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User talk:JSFarman/Archive 7
New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019 Hello JSFarman,
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.
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
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.
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.
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.
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs. Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools. Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done. DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log. Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:15, 11 September 2019 (UTC) Horton BarkerThank you for the encouraging note in review of the stub I created for Horton Barker. I saw just the briefest clip of him in Festival and I was a goner. High on my article To-Do list is finding a picture that's out of copyright. I have also found some other sources I will use to fill in more detail, soon. I hope you enjoy listening to Horton Barker. So far I can't listen to more than a song or two at a time, as his singing hits me so hard and so poignantly. Thanks again. Also, if this comment would be better published to my own User talk page, my apologies. The "talk" functions, policies, and practicies in Wikipedia are still not clear to me. Gcampbel (talk) 16:14, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
WikiConference North America 2019You are invited to WikiConference North America 2019 on November 8-11 in Boston. Deadline for Program Submissions and Scholarship Applications is September 20. Hope to see you there! --Rosiestep (talk) 00:44, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Reminder: Community Insights SurveyShare your experience in this survey Hi JSFarman/Archive 7, A couple of weeks ago, we invited you to take the Community Insights Survey. It is the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual survey of our global communities. We want to learn how well we support your work on wiki. We are 10% towards our goal for participation. If you have not already taken the survey, you can help us reach our goal! Your voice matters to us. Please take 15 to 25 minutes to give your feedback through this survey. It is available in various languages. This survey is hosted by a third-party and governed by this privacy statement (in English). Find more information about this project. Email us if you have any questions, or if you don't want to receive future messages about taking this survey. Sincerely, RMaung (WMF) 15:39, 20 September 2019 (UTC) October Events from Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:35, 23 September 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging I have unreviewed a page you curatedHi, I'm 94rain. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Brian Greenberg, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer. 94rain Talk 15:11, 24 September 2019 (UTC) Reminder: Community Insights SurveyShare your experience in this survey Hi JSFarman/Archive 7, There are only a few weeks left to take the Community Insights Survey! We are 30% towards our goal for participation. If you have not already taken the survey, you can help us reach our goal! With this poll, the Wikimedia Foundation gathers feedback on how well we support your work on wiki. It only takes 15-25 minutes to complete, and it has a direct impact on the support we provide. Please take 15 to 25 minutes to give your feedback through this survey. It is available in various languages. This survey is hosted by a third-party and governed by this privacy statement (in English). Find more information about this project. Email us if you have any questions, or if you don't want to receive future messages about taking this survey. Sincerely, RMaung (WMF) 20:40, 3 October 2019 (UTC) Mistake?Hi there. Just alerting you to what happened when you made this edit. I presume that wasn't intentional? Cordless Larry (talk) 20:26, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Deletion pending for File:Bob Woolf 1990.jpegHello, JSFarman. Some time ago, a file you uploaded — File:Bob Woolf 1990.jpeg — was tagged with {{OTRS pending}}, indicating that you (or perhaps the copyright holder if you did not create this image) submitted a statement of permission to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Though there is often a backlog processing messages received at this address, we should have received your message by now.
If we don't hear from you within one week, the file will be deleted. If we can help you, please feel free to ask at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 14:35, 9 October 2019 (UTC) Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
Disambiguation link notification for October 19An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Hipgnosis Songs Fund, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Michael Knox (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:19, 19 October 2019 (UTC) November 2019 at Women in Red
--Rosiestep (talk) 22:58, 29 October 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging A barnstar for you!
Jack BabuscioHi JSFarman! Thank you for your comments and guidance. I'm not sure if this is how I should be responding (I hope so!). I've only been contributing to Wikipedia for three weeks, so I'm very new here. I added a few additional sources today via academic sources (databases, journals, etc.) and a book. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ageshow (talk • contribs) 18:35, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter November 2019Hello JSFarman, This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
There are now 812 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC) Notice of subpage moved
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:43, 25 November 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging Disambiguation link notification for December 13An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:44, 13 December 2019 (UTC) New Page Review newsletter December 2019
 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.
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
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.
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.
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. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC) Merry Christmas.jpg) "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version) Chris Troutman (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas. This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove. Spread the cheer by adding {{Subst:Xmas4}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Your recent reviewHi, I got a message that you reviewed by Wikipedia article Robert Lewis Byington. Thanks for doing this. I appreciate the time you guys spend on Wikipedia. I was wondering if you could review a draft for me? It is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Elwood_Walter,_No._7. I have spend a lot of time updating this wiki page with more citations and linked to other pages, e.g. Pilot boat, Joseph Henderson (Pilot), etc. They suggested that I contact someone else to review the page since the review queue is so long. I thank you in advance, if you can review the "Elwood Walter, No. 7" page. Greg Henderson 21:25, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
draft article (Jennifer Zilm) your review 20 October 2019hi -- happy new year! I'm a bit slow getting to this draft submission. I've read the relevant materials on notability, but I don't understand why Zilm doesn't qualify, as she has substantial (not passing) references to her work in both The Walrus (significant monthly Canadian literary/public affairs magazine) and Canadian Literature (a well-known academic literary review). She was also shortlisted for a significant poetry national Canadian award (Pat Lowther Award). The Canadian Literature and Walrus articles won't show up through a regular Google search -- they will show up if a database search is done through a library. Do the sources/references have to show up through a Google search to count? It would be somewhat rare for even many well-known, established Canadian poets to appear in Publisher's Weekly. Thanks for your help! cheers, Ktrainor7 (talk) 20:45, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Finis Conner@JSFarman: The facts simply do not support JSFarman's decline of this article. NY Times and Fortune Magazine articles qualify as significant independent coverage of Finis Conner by reliable secondary sources. His founding of three of the pioneering disk drive companies should more than qualify him as a subject for Wikipedia. We can replace the Wikifoundry references with RSs at which point the article should be acceptable. Tom94022 (talk) 08:11, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
February with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:31, 28 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Please don't copy and paste text to new titlesI'm having to clean up a few messes you made with Wynter Gordon/Diana Gordon (singer) and related articles. Please do not move articles by copy and pasting the text, because the edit history is lost in the process. —C.Fred (talk) 14:15, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Ron Stone Photograph and ReleaseHi JS - Thanks so much for your kind effort to assist. I'm copying and pasting the photographers release and uploading the headshot of Ron Stone to be included on his Wikipedia page, which is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Stone_(music_industry_executive) I uploaded the image, but don't see it appearing here. Thanks so much for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richardstellar (talk • contribs) 12:11, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Do you think that this draft should be accepted? If so, I will move the redirect; please let me know whether you want help. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:31, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for February 6An automated process has detected that when you recently edited David A. Stewart, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Would I Lie to You? (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 13:00, 6 February 2020 (UTC) New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020Hello JSFarman,
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.
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.
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 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here 16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for February 15An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Mike Sabath, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page LP1 (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 12:59, 15 February 2020 (UTC) March 2020 at Women in Red
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--Rosiestep (talk) 14:59, 23 March 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Precious anniversary
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Edif/Comment on Samora Smallwood articleHello, Thank you for the comments on my draft article Samora Smallwood. I am attempting to edit it and I'm very new at this. Can you tell me what you mean by 'remove the links in the body of the article.' Samdal35ton (talk) 04:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC) Link to article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Samora_Smallwood Thank you, Karen Samdal35ton (talk) 04:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
May 2020 at Women in Red
--Rosiestep (talk) 20:58, 29 April 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Partial revertPlease note that I reverted your addition of a date of birth to Cara Buono as the date has been disputed (see the related discussions on the article talk page) and you didn't provide the reliable sources required for a date to be included as required by policy. Could you advise which source you used for the date? Thank you, -- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 22:32, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
June 2020 at Women in Red
--Rosiestep (talk) 17:11, 25 May 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice Hi JSFarman, you are receiving this notice because you are listed as an active Articles for Creation reviewer. Recently a list of reviewers by area of expertise was created. This notice is being sent out to alert you to the existence of that list, and to encourage you to add your name to it. If you or other reviewers come across articles in the queue where an acceptance/decline hinges on specialist knowledge, this list should serve to facilitate contact with a fellow reviewer. To end on a positive note, the backlog has dropped below 1,500, so thanks for all of the hard work some of you have been putting into the AfC process! Sent to all Articles for Creation reviewers as a one-time notice. To opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Regards, Sam-2727 (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 27 May 2020 (UTC) New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020Hello JSFarman,
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.
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.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271 To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:52, 18 June 2020 (UTC) July 2020 at Women in Red
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--Rosiestep (talk) 18:50, 26 July 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging Request for ReviewHello, John, I had created a wikipedia draft and submitted it. Its has not been reviewed for almost 3 months. Please could you help and review the draft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Adeeb_Ahamed. Thank you very much. (Kuruvillac (talk) 14:47, 17 August 2020 (UTC)) Draft:Cheryl_HsiehHello JSFarman, I've modified the draft page according to your advice. Please let me know if it's ok now. Thank you so much for your time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Cheryl_HsiehNepotismTW (talk) 13:30, 29 August 2020 (UTC) |
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