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User talk:Carwil
Porvenir Massacre articleWell done for starting the Porvenir Massacre article and for writing a balanced overview of a controversial issue. I'm putting a barnstar on your page in recognition of your contribution.
Your constructive contributionHello, Carwil. It is nice to meet you personally on your talk page. Let me quote User:Macrakis:
I personally have family (wife kids), day job, sport activities. All those topics come before editing Wikipedia on my TODO list, generally. Anyway stay well. AgadaUrbanit (talk) 18:13, 27 October 2010 (UTC) ArbitrationIt looks like you have not been notified of the additional scrutiny the topic area is under. This is your notification of that. The case page mentions a "warning" but please look at this as no more than a simple heads up on it since the only concern was that revertlike edit at Psagot. Not a major concern but it is slightly annoying and could grow into a larger problem if editors start knee-jerking. SO to make sure everyone is on the same page: "As a result of an arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee has acknowledged long-term and persistent problems in the editing of articles related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, broadly understood. As a result, the Committee has enacted broad editing restrictions, described here." Cptnono (talk) 23:02, 28 October 2010 (UTC) Barnstar
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barnstar for lauditory work at Presidential transition of Donald Trump LavaBaron (talk) 02:55, 11 November 2016 (UTC) Complimentary Gamergate Notification Please read this notification carefully: General sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimise disruption in controversial topic areas. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to these topics that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behaviour, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. An editor can only be sanctioned after he or she has been made aware that general sanctions are in effect. This notification is meant to inform you that sanctions are authorised in these topic areas, which you have been editing. It is only effective if it is logged here. Before continuing to edit pages in these topic areas, please familiarise yourself with the general sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions. This message is informational only and does not imply misconduct regarding your contributions to date. Avono (talk) 18:57, 25 January 2015 (UTC) Just letting you knowThis message contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.
Please carefully read this information: The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding the Arab–Israeli conflict, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here. Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you that sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.Talk at Wikipedia Day 18 NYCI very much enjoyed your talk at Wikipedia Day 18 NYC on Sunday. I was poking around and found a couple of things that might be of interest. First, there is a project at Open Street Map called Open Historical Map, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map that maybe a good home for creating thematic maps that reflect what has happened to people in a more balanced way. Their FAQ page could use some text on the problems you are trying to solve. I suppose you are aware that we have a commons:Category:Maps of indigenous peoples of the Americas which has a number of maps that may meet part of your goals. In particular I was struck by File:Young folks' history of the United States (1903) (14775227994).jpg which does not have a modern state boundary background and was in a book for children from 1903. I wonder how authoritative it is and if it should be used in one of our introductory articles--agr (talk)
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Invitation to discus the rule on whether to include the victims namesDear Carwil, I hereby invite you to discuss a possible new rule on whether or not the name of victims should be included on various articles (i.e. Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Santa Fe High School shooting. The discussion can be found here: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Victims'_names_proposal_workshop TheHoax (talk) 17:23, 18 November 2019 (UTC) ArbCom 2019 election voter message
Wikipedia ReviewingDear Carwil, I had a question as to why a new page is deleted even if there is citation in it. What is the main reason for it. Kindly waiting for your response. Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terminatorwil (talk • contribs) 10:54, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
Proposing revisions to Public charge ruleHello Carwil! I am the co-founder of a company, Boundless Immigration, that helps individuals apply for green cards and U.S. citizenship. Before that, I worked on immigration policy in the Obama White House. After reviewing Wikipedia’s Public charge rule article, I have suggestions for improving it. For example, the current article does not distinguish among the three different public charge regulations that have been finalized (or are soon to be proposed) by DHS, the State Department, and DOJ. It also does not clearly distinguish between the two separate parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act that deal with public charge as a grounds for inadmissibility vs. deportability. This is an area I know reasonably well, having developed a wide range of public education materials and legal analyses of the public charge rule(s) through Boundless. Yet because of that intersection between my position with Boundless and my work on the public charge rule, I believe I may have a conflict of interest if I directly edit the article. For more background, here’s a link to the resources that Boundless has made available about the various public charge rules: https://www.boundless.com/public-charge-rule And here is a draft Wikipedia article about the company: Draft:Boundless Immigration. I am in the process of editing and updating the draft, with the required COI disclosure. If you agree that I do have a COI with respect to the Public charge rule article, would you be willing to review my suggestions on the talk page of the article and, if you agree with them, make the revisions? I would appreciate your feedback on any proposed changes you do not agree with, of course. I could use the Wikipedia:Simple conflict of interest edit request form if that's helpful. I am also happy to make purely technical improvements to the page, such as adding in-line citations, if you would like for me to do that. Thank you in advance! Messier6 (talk) 02:05, 12 March 2020 (UTC) Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice Hi Carwil, you are receiving this notice because you are listed as an active Articles for Creation reviewer. Recently a list of reviewers by area of expertise was created. This notice is being sent out to alert you to the existence of that list, and to encourage you to add your name to it. If you or other reviewers come across articles in the queue where an acceptance/decline hinges on specialist knowledge, this list should serve to facilitate contact with a fellow reviewer. To end on a positive note, the backlog has dropped below 1,500, so thanks for all of the hard work some of you have been putting into the AfC process! Sent to all Articles for Creation reviewers as a one-time notice. To opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Regards, Sam-2727 (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 27 May 2020 (UTC) New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020 Hello Carwil,
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.
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DYK for Villa Tunari Massacre On 20 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Villa Tunari Massacre, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that future Bolivian president Evo Morales was present at the 1988 Villa Tunari Massacre, in which nine to twelve protesting coca growers were killed? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Villa Tunari Massacre. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Villa Tunari Massacre), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. —valereee (talk) 00:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC) I have submitted the page on human genetic clustering for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Human genetic clustering. I saw that you contributed a section a while back and wanted to notify you.Citing (talk) 15:40, 29 October 2020 (UTC) Nomination of Human genetic clustering for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Human genetic clustering, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted. The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Human genetic clustering until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:07, 30 October 2020 (UTC) ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message
New Page Patrol December NewsletterHello Carwil,
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.
 
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.
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. Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here 18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)  The file File:Notes from the Second Year cover, New York Radical Women.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing File:Notes from the Second Year cover, New York Radical Women.jpg listed for discussion A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Notes from the Second Year cover, New York Radical Women.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. — Marchjuly (talk) 09:19, 6 March 2021 (UTC) Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination DriveHello Carwil: WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive! Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive. Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:53, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list. Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict...please fill out my survey?Hello :) I am writing my MA dissertation on Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict, and I noticed that you have contributed to those pages. My dissertation will look at the process of collaborative knowledge production on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the effect it has on bias in the articles. This will involve understanding the profiles and motivations of editors, contention/controversy and dispute resolution in the talk pages, and bias in the final article. For more information, you can check out my meta-wiki research page or my user page, where I will be posting my findings when I am done. I would greatly appreciate if you could take 5 minutes to fill out this quick survey before 8 August 2021. Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and anonymous. There are no foreseeable risks nor benefits to you associated with this project. Thanks so much, Sarah Sanbar Sarabnas I'm researching Wikipedia Questions? 15:31, 24 July 2021 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:El Alto municipal election, 2010
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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021 Hello Carwil, 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. If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software. Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:30, 16 September 2021 (UTC) November 2021 backlog drive
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Template errorIn Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Vanderbilt University/Research on Conflict and Collective Action (spring 2022), there is a template error because {{main}} is not used as intended. For the illustration, it can be changed to Sacaba and SenkataHi! I see that you're the primary editor on the articles Sacaba massacre and Senkata massacre. I am currently working on rewriting the bio article for Jeanine Áñez and in doing so I intend to substantially shorten the Senkata and Sacaba report and charges section to only what is relevant to Áñez in particular. I just wanted to make sure that everything in that section is already covered in the respective Sacaba and Senkata articles so as to avoid possibly removing important information. Thanks! Krisgabwoosh (talk) 01:25, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
WP:AFC Helper NewsHello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Hermitage enslaved population
Erasure of an indigenous groupHi Carwil! I recall that in your WikiConference North America plenary last year, you discussed an example of editors contributing to cultural erasure by prematurely declaring the Wukchumni language extinct. I just came across a related example that I wanted to draw to your attention. The last male member of the Amazonian Juma people died of COVID-19 last February, but he had three daughters who married into other tribes and several multiethnic grandchildren. An editor (since blocked) changed the article last October, stating without sourcing that the daughters had also died and the tribe gone extinct. Searching, I couldn't find any coverage indicating that, but the edits stuck around until I just reverted them today. This is clearly a poorly monitored area, but even so, falsely declaring an entire ethnic group extinct for more than 6 months is a pretty egregious error. (Courtesy pinging UnitedStatesian who previously reverted at the article and Ponyo who blocked the editor later for socking.) {{u|Sdkb}} talk 20:23, 27 April 2022 (UTC) New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022 Hello Carwil, 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 814 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 847 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP. This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear. If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022 Hello Carwil,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May. Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b] In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month). While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here.
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.
There is a new template available, Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 16032 articles, as of 08:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC), according to DatBot There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:01, 24 June 2022 (UTC) NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC) New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022 Hello Carwil,
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.
Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:24, 6 August 2022 (UTC) NPP messageHi Carwil,
For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:10, 20 August 2022 (UTC) October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
(t · c) buidhe 21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC) New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022Hello Carwil, Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section. Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also. Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.  Suggestions:
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!
David ChoquehuancaHi! I'm currently working on expanding Wikipedia's article on David Choquehuanca, the vice president of Bolivia, and was wondering if you could provide some insight, specifically regarding his policy as the country's foreign minister. In a 2020 article, you touch on "diplomacy of the peoples" and the ideas of "Vivir Bien". Perhaps you could point me to some sources you consulted on the topic? Cheers! Krisgabwoosh (talk) 22:39, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
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The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone! 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 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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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 20 April 2023 (UTC) New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023Hello Carwil,  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). Reminders
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 9 September 2023 (UTC) Requesting some article expansion helpGreetings @Carwil Hi, I am User:Bookku, On Wikipedia I engage in, finding information and knowledge gap areas in Wikipedia and promoting expansion of related drafts and articles. Came across your user profile (from article history Gayle Rubin) . Requesting your visit to Gender power gap and help expand the topic areas if you find topic interesting. Wish you very happy Wikipedia editing. Thanks and warm regards Bookku (talk) 06:52, 14 September 2023 (UTC) Wikiedu: Human Rights of Indigenous PeoplesI edited Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Vanderbilt University/Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples (fall 2023), fixing a links in links lint error. If you go to page history and look at the version before my edit, you can see that the display is bollixed for Week 8, but it's fixed in the latest version. I encourage you or someone to copy the change back to the dashboard. I do not know how to do that. Also please be aware that this course page violates several Wikipedia style standards:
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Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incidentHi, the discussion is protected, so I'm writing to you as I saw you recently edited there. I kindly ask you to write by my name in the discussion the following suggestion: "The article describes the victim as "civilians who were attempting to get food from aid trucks on al-Rashid street at the Al-Nabulsi roundabout to the west of Gaza City". Nonetheless, all over the world it was reported that they were trying to pillage (or at least rob) the aid truck, while stressing how desperate they were so they were not culpable. Culpable or not, a neutral description much depict the action as it was - not an "attempt to get food from an aid truck", but an attempt pillage. --Amir Segev Sarusi (talk) 15:42, 6 March 2024 (UTC) A-class requires two impartial reviewers. Please see Wikipedia:Content assessment/A-Class criteria. Best. Schierbecker (talk) 19:14, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC) DYK nomination of Sitdown strike
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:05, 30 May 2024 (UTC) DYK for Sitdown strikeOn 19 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sitdown strike, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the U.S. Department of Labor recorded 583 sitdown strikes in the U.S. between 1936 and 1939, affecting half a million workers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sitdown strike. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sitdown strike), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 19 June 2024 (UTC) WikiprojectHi, I see you're a member of WP:Anthropology, would you be interested in joining a sub project on oral tradition? Kowal2701 (talk) 13:53, 26 July 2024 (UTC) New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive
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