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Hey Dream Out Loud, instead of immediately trying to delete my first post to Wikipedia ever, maybe you would consider HELPING to make the entry encyclopedic - you know, like what a wiki is supposed to be instead of senior users throwing out delete requests? LelandWB (talk) 04:50, 13 February 2014 (UTC)LelandWB[reply]

Would you help with some researches on logo for PATH train please?

Hello. I'm leaving this message for some information about the logo of the PATH system. I'm not quite sure if you were the person who made this logo so may I ask first if you were? I'm recently doing some researches on this logo and gathering informations. I would be so appreciated if you can leave me some messages on my talk page. Thank you so much. Leeleejo (talk) 19:02, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of DC Metro stations

I love the new line icons for the list of Metro stations. Great job with them! I'm eventually going to try to return the list to featured list status, and I'd greatly appreciate your input. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:19, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I appreciate it. I'd be glad to help you with getting the list back to FL status. I recently created the FL List of SEPTA Regional Rail stations and I'm currently working on another list which I hope to get to FL as well. –Dream out loud (talk) 01:32, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent. The SEPTA and MARC lists look great, though it's too bad that the SEPTA list is too wide to be able to fit right-hand images like the Metro list. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 02:53, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and a comment on the SEPTA list. You might want to consider changing the links to the SEPTA pages for each station into inline external links in a separate column, like I've done in List of MBTA Commuter Rail stations and List of MBTA bus routes. It reduces the size of the reference list and places the external information in an easy-to-access location. I'll probably implement it on the Metro list soon. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:03, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I've never seen references linked like that. Are you sure that doesn't go against guidelines like WP:EL or WP:REF? It seems like it would be a lot of work to create that extra column for 150+ rows, plus the issue of having a long reference list never came up during the FL nomination. –Dream out loud (talk) 03:18, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I can tell, it's within guidelines. The information in the table is generally citeable from mass sources like maps, so having individual citations for every station or bus route doesn't help with actually sourcing the information. But there are details - like exact routes for bus routes, and driving directions and timetables for stations - that explicitly fall under WP:NOT, so there's a pretty good reason to have the information linked. While it's not a style appropriate for all or even many lists, I feel that it works rather well for transit lists, and the consensus on the original discussion was the same.
As for the details of implementation: it actually goes surprisingly quick when the list is already in wikitable format. I copy-pasted the MBTA CR list in about half an hour for a similar number of stations. The links are almost all identical, so the only part to change is the end. While it's not necessarily bad to have a very long reflist, it could in very long lists end up being a factor in page load time due to the large number of anchors. It's probably ultimately a matter of personal preference; as you can tell I'm fond of the inline style. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:01, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please correct Orange Icon.

As can be seen on the map at http://www.wmata.com/rail/maps/map.cfm , the icon for the orange is white letters on orange background, not black on orange.Naraht (talk) 16:01, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]


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  7. Miss Bono (talk · contribs) 11:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC) The entire career of the band plus Bono and Ali Hewson.[reply]
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Issue VIII - 1st May 2013


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U2 News
  • Apr 28, 2013 – Promoter of U2’s Red Rocks concert Barry Fey dead at 73.[1]
  • Apr 25, 2013 - Bono revealed the working title of the new album is "10 Reasons to Exist" The band have been recording in Dublin, New York and the South of France over the last few months. [2]
  • Jan 2013 – New species of trapdoor spider Aptostichus bonoi named after Bono.[3]
  • Nov 04, 2010 – U2, Gaga, Metallica, Swift Win Big at Billboard Touring Awards[4]
  • Dec 14, 2009 – U2 Scores Top Tour of 2009, Second of Decade.[5]
  • Mar 03, 2009 – New York names street 'U2 Way'.[6]
  • Dec 12, 2008 – Nobel laureates crown U2's Bono 'man of peace'[7]

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A photo shoot of U2 performing at Charlottesville, VA on October 1, 2009
U2 perform at Charlottesville, VA on October 1, 2009
U2 performing at Charlottesville, VA on October 1, 2009, during their worldwide U2360º Tour, launched in support of the group's 2009 album.
From the Editors
Welcome to the May edition of the WikiProject U2 Newsletter.
This month's theme is No Line on the Horizon, the twelfth studio album by U2.

The Album
  • No Line on the Horizon was released on 27 February 2009.
  • It marked the longest gap between studio albums of U2's career.
  • The band originally intended to release the songs as two EPs, but later combined the material into a single record.
  • The supporting U2 360° Tour, spanning 2009 to 2011, was the highest-grossing concert tour in history, with ticket sales over $736 million.
  • The singles for this album were "Get on Your Boots", "Magnificent", "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go :Crazy Tonight"

The Album's Cover
A photo of Hiroshi Sugimoto in Berlin on 2 July 2008
Hiroshi Sugimoto (Berlin, 2008)
The cover art for No Line on the Horizon is a photograph of Lake Constance, taken by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto; titled Boden Sea, it is one of 200 pictures in his Seascapes collection.

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  1. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 22:10, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Did You Know?
  • That the word "baby" is on Achtung Baby twenty-seven times.
  • That Bono's first car was a secondhand Fiat Uno 127. He had an accident driving that car, crashing into a telegraph pole.
  • That the full name of the song "United Colours" is "United Colours of :Plutonium"?
  • That "Winter" and "White as Snow" were both written for the 2009 film Brothers?
  • That "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is the most covered U2 song?

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The WikiProject U2 Newsletter – Issue IX: Rattle and Hum – 1st November 2013

Issue IX: Rattle and Hum – 1st November 2013
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Portal:U2 for peer review

Miss Bono and myself have requested a portal peer review for Portal:U2.
We would appreciate any helpful advice at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/U2/archive1.

I would also like to remind all members of WikiProject U2 (and other interested editors) that U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for peer review (PR) by Dream out loud (t · c) on 10 November 2013; see discussion. Any feedback would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance and happy editing,
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File:Robocop logo.png listed for deletion

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Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon" at Queens Library! Friday December 6

Queens Library
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I am getting a Speedy delete notice (but none on page?), I take it this popped up due to the word "presents" not being capped in the new page I just wrote. You moved the page to the proper titling. Correct?

Jcooper1 (talk) 02:36, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No, I originally nominated it because I didn't think there was an existing article for the album's artist. I found it eventually and discovered it simply wasn't linked, so I withdrew the nomination. –Dream out loud (talk) 02:51, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of From the Sky Down

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Your GA nomination of From the Sky Down

The article From the Sky Down you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:From the Sky Down for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Diannaa -- Diannaa (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of From the Sky Down

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Precious

loud dreams
Thank you for quality articles on songs, cinema, New York, Broadway, for U2 3D, for a user name with a message for the future and a clear user page, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:26, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A year ago, you were the 370th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:44, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seven years ago, you were recipient no. 370 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:34, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Saturday: NYC Art And Feminism Wikipedia Editathon

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Starting U2 WikiProject - Any suggestions on where to start?

Hi there! I am currently taking a WikiPedia based college class, and we were assigned to join a substantial WikiProject. I love U2, and thought this would be a fun one to work on. Any suggestions on where to start contributing? I've already done a bit of supplementing to early song articles. Thank you!C meindl (talk) 20:52, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to see you're interested in working on U2 articles! I haven't been too active on Wikipedia lately since I've been so busy with college classes, but I'm happy to provide suggestions. Are you looking to take GA articles to FA status or just improve stub articles? I can help you out with suggestions from there. –Dream out loud (talk) 05:42, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

SR 812

WTF? A new SR 812 was created a few years ago that has nothing to do with the former one. --NE2 19:13, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for my mistake. But please be a little more mature and civil than replying to people's misunderstandings with "WTF". And when an article has literally just a few words of prose with zero ciations or links, it's easy to make a mistake like that. –Dream out loud (talk) 19:36, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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ADITYA NEHRA

This user is removing Speedy deletion tag again and again, I warned him 1st, he again did so, you warned him, but he removed tag again. Now I have tagged a page again and put a last warning on his talk page. He didn't seem to get the point A.Minkowiski (talk) 16:05, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox venue

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Nomination of Trouble – Norwegian Live EP for deletion

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SEPTA Regional Rail Redux

Hey,

Some time ago you did some bang up work in helping maintain NPOV at SEPTA Regional Rail and the related Fox Chase Line article. Well, seems the editor(s) who seek to use the articles for soap boxing their grudges agains SEPTA are at it again, with the same sort of POV-pushing via WP:SYNTH and essay writing that was the problem before. I reverted at the main Regional Rail page, and tagged the Fox Chase Line page, but was hoping you could look over them as well for additional clean up; or some reason this POV pushing has really long gotten under my skin, and I don't know if I can properly give it an NPOV scrub objectively. Thanks in advance. oknazevad (talk) 03:38, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Home (2014 film)

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Songs of Innocence

Yeah you kind of messed up the songs of innocence pages by saying it got mixed reviews and by deleting reviews my q magazine and absolute punk. I don't know why you did this but I think it's because you are a "U2" fan that doesn't like the album considering your name. Well I'm not going to fix the page because I don't feel like it, but don't just alter a page because of your feelings. Do something with your life please and stop being an unpleasant individual. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kingramsay (talk • contribs) 19:07, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Kingramsay: I made no such edits to the Songs of Innocence (album) page - all I've done is fix the track times and add in a citation. I did not edit the reception section in anyway and if you don't believe me, feel free to check my edit history. If you want to be a respected editor on this site, you should stop falsely accusing editors of changing your edits and refrain from making immature, childish comments about my personal life. –Dream out loud (talk) 20:36, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination for merging of Template:WMATA icon

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Re this, it wasn't a case of re-adding: it was never added in the first place. As per the FL instructions, after creating the nomination page, you need to transclude the discussion onto the FLC page, which wasn't done first time round. Good luck with the Nom. - SchroCat (talk) 23:00, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for List of MARC Train stations

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:02, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox rail line

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Your thoughts?

Timeline of Philadelphia has a discussion about selection and inclusion criteria. Two editors are discussing it, but we have divergent views. More opinions would be helpful. - SummerPhDv2.0 13:11, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Drowning Man (U2 song) for deletion

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Regional Transportation District

You have done a good job in renaming stations in the Category:RTD commuter rail stations to match the naming convention. Now you have to move everything in the Category:RTD light rail stations to complete the job. I wanted to fix Template:RTD stations, but I have to wait until everything has been standardized. Secondarywaltz (talk) 15:24, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Secondarywaltz: Would you like to assist me? Unfortunately all these moves have to be done manually since I don't have admin privledges. I can start working on it, but it's a very tedious task. –Dream out loud (talk) 10:29, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You seem to have moved most of them, but very often you have changed more than just the suffix, so that it does not match the previous one. This has screwed things up, since the new name is unrecognized by succession templates. I will try to help you by fixing those - but later. Thanks. Secondarywaltz (talk) 14:26, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2016

Hi there. While it's a good thing to alert WikiProjects of discussions, please make more of an effort to make these notifications a little more neutral sounding. Leaving comments like this is clearly aimed to influence the reader to side with yourself in the discussions. This is called WP:CANVASSing, and is not allowed. The U2 WikiProject is pretty inactive, so its unlikely to make much of a difference this time, but please be more careful in the future. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Station Naming Moves

Your help would be very much appreciated. There has been an effort over the past several months to clean this up. You have recently reverted several pages back to pre-standard names. Please see WP:USSTATION - station articles where the station name is unique do not use a disambiguator like (Los Angeles Metro). It's just the name of the station with "station" at the end, the system name is only added when there is more than one station article within Wikipedia with the same name. Thanks. Lexlex (talk) 04:47, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am well aware of the standards at WP:USSTATION, please do not lecture me on what it says. Additionally, I have not reverted any pages back to pre-station names, so please do no accuse me of doing something I have not done. The move was made to disambiguate Fairview Heights station (Los Angeles Metro) from Fairview Heights station (MetroLink). Your edits will be reverted to comply the with standards, and I would appreciate your cooperation with this in the future. –Dream out loud (talk) 06:38, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks again for your help with Wikipedia! In future please comment to indicate what you're doing. Your work is appreciated by the team, but you must comment your work or it will be reverted if your intention can't be determined. We hope you enjoy your editing experience! Thanks from all of us! Lexlex (talk) 20:55, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Soundtrack of Koyaanisqatsi

You uploaded both album covers of the soundtrack of Koyaanisqatsi. However, as the topic of the article is not the soundtrack but the film, I don't think the images would help readers' understanding of the film, so omitting them would not result in bad effects on the readers. Allow me to remove them then? --George Ho (talk) 06:18, 17 June 2016 (UTC) @George Ho: Yes I think that's fine. I added those a long time ago, long before I was an experienced editor. Ideally, I think the soundtracks should have its own separate article, as there is just as much (if not more) coverage on the film's music than the film itself. –Dream out loud (talk) 10:20, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Valley Metro Rail stations/archive1

Hi Dream out loud! I noticed that you have written some WP:FLs on list of stations. I would very much value your review of my current FLC on List of Valley Metro Rail stations. If you have the chance and time, would you be able to take a look at the list and let me know if you have any comments or suggestions to improve it? I would appreciate it greatly, although understand if you are unable! Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:56, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line for deletion

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Dahar (band)

Hi Dream out loud.
You might want to comment at WP: Articles for deletion/Dahar (band) as the page creator simply removed your speedy template. I was gonna revert, but I dont think its worth the trouble due the AfD. Regards, 220 of Borg 09:01, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Funny though, they did that after they 'retired'. :-/ 220 of Borg 11:36, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

excellent list

I just reviewed List of Miami-Dade Transit metro stations which was a really excellent list. If you have a moment to review to provide feedback on List of United States military premier ensembles, it would be appreciated. LavaBaron (talk) 20:29, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations!

Great work on "Slug"—congratulations! Moisejp (talk) 14:13, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

TFL notification

Hi, Dream out loud. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Miami-Dade Transit metro stations – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for September 19. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 02:29, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Buffalo Metro Rail

Is there some reason you used disambiguation when you moved Summer–Best station (Buffalo Metro Rail) rather than simply Summer–Best station. I want to fix the messy succession box redirects you left behind and have to make sure this was done on purpose. Secondarywaltz (talk) 21:00, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There could be reasons that I can't see, but it's all cleaned up now. Thanks. Secondarywaltz (talk) 15:12, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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New Page Reviewer granted

Hello Dream out loud. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.

  • Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
  • You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
  • Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
  • Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.

The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. — xaosflux Talk 19:00, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review - newsletter

Hello Dream out loud,
Breaking the back of the backlog
We now have 822 New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action.
Mid July to 01 Oct 2016

If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.

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. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.

Getting the tools we need - 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey: Please vote

With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation.

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BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))[reply]

New Page Review - newsletter #2

Hello Dream out loud,
Please help reduce the New Page backlog

This is our second request. The backlog is still growing. Your help is needed now - just a few minutes each day.

Getting the tools we need

ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO VOTE

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List of Nanjing Metro stations

Hello! I hope this doesn't feel out of the blue, and feel free to disregard if you don't have time. However, I noticed that you have helped shepherd many train station lists through the FLC process. I have recently created List of Nanjing Metro stations that has not gotten much attention, and would eventually like to bring it up to FL status. I've tried my best refining it to the best of my ability, but would appreciate a second set of eyes from a more experienced editor. Thank you in advance, and again, please don't feel obliged! Best, --haha169 (talk) 11:05, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Haha169: sorry for not replying sooner. I reviewed the list and it's really well done! I don't have too many critisms to share, but here's some feedback:
  • Future start dates in the "Lines" section table should be noted as such (not just italisized); try something like "est." with the {{abbr}} template
  • For stations with multiple platform types, note how/why a station can have more than one and to which lines the each platform type corresponds.
  • Make sure table coding follows guidelines at MOS:DTAB.
If you can make these minor changes and nominate it for FLC, I'd be happy to support! –Dream out loud (talk) 11:32, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the review! I haven't got access to a computer at the moment, but I'll implement your suggestions when I've got time before sending it to FLC in the coming months. Thank you again for taking the time to do a review, and for your support, I really appreciate it! --haha169 (talk) 12:17, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I went and tried implementing your suggestions yesterday, and just wanted to ask if I did everything correctly. I added an estimated abbreviation for future start dates, added notes for the three stations with different platform types, and read the accessibility guidelines by checking for color contrast and color-blindness, and adding alt-text for the icons in the table (alt-text for the images already exist). When you get the chance, could you please let me know if this is sufficient? Thank you again so much, I really appreciate your help! --haha169 (talk) 10:40, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, sorry for contacting you so many times! I finally felt ready to send this list to FLC! When you get the chance, could you please leave a review at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Nanjing Metro stations/archive1? Thank you so much! --haha169 (talk) 09:51, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Speed 2: Cruise Control has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 15:31, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Twofingered Typist: Thanks so much for your help with this article! –Dream out loud (talk) 11:33, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You're very welcome. Happy to help. Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:18, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello Dream out loud,
A HUGE backlog

We now have 822 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

  1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
  2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
  3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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Thank you...

The Music Barnstar
Thank you for doing what I could not and getting Slug (song) to FA status. It was my biggest regret when I left Wikipedia, and it means a lot to finally see that star at the top of the article. Thank you. Melicans (talk, contributions) 20:20, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Melicans: thanks for the recognition. I was really determined to get it to FA as well and was happy to get it there. Let me know if you ever decide to return to editing here and I'd be happy to collaborate on another U2 article. –Dream out loud (talk) 09:46, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

Your last chance to nominate yourself or any New Page Reviewer, See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. Elections begin Monday 20 February 23:59 UTC. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review - newsletter No.3

Hello Dream out loud,

Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.

Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 822 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm PRehse. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Dorothy Walker Bush, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Peter Rehse (talk) 09:05, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@PRehse: Why did you un-review the page and change the redirect? Dorothy Walker Bush should redirect to Dorothy Bush Koch, not the more general Bush family page. –Dream out loud (talk) 09:19, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I did not unreview not sure what happened there but Dorothy Walker Bush could be two people - the grandmother and the redirect you prefer. I chose an earlier redirect to the Bush family because of that. Please feel free to change it.Peter Rehse (talk) 09:27, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing Rory Cowan

Really appreciate it, I had spotted it earlier in its previous bizarrely referenced form, and had been trying to rescue it (despite an attempt to revert back to the redirect mid-edit) as I'd found plenty of sources available on him. I'm sure his notability is just a wee bit borderline, but still, better than a lot of other people out there! Anyway, as I had pretty much reworked the article, I unmarked it for review so I'm glad someone else has checked it over now. Cheers! Mabalu (talk) 13:53, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Looks pretty well-written to me, with some very reliable sources. –Dream out loud (talk) 14:26, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Yacoub Shaheen

Marked Yacoub Shaheen as reviewed.--Wmdly (talk) 12:06, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Onel5969. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Steve Bays, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Onel5969 TT me 11:47, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Onel5969: If you're going to unreview a page, then please explain why. Simply telling me that you unreviewed it is not helpful. –Dream out loud (talk) 11:56, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - My apologies. I didn't realize that another editor had reviewed it. I had reviewed it yesterday, reverting to the redirect, since, imho, he still doesn't have independent notability. When my edit was undone, I simply clicked the unreview link (thinking it was still my review), so that another editor might have a whack at it. I can't think of a single time when I've actually consciously "unreviewed" another editor's work. And if and when I do, rest assured I'll be certain to explain why. Onel5969 TT me 12:02, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4

Hello Dream out loud,

Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 822 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!

But do remember: Rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. Do not over-tag. Make use of the message feature to let the creator know about your maintenance tags. See the tutorial again HERE. Get help HERE.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Dream out loud, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
  • Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.

Technology update:

  • Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Wikipedia:Page Curation/Suggested improvements
  • The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:

General project update:

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Dream out loud, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.

Technology update:

  • Rentier has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.

General project update:

  • The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
  • Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Dream out loud, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
  • Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!

Technology update:

  • The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: T175225

General project update:

  • On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
  • Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Dream out loud, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
  • We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.

Technology update:

  • Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.

General project update:

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Subway-Surface

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Dream out loud, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
  • Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

Outreach and Invitations:

  • If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive

  • A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
  • Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update:

  • ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
  • The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
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New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Dream out loud, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

  • The total number of reviews completed for the month.
  • The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

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.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Dream out loud, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!
The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
  • We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

  • We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

  • ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
  • Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Dream out loud, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also

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

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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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Dream out loud, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also

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 Dream out loud, 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: Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: 100 review coin, 250 review coin, 500 review coin, 1000 review certificate.
  • 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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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello Dream out loud, 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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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Dream out loud, 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
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.
Other
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 Dream out loud, 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
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.
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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.


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NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Dream out loud,

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

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
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NPR Newsletter No.18

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WMF at work on NPP Improvements

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

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

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

Backlog drive coming soon

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

News
Discussions of interest

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

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

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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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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.

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Dream out loud,

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 822 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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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

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

Reviewer of the Year

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

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

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

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

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

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

Redirect autopatrol

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

Source Guide Discussion

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

This month's refresher course

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

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

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scope_creepTalk 13:05, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dream out loud: Apparently if the article is under deletion, then it not reviewed, its left unreviwed. scope_creepTalk 13:10, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have unreviewed a page you curated

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January 2020

Information icon Please do not add or change content, as you did at Ethiopian Airlines, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Nguyen QuocTrung (talk) 13:03, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Nguyen QuocTrung: Please carefully review the edits before reverting because my edits were properly cited. (See citation #243 here, which cites this source that clearly states there are 125 aircraft in the fleet.) In the future, I would appreciate a personal message rather than a generic level 2 warning template on my talk page. I will leave it to you to reinstate my edits so the article is up to date. –Dream out loud (talk) 13:14, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"A Line (Blue) (Los Angeles Metro)" listed at Requested moves

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the requested move of A Line (Blue) (Los Angeles Metro) and other Metro pages. Since you had some involvement with pages related to A Line (Blue) (Los Angeles Metro) and others, you might want to participate in the discussion if you wish to do so. Lexlex (talk) 11:36, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Dream out loud,

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
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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"Spring Garden station (disambiguation2)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Cover arts of "I Will Follow"

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello Dream out loud,

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 Dream out loud,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

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
10 Utopes (talk) 3,958 Patrol Page Curation
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.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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Precious anniversary

Precious
Eight years!

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Dream out loud,

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.

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November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
  • On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
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Precious anniversary

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Nine years!

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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Dream out loud,

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 822 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 {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Dream out loud,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

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

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

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

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 12067 articles, as of 02:01, 18 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.

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

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Dream out loud,

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.
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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Dream out loud,

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

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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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I can sympathize with your frustration and it is unfortunate that "no supports" is often treated like a pocket veto by the FAC delegates. Sometimes you can review other articles (there are some train ones right now) and sometimes other editors will be charitable and review yours (but overtly asking for quid pro quo is sometimes frowned upon). It is a messed up situation, though in fairness FAC only functions through people willing to review. --Rschen7754 07:05, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't understand the context of your message until I realized that my post on WT:USROADS was reverted by another editor. Thanks for your feedback in the FAC so far; it looks like we have finally gotten some support. –Dream out loud (talk) 11:43, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Promotion of Atlantic City–Brigantine Connector

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Dream out loud,

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.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

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

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

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

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Orphaned non-free image File:Dark Side of the Moon.png

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Atlantic City–Brigantine Connector scheduled for TFA

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I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:46, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

July songs
my story today

Thank you today for the article, begun in 2007, introduced: "This highway in Atlantic City, New Jersey runs for less than 2.4 miles (3.9 km), yet it has a pretty interesting (and controversial) history. First proposed in the 1960s, planning didn't begin for over 30 years, until casino mogul Steve Wynn proposed building a new resort, but only under the conditions that a new highway be built to it. The project had many opponents, including local residents (whose homes were eventually demolished for its construction) and Donald Trump (back in his casino days). Politicians supported the project and it was ultimately built, carrying up to 25,000 vehicles per day." - I have a sax player pictured on the same page ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Dream out loud,

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.

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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 pages patrol needs your help!

New pages awaiting review as of June 30th, 2023.

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

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Congratulations on achieving FAC compliance despite the featured highway not being MUTCD compliant. 😅 ZsinjTalk 14:49, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Zsinj –Dream out loud (talk) 19:34, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:16, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive

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New pages patrol newsletter

Hello Dream out loud,

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

Hello Dream out loud:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
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.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 1700 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Skytrain (Miami International Airport)

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Your GA nomination of Skytrain (Miami International Airport)

The article Skytrain (Miami International Airport) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Skytrain (Miami International Airport) and Talk:Skytrain (Miami International Airport)/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Steelkamp -- Steelkamp (talk) 05:23, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Skytrain (Miami International Airport)

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BAD MOVE

Your request to move Hopi Dictionary/Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni to simply "Hopi Dictionary" was wrong. The Hopi name is an integral part of the title of the book and is NEVER removed in linguistic and anthropological literature. It is not a "translation". Your reasoning about "English title" is incorrect or else we would be forced to move Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica to its English translation and not its actual title. So too with Hopi Dictionary/Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni. Just look at the Bibliography and you will see that all of the reviews list its actual title. In case you have never actually held the book in your hands, here's a photo of the cover to show you the correct title: [1] TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 19:17, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TaivoLinguist The move was simply a request. It was approved and moved by another editor. If you have an issue with the move, then you are welcome to contest it with the editor who approved the move or you can request a new move at WP:RM. –Dream out loud (talk) 20:28, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have submitted a request at WP:RMTR to revert the article to its original title. In the future, it might be a better idea to inquire about making major moves on the Talk Page of the article in order to find out if there are problems that you are unaware of. I spent a dozen years on the move of Kiev to Kyiv, so I am not well-disposed to quick moves that bypass the Talk Page of the article. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 03:32, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Dream out loud,

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.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

Reminders:

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Skytrain MIA RDT nominated for deletion

Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:Skytrain MIA. I'm assuming you created this individual template to improve the odds of getting the related article upgraded to good article status (congrats, BTW). That was not necessary and the article would have moved through the good article process just fine with the template it had already (template:Miami International Airport). Ultimately, the template you made is redundant and needs to be deleted. Jackdude101 talk cont 14:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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Splitting discussion for SEPTA City Transit Division surface routes and SEPTA Suburban Division bus routes

Two articles that you may be interested in (SEPTA City Transit Division surface routes and SEPTA Suburban Division bus routes) have content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article (List of SEPTA bus routes). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Emma Lexi Triphora (talk) 14:48, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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