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This Working Man's barnstar is awarded to Bsherr for copy editing articles totalling 10,168 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 backlog drive. Your contributions are appreciated!--Diannaa (Talk) 16:26, 1 August 2010 (UTC) |
GOCE copy edit drive
Greetings, the Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue.
Sign-up has already begun at the November drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page. Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants, some of which are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive! |
Infobox for territorial entities
I think one can merge all boxes for territorial entities into one. Area, borough, district, province, region, state, territory, zone, even "country", "union" (e.g. European Union). All just labels. Some entity, some surface on a stellar body - mostly the earth - for which certain properties apply. E.g. official currency - mostly related to "country", but in case of Eurozone (officially Euro Area), not even that. 77.11.64.113 (talk) 22:18, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 February 28#Infobox settlement wrappers 77.191.110.31 (talk) 05:45, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
New Page Reviews
Hi! I noticed you were asking for the NPP permission to be made permanent and so I checked last 8 undeleted articles you had patrolled and have some concerns. Those concerns are:
- 2018–19 Real Murcia season and 2019 Atlanta Blaze season seem to fail WP:NSEASON, specifically
Team season articles should consist mainly of well-sourced prose, not just statistics and lists of players.
- It is not clear to me that Nik Omar Nik Abdul Aziz passes WP:NPOL. From what I can tell he ran unsuccessfully for a state parliament seat and the translation of the article on Malay Wikipedia for Yayasan Dakwah Islamiah Malaysia does not suggest that this is a notability granting office.
- That Mats Grorud is not notable on specific or general notability guidelines. However this is borderline and on its own wouldn't be alarming but seems to fit a pattern.
- The complete lack of tagging on any reviewed article, most troublingly at Never Grow Up (book) which seems to be clearly notable but is only sourced right now to the publisher meaning it should have been a clear recipient of some sort of reference improving tag.
Is there other background or deeper thinking on any/all of these that could provide some context? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 00:07, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- I suppose there isn't. I've tried to address your comments by going back to these articles. --Bsherr (talk) 23:26, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
New page reviewer granted
Hi Bsherr. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers
" user group. Minor user rights can now be accorded on a time limited or probationary period, so do check back at WP:PERM/NPR in case this concerns your application. This user group allows you to review new pages through the Curation system and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or nominate them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is vital to maintaining the integrity of the encylopedia. If you have not already done so, you must read the tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the deletion policy. If you need any help or want to discuss the process, you are welcome to use the new page reviewer talk page. In addition, please remember:
- Be nice to new editors. They are usually not aware that they are doing anything wrong. Do make use of the message feature when tagging pages for maintenance. so that they are aware.
- You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted. Please be formal and polite in your approach to them – even if they are not.
- If you are not sure what to do with a page, don't review it – just leave it for another reviewer.
- Accuracy is more important than speed. Take your time to patrol each page. Use the message feature to communicate with article creators and offer advice as much as possible.
The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you also may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In cases of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, or long-term inactivity, the right may be withdrawn at administrator discretion. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:16, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.17
Hello Bsherr,
- 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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