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Congrats

Josh you are a major insult to my Ego you have beat me several times in reverting vandalism we need more people like you --Zaharous (talk) 02:47, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Aww shucks, tweren't nothin! Glad to help! Josh3580 (talk) 02:49, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

AWB and contractions

While contractions (didn't, don't etc) are discouraged on Wikipedia, they are not "typos" and should not be marked as such. (AWB Rule 4: Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits.) Furthermore, you are sometimes altering direct quotations! [1] [2] Please check your work so far and revert where necessary. Xanthoxyl ^< 10:33, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

I apologize for the corrections in direct quotes, AWB RegExTypoFix is supposed to automatically skip any contractions in quotes. The examples you gave had either no quote marks, or quotes that spanned across multiple paragraphs, which must have confused the algorithm. I apologize for those mistakes, that was negligence on my part for not paying closer attention as I was editing.

However, I disagree that contractions should not be expanded using WP:AWB. On WP:AWB#Rules of use, examples of inconsequential edits include:

• Only adding or removing some white space
• Moving a stub tag
• Converting some HTML to Unicode
• Removing underscores from links (unless they are bad links)
• Bypassing a redirect
• ...or something equally trivial.

According to WP:Basic copyediting, "Unless part of a quotation, contractions (don't, can't, etc.) should be changed to non-contracted forms (do not, cannot, etc.)."... This causes me to disagree that such changes are inconsequential. Also, the WP:AWB/Typos project recommends using the [[WP:AWB/T|Typo fixing]] summary for any corrections identified from the RegExTypoFix database, so that false positives can be identified and reported. I'm not sure how else to tag the edits, other than just typing "clean up," which is much less descriptive and robust.

Thank you so much for your feedback. It is always helpful to take a fresh look at things! I will pay closer attention in the future. -Josh3580_talk/hist 21:09, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

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Huggle 3

Hey Josh3580! I am Petrb, one of core developers of Huggle, the antivandalism tool, which you are beta testing (according to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers). I am happy to announce that Huggle 3 is ready for some testing. You can read more about it at WP:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta. Please keep in mind that this is a development version and it is not ready for regular use. That means you must:

• Watch your contribs - when anything happens you didn't want, fix it and report a bug
• Frequently checkout source code and build latest version, we change it a lot

If you find any problem with a feature that is supposed to work perfectly, please let us know. Some features are not ready yet, it is listed in known problems on Huggle3 beta page, you don't need to report these - we know it! So, that's it. Have fun testing and please let us know about any problems, either using bugzilla @ http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or #huggle ^connect. Please respond to my talk page, I am not going to watch your talk page. Thank you Petrb (talk) 10:57, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Huggle 3 beta is out - and we need more feedback!

Hey Josh3580, how are you? I am Petrb, one of huggle developers, and you are currently subscribed as a beta tester of huggle on meta (meta:Huggle/Members. You may not have noticed, but this week I released first beta precompiled installers for ubuntu and microsoft windows! Wikipedia:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta has all the links you need. So if you can, please download it, test it and report all bugs that is really what we need now. Don't forgot that as it's just a beta it's unstable and there are some known issues. Be carefull! Thank you for helping us with huggle Petrb (talk) 16:21, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Your stepping on my toes, bro!

"Micro llamas" and "lego structure turtle building syndrome" there all real!!!! Look it up before you start stepping on my toes!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.67.150.247 (talk) 20:42, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Please cite your sources if your edit contained a valid fact. The phrase "lego structure turtle building syndrome", as well as "lego building turtle disease" both bring up zero results in Google. Dubious at best, vandalism at worst.Josh3580_talk/hist 20:48, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

You must have laughed a bit I thought. I thought I might make your job as a page patroler a bit funnier seeing as though its the most tedious,boring,saddest and suicide enducing 'job' in the world and its people like me that keep you in this line of work. Love you!! xxxx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.67.150.247 (talk) 21:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Your comments could be construed as uncivil. I volunteer my time. My patrolling is at my leisure. You and I don't know each other at all, so let's keep our discussions to article content.Josh3580_talk/hist 05:34, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Deleting my objective posts

Hello Josh, I'm not promoting the alf nor bite back, I'm telling the objective truth like a journalist, I'm doing what's right please look on there site left hand side below pgp key, they're not random links,they're citations. Here's the link: http://directaction.info/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.23.80.245 (talk) idiot (me), I accidentally I 1 000 000% assure you deleted these links, it was an error, sorry, now that I've told you that, I'll re-edit.

Hello. Deleting referenced content without discussion and consensus on the article's talk page is anything but objective, it is unconstructive. If you feel that the citations are not reliable, by all means start a discussion on the article's talk page, but don't unilaterally remove referenced material.Josh3580_talk/hist 20:44, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Objectivity

Is there a greater source than this guy's name (Muhammad)? Whoever provided the guy's name, I provide him as my source too. If his name was written wrong, then why aren't you deleting it as well? But if that's his real name, then it shows he is Muslim. Can there be any greater proof than this? His name is Muhammad and he will be Buddhist in that period?! Is such a thing possible at all? Moreover, not only him but all the rulers are labelled as Buddhist? What a stupidity!

So,the those calling him as Buddhist, what sources have they provided, can you tell me? Just stop palavering. This is obviously the infection of Burmese assimilation against those Muslims on the internet platform... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.172.231.88 (talk) 20:13, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

If you are correct, you will have no problem in citing a verifiable, reliable source for all of the articles you have changed from "Buddhist" to "Muslim." Making such changes en masse to a vast number of articles without citing a source appears to be vandalism, and will be reverted. Hope that clears things up. —Josh3580_talk/hist 20:20, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

The resources that you have shown aren't reliable? I told you my resources are the same with yours. I mean he was a Muslim based on the same resources. In those resources that you have given in all those articles all the "Shahs'!" names are Muslim names, moreover they are prophet names! If they were Buddhist why would they adapt such names? Are you sure you are really conscious? In other words, in the resources that have shown, all the Shahs had Muslim names. Do you mean the sources that you have given are not reliable? Because they all say these guys have Islamic names but you still insist they are Buddhist. Are the sources are not reliable? Or is that you that is not reliable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.172.231.88 (talk) 20:34, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I haven't cited any sources, because I am not making changes to the article content. You are the one making the changes, and therefore the burden of proof lies with you as the contributing editor. If you feel like information is incorrect on a specific article, find averifiable, reliable source, such as a news article, to support such a change. Things like "personal knowledge" or "common sense" are primary sources, and not acceptable as a basis for information in an encyclopedia. Not to mention the fact that people don't choose their own names under normal circumstances. Besides, it's the fact that you are changing articles en masse, without citing sources, that makes this look like vandalism, and you haven't really convinced me that you are interested in adhering to the policies I have referred you to. —Josh3580_talk/hist 20:40, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

My friend, I already told you that in the current sources in those articles, they say these people have Muslim names. Why do you force me to provide you further resources? You say "Not to mention the fact that people don't choose their own names under normal circumstances." Very well, parents name their children under normal circumstances as you say. So if the previous ruler was not Muslim, why would he name his son with a Muslim name? Your words are definitely causing a paradox... Why would whole dynastic line carry Muslim names if the previous ruler was not Muslim?

By the way, you might think that these Muslim names were given them by other Islamic states due to their relationships. But in Islam, infidels can not carry Muslim names, so no any Muslim ruler in the world would give an infidel ruler an Islamic title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.172.231.88 (talk) 20:54, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Look, I understand and appreciate what you are trying to do. I don't disagree with your purpose, as we all want Wikipedia to contain correct information. However, you didn't explain any of this when you made the edits. If the source states the opposite of what is in the article, then put that in your edit summary when you make the change. Just changing it without explaining is what caused the red flag. I pick through all of the recent changes throughout the encyclopedia, and I have to be sure that people aren't adding incorrect information. Use a clear edit summary when you make these changes, point to which cited source has the correct information, and state that you are changing it to match the cited source. Your statement about "infidels" not being allowed to have Muslim names is exactly what is NOT appropriate, as you would need to back that kind of statement up with a source. You have to make sure and clearly document this sort of thing. I mean no disrespect, I am just trying to be sure that the correct procedure is followed. Thank you, —Josh3580_talk/hist 21:02, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

I know you have no ill intentions and we are both here to improve the realibility and quality of the informations in wikipedia. Did the guy who wrote they were Buddhist explain anything? Anway, I have found lots of resources related to our topic and will list them here respectively:

http://danyawadi.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/the-history-of-rohingya-muslims-of-arakan-rakhine-state-burma/ http://www.rohingya.org/portal/index.php/scholars/65-nurul-islam-uk/293-muslim-influence-in-the-kingdom-of-arakan.html

Check these websites and you will see the heavy influence of Islam in Burmese history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.172.231.88 (talk) 11:56, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

I honestly don't know if the editor who made that change supported it properly, as it is recent changes that I watch. You see, I get a list of all edits to Wikipedia as they happen, and if any of those edits are not supported by properly sourced information or otherwise explained, I undo them. Verifiable, reliable sources must be cited for any edits, but I don't always see old edits. I honestly believe that your edits were most likely correct, but that doesn't change the fact that you still have to cite a source in the article. I apologize if I upset you originally, this has nothing to do with you or I, but about the policies that the community has established. If I had been online when the editor entered "Buddhism," and they didn't cite a source, I would have reverted them as well. Thank you for keeping the dialogue open, I really do appreciate it. —Josh3580_talk/hist 15:32, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

MPs, Orwell, Jack, Hansard, food banks, etc

Thank you for your assistance in dealing with the recent random outbreak of Orwellism (or whatever it may be).

As a tangential curiosity that may be of interest, I do have some sympathy for Jack Monroe ("a girl called jack"), and in fact still have a copy of the London Evening Standard that featured a lengthy profile of her. I originally planned to use it to create a Wikipedia article about her; but it turned out that someone else had already done so long beforehand.

Jack is silly, though, to think that only unemployed people do things like buying Value/Basics supermarket items, or turning off the LED clock on the oven to save electricity. I've been doing the latter on environmental grounds since the early 1990s (much to my parents' annoyance), and, come to think of it, even my parents buy value supermarket products occasionally.

Having said all that... some of the rest of her blog makes hard reading.

The original facts about the vote are indeed in Hansard, so one doesn't need Jack's blog to verify them. One of the other concerns is that the Orwell fellow was using the data... selectively. (i.e., did any Liberal Democrats vote against the proposal, and if so, did he edit their articles too, and if not, why not?) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 22:43, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. You seem to see exactly where I was coming from here. It was POV-pushing, plain and simple. Think how messy political articles would become if we included every vote they have ever made? This was more of the issue I had with the edits, although it is still true that her blog is not quite a verifiable, reliable source. I hope I didn't give the impression that I was passing any judgement on her or her work, that had nothing to do with my reversions. That was the source that was cited, and it's just not a source to base encyclopedic content on, you know? Thank you for seeing where I was coming from, and thank you again for your comments, honestly. —Josh3580_talk/hist 22:54, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

I would like for you to confirm that you aren't a BOT...

I feel like the only messages I'm getting are automated. Not acceptable.

I removed bits under the roster section of the New England Patriots because It was all messed up. But now it's fixed somehow... 06:28, 18 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theroux721 (talk • contribs)

I'm definitely not a WP:BOT, but I do use WP:HG, WP:TW, and WP:AWB to do recent changes and new pages patrolling. They allow me to pick a choice from a list for vandalism or WP:CSD, and it inserts Wikipedia's standard templates. I have to physically click each edit I make, but no, I do not have to type the messages in each time. Hope this helps,  —Josh3580_talk/hist 16:20, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations, you are first to pass the Turing test! Please inform your operator. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 18:07, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Hah! Thanks for the congrats, Demiurge1000 (talk)... Skynet is here to stay! Reminds me of the insurance "robo-calls" in recent news... Reporter: "Say, 'I am not a robot'." Robot: "I am a real person." Reporter: "No, say the words, 'I am not a robot'." Robot: "I am a real person." Here's the article and recording. —Josh3580_talk/hist 18:17, 18 January 2014

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Mass suicides in 1945 Nazi Germany

What about my edit of the Mass suicides in 1945 Nazi Germany page was vandalism? I even included a link to another wikipedia page, so it's not like I was just making up stuff on there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.166.5 (talk) 02:47, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Actually, the problem was that you didn't cite a verifiable, reliable source for your contribution. I apologize for mistakenly issuing the vandalism template, instead of the unsourced template. I have fixed that now. —Josh3580_talk/hist 03:05, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Also, I see that you have removed other warnings - that is perfectly acceptable. These messages are to inform you, not notify other users about the history. You are free to remove things from your talk page that you don't want on there, as everything is logged in the page edit history. —Josh3580_talk/hist 03:09, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

But I included a link to another wikipedia page.

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany

Doesn't the inclusion of that in my edit count as sourced material? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.166.5 (talk) 03:29, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for asking, that's a very interesting question. It may seem counterintuitive, but since Wikipedia can be edited by anyone at any time, is not considered a verifiable, reliable source for the purpose of citation. Please see WP:CIRCULAR for the official explanation. Your best bet is to cite a book or news article, and you can find more information on how to do that at WP:Citing sources and Referencing for beginners. I believe that your contribution is probably factually true, but it does have to be properly sourced. Thanks, —Josh3580_talk/hist 03:37, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Jacob Epstein

Epstein. You are wrong. I have done extensive research on his residence in Loughton, using primary sources. He rented no 49 Baldwins Hill in c 1922 from the exors of the Hicks family. A large shed in the rear of this house (extant) is where various of his large sculptures were created. In 1933 a larger house opposite became available (present nos 50-52) and he moved there. The house was subdivided again after his death. The plaque was put on no.50 because it was occupied at the time by an influential person. 40 should read 49 in the edit - sorry. See my Buildings of Loughton and Notable People of the Town,2nd ed Loughton 2010 entry Epstein. Chris Pond— Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.75.46 (talk • contribs) 08:34, 28 January 2014

Just make sure you cite a verifiable, reliable source for your contribution. Also, please familiarize yourself with the Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Primary sources policies. —Josh3580_talk/hist 17:57, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

The change I've made to List of computer science conferences

I happen to be an active researcher (and some of the conferences have website which list the proceedings).

Would a link to DBLP (the data base of publications in CS) a proof that the conferences are real? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.173.5.42 (talk) 21:19, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

I can't promise that it's all you need; that decision will made by a WP:CONSENSUS with other editors. Of course, it would definitely be much better than external links to the conferences' websites. It's doubtful, but there may possibly be someone out there who would push back based on the WP:SOURCE LIST or WP:NOT#DIR policies, but that's no reason not to add them (with your sources), since a WP:CONSENSUS of editors will iron out the exact details. Hope this helps, —Josh3580_talk/hist 21:28, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Changes I made to Codecademy

Here is my citation: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/codecademy.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.203.132.39 (talk) 04:44, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Oh, the 2,222 figure seems totally legit. Please add it back, and put in your edit summary that you are updating the stat based on the updated source. It was the "these classes teach users..." sentence that was unsourced. I apologize for the confusion. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:47, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Edits to Tizanidine

yu should not mess with this your not a dr. if so i wanna see statements.! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.117.246.7 (talk) 05:22, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Oh, gosh. You are right. On this drug-related article, I should have left your contribution which stated, "This really is a bitch! shes in my head! and i think shes on my computure i got a key logger. peace deleted bitch!" How constructive of you. —Josh3580_talk/hist 05:26, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Come on Josh, produce your medical credentials ;) Flat Out let's discuss it 05:28, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Dang, I know I had it here... Somewhere... —Josh3580_talk/hist 05:30, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Richard Morton Musical Comedian and Composer

Hi Josh I'm trying to add references to this new page I've created… and you've marked for deletion Please could you give me some guidance? I'm looking through the wizard but I'm getting into a bit of a panic. The article contains very well researched quotes but at the moment they're all in the article If I put them into the references bit will that mean you won't delete it? and how do I do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ktwhitehouse (talk • contribs) 15:52, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

If you properly cite verifiable, reliable sources, the article will not longer qualify for deletion under the WP:BLPPROD policy.  —Josh3580_talk/hist 16:03, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Orthodox Presbytarian Church

Hi there, you reverted one of 78.31.47.43 (talk)'s edits on Orthodox Presbyterian Church for " 'unexplained content removal' " which was removal of Citation needed tags I had placed there to avert an edit war (or rather stop one that was gaining steam, I shouldn't have edited WP while angry).

Is there any chance you could spare a minute to have a look at the discussion on the talk page and help the two of us work out why we're working at cross purposes? Thanks in advance SPACKlick (talk) 16:41, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Tsoro Deep,page

hi ;—Josh3580_talk/hist thanks for restoring this article but can you delete this page along with this one User:Tsoro Deep/sandbox again, I'm still new on Wikipedia so I'm learning on how to edit and I've make a mistake and saved it - Bobbyshabangu (talk) 9:43, 31 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobbyshabangu (talk • contribs)

Actually I cannot delete pages, only an Administrator can do that. Even if I could, these pages belong to User:Tsoro Deep, and only that user can request for the pages to be deleted. You do have your own sandbox at Special:MyPage/sandbox as well as the Public sandbox to play around with, if you want. Also, the signature you are using is pointing to the wrong place. Wikipedia will create this for you automatically if you add four tildes at the end of your post, like this: ~~~~ —Josh3580_talk/hist 17:53, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Original Barnstar
		Hey Josh. I see you've made a number of constructive edits on Wikipedia. Therefore, that simply constitutes a barnstar. 'Nuff said. Hehe, no really, I think you deserve this. K6ka (talk | contribs) 04:11, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, K6ka (talk| contribs)... Much appreciated!!! —Josh3580_talk/hist 17:54, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

James McCann

I don't understand why McCann should have his own page when players just like him, such as Ramon Cabrera and Melvin Mercedes, must share a page. I think McCann belongs on the Tigers' minor league players' page, because he is just a Minor League player. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.193.144.210 (talk) 20:10, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Tony Briggs Photographer/Director

Hello Josh3580, I am trying to update my photography and director credits on several pages; Bill Bailey, Frankie Boyle, Alan Davies and Ocean Colour Scene amongst others. I am directly involved in all of these projects as I am the sole photographer and/or director and I am the original source. I own the rights to all of my images detailed and my contracts show I am to be fully credited. Please see www.tonybriggs.com I am represented World Wide by Camera Press and members of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) and The LPA(London Photographic Association) Thank you Tony Briggs Campions (talk) 20:24, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Please familiarise yourself with the WP:COISELF WP:COI policies. Making edits about yourself, especially unsourced edits, is strongly discouraged and can be challenged and removed. —Josh3580_talk/hist 20:28, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

I am not trying to make any editorial or unsourced edits but add my factual credit to my published work. As I can not add credits myself I'll pass the matter onto the Camera Press and The Association of Photographers, for advice on obtaining credits as per terms of my legal binding contracts.Campions (talk) 20:35, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Again, the veracity of your edits is not at issue. It is the fact that you are basically referencing yourself as a source. Just check through those policies I linked for you, they lay out all of the details. —Josh3580_talk/hist 20:37, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Will do, thanks.Campions (talk) 20:44, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

99% Invisible

Hello Josh3580, Curious why the inclusion of information about the network the show belongs to was considered to be inappropriate. Nearly every Wikipedia entry for television shows makes reference to the networks that carried the show, so it certainly seems like standard practice. The reference or external link for most shows appears to be the official page or a page on the network's website. This seemed to be standard practice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farski (talk • contribs) 05:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

The problem was that you listed a link to where the product was available as a reference. This is not a reference. Perhaps if the network issued a press release about starting the show, that might be a verifiable reliable source. Just linking to where you can find the product is not a reference. —Josh3580_talk/hist 05:51, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Fair enough. I have changed the reference to the official press release. Would it be inappropriate to, additionally, list the network's website as an external link, as most other productions from networks tend to do? Farski (talk) 06:14, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Maybe. See WP:ELNO. I would tend to allow it myself, if you made it clear in your edit summary that you were including an external link to the network that premiered the show. However, WP:CONSENSUS is a funny thing. *I* would say it is fine, but I can't promise you that someone else might not disagree. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

r4rating.com

Hi Josh, I saw your warning at this user's talk page. Just a heads-up that they appear to be a single-purpose account that is here to promote a site called r4rating.com. I've brought the site up at WP:RSN (if you have a second to contribute your thoughts, that would be appreciated, but no pressure...) because it doesn't appear to meet WP:RS, and I noticed also today that their website has reprinted content from the article on Mohanlal, then inserted their site as a reference in the very same article that they have reprinted. So it's both shady, and disruptive. Anyhow, heads-up. I'll shut up now. :D Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:47, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

ClueBot NG Keeps Changing My Things That are Correct

Hello Josh3580, I just wanted to let you know that I keep correcting this one page, and ClueBot NG keeps saying that I am wrong when I am not. The page is For Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor PA, and Mike Costanzo went to that school and he is a professional baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds, and ClueBot NG keeps incorrectly editing it saying that he plays for the Washington Nationals even though he doesn't anymore. Please help, and if even have a tab to prove that he plays for the Reds, http://www.rotoworld.com/player/mlb/4231/mike-costanzo.

ClueBot NG Keeps Changing My Things That are Correct

Hello Josh3580, I just wanted to let you know that I keep correcting this one page, and ClueBot NG keeps saying that I am wrong when I am not. The page is For Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor PA, and Mike Costanzo went to that school and he is a professional baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds, and ClueBot NG keeps incorrectly editing it saying that he plays for the Washington Nationals even though he doesn't anymore. Please help, and if even have a tab to prove that he plays for the Reds, http://www.rotoworld.com/player/mlb/4231/mike-costanzo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scsander (talk • contribs) 22:44, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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Page Deletion

Hi Josh3580, I've done some more research and reviewed the documentary I referenced on the Spencer Luckey page and have come to the conclusion that the subject, Spencer Luckey, does not meet the notability guidelines for creative professionals. As a new user, I do not know the process for deleting articles that I've created, but I will not contest you or Randor1980 from deleting or redirecting the page. Hillbillyhoboken (talk) 18:23, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Quickly respon

Hello Josh3580,

I think you make a big mistake about launched on this article too early, most of the peoples of that city were disagree about rename process. Why you had to release the articles with the new name of the airport ? You could make the issue about it, due to not an official airport name yet, it still under a big debating. I hope you understand, and plz don't be a provocator.

Best Regards,

Esther — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.67.41.20 (talk) 03:20, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Your change may be correct. However, if it's controversial, as I assume it is (if it's "under a big debating"), the proper thing to do is leave it as it is, until a consensus of other editors decides otherwise. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:12, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Re; Antifeminism

	Re; Antifeminism
	Hi there! I'd like to contest the continued reversion of clean-ups on this page by the user [EvergreenFir], which are both constructive and necessary to promote the integrity of Wikipedia's content. Cheers, - [shotsfired] Shotsfired (talk) 09:33, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Accio Quote

That was on this article before I even revised it. If you notice in Hermione's magical skills and abilities section there is quotes from accio quote. In fact there is quotes from accio quotes everywhere if you look closely. The whole point of the accio quote webpage is to record quotes from J.K. Rowling herself.

I have edited the article again and this time I only used book examples and references, so therefore they're legit, don't change again please. Respond to my post please and if you don't think my edit is accurate you can look it up in the books yourself and see that it is. I also used the Wikipedia's way of citing sources too.

MrRaina (talk) 13:26, 11 February 2014 (UTC)MrRaina

Cowhen

Please Josh, I realiseed that I accidentally copied all that text onto the talk page of cecil jay roberts. I did not intend to - it has no function/cause, so I want to remove it... I created the article. Thankyou. Im not wuite sure why you put it back on? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cowhen1966 (talk • contribs) 18:42, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

You need to explain so in your edit summary. It looks like you weren't logged in when you created the page, as the page creator is listed as 86.129.68.235 _(talk). What you should do is add the following template to the now-blank page (copy the entire line):

{{db-g7|rationale=I wasn't logged in when I created the page, but I am the page creator, and I would like to request deletion.~~~~}}

Then an Administrator will review the page, and they will delete it if appropriate. In the future, be sure you leave a detailed edit summary. Simply blanking a page with no explanation at all is usually construed as vandalism. Hope this helps! —Josh3580_talk/hist 19:14, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Judaica Museum question

Hi! I don't speak AWB, so this may be a stupid question. But if the official CiteX template uses one format, why does AWB fix it? Shouldn't it be fixed in template so you don't have to clean up after us? Will try to remember year v. date going forward. StarM 03:50, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Hey there! I am definitely not an expert by any means as to AWB's algorithms. But if AWB's recommendation for an edit seems to make sense to me over all, I hit save. In the case of this edit... When combined with the other minor changes made in that edit, it appeared to be a constructive edit. If I had to guess, (and it's only a guess) I would assume it has to do with the context of the data. i.e.: If a day and month were included, I think it would have left it as "Date" instead of "Year." On the other hand, that could be a completely incorrect assumption on my part. Their algorithm is a bit nebulous to me, since (like everything around here) it is constantly evolving. I try to take AWBs recommendations, look at the proposed diff, and apply them where they appear to be constructive changes. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:09, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

That makes total sense, thanks. I didn't realize I didn't have the full publication info. Thanks, also, on fixing the underscores here. I kept trying to sort it out and got red links so I gave up knowing someone/bot would come along and make it behave. Have a good evening. StarM 04:33, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

No problemo, happy to help! —Josh3580_talk/hist 16:27, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Mindfulness

Hello there. I'm just letting you know that I have replaced my correction as it is factually and grammatically more correct. I'm the author of the original sentence. Thanks. 81.106.127.14 (talk) 19:28, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Scott & Bailey page

Hi Josh,

The reason I changed the external website link earlier was because it seemed pointless having the Scott and Bailey website linking to the ITV Player page when there is currently no episodes on there. Whereas there is a Scott and Bailey website (www.ScottandBaileytv.co.uk)

Regards,

Aimeefran (talk) 22:37, 15 February 2014 (UTC) Aimeefran

This is a fansite, not an official website. Please see #11 of WP:ELNO. The site does not claim to be written by a recognized authority. It even contains the following on the bottom of every page,

"DISCLAIMER: THE SITE EDITOR DOES NOT OWN THE IMAGES ON THIS SITE. THEY HAVE BEEN UPLOADED PURELY IN SUPPORT OF THE SHOW."

 —Josh3580_talk/hist 23:10, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

HELP ME!

Hello Josh, I hope you remember me! You were one of the first people to welcome me on WIkepedia! I was completely shocked and overwhelmed at the attacks I was getting from all over. I now don't know who o turn to and what to do! I need help with using Twinkle and I think a patroller has put my article up for deletion. I am at my wts end as to why I am being targeted. Please Josh help!Cowhen1966 (talk) 20:13, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Hey there! I definitely remember you. I'm sorry you are having a rough go of things. WP:CONSENSUS is a tricky concept. It seems to work really well for governing content, but it does cause arguments from time to time. If an article was tagged for deletion, and it does not qualify for deletion under the WP:Deletion policy, then the administrator who reviews the request will not delete the page. It does help if you contest the deletion in the deletion discussion, explaining why you believe it shouldn't be deleted. I also see where you got quite upset during this recent conflict. Try not to these things personally, although - believe me - I completely understand your frustration. Usually when you are disagreeing with someone, it is about the content, not about the people people involved. Try and keep this in mind. Those templates that get added to articles aren't intended to insult or shame anyone (or any article); editors add those templates to invite other editors to make the article better. Take a step back, clear your mind, then come back more dedicated than ever to improve the content. A person with your passion is a useful resource around here. Of course, there are others just as passionate who may disagree with you. That is the double-edged sword of WP:CONSENSUS. Please let me know if I can be of any further help to you, my friend. —Josh3580_talk/hist 02:15, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you so much Josh! Your words are comforting! Trust me when I say, there have been lots of underhand things that have happened. I did not even put this up for discussion. I have simply been bombarded with message after message and all I have been doing is answering them. Thanks for the advise. Secretly I am happy that we are here because at least a fresh pair of eyes can look at everything that's gone on. I will go on the site and talk to the admin. by the way someone sent me a standard message about my IP address etc. could you take a look at tell me what it means? Do you want my password to be able to see it ? Thanks Josh!Cowhen1966 (talk) 02:34, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

No. I don't want your password. You shouldn't offer, as some people with malintent could use your account to screw you. Can you copy-paste the message here? I'd be happy to interpret it for you. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:35, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Josh will do!Cowhen1966 (talk) 09:58, 17 February 2014 (UTC) Morning Josh! Saw that the individual in question has posted it on my the top of my talk page. ThanksCowhen1966 (talk) 10:23, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

NAH MAN

NAH G GO AWAY — Preceding unsigned comment added by MissionHeightS (talk • contribs) 06:22, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

First, your caps lock is stuck on - this seems indicative of your level of due diligence. I assume you are snidely responding to the warning you received after making this edit. My advice? You can either try to be constructive in your edits, or I suggest you take your own advice, G. —Josh3580_talk/hist 21:31, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

American History X

Hi, I'm just wondering who you've talked to about the council? It has been designated to the US Congress, however there ARE some customs, laws, etc, that are upheld by the people. Please reference. Ely S. Parker's designation to Morgan Lewis is the greatest example of co-operation so I think in terms of English Wikipedia, it should be held in esteem. Please contact his descendants or the book Lweis wrote. Thank you in advance. InternetHero (talk) 19:37, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

I responded on your talk page. —Josh3580_talk/hist 08:07, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Devyani Khobragade incident page

I was just providing the source when our edits clashed109.134.122.220 (talk) 07:25, 18 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.134.122.220 (talk)

Sorry for the edit conflict. Thank you for fixing it! —Josh3580_talk/hist 07:36, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

You are welcome. BTW and FYI, I've also reverted a deletion of an appropriately referenced statement (made by the candidate who is leading all opinion polls in India to be the next Indian PM) regarding his views on the case. He made the statement during talks with the US Ambassador so that the US Govt knows his official position on the matter. I believe that this info is of importance to the article109.134.122.220 (talk) 07:40, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

I have no idea why you sent me a message.

hj — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.120.208.200 (talk) 08:34, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion. You changed several values in the American Airlines fleet article, and removed a reference in [this edit]. I did not fact-check your numerical value changes, they may very well be correct. However, you did remove a valid source without explanation. That is why you received the message that you did. If you had a reason to remove that reference, please explain your reasoning in the future, using the edit summary field, so other editors understand why you took the action that you did. Thank you for contributing, sorry again for any confusion I may have caused. —Josh3580_talk/hist 08:41, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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Correctons

Hi Josh

i am new here and dont know how to put in sources but if you watch the movie brother where art thou you will see my point.

kind regards Mememe23432— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mememe23432 (talk • contribs) 06:41, 19 February 2014

Actually I completely got your point. I explained in my edit summary, but I should have put it on your talk page as well. The issue was that it was actually Babyface Nelson who helped the trio in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, not Machine Gun Kelly. Hope that clears things up. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:50, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

i am very sorry i must have gotten the two mixed up — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mememe23432 (talk • contribs) 06:54, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

It's no problem at all, friend. Keep learning the ropes around here, keep making constructive edits, and you'll have all the details and policies down in no time, and will find yourself a veteran editor before you even know it! —Josh3580_talk/hist 07:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

baklava Hellochickenzombie (talk) 07:01, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Richard Morton Musical Comedian and Composer

Dear Josh3580 (Ktwhitehouse (talk) 00:08, 21 February 2014 (UTC)) I'm endeavouring to create a page about Richard Morton and have collected a lot of well sourced information. You deleted the first page I created, I think because I published it…(intending to keep working on it) so now I've created a draft one and will be working carefully to get everything right. I'm a bit baffled by all the citation stuff, even when I look at the tutorials. Anyway I will try - please be patient with me. And if anyone can help me with it please let me know! Thaanks

Zoogle Media Silicon Forest

Hello Josh,

Thank you for your interesting response. Zoogle Media's main office is located in the heart of Downtown Portland, Oregon 1326 SW 12th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97201 that's the heart of Silicon Forest. Zoogle Media deals in complexity analytical software marketing development.

Thanks

Christopher Blair— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.162.35 (talk • contribs) 06:18, 25 February 2014

I have no doubt that the company exists, however, to meet the notability guidelines, verifiable, reliable sources are required to show significant coverage of the company. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:20, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Please see this link of valid address http://businessfinder.oregonlive.com/zoogle-media-portland-or.html— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.162.35 (talk • contribs) 06:24, 25 February 2014

Again, I do not debate that the company exists, did you read the Wikipedia:Notability guidelines policy? —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:27, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Josh, below is a reliable source from Oregonlive.com which is Oregon's local news company. [3]— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.162.35 (talk • contribs) 06:29, 25 February 2014

I'm afraid that a simple business listing does not establish notability. Please familiarize yourself with this policy before you continue spamming this company's name. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:35, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

I was looking through the list of suppose article's on companies in "Silicon Forest" such as http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Extensis I don't see any relation to any article stating "Silicon Forest" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.162.35 (talk) 06:42, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Please see WP:OTHERSTUFF. We are discussing your contribution, not other users' contributions. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

There on "Silicon Forest" with no verifiable sources

Christopher Blair — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.162.35 (talk) 06:47, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

So because other people added things that are unsourced, you should be able to do the same? That's not how it works. If you look at the page history, I removed quite a few unsourced additions, not just yours. Find extensive coverage of Zoogle Media, and cite it, and it can be included. It's as simple as that. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:50, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

K boss, can you be a bit more elaborate "Extensive Coverage"? Give me an example of what you need to make this stick.

Thanks

Christopher — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.162.35 (talk) 06:54, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Absolutely! Click here -> WP:CORP explains the policy in detail. Please understand, I have nothing against the company being listed, but at the same time, I don't make the rules, the community adopts them by WP:CONSENSUS. I am just trying to make sure that the guidelines are being followed. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:58, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

No worries bud your just doing your job. I get it!! :)

Christopher — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.162.35 (talk) 07:01, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, man. I appreciate that. —Josh3580_talk/hist 07:03, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Can we have a private conversation? Let me just make sure I understand this correctly in order for Zoogle Media to be part of "Silicon Forest" in wiki you need a 3rd party sources mention Zoogle Media in an article about Silicon Forest, correct?

Christopher — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.162.35 (talk) 07:05, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

GREAT question. Actually there's no way to have a private conversation, it's all public here. But let me try to explain... What is needed here is 3rd party sources which simply COVER the company. It needs to be notable enough to merit its own article to be listed (even if the article doesn't exist at this time). The fact that the company is a part of Silicon Forest is a different issue. I would tend to allow it to stay, since you can show by its location that it is part of Silicon Forest. I can't promise that some other editor might disagree, but I would allow it - IF you can show the company's notability with media coverage. —Josh3580_talk/hist 07:11, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Josh do reviews count, if it comes from a 3rd party reliable source that state's the location of the review?

Christopher — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.162.35 (talk) 08:10, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Ford Crown Victoria

I apologize for the edit. I know that the source I was providing may not be reliable, but there are two exceptions regarding that:
1) The Ford CEO posted that.
2) His profile appears to be Alan Mulally-ish, not Justin Bieber-ish.

Also, take a look at his profile:
http://answers.yahoo.com/activity?show=pxs3E8etaa --166.137.191.33 (talk) 04:15, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, no dice. The account was created within the last 24 hours, it simply doesn't qualify per the community adopted standards. See WP:RS and WP:V. Find a news article and cite it if you want to include this information. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:16, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

I did not create that account, neither did SpongeBob SquarePants, nor did Justin Bieber, or even Barack Obama. --166.137.191.33 (talk) 04:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

BTW, it was the real Alan Mulally. --166.137.208.25 (talk) 04:32, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

AWB

Hi. Please read the rules of use for WP:AWB. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 08:11, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Could you be a bit more specific as to what I am doing incorrectly? I've been using AWB for years, but I definitely want to be constructive in my edits. —Josh3580_talk/hist 08:13, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Is it that you feel like my "whitespace edits" are inconsequential? It would be the first time out of many similar edits where that issue was raised with me, but I could see that point. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you are talking about. —Josh3580_talk/hist 08:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Infinity Property & Casualty Corporation

Hey josh i agree with the neutral thing if that is the case then i believe that Yelp a neutral site for consumers should be authorised on Wikipedia yelp only shows reviews good or bad for a company despite the reality that they have ripped off millions of lower class Americans and continue to do so yelp is open to good comments as well if they take care of their customers then it will be relevant to yelp. The local news is going to be doing an interview with me and some of their other customers on Friday the news as a whole has a neutral standpoint can i not post the news report. I guess in a city of 500,000+ i can still get my point across. — Preceding unsignedcomment added by Nicholas.brown18 (talk •contribs) 18:10, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

This is an encyclopedia. It is not the place to air your grievances. If there is extensive coverage regarding some controversy, by all means cite your source and include it. Your edit, however, was making negative assertions of the company in the article body, which is a violation of WP:NPOV. —Josh3580_talk/hist 18:14, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the help!

Thanks Josh3580, it was indeed a mistake. Thanks for cleaning it up for me!

Mikejcunn (talk) 18:57, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Mikejcunn (talk): No problem at all. Please touch base with me if I can be of any further assistance on any questions you might have. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:57, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Edits to Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow

Hello there.... I just made some contributions to the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow page and after 30 mins they were all removed. Im confused. Please explain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Parkwardmotors (talk • contribs) 06:48, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Absolutely. First off, your username suggests a conflict of interest, but even disragarding that entirely, you didn't cite a source for any of your contributions. I actually believe that your edits were correct and accurate, but you have to cite a source to make those kinds of changes. Hope this clears things up some. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:53, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm finding this site rather complicated and confusing. I couldnt even find a "reply" button to your message! So things like the citations (which I can easily provide) I dont know how to do. I will do some research.

But when something is blatantly in error, for example, the Bentley T2 was written as "Bentley T II", what citation is necessary and why? It is simply a fact. The car is a "bentley T2". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Parkwardmotors (talk • contribs) 07:09, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

People who delete primary sources because they argue with secondary sources.

I will tone down my introduction. Reversions to honest editions are not civil, either. [4] 108.181.137.147 (talk) 09:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Mistake

You did make a mistake. The user named HappyRagingPandas replaced content with ,"Storm Bay is a large bay located in Storm Bay Island." on Storm Bay (which is fixed now) and is called as removing content. 72.218.229.119 (talk) 14:09, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

MH370 Crash

Hi Josh I've put up a new reference after reading your article on WP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.39.81.8 (talk) 04:47, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! That's exactly what it needed, much appreciated! —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Your ability to fight vandalism

You're quite bad at spotting vandalism and someone needs to stop you making poor reverts of quality, sourced material. 101.113.64.238 (talk) 06:04, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Your tone is a bit harsh, perhaps even uncivil, but I am always open to constructive criticism. What edit or edits are you are referring to? I'll be happy to review them, if you clarify a bit. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:10, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

I was going to help but seeing as you want to call me names, I don't think I'll bother. People like you make Wikipedia the worst place to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.113.64.238 (talk) 06:14, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Interesting. I don't seem to remember calling you any sort of name. Maybe you want to clarify that? I seem to remember trying to work with you. Perhaps I need to request an interpretation from a sysop? I'm sure that whoever looked into it would be impartial for both our sakes. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:19, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

please dont delete my stuff! Jcschulman (talk) 03:33, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Jcschulman (talk): Thank you so very much for the coffee. As for reverting your edit, please cite a source the next time you call someone out as a "balloon human". —Josh3580_talk/hist 01:18, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

17 March 2014

Sorry, I do not make test edits. Another user always deleting part of the article without any sources given, so I restore to the last verifiable revision.--112.215.36.144 (talk) 23:24, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry, to which article are you referring? You aren't logged in, so all I see is your current IP address in your signature above, and I don't see that I have reverted any edits by 112.215.36.144 (talk). But just as general information, adding information is what requires a source, not removing it - especially if the information being removed doesn't have a source. Of course if you have found yourself in a disagreement with another editor, the article's talk page would be where you would want to hammer out your differences. There, everyone can come to a WP:CONSENSUS, instead of it being one person's opinion vs another's. Please be aware of the Three Revert Rule if there is some kind of argument. If there is a specific article or edit of mine that you would like clarified, feel free to leave me a message with the details, and I would be happy to review it. Cheers, and happy editing. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:05, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Hao Moat

Hi, I've undoed your revision because 1. there are multiple sources, but because it's Chinese it's hard to find reliable sources 2. don't use Huggle for non-vandalism, please 3. I am an experienced Wikipedian editor. I've been to Nantong and the tourism dept there calls it "Moat Hao". My source, if you don't mind adding a cite: http://www.vhotel.org/Attractions-1647.html --68.203.83.230 (talk) 03:45, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you so much for contributing. To answer your questions... 1) I empathize with the problem of sources, but it is still required. 2) Why shouldn't I use Huggle for vandalism prevention? It seems to serve me quite well. 3) Your experience has nothing to do with this, it is the source that matters. The source you cited says that the "Hao river" is a "historical moat," so it is not an appropriate reference for this change. I would guess that you are correct, but a source is still required. —Josh3580_talk/hist 03:51, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Reverting my edit

Yo, I was reversing misinformation by changing Kenny Britt to a free agent because he's not a Ram, nor has he ever been. source: http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/5130/kenny-britt — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.34.91.27 (talk • contribs) 03:57, 28 March 2014

Please do your homework before spreading misinformation, thanks.

That's wonderful that you are trying to make sure that the information is correct. However, please cite your source in the article, not on my talk page. Readers of Wikipedia should be able to easily verify any information that is asserted as fact in the articles. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:01, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

How about you site where you believe he's a Ram. You're the one with the burden of proof, here, brah.— Preceding unsigned comment added by TheKillerNacho (talk • contribs) 04:02, 28 March 2014

You are simply incorrect there. The editor making changes is the one with the burden of proof. If what is currently written is incorrect, then change it, and cite your source. Please see WP:V and WP:RS. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:06, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok then, so reverse the edit who put his team as the Rams when they had no proof, not my edit. Hell, the first line on his page says he is a FREE AGENT. All I changed as the Infobox to correspond with the information that was ALREADY ON THE ARTICLE. If Wikipedia is really so nazi I guess I will withdraw my funding as I currently pay $20 / month as a donation to the site. I'm sorry for making an edit to a page that was obviously contradictory and incorrect. I will never do it again. /sarcasm.

Dude...... he's not a Bill, either. Try again. He's a FREE AGENT.

Done. I honestly couldn't care less about your funding, that is a donation issue, and is between you and the foundation. As far as this edit, you are absolutely correct. In the future, if you remove unsourced information, make sure it is clear in your edit summary that the information is unsourced. Just stating that it is untrue with no source, or challenging existing sources, will most likely trigger a filter just as happened here. I had to look 16 edits back to find where the unsourced addition on the Rams occurred, and you are now unhappy with THAT revert. I found the next version that had no team reference. In the future, do your own research if you want to change things. Don't just try to pick a fight. I'm trying to help here, too. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:30, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I never tried to pick a fight. I just changed "St. Louis Rams" to "Free Agent". I suppose in the future if I spot misinformation I will simply source it in the edit description... is that the proper way to do things? I already did my research. I knew Kenny Britt was a free agent. I changed it. Why do I have to justify it to you? Btw, it's not that I was unhappy with your revert. It was that your edit, a revert, made the page less accurate than it was before. This is against the spirit of wikipedia. You are the one who "picked a fight" so to speak.— Preceding unsigned comment added by TheKillerNacho (talk • contribs) 04:36, 28 March 2014

I'm sorry if I came across that way. Since WP is publicly editable, people often add things for the hell of it which are unexplained and incorrect. The truth is, the answer to your question is even more simple than you posit. If you are removing dubious, unsourced information, just remove it (like you did), but make sure you explain in your edit summary that the content is completely unsourced. If you add information, that's when you need to cite a source. Again, your edit was correct, your explanation was the issue. And again, I'm sorry if I came across as confrontational. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:41, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I get you. I will do this in the future. Sorry for being unclear - it's just frustrating to try to help and then have it reverted every 5 minutes, haha. Thanks for the help, I did not mean to be a burden... just correct an obvious mistake. —TheKillerNacho_talk/hist 04:41, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I know what you mean, and I really do apologize for making things difficult. It's hard to divine what someone else is trying to accomplish sometimes. Thank you again for trying to make things better around here, that's a rare quality. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:48, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Zombie Night

Thanks for reverting the vandalism at Zombie Night (2013 film), but why do you think it fails WP:NFILM? The article has five sources. That's quite more than enough to make it notable. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:13, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

That is an awesome question! With some of the folks editing around here, I am pleased to see such a well considered observation. The number of sources are not all that make a film notable, it is the content of those sources. The WP:NFILM#Other evidence of notability section lays those things out. I do not debate that I could be incorrect in my tagging, but you have the WP:CONSENSUS process on your side. A third editor can remove that tag if they do not agree with the classification. Thanks again, for being diligent and thoughtful. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:19, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I agree that it's nice to have a civil conversation with someone on a talk page. I've become quite tired of sarcastic teenagers, which makes me wonder if maybe everyone was right about me back when I was teenager. Anyway, sure, if we were talking about trivial mentions you'd have a good point, but a review in Variety is hardly trivial – and there are two more reviews from reliable sources besides that. I admit that I had a bit of trouble tracking down enough sources to make a case for notability, but if it went to AfD right now, I'm pretty sure it would be kept. Most people don't even require that many sources before they start berating you for WP:BEFORE, and I learned that the hard way. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:56, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Reviews are normally not enough to meet the WP:N standards, but I did not think that the article should be deleted outright. That's why I added this improvement tag, instead of an AFD or CSD tag. I just wanted to invite any other editors to improve what I saw as a weakness in the WP:N department. And I'm with you on the "teenager" assertion! —Josh3580_talk/hist 05:27, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

OK, I think I'm beginning to see where you're coming from now. In WikiProject Film, reviews are generally held to establish notability. Whether three reviews is enough is up for grabs, but I think that the other two sources push it into a much safer zone. (Is it just me or did you hear "Danger Zone" in your head?) The original vandal did not add the tag in good faith; he simply replaced the current article with another one that had already been tagged for notability. But if you think the template is warranted, then that's good enough for me. There's always room for debate when dealing with Wikipedia's vague guidelines. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 07:05, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I'll tell you what, my friend... You and your Kenny Loggins reference have convinced me. Seriously, though... I suppose I was trying to reason and glean SOME good-faith from the other editor's changes, but I think you are correct in how the entire edit was not in good faith. I'm restoring the previous version, and I will try to give a clear explanation in my edit summary. —Josh3580_talk/hist 02:31, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Cossacks Edit

Hello, I'm Josh3580. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Cossacks, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  —Josh3580_talk/hist 03:34, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, you have left the message above to me on my homepage. I am not the author of the deleted batch of text (which was left by some new, inexperienced user). I believed it was of a good faith edit, and felt it is not proper to delete it by just declaring it to be a POV. So I basically intervened as a third (impartial) party. Another editor accused the author of pushing a POV, which I don't agree with. I checked and as far as I checked the description was okay. In any case, if you are not the same IP person who kept deleting the entry, I am happy to agree with you, and otherwise not. 173.76.253.77 (talk) 04:33, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I think you're confused by what we mean by "impartial" and "secondary" sources. I'm not doubting the good faith of the editor, but the addition is wholly unsuited for wikipedia. We need reliable, secondary sources (reputable news coverage, historian's analysis) to interpret the significance of events and validate them. Many "firsts" occur every day (I ate breakfast on March 28, 2014 for the first time ever today!), but not all such events have real significance and historical context. If this Cossack Congress is as important and significant as the participants claim, then there should be other, neutral third parties who agree and explain what is and is not significant about it. You as an editor do not count as such an impartial third party. WP:RS explains what counts, and why they count.

And no, Josh3580 is not me, but the identity of the editor making the change should have no affect on your acceptance or recognition of that change. You seem to be carrying a WP:BATTLEGROUND mentality here. I'd suggest stepping back and viewing the whole thing for what it really is: an ultimately largely meaningless squabble about a small amount of text on a single webpage on a large site in a much larger internet. Cheers. 128.84.216.20 (talk) 18:05, 28 March 2014

I am certainly not the one having WP:BATTLEGROUND mentality here (and people, who claim to read other people's mentality off the internet, a bit worry me :-). I am fine/cool with whatever Josh3580 has decided. I just found your editorial activities a bit more POV than those of the original poster. Have a wonderful day :-) 173.76.253.77 (talk) 00:41, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

It's all going to be just fine. It took me a long time as an editor to embrace the idea of WP:CONSENSUS, but I eventually found out that, no matter how impassioned any editor is, the community does a pretty good job at ironing out the messy details as time moves along. If an edit is so controversial that the currently active editors can't agree, the article's talk page invites others to give their opinion. The whole consensus idea was very strange and foreign to me at first, but I must admit, it works pretty darn well on this project. Surrender to consensus. We can all just do our individual part, editing in a way that we feel is correct, and let the community either agree with us or reject us. In all, the consensus seems to turn out the best product. Cheers to the both of you. —Josh3580_talk/hist 01:56, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

CU Powerline Songs

Hello, Josh3580! I'm contacting you regarding my attempted revision of the CU Powerline Controversy page, which you reverted. I attempted to add the song "Pope County Blues" by Minnesota folk singer Larry Long to the "Inspired Art" section. You reverted it giving the reason that I provided no reason for the edit and no source. I had assumed that a reason was self-explanatory in that I was adding a song to the list of songs inspired by the conflict, and that the source was unnecessary as most of the other songs in that section are unsourced. Lyrics and clips of the song are available online, and I would be glad to provide a source for the song if necessary to put it into that section of the article. I am myself a folk singer and resident of the area the CU Powerline went through, and would very much like if Mr. Long's song could be included in the article.

50.171.143.184 (talk) 05:19, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

We need your help testing latest huggle

Hello,

I am sending you this message because you listed yourself on meta:Huggle/Members as a beta tester. We desperately need attention of testers, because since we resolved all release blockers, we are ready to release first official version of huggle 3! Before that happens, it would be nice if you could test it so that we can make sure there are no issues with it. You can download it packaged for your operating system (see Wikipedia:Huggle/Huggle3_Beta) or you can of course build it yourself, see https://github.com/huggle/huggle3-qt-lx for that. Don't forget to use always latest version, there is no auto-update message for beta versions!

Should you find any issue, please report it to wikimedia bugzilla, that is a central place for huggle bugs, where we look at them. That is i mportant, if you find a bug and won't report it, we can't fix it. Thank you for your work on this, if you have any questions, please send me a message on my talk page, I won't be looking for responses here. Thanks, Petrb (talk) 15:13, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Accidental Warning

Assuming you somehow accidentally gave me a warning. Although I do have mental arguments with myself, I typically don't attack myself - that would be akin to self-harm. --Slazenger (Contact Me) 07:15, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I rolled it back. Not sure what happened there. Glad you hear you aren't a "cutter"! :P  —Josh3580_talk/hist 23:53, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

All good, crazy things happen relatively often. --Slazenger (Contact Me) 04:16, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

The Stand (TV miniseries)

Re your reversion of all my work:

I had a hidden note in the text stating the source was IMDB. Also a note on the article Talk page.

Since when does anyone need a source for episode titles of a TV show already broadcast anyway? The show itself is the source.

And you also restored all the trivia and WP:OR that was COMPLETELY UNSOURCED. Didn't you read my edit notes? If you dispute that, please explain on the article talk page, don't just revert. 202.81.248.238 (talk) 17:30, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

I apologize, I looked at that edit completely backwards. You are absolutely correct. I am removing the warning that I put on your talk page. Sorry again for the trouble. —Josh3580_talk/hist 17:40, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

User 174.113.185.73

Hi Josh, I ran across a vandalism-type edit from 174.113.185.73, and after fixing that I took a look at their contributions page. All recent edits are vandalism-type stuff, some change the meaning of a sentence, like this one; others don't but are all meaningless.

I noticed you put a warning on that IP's talk page; I feel like 4 days of that behavior continuing is enough to warrant a block. Also for some reason, four tilde's isn't working as a signature on your talk page. Not sure what I'm screwing up.  —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:08, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

New huggle 3.1 is going to be released soon

Hi Josh3580, we are to release a new major version of huggle, but we did receive almost no feedback from our beta testing team, which you are a part of (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members). It would be of a great help if you could download it (if you have windows, all you need to do is getting http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle3.1.0beta.exe and putting it to a folder where you have installed huggle) and test it. You can always get a help with making it @ #huggle ^connect!

Major changes:

• Multisite support - you can now log in to unlimited number of wikis in 1 huggle session and get a huge queue of all edits made to these wikis. This is good for smaller projects which gets overlooked often.
• Ranged diffs - you can select multiple revisions and get a huge diff that display all changes done to them.
• Fixes of most of bug reports we had so far

In case you found a bug, please report it to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=Huggle&list_id=147663 thank you!  —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:08, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi - Edit on Godhra was verifiable on wiki

The site of Babri Masjid is disputed and is considered by Many Hindus to be the site of an older temple demolished during the medieval times Ram Janmabhoomi.

I see no reason for controversy there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.63.253.87 (talk) 03:39, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately, you can't use Wikipedia as a source for other Wikipedia articles. Please see WP:CIRCULAR. Hope that clears things up. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:09, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello Josh3580. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.

Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.

I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).

       Sent via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Hunger Games: Mockinjay Jay Part 1

From my part that wasn't vandalism (here). I merely tried updated the figure by matching it between two section. Check the box office figure for Interstellar in 2014 in film and Interstellar, the box office figure does not match, when they should. That was the same case with the hunger games. Clearly you got a different idea of vandalism. I too strongly criticise vandalism.

I don't feel the reason why should I explain myself to you, but I did it anyway.

P.S. It's 2:50 AM in my region. Am going for a sleep. Please don't poke me further. DtwipzBTalk 21:21, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

There was a cited source immediately after the figure, and none of the sales figures you inserted appeared in the cited source. If you decide to update sales figures in the future, please do so based on the cited source, and not from elsewhere in the article. Hope that helps clear things up. —Josh3580_talk/hist 21:23, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Cool. You could've said that in the very first message instead of aiming a gun to my head. Bye.DtwipzBTalk 21:30, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

I don't seem to remember threatening violence, but perhaps I can explain why you received a strongly worded warning template. The way that warning templates work in Wikipedia is that as your warning level increases, the language becomes a bit stronger each time. The Level 4 warning that you received from me was based on the fact that you had already received a Level 3 warning from C.Fred. This prior warning was also for edits to box office figures, section blanking in that case. My anti-vandalism tool, Huggle, automatically chooses the next highest level warning template, which is why you received the warning that you did. I apologize for any confusion. —Josh3580_talk/hist 21:42, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

Different people got their own perception about what 'vandalism' is. In case of C.Fred, I tried to put the box office section above the critical reception, which is the case for most of the film articles. And the user went cuckoo over it (here.) What I think is, there are some purist out there and if someone like me tries to do a little something, They think that the world is falling apart. But that ain't the case. I appreciate your work. Good luck. DtwipzBTalk 05:26, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

C.Fred is a very experienced user, with whom I have dealt with many times during my work with Wikipedia. I assure you, he wasn't out to get you, although only he can speak to his exact reason for warning you as he did. There are so many bad actors out there performing bad-faith edits, that, on the surface, some edits are very hard to assume good faith on examination. You should absolutely be bold in your edits. This is an essential part of the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. Don't allow this scuffle to set you back, everyone's help with the project is needed. I'll admit that the Wikipedia consensus model can be nebulous and hard to follow, even for me. The guidelines and their associated discussions are open to being reinterpreted and changed at any and all times. As a Recent Changes patroller, I often find myself undoing edits that I actually agree with, because of the way the guidelines are laid out. When you are confronted, don't take it personally. Try and figure out what the other editor thinks you are doing wrong. Usually, editors acting in good faith will explain what issues they have with your edits. If you have a question about their criticism, ask them, just as you did with me. Take their criticisms and responses into account, and move forward. I honestly appreciate your willingness to discuss this incident. Many editors choose not to do so, to everyone's detriment. —Josh3580_talk/hist 05:56, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for particularly the message above. I needed it badly. I ain't naive if that's what you're asking, but I hate bullies more. I had my fair share in dealing with them. I have moved on. But then again I needed to discuss with you. Thanks agian. This help is much appreciated. DtwipzBTalk 06:42, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

You are no more naive than I. I just meant that I understand (so very well) how frustrating it is to butt heads with another editor, and with the consensus model, it can easily become that much more frustrating. I'm heading to bed myself, now. I hope you have a great day, and happy editing! —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:30, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

DtwipzBTalk 06:42, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

This is my Edit

The United States obligated nearly $67 billion (in constant 2011 dollars) to Pakistan between 1951 and 2011. Reference: http://www.cgdev.org/page/aid-pakistan-numbers I am still adding numbers and in process. Is this objectionable? depressing. talk तेजा శ్రీనివాస్ 21:36, 20 December 2014 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Teja srinivas (talk • contribs)

That is not objectionable at all, and I appreciate your contribution. Just be sure that you include your source when you add factual information. See the Wikipedia:Citing sources guideline if you need to know exactly how to properly cite your source. Any time you add information with no source, it may be reverted by another editor under the content guidelines. I hope this helps clarify things. Good luck! —Josh3580_talk/hist 00:32, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

MK 68 Naval Gunfire Control System

Sorry Josh3580, I'm not too familiar with the ways of Wikipedia. I am a Naval historian that served on USS MITSCHER (DDG-35) and have done years of research on this class of ships. The MITSCHERS (and the USS NORTHAMPTON (CLC-1) were the only ships in the US Navy to use the MK 67 NFCS instead of the MK 68. Thanks, Rod Joye Mantua, OH, USA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.93.232.121 (talk) 09:20, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

A little help about sandbox

Hi, sorry to disturb you again. But I had few questions in my mind and it needs to be answered. So here I go. As I am new here. I wanted to ask you about the sandbox. Like:

• Is it accessible to only me or other users can get to that too ?;
• What are the limitation to my experiments that I am supposed to perform in there ?;
• If the sandbox is only accessible to me then how come other editors know the contents in there if I choose not to reveal them ?;

There are many questions like these, but the above mentioned ones were on the top of my mind !! DtwipzBTalk 14:37, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello User:Dibyendutwipzbiswas, User:Dibyendutwipzbiswas/sandbox is accessible to other users, you may experiment as much as you wish, but why would you not wish to reveal the contents in your sandbox? Lotje (talk) 15:43, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Lotje(talk) Ohk, got it loud and clear. As for revealing the contents, it was just a question doesn't need to be real. DtwipzBTalk 16:02, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

HOPE probation

My last contribution to the page http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Hawaii's_Opportunity_Probation_with_Enforcement was immediately deleted by you. In the past this contribution was deleted based on the fact that I did not give proofs to support the allegations (although some were argued but still deleted). This time a proof is given but the contribution was still deleted without even the time to check that proof. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.196.6.120 (talk) 07:09, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

In your edit, other than a YouTube link, it wasn't an issue of sourcing. As I stated in my message to you, Wikipedia has very carefully laid out Neutral point of view policies. In your edit, you did not simply state facts from your sources, you included quite a bit of your own opinion as well. Words such as "outrageous", "biased", "illegal prison terms", giving your own "conclusion", and accusing other editors of "destroying" the article are all inappropriate. Please familiarize yourself with the WP:NPOV and WP:NOR policies. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. —Josh3580_talk/hist 07:22, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Dear Josh: On December 24 2014, I modified the addition I contributed to following the Wikipedia policies and mainly quoting a recent publication. As such my comments have become neutral as simply reporting others' findings. User FreeRangeFrog still deleted all my contribution without justification. It is likely this user is the contributor of this page in which he/she reports his/her own findings. These findings have been challenged in the article I can now use as reference and therefore their reporting have become valid and neutral contributions I believe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.196.6.120 (talk) 09:58, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

You stated that wikipedia is not a Soapbox: I agree totally but it should not be either a personal webpage, that is a self-promotion tool used to promote one own's works that have been critized elsewhere (in particular in well established publication by arguably more knowledgeable people with more credentials than the authors) and delete such critics when added to the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.196.6.120 (talk) 07:46, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure what would give the impression that §FreeRangeFrog^croak is publishing their own results. §FreeRangeFrog is an Administrator on Wikipedia. By definition, an Administrator is very familiar with the rules on original research, undue weight, and self-published sources, and I doubt this person would risk their administrative rights by flagrantly violating the WP:NOR, WP:UNDUE, WP:SPS, and WP:NPOV policies in the way that is being accused. §FreeRangeFrog seemed to feel that there has been a history of Disruptive editing on this article by several users, which is why the page was protected. Page protection is one tool that Administrators can use to force discussion on content disputes. According to the BOLD, Revert, Discuss policy, the next step for you to take would be to gain a consensus with other editors for your change, by having a discussion on the article's talk page. Check out the WP:CONACHIEVE policy for an explanation and tips on how to build a consensus. Consensus can be a difficult goal, but it seems to be the best model for good content on the project. Hope this helps, —Josh3580_talk/hist 14:00, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

The IPs edit used primary sources and was written in an inappropriate argumentative tone that seems to indicate they are attempting to prove something rather than simply repeat what the sources say (but since they're using primary sources, that will be difficult, see how that works?). What they need are reliable secondary sources (YouTube videos are not in that category) that back up their written claims. I have no problem with anyone adding any type of criticism to this article (or any other) as long as it's done correctly. We don't care what your opinion of the topic is, we care what can be verified through sourcing. When the protection expires then everyone is welcome to edit the article again. But repeated insertion of inappropriately worded or sourced material will continue to result in reverts and extended protection. Seriously, it's not that hard. Find an article in the media, paraphrase it, cite it. That's how this encyclopedia is written. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 00:08, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

If I agree your criticism applies to previous editings, I strongly disagree it does to my last posting. That posting was directly copied (as recommended) from a 2014 article that appeared in "Federal Probation" (vol. 78, n 2) and available at: http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/FederalCourts/PPS/Fedprob/2014-09/hope.html. This was properly stated and referenced. Then additional materials about 4 points made by the authors of that article are provided. For the first point, references to 2 newspaper articles are given, which meets wikipedia guidelines. The second point is a non personal common sense addition suggesting the same as the authors' intent. The third point further emphasizes the authors' comment with neutral references to the credibility of the contributors of the original article without any personal inputs. The fourth and last point is a youtube recording but it should be emphasized it is the recording of a neutral third party with no involvement in this discussion.

Regarding the neutrality of the text, I believe the last two sentences of the current wikipedia articles are far from meeting your requirements. Reference-6 as given can be found no-where and was used to erase previous properly referred journal articles about HOPE I had given. Similarly no trace of reference-7 as given can be found and a search of this title returns: http://www.correct.state.ak.us/blog/docs/alm_hope_sept-oct_p28-201.pdf, an article written by ... Steven Alm in person! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.196.6.120 (talk) 07:28, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Note

Please read here. Also, I am curious to know why you reverted my edit. Ubuntuuser13 (talk) 07:43, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

I reverted because your redirection pointed to a now non-extant section in the Platonic love article. You were not simply linking it to that article because it was a more appropriate article, you were linking to a section that you previously created which has since been removed according to the WP:NEOLOGISM policy. The Queer article has a section, titled Inclusivity and scope which covers this use of the term. Hope this helps clear things up. —Josh3580_talk/hist 07:50, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I was linking to the section, but then it would have been more appropriate to remove the section name. Change from Platonic love#Queerplatonic relationship to Platonic love. I believe platonic love is the more appropriate article to redirect to, as it has all about this term. Please tell me how queer is the better article. Ubuntuuser13 (talk) 07:57, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

In regards to Queer#Inclusivity and scope, you are also saying that it covers this term. But I find nothing about or relating to "queerplatonic" in Queer#Inclusivity and scope. Thanks Ubuntuuser13 (talk) 08:02, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

As far as "queerplatonic" not being listed in the "queer" article, it would be impossible to list all possible terms that include the word "queer" in its article. That article would become ridiculously long very quickly, just by naming the terms. That is the purpose of the WP:NEOLOGISM and WP:NOTEVERYTHING policies - by requiring well-documented secondary sources for any relatively recently coined phrase, the encyclopedia continues to be manageable and readable. The queer article makes the point quite well that the addition of this term to a word connotes the opposite of the following "normative" word. It could be argued that both articles are equally appropriate, since the term "queerplatonic" simply puts both "queer" and "platonic" together. I am not in any way claiming that you are wrong or incorrect, just that the guidelines are specific about how the process works. Re-reverting once another editor has disputed your edit is not the way to move forward, however. What I would recommend, is that you use the next step of the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle, and begin a discussion on either article's talk page, gaining a consensus with other editors for the best way to include an explanation of this term. I fear that it will be an uphill battle without secondary sources, however, because of how the guidelines are laid out. —Josh3580_talk/hist 08:36, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Dear Josh

The changes that I made regarding the Kurds are completley correct. I am acutally glad that you noticed the changes I made and asked me why I made those changes because I have been constantly trying to contact Wikipedia over this issue. This issue is that the page says that Kurds are Iranian and that they were "nomads" in the past, which is completley false. I am taking a minor in history and I am a Kurd myself so I know the information I am using is correct. If you want I could also try to find sources. The problem, however, is that there are constantly people trying to change information about the Kurds on Wikipedia. I do not know how much background you have on history or politics but the Kurds are an ethnic group that have had their country divided into four parts, after WW1. Ever since that time,the countries that occupied Kurdish land, have always denied Kurdish history,languge, and culture. Now what you see on Wikipedia is an exact replica of that.

You can look at any scholarly book or source that has information about the Kurds, and nowhere will you see it regarding Kurds as "Iranian." An Iranian is someone who lives or is form Iran. It is not a vast group of people that stretches all the way from Kurdistan to Central Asia, which most Iranian nationalists like to think. But even if it was, the Kurds have never been regarded as Iranian people, besides in this Wikipedia article. Another key point that is incorrect is that the article states that the Kurds are 30 million people. I have, however, seen it also state 30-35 million people, but that is still incorrect. The Kurdish population is actually 40 million, because the Kurds that live in Turkey are only 21 million, Kurds in Syria are 2.7 million, Kurds in Iraq are 6 million, Kurds in Iran are 8.2 million. There is also about 2.3 million Kurds that live outside of the Kurdistan region.

In the past, I have also seen the article state that Kurds are European or even sometimes Arab. These statements, agian, are made by Persian, Arabic, and Turkish nationalists who do not want the Kurdish identity to be known. I think that is very important that Wikipedia does not allow anybody to just change the information on an aricle that is discussing the identity of a nation, especially that of 40 million people.

Josh, I invite you to look at any scholarly source and compare it with this article about the Kurds. You will be astonished. You will then realize how much false information is on this article.

I think that Wikipedia should make a rule that only allows qualified unbiased people to write about historical articles on Wikiepdia. I know that Wikpedia is a non-profit ad free organization that allows people to change any information they would like, but there should be a limit to this rule. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bawer1 (talk • contribs) 18:58, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

There actually is a limit to this rule, which you yourself have inadvertently run into in this instance: Editors cannot and change information to match their point of view, without the change being based on a specific source. Verifiable, reliable sources are required to make changes to assertions of fact. I didn't intend to give you the impression that your were incorrect. However, you did not explain your change with an edit summary when you made it, nor did you cite a source for your change. The content that you deleted actually did cite a source, so the assumption is that the former statement was correct, since you removed properly sourced comment without explanation or citation. If you feel that this information is completely incorrect, you should discuss the discrepancy on the article's talk page, and gain a consensus of other editors to remove the content that you feel is inaccurate. Have your verifiable, reliable sources at the ready to back up your claim. Hope this helps. —Josh3580_talk/hist 03:35, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Repeatedly removing the information with no discussion is considered disruptive editing. Again, please gain a WP:CONSENSUS on the article's talk page if you feel this information is incorrect and needs to be removed. —Josh3580_talk/hist 15:23, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Help with vandalism

Hello, I was wondering since you're a pretty experienced Wikipedian if you could help with an editor who is vandalising this article: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Nate_Moore_(actor)

Some editor named Hemi.pwr keeps deleting parts of the article. Parts of the article that have reliable sources:

https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Nate_Moore_(actor)&action=history

The subject of this article did go to prison for manslaughter as is described in The Guardian reference in the article. Yet this editor keeps blanking this information out. If you know an administrator who could help I'd appreciate it, thanks. Neptune's Trident (talk) 00:34, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

I reverted his change once again, and warned them as to the WP:3RR policy. If the user continues, they can be reported for violating the policy. Also, while your actions are obviously warranted, please be careful that an admin doesn't feel that you are violating the policy as well. I'll try and keep an eye on the article for a bit. —Josh3580_talk/hist 00:47, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch! Happy Holidays. Neptune's Trident (talk) 03:25, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Just to be clear, neptunes trident created the page for David oren ward, and for Nate Moore. It is clear both by the intense interest taken in editing both pages, and in the obvious violation of the wikipedia NPOV policy, both the spirit and language of these edits seem to be vindictive. The subject is a marginal person of no interest to the public and is not a public person. Neptune tridents repeated edits seem to be based in malicious intent and should be removed from the neutral sphere of Wikipedia. Wikipedia does not need to earn a reputation for being a vehicle or Instrument of personal attack. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemi.pwr (talk • contribs) 04:15, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Punjab, Pakistan. Badshahi Mosque during Sikh Empire.

Hello,

According to the book titled Ranjit Singh by Khuswant Singh, who is an academic historian and lawyer, there is no credible evidence that Ranjit Singh prohibited Muslims from praying at that Badshahi Mosque and his first public act was that he actually paid homage to the mosque. This is also supported by Yasser Latif Hamdani, who is also a practising lawyer and author. Considering this and the fact that the Sikh Empire during 1799-1850 had a vast majority population of Muslims followed by Hindus and then Sikhs which can be verified also, it is not reasonable to assume that despite the confirmed historical religious tolerance of the Sikh Empire during Ranjit Singh's time that he for some random reason choose to contradict one of the foundational principles of the Sikh Empire during its time. The reason I removed it was because it was a misleading statement that contradicted numerous academic sources that confirmed the Sikh Empire's religious tolerance(i.e. no forced conversations). Lastly, Sikh holy temple Harmindir Sahib was built decades before Ranjit Singh's rule.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=D068dKeyGW4C&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=badshahi+mosque+ranjit+singh&source=bl&ots=yEC4kVNVuu&sig=J5wY6YsPF0j4N5YX6kUHsa5i36o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ew-aVIj2IKfasASJmYLAAw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=badshahi%20mosque%20ranjit%20singh&f=false

http://pakteahouse.net/2009/06/29/ranjit-singh-the-quintessential-indus-man/#comments

Sincerely,

Gurbir Singh

Please reply: gurbir1.singh@ryerson.ca — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.228.180.114 (talk) 01:25, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

It would have been helpful if you had used an edit summary to explain your actions, rather than simply removing the content. —Josh3580_talk/hist 18:51, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Vandalism

I am not vandalising. I found a different information elsewhere and I am not sure how to put it in correctly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.42.36.39 (talk) 02:47, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Let's see what we can do here... The "Cite" link at the top of the edit window is the easiest way to do this. Check out the WP:INTREF help page, that should give you an overview of what is needed, and how to add it. The WP:REFBEGIN page goes into much more detail. Also, check out the Wikipedia:CONSENSUS page. That idea is the foundation of how Wikpedia operates. While I find the the consensus model can be confusing and frustrating, it tends to produce the best results. Hope this helps. —Josh3580_talk/hist 16:10, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Flamenco

I took down the theory because it is not true. There is no such thing as a Fall a dungh in Spanish history whatsoever. The theory was posted by an Afrocentric trying to mark all Spanish related articles in Wikipedia with Black Moors. You need to keep tabs on that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Texarus (talk • contribs) 18:49, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

It is difficult to "keep tabs" on things, or to know why you removed the information you did, if you don't use an edit summary when you make your changes. Please explain things clearly using the edit summary when you remove content in the future. —Josh3580_talk/hist 18:56, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Regarding Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Hello Josh. I have been editing this page because it states (or make the appearance of) that the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" is a Nobel Price and/or a Nobel Prize category, which it is not. No official source (I can find at least) claims this prize to be a Nobel prize. It was founded by the Swedish Central Bank 1968. Inventor Alfred Nobel who is the founder of the Nobel Prizes mentioned only 5 categories in his will, which of none is economy. The Swedish Wikipedia page agrees with me. //Olle Wedin 2014-12-26 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.233.100.209 (talk) 07:10, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

At first blush, it appeared that the citation supporting the other point of view was removed simply because you didn't agree with it. I now see that I was looking at the wrong citation. Still, the version of the article that I reverted to seems to make it quite clear that this isn't a "Nobel Prize", as defined by Alfred Nobel's will. This cited page however, seems to indicate that the Nobel Foundation does at least consider it as among the prizes. To me, it seems perfectly reasonable to include both ways of looking at it, in order to maintain a neutral point of view. Here is the important bit from the citation (emphasis added):

Who selects the Nobel Laureates?

The process of selecting the Nobel Laureates is exclusively handled by the Nobel Prize awarding institutions. In his last will and testament, Alfred Nobel specifically designated the institutions responsible for the prizes he wished to be established:

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was given the task to select the Economics Prize Laureates starting in 1969.

The institutions above each elect Nobel Committees of five members to carry out the preparatory work related to each category of the Nobel Prize.

— Who selects the Nobel Laureates?, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/org_structure.html

It just seems appropriate to explain both that it was not a prize created by Nobel himself, but that it is still sanctioned by the Nobel Foundation. I hope this explains my reversion. Thank you, both for your contributions, and for your desire to make the article as accurate as possible. —Josh3580_talk/hist 18:09, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Josh

Josh, I will do as you asked. Although, it does not seemed that you did the things I asked of you on my last message. If you just made one small search, you would have found out that the information that is on their is wrong, and you would have not asked me to reach into any consensus. By the way, facts are not reached by a random consensus. How can you approve of false information that is written on the page? Is it because it was reached by a consensus? Does this mean that anybody can just create false information as long as they create a group of people that agree with them. The only issue I have with the article is that it states that Kurds are Iranian, which they are not. Saying Kurds are Iranian does not even make any sense. It takes common sense to look to realize the problem. May you please link me to the discussion page for the Kurds so I can create a "consensus." I will do whatever it takes to get the right information on the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bawer1 (talk • contribs) 05:10, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Dear Josh

Hey Josh, I just gave a link to the edit I made a few minutes ago, regarding Kurds. The link is in the edit summary.

Here are other sources that support my statement about Kurds. Try to find even one of these sources that say Kurds are "Iranian."

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/kurds3.html

http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2014/10/a-short-history-of-the-kurds/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1113459/posts

http://www.krg.org/p/p.aspx?l=12&s=020000&r=306&p=216 <-- This is actually the website of the KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government)

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/169.html

It is true that the Kurdish lanugage is a bit simimlar to Eastern lanugaes of the Middle East such as Persian, but to say that Kurds are an Iranian people is completely false and does not even make any sense in the first place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bawer1 (talk • contribs) 05:37, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Making an argument to me is the wrong path to take. As I explained to you before, I don't doubt your correctness. I think you are most likely correct in your views. However, correctness is not what is at issue here. The issue is simply a lack of consensus. As aggravating as it is, (trust me, I know how aggravating it can be), a consensus is exactly how things are decided in the Wikipedia project. From article content, to deleting articles, to selecting admins, and even laying out the guidelines and policies. All are decided by consensus. It's not a matter of finding "a group" of friends, it is a matter of finding agreement amongst all of the editors who care enough to comment. It is quite difficult to gain a consensus; I know that - all too well. Nonetheless, that is the only way to change content to match your views - you have to get other editors to agree with you. You haven't even tried to discuss or gain a consensus on the article's talk page. I didn't revert you because I thought you were wrong, I reverted you because you didn't have a consensus. We need people, like you, who want Wikipedia to be as correct as possible. However, this is an open project, and it's not just your knowledge that counts. It's your knowledge and views, taken into account with everyone else's knowledge and views. I honestly hope this helps. —Josh3580_talk/hist 07:48, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Kurds are not Iranian

Kurdish people are not "Iranians." Just because there is a possiblity that the Medians were ancestors of the Kurds does not in any way make the Kurds "Iranian." Just because Kurdish is a bit similar to languages like Persian, does not make Kurds "Iranian." Kurdish people are descendants of many different people that inhabitated Kurdistan such as Hurrians, Gutians, Mittani, Cordune, and much more. Kurds are not "Iranian people." I have many many reliable scholarly sources on the Kurds, and it does not mention anything about being "Iranian." Kurds have their own histroy, and are a distinct people. The term Iranian, in itself is wrong to describe. Today, the term is used to describe a person who lives or is from Iran. Therefore, many people will be heavily confused when they see this term. Not only that, but like I said, Kurds are not Iranian in the first place. I have many sources to back it up and I don't know why Wikipedia allowed such false information to be posted up.

I am not denying that the Kurdish lanugage can be described as a lanugage that is part of the Indo -European family of Northwestern Iraninan languages, but to say that the Kurds themselves are Iranian is completley false. Kurds have a long history in the Middle East and were even mentioned by the Sumerians. Kurds are descendants of many different people and there is not only historical evidence to back that up, but genetic evidence as well. Dont think so? Then go search for yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bawer1 (talk • contribs) 22:22, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

You apparently have simply ignored everything I have said to you. Let me make it very clear: YOU NEED A CONSENSUS. Stop trying to convince me. I have already said that your position seems reasonable, and most likely correct. But this is apparently a long-standing debate on this article, and the consensus is of the opposite view. Do your convincing on the article's talk page. That is where you can have an impact. Explain your position, and try to get other editors to agree with your point of view. Again, I AM NOT REVERTING THESE EDITS BECAUSE I DISAGREE. I AM REVERTING BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LACK OF CONSENSUS. It doesn't appear that you have even tried to discuss the issue on the article's talk page. You won't get anywhere if you don't engage in discussion. —Josh3580_talk/hist 05:58, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Josh

Josh, I perfectly understood you. I have added a new topic on the Kurds talk page showing my viewponts about 2 days ago, but I cant see it anymore. Therefore, I have created another today. I do not, however, see where the consensus was made that the Kurds are "Iranian." Can you please link me to it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bawer1 (talk • contribs) 08:44, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

@Bawer1: - Thank you for starting the discussion there. I'm sorry for the bold and caps earlier, but I felt like I was repeating myself ad infinitum. I'm not sure why your earlier post would have disappeared, I can't seem to find it either. I do see where DeCausa explained the current consensus on the Kurds talk page, and has made a proposal for a compromise in the language of the lead. Discussion - now we are getting somewhere! —Josh3580_talk/hist 18:37, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Regarding removal of edits in GIET Gunupur

Hello sir, my recent edits to GIET Gunupur was aimed to update about the recent developments in the institution.It maintains a neutral point of view undoubtedly. Energeticasish (talk) 05:29, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

@Energeticasish: In your edit, your use of the words "enviable" and "massive" with no reliable source was the issue. Those terms definitely sound like peacock language, which is the reason I reverted your edit. I hope this explains things. —Josh3580_talk/hist 07:27, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

RE: December 2014

I see you recently reverted my content removal on the page for Power Matters Alliance. The edit I made was intentional, but I made a rookie mistake by not explaining my edit before I clicked "Save". I will revert back to my, this time properly explaining my reasoning.

Thank you for the services you lend this site and for keeping me honest.

--Khifler (talk) 20:19, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

@Khifler: Thank you. The explanation in the edit summary is what I felt was missing. The information you removed was sourced, so another editor may quarrel with you, but the lack of an edit summary is the reason I reverted your edit. Thanks for contributing! —Josh3580_talk/hist 07:31, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

@Josh3580: Yes, the information was sourced, but it also wasn't about Power Matters Alliance, it was about the market for wireless chargers, which would be better suited for a page talking about wireless chargers in general. Either way, I appreciate the feedback, and feel free to keep me accountable. Thanks again. --Khifler (talk) 20:45, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

@Khifler: Keep it up, my friend. You are trying to improve things; I get that, and support it. I just wanted to warn you about how tricky consensus can be, when all of the other editors are involved. Thank you for hearing me, and being receptive to my input. Again, keep it up. —Josh3580_talk/hist 04:11, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@Josh3580: If it becomes an issue, then I will be sure to bring it up in the discussion forum for that topic. Thanks again. --Khifler (talk) 00:03, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

"Oppose"

Oppose - The first proposition includes both viewpoints in a proportional manner, and this proposal seems to be a bit vague, and moves a bit too far in the other direction. While the WP:NPOV policy does not require including all points of view, it does require proportional representation of multiple points of view, as evidenced by the sources. The current consensus is biased, as is this proposal. We should, within reason, be inclusive and representative of the sources. —Josh3580talk/hist 04:32, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

@Josh3580 of course you are going to oppose it because you are biased. Despite the fact that I have also provided you with evidence. Not to mention the fact that (more) people on the Kurdish talk page agree more with removing the incorrect term of "Iranian." So I don't know why I see no changes? Oh way that is right because you are a biased person who is being told what to do by someone else. That is the only reasonable explanation I can find for your decisions because I cant think of anyone who would deny factual evidence over and over again if he is not being paid by someone else to do so — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bawer1 (talk • contribs) 00:40, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

@Bawer1: - Do you honestly think, that of my 18,378 edits, that I have been randomly paid to contribute to this single article? Is there some sort of pattern to my contributions that makes you think that I am some sort of paid shill, or is it simply the fact that I and @DeCausa: somewhat disagree with you in this discussion? If I were paid to contribute, would I be trying to argue that, as you quoted me, "The current consensus is biased, as is this proposal. We should, within reason, be inclusive and representative of the sources."? I really am sorry that we disagree on this subject, but accusing me of being a PAID meatpuppet is uncivil and completely out of line, especially being fresh off of a block. I am only trying to engage in discussion, and I have not accused you of anything, I have tried to only discuss the content of this article. —Josh3580_talk/hist 05:08, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Good job

Good job Josh. You really showed your true colors. Instead of replying to my comment you decided to talk to Wikipedia Adminsttrators. After I exposed you and completely destroied your false comments, you decide to run away. That just shows your true colors really. If I ever believed that you were biased, then nowI believed your 2x Biased than last time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bawer1 (talk • contribs) 23:25, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@Bawer1: I have replied to your comments multiple times, you have simply chosen to ignore them. I am asking for an Admin to weigh in, so that both of our concerns can be taken into account. If you are correct, then I will suffer the admin's censure. —Josh3580_talk/hist 02:31, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@Josh3580: Name one time where I have ignored them. Show me right now, give me a link. I have replied to all of your accusations, and I have countered all of your false claims effectively. You are seriously embarrassing yourself. Do you seriously expect me to believe that some random individual is denying all of my claims backed up by evidence. Then this same individual tells you that instead of relying on facts, you have to get more people to agree with you on the talk page, which I did. Then when you ask this same individual why there are have been no changes to the page since they have managed to get more people to agree with them, and the individual replies with the statement of "the consensus is biased as the proposal." Now do you seriously want me to believe that after all of that you are not either

1. Biased/Prejudice 2. Taking Orders from another person 3. Being Paid to do so

If you seriously want me to believe that you do not apply to any of those categories and you are just a regular person with an ordinary life who just happenes to "disagree" with me then you are insane.

Please take your comments to the discussion on WP:ANI. —Josh3580_talk/hist 02:04, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

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mistake

I ment to change something and when I clicked the word to change in, the whole page highlighted. I then (without noticing I highlighted a whole section) deleted it. I did not realize what I had done until after my edit. I am So sorry about any trouble I may have caused. - Owen — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.87.115.92 (talk) 01:17, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

There's apparently an ANI thread about you

Bawer1 started a thread titled "Josh" at ANI. No idea what it's about, don't care either, just letting you know out of common courtesy. Have fun and good luck. Ian.thomson (talk) 02:58, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

why

who can I talk to about my Wikipedia account and why it keep getting changed with incorrect information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.15.160.118 (talk) 16:16, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

@68.15.160.118: I don't completely understand your question. It doesn't appear that you are logged in to an account. What exactly is going on? —Josh3580_talk/hist 16:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Josh

It wasn't me who put those incorrect info. I apologize. I will Make sure it doesn't happen again — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.184.34.61 (talk) 06:33, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Kurds

Hi Josh3580, allow me to share the same thoughts I've shared with others. The "Iranian" classification is mentioned 4 times in one paragraph in the lead. Do you really think this is necessary? Firstly, it is redundant. Secondly, this will just further agitate people who oppose this classification altogether. Why is it that no middle-ground is being met here? The Kurds are an modern ethnic group of their own whether or not the debated Iranian classification based on linguistic terms is valid or not. I've viewed the various sources cited in the RFC and other places and in every case, the scholarly sources are making that assertion based on linguistic and not any evidential basis as the ancestry of Kurds will forever be obscure. Therefore mentioning it in the first sentence is misleading without taking the linguistic element into account. Rather, mentioning it as a classification in linguistic terms in a later sentence - within the same paragraph - is far more appropriate. Let's stop with this redundancy in the lead that seems to have no purpose greater than simply trying to make this theory a central point of this page. This page is supposed to be about what the Kurds are and not about theoretical classifications. Those theories can be further elaborated on in the body of the page, not in the lead. Sharisna (talk) 02:56, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

To @Sharisna: I fully appreciate where you are coming from. In the discussions on this article, I have always said that both sides have completely valid points. As it stands, however, there was an in-depth discussion on this topic, with many people contributing, some who shared your view, but the proposed lead by that was adopted by consensus did not include the word "Iranic". Multiple sources have been cited to support the proposal which was adopted. As far as undue weight? You make a reasonable argument. But your edits must pass the consensus test. At this time, it seems that the current lead was considered the most fair, as it included both points of view being discussed. If you feel there is an issue in the lead with the WP:UNDUE policy, then by all means, make your own proposal on the article's talk page, with what you believe is correct, and once you gain a consensus of other editors which overrides the result of the RFC and current consensus, then make that replacement.  —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:22, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

@DeCausa: Please note my comment above, and feel free to correct me if I am off base as to the result of the discussion. —Josh3580_talk/hist 06:22, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Kurds again, I see

Have a look at, please 46.241.146.178 (talk) 13:12, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Christine Ben-Ameh was not authorised

Hi

I am Christine Ben-Ameh.

I have been trying to delete this page.

I did not authorize my personal information to be displayed and I wish for it to be removed. All of it.

I have made a complaint to google about this.

Please kindly delete this page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.99.175.26 (talk) 17:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

@2.99.175.26: I don't see any information in the article that could be considered "personal", it all looks biographical to me. Permission from the subject is not required for an article to be created. Besides, I am not authorized to delete pages, only an administrator can do that. Also, blanking pages is a violation of policy. Please see the Wikipedia:Deletion process policy if you wish to request a deletion. Leave a message here if you have any questions. —Josh3580_talk/hist 17:18, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

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Colin Welland

Hi

I am responding to an edit I made to Colin Welland's page. I am new to this and probably why I made error(s). On the Colin Welland page, it stated that he was born in Liverpool. Colin was actually born in Milton Street, Leigh, Lancashire, before his parents moved to the Kensington area of Liverpool while he was still a toddler. This can be confirmed by the Leigh Journal website. Apologies for any problems that I may have caused. HarveyLeighBlear (talk) 22:19, 26 November 2015 (UTC)Harvey

Edit

Hi Josh,

I thought I explained my edit in the edit summary. The text on the book was essentially the publisher's blurb. Having a section on it altogether seemed excessive; it is not the norm in other wikipedia pages on mathematicians.

Other than that - the division into sections seemed a little heavy for a page of this length, and the text needed to be reorganized a little. Without any negative implication on the subject's merits - judging from the dates, this is probably a page that was created (from within the university?) when he was about to become head of the department (or was being considered for the position). 80.222.42.110 (talk) 08:20, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello Josh3580,

Regarding the edit on Edward Said's page--the section I deleted under 'criticism,' struck me at the time as an ineffective as well as non-factual criticism, which is why I removed it, but I duly note that it helps to leave a summary of changes, and I applaud your diligence.

As for why I deleted it, a simple examination of a map of the British Empire's territory from the turn of the 20th century up to WWII shows that Britain did indeed control territory between Egypt and India. While the critique I deleted points to the Persian and Ottoman empires as somehow refuting Said's claim, that's not really true. The British empire had made protectorates of several states straddling the sea route from Egypt to India, namely Aden (Yemen) and the Gulf states. At various points, the One might criticize Edward Said on several things, but not for his ignorance of the political geography of the Mid East.

Regards, anon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.133.43.89 (talk) 02:09, 1 December 2015‎

Dear Josh3680,

I'll restore the change and put on the talk page the explanation I have given here (I expect this is what I should do). Thanks for your help! To quote what another contributor said above - I applaud your diligence. 80.222.42.110 (talk) 07:26, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

@80.222.42.110: Thanks! I appreciate your contributions to the project. —Josh3580_talk/hist 17:53, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Booty?

I'd like to know what you have against booty? I'm very disappointed in your bootylicious booty-finding skills you big booty.

Btw, can I see a picture of you? Ideally your big booty, but I suppose your face will also suffice.

-- Anonymous MIT Student— Preceding unsigned comment added by IP 18.111.33.21 (talk) 04:27, 1 December 2015

Colin Wellan

Dear Josh

I was born and bred in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. I have lived in the town all of my life and am very knowledgeable of the town and its history. One error that I have found under the information provided for the actor Colin Welland is that it indicates he was born in Liverpool. That is factually incorrect. He was born in Milton Street, Leigh. I have attempted to rectify the error. However, it is then continually put back to Liverpool. Please could you ensure that Leigh is put in as his correct birthplace. He did move to the Kensington area of Liverpool when he was still an infant. But was, as I have mentioned, born in Milton Street, Leigh.

Kind regards

Harvey BlearHarveyLeighBlear (talk) 15:31, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi HarveyLeighBlear. The best place to discuss this is at Talk:Colin Welland. You will find that User:Softlavender has a keen interest. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:53, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Thiyya

Thiyya page is redirected to Ezhava page. Sir Thiyya are not Ezhava. We have enough proofs to prove that. Please undo thiyya page redirecting to Ezhava page Kadathanadan chekavar (talk) 04:22, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

New deal for page patrollers

Hi Josh3580,

In order to better control the quality of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:28, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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New Page Review - newsletter

Hello Josh3580,

Breaking the back of the backlog

We now have 803 New Page Reviewers! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog. Now it's time for action.

Mid July to 01 Oct 2016

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

Second set of eyes

Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.

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

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

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

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New Page Review - newsletter #2

Hello Josh3580,

Please help reduce the New Page backlog

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

Getting the tools we need

ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO VOTE

• Improve the tools: Vote here.
• Reduce your review load: Vote here

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New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello Josh3580,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 803 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

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

Second set of eyes

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

Abuse

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

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

Coordinator election

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

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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

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

New Page Review - newsletter No.3

Hello Josh3580,

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

Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 803 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.

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Rob Griffin edit?

Hey Josh,

Got your message, but I have no idea what you are talking about. I have no idea who Rob Griffin is, and did not edit that article. 174.16.247.86 (talk) 10:01, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Responded on user's talk page. —Josh3580_talk/hist 14:34, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4

Hello Josh3580,

Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 803 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!

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

Stay up to date with recent new page developments and have your say, read THIS PAGE.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

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

Technology update:

• Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Wikipedia:Page Curation/Suggested improvements
• The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js adds a link to the new pages feed and page curation toolbar to your top toolbar on Wikipedia
  • User:The Earwig/copyvios.js adds a link in your side toolbox that will run the current page through

General project update:

• Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Noticeboard has been marked as historical. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers is currently the most active central discussion forum for the New Page Patrol project. To keep up to date on the most recent discussions you can add it to your watchlist or visit it periodically.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

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

Technology update:

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

General project update:

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
• Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

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

Technology update:

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

General project update:

• On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
• Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

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

Technology update:

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

General project update:

• The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

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

Outreach and Invitations:

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

New Year New Page Review Drive

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

General project update:

• ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
• The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

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

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

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

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

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

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

New Year Backlog Drive results:

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

General project update:

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

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Help : review article

Hi Let me introduce myself. I am Felix and I’m a novice in Wikipedia ! I wrote an article recently, it’s a biography of a french-american journalist : Laura Haim. Now, I’m waiting for validation from wikipedian reviewer. Would you be able to help me? I have no idea how long it could take… https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Draft:Laura_Haim Many thanks for your help. Best

Felix Billybon (talk) 17:00, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags

• Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:

• A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
• The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

• Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
• If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
• The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget. In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions. MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues. User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page) User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50). User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you. User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link. User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion. User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

Hello Josh3580, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

• 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.

New scripts

• User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

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

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Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

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Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

Training video

Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minute video was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers.

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NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Josh3580,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
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NPR Newsletter No.18

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WMF at work on NPP Improvements

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

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

Reliable Sources for NPP

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

Backlog drive coming soon

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

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

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

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello Josh3580,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
• Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Josh3580,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 803 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

• It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
• It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

• Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
• Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

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

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

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

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

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

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

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

Redirect autopatrol

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

Source Guide Discussion

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

This month's refresher course

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

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

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Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

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Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources

• A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
• Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
• A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
• Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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grow up.

05:38, 5 August 2020 (UTC) you little hit;ers ruin wiki with your pretentious pedantries. wiki is suposed to be a source if information.05:38, 5 August 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.255.234.111 (talk)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Josh3580,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	Patrol Page Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	Patrol Page Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	Patrol Page Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	Patrol Page Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	Patrol Page Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	Patrol Page Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	Patrol Page Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	Patrol Page Curation
10	Utopes (talk)	3,958	Patrol Page Curation

Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Josh3580,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

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

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.

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November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. 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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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Josh3580,

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 803 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 851 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

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Josh3580,

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 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.

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: 13402 articles, as of 06:00, 24 November 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.

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.
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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Josh3580,

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.
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NPP message

Hi Josh3580,

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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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

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 21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Josh3580,

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

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

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

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

Suggestions:

• There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
• 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)
• Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
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Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

Reminders

• Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
• If you're interested in instant messaging and chat rooms, please join us on the New Page Patrol Discord, where you can ask for help and live chat with other patrollers.
• Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
• If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Josh3580,

New Page Review queue December 2022

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

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

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

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

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

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

Reminders

• Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
• There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
• Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
• If you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

New Page Patrol | May 2023 Backlog Drive
On 1 May, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of redirects patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Article patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here! There is a possibility that the drive may not run if there are <20 registered participants. Participants will be notified if this is the case.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Josh3580,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

Reminders

• Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
• There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord and #wikimedia-npp ^connect on IRC.
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New pages patrol needs your help!

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

Hello Josh3580,

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.

Reminders:

• There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2023 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 and redirects patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Articles will earn 3x as many points compared to redirects. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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New pages patrol newsletter

Hello Josh3580,

New Page Review article queue, March to September 2023

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.

Reminders:

• You can access live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
• Consider adding the project discussion page to your watchlist.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello Josh3580:

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 1200 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | January 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 January 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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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Josh3580,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

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

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

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

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

2023 Awards

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

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

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

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

Reminders:

• 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) 16:28, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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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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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