to Talk:Bobbie Shaw Chance in case it proves useful in the future. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 🎄 00:51, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Draft: Isabella I of Castile University

Hey Nathan, I hope you are fine. I updated the page Isabella I of Castile University so it should be good to publish. Please take a look and give me a feedback/publish the article. Best regards--BancoBank (talk) 21:22, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Stare Selo disambiguation

I moved the other draft back to Draft:Stare Selo, Sumy since "village, region" is the preferred disambiguation over "village (region)" AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 20:35, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I also removed Oblast since that would be like adding "State", "Province" or "Prefecture", but if you feel Oblast should be put back, feel free to request move back. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 20:43, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:UAPLACE and WP:COMMADIS, I have renamed it back to Stare Selo, Sumy Oblast. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 23:05, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

new article

So, add more sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mqtwplzegrtbnu (talk • contribs) 20:03, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

María Teresa Freyre de Andrade

Hi Nathan-- what's the story with reverting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Teresa_Freyre_de_Andrade to a draft? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mewestin (talk • contribs) 21:22, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mewestin: Replied at Draft talk:María Teresa Freyre de Andrade. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:25, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:S-Quire

Hi Nathan, I appreciate your feedback on the article. Also I am a little offended that you would assume this is pr puffery and a paid gig. I believe in integrity and honesty and your comments were regarded as very disrespectful. I am a college student receiving my graduates degree in education. I am only searching topics I feel would be great to bring to the community. Once a gain thank you for feedback, I will continue to make the necessary edits and find reliable sources--Independence12 (talk) 05:28, 4 January 2021 (UTC)Independence12 Happy new year![reply]

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Sacred Heart College Review

(@Nathan2055:)

Dear Nathan,

Thanks for your prompt review of the draft aforementioned article.

I have a few concerns which I will love to raise.

1. My article is on a renowned school in Cameroon, but however there exists no dedicated scholarly or news article (reliable source) on the school. The best I can have is mentions of the school in reports on academic performance, the biography of notable alumni appointed to government (available on the website of the Prime Minister's Office) and activities on campus linked to the ongoing Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon.

Can the inclusion of this information improve the chances of this page getting listed?

Sacred heart is a sister college to Our Lady of Lourdes in Cameroon and the latter has a wikipedia page with mainly news website articles.

2. Will I need to add more headings for example; one on the Anglophone Crisis or Golden Jubilee to boost the chances of the page getting a positive review?

3. There exists many other schools with the same name as SAHECO. Can I adjust the title of this page at this moment to add the city (Bamenda) in which the school is found to differentiate it from the other Sacred Heart Colleges across the world?

Finally, I have since rephrased the previously submitted draft to avoid any issues of plagiarism.

Many thanks for the assistance,

Beckoarmani

Thank you

Thank you for your help and suggestions regarding Draft:Matthew Davies (author and leadership coach) --HippyTesla (talk) 15:33, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please help

Hi i am here to request you can you please approve my Article: Raantas. I will be thankful to you. Sardar Nadir Ali (talk) 07:41, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Raantas Sardar Nadir Ali (talk) 07:43, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nathan. I do not understand how the sources are not reliable of Happy Home School System. Please help me out. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schoolchain (talk • contribs) 07:46, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Help on getting my article approved.

Hello Nathan, would you please review my article and possible approve it I was able to find more info about the artist. -- Bobby lee swagger (talk) 03:05, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Valerio Cardamone

Hi Nathan, thanks for your message ! My article is finished, can you help me to publish it online ? I didn't suceed to do it...

Thank you very much in advance --Lucas76520 (talk) 22:10, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 18:52:08, 29 January 2021 for assistance on AfC submission by Sam Novras

Sam Novras (talk · contribs)
- User:Sam Novras/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

May I ask for your help to publish article ? Thank you. @Nathan2055:

Sam Novras (talk) 18:52, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I registered to create an article for Arslan Novrasli, tar player, seems I submited first time in a wrong way, may I ask you assist me if I did all correct when submited second time for review. thanks. @Nathan2055:

Submiting

Hi, thank you for taking your time, I registered newly to add Arslan Novrasli, musician, tar player, since i am new here, looks like I did submit in a wrong way first time, did not put text, will it be reviewd now, may I to ask you to assist, it seems I did once again with text included. Thanks. @Nathan2055:

Draft article

Hi. Please don't have my draft at The Clash of Red and Black deleted. I will fix the issues myself with a plot rewrite. Thank you. Malcolm L. Mitchell (talk) 19:39, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Malcolm L. Mitchell: I've gone ahead and moved the page to User:Malcolm L. Mitchell/The Clash of Red and Black; please let me know when you're done updating it so I can request the copyrighted material be deleted from the page history. Thank you for your contributions! Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 20:23, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Nathan2055: Thank you for that. I've gone and completely rewritten everything, and will resubmit shortly. Feel free to copyvio what you see fit. Again, thank you. Malcolm L. Mitchell (talk) 02:33, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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StoneCo.

Hi, Nathan!

Thanks for your review. I am new here, so maybe I am asking something stupid, lol. Is there any right form so I can do to clean up "undisclosed payments"? I work at StoneCo, in Brazil, and this article is important for us, so we can put Stone at american's fintechs market. :)

tks! Regards, Lailasena (talk) 22:25, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

why do you allow our competitor MSPY to be published on wikipedia and you disallow us???? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PassRevelatorSuite (talk • contribs) 19:09, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Kingsheharyarmirza

Warning: please be more careful tagging articles for g13 deletion. You tagged Draft:Kingsheharyarmirza for deletion, however it was restored only less than a minute before, and was not eligible for deletion at all. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:40, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Graeme Bartlett: Right, that was my bad, I caught that a moment after I did it. Usually WP:AFCH doesn't load the G13 option at all if there are recent edits to the page, and I normally check anyway to ensure the page is stale enough. I was going a bit too quickly this time and screwed up. I'll be more careful in checking them first in the future. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 22:46, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I got an EC trying to edit the page! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:47, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My submission

I removed all of the text and moved it to a different article. This is because the original article was really short. So, I just wanted you to know this. When I submitted the article originally it had text.

Honestly

I had no other option than to do this. Celestina007 (talk) 21:42, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Celestina007: I don't even know what's going on anymore... Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:44, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To say im equally baffled is an understatement. Celestina007 (talk) 21:47, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ty Franck

Hi Nathan2055. Thanks for your note on my Ty Franck entry, and your offer to discuss it further. Being new, I'm eager to learn. (And this is exciting for me, as it's my first 'official' offering for what I feel is a notable person lacking an entry—kinda nervous too. Eeek!).

The note says, "the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions (DFY))." So, to summarize, where did I put it, where is it supposed to be, and how do I ensure I don't repeat this mistake? I'm a little confused on where I should be creating new entries (and thought I was following the correct prompts, to begin with).

Thanks for your time and instruction.

Lizzytomtom (talk) 21:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Apriorics for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Apriorics is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apriorics until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 21:24, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Eggishorn: I went ahead and copied this to User talk:Motizin as they are the original author of the page; apparently I have credit for the first edit because of some page move issue from back in August. Dunno what happened there. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 20:10, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft Mel Wulf

Hi Nathan, I'm confused about how to find this page and continue editing.

Can you explain to me how to get to the draft version?

Thanks, Laura Lwjpnyc (talk) 20:46, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Lwjpnyc: Your draft page can be found at Draft:Melvin Wulf. You can edit it there freely and then follow the directions in the template at the top of the page to submit the draft for review when you are finished with it. Thank you for your contributions! Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 22:27, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

1008 water

Hi, this page was deleted what do you fell needs to be corrected on the draft to resubmit? Thanks. (@Mig617:) Mig617

Draft: Trevor Ohlsen

Hello Nathan2055!

You recently were apart of the editing process for Draft:Trevor Ohlsen.

I am hoping you can continue to help the page move forward.

I've made some suggestions for the page at Draft talk:Trevor Ohlsen

I would very much appreciate your help.

Miles Miles8926 (talk) 18:09, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kousto(draft) Review

Hi Nathan, thanks for your help. I have now submitted my article to be reviewed. Although it looks like that the field of my article is overwhelmed by the amount of submissions. Do you think that you could possibly review my article? All the best. --Soundbrero (talk) 14:33, 22 February 2021 (UTC)Soundbrero--Soundbrero (talk) 14:33, 22 February 2021 (UTC)@Nathan2055:[reply]

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Shaundra Daily Draft Comment

Hi. I noticed you comment on the Shaundra Daily draft page. The previous one seems to have been rejected because the person who started it did not included reputable sources and did not provide adequate information. Currently, the page is much more updated with information related to this person's national reputation and has been started as a part of a larger effort by the African American History Museum to include African American scientists on wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steamgineer (talk • contribs) 00:41, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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New draft article Counts of Limburg Hohenlimburg Broich

Dear Nathan2055. I yust presented an new article (Lemma), for the first time in Englisch language. Before I wrote several Wikipedia articles about the same (above mentioned subject) in Dutch language and made corrections in German Wikipedia Lemma's. Because Dutch is my Mother's Language, German, Englisch, (French) my foreign languages. Probably the Englisch language of this article can by improved a litlle bit by an expirienced englisch writing mentor. With kindly regard VanlmugH — Preceding unsigned comment added by VanlmugH (talk • contribs) 22:20, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Nathan, thanks for your comments on my article on The ReSPECT Process. I have added in more references to show the broader coverage this topic has received, and have added in some current information about how it is being recommended in the UK during the pandemic. I think this has really improved it. Thanks again for your comments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Warwick789 (talk • contribs) 21:38, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Patrick Oriyomi

Hi @Nathan2055: That person, Patrick Oriyomi is an estate agent with seven people working for him, in a small regional estate agent. He is neither notable, nor is the business, nor is the new book. The supposed coverage is paid for advertising, which asserts WP:PUFF and WP:NOTADVERTISING. The Afd was only 5 months ago. If it gets posted to mainspace, I will be sending back to Afd. scope_creep^Talk 19:43, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Clémentine de Vère

I moved that to Clementine de Vere because not one of the sources shows her name with the accents. The only use of an accent that I could find was on File:Clementine de Vere 1903.jpg and that was "é" on her last name. I think that Clementine de Vere is correct. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 20:27, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Arsh Braich

Hey Nathan,

Thank you for moving my draft to Draft:Arsh Braich namespace. This is my first article, could you see and let me know how I can improve the article.

Thank You ---Bhupi099 (talk) 17:40, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:British Beekeepers Association

Hi Nathan, Thank you for looking at my draft. My first attempt at doing anything other than a minor tweak here or there. Hopefully I am now moving in the right direction and I have ripped out most of the references to the bbka website and included Government sources and a few news articles? I've also declared that I am a beekeeper! Any other suggestions for improvement? TIA --Beeloser (talk) 11:25, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding deletion of page SOCIO STORY

Can u provide me the url before deleting. Allow me to make changes through content --Svpnikhil (talk) 11:19, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

History Merge

You tagged Carolina Hurricanes Storm Squad for a history merge from Draft:Carolina Hurricanes Storm Squad. I agree that what was done is technically the same as a regular copy-paste move, with one difference, and maybe we need to ask an administrator for guidance, and I don't think that a history merge is needed. The difference is that the same submitter first created the draft and submitted it for approval, and then went ahead and created the same article in article space. I don't think that requires a history merge to preserve credit, because the originator is only copying it from himself. Creating both a draft and an article is common. Sometimes it is legitimate, and more often it is done to game the system. I don't think that duplicate creation of a draft and an article is a copy-paste merge in the usual sense, and so I don't think it requires a history merge. I will ask someone. In this case, I think that what is needed is not a history merge but deletion, because the article is spam. But I will ask about the general issue. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:54, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Dear, I'm thankful to you for helping me out. I need your help and guidance. Sultan Abdul sultan (talk) 18:10, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Move my draft

Hi, and thanks for the information that you have provided me. Please help me in moving my draft Sultan Abdul sultan (talk) 18:26, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Help me

Hi Nathan2055, You know about my draft Government Degree college No.02 Mardan that need move and history merge, so what should I do for it....please help me I am a new user so not fully aware of the technical wikipedia Sultan Abdul sultan (talk) 03:05, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Re-Submission follow up

Hi,

You had reviewed my article back in October and I took your suggestions and fixed the article. I really appreciated your feedback. I re-submitted and I wanted to follow up to see the status on it.

Please let me know.

Thank you Kindly, Solome2020 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Solome2020 (talk • contribs) 14:44, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Grabauornis

Hi Nathan, you recently moved my draft article Grabauornis from my sandbox to a draft space. However, I can't edit my sandbox because it insists on redirecting to the Grabauornis draft. Is it possible to remove the redirection? Thanks in advance TimTheDragonRider (talk) 17:41, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:List of mayors of Bismarck, North Dakota

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Thank you and question

Hi Nathan - Thank you for moving my entry "Giorgio Bertellini" out of my Sandbox and onto the more appropriate page. I had already submitted the article using the "Publish Changes" command and was told that it may take up to four months for a decision to be made. Can you kindly let me know, when you have a chance, where the article stands in the process?

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Ken Garner — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michiken1970 (talk • contribs) 17:09, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Creating Page

Sadekar Ashish (talk) 06:28, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me to create user page. Can you please clarify that creating a page or creating a article is the same procedure.

Your proper guidance will be more helpful for me.

Regards, Ashish Sadekar

Your draft article, Draft:Stitch Plays Fortnite (Jay Randolf series)

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:09, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nathan, Thanks for advice. It all A bit overwhelming at first! I will reach out to one more experienced in this to help me with this. Best, Andre — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andre Martinez Reed - Henry Gregg Gallery (talk • contribs) 21:16, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Please check the Martin Faulks article after 40 min, I will do better referencing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The architect33 (talk • contribs) 01:33, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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NruasPaoYPP/Phou Pheung noi

Hello Nathan 2055,

Please, I am very appreciate the time you have reviewed my article and thank you. I am a news comer here, and I begin to learn how to contribute or edit an article in Wikipedia. I really want my article to be approved and published, because it is very important for me. So please let me know what is the sentence/phrase/or words that are wrong and violate Wikipedia policies, then I will change it please. Thank you very muck. NruasPaoYY — Preceding unsigned comment added by NruasPaoYPP (talk • contribs) 12:24, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

NruasPaoYPP/Phou Pheung noi

Hello Nathan2055

I am mot sure if you got my question in the talk page, because I forgot to sign it (I didn't know where to sign it). This is because I am news user, and I am learning here. So please understand me. I'll try in my best to not violate the Wikipedia policies and not for my personal interests including any other organizations. Please let me know what is wrong in my article "Phou Pheung noi", and then I will go to review and change the paragraphs or words that are wrong and not appropriate. I just would like to let you know that this article is very important for me. Thank you very much NruasPaoYPP (talk) 15:57, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Editing Draft: Simon Iyore Guobadia

@Nathan2055:

When trying to publish changes on my draft page, it keeps popping up with this " Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)" Not sure how to get past this point as I have made the necessary edits to the requests that were given.

This is my new edit I've been trying to publish, let me know your thoughts and how to move forward with this, I have also updated all of the citations to reliable sources but it has not allowed me to publish do to this error above.

Simon Iyore Guobadia is a self-made, first-generation entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and executive producer who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Guobadia is the founder of SIMCOL Petroleum Limited Company (established in 2007) and has worked alongside Academy Award winner, Spike Lee to executive produce the 2020 film, Son of the South, which has been received Oscar Consideration.

A man of many interests, Guobadia’s greatest passion and purpose is philanthropy. In honor of his Catholic upbringing and the impact that church has had on his life, he is a generous benefactor to his local faith community and a regular donor to North Point Ministries – a coalition of seven churches in the Metro Atlanta Area.

Career

Guobadia founded SIMCOL Petroleum Limited Company in 2010. SIMCOL Petroleum Limited Company is a regional fuel supplier, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in the supply and distribution of Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) and various grades of gasoline products. The fuel supply facilitates commercial and industrial businesses.

Adding to his passion projects, Guobadia ventured into several other local endeavors. He opened the eponymous Simon’s Restaurant in September 2017 in Midtown, Atlanta. Simon’s restaurant closed its doors in May 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Guobadia serves as an executive producer on the 2020 film, Son of the South, alongside Academy Award winner, Spike Lee.

Personal Life

Guobadia is a member of North Point Ministries. Guobadia has eight children and resides in Atlanta, GA.

Here are the sources I would have added.

"About Us". Simcolgroup. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

"ATLA Atlantan Feb 2021 Page 158". digital.modernluxury.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

Kenigsberg, Ben (2021-02-04). "'Son of the South' Review: Tale of an Alabama Activist". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

Leydon, Joe; Leydon, Joe (2021-02-05). "'Son of the South' Review: An Involving True-Life Story About the '60s Civil Rights Movement". Variety. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

"Son of the South". Cleveland Scene. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

Hipes, Patrick; Hipes, Patrick (2021-02-25). "Oscars: Academy Reveals List Of Films Eligible For Best Picture Race". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

"ATLA Atlantan Feb 2021 Page 158". digital.modernluxury.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

"About Us". Simcolgroup. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

"ATLA Atlantan Feb 2021 Page 158". digital.modernluxury.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

CNN, Nicquel Terry Ellis and Adrienne Broaddus. "Black leaders want targeted federal funds for Black businesses hit hard by pandemic". CNN. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

Kenigsberg, Ben (2021-02-04). "'Son of the South' Review: Tale of an Alabama Activist". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

Leydon, Joe; Leydon, Joe (2021-02-05). "'Son of the South' Review: An Involving True-Life Story About the '60s Civil Rights Movement". Variety. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

"Son of the South". Cleveland Scene. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

"ATLA Atlantan Feb 2021 Page 158". digital.modernluxury.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25.

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2017–18 Coupe de France Preliminary Round, Centre-Val de Loire

This page with this title was created by mistake due to incorrect spelling. There is no need to create the redirect Dr Salvus 21:49, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr Salvus: Understood; I have flagged it for G7 speedy deletion. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 22:01, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"2017–18 Coupe de France Preliminary Round, Centre-Val de Loire" listed at Redirects for discussion

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publish

hi, im new here and would like to know how long it will take my shihan samson muripo page to show on the internet

Question regarding ViacomCBS

Recently I submitted a page titled: List of animation studios owned by ViacomCBS. I understand that you might feel that it's unnecessary, but you have to understand why I made it. (It's a work progress).

Conglomerates such as Disney & WarnerMedia (via Warner Bros) have their own wiki pages listing all their animation studios. So I thought, why not ViacomCBS? The owner of Nickelodeon. Nick Animation has competed been ever since and Paramount actually has rich history in animation than some people realize. Aren't they with the same competition.

If I just added added in the "list of assets owned by ViacomCBS." I would be able to cover/explain what these studios truly were.

Leon's two albums

Sorry to bother you, but you said I could when you welcomed me :) I have currently two articles (both albums by the same artist). One is finished and has been submitted for review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:L%C3%89ON_(album) while the other one is still a draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Apart_(L%C3%A9on_album) However, both have been tagged as 'Review waiting, please be patient'. Is there anyway to unsubmit the second one (i.e. revert to Draft)? I don't want whoever to think that's it's a finished article ready for upload. TIA. Leoseliv (talk) 09:44, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burned MangleRandy (talk • contribs) 19:17, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Nathan, thank you for your message. I would be grateful if you could advise on whether the article has any copyright issues/violations? If so, please note that this is not intended and would appreciate your guidance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dangelvoice (talk • contribs) 21:42, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Shane Jordan (writer)

Hi Nathan

WOW you do a lot on here for the community. I had a question. I am not real hip on this but as I retire I wanna help build the animal community, the true influencers in animal health and entertainment. I fell in love with the book Wear the Damn Mask and Izzy the dog. I added some content for the dog a page and once the book hit bestseller I started one for the author. I added a lot of links I could find, but did not wanna reach out to the author in case that violates the reason for writing the entry by asking the source about other info. I know he was featured in People Magazine, and US Weekly and Forbes but those were print and have no online footprint. I read he started a CBD/THC company with Whoopi Goldberg for pets, but it was print also, so I deleted those mentions until I can upload the sources of those articles.

What do I do to move out of drafts? I am reading and trying to learn how to be a better participant on items that mean something to me.

BlaineParker (talk) 00:23, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 16:48:38, 23 April 2021 for assistance on AfC submission by Shelbyhoward423

Shelbyhoward423 (talk · contribs)
- User:Shelbyhoward423/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I do want to add this to an existing article. How do I do that? and does it have to be reviewed? Shelbyhoward423 (talk) 16:48, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Timon Kyle Durrett Help

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Kim MacAskill

Hi Nathan

Thanks for looking at the article. This has been my on/off project and I can't quite seem to get this accepted. I know MacAskill is about to announce a feature film and her Warner Bros / Rocksteady matters which made me keener than ever to bring this back to life. I am clearly doing something wrong so any advice would be great.

Many thanks!

Paraphrasing on te Hesselholdt & Mejlvang article

Hello Nathan,

I am quite new to Wikipedia and first of all I would like to thank you for all the contributions on the page you did, many many thanks. Moreover I wanted to learn better how Wikipedia works and I wanted to know better why you put that link about paraphrasing and what could I do to fix that issue, because I don't really understand what exactly I just have took and pharahrased from the National museum of Nord Korea website.

Thank you very much!

Decline page Stefan Zielen

Dear Nathan,

thank you for reviewing my text draft. I will add the missing sources as required. Can I ask you to review again afterwards? Best regards, Saawmed (talk) 09:12, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

thanks for the review! but yet Im still confused I didnt understand wether my article is approved, Im new to wiki(a week ago), should I wait for more people to review my article and then the article will get published alone ?

Kratos1422000 (talk) 14:36, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

created a draft

Hi, I created a draft that I made myself, which was a translation. As soon as the user created it, he marked it to delete it. Was his work correct?--Khadempour322 (talk) 23:36, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The user deleted the tag just seconds after creating the article. Do you think this is the right thing to do? He tagged the article exactly two seconds after it was created, which is really weird for me.--Khadempour322 (talk) 23:43, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Request on 09:21:52, 28 May 2021 for assistance on AfC submission by RoBes81

RoBes81 (talk · contribs)
- User:RoBes81/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I submitted my sandbox page for a review because I translated my Dutch article about Love song with Google Translate, and I think the result is never 100% correct English. But when I saw, I had to wait perhaps 4 months, I moved it in the old stub. The article still needs a review, but not in my sandbox anymore.09:21, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

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Article on Giorgio Bertellini

Hello, Nathan -- You wrote me back in March to confirm that you had received my draft article for "Giorgio Bertellini." To date, the article has not been posted. While I realize that you have a long backup of articles, I've been trying to get this submitted and reviewed since December. Could you kindly let me know what kind of time frame I can expect the article to be reviewed and a decision made?

Thanks very much for your help and I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Sincerely,

Ken Garner — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michiken1970 (talk • contribs) 14:21, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, thanks for the 411 on doing articles. I do have to say I won't be attempting another. I'm fairly tech savie, but creating on wiki is well beyond me. It's not, as we say, user friendly. Thanks again ... craig

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Hello Nathan, thank you so much for contacting me, its very frustrating for me as my page got deleted, then completely disappeared and I am doing everything as it should be, please advise what I can do at this time, regards V.

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Please Nathan2055 I really don't want my page to be taken down again — Preceding unsigned comment added by Veesam (talk • contribs) 18:51, 4 July 2021 (UTC) [reply]

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want to submit the page for review of dr.vhimarjun acharya.

Hello sir, I complete the page of dr.vhimarjun acharya. And i want to submit the page for review. I insert "{{AfC submission|||ts=20210705161948|u=Bhimarjun Acharya|ns=3}}" in the top of the page. Butit is not working. Please help!

My page link is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bhimarjun_Acharya/sandbox

Hi you removed the previous decline notice that contains the button to resubmit - now re-added. KylieTastic (talk) 16:32, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Vanessa Gloria Sam

Hello Nathan, I need help with saving changes on my page and submit it again but Error message keep coming up, please help

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Could you explain to me

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@Celestina007: Those edits were mostly intended as template cleanup. The page had been draftified by you but was then moved back to mainspace later by Gwatakwata, who was not the original page creator. Per the move warring policy, the proper course of action is to leave the page in mainspace and then submit it for deletion if it still doesn't meet our policies. As for the UPE tag, I simply removed it and replaced it so that it would include a datestamp for when it was initially added. If you still don't believe the page meets notability or sourcing guidelines, feel free to submit it to AfD. I apologize for any confusion, and I'll try to explain moves like these in my edit summaries a bit better moving forward. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 14:40, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No it’s perfect, I was confused about the actions, but now you have explained I understand better and the confusion; now dispelled! Celestina007 (talk) 19:24, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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"This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (The page regards the contribution to Intermedia art by a MENA-region, Turkish Cypriot female Intermedia artist and curator. Their conceptual artwork on the blockchain/NFT space corresponding with research on Intermedia art and how conceptual art is understood and experienced. Focus on this artist and page corresponds with research surrounding the 'creative female voice' focused on a diverse group of women artists which should be included on public knowledge sites like Wikipedia. Articles intended to spread knowledge and diversify perspectives and experiences of art due to female artists remaining 'undervalued' within the cannon of art history. Research is conducted on this artist-curator which aims to dissect and understand their contribution to Intermedia art which can be built upon by other researchers/writers on Wikipedia and edited to meet Wikipedia standards.

However, although I am putting effort into writing this Wikipedia entry, I have reason to believe it is futile and that there is a degree of racism or unconscious bias toward the artist where the page has been declined without any offer of editing through collaborative effort although live news coverage on BBC and News channels in Scotland, articles written and magazine entries about this artist exist. If the case is racism, bigotry or unconscious bias, then should information fall to gate-keeping by such individuals? I am sure, as logical individuals, you will agree on this matter. Otherwise, where is the objectivity of the reviewers? It would be appreciated if a variety of neutral reviewers could also look at, edit and contribute to the article based on the research conducted thus far or based on growing information. If it is not possible for this to happen, then perhaps the draft could remain untouched until other information becomes available? If any part of the draft is unambiguously promotional, then I openly request that such parts be rewritten by the community to meet Wikipedia standards.)" --0penS0urx (talk) 07:18, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Laurie Michelle Bridges

Thanks for the support in moving my writing to draft. I understand that it only remains to wait for the review. I think it would be ready for publication. Hugs Virc587 (talk) 15:27, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

unnecessary redirect

Hi, Nathan2055. You made the redirect [Talk:Orlando City SC (2010–2014)/Archives/ 1]]. But this disturbs User:ClueBot III/Indices/Talk:Orlando City SC (2010–2014). Thanks. Sawol (talk) 04:16, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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It is past time to make the caliber listing in Wiki correct. This is not an opinion nor does it need collaboration. Caliber is a unit "based" on inches, it is not designated as a measurement of inches. See wiki and any correct definition of caliber. The units are Caliber not inches. example: 22 LR is the 22 caliber Long Rifle cartridge. It is .22 inches in diameter, however the caliber is 22 as in 22/100ths of an inch. If using three digits it is in /1000'ths. When specifying cartridges they are specified in units of caliber not in units of inches, so the caliber is for example, 22 and the designation is 22 LR The space is also important it is not 22LR it is 22 LR. This spacing and units is also important for the Metric designations. mm is the correct units for millimeter. Using MM is not correct. the space is also important as they are separate items (The Measurement and the units) 5.56 x 45 mm is the correct way to designate such. Both are mm so this unit is best placed at the end to signify they are both in mm. If it is placed on the first and not the second one is unclear what the units are for the second. Again spacing is also important.

All of these caliber pages need to be fixed, both the title and the content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scimernet (talk • contribs) 22:29, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 March 2022

From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
We stand in solidarity with free knowledge.

News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
The diff that resulted in arrest and jail time in Belarus.

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
A Ukrainian Wikipedian volunteers to document the war.

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
Reporting from on the ground in Ukraine.

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
Holding up the elephants!

Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
For whom do the Bells toil?

In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
Lenin did not say "Wow, check out those yachts"!

Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures
And other research publications.

Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
The thought of cities being destroyed is unbearable.

Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
The Discussion Report returns with a diverse mix of community proposals.

Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
Plus, Desktop Improvements and a new uploading tool for Commons.

Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
Unclear whether storm will make landfall.

Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
Ukraine, Russia and Anna Sorokin.

Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
Things that go "boom" in the night.

Gallery: "All we are saying is, give peace a chance..."
The once-seen beauty of Ukraine, in high quality.

From the archives: Burn, baby burn
A look at when early backups of Wikipedia were recovered.

Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
There is such thing as over-citing.

Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
And other useful Tips of the Day.

On the bright side: The bright side of news
Happy-er current events.

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The Signpost: 24 April 2022

News and notes: Double trouble
The second case of Wikipedian persecution.

In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
What's hot in the media this month.

Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
Writing Wikipedia, joining the armed forces, and volunteering.

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
"Our proud Sparta bleeds too."

Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
Plus, a new status page and Desktop Improvements.

Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
We showcase the best content that Wikipedians offered this past month.

In focus: Editing difficulties on Russian Wikipedia
A multi-national encyclopedia tries to move forward.

Gallery: A voyage around the world with WLM winners
Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 winners announced.

Interview: On a war and a map
How a war map predated Wikimedia's map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
Why not just link to an article to attribute famous photographers?

Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
Plus deaths, films, and the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Recent research: Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images
And other new research findings

News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
The deceptively simple Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022.

Essay: The problem with elegant variation
An elegant Wikipedia essay.

Humour: Really huge message boxes
A serious statement of Wikipedia policy.

From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
A look at when the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was reorganized.

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worldcat

Hi Nathan. I have seen (first and as e.g. Eve Borsook) that the archiving of refs to the worldcat produces three links per item. Is this really the (nescessary) way, since all three are essentially the same? I thought simply asking doesn't hurt. MenkinAlRire 18:08, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

Hello Nathan2055,

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 865 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 829 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.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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The Signpost: 29 May 2022

From the team: A changing of the guard
Your two new Signpost Editors in Chief.

News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
Plus, Form 990, fundraising, RfA and UCoC.

Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
Community shortlisting in an affiliate-based process, and a poll for you to speak your mind.

Opinion: The Wikimedia Endowment – a lack of transparency
A little more information, please.

In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
A varied collection of "special operations", and interviews.

Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
Tales of hope, perseverance and even a little humor.

In focus: Measuring gender diversity in Wikipedia articles
A new approach at the article level.

Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
We summarize the drama for you.

WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
March 2020 WikiProject report interviewees return discussing project's evolution and future.

Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
Plus, Growth Features configuration, the Hackathon, and more.

Featured content: Featured content of April
Showcasing the very best articles, pictures, videos, and other contributions from Wikipedians last month.

Interview: Wikipedia's pride
An interview with queer Wikimedians.

Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
Stopping them from taking your photos from Commons.

Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
And other recent research findings.

Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
Helpful advice from Tips of the Day.

Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
Were Johnny and Amber exchanging blows?

News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
Photos raise awareness for nature protection and human impact on nature.

News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
New regulations governing online censorship.

Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing
A lighthearted video recalling the 2006 incident.

Gallery: Diving under the sea for World Oceans Day
Exploring Featured Pictures of the world's oceans.

From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
A look at when The Onion published an humorous article regarding Wikipedia.

Essay: How not to write a Wikipedia article
On creative works.

Humour: A new crossword
Test your word-puzzle skills!

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

Hello Nathan2055,

Backlog status

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).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

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.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 22907 articles, as of 16:00, 27 December 2025 (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.

Reminders

Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Notes

^ not including another ~6,000 redirects
^ The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

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The Signpost: 26 June 2022

News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
Office actions to secretly delete stuff when told to? Well, at least not if they're Putin's.

In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
Belarusian Mark Bernstein to serve 36 months of "home chemistry" for unapproved posting, Slate covers historically large adminship bid, UBI economist with goofy infobox caption thinks it's funny.

Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
A review of Wikipedia's fundraising messages and financial status.

Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled
Just three for the history books this month (or not).

Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it
Famed FP ace steps up to run main page outfit. Millions tremble in fear, or something.

Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
And who can forget the black-breasted buttonquail.

Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?
Don't be dumb, says math whiz: avoid the gambler's fallacy. Illustrated for your pleasure.

Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
Tables "like to socialize" and "share genes": ooh la la!

Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
What's the deal with Anita Forrer, redlinked woman of mystery who saved Schwarzenbach archives?

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
Google and Internet Archive sold on new product, more customers hoped to follow.

Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving
Plus editing stampedes for cheery subjects: shootings, deaths, and virus.

Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
Lest Southern Hemisphere be forgotten.

Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel
Can we offer you a nice crossword in this trying time?

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

New Page Patrol \| July 2022 Backlog Drive
On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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The Signpost: 1 August 2022

From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
The future of stuff? Who knows, but two articles were written by a computer this month.

News and notes: Information considered harmful
Wikipedia and human rights, publishers and the Internet Archive, Russia and Wikipedia.

In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
Real news or silly season?

Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
IGNORANCE IS NOT STRENGTH.

Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
"This year's victory was sad and dull."

Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
Candidate op-eds, open question spaces, and more.

Community view: Youth culture and notability
Was Minecraft YouTuber a GNG pass in life, or only in death?

Opinion: Criminals among us
Mass murderers, sex criminals, Ponzi schemers, insider traders, and business people.

Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
The last three months of arbitration through the eyes of a GPT-3

Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
GPT-3 whips it out.

Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
And when is 'today'?

Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July
The world shows its messy complexity.

Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
More lists expected next month.

Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
It doesn't have to be a pain in the butt!

In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool
PAC2 explains the item documentation template.

On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
Education, climate change, and journalism.

Essay: How to research an image
Zoom and enhance.

Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
And other new research findings.

Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
But Commons is a treasure trove.

Gallery: A backstage pass
All the things about theatre that the general public misses out on.

From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Ten years ago, Russian Wikipedia went dark in protest of new Russian laws. Today...

Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Strange mysteries of our animal world.

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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

Hello Nathan2055,

Backlog status

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.

Coordination: MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.

New reviewers: The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.

Reminders

Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

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NPP message

Hi Nathan2055,

Invitation

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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The Signpost: 31 August 2022

News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
jimmy@wikipedia.org donate@wikimedia.org (not a typo?) wants a moment of your time.

Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
Why the 'Festival Edition' was less than perfect, and what we can do better.

In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
But Annie Rauwerda is the real thing!

Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees
2022 elections, new page patrol, Fox News, Vector 2022, Royal Central and external links

News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
Change and stability.

In focus: Thinking inside the box
All there is to know about userboxen.

Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...
Sometimes Citation bot is not enough.

Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
Plus, the Private Incident Reporting System, and new bots & user scripts!

Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth
One exterior, one interior.

Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
Also includes a campaign to "Suck for Luck".

Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links
And other new research

Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
Because there really is no real theme this month you can grab onto to give a catchy title.

Essay: Delete the junk!
Some articles aren't worth saving

Gallery: A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)
Edinburgh in August.

Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
Because the Signpost needs a cartoon.

From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago
The Signpost looks back on The Signpost: New reports, conceived in a spirit of collaboration, and dedicated to the proposition of information and, uh, more information for all.

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

New Page Patrol \| October 2022 backlog drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here!
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The Signpost: 30 September 2022

News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
Candidates sign off and peel out – Sigalov is on and Peel is in.

In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers
Just what is NPP? Why does it need the WMF? Why does it need YOU?

In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
Was Katherine Maher a former encyclopedia salesperson?

Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
The latest from the Wikimedia Deutschland Movement Strategy & Global Relations Team.

Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
Source reliability, NPP, and appearance discussions.

Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship
Find out firsthand what our newest admin, ScottishFinnishRadish, does with a chainsaw.

Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?
Some Articles for Deletion just drag on.

Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos
Suggestion: promote removal of visible copyright signs of images under a CC-BY license.

Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future
And other research news.

Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
Repeat after me: I solemnly swear not to put "oh my!" in a headline.

Featured content: Farm-fresh content
This month: A FACBot upgrade, a completed list of lists.

Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2
Lo!

CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
When Commons gives you a blank space...

From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
Yes, again.

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Nathan2055,

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.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

Suggestions:

There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
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Backlog:

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!

Reminders

Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
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Allen Ballard Page question?

Hi Nathan, Thank you for editing my Allen Ballard draft page so quickly. I'm new to this. Can you say a little more about the edits you'd like to see? I see a note to find sources: "Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · NYT · WP Library". Do you mean add more sources? Or change the citations? Thanks, Sean Seanajmolloy (talk) 12:20, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I just added a few 1966 NYT citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanajmolloy (talk • contribs) 13:50, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 October 2022

From the team: A new goose on the roost
Or maybe the spit -- only time will tell.

News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet
News from Twitter, Commons and the WMF C-Suite.

News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
501(c)(3) application approved, Amazon donates another million.

In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias
Wading into several controversies.

Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
I can has Kremlin sockfarms?

Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?
And other new research publications.

Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship
The newest sysop speaks on the process that got them there.

Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
Featured content from October.

Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
The strength of Wikipedia is the peer review afterwards.

Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
More serial killers than you can shake a stick at!

From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver
What tales echo in these hallowed halls.

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The Signpost: 28 November 2022

News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
Joe Roe's close sows dough woes, manifestos... vetoes? overthrows?

In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
Ineffective altruism, return of the toaster, Jess Wade keeps wading through it, Russia censors searches, schools embrace Wikipedia.

Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC
An interview with Wikimedia's Chief Advancement Officer.

Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future
Oh, just one more thing... AI couldn't help but notice you use that punctuation a little bit more than most people...

Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
Are government goons prowling our fair encyclopedia?

Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality
Have we gotten past the point where better articles makes us a better encyclopedia? And what comes next?

Book review: Writing the Revolution
Heather Ford's new volume on Wikipedia, knowledge and power in the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
Facebook's Galactica demo provides a case study in large language models for text generation at scale: this one was silly, but we cannot ignore them forever.

Essay: The Six Million FP Man
Okay, six hundred, but either way, the bionic editor speaks.

Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff
Productively doing nothing

Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
And other research findings.

Featured content: A great month for featured articles
Do consider joining FPC, though: we need you.

Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia
A lost article from our deep annals

Traffic report: Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports
The weeks and weeks, as reviewed by Wikipedia's readers.

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Search upgrades, lawsuits, paid editing, and personal reflection.

CommonsComix: Joker's trick
A toast to good health, a health to good hoax, a hoax to good toast.

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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins
Plus admin update and cool tools for the new year.

In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more
Sometimes you need to read more than just the headlines!

Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
Interview of ComplexRational about their recent request for adminship.

Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
Wikifunctions might drag it down.

Essay: Mobile editing
Frustrations and successes.

Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
Congratulations.

Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
And other new research findings.

Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical
How Iranian press agencies help Wikipedia to reflect football in a better way.

Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
You head into the featured content report. Amongst the features you see astronauts, both Gilbert and Sullivan, Ursula K. Le Guin's incredibly talented mother, and Billboard charts. It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
It is mostly about football!

CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
In which a couple sentences of text recontextualises an image.

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Photographers, Sandy Hook, the shocking use of Nazi symbols in articles about Nazis, and "You wouldn't recognise a fact if it bit you in the ass".

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

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Backlog

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.

2022 Awards

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!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

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.

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The Signpost: 16 January 2023

From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again
It's not just a phase! Well, maybe it is.

Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
Long-time contributors imprisoned for 32 and 8 years after "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals".

News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
UCoC draws nearer, alongside the rise of the machines, in mainspace this time.

In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
Wikipedia's birthday, a cute dog, and nipplefruit.

Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
The depths of Commons, at your fingertips. Or eyetips.

In focus: Busting into Grand Central
Debunking widely-told myths about New York's grandest and centralest railway station.

Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
The economics of Wikipedia.

Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?
When notability conflicts with what it might be used for.

Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced
7,000,000-year Landmasses for Subduction discussions considered "too long".

Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany
Allow us to bring you back, back, back, to days of Wikifun rampant.

Featured content: Flip your lid
...and your ambigram. Also: Boring lava fields, birds of Tuvalu, and commelinid family names with etymologies.

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
War, sports, and all types of chaos.

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The editor with five million edits, the death of Aaron Swartz, and rollback.

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The Signpost: 4 February 2023

From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
Last issue's vow for "something to show for these efforts" revisited.

News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
As well as the continued rise of the machines, and Amanda Keton's WMF departure.

Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia
Section 230 before the Supreme Court in two cases, with broad implications for the web.

Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
Or Santos on Wikipedia?

Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation
WMF issues salvo in latest battles of the Posting Wars

In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate
The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild files claim in Tartu County Court against WMEE head Ivo Kruusamägi and Reform Party politicians.

Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage
English Wikipedia among most "global" and Thai Wikipedia's among most "Western", but non-Western works neglected overall.

Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
And other new research publications.

WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
An interview with those who pitch in together

Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
Letting you find out about yourself (and others).

Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
An exceptionally good period for featured articles.

Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
Can we have a chat?

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The Signpost: 20 February 2023

News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines pass, Wikimedia Enterprise financials, GPTs gone wild, and a speedy deletion criterion removed.

In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
Also: Russ Baker's BLP, the digital commons, the NSA, and more on Pakistan.

Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
Gautam Adani and his companies possibly behind scheme featuring scores of socks, infiltration of articles for creation process.

Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia
GPT: friend or foe?

Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
Your one-stop hooker's handbook.

Featured content: Eden, lost.
But much else to be found.

Gallery: Love is in the air
Lovey-dovey stuff for Valentine's.

Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world
And maybe a side of AI.

From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
Also: let's delete images of Muhammed! Let's delete portals!

Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground
Yesterday's controversies, reported on today.

Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
A musical interlude.

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
A lack of transparency.

Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
Using failed AI Galactica's worst mistakes to test a new AI.

In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
Probable answers: No, no, maybe?

Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
Seriously, even the chef has a major military history connection.

Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
And other new research publications.

From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Wikizine, Wikipedia Zero, Single User Login, and Wales allegedly editing his girlfriend's article.

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
Be part of the Wikimania 2023 program!

Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
One year in: volunteering, science, art, and candlelight.

In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
Everything is broken, again.

Featured content: Way too many featured articles
Seriously, it's only a fortnight's worth!

Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
An interview with Wikipedia's newest admin.

Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
All the pop culture that's fit to print, with a sprinkling of cocaine (bear).

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The Signpost: 03 April 2023

From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
Errata regretted.

News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
Skynet believed to be in violation of the new Universal Code of Conduct.

In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
Taking the phrase "gaming the system" to the next level.

Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
Desysop case request still in accept/decline phase.

Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
Thou gildest e'en the Signpost's trade.

Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
And a dataset of article revisions to provide a corpus for promotional content.

From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
A retrospective of the best and worst pranks.

Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
Do important banks sock? Maybe – but don't grab your money and run just yet!

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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
Plus: Wikipedians get own Mastodon account, and Wikiprojects move to uniform quality assessment.

In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
Covering Russia, Poland, the Vatican, the U.S., and the "perilously thin" boundary between real life and Wikipedia.

Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
The prolific editor, former Arbitration Committee member and co-founder of Wikimedia New York City died in April.

Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
No news is good news, and this isn't no news.

Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming
The problem we haven't solved.

Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth
Can Wikipedia help keep AI agents honest?

Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
In this article, we will look at The Signpost statistics. More precisely: Signpost article statistics by year, TOP 20 titles of Signpost articles, TOP 20 article authors, and the home wikis of article authors.

News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
First of a two part series summarising the priorities for the Wikimedia Foundation's next fiscal year (July 2022–June 2023) including staffing, budget and other changes, and how to provide your feedback.

Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
And somehow made it more readable than when it's not rhyming.

From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
2011 and on.

Humour: The law of hats
The Selfish Hatnote, the Disambiguation Singularity, and other information-theoretic conundra of encyclopedic note.

Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
Wrestling bumps world-changing technology from the #1 spot, imagine that.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Amanda Spann

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A tag has been placed on Amanda Spann, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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@KH-1: That was my bad, an edit conflict occurred while the page was being moved and resulted in me somehow recreating the page. Please see Special:Permalink/1152568522, Special:Diff/1152568581, and Special:Diff/1152568632. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 01:12, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.Deb (talk) 18:49, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All good. I was about to undo the notification but got into another edit conflict!-KH-1 (talk) 01:14, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Likewise

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
... and at WP:Mastodon.

In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
Fake fines, false alarms and faux headlines!

Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
And other new research publications.

Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
...Layout lovers will hate this featured content's title.

Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
There will likely be more to say next issue.

News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
The second article in a series describing the priorities and work of the Wikimedia Foundation. The article invites Wikimedians to collaborate with the Foundation.

Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023
First national-level conference in the Indian subcontinent in seven years.

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Your draft article, Draft:Likewise

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The Signpost: 22 May 2023

News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation
... and a referendum on Jimmy Wales' traditional role as a final court of appeal in arbitration policy.

In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
Opposing scholars on ArbCom case.

Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
Includes stronger sourcing restriction, and a nod to the UCoC.

Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
And other new research results.

Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
Bird is the word for featured pictures.

Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
Celebs and Bollywood film dominated reader interest, as usual, but with a new persistent presence on the lists of a certain AI.

WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference
An online conference with 12 distributed trans-local in-person meetup "Nodes" on 5 continents.

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The Signpost: 5 June 2023

News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Building Committee Commences Command By Convening.

In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again
Also: Goog gets delist ask for en-wp yt-dl ar-ticle, wacky football fails.

Featured content: Poetry under pressure
Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity - explain it if you can.

Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
Plus mortalities, and movies about mermaids.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Nathan2055,

Backlog

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.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
Problems with emergency emails sent to WMF.

In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia
... and an AI writer explains why he just bought a paper encyc.

Featured content: Content, featured
Poetry still present.

Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
And other new research findings.

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New pages patrol needs your help!

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The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

News and notes: Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter
... and a new Elections Committee.

Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
A few editors who fought many times to keep advertisements out.

In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed
Are you now, or have you ever been, a Wikipedia editor?

Featured content: Incensed
In which featured pictures have a pleasing orange/blue colour scheme for some reason.

Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
Don't worry, they are mostly harmless.

Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions
Mission to ensure stability in conflict-ridden area.

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brad thomas soldier article

hey Nathan, are you still active? Dirites (talk) 20:08, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Article creation

Hello Nathan2055. I would like to create an article on Rahul Shetty, a notable dancer and choreographer known for his Bollywood dance numbers. He has regularly choreographed for various shows since the 2010s but recently got recognition. There were three attempts to create articles under the name Rahul Shetty before, but they have all been deleted. Please assit. Thank you

08:50, 10 September 2020 Cabayi talk contribs deleted page Draft:Rahul Shetty (G5: Created by a banned or blocked user (Shamimanm) in violation of ban or block) Tag: Twinkle (thank)
18:41, 10 August 2020 Nathan2055 talk contribs deleted redirect Draft:Rahul Shetty by overwriting (G6: Deleted to make way for move) (thank)
14:15, 10 August 2020 Index Crin talk contribs moved page Draft:Rahul Shetty to Rahul Shetty (revert) (thank)

Arjunsoumithran (talk) 04:41, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Arjunsoumithran, that was one previous attempt being moved around, not three. It was deleted because of who wrote it. WP:BMB. If you think Rahul Shetty is notable, please, go ahead. Cabayi (talk) 07:28, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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article: Brad Thomas (soldier)

Hi,

I've submitted the article for review, could you check it? thanks! Dirites (talk) 09:15, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
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In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled
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Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
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Humour: Letters from the editors
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

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Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

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The Signpost: 25 April 2024

In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics, and another wikirace on live TV
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News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
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WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
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WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
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Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
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Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem
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The Signpost: 16 May 2024

News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
WMF trustee elections, U4C results, Italian ArbCom, WMF and Endowment annual reports.

Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
We don't know yet, but there is some encouraging news, nevertheless.

Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
Some go out with a bang, some with a whimper, few with much of a comprehensible explanation.

In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis
Plus, the WMF joins the Unicode Consortium, Chris Albon talks about AI tools on Wikipedia, communities address under-representation on the site.

Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure
More queries are failing, and more frequently, so what is to be done?

Comix: Generations
It do be like that sometimes.

Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
With cricket and some cute baby reindeer!

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023
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Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
A new model for collaboration between the WMF and the community?

Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
Hoaxes and the genesis of information.

In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
First line, sixth paragraph, body text or unified Reich?

News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
Outlining progress against the four key goals

Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies
A letter.

Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
And various research findings about Wikidata and knowledge graphs.

Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
No we didn't write it, but we tried to cite it

Essay: No queerphobia
An essay.

Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
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Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
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Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
Some stuff's only okay in the privacy of the home.

Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox
Project in shambles – "it had never occurred to us that this was possible".

Concept: Palimpsestuous
Hypertext.

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
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Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
Will we weather the storm?

In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
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Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
Debate unsettled after seventeen years.

In the media: War and information in war and politics
Advocacy organizations, a journalist, mycophobes, conservatives, leftists, photographers, and a disinformation task force imagine themselves in Wikipedia.

Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
A journey to a sister project.

Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov, Hyacinth, and PirjanovNurlan
Rest in peace.

Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
An article about Etika's appeal and legacy in pop culture.

Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
A virtual visit to the Inland Northwest.

Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections
"Simply not good enough".

Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares
How well do you know the main page (no peeking)?

Humour: A joke
...!

Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn
Special:Diff/1 and related techno-trivia more complicated than you'd think.

Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
And other new publications on systemic bias and other topics.

Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
Elections, movies, sports.

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The Signpost: 22 July 2024

Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
Iconic photograph, invalid fair use exemption criterion #3a claimant, or both?

News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
Establishment of power-sharing agreement between WMF corporation and volunteer user community in limbo.

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter
Natalia Tymkiv, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, on the Charter vote results, the resolution, meeting minutes, and proposed next steps.

Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession
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In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?
Failing forks, smart and well-researched stories, LGBT rights, and oral sex!

Obituary: JamesR
Rest in peace.

Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
Do you know these Wikipedia quotes?

Humour: Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom
Dems in disarray, GOP in chaos — analysts say news expected, but few can predict how race will shape up from here.

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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
A STORM over an AI that writes articles. And other notes of interest.

Recent research: STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems
And other findings.

In focus: Twitter marks the spot
Musk's Twitter acquisition and rebranding have caused long debates on Wikipedia.

News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded.
And Movement Charter ratification vote comments have been published

Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
Possibly paid articles.

Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing
HouseBlaster's reflections on his RfA. In particular, do not ask superlative questions.

Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
Just normally weird!

Humour: I'm proud to be a template
Come in, you whippersnapper, have a cup of tea.

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked
JCW compilation now tracks free DOIs, Wiki Loves Monuments getting started, WMF's status as UN observer stymied by China for fourth time.

In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?
Updates from the Portland pol's case, the war in Gaza, and other Wiki-related reports.

Recent research: Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment
And other new research findings

News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election
Who are they, why are they running and what are they bringing to the Board?

Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024
What all happened in Katowice?

Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year
Hannah Clover shares her fondest memories of her first Wikimania.

Traffic report: After the gold rush
The Olympics (yay!) and the American election (oh no).

Humour: Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor
"I can't remember whether he is an incompetent moron, or an incorrigible POV warrior, or some other thing, but either way, to hell with him."

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The Signpost: 26 September 2024

In the media: Courts order Wikipedia to give up names of editors, legal strain anticipated from "online safety laws"
ANI (but probably not the one you're thinking of), bias and bans, crisis and Clover, Engelhorn's euros, and will the zoomers inherit the project?

Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
In response to a takedown request, Wikipedia editors reached a consensus on how to handle it appropriately.

Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics
User Hawkeye7 opens up on his experience as a media representative following the Australian team at the latest Summer Paralympics in Paris.

Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing
User asilvering reflects on their recent successful request for adminship.

News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?
More changes to RfA on the way in October, final results for the U4C elections revealed, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?
Picture this: medicine, drugs, JFK, Cleopatra, anachronism, and global catastrophe.

Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
And other recent research publications.

Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time
Band reunions and Beetlejuice!

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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
Find more about the new Trustees, the first election cycle for admins, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
And other searchings and findings.

In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
Perplexing persistence, pay to play, potential president's possible plagiarism, crossword crossover to culture, and a wish come true!

Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
Can it be fun to address systemic bias? Eighty participants say yes, it can!

Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
Help me make it through the night!

Book review: The Editors
A novel about us, from the point of view of three of us.

Humour: The Newspaper Editors
Where do I even start?

Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
Pasta, acronyms, and one computer-crashing talk page.

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
But not everybody is able to legally read Wikipedia, and not everybody is able to legally edit Wikipedia.

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation shares ANI lawsuit updates; first admin elections appoint eleven sysops; first admin recalls opened; temporary accounts coming soon?
Defamation, privacy, censorship, and elections.

In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
Plus human knowledge and Ozzie places!

Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
Asian News International, the Delhi High Court, and the encyclopedia.

Gallery: Why you should take more photos and upload them
Your photos are more valuable than you may realize.

In focus: Questions and answers about the court case
What is going on?

Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?
And Tata too!

Technology report: Wikimedia tech, the Asian News International case, and the ultra-rare BLACKLOCK
IP address privacy tools, and mysterious archive sites.

Humour: Man quietly slinks away from talk page argument after realizing his argument dumb, wrong
Many such cases.

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The Signpost: 18 November 2024

News and notes: Open letter to WMF about court case breaks one thousand signatures, big arb case declined, U4C begins accepting cases
Many cases: many such cases.

In the media: Summons issued for Wikipedia editors by Indian court, "Gaza genocide" RfC close in news, old admin Gwern now big AI guy, and a "spectrum of reluctance" over Australian place names
Publisher versus intermediary, bias versus verifiability, and probing questions about Gwern's personal finances.

Recent research: SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"
And other recent publications.

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports: FY 2023–2024
An overview of the finances and an explanation of what the numbers mean.

Traffic report: Well, let us share with you our knowledge, about the electoral college
It's so over.

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The Signpost: 12 December 2024

News and notes: Arbitrator election concludes
New arbs to be seated in January.

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5
Will the fifth try at achieving peace be a mudfight, or something better?

Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited
Should old acquaintance be forgot?

Op-ed: On the backrooms
An editor's reflection on social capital and their changing relationship with Wikipedia culture. by Tamzin

In focus: Are Wikipedia articles representative of Western or world knowledge?
Wikipedia aims to represent the sum of all knowledge. Is there an imbalance between Western countries and the rest of the world.

In the media: Like the BBC, often useful but not impartial
Ballooning British bias bombast!

Traffic report: Something Wicked for almost everybody
Fighting and killing – on screen, in politics, and in the ring – competes for attention with Disney.

Opinion: Worm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing
The importance of feedback.

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New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

News and notes: Responsibilities and liabilities as a "Very Large Online Platform"
What the VLOP – findings of an outside auditor for "responsibilization" of Wikipedia. Plus, new EU Commissioners for tech policy, WLE 2024 winners, and a few other bits of news from the Wikipedia world.

Op-ed: Beeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everything
A personal essay.

Opinion: Graham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subject
Explanations for what led to it and what it was like to undergo it.

In the media: Delhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF case
Plus, the dangers of editing, Morrissey's page gets marred, COVID coverage critique, Kimchi consultation, kids' connectivity curtailed, centenarian Claudia, Christmas cramming, and more.

From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?
Who's news?

Recent research: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality
And other new research findings.

Humour: Backlash over Santa Claus' Wikipedia article intensifies
Good faith edits REVERTED and accounts BLOCKED.

Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
Peace on earth, goodwill to all!

Traffic report: Was a long and dark December
Wicked war, martial law, killing, death and an Indian movie with a new chess champ!

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The Signpost: 15 January 2025

From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
The 20th anniversary of The Signpost.

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
A lot of psephology!

In the media: Will you be targeted?
HUMINT or humbug?

Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
Hallelujah!

Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia
Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.

Opinion: Reflections one score hence
Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.

News and notes: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling free
Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.

Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia
The latest crusade?

In focus: Twenty years of The Signpost: What did it take?
Our alumni speak!

Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.

Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots.

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
But an open language model is ready to help.

News and notes: Let's talk!
The WMF executive team delivers a new update; plus, the latest EU policy report, good-bye to the German Wikipedia's Café, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
Editor Fathoms Below reminisces over their successful RfA from February 2024.

In the media: Wikipedia is an extension of legacy media propaganda, says Elon Musk
Plus, reports on the ARBPIA5 case, new concerns over projects targeting Wikipedia editors, John Green gets his sponsor flowers, and other news.

Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
Wikimedians and newbies celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia in the Brooklyn Central Library. Special guests Stephen Harrison and Clay Shirky joined in conversation.

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
Ending with some bans, and a new set of editing sanctions.

Traffic report: A wild drive
The start of the year was filled with a few unfortunate losses, tragic disasters, emerging tech forces and A LOT of politics.

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The Signpost: 27 February 2025

News and notes: Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons
French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
"The only time I ever took photos in my entire life".

Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year
From patrolling new edits to uploading photos or joining a campaign, you can count on the Wikimedia platform to be up and running — in your language, anywhere in the world. That is, except for a couple of minutes during the equinoctes.

In the media: The end of the world
Or just the end of Wikipedia as we know it?

Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".

Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing
User Sennecaster shares her thoughts on her recent RfA and the aspects that might have played a role in making it successful.

Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?
What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?

Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors
Liberté, liberté chérie.

Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars
Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.

Essay: The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source
Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!

Obituary: Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)
Turkish linguist wrote about languages and plants; Brazilian informaticist studied Wikimedia projects and education.

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The Signpost: 22 March 2025

From the editor: Hanami
It's an ecstasy, my spring.

Opinion: Talking about governments editing Wikipedia
Let them know what you think!

News and notes: Deeper look at takedowns targeting Wikipedia
Read this, then forget all about it.

In the media: The good, the bad, and the unusual
Life on the Wiki as usual!

Recent research: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?
And WMF invites multi-year research fund proposals

Traffic report: All the world's a stage, we are merely players...
The Oscars, politics, and death elbow for the most attention.

Gallery: WikiPortraits rule!
The photographers are the celebrities!

Essay: Unusual biographical images
And very unusual biographical images.

Obituary: Rest in peace
Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

Special report: Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison
Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.

In focus: WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear
Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?

In the media: Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International
Defeat, or just a setback?

News and notes: 35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack
Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.

Op-ed: How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!

Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas
What is to be done?

Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing
Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.

Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...
Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!

News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view
The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.

Comix: Thirteen
Gadzooks!

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New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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The Signpost: 1 May 2025

News and notes: India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment
As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world

In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status
Scrapers, an Indian lawsuit, and a crash-or-not-crash?

Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia
And other new research findings.

Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom
And don't bite those newbies!

Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions
And don't bite those newbies!

Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man
Television dramas, televised sports, film, the Pope, and ... bioengineering at the top of the list?

Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media
Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.

News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan
A look at some product and tech highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan (July–December 2024).

Humour: Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts
Hey! At least it is something!

Comix: By territory
Zounds!

In focus: Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges?
Would a billion articles be a good idea?

Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia
There's a lot more to this than you think.

Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing
I wonder about having crats, but decided to become one anyway.

Gallery: Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024
Just beautiful photos!

Obituary: JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher
Rest in Paradise.

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In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide
And other courtroom drama.

Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?
And how he knows it: all about lawyer letters and editing logs.

In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions
Why the language barrier is not the only impediment to navigating sources from another culture.

Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie
And QR codes for every page!

Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing
When an editor is ready to become staff at a public library (not a brother in a fraternity).

Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)
Rest in peace.

Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)
The technology behind it, and the other stuff.

Comix: Collection
Gadzooks!

From the archives: Humor from the Archives
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The Signpost: 24 June 2025

News and notes: Happy 7 millionth!
Admins arrested in Belarus.

In the media: Playing professor pong with prosecutorial discretion
Pardon our alliteration!

Disinformation report: Pardon me, Mr. President, have you seen my socks?
A get-out-of-jail card!

Recent research: Wikipedia's political bias; "Ethical" LLMs accede to copyright owners' demands but ignore those of Wikipedians
And other new research publications.

Traffic report: All Sinners, a future, all Saints, a past
Holy men and not-as-holy movies.

News from Diff: Call for candidates is now open: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Get your self-nomination in by July 2nd!

Opinion: Russian Wiki-fork flails, failing readers and editors
After two years RuWiki fails to thrive.

Debriefing: EggRoll97's RfA² debriefing
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Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 3)
Every thing you need to know about the Wikimedia Foundation?

Comix: Hamburgers
Egad!

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News and notes: Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!
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In the media: How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?
And how do we know?

WikiProject report: WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles
Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.

In focus: Wikimania 2025: Connecting Wikimedians across the world for 20 years
Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.

Recent research: Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia
As well as "hermeneutic excursions" and other scientific research findings.

News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024
The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024

Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.

Comix: Divorce
Drawn this century!

Opinion: Women are somewhat under-represented on the English-language Wikipedia, and other observations from analysis
How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap

Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 4): The Future Of Wikimedia and Conclusion
Annual plans, external trends, infrastructure, equity, safety, and effectiveness. What does it all mean?

Obituary: Pvmoutside, Atomicjohn, Rdmoore6, Jaknouse, Morven, Martin of Sheffield, MarnetteD, Herewhy, BabelStone
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: God only knows
Wouldn't it be nice without billionaires, scandals, deaths, and wars?

Humour: New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia
If you are too blasé for Mr. Blasé and don't give a FAC.

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News and notes: Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them
Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.

Discussion report: News from ANI, AN, RSN, BLPN, ELN, FTN, and NPOVN
A review of June, July and August.

Disinformation report: The article in the most languages
Who is this guy?

Community view: News from the Villages Pump
Threads since June.

In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches
And slop.

Crossword: Accidental typography
It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.

Comix: best-laid schemes o' wikis an' men
gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!

Traffic report: I'm not the antichrist or the Superman
Everybody's Somebody's Fool.

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New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

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News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court
UK Online Safety Act remains undefeated.

In the media: Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks
Plus Wiki rules, Wiki Spin, and physicists get street cred!

Disinformation report: A guide for Congress
The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.

Recent research: Minority-language Wikipedias, and Wikidata for botanists
And other new research findings.

Technology report: A new way to read Wikisource
Tis true: there's magic in the web of it.

Traffic report: Check out some new Weapons, weapon of choice
With the usual mix of war, death, super heroes, a belt, and Wednesday.

Essay: The one question
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News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report
This time "not merely negative".

In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained
Wickedpedia wrangles post-truth politics.

Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client
Unexpected news!

Discussion report: Sourcing, conduct, policy and LLMs: another 1,339 threads analyzed
Fifty hot topics from fourteen noticeboards.

Community view: The pressing questions of the modern WWW, as seen from the Village Pump
Policy, politics, icons, captchas, and LLMs.

Recent research: Is Wikipedia a merchant of (non-)doubt for glyphosate?; eight projects awarded Wikimedia Research Fund grants
And other recent publications.

Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it
When to walk away.

Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name
Celebrities, deaths and software.

Comix: A grand spectacle
All invited!

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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

News and notes: Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away
And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.

Special report: The election that isn't
Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.

Interview: The BoT bump
Who was bumped and why?

In the media: An incident at WikiConference North America; WMF reports AI-related traffic drop and explains Wikipedia to US conservatives
...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".

Traffic report: One click after another
Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.

Humour: Wikipedia pay rates
Don't get too excited before you read this.

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The Signpost: 10 November 2025

News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends
ArbCom elections draw close, and Wikimania '27 in Santiago.

Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all
It ain't a five course meal, according to one of our interviewees.

Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame
Wikipedia's new rival, political controversy in Italy and other Wiki-reports.

Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants
$400,000 USD in total funding: what did we get?

Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again
Does it shed any light on particular topics that are better suited to LLM-generation than others?

Obituary: Struway
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: The documentaried, the disowned, the deceased, Diwali and the Dodgers
You know your man is working hard, he's worth a deuce.

Comix: Head of steam
'Sblood!

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News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
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In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex
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Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
And other recent publications about contradictions and retractions.

Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
At work on Wikipedia whitewashing. How much should they be paid?

Traffic report: It's a family affair
Even in these times there is something to be thankful for!

Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner write a book inspired by Wikipedia. What's in it?

From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.

Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
A conversation about being the mascot of Wikipedia.

Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
Using ChatGPT to fact-check a month's worth of Today's featured articles.

Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
A recap of the latest convention of the Italian Wiki-community, held in Catania from 7–9 November.

Comix: Madness
It could happen to anyone.

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The Signpost: 17 December 2025

Interview: Part 1: Bernadette Meehan
Say hello to the new WMF CEO.

News and notes: We're gonna have a party!
And a new WMF CEO!

In the media: The "bigg" bosses: Robertsky and the Pope
Pay up, big guys!

Traffic report: Death and stranger things
And going for the FIFA prize!

Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
Something old and something new!

Obituary: Michal Lewi (Iwelam) and Alan R. King (A R King)
Rest in peace.

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New pages patrol January–February 2026 Backlog drive

January–February 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol

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[1] t including another ~6,000 redirects

[2] The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

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