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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Passengerpigeon,

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

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

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

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

2023 Awards

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

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

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

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

New pages patrol \| September 2024 Backlog Drive
On 1 September 2024, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each article review will earn 1 point, and each redirect review will earn 0.2 points. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:10, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mentorship

Hi, i would like to be mentored by you. CosmicRiter (talk) 17:55, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

LTA case page

Hi. To save me searching for it, would you mind pointing me to the diff that supports this? Am also doubtful about its relevance. All the best. - Euryalus (talk) 04:39, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nvm, Seems like the origin is this? Am not convinced that this has sufficient relevance to be included on the case page, but as a compromise I've reworded the sentence to reflect their post rather than speculation on wider mental issues. Happy to discuss. -- Euryalus (talk) 05:23, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the late reply; yes, that's what I was referring to, but I read it a long time ago and had trouble finding it again. Passenger pigeon (talk) 21:27, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese mountain chickadee

Hi. Where did you find “Chinese mountain chickadee” being used as an alternative common name for Poecile superciliosus? Thanks, Cremastra (u — c) 15:04, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cremastra I created the redirect because of the line in the article that said it was sometimes considered a subspecies of the mountain chickadee. On second thought, perhaps the name isn't common enough to warrant a redirect. Passenger pigeon (talk) 15:05, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think to warrant a redirect, it would have to be actually used somewhere as a common name, which I'm not seeing. Cremastra (u — c) 15:08, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Cremastra: Good point; I have tagged it for deletion. Perhaps I should have redirected Poecile gambeli superciliosus (the Latin name if it is treated as a subspecies) instead. Passenger pigeon (talk) 15:11, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Passengerpigeon. Thank you for your work on Poecile gambeli superciliosus. Another editor, MPGuy2824, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

the middle word isn't mentioned at the target page. add it to the infobox with a ref please

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|MPGuy2824}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

-MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:35, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Canada bunting" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Canada bunting has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 28 § Canada bunting until a consensus is reached. Hey man im josh (talk) 14:08, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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U5 on User:DrPaulRosenfeld/sandbox; G11 on Draft:GazipurShaheen Cadet Academy

Hi Passengerpigeon -- Thanks for patrolling -- I've declined your U5 request on User:DrPaulRosenfeld/sandbox because it is clearly an attempt at an article draft, and while notability isn't currently demonstrated, it is at least possible under WP:PROF. Until we decide to prohibit autobiographies, rather than just strongly deprecating them, that is never a reason for deletion alone. I also declined your G11 on Draft:GazipurShaheen Cadet Academy because the promotion was restricted to two paragraphs that could easily be removed. Regards,

I understand; I tagged the sandbox for U5 in that case because of a combination of tone (it read strongly like a resume), its autobiographical nature, and the fact that the author hadn't contributed to Wikipedia outside of writing it. Passenger pigeon (talk) 14:21, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Undiscussed draft moves

Hi Pigeon! Please don't move my drafts into mainspace (specifically Draft:2008 Picher tornado) when they clearly aren't done yet; I'm not even remotely done with it. I have reverted your move. :) E_F⁵ 16:14, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi EF5, I will keep this in mind for your drafts in the future. I tend to move unsubmitted drafts that are on notable topics and already clearly good enough to avoid deletion in mainspace, since it's not like the author can't keep working on it after the move. Passenger pigeon (talk) 16:53, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that makes sense. I try to finish them in draftspace and then publish them, just so that I don't get into a bunch of potential edit conflicts with NPP reviewers. :) E_F⁵ 17:21, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Passengerpigeon: How does 2008 Picher–Neosho tornado look? E_F⁵ 19:19, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

January 2025 Backlog Drive \| New pages patrol
On 1 January 2025, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin in hopes of addressing the growing backlog. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Each article review will earn 1 point, while each redirect review will earn 0.2 points. Streak awards will be given out based on consistently hitting point thresholds for each week of the drive. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tocharians

It would help if you could clarify what issue you see. Kanguole 17:25, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The statement says that the language was attested until 1200 AD, whereas elsewhere in the article it says it died out by the 800s. Passenger pigeon (talk) 17:57, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]