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This page is designed to be a collection of resources and links useful to New Page Patrollers (NPP).

• List of all project pages
• List of all project talk pages
• Patrollers with language specialties

Reports

• Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog chart/daily – raw data
• Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Graphs
• Wikipedia:Database reports/Top new article reviewers – grouped by day, week, month, etc.
• Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reports
  • unreviewed new articles by creator
  • unreviewed new redirects by creator
  • unreviewed articles with merge tags
  • AfD created by NPPs in the past week
• Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reports/Easy reviews
  • Unreviewed articles marked for AFD
  • Probable DB-R2 candidates
  • Probable DB-R3 candidates
  • Unreviewed disambiguation pages
  • Unreviewed AFC-accepted articles
• Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reports/Fast article reviewers
• Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reports/Autopatrol – a short list of autopatrolled articles chosen at random (for autopatrolled monitoring)
• Popular unreviewed articles - a short list of unreviewed articles with a lot of pageviews

• Notability guideline
  • General notability guideline (GNG)

Subject-specific guidelines

Also refered to as subject notability guidelines (SNG)

• Academic (also known as: NPROF, PROF, SCHOLAR, ACADEMIC, TEACHER)
• Astronomical objects (also known as: NASTRO)
• Books (also known as: NBOOK, BK, NB)
• Events (also known as: N(E), EVENT, NEWSEVENT, NNEWS, NEVENTS)
• Films (also known as: NFILM, NOTFILM, NF, FILMNOT, MOVIE)
• Geographic features (also known as NGEO, NGEOG, NGEOGRAPHY, NFEAT)
• Music (also known as NMG, NMUSIC, NM)
• Numbers (also known as WINI, NUMBER)
• Organizations and companies (also known as ORG, CORP, NCORP, GROUP, COMPANY)
• People (also known as BIO, NBIO, PERSON, PEOPLE, BLPNOTE)
• Sports (also known as ATH, ATHLETE, NSPORT, NSPORTS)
• Web (also known as WEB, NWEB, WEBPAGE, WEBSITE, WEBNOTE)

Unofficial "practical" guides

• User:North8000/New pages patrol/Practical tips
• User:Joe Roe/Seven tips for new page patrolling
• User:Novem Linguae/Essays/Nuances of GNG
• User:Novem Linguae/Essays/Nuances of SNG

• Articles for deletion
  – community discussion
• Speedy deletion
  – obvious cases for deletion
• Proposed deletion
  – obvious cases for deletion that do not meet the Speedy deletion criteria
• Today's deletion discussions
• Deleting BLPs
• Guide on participating at AfD

Right / Pseudoright	Current list	Requests
New Page Patroller	List (does not include sysops who also have the PERM)	requests
Autopatrolled	List	requests
Redirect autopatrolled	List (does not include those with regular Autopatrolled)	requests

Gadgets can be installed via the 'preferences' link in the top right of the page, and User Scripts must be installed at your your common.js page (instructions).

Gadgets

• Twinkle – Variety of useful tools. Configure Twinkle
  to log your CSDs and PRODs.
• HotCat – For adding categories to pages.
• MoreMenu
• MarkBlocked – Strikes out blocked usernames. Helps you know when to check for CSD G5.

Core user scripts

• User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks.js^(info) – adds links at the top right of each page to quickly view windowed history, talk, page logs, etc. Note the link to the NPP flowchart on unreviewed new pages, which opens in a sub-window and contains clickable links.
• User:DannyS712/copyvio-check.js^(info) – 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.
• User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) – tool for easily selecting revisions for copyright violation tagging.
• User:Evad37/rater.js^(info) – tool for quickly adding Wikiproject templates to talk pages.
• User:Schminnte/PageCuration.js^(info) – adds a link to Special:NewPagesFeed at the top of the page near 'sandbox'.
• User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js^(info) – tool for easily moving pages to draft.
• User:SD0001/StubSorter.js^(info) – tool for looking up and adding stub tags.
• User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js – Adds links next to article titles to indicate when an article was previously deleted. Helps you know when to check for CSD G4.

Other useful scripts

• User:Þjarkur/Highlight homographs in title.js^(info) – Catch sneaky people trying to recreate deleted articles using look-alike characters from foreign alphabets.
• User:Bradv/SearchLinks.js – adds links to various search engines to quickly look for sourcing in the left side toolbox.
• User:DannyS712/copyvio-check.js - Adds "Check for copyvio" link to the info pane of the Page Curation toolbar. Clicking it runs an Earwig copyvio check.
• User:DannyS712/Logs.js^(info) – Add an easy link to a page's logs, to check for previous deletions, move-to-drafts, etc.
• User:DannyS712/New pages feed.js^(info) – Add an easy link to the new pages feed, directly below the "recent changes" link in Vector.
• User:Danski454/stubsearch.js^(info) – tool for looking up and adding stub tags.
• User:Enterprisey/delsort.js^(info) – tool for sorting AfD discussions.
• User:Insertcleverphrasehere/copyvios.js – adds a link to the 'more' menu that opens Earwigs copyright violation tool in a new tab.
• User:Music1201/MyCSD.js – Adds a CSD log link to your topbar.
• new page patrol source guide
  , WikiProjects, and other places.
• User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/DetectSNG.js – Scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords such as "National Football League" and, if found, displays them at the top of the article page, to help with determining SNG eligibility.
• User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/DontForgetG12.js – Puts a big orange "Copyvio check" button at the top of unreviewed drafts and articles.
• User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/NotSoFast.js – In Special:NewPagesFeed, highlights articles newer than 15 minutes red and newer than 1 hour yellow, to remind you not to patrol them yet.
• New Page Patrol
  links to the left menu.
• User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/ReviewStatus.js^(info) – Displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
• User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/WatchlistAFD.js – Automatically adds to your watchlist any article you NPP "mark as reviewed" or AFC accept, so you can see if they get AFD'd.
• User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages.js^(info) – Highlights unreferenced passages with a red background color.
• Wikipedia reference search
  (WRS) link to articles, to assist with Googling for reliable sources. WRS is a Google custom search engine that only searches reliable sources.
• User:SD0001/W-Ping.js – Allows you to set a reminder to appear on your watchlist about a page
• info) or User:Bradv/Scripts/Powerbar.js^(info
  ) (whichever you prefer) – Adds a simplified on-screen new pages feed on the left or right of the page (respectively).
• User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/googleTitle.js – Adds Google links to articles, to assist with Googling sources.
• User:Sohom Datta/PageTriageUserspaceLogger.js^(info) - A script that logs all deletion nominations made using the curation toolbar to the correct twinkle userspace logs.

Other useful tools

• NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
• NPP Unreviewed articles graph to check realtime unreviewed articles.
• NPP unreviewed redirects graph to check realtime unreviewed redirects.
• NPP new page reviewers graph to check realtime new page reviewers.

Communication

• Template:Sentnote-NPF – Comment left to article creator while reviewing
• Template:Taggednonote-NPF – Notice of improvement tags to article creator
• Template:Unreviewednonote-NPF – Notice to NPP editor after unreviewing a reviewed article
• Template:Unreviewednote-NPF – Notice to NPP editor after unreviewing a reviewed article with comment
• Template:NPR invite – Invitation to become an NPR reviewer

Deletions

Discussion

• Article for Deletion
  (AfD)
• Redirect for discussion
  (RfD)

PROD

• Biography of Living Persons proposed deletion
  (BLPPROD)
• Proposed deletion
  (PROD)

Speedy Deletions

• Template:Db-notice-multiple-NPF – Multiple speedy deletion criteria

General

• WP:G1
  – Patent nonsense
• G2
  – Test page
• Template:Db-vandalism-notice-NPF – G3 – Vandalism or hoax
• G4
  Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion
• G7
  – Author request
• G10
  – Pages that disparage, threaten, intimidate, or harass their subject or some other entity, and serve no other purpose
• G10
  – for articles about living persons that are unsourced, entirely negative in tone, and have no neutral version to revert to

• G11
  – Spam/Promotional
• G12
  – Copyright
• G14
  – Unnecessary disambiguation Note: Labeled as G6 in the toolbar

Articles

• A1
  – No context
• A2
  – Foreign language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project

• A3
  – No content
• A7
  – No indication of importance (people, animals, organizations, web content, events)
• A9
  – No indication of importance (musical recording)
• A10
  – Recently created article that duplicates an existing topic
• A11
  – Obviously invented

Redirects

• R2
  – Cross-namespace redirect
• R3
  – Implausible Typo

• AfC feed
  • AfC submissions (filterable format)
  • AfC submissions
    (table format)
• AfC intro
• AfC discussion
• AfC Helper script
• List of those with the AfC psuedoperm (allows use of the helper script)
• Current AfC psuedoperm requests
• Future of NPP and AfC

• Earwig Copyvio Detector
• SmallSEO Tools