User talk:Citobun

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you.   JaJaWa |hello  23:57, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you removed More citations needed|date=July 2021 from Melanau people, Divisions section without adding any citations. May I ask why? The section still has no citations. Likewise you have reverted a number date changes I reverted as the users who did them were subsequently suspended from editing due to making unreferenced changes. Please see User talk:183.78.44.154. Sciencefish (talk) 08:48, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Sciencefish: I am making hundreds of reverts of Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Date-changing vandal from Malaysia, apologies if I have reverted a legitimate edit by mistake. Citobun (talk) 09:11, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please look at these two who have been blocked from editing for changing such dates: Special:Contributions/183.78.44.154 and Special:Contributions/Diane Molly Handerson. You have inadvertantly included me as a vandal and reverted my reverts of these individuals. Apology accepted. Sciencefish (talk) 09:19, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I saw you reverted the changes to the LTA list so I wanted to explain. I removed the cases that are no longer active, already archived by somebody else (some haven't been active since 2010 or before), or pending, and then went through the pending ones, approved many of them, then added them back. I don't see a reason for undoing that as the vast majority of pending cases that needed to be added back already were (apologies for missing the Date-changing vandal from Malaysia), and the archived ones that are practically useless are cluttering up the page. Even if somebody needed the archived cases, they can all be found here. It'd be more useful if instead of reverting the changes, adding any you deem useful that I missed back to the short list (intended to be shorter, see full list here). I went ahead and set the Date-changing vandal from Malaysia to active. Thanks. 0qd (talk) 13:07, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks 0qd, I understand and will self-revert. You are correct that it was the Malaysian case being removed that confused me. Since unfortunately he/she is still very active... Citobun (talk) 05:05, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have just declined your speedy deletion nomination for

Understood JBW, thank you! Citobun (talk) 11:16, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Citobun, I saw you mentioned me under an Administrator's Notice Board sub heading saying I made promotional edits. What is more shocking to me is you mentioned me in the same content you used to discuss sock puppetry. I understand the rules on Wikipedia is to first discuss with a user if you notice any unhealthy use of the platform by the said user before going to Administrator's notice board, I stand to be corrected on this anyway. More importantly, I realized that you mentioned me after I disputed a speedy deletion nomination you made on an article titled Dj Kaywise. Firstly, I created that page a while back because I see the growth of the subject and noticed they didn't have a Wikipedia page. Since I have created it, it has been reviewed and rejected and I have tried to improve on it because I also use articles to improve my knowledge of how Wikipedia works. I need to let you know I had no idea who edited the page recently, how it got reviewed and accepted, I didn't know. I only got a notification that you nominated the page for deletion and I noticed the reason you stated is not good enough to delete the page because the article is not the same as the article that was a subject of deletion conversation earlier. I am the first to state here every time I speak to anyone here that I am not a genius of Wikipedia, I am literally learning on here every day but what I don't appreciate is you consciously or unconsciously accusing me of sock puppetry. If you see an edit I made that seem promotional, it is most definitely an honest mistake because like I said, I am still learning how to edit here. I use only one account since I have been on Wikipedia. Just thought to speak to you about this. Thank you Olakunle Rufai (talk) 08:28, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Citobun,

I am reaching out to you because you signed up to be a member of Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong.

We will be hosting the next virtual meetup to discuss the annual report and future arrangements on election of the board. The event will take place on Sunday, September 19, at 20:00 HKT (1200 UTC), and the presentation will be in both Cantonese and English.

If you are unable attend, you can also submit questions and suggestions before the meeting at our telegram group.

The link to the meeting room is here: virtual meeting room link.

We hope to have you join us online!

（第一百二十八屆香港聚會將會喺今年9月19日夜晚8點開始！到時撳依條拎一齊入去開會啦！）

--MediaWiki message delivery（留言） 2021年9月12日 (日) 17:50 (UTC)

Please update your subscription to these messages by clicking here.

Also, Thanks Temp3600 for his hard works.

Hello Citobun,

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.

---

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:31, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for removing "Police violence". Let me talk about something I think is not appropriate in your restored version: 1, Only mentioned police entered the campus and fired tear gas, bean bag, etc, no mentioning the reason: protesters tried to throw objects to block railway and road, and eventually the railway and roads were blocked after police retreats. Which is bias. So I think should add something like "To prevent block of railway and road, the police entered the campus ..." 2, President Tuan's mediation was not directly refused by police. In fact, I think both sides were in tension (such as new attacks by throwing hazardous objects and laser beams by protesters), making it fail. So I suggest directly say it fails and cite proper sources and let readers to judge by themselves. 3, Police retreat by around 13, and protesters occupied the campus during 13-15, which is of course illegally (most faculty members, staffs and students left the campus during these 3 days) 4, Other truths not mentioned: leaving thousands of petro bombs by protesters; Protesters barricaded most entrances and exits, leading to a campus-wide transport disruption.

@JusticeforHKpatroits: Please make suggestions on the article's talk page. There is a discussion there. Citobun (talk) 08:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you've bothered to read the paper of Ir Joseph Lo et al you wouldn't have called that name of the

I googled "Harbour Crossing Tunnel" and came up with nothing except the Checkerboard Hill page. It's not an official nor a widely used term, hence why someone repeatedly adding a red link to a made-up name seems hoax-like. Anyway, I don't think it's necessary to split the MIS immersed tube into a separate article unless you have a lot to write about it. Citobun (talk) 00:16, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. (t · c) buidhe 01:58, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You claimed my edit was misleading. How was it misleading? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1053170358 I noticed your user page is dedicated to HK and Apple daily. Perhaps your own bias is corrupting your bias to slander me as misleading. 49.179.75.4 (talk) 10:49, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Re this note, an individual likely does not have control over their IP. I don't think it is sockpuppetry. May be better to ask them to sign off with a specific name. Best, CMD (talk) 05:43, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Chipmunkdavis: Thanks. It's just that I have been encountering this individual for some time and suspect the IPs are the same person based on common editing patterns and subjects (e.g. the MTR, Hong Kong place names, road tunnels). But I'm not certain. Citobun (talk) 06:49, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is 203.145.95.X harassment, personal attack and possible part of off site canvassing behaviours. Thank you. Matthew hk (talk) 07:12, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Citobun, I noticed that you reverted my edits to Valentin Pavlov and Nikolai Ryzhkov a few days ago. I checked the page history to see why my edits had been reverted and it said something about a “date changing vandal from Malaysia”.

Why were my edits reverted? I am fairly new to Wikipedia, so I apologise if I have done anything wrong, but I am not trying to vandalise. Thanks LivingInTwilight (talk) 04:10, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi LivingInTwilight, apologies, your edits were collateral damage. There is a vandal (see Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Date-changing vandal from Malaysia) who makes a huge quantity of malicious edits that must be mass-reverted, and unfortunately sometimes constructive edits that took place in the intervening period get reverted as well. I try to avoid that but the sheer amount of vandalism that needs reverting makes it difficult and time-consuming. Citobun (talk) 02:42, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Citobun All good, I see what you mean now. Thank you for clarifying. LivingInTwilight (talk) 07:16, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Remember to add right level of warning template after reverting legit disruptive edit.

Why should I listen to you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.174.157.58 (talk) 04:21, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just saw the page you put up about this person on LTA. Do you think that rangeblocks would be effective in combating them, even if by a little bit? I've calculated the ranges 116.92.226.224/27, 219.76.24.192/27, and 219.76.63.96/27 for them. wizzito | say hello! 04:36, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also 124.217.189.0/24, 220.246.91.0/24, and 203.145.94.0/23 wizzito | say hello! 04:39, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Wizzito: Thank you for looking into that. I am not exactly sure how rangeblocks (or IP addresses in general) work to be honest, but it seems like it might help. If you know how to request those blocks, your help would be much appreciated! Citobun (talk) 04:58, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wizzito, rangeblock is not effective as i believe it is not one person but a guild of it, so that you may need to block ALL of the HK ISP, or spend a lot of time isolate which range is more severe and really need a block. I think the "better" method is stating LTA and protect the page from editing and force them to use talk page first. And usually they may post non-constructive stuff in talk page likes personal attack or ranting other people's English , and if that exist, then we can consider also protect the talk page or issue block. Matthew hk (talk) 05:11, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Matthew hk: I strongly believe that everyone that I've added to the LTA page is a single individual. They are too consistent. There are other disruptive IPs active on HK subjects but their interests are different. Citobun (talk) 07:39, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I second the idea that this is a single individual rather than a group due to the extreme level of consistency in both editing behavior and ISPs used. A rangeblock is probably needed, and it doesn't look like there's going to be much collateral from the ranges they're using. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 11:47, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Made a nifty little subpage at User:Padgriffin/HKGW_tracking with some of the ranges that they've been active in. Might be handy to use it to patrol their ranges. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 01:40, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Padgriffin: That's extremely useful. Thank you for helping out with this headache! Citobun (talk) 02:41, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I'm currently working on improving some of the articles on HK Streets and fixing their infoboxes. I'll try and add more ranges later. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 03:12, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have a received a message from you recently about my WIkipedia edit. You have threaten me about getting banned for vandalism. If you are part of the Wikipedia team, please put me through customer service instead of personal threat. Your behavior is really inappropriate and I'm sad that you think you have any control over other people's freedom of speech. Btw, NO, HongKong celebrates 春节 known as spring festival. Stop using the Lunar New Year term, it has not translation in Chinese. If you think it does, then you go ahead celebrate 阴历 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.54.107.172 (talk) 20:44, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

More proof for your misunderstanding: First day of the first month (Lunar calendar) Lunar New Year 農曆年初一 農曆 doesn't translate to Lunar. You know it. Please stop being aggressive and do the right thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.54.107.172 (talk) 07:06, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Citobun,

I noticed that

They are:

• Ching Ho Estate
• Cho Yiu Chuen
• Fu Tip Estate
• Hibiscus Park
• High Prosperity Terrace
• Highland Park (Hong Kong)
• Kwai Hong Court
• Kwai Shing East Estate
• Kwai Tsui Estate
• Lai Yiu Estate
• Model Housing Estate
• Nga Ning Court
• Sheung Lok Estate
• Sheung Man Court
• Shun On Estate
• Tai Po Plaza
• Tin Chak Estate
• Tin Ching Estate
• Tin Heng Estate
• Tsui Lai Garden
• Wan Hon Estate

Thank you.

Aravindhan Ravikumar (talk) 00:01, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey what had happened? What are you doing? [5] 1.64.46.233 (talk) 15:50, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, another user has brought up your name at ANI regarding some reverts you did in response to

Hello Citobun,

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 809 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 861 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

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

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.
Sent 05:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Before I revert you, could you please just explain what was wrong with these edits? To me, they seem perfectly relevant and correct... Regards, -- Ohc ^{revolution of our times} 20:19, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey

WP:HKGW, whom I believe is Instantnood. I block this individual's edits on grounds of block evasion. Some of their edits are constructive, some edits are tendentious or problematic, and some of their edits are vandalism. I just revert them all and report the IPs as I find it the only sustainable way to deal with this person. In this case I totally agree that the company name should in fact be written as Hsin Chong. Citobun (talk) 01:02, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply

]

Thanks for your explanation. I will revert you on this one, and will be on the lookout for others. Regards, -- Ohc ^{revolution of our times} 06:37, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@

WP:BMB. Citobun (talk) 18:41, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply

]

Yes, I understand that bureaucracy may have compelled to do so. My undoing of your revert was based on pragmatic reasons, because the banned editor corrected errors that existed on the page. Regards, -- Ohc ^{revolution of our times} 20:42, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Noted on your concern on my recent edits to certain articles.

However, I ask that you refrain from reverting entire edits, and make an attempt to indicate which sections you object to specifically, given that there are a number of amendments to the articles in question for each edit.

The justifications you have provided for the reversions are vague, and fail to justify the scope of the reversions. Carter00000 (talk) 01:42, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Carter00000 (talk) 16:31, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion is actually at

WP:ANI, and I have commented there. Cullen328 (talk) 17:03, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply

]

Hello Citobun,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000^[a] at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.^[b]

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages.

WP:WPSCH/AG

has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 15099 articles, as of 08:00, 28 April 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at

WP:VPP

recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

Reminders

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

Notes

1. ^ not including another ~6,000 redirects
2. ^ The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:01, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at

Thanks, Carter00000 (talk) 17:12, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Given that you have recently made allegations at the Arbitration Committee on me violating WP:NPOV & WP: MULTIPLEACCOUNT, you may consider taking your concerns to an appropriate venue such as WP:NPOVN & WP:ANI. Otherwise, please refrain from making such allegations. Carter00000 (talk) 04:59, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The recent request for Arbitration to which you were listed as a party has been declined, as the Committee felt it was premature. For the Arbitration Committee, firefly ( t · c ) 15:11, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ho Ying-chie, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ho Ying-chie until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:02, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Citobun,

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

tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here

.

Reminders

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

Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:24, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Citobun,

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.

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:10, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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!
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

(t · c) buidhe 21:16, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Citobun,

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

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

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

Suggestions:

• 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.
• This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.

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!

Hello! Voting in the

2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users

are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The

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.

If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review

NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:26, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply

]

Hello Citobun,

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: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

WP:RFD

.

Discussions with the WMF The

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.
• To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

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.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:11, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Citobun,

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

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

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

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

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.
• Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
• To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

Hello Citobun,

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.
• Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
• To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

Sent by Zippybonzo using MediaWiki message delivery at 06:58, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 September 9 § Building collapses on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. + Qwerfjkltalk 21:01, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Citobun,

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

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.
• To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Citobun:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2400 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Voting in the

2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users

are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The

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.

If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review

NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:43, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply

]

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.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Citobun,

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.
• To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:14, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]