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Possible edit warring
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Question from GamerSquadAmmar (00:54, 16 May 2022)
Hello Are You My Mentor If yes I’m buying you 16 Billion Dollars If No I’m Gonna Make You A Famous Mentor And A Famous Rapper --GamerSquadAmmar (talk) 00:54, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- @GamerSquadAmmar I am indeed your mentor, and though I would not turn down 16 billion dollars (I'll probably leave being a famous rapper to another), let me know if you've got any editing questions. Nosebagbear (talk) 08:21, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello Nosebagbear,
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 731 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 1032 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.
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Answer to major questions in life #1
Oshwah was the unfortunate editor to restart the Stocks. See section 1.16 for the Filter Failure Award. Clovermoss (talk) 05:19, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- And I totally agree with you about the creepy oversight logo, lol. Clovermoss (talk) 05:20, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- Ah, thank you for the Stocks update - an excellent addition to the list, for the modern wikipedia. Nosebagbear (talk) 12:15, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- Aww, c'mon, that's harsh! It was a typo... ONE TYPO! :-P ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 01:48, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Oshwah I mean, it puts you in a possibly unique category, of being both victim and actor on the STOCKS page. Nosebagbear (talk) 09:56, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- Nosebagbear - I mean... is th-that... a good thing? Or a bad thing? ;-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 11:10, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Oshwah: Take it however you want. The main reason I find the Stocks interesting is because it shows us everyone makes mistakes and also that sometimes actions have unintended consquences. At least you didn't delete the main page. To be fair, it's hard to top something like that. Sometimes life is a lot more interesting than fiction. Reality can be unrealistic, lol. Clovermoss (talk) 05:04, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- Nosebagbear - I mean... is th-that... a good thing? Or a bad thing? ;-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 11:10, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Oshwah I mean, it puts you in a possibly unique category, of being both victim and actor on the STOCKS page. Nosebagbear (talk) 09:56, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- Aww, c'mon, that's harsh! It was a typo... ONE TYPO! :-P ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 01:48, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- Ah, thank you for the Stocks update - an excellent addition to the list, for the modern wikipedia. Nosebagbear (talk) 12:15, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
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- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
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I just sent a draft for review and there seems to be a long queue. Just wondered if you may please take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Alberto_Caballero_(astronomer) Thank you Iberastro (talk) 22:18, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
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Question from Adenoghie (14:40, 11 June 2022)
What's the best way to write a nobility article. --forthekingdom 14:40, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
DeAna Fai moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, DeAna Fai, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:
" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Ravensfire (talk) 22:18, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Ravensfire just to let you know that you might need to manually follow-up with the actual person who created the article, as I did not - Twinkle never plays well when someone else has interacted with the draft move log. Nosebagbear (talk) 08:52, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry for that, and I greatly appreciate the note on this. I'll let the actual creator know (appears to be an auto biography) that it's been moved. Ravensfire (talk) 16:02, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
AfC notification: Draft:DeAna Fai has a new comment
- Well, well. Twinkle thinks that you are the author of this draft because you moved it to draft space last year. Interesting. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:35, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Question from RyanwebbOEUK (15:19, 13 June 2022)
Hi there, I'm updating my company's wiki page as we now have a new name, website, and a slight change to our products. I have already 'cited' the above changes, but they have been changed back by a user who is actually changing information back to something which is incorrect. Our webpage is out of date, and so is our name.
What can I do to prevent continuously changing back and forth? --RyanwebbOEUK (talk) 15:19, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @RyanwebbOEUK I see someone's already talking to you about the specifics of disclosure, so I'll leave that to them.
- As a paid editor, your edits were always vulnerable to being reverted - unless you're doing something like removing blatant vandalism, you need to submit them on the talk page. I suggest using the edit requester, because it'll bring someone along to actually review the edits.
- When you request edits, it's better to make a few specific requests rather than one giant one. E.g. one to change all the names (and the name of the article), one to change the website and so on. <https://www.rigzone.com/news/what_it_takes_to_change_a_name_in_oil-02-feb-2022-167777-article/> is a good source to use here. Nosebagbear (talk) 17:05, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- Link to the talk page for convenience. Nosebagbear (talk) 17:05, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
Question from MisterURL (00:00, 16 June 2022)
There is an article on Colonial Pipeline Company that I feel needs some editing. It makes no mention of the automation and control systems that allowed the pipeline to continuously grow and improve throughput over time. I know because I worked directly in that field from 1966 until 2002. But there are no easily accessible source references. Should I just forget this addition and let it go? --MisterURL (talk) 00:00, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
- @MisterURL if there are no suitable sources then indeed it can't be added. Reliable, secondary, sources don't need to be online or non paywall blocked, but such amendments do sound unlikely to have acquired secondary sources. If that is the case then yes, it would not be possible to add content about them Nosebagbear (talk) 09:42, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello Nosebagbear,
- Backlog status
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
- Backlog drive
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
- TIP – New school articles
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
- Misc
There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}
, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
>NPP backlog: 8682 as of 22:00, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
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Question from Yifan Xie (04:04, 5 July 2022)
Hello, How can I reference a wikidata item to a wikipedia article? --Yifan Xie (talk) 04:04, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Growth team newsletter #21
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
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- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.
- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
Question from Bushra Vicki Habib (16:44, 11 July 2022)
Hello There,
I would like to contribute to the editing of Al Aqsa, built by Umar ibn al Khattab. as I recall, reading a Al Aqsa Book in the SOAS Library, whilst studying at Goldsmiths College. which stated, that it was nicknamed the Dome of Umar.
Please can you deal with this.
Yours Kindly,
Vicki Habib. --Bushra Vicki Habib (talk) 16:44, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @Bushra Vicki Habib welcome to Wikipedia.
- You would want to locate the actual book (or an e-copy of it) before utilising it, to make sure, but you can request edits by going to the relevant talk page. FOr example this one. Propose the exact text you'd like to change/add (and where), give the secondary source, and why the edit should be made. Help:Intro can provide some further guidance on making an edit to the talk page if needed. Nosebagbear (talk) 17:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
Question from EleniH8382 (15:48, 12 July 2022)
Hi there,
Thanks in advance for your help/advice!
I have a conundrum I was hoping you could help with.
In an effort to help a page that interested me get published, I provided some edits before resubmitting the article in full. Sadly the original article was flagged for a potential conflict of interest with the initial author, and so my edits were rejected as well as a matter of course. I then attempted to resubmit the article under my own name, as I'd contributed significant changes and felt comfortable submitting as a neutral writer/editor (basically an attempt to reset the process and try to submit with a clean slate).
My version was flagged as a duplicate and cited as having no obvious changes from the original (although there were many, especially in terms of tone). I was also cited as a potential single purpose account, which I fear puts this entire project on hold even further. I'm entirely new to Wikipedia, and thought I could just begin with this one article, but it seems I may have inadvertently slowed the potential progress of the article without meaning to.
So my questions now are:
1. Is it possible for me to delete my own draft to avoid any duplicate flags in the future?
2. I've begun editing another page of interest. Does the "single purpose account" flag still stand? How can I check?
Thanks so much for your help and your patience. I recognize the process for new editors can be slow and frustrating at times, but I very much want to help with the publication I mentioned if I can.
Any pointers or advice you can offer would be so appreciated!
Thanks so much again! --EleniH8382 (talk) 15:48, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Question from EleniH8382 (21:35, 12 July 2022)
Hello again!
Another question:
A story synopsis I've edited within an article features some potentially sensitive scenes. I've included a small warning at the top of the synopsis, but does Wikipedia have a policy surrounding trigger warnings/resources for mental health? Want to be sure I include as much information as possible for anyone who might be struggling (if and where appropriate). Thank you! --EleniH8382 (talk) 21:35, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
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Question from Paul Bah on Talk:List of awards and nominations received by Burna Boy (13:25, 18 July 2022)
Hallo --Paul Bah (talk) 13:25, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Question from Adenoghie (06:58, 21 July 2022)
What is the best way to grow as an editor? --forthekingdom 06:58, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Adenoghie hi there, welcome to Wikipedia.
- I tend to find the best way to do the initial growth as an editor is to have a go through Help:Introduction which is our best summary of the basics. Then go out and make edits to pre-existing live articles, and, from that, get practice discussing edits with other editors on talk pages. Learning how to take a "no, your edit is wrong" in the right way and discuss disagreement civilly with other editors is key thing to learn early - because it's also an emotional challenge, not just a technical one. Nosebagbear (talk) 18:01, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Awesome, thank you for this? forthekingdom 12:42, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Question from Talented chick on Muson Centre (22:07, 24 July 2022)
Hello how do I edit my own topic --Talented chick (talk) 22:07, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- Hi @Talented chick - by "own topic", could you clarify what you mean? A topic about you? A topic in a field you know about? Nosebagbear (talk) 22:44, 24 July 2022 (UTC)