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When transcluding A10, it says The template below (2018 Asian Games men's 3-on-3 basketball game A2) is being considered for deletion. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus Hhkohh (talk) 17:02, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
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You are closing TFDs early. While technically speaking they are available for closing 168 hours after nomination, please do not close discussions until they end up on this page. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 18:03, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Also, XFDCloser has messed up when closing a deletion discussion just now so all the nominated pages won't be automatically tagged for speedy deletion. Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:07, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
If there is an issue with the closing script, you should provide an accurate/detailed description of what you did (or what didn't happen) so that it can be looked into. As for admins closing early - that's their prerogative. As a non-admin closer, you should wait until the pages hit the Old page. Primefac (talk) 19:01, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Primefac: I was closing this discussion with XFDCloser and it managed to close the discussion, list the templates at the holding cell and tag their talk pages for deletion but it didn't tag all the templates for deletion. There were fifteen templates for deletion and XFDCloser only tagged one and didn't tag the other fourteen. Also, is it okay to close a discussion with unanimous consensus (five or more users voting for deletion of a template with zero objections) early or not? If it is not then I will stop doing that as well. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:14, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
You should not be closing discussions early. I have no idea why the other templates did not get properly tagged. You should also list the issue at the talk page for the XFD closer so that Evad can take a look. I do not maintain that script. Primefac (talk) 19:26, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Yes. A template could have unanimous support for 160 of the 168 hours of discussion, and denying someone the opportunity to !vote in those last 8 hours (and I'm just using that as an example obviously) would be improper. I've seen plenty of !votes that aren't even made until after the discussion hits the "old" state. Primefac (talk) 19:50, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Primefac: Per WP:RELIST, would I be allowed to close a discussion that has been relisted early as a non-admin. WP:RELIST states "A relisted discussion may be closed once consensus is determined without necessarily waiting a further seven days." Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:23, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
There is one reason to close a TFD early, and that is if the creator/sole editor G7's the template. There is no rush to close TFDs. I don't know why you feel that you must close TFDs early, just wait like the rest of us. Primefac (talk) 13:48, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
@Primefac: Most of the time, when I come in before 7am in the morning, the majority or if not, all of the TfDs are closed. What is this case? Is time zone a problem? Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:18, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
@Sphilbrick: This is because when I was closing a TfD discussion, XFDCloser tagged the talk pages for deletion but failed to tag the templates for deletion for some apparent reason. This is not my fault, it is a technical fault with XFDCloser. Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:35, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
Did you work out what happened? I went down that wormhole with an earlier 'Carter AfD', if you try and AfD a redirect, it AfDs the redirect target. So you either have to nominate it for redirects for discussion or remove the redirect THEN AfD the page. Agh! Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 06:04, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.
Hello Pkbwcgs/Archive, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update], there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
Community Wishlist Proposal
There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!
Project updates
ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
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