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Black women and endometrial cancer

Hi Taketa, the source I have says that those statistics are for White and Black women in general, not just in America. What source are you working from? I'm happy to send you what I'm working with if you want. Best, Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 21:01, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi Keilana, I reverted because your edit changed what it said without stating any source, and I thought you simply assumed that it was logical. Feel free to make the changes and add your sources to the article. All the best, Taketa (talk) 21:10, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Oh, okay, no worries! It was cited to Hoffman at the end of the paragraph. :) Thanks, Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 21:29, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you for the notification and for taking the time. I will follow the proces and help in any way I can. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 21:41, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Jamesx12345, thank you for the notice. I am very glad to see the article has been added to the list of good articles. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 16:38, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

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Rijksmonumenten

Hi Taketa

I noticed that you are active in creating and improving Dutch Rijksmonument articles. Great -- I don't find the time but would love to do more.

A while ago I created a template Rijksmonument that creates a small info box which automatically links through to the Monumentregister. The template is fairly simple to add as it goes {{Rijksmonument|MONUMENT NUMBER}}. Applying the template systematically has a few advantages. If websites of the register change, a change to the template should solve it for all. The What is linking here overview of the template gives an overview of all Monuments in Wikipedia. So please consider using it. All the best Arnoutf (talk) 16:52, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Arnoutf, I had noticed the template and had considered using it but decided not to because I did not see the purpose at the time. I will consider using it in my future works. All the best, Taketa (talk) 17:11, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

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The fact that this editor has not edited in four years does not mean that he does not exist. Or am I missing something? Unless I am, the speedy tags on his pages, which I have removed and you replaced, are not appropriate.--Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:35, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Created by another user, as you say, who made a number of edits but nothing since 2010. I think that the other, empty account was made in error; my apologies for arguing the point. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:44, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

About the list of translators

Hello Taketa, I've noticed you are the one working on the list of Translators. I'm just wondering if you could keep me on there, I am going to work with the Norwegian and Danish Wikipedias for now, but I'm still around and checking translation request pages on this Wikipedia for any languages I can do. Thank you. --Kanashimi Hyoketsu 03:03, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Kanashimi, I am checking everyones activity, and you are very active. Because you are very active, I made your name bold on the Norwegian-to-English section. This will make it easier for people to find active translators. So you are not only on the list, you are on the top of the list :). All the best, Taketa (talk) 05:48, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

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	Thank you for your work on Wikipedia:Translators available. Sorting and cleaning up this long list will help a lot of people. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:30, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi WhatamIdoing, thank you for the WikiLove. I very much appreciate it, and am glad to help with keeping the translators list up to date. All the best, Taketa (talk) 04:22, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Xaosflux, thanks. I have read the guidelines and will ofcourse follow them. All the best, Taketa (talk) 19:51, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

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You mentioned at IRC that admin -jem- says that he is a CU confirmed sock of JimmyTwoShoes fan. He is now claiming no relationship. I cannot find jem. A Spanish admin perhaps? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:58, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Found. Please see here. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:59, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

@Anna Frodesiak:, thank you for the notice. -Jem- was on IRC at #wikipedia-es, using the name "Jem" and a Wikipedia cloak identifying them as Wikipedia user -Jem-. We spoke in the Spanish restricted anti-vandalism chat with several es.wikipedia admins present. -Jem- gave the link confirming multiple account abuse, which I posted at WP:CHUS, and said it was CU confirmed. I see that you have contacted -Jem-, so that should clarify. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. I will follow the situation. All the best, Taketa (talk) 17:48, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

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translation of a dutch sentence

Your user name is in the list of wp:Translators available#Dutch to English. I wonder if you can help me with a translation of the following sentence to English: "Er is nooit een artikel van mij gepubliceerd in een scientific tijdschrift." thanks.

I do not want to waste your time, but if you would like to hear about the background, here it is. The sentence source is an interview with Norman Finkelstein in a dutch newspaper. I added a translation of this sentence to his article, but 3 different users claims that the translation is wrong. When asked what is the problem they do not reply. So it is stuck. Ykantor (talk) 13:04, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Ykantor, your translation is correct. I have had a look at the article. I think the main problem is context. You put the text in the article a bit weird. A single sentence quotation, which cannot be understood without context, is not a good way to start a section. It does not make sence without a bit more sentences around it to explain the situation. The situation is explained afterwards, so maybe find a different spot to put it, more at the end of the scientific career section, after all the conflicts have been explained. Or maybe somewhere in the middle with some extra text. All the best, Taketa (talk) 14:33, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

It is not true that no-one has replied to Ykantor's query. There has in fact been several hundred words of discussion on this very point. I would appreciate it if, rather than simply stating "your translation is correct", you could offer your own translation of this sentence, to help resolve the ambiguities. Thanks. RolandR (talk) 16:37, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

As literal as possible: "Never has an article of mine been published in a scientific magazine." All the best, Taketa (talk) 16:51, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Sorry to persist on this, but the tense really matters here. Does the Dutch translation of his statement (presumably originally in English) quote him as saying that no article of his has ever at any time in the past been published in a scientific magazine, or that no article of his is ever now published? You comment above that the context is the main problem, and this ambiguity reflects that. Also, since he is a historian, what do you understand by the word "wetenschappelijk"? Is it "scientific", as we would use the term in English, or is it broader: scholarly, acadenic or similar? Many thanks. RolandR (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Hmm, taking the paragraph the sentence is in as background. He states how he is treated in the United States academic circles/environment if one critices Israel like he did in his work "Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict". Everything else in the paragraph is about how he is treated in the United States. The "er" in the sentence can both refer to the United states or be meant in general, I cannot be sure. A few sentences before he says he has never been able to get a job, this is clearly an exageration, and the never been published may be the same; never been published in any prominent journals. You ask whether "wetenschappelijk" in this case is "scientific". I believe he means scientific journals, but then again, from this paragraph I do not have enough context to be sure. You asked for the tense is this case, this is never ever. All the best, Taketa (talk) 22:26, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

It's still unclear. Does the sentence say "I have never ever been published" (which would be untrue), or "I am never ever published"? The difference, in terms of the overall meaning of the statement, is immense; it is the difference between "My work is too insignificant to publish" and "I am paying the price for my views". RolandR (talk) 02:07, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

The sentence says "I have never ever been published". Even if it is untrue, it is what it means. This is very clear in Dutch because it says "is nooit", the other meaning it would have been "wordt nooit". As you can see he also said he has never ever been able to get a job, which is obviously untrue. (Possible interpretations:) His intend may be an exageration, a certain type of job and a certain type of scientific journal. It could also be that he is referring to a past period in which his statements were true, but that his current situation, at the time of the quote, is better. However it would be an implied meaning from the context and not a literal meaning of what he says. All the best, Taketa (talk) 07:23, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Ik ben geen martelaar, zegt Finkelstein, als hij vreest dat hij die indruk aan het wekken is. "Elke vijf jaar oude Palestijnse jongen die een steen gooide naar Israelische soldaten heeft meer moed dan ik. Maar als je wilt weten hoe je wordt behandeld in het Amerikaanse academische milieu, als je kritiek hebt op Israel zoals ik heb gedaan in Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict dan is het dit: ik heb nooit een baan kunnen krijgen. Ik ben op Hunter College een adjunct- leraar, wat zoveel is als liftjongen. Mijn inkomen ligt tussen de 15.000 en de 18.000 dollar, ver onder de armoedegrens. "Als dit appartement er aardig uitziet, komt het doordat de meubels van mijn ouders er nog staan. Ze stierven allebei in 1995, ik was al ingetrokken in hun woning. Ik kon schoon schip maken en alle meubels eruit gooien, of het zo laten. Ik heb het zo gelaten, dat was ook een manier om het te verwerken. "Ik ben één keer uitgenodigd voor een sollicitatiegesprek, op de universiteit van San Francisco, een klein jezuïetencollege. Er is nooit een artikel van mij gepubliceerd in een wetenschappelijk tijdschrift. Ik mag op Hunter nooit college geven over de jodenuitroeiing, alleen over de geschiedenis van de politieke theorie. Ik geef ook zelden overdag college, meestal 's avonds. Ik heb mijn prijs betaald.

I am not a marter, says Finkelstein, when he fears he is creating that impression. "Every five year old Palestinian boy that throws a stone at an Israeli soldier has more courage then me. But if you want to know how you get treated in the American academic environment, if you criticise Israel, like I did in Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict then this is it: I have never been able to get a job. On Hunter I am an adjunct-teacher, which is as much as an elevatorboy. My income is between 15.000 and 18.000 dollar, far below the poverty line. "If this appartment looks nice, it is because the furniture from my parents is still there. They both died in 1995, I was already living in their house. I could make a clean start and throw out all furniture, or leave it like it is. I left it like it is, that was also a way to process it. "I was one time invited for a solicitation interview, at the university of San Francisco, a small Jesuit college. Never has an article of mine been published in a scientific magazine. On Hunter I am never allowed to give a college about the extermination of the Jews, only about the history of the political theory. I also rarely teach during daytime, mostly in the evening. I have payed my due.

I hope this helps. All the best, Taketa (talk) 22:38, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the translation. User:RolandR is one of those 3 users that claimed that the translation is wrong but have not said what is wrong. However, the secret is exposed here. He apparently wants the translation to be "I am never ever published" rather than your translation "Never has an article of mine been published in a scientific magazine". Ykantor (talk) 07:01, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

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My recent edit

A reader pointed out (OTRS 2015013110000591) that the article is about Kathryn Adams Doty, born in 1920, while you added a photo of KATHRYN ADAMS, born in 1897. That photo was taken in 1920, which may have led to the confusion.

Let me know if you think I got it wrong.--S Philbrick(Talk) 02:51, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi S Philbrick, thank you for letting me know. I will correct it on Wikidata (where I got the image from) and on our sister projects. Sorry for taking up your time. Keep up the good work. All the best, Taketa (talk) 16:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Tomandjerry211, thank you! That is always great news :). Thank you for your time to review the article. I greatly appreciate it. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 15:14, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

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Medical Translation

Hey Taketa. I am going to be at the meeting in the Netherlands the 8th to 12 in the Hague. Will you be there?

Wondering if you would be interested in helping to integrate translations of article from En into Nl? We have a bunch here [1]

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@Doc James: - Hi Doc James, yes I can integrate them. But I will need a password it seems to log in. I don't see a link on how to make an account. Please send me an email via wikimail, Special:Emailuser. If there is a place where I can create an account you can send me the link, or if you can make an account I will send you my email. In the Hague I am one of the volunteers on Sunday. So we can meet :). All the best, Taketa (talk) 22:47, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Details are here [2] Will email Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:04, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

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Image added to Flat leaf sponge on en:

Hi Taketa, How do you identify the taxon for this photo? Regards, • • • Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 14:01, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Pbsouthwood, I followed your own identitfication on Commons [3]. If this is not correct please let me know and I can make changes on several Wikipedias. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 14:04, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

It is a best guess identification based on a photo in a local field guide. I am not an expert and sponge taxonomy is notoriously problematic. I was hoping you had a better method, or were independently agreeing:-/ I will leave it to your discretion. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 07:43, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

I am not an expert either. I checked some images for comparison before adding this particular one, because it did not have an obvious name or description and I wanted to be sure the category was correct, but it was too hard to tell for sure. Sorry I cannot help. Taketa (talk) 07:48, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Article on ITSU

Dear Taketa, It was pleasure talking to you yesterday and really appreciate the support you provided on the article. As per your suggestions, i have made changes to the article. As you have gone through the article in details, it will be great if you could spare few more minutes and have a fresh look and let me know if this can now be published. Thanks and best regards, Prashant.chitkara (talk) 10:48, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Prashant.chitkara, I may not have the time today. But I will look at it the coming days. All the best, Taketa (talk) 11:37, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Het toevoegen van illustraties

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Thank you very much for placing the photo on the page devoted to the Russian director Svetlana Druzhinina! I created this page, and I was very sorry that there were no illustrations. I have been working on Wikipedia for a long time, but I couldn’t find how to place a photo on the page. Now I’m creating pages in the English Wikipedia dedicated to Russian and Soviet films and actors.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_%28film%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_a_complaints_book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigzag_of_Success

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Charming_and_Attractive

Can I ask you for help? You’ve mentioned that you specialize on the placing illustrations on pages. I would be very grateful if you could help me to post photos on the newly created pages. Thank you in advance!!! Looking forward to our cooperation!!!

yours sincerely, Ulugbeck1 (talk) 07:10, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Ulugbeck1, I add images when they are available on Commons. I had a look, and unfortunately there are no images available for these movies. Sorry I can't help. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 21:17, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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Bedankt voor de DYK nominatie

Hallo, fijn om zien dat je het artikel dat ik net naar GA heb kunnen tillen in de schijnwerpers wil zetten! Het zou speciaal zijn voor mij als dit op de hoofdpagina zou verschijnen. Verder mag ik de Nederlanders ook wel dankbaar zijn dat ze zo vrijelijk krantenarchieven en foto-archieven tot begin de 20ste eeuw ter beschikking stelden - hier in België is dat niet waar en kan ik maar aan kranten tot eind jaren negentig geraken, en nauwelijks aan copyrightvrije foto's. Mijn DYK voor jou: wist je dat maar liefst vijf afbeeldingen van dit artikel over het Belgisch voetbalelftal uit Nederlandse archieven komen? Happy editing nog verder! Vriendelijke groet, Kareldorado (talk) 11:03, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Hoi Kareldorado, ik had dit artikel op mijn volglijst sinds enige jaren en zag vanochtend dat het een good article was geworden. Geweldig mooi werk. Gefeliciteerd met dit resultaat! Ik heb zelf een jaar terug enkele good articles geschreven en weet daardoor dat die een kans maken om op de voorpagina te komen als je snel genoeg handelt. Nu maar afwachten :). Met vriendelijke groet, Taketa (talk) 12:46, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Belgium national football team

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Congressional term end date

I saw your message on my talk page and the discussion you started on WikiProject Politics. As I said on my talk page, I've never edited any of the articles related to this matter, nor do I intend to. However, my major concern at this point is that a single editor has unilaterally changed that date to March 3 in hundreds of articles, even though thousands of editors over many years have said it is March 4. Can you please get an administrator or someone else to mandate that the edtior self-revert all his edits regarding that date unless and until a consensus is reached to change it? I am simply not experienced enough to handle making this request and am hoping someone with your level of experience could make it instead. While I have no doubt the edtitor's intentions were good, the way he went about it was highly improper. Perhaps you could first ask him to voluntarily do the self-reverts? Czoal (talk) 20:08, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Dear Czoal, I understand you object to the current stated date, but the other party also claims the dates were originally as they currently are. Any revert would only satisfy one party. Any action means chosing a correct answer, and I do not know the correct answer. Until this is resolved, noone should act. I have asked for a community wide input. We will hopefully have some feedback from third parties within the next 24 hours and be able to determine which side has general support. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 20:27, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

I didn't read anywhere where the other editor said the date was originally March 3 in the articles. But it really doesn't matter because before someone goes around making a change like that in a massive number of articles, he should first discuss it with other editors and reach consensus. Now, hundreds of articles have been changed because of one editor's claim. Since so many articles are now affected, he should be asked to revert himself until this matter is resolved. By the way, thank you very much for starting that discussion. Czoal (talk) 20:40, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

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This is in reference to a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.

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Your Comment on Collaborative consumption

Dear Taketa,

thanks for the feedback. I already talked about this matter with Romaine and my tutors in the very start of our course. Firstly, Collaborative consumption is not the same as Sharing economy but an economical concept that is embedded in a sharing economy. Also, my contribution on collaborative consumption brings new information and essential distinctions with it that the section about the concept in the sharing economy article does not provide. Furthermore, we will not necessarily publish our articles on Wikipedia itself but may also chose to just leave them in our sandbox. So I don't think we have too much of a problem here. Thank you for your concern though!

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Hi Felix, good to know your topic is different. Good luck with the article. I will follow the progress and maybe see you Friday. All the best, Taketa (talk) 09:18, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Edit notices

Thanks for the edit notices on the GMO pages. If you look through my contributions, you'll find a few more articles that could use with that work (I'm not sure how those notices work, so I'll leave you to enact them).

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Hi Jps, thanks for letting me know. I am currently using the source to find them so I am sure I will find them all Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:ARBGMO_talk_notice. If you have any problems with this in the future you can ask at WP:AN or just ask me and I will have a go. All the best, Taketa (talk) 18:28, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

sorry, taketa, what "source" are you using to find them?--Wuerzele (talk) 09:47, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

This list. It is a list generated by the server that shows all pages on the website that link to the template. All the best, Taketa (talk) 09:50, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

I saw that before asking you, sorry i must have asked you the wrong question. who but jps decided which articles to tag ?--Wuerzele (talk) 09:58, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

As I understand it, the arbcom has issued that 1RR now applies to all articles relating to genetically modified organisms, agricultural biotechnology, and agricultural chemicals, broadly construed [4]. This means the 1RR already counts. Obviously most people are not aware. If an edit conflict starts, and you see someone break 1RR, you have to show them the template. This can be done on their talk page. If they still do not listen you can ask admin sanctions. Jps added the editnotice to some articles he thought people should be warned in advance. In theory, the editnotice should be on all articles concerned. However, I think this is impossible since the topic is too broad. I think we should limit it to the most obvious articles and those where there is a conflict. But in theory, anyone can choose where the templates are added. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 18:46, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

THanks. just as i thought, anarchic.--Wuerzele (talk) 05:34, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi. You recently placed a 1RR notice relating to GMOs on the Precautionary principle article. This appears to be a very large extension of the sanctions and I was wondering how you came to this conclusion.DrChrissy ^(talk) 12:48, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Dear DrChrissy, the 1RR notice on GMOs had been previously placed on the article talk page by I9Q79oL78KiL0QTFHgyc [5] [6]. When I arrived there was an ongoing discussion which included GMOs. As such, I concluded this page did indeed fall under the arbcom decision, as being "any page relating to genetically modified organisms... ...broadly construed". Therefor, I moved the notice to the edit notice of the talk page and of the article, so as to properly inform the editors. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 18:40, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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Bedankt. I notice much of the work is happening in other languages, not English. I have no particular ideas but if there is some good work being done which could be "transferred" over to en maybe then I can help? (Can work from Dutch, French and some others.)--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 17:49, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Andrew, Taketa asked me if I could help you out. I see you have a keen interest in genetics, an philosophy and master Dutch and French. That should open a lot of options indeed. Would you by accident be living in Brussels ? Back to your question on topics. I'm sur that if you browse on the French Wikipedia page of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles), that you will find some philosophers to translate. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has some merits in genetics, and its hospital in Jette is world leader in in vitro fertilisation. nl:Jean Paul Van Bendegem is a contemporary science philosopher and his lemmatise merits extension and translation IMHO. But you could also translate some more touristic things. On the Dutch side of the project, a lot has been written on churches, parcs and lesser known musea. Most of these lemmas are not too long, so easy targets. SvenDK (talk) 06:37, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, the article Belgium national football team is under review as FAC again. At the first FA review you already added a short but powerful "Support" message—in vain. Je hebt mij nu waarschijnlijk al door; ik kom nogmaals bedelen om een goed woordje. :) So, you are warmly invited to add another comment! Regards, Kareldorado (talk) 16:09, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Dear Kareldorado, I will review the article somewhere the coming week. Good luck with the FAC. All the best, Taketa (talk) 17:03, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for sharing your feedback for the article Sunil Agrawal. The references I have provided in the article are very trusted news channels. As he is Founder and Chairman of VGL Group, most of his awards and contributions for social causes are through VGL group only. Also, you can check this page is linked from three other Wikipedia pages which are the part of VGL group. I request you to please check his interview by IndiaInfoline and his statement at The Economic Times which itself is a proof of notability. I will appreciate if you can help me to keep that page Live at Wikipedia. --Ramendra.singh (talk) 10:41, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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Fernand Feyaerts

Hi Taketa. While conducting a GA review for Water polo at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the reviewer had a question about this file that I used in the article. I used it because it was uploaded to Commons, so I presumed all copyright issues had been cleared, but they pointed out that it was uploaded as "own work". Since the uploader wasn't around in 1916, I presume that there's something more going on if the upload is valid, but since I'm not very familiar with the copyright policies on Commons (and have no account), I thought that I would ask you if you knew what was going on, since you added it to the article. Could take a quick look at confirm that it is free use? Thanks. Canadian Paul 17:38, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Dear Canadian Paul, the image is free to use. The author most likely indicates "own work" because they made the digital version of the original picture. This is not relevant for the image being free however. The image is free because it is in the public domain in both Belgium (country of origin) and the USA (country of WMF). The image is in the public domain because it was taken in 1916 by an unknown author. As can be seen at Commons:Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory works by an unknown author become public domain in Belgium after 70 years, and works before 1923 are public domain in the USA. I hope this answers your question. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 19:28, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

It does indeed. Thank you so much for your time! Canadian Paul 01:47, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

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Hi there, I found you listed on the Wikipedia translators page, so I hope you don't mind me approaching you for help.

I'm trying to verify all the references on the Ehsan Sehgal page, after some of the English and Urdu sources there have been found to be unreliable or used in a misleading manner. There are two Dutch, both articles from Haagsche Courant. I was hoping you might be able to verify that each support the facts they're marshaled to support, as well as offer a view on whether either could be used to establish the notability of this individual as an author.

The two articles, with [the sentence they're used to support]:

• Korving, Joke (3 January 1979). "Gevlucht". Haagsche Courant. p. 17. [In 1978, he sought political asylum in the Netherlands, settling in The Hague]
• Herberghs, Saskia (29 September 2010). "Even vragen aan: Ehsan Sehgal, dichter". AD Haagsche Courant. p. 5. [ In 2010, having lived in the Netherlands for over three decades, he published a collection of aphorisms in Dutch. The book, De Wijze Weg ("The Wise Way"), was written and translated with the help of Naeem Arif.

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Hello! I want to delete my talk page in Arabic, why didn't you delete it for me? 842Mono (talk) 10:15, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Seems to have been resolved [7]. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 13:35, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

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I'd like to ask for your advice and help... Hi, I'm from Italy and I've seen you're a Dutch admin, I hope there's no problem if I speak English. I'm having troubles in Dutch wiki, there's a pair of corrections about Italian towns that should be done, but the Dutch users I met are biased towards me and don't want foreign users to interfere with Dutch wiki. I'm not trying forcing my "point of view", never ever: I'm providing correct information about the correct spelling of that pair of cities. So you don't have to trust my word, I well know that the whole wiki project isn't based on volunteer users but on primary sources, in fact I'm going to privide them to you, it'll be up to you to decide whether those sources are reliable or not, more or less authoritative than the ones "found" by the other Dutch users. But I strongly believe that you'll agree with they higher reliability. Obviously, should you disagree instead, I won't insist further. Consider that, without any offense for anyone, Italian mother-language speakers living in Italy since they were born have a better knowledge of Italian language, conventions and sources than any foreign person trying to understand them, exactly as Dutch speakers like you compared to Italian speakers like me have a better knowledge about Dutch language issues. For example, I'd never contest a Dutch user coming to it.wikipedia in order to ask Italian users to correct a pair of Dutch proper names from the "Y" spelling to the "IJ" spelling, I might try understanding more about this issue but I'd never doubt a mother-language speaker nor the sources he brings. This was the whole premise, now if you think you could be able to advise and help me I'll explain you what's this particular issue, I'll be shorter than I've been here since sources will speak for me. I'll wait for your reply. Thank you anyway for reading so far :-) 198.46.81.33 (talk) 08:45, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi, admins have no more to say about the content of articles on Dutch Wikipedia than anyone else. Everyone can give their view. If you have sources to back up an edit, you can provide them on the article talk page. That way people can review them, and if they agree implement the changes. You can always ask more people to review the sources. However please keep all discussion on the Dutch Wikipedia. This is the English Wikipedia, and it is not the right place to discuss Dutch Wikipedia issues. Since you have so far not provided a name or page for me to review I cannot help at the moment. I advice that you start a discussion on the Dutch Wikipedia by providing sources. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 10:19, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for answering. Let me explain better: I'm not allowed to edit nl.wikipedia, nor to open discussions there. I've tried, but I was blocked. Because an Italian coming to Dutch wiki and asking to change this and that (even if on the strong bases of correct sources, not because of his POV) is considered a vandal. Can you believe it? All the other wikis have renamed correctly the pages that had to be renamed, or have just kept as they've always been the other pages that had to be kept so, but in nl.wikipedia the page that had to be moved was left with an uncorrect name and the other page that have always had the correct name was moved, just because I asked to move the first one! These are facts, I'm not inventing anything. As I said, I'll explain you this particular issue if you think you can do anything to help me (which isn't actually "helping me" but "helping nl.wikipedia" since it's the only one with these uncorrect versions of Italian names), maybe you could just look at my sources and, if you find them reliable and authoritive enough, make the proposal as a Dutch user because you think that renaming the pages would be correct. I'd like I could talk with you in your Dutch talk page, but I'd already tried registering and writing in another Dutch user's talk page, a Dutch user who agreed with me, and I was immediately blocked... Let me know please.

198.46.81.33 (talk) 13:30, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

You write so much, yet have not given a name or an account when asking for help. I am sorry but I choose not to get involved. Please discus your block with someone else on the Dutch Wikipedia. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 13:57, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Okay, what do I have to do? What are you asking from me? I'm not joking, I couldn't get it, really. Do you want me to create a new account (the ones I've tried creating in nl.wikipedia were blocked)? Do you want me to tell you the name of the Dutch user who renamed the wrong page? Do you want me to write down the name of the city and to explain why the one currently in nl.wikipedia is wrong? Please tell me and I'll do as you require.

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Resolve your block. Talk to the blocking admin. When you are blocked on the Dutch Wikipedia, the talk page of your account stays open. You can log into your account and talk to the admin on your talk page. Resolve it with them. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 17:24, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Oooookay... You don't guess the "admin" who blocked me over and over, do you? It's Moira. And that should be enough to understand. Anyway I'll clarify. He or she is the incarnation of what I've talked about above: "Dutch wiki belongs to Dutch users, no interferences allowed by strangers". Some time ago there have been some other Italian users, registered for years, among whom a sysop, who went into Dutch wiki to bring sources and arguments about one of those towns, after discussing about that issue both in it.wikipedia and in en.wikipedia. But "that" Dutch admin didn't agree, despite the sources and argumentations by Italian Wikipedians interested just in correcting an error in all the projects... Do you guess what was the results or do I have to tell you? I think you can guess it by yourself. Well, you've been in nl.wikipedia for a long time, you won't be surprised if I tell you that "that" admin isn't just a user playing a technical role, but a person who can veto, whose opinion de facto counts more than other user's... There's also an Italian admin in it.wikipedia who's like him or her, and he's very noted, pardon, notoriuos: he's known as Vito, maybe you heard about him, or at least about his reputation. After reading all this, do you sincerely believe that if I try discussing with him or her one more time (I've tried over and over in the past...) my situation would get better instead of worse? If you'd told me since the beginning that you couldn't help me, both of use wouldn't have lost so much time in replying to each others.

198.46.81.33 (talk) 17:59, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Not to be rude, but you waste alot of time. You assume I can guess which of the 40 admins you have a conflict with. You have made alot of statements, but not provided me with the basic info needed to help. Just state your username. An admin can see everything that is going on. Saves alot of time, and is alot more clear. Moreover, never go outside a website to ask for help. Resolve it on the website. In this case, I am not going help. Sorry, but you do not come across reasonable to me. All I see is complaining. Without having read any other conversation, I do not think it is in the best interest of Dutch Wikipedia to have you there. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 18:05, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

I didn't want to "be in Dutch wiki", just somebody to correct an error in Dutch wiki. A page was renamed and another wasn't, only because it was me who asked. The last username I used was "Munanroh", I was suggested by another admin to try registering again, but after I was blocked by "that" admin he said that he was afraid for his admin rights if he helped me even if he admitted that he agreed with my argumentations about the issue. The first Italian name was "Ruffré-Mendola", since a few years ago there were 2 towns named Ruffé and Passo Mendola but they've been united in one city: every wiki has updated the name except Dutch. The second was "Cirié" written like that with acute accent, in almost every wiki it's always been written like that and the few left corrected it after reporting the error, but my daring to ask Dutch users to rename the page "Ruffrè" resulted in leaving it as it was and moving "Cirié" to "Ciriè" without knowing anything about Italian language issues and searching the web to find unreliable sources proving their POV (probably just to spite me)... Not to be rude, but that's exaclty what the way nl.wikipedia is led produces: discrimination for foreign or not-alligned users, and consequent bad information for Dutch readers. Small consolation that even Italian wiki is like that, or even worse. I think we don't have anything else to say, so we can end this here.

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Taketa, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing

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There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).

If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Wikipedia:Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Taketa, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags

• Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

• A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
• The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Taketa, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Thank

Thank you for taking time to help change my name 🙏🏽 Many blessings to you 🙏🏽 Shane Perry 00:02, 17 July 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shane O Perry (talk • contribs)

Hi Shane, you have the wrong guy. You were renamed by user TonyBallioni (log) All the best, Taketa (talk) 05:46, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Taketa, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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Proposed deletion of Wilhelm Schraml

The article Wilhelm Schraml has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  15:24, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Taketa, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Taketa, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

• There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
• Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
• There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

• User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

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Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

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Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

Training video

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NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Taketa,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
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NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Taketa,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

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

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

Reliable Sources for NPP

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

Backlog drive coming soon

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

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

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Translation request

@Taketa: I need you to translate an article for me, [8]. All the websites that talk about her are in Dutch. I believe that she is a Seventh-day Adventist, since her husband Niko Koffeman is a member.Catfurball (talk) 18:38, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi Catfurball, It does say in the Dutch article that she is a Seventh-day Adventist, though it does not support this with sources. For what reason do you want me to translate the text? What do you want to do with the translation? If you have personal questions about her, feel free to ask and I can have a look. If you want to write and article for enwiki, could you please create an article, with working wikicodes etc, in your userspace, and I will translate the text. All the best, Taketa (talk) 18:51, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

@Taketa: I added Antoinette Hertsenberg in the List of Seventh-day Adventists. I found four websites that talk about her being a Seventh-day Adventist, but they are in Dutch.[9], [10], [11] and [12].Catfurball (talk) 00:42, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

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Cerambycinae

Hi, Taketa. I have swapped the three Cerambycinae articles, Luscosmodicum, Opsimus, and Oxylopsebus, and I suppose the article text in each should be modified to reflect that the articles are now at the genus name. May I leave these changes up to you? Best, Sam Sailor 05:24, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi Sam Sailor, thank you for the article moves. I will have a look at the content of the articles. It will only take a minor change. All the best, Taketa (talk) 07:49, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome. (In these cases, it's WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA.) Best, Sam Sailor 10:55, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

@Sam Sailor: I have requested the userright to do the renames myself. Could you have a look? All the best, Taketa (talk) 06:36, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Page mover granted

Hello, Taketa. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:

• Wikipedia:Requested moves
• Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! — JJMC89 (T·C) 07:15, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello JJMC89, thank you very much. I will make good use of it. All the best, Taketa (talk) 07:19, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Taketa,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

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

QUALITY of REVIEWING

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

Backlog

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

Move to draft

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

Notifying users

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

PERM

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

Other news

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

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

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Move request

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Community Insights Survey

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Hi Taketa,

The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey about your experience with Wikipedia and Wikimedia. The purpose of this survey is to learn how well the Foundation is supporting your work on wiki and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

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

This month's refresher course

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

Deletion tags

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

Paid editing

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

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
• Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

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

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

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

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

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Reminder: Community Insights Survey

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Hi Taketa,

A couple of weeks ago, we invited you to take the Community Insights Survey. It is the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual survey of our global communities. We want to learn how well we support your work on wiki. We are 10% towards our goal for participation. If you have not already taken the survey, you can help us reach our goal! Your voice matters to us.

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Reminder: Community Insights Survey

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There are only a few weeks left to take the Community Insights Survey! We are 30% towards our goal for participation. If you have not already taken the survey, you can help us reach our goal! With this poll, the Wikimedia Foundation gathers feedback on how well we support your work on wiki. It only takes 15-25 minutes to complete, and it has a direct impact on the support we provide.

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Taketa,

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

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 812 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

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

This month's refresher course

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

Tools

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

Reviewer Feedback

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

Second set of eyes

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

Arbitration Committee

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

Community Wish list

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

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@Kbrown (WMF): I was at the community discussion. The involved members of the Foundation were not there to discuss the issue. There were some statements by the team leader. It was all very bureaucratic and the eventual action took unnecessarily long. Though I am gratefull action was taken, the entire problem should not have been there. Mediaviewer, superprotect, fram, and the current ban of Romaine should not be the issues they are. Be there to solve it. That is all I want to hear. I wish to volunteer, I am willing to volunteer time by giving my input in discussions. But I feel that that input is not acted upon. You should not expect me to participate in a consultation after the community was ignored in a discussion. Please let your actions speak and be open to listening to the community when something happens. I for one am still waiting for an unban of Romaine. It is unfair what is being done. He is a good contributor, wrote thousands of articles, millions of edits, organised hundreds of wikimeets, founded Wikimedia Belgium. The ban has made a statement, lesson learned, time to unban. That is proper admining on- and offwiki. Even vandals are get short blocks to warn them. Doesn't someone who has helped Wikimedia for 15 years deserve a chance instead of a ban for over a year now. Don't scare your best volunteers away. Show me your commitment and solve it. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 19:12, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

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

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

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

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

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

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

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

Redirect autopatrol

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

Source Guide Discussion

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

This month's refresher course

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Taketa,

Source Guide Discussion

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

Redirects

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

Discussions and Resources

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Refresher

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

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

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Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources

• A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
• Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
• A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
• Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Taketa,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	Patrol Page Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	Patrol Page Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	Patrol Page Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	Patrol Page Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	Patrol Page Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	Patrol Page Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	Patrol Page Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	Patrol Page Curation
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Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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User:Enterprisey/rename-reason-fixer

Hello Taketa, I hope you are aware of User:Enterprisey/rename-reason-fixer, it helps to add Special:Diff to rename reason so that the reason link to actual request instead of the WP:CHUS page. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 03:58, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Dear 1997kB, I was not aware. I will have a look at the function and see if I wish to use it. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 07:36, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Translation request

Hi Taketa, I was wondering if you could please translate the page The Base (political party) from English into Dutch for a page on the Dutch language Wikipedia page? The page currently has no other language versions other than English and as it is a Dutch political party it seems highly relevant that it should have a Dutch language page. Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you. Helper201 (talk) 00:18, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Dear Helper201, I am sorry but I do not translate articles on request. I am always willing to help people with their work, but I don't take up the entire job. I have a large list of articles I still want to work on for my self first. If you want you can add the topic to the wanted articles list on nlwiki instead or ask one of the other availble translators. If you have specific lines you want tranlated, even the entire text of this article, Ill translate it for you, but you have to make the article with wikicode on nlwiki. If that is an option for you, just post the lines below. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 00:38, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Taketa,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

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November 2021 backlog drive

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Hello, Taketa,

After looking at the exhaustive work you did on this SPI case back in 2015, I thought you might be interested in the latest chapter of this mysterious Argentinian sockpuppeteer. This discovery has led to dozens of CSD G5 page deletions. He changed his MO by sticking to one primary account and creating dozens of articles instead of creating 100 sockpuppets with a few edits a piece. All the best, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:27, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Liz, thank you for the heads up. I will have a look at the new findings. Very old case, but I can still remember being amazed by this weird person. All the best, Taketa (talk) 06:26, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Taketa,

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 812 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 846 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Taketa,

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 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.

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: 14898 articles, as of 04:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

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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.

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Taketa,

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.

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

Suggestions:

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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!

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

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New Page Review queue December 2022

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.

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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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@Taketa Hi, please remove the deletion tag from the files of companies I uploaded since I indicated that they are not my own work. Thanks FLORIKRUJA (talk) 13:37, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi, they are not your work. Do you have permission from the owner? If not, the images cannot be used on Wikimedia Commons under a free license. Simply indicating is not the same as having permission. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 13:38, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

@Taketa Yes, I know but as a contributor to Wikipedia I uploaded these files of the companies for the visitors to be informed about them and also they make articles look better. I can't contact all the owners of these images I found on the internet. Thanks FLORIKRUJA (talk) 13:42, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

I understand why you do it, and that your intentions are good. However it is not allowed. You cannot use images you find on the internet on Wikimedia Commons under a free license without permission of the owner. Please have a look at Wikipedia:Images for possible other solutions. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 13:46, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

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New Page Review queue April to June 2023

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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New Page Patrol | October 2023 Backlog Drive
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New Page Review article queue, March to September 2023

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.

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November Articles for creation backlog drive

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The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

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New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

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New Page Review queue January to March 2024

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

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

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