User talk:Simon Peter Hughes

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Hi Simon Peter Hughes,I prepared a new article but it was not finished, from sandbox transferred there draftspace, I fixed all the deficiencies there. Can you check when you have time. Thank youComposermen (talk). 12:57, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New user[edit]

We have a new user User:BobBubba0005, active at Santa Claus. I think just based on the name you can guess what the user has been doing there. Hans Adler 12:39, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Sentence construction[edit]

A few of your well-intentioned edits recently seem to be based on mistaken notions of English syntax. See for instance discussions of:

beginning a sentence with "because";
beginning a sentence with "and" or "but" (scroll down to color-highlighted box) and here (bottom of page), where it's pointed out that beginning with "but" is usually better, or at least has more stylistic ease, than beginning with "however";
beginning a sentence with however, which is not a sin but sometimes graceless; it's perfectly acceptable to bracket it by commas within a sentence to structure the emphasis of phrases rhetorically, because "however" functions adverbially, not as a pure conjunction.

Thanks for your patience. I hope tyrannical English teachers haven't scarred you for life. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:35, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, notice I didn't say "stop doing this." I'd prefer to say "do this when it improves the clarity or flow of thought," and not just automatically. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:40, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mythology vs. ancient religion[edit]

Also, please make sure in editing articles on ancient deities that you understand the difference between mythology (the narrative traditions pertaining to the deity, mainly found in literature but also represented in visual art, and its continuation in the classical tradition of Western art and literature) and ancient religion, which involves theology, priesthoods, temples, and rituals. See for instance Religion in ancient Rome or Religion in ancient Greece as contrasted to Greek mythology or Roman mythology. The term Greco-Roman mythology should be used mindfully, with caution, and only after you're sure you don't mean "Greek mythology," "Roman mythology," or classical mythology. (You're right that some of the articles on ancient deities are dreadful; since I worked extensively on the article Pluto (mythology), it probably best demonstrates the distinctions I'm trying to make here, if you're interested.) Sorry to be such a pain. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:47, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for not taking offense at my tone, which can sound more abrasive than I'd wish. I agree that careful distinctions need to be made between the Roman material and the Greek, but Greek religion did influence practice at Rome, and Greek mythology was incorporated not only into Latin literature, but in Augustan public art and propaganda. So the line between Greek and Roman, or myth and religion, is not something hard and fast. Specifically with the article on Mars, I don't see any reason to make a false distinction between the myths told about Mars and the religious practices devoted to him (that is, between "mythology" and "religion"), because these overlap in ancient theology. That is, his "consort" (probably not even the best word) Nerio first appears in an archaic prayer, and doesn't have a body of stories (not in the way that his love affair with Venus is narrated). I got sidetracked from the Mars article when questions arose about Pluto, an unusually complicated case of all this, and so the Mars article remains incomplete: there's no section on his relationship with Venus in cult, myth, and art, and most important, there's no section on his festivals. I have a draft trying to work out the October Horse ritual, and hope to do something about the state of Equirria as a result. Eventually, a section on Mythology for Mars would take into account his narrative tradition as a whole. Anyway, it would be wonderful if you were to take an article like Saturn and rework it thoroughly. Best, Cynwolfe (talk) 17:38, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

LibraryThing-o en Esperanto[edit]

Kara amiko! La tradukado de LibraryThing-o al Esperanto bone progresis. Dankegon al "Annix"! Vidu http://epo.librarything.com/zeitgeist/language/epo paĝon pri la ĝis nun plej ofte aldonitaj verkoj kaj aŭtoroj. Tamen necesas pligrandigi la bazon de la esperantlingvaj kunlaborantoj, de la esperantlingvaj libroemuloj. Bv. sekvi (provizorajn) klarigojn haveblajn ĉe http://epo.librarything.com/topic/134789 . Antaŭdankon! ‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏T‏·‏m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 22:53, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Halloween III under featured article review[edit]

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Images of After Dark[edit]

Hello - I see you have marked certain images I uploaded for deletion. One specimen example carries the comment by you:

This is a screen grab from a programme shown on Channel 4 television in the UK in the 1990s. There is no way that this image is in the public domain.

The images I have uploaded are not "screen grabs", they are photographs taken on set by various stills photographers employed over the years by Open Media and Open Media held the copyright. As you will see from the image pages themselves, I have obtained the rights to upload them to the Wikipedia project.

I would be grateful if you could revert your various deletion requests as soon as possible. AnOpenMedium (talk) 09:51, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Picture swap[edit]

Hi. I am not sure that this is an improvement. Could you explain your rationale to me? Thanks, --John (talk) 20:27, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My rationale for changing the picture was to replace a copyrighted image with one in the public domain. I'm not claiming it was an aesthetic improvement but I believe that the standard thing to do on Wikipedia is use a copyright-free image whenever one is available.--Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 04:58, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How would the image you added be of a different copyright status to the one you removed? Either the claim for the new image is false, and it should be deleted from Commons, or the original image, which was, as you imply aesthetically preferable (I especially hate the drop-shadow), would equally qualify as a public domain image. --John (talk) 09:24, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. All I know is that the image that I replaced was uploaded to the English Wikipedia with a "None free media and use rationale" on its file page. The image that I replaced it with is from Wikimedia Commons and is used extensively on the French Wikipedia, where they don't allow "fair use" images. I would imagine that having "Specimen" stamped across it twice in big letters and having a blank serial number makes a difference. Still, you might well be right. Perhaps all images of 1993 series French francs should be deleted from Commons.--Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 11:12, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see why having the "specimen" notation or the blank s/n would affect its copyright image. It sounds like we need more information. I will ask someone else; off-hand, do you know any image copyright gurus? --John (talk) 11:29, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don't. Asking for outside help is the right thing to do.--Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 13:36, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I raised this at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions to see what others think. --John (talk) 12:06, 5 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your creation of Category:Films directed by Lee Frost[edit]

I am curious as to why you created a category for films by a director, if that director does not have an article on Wikipedia as of now. I hope it is within your intention to create an article for this Lee Frost person. QuasyBoy (talk) 20:58, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No. Not having access to English-language books, I'm not in a position to create an article about anything.

If you think the category should be nominated for deletion, go right ahead.--Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 05:52, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Nominating it for deletion was my next step. If you say so, I will. QuasyBoy (talk) 17:39, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliographical accuracy[edit]

Giving the city as cited in the publication is not a "stunt". It's bibliographical accuracy. -- Evertype·✆ 15:56, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar![edit]

		The Epic Barnstar
		A barnstar in recognition of your simple (but important) edits at Spanish Inquisition. Keep up the good work! Stalwart111 10:27, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and I noticed you're a British fellow living in Taiwan. If the subject is of any interest to you at all, earlier this year I created Gambling in Taiwan after someone requested it at WP:RA, though I know very little about the subject. Anything you might add would be appreciated. Cheers! Stalwart111 10:27, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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A cup of tea for you![edit]

Por el gusto de que seas mi wikiamigo. Un abrazo. Rosymonterrey (talk) 09:39, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilivres[edit]

Thanks it looks like we had the same idea at the same time! Do you by chance want to help me with that work over on Wikilivres? Thanks a lot. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:20, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help in what way? Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 12:56, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki-text You can ensure that I haven't made any formatting errors copying and pasting from the PDF, for instance. A small matter, but one that I might goof. If not, thanks anyway for your help here and at all the wikis where we run into one another! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:04, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'll certainly follow what you're doing on Wikilivres. I hope to see many more works that are public domain in Canada added which I can then link to from the relevant pages on Literature Wikia. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 05:05, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hemingway[edit]

Hi, I've reverted the Wikilivres templates on the Hemingway pages because the Hemingway estate owns copyright and has renewed copyright for all the works. I thought I'd drop a note about it. I'm not sure we should be hosting these books if the estate owns the copyright, but that's another issue. Thanks. Victoria (tk) 23:58, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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AfD Letter George Washington Mohammed Ben Abdallah 1 Dec 1789[edit]

You've made a couple of attempts at it so far.. I would recommend the use of Twinkle to help automate some aspects of AfD nomination, but the instructions at Articles for deletion should be rather straight forward to follow. Let me know if you need any help -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 12:46, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've got it now, thank you. I'll try Twinkle next time. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 13:09, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Double linking?[edit]

Hi, just noticed that your last edit to Westward Ho! (novel) means that there are now two links to the same Wikisource version. There's the one in the Infobox that I put in the day before and the one in External Links. I'm not objecting to having both, just wanted to make sure that you're aware of the Infobox link possibility for our enWS holdings. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:02, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed the link in the infobox. I was in two minds about adding one in external links as well. In the end, I decided to do it because the article is quite a long one and the two links are quite far apart. If the article had been a stub, I wouldn't have added that link. I wasn't aware that adding a Wikisource link in the infobox was as simple as writing "wikisource =". I may add links like that in the future. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 03:29, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. By the way, forgot to mention that I usually dump any external links to non-authoritative versions at the time of adding the link to the enWS one. I figure that it's better to keep readers within WikiMedia if we can. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:48, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good to me! Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 08:47, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hugh Thomas[edit]

Hello, after an IP claiming that he is the son of Hugh Thomas reverted an edit and said that Hugh Thomas died on 7 May rather than on the 6th, I added another ref I found, Paul Preston's obituary in The Guardian, also having 6 May as the day he died. Now I find in The Times of London that he died on the 7th of a stroke. What to do? Regards, --Maragm (talk) 12:08, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Having seen that IP's edit summaries, I think he's probably just a troll and isn't worth bothering about. So, we've got El País and The Guardian both saying that Hugh Thomas died on Saturday 6 May and The Times saying that he died on Sunday 7 May. One reputable source says that he died on May 7. Two reputable sources say that he died on May 6. I think that the best thing to do for now is not to change the date of death in the article and keep it as May 6. And, of course, if that IP really is Hugh Thomas' son, he should complain to the two newspapers who got his father's date of death wrong instead of edit warring on Wikipedia. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 12:46, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Children's picture books by illustrator has been nominated for discussion[edit]

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That must have already been a red category on several pages when I created it. I don't mind if the category is deleted. I have no particularly strong feelings about it either way. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 10:17, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Precious[edit]

"Seems like a sensible redirect to me."

Thank you for gnomish corrections and sensible redirects, for welcoming new users, for "Removed spammed trivia." and clean-up of external links, for original titles, for service from 2006 and in many languages and projects, - Simon Peter, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:06, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Thank you so very much. I will now edit my user page to reflect getting this delightful award and then go and boast about it on Facebook. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 06:37, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Two year ago, you were recipient no. 1905 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:44, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Yet another category that I created because it was already a red category on several pages. I really couldn't care less if it's deleted or not. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 01:04, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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About my block on the Peanuts Wiki on FANDOM.[edit]

I'm sorry i renamed "The Litte Red-Haired Girl" page to "Heather Wold" without permission. I understand why i'm blocked to. But it shouldn't be 6 months, i'm new on that wiki as well. Please short' in my block. SpyChase808 (talk) 12:24, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Moved Article UNWOMEN Goodwill Ambassador Needs to be Reverted[edit]

User:Simon_Peter_Hughes - Ok granted if you wish to change the title this is fine, but you need to also do a number of redirects. The official "title" and "legal designation" on the international database is UNWOMEN Goodwill Ambassador also UN Women Goodwill Ambassador talking about a single person or individual. It is also contrary to the other seven, soon to be 13 other United Nations goodwill ambassadors category style listings. Your retitling effort is contrary to all the other official pages and also needs to be reflected well in Wikidata. So with your permission I am going to revert your edits and if you like you can redo them as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. Problemsmith (talk) 12:24, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It is always great to have assistance but please finish what you started I cannot undo the Page Move, I don't normally retitle articles, but UN Women's Goodwill Ambassador is not an appropriate "title" primarily because it would need to be written your way using lower case letters as United Nations Women's goodwill ambassador and ceases to serve as an honorific postnominal title, United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador or UN Women Goodwill Ambassador all acceptable. Problemsmith (talk) 12:38, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please User:Simon_Peter_Hughes revert or change or update the page move and remove it as necessary, the apostrophe and the possessive "s" are simply not acceptable in the page title and are not reflected that way on the United Nations website. I am sorry for any confusion and again appreciate the help. Problemsmith (talk) 12:54, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Problemsmith: I suggest that you start a discussion about this on the article's talk page. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 13:40, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Simon Peter Hughes:, IBYP, I am following a pattern that has been established by consensus. You are welcome to start a discussion if you like, meanwhile I will be editing and updating the data. If you would like to join the United Nations Project on Wikipedia you are welcome to. Meanwhile I will take care of moving the page and setting it up to accord with the established pattern for consistency. Or you are welcome to diametrically oppose the consensus and naming convention for "individuals" and rename all the United Nations' departments to UNESCO's, UNICEF's, UNCHR's Goodwill Ambassador(s). Your style is an anomality in the system and the Wikidata. Just if you start be sure to finish. Problemsmith (talk) 13:52, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Problemsmith: Fine. I am also unable to move the page back because the original page still exists as a redirect and I can't delete it. But I have requested for it to be moved back, saying that I moved it in error going against the practices of the Wikipedia UN Project. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 14:15, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Simon Peter Hughes: Resolved already, lets just keep the redirects, I moved the page to UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and will check the other links. No cause to admit errors, and thanks for trying to help. It was a bit frustrated when I went to finish the Wikidata and the page disappeared from its name space. Peace and keep editing. Problemsmith (talk) 14:21, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings and an help for Coreca[edit]

Dearest Professor, I am writing and greeting you from the great little community of Coreca, I am writing to greet you and to know how you are. Here well enough for now. I am writing to ask you since you have created beautiful quality articles if you could help me to translate into correct English, starting from the French or Spanish that have a better quality, the article on Coreca my hometown where I work and operate. Of course, if I can do something for you, just ask. the article is not so bad in my opinion, but a hand of a great teacher like you would be a salvation. Sure to hear from you as soon as possible, I renew my esteem and cordiality.--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 09:13, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ciao, @Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino:! I will read the English article, the French article and the Spanish article this weekend and see if I can do anything to improve the English one. But I must say that the French and Spanish ones are clearly not very good quality articles. The articles in all three languages suffer from a lack of references. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 12:27, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Professor, good morning and good week. I hope everything goes well there with you, I am quite well, getting ready for Easter. I am writing to you about Coreca, I wanted to thank you for the first adjustments and tricks, I ask you to fix the historical section, to make it more understandable. In addition to this, I ask you if I can do something for you, I am at your complete disposal. Looking forward to hearing from you I wish you a happy week and a happy Easter if we don't hear from you sooner. Sincerely.--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 09:10, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino: Happy Easter to you! Since I have a long weekend because of Children's Day on Friday 2 April and Qingming Festival on Monday 5 April, I should have time to look at the Coreca article again and make what improvements I can.

When you spoke earlier about "beautiful quality articles" I have created, I'm guessing that you must mean over on Fandom rather than here on Wikipedia. Since you apparently speak Spanish very well, I would be very happy if you could improve any of the articles I have created on the Spanish-language Literatura Wiki, all of which you can find links to on my user page there. Simon Peter Hughes (talk)

New page reviewer granted[edit]

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

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[edit]

New Page Patrol \| November 2021 Backlog Drive
On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Help protect the page[edit]

Hello, colleague, help protect the page about the biography of one musician, there are more than 43 sources, it was mined for deletion, please help urgently! --Robotkaka20 (talk) 17:44, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the article itself: Kholmat Odilov --Robotkaka20 (talk) 17:44, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draftification[edit]

Hello, Simon Peter Hughes,

Just a reminder, when you move a page from main space to Draft space, please tag the original page for speedy deletion, CSD R2. It will help bring it to the attention of admins who patrol CSD categories. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:03, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OK. Thank you for telling me. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 13:02, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Simon, it's important to both tag draftified articles R2, and to inform the article's creator that you've moved it to draft. You might find User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft helpful for this. Thanks, Wikishovel (talk) 08:39, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Wikishovel: Sorry for forgetting this from 2 years ago. I will remember in future. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 09:10, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Green Goddess[edit]

I just wanted to let you know that there were references, just as I was editing it, somebody else was to and an edit conflict got all my stuff deletedN1TH Music (talk) 09:43, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy tag[edit]

You tagged 2021 Mexico bus crash with WP:A1. Why?--Bbb23 (talk) 14:20, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I gave was "No context". Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 14:32, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I know what A1 means. I asked why.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't think a bus crash in which 19 people died was notable enough. If I was wrong, I was wrong. I'm not going to argue that I was right. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 14:39, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not here to argue but to discuss your tagging. If you wish to have special permissions, e.g., new page reviewer, you must be willing to address issues related to that permission. What does "notability" have to do with A1?--Bbb23 (talk) 14:43, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I thought that was the best match for not explaining why it was important to an encyclopedia, rather than a news site, and therefore notable. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 14:51, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive me, but I have no idea what you are saying. "not explaining why it was important to an encyclopedia"? "news site"? You said you didn't think the bus crash was notable. A1 has to do with "context", not notability. If you thought that the article deserved to be deleted for lack of notability, the "best match", as you put it, would be WP:A7. The opening sentence of A1 says "This applies to articles lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article." Did you think that any reader would not know what the subject of the article was? I was trying to avoid spoonfeeding this to you because I wanted you to think about what you're doing. I should also add that I would have declined an A7 because although the article might be deleted at AfD, the event was sufficiently significant to withstand an A7. The article was clear and well-sourced by reliable sources.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:02, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your participation in the November 2021 New Pages Patrol drive[edit]

		The Reviewer Barnstar
		For reviewing at least 50 articles during the drive.

Thank you for reviewing or re-reviewing 89 articles, which helped contribute to an overall 1276-article reduction in the backlog during the drive. (t · c) buidhe 12:32, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

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 817 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 861 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.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

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: 14565 articles, as of 02:00, 24 April 2024 (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.

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^ 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![edit]

New Page Patrol \| July 2022 Backlog Drive
On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Index and review[edit]

Hi , sorry to bother you i made this article one months ago or three weeks ago

Hassan Golestaneh

Can you Review for index i solved type and just waited for index google Thank you So much

Kiava (talk) 11:39, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Index and review[edit]

Hi sorry to bother you again, can you check this article too

i made 3 weeks ago

Sina Alam

thank you so much

Kiava (talk) 11:45, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Index and review[edit]

hi i translated persian articles can you check this article too ?

i made one months ago

Alireza Amirghassemi

Thank you so much

Kiava (talk) 11:58, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

History of Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)[edit]

I've created a redirect from History of Mohammedan SC (Kolkata), a page you tagged under WP:A10, to Mohammedan SC (Kolkata)#History. Just to remind you, WP:A10 should only be used if the title of said article is an implausible redirect. BangJan1999 15:01, 13 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pact of Vengeance film[edit]

I thought I would give you a heads up that I scrubbed the article and am still questioning/tagging the notability of the film as it was released only to Patreon. Apparently the original editor didn't like that I pushed a copy into draft. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 17:50, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@AngusWOOF: Fair enough. The version of the article that I reviewed didn't say that the film was only released to Patreon. I think you're right to challenge its notability. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 00:38, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have unreviewed a page you curated[edit]

Hi, I'm AngusWOOF. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Pact of Vengeance, and have marked it as unreviewed. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 17:52, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of programs broadcast by AMBS[edit]

Please see the talk page Goodvibes500 (talk) 12:50, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have unreviewed a page you curated[edit]

Hi, I'm IAmChaos. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Hồ Thị Quỳnh, and have marked it as unreviewed. 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.)

Happy Editing--IAm Chaos 03:27, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Tatarski[edit]

I declined your speedy deletion nomination. db-person is only appropriate where there is no credible claim of importance or significance, which is a lower standard than notability. AfD would be the way to go in this case. Regards, decltype (talk) 13:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Index and review[edit]

hi i translated persian articles can you check this article too ?

i made one months ago

Alireza Amirghassemi

Thank you so much

Kiava (talk) 20:29, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Kiava:. I have marked that article as reviewed. I will proofread and correct it later. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 00:35, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Simon, can you check this article when you have time thank you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Kadir_Demir Composermen 20:31, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Perrissona Gappit Case[edit]

I saw that you reviewed the article. Myself I had questions WP:V. I was not able to access any of the references. The article also does not say what happened as a result of the trial. Instead of clicking the unreview page curation button I came here to tell you my thoughts on the article. Bruxton (talk) 03:29, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Bruxton: That sounds like a couple of good reasons for unreviewing the article to me. Go right ahead. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 03:44, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the message, I sent it to draft hoping for improvement. I think it is an interesting article. Bruxton (talk) 03:48, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have unreviewed a page you curated[edit]

Hi, I'm Bruxton. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Perrissona Gappit case, and have marked it as unreviewed. 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.)

Bruxton (talk) 03:46, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NPP drive awards[edit]

		The New Page Patrol Medal of Merit
		This award is given to insert Simon Peter Hughes for 266 reviews in the July NPP backlog reduction drive. Your contributions played a part in the 9895 reviews that took place during the drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo \| Talk (he\|him) 08:09, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

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.

Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.

New reviewers: The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.

Reminders

Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

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Review New Articles[edit]

hi sorry i bother you can you review this articles ? Thank you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrdad_Asemani

Kiava (talk) 02:49, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Kiava: I have marked the page as reviewed. I will try to proofread and correct it and your previous article this weekend. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 05:50, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much Kiava (talk) 05:55, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Review Net Articles[edit]

Hi , i wish you all the best , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatemeh_Masoudifar

sorry to bother you is it possible to review my articles ? Kiava (talk) 09:11, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Kiava: I have marked your latest article as reviewed. Sorry that I haven't proofread and corrected the others yet. I've been busy. I hope to do them this weekend. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 04:31, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

no problem take your time thanks for everything Kiava (talk) 09:30, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NPP message[edit]

Hi Simon Peter Hughes,

Invitation

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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Board of Trustees election[edit]

Thank you for supporting the NPP initiative to improve WMF support of the Page Curation tools. Another way you can help is by voting in the Board of Trustees election. The next Board composition might be giving attention to software development. The election closes on 6 September at 23:59 UTC. View candidate statement videos and Vote Here. MB 04:07, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive[edit]

New Page Patrol \| October 2022 backlog drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here!
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(t · c) buidhe 21:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive is on![edit]

You are receiving this message because you signed up to participate in the drive, but have not yet reviewed any pages in October. We would love to see you over at the backlog drive! Buidhe 10:49, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppets on es-wiki[edit]

Greetings. I found your name at the WP:Local Embassy as someone who can provide assistance in the Spanish language. Would you be able to assist me on Spanish Wikipedia? My level of Spanish is very basic, plus I haven't got enough edits there to be auto-confirmed.

There are four accounts that I suspect of sockpuppetry. There is a page on es-wiki where they can be reported, at es:Wikipedia:Solicitudes de verificación de usuarios. These are the four accounts I want to report:

Abdel hernandez s j
Hernandez san juan abdel
Abdel hernandez san juan
Abdel hernandez san juan teorizando es

If you are unable to help, perhaps you might know of another user who is fluent in Spanish who could assist me. Thanks so much. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:21, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Drm310: I will happily do it. But could you please give me some information about the suspected sockpuppeteer first? Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 03:24, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly. Abdel hernandez san juan is the oldest account of the four. I can't see any edits, but the name match to the other accounts is hardly coincidence.

Abdel hernandez s j is the next oldest. They've been filling their userpage (es:Usuario:Abdel hernandez s j) and user talk page (es:Usuario discusión:Abdel hernandez s j) on es-wiki with English-language WP:NOTWEBHOST content. It looks like an entire book's worth on the talk page.

Hernandez san juan abdel is the next oldest. Looks like they also posted resume-like content on their es-wiki userpage and user talk page. They might have been both deleted, I'm not sure. I had filed a report about them at es:Wikipedia:Filtro de ediciones/Portal/Archivo/Reporte de falsos positivos/Actual. They've also been active on English Wikipedia, posting the same book/resume content on their userpage and user talk page. Their userpage was deleted and I reverted their user talk page edits.

Abdel hernandez san juan teorizando es is the newest account. No edit history on either English or Spanish Wikipedia, but the name match is obvious.

Because there is activity on Spanish Wikipedia from two accounts, I thought that a sockpuppet investigation there would be more accepted than on English Wikipedia, since only one account has been active here. I am hoping that they will do a Checkuser to discover any other accounts that might be associated with these.

Hopefully that gives you enough information - if not, please let me know. Again, thank you for your help. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 03:48, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Drm310: Sorry about the slight delay. I have now reported the sockpuppetry and misuse of accounts for self-promotion on the Spanish Wikipedia. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 05:16, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, much appreciated. I will work on getting some more edits in on Spanish Wikipedia so that I can gain autoconfirmed status. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 05:39, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

Suggestions:

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Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Top Gear (series 33)[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Top Gear (series 33) for deletion, because it's a redirect from an article title to a namespace that's not for articles.

If you don't want Top Gear (series 33) to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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-MPGuy2824 (talk) 12:02, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Varnava review[edit]

Hi Simon - I see that you have reviewed that article (with thanks) but it is in a strange place (not mainpage) because apparently there was a previous article which was rejected for reasons unclear. I have pinged the source of the blockage but what is the process actually (assuming it has merit)?Geneus01 (talk) 10:53, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for this - it seems the article is now in mainspace - not quite sure how this works (or worked) but it may not be an issue anymore (block has been lifted?)Geneus01 (talk) 12:23, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Your Review of Eddie Black[edit]

Greetings!

I noticed that you marked the article Eddie Black as reviewed via the page curation tool. However, upon a re-review of the article it possessed significant copyright violations. The article has sense been speedily deleted under G11 and G12 by an administrator. It's extremely important that before any article is marked as reviewed that it be checked for such violations. Now I am under no delusional you aren't already aware of that considering how long you've been around, but I just wanted to let you know of the error. Consider this a trout, lol.

I appreciate your work on Wikipedia all these years, and happy editing! —Sirdog (talk) 13:13, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Cayajabo[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Cayajabo for deletion, because it's a redirect from an article title to a namespace that's not for articles.

If you don't want Cayajabo to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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-MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:48, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Van Snyder (DJ) requested for deletion after review?![edit]

Hello, can you please check this: Van Snyder (DJ), the page has been requested for deletion, but I really do feel deep inside that the user @JalenFolf got some personal issue with the topic, he is not objective at all and ignoring the sources and facts for keeping Van Snyder. You did review the page and now he requested deletion, can you help? best regards, --Base-X (talk) 19:24, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Base-X: Please do not WP:CANVASS other editors. Jalen Folf (talk) 19:36, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Zindaadil[edit]

Hi Peter. I noticed you recently moved Draft:Zindaadil to draft but did not leave the message for the creator. If there is a bug in the script please let me know because were actually creating patches for broken NPP scripts right now. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:13, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Early end of the backlog drive[edit]

A few days ago, new page patrollers got the backlog to zero. Due to the unprecedented success of the backlog drive, it will be ending early—at the end of 24 October, or in approximately two hours.

Barnstars will be awarded as soon as the coords can tally the results. Streak awards will be allocated based on the first three weeks of the drive, with the last three days being counted as part of week three.

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Draft:Cayajabo[edit]

Hi, an article i created you made a draft, and im wondering why? in WP:GEOLAND it saids if its a legally reconixed places its allowed, and the source on that page is a government website. CubanoBoi (talk) 01:23, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@CubanoBoi: Because it's extremely short, only one sentence. I was hoping that it would be made longer. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 02:12, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NPP Backlog Drive Award[edit]

		Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar
		This award is given to Simon Peter Hughes for collecting more than 200 points doing reviews and re-reviews, in the October NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo \| Talk (he\|him) 09:48, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Review for Rojin Altin[edit]

Hi I will you all the best , sorry to bother you can you review this article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojin_Altin Kiava (talk) 11:02, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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check for Review[edit]

Hi Sorry to bother you again i posted for review but you didnt answer can you check please?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojin_Altin Kiava (talk) 13:07, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Saw this and thought of you[edit]

https://www.openculture.com/2022/12/behold-the-very-first-christmas-card-1843.html Some pre-Christmas cheer across the Pacific, friend. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:50, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Koavf: I've already picked out your New Year's card. Don't worry about that! Compliments of the season to you. Have a holly jolly one! Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 11:47, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NPP Award for 2022[edit]

		The New Page Reviewer's Iron Award
		For over 360 article reviews during 2022. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:15, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@MPGuy2824: Thank you very much. Happy New Year! Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 04:28, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

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[edit]

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A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Minor barnstar
	Your gnoming is appreciated! — Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum. 09:02, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. I'll add it to the top of my Barnstar collection. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 09:33, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

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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New pages patrol needs your help![edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

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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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive[edit]

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New pages patrol newsletter[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

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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review article[edit]

hi how are you would you check this article and review it thanks

Amin Ghafari - Wikipedia Khtibkiarash (talk) 10:44, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Chris Snow[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Chris Snow for deletion, because it's a redirect from an article title to a namespace that's not for articles.

If you don't want Chris Snow to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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- 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 11:43, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Hans Plischke[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Hans Plischke for deletion, because it's a redirect from an article title to a namespace that's not for articles.

If you don't want Hans Plischke to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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Speedy deletion nomination of Lafoole Massacre[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Lafoole Massacre for deletion, because it's a redirect from an article title to a namespace that's not for articles.

If you don't want Lafoole Massacre to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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- 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 11:45, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Esto Es Brujeria moved to draftspace[edit]

An article you recently created, Esto Es Brujeria, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Maliner (talk) 09:17, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Maliner:I didn't create the article. I was just the last person to edit it. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 09:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Altered speedy deletion rationale: Kingdom of teberan[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes. I am just letting you know that I deleted Kingdom of teberan, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, under a different criterion from the one you provided, which didn't fit the page in question. Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 08:26, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Shirt58: Yes, I've just seen that the person who created it has already created lots of articles about places and events that never existed outside of their imagination and been warned about it. I will support a ban on that user. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 08:29, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi friend, I am seeing you are struggling with the CSDs. I have one suggestion for my fellow patroller, Simon. You Can enable twinkle in your settings under gadgets and can easily tag article for quick deletion by using twinkle. Usually we do not make our own rationale while tagging the articles for quick deletion other than listed at WP:CSD . Happy editing Maliner (talk) 12:14, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Maliner: Thank you for your patience and understanding. I hope it goes more smoothly for me next time. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 12:19, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also if you just want to move the article to draft space, you can install scripts by MPGUY or others, which automatically marked the moved article for R2. If you need the links of those scripts please ping me, I will happy to assist you. Maliner (talk) 12:21, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reviewing my article[edit]

Thanks for reviewing my article Kuala Lumpur City Gallery. I'm still trying to figure out the error tag " {{cite journal}}: line feed character in |title= at position 70 (help)", in the reference section. Any suggestion as to a remedy would be gratefully received. C411978 (talk) 13:41, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@C411978: The problem seems to have been simply because you wrote some of the journal article title in all caps. I have now fixed it. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 13:48, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your review on Glokk40Spaz[edit]

Hello! I noticed your review on Glokk40Spaz. I do think that the article still lacked notability, seeing that both sources does not show that he is notable enough. Both sources are not news sources. Both showed that he existed and he had released some music, but both sources didn't have in-depth coverage on him. What do you think? Thank you. ✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 13:53, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@SunDawn: You're right. Those are really not very good sources. I have added the BLP refimprove template. I would not oppose a proposal for deletion. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 14:05, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of The Memphis Sessions (Rick Nelson album)[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged The Memphis Sessions (Rick Nelson album) for deletion, because it's a redirect from an article title to a namespace that's not for articles.

If you don't want The Memphis Sessions (Rick Nelson album) to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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ULPS ^{(talk • contribs)} 02:11, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging pages for deletion[edit]

Hello, Simon Peter Hughes,

I'd like to encourage you to start using Twinkle to tag pages for all types of deletion (CSD, PRODs, AFD/RFD/CFD/etc.). Just set your Twinkle Preferences to "Notify page creator and then when you tag a page for deletion, Twinkle will post a notification of the deletion tagging on the talk page of the article or redirect creator which is an important step in the deletion process. Especially if mistakes were made, this notice will inform editors that the pages they created were done so incorrectly and perhaps they won't repeat the errors. Twinkle makes editing easier in so many ways so I think if you try it out, you'll wonder how you edited without it. It remember templates so that you don't have to and will even maintain logs on your taggings in case you want to review this edits. Please consider trying it out! Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:23, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging for R2[edit]

I was wondering that after you move a page to draftspace during new page patrol, are you tagging the redirect for R2? Having a look at The Memphis Sessions (Rick Nelson album), I am unsure if you followed this procedure. Thanks. VickKiang (talk) 07:20, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November Articles for creation backlog drive[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes:

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 2400 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discord invite[edit]

Hey there. Congrats on being on the backlog drive leaderboard. I really appreciate you helping out at NPP. If you want to hang out with other NPPs, consider joining us on the NPP Discord. Discord is live chat software that can be really fun. If not no worries. Thanks and see you around :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:54, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023 NPP backlog drive – Streak award[edit]

		Planetary Gear Award
		This award is given to Simon Peter Hughes for collecting more than 100 points per week in the October 2023 NPP backlog drive. Thank you so much for your continuous contributions to the drive! Hey man im josh (talk) 01:28, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023 NPP backlog drive – Points award[edit]

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		This award is given to Simon Peter Hughes for collecting more than 500 points during the October 2023 NPP backlog drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to the drive! Hey man im josh (talk) 01:42, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for your tireless contributions to the New page patrol. Your efforts are immensely valued. Thilsebatti (talk) 08:59, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Thilsebatti: Thank you very much. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 09:19, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive[edit]

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NPP Awards for 2023[edit]

		The New Page Reviewer's Iron Award
		For over 360 article reviews during 2023. Well done! Keep up the good work and thank you! Dr vulpes (Talk) 02:50, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted draftification[edit]

Hello. I wanted to let you know that I reversed your draftification of Víctor Sueiro. The reason I did so is because articles older than 90 days should not be draftified without prior consensus at AfD, per WP:DRAFTIFY (point 2d). Hey man im josh (talk) 13:36, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Simon, I've reverted the draftification of Graciela Rincón Calcaño, which was created around 2012, for the same reason as above. Best, Bridget (talk) 03:26, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

COIN[edit]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. PCHS-NJROTC ^{(Messages)Have a blessed day.} 17:06, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People temporarily excommunicated by the Catholic Church has been nominated for merging[edit]

Category:People temporarily excommunicated by the Catholic Church has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mason (talk) 17:29, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024[edit]

Hello Simon Peter Hughes,

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:

You can access live chat with patrollers on the New Pages Patrol Discord.
Consider adding the project discussion page to your watchlist.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary[edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive[edit]

New Page Patrol \| May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 May 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] t 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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