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Notification of FLC co-nomination

Hi. Hope you're well. I've worked on the accolades list that you were a key contributor to (List of accolades received by Dallas Buyers Club) and have added you as co-nominator. Hope that's ok. Cowlibob (talk) 15:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

No problem, great work on the list :) --Earthh (talk) 18:54, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
The list just got promoted! Thanks for you work on the list. Cowlibob (talk) 12:19, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you and congratulations.--Earthh (talk) 13:36, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

1995 Oscars

Hi there,

I was wondering if you could proofread 67th Academy Awards for featured list consideration. I would appreciate the feedback.

--Birdienest81 (talk) 09:47, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

FA comments

Hey Earthh. Can you leave comments or vote on Master of Puppets, an FA candidate of mine? The review page is here. Appreciate your time.--Retrohead (talk) 08:56, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Sure, Retrohead. I'll find time for it over the weekend.--Earthh (talk) 12:28, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

City of Angels

Just saw this became FA, congrats :D! Snuggums (talk / edits) 17:29, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, Snuggums! --Earthh (talk) 19:01, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
My pleasure :) Snuggums (talk / edits) 19:06, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Congratulation by me too! Glad you've finally got the FA barnstar.--Retrohead (talk) 19:27, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, Retrohead. In the next few days I will take a look at your FAC, university keeps me really busy.--Earthh (talk) 20:57, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Jeff Friedl

Hello, dear sir. I have noticed that you've done quite a few good edits for APC-related articles. Would you like to add a line or two to Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jeff_Friedl, to support keeping the article? (And ideally, to add some references to his article so it would pass as notable?). Thank you in advance -BlameRuiner (talk) 07:31, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi BlameRuiner. I've left a comment at the AfD debate, however I'm not well-informed on the subject.--Earthh (talk) 21:03, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

City of Angels WP:TFAR

I see that you have nominated this for TFA on 21 May. As the table on the nomination page indicates, we are currently acccepting nominations from 24 May to 23 June, the 21 date having been scheduled. However, as this is an anniversary, and a new FA, I will do a bit of date shifting and put this in the 21st slot. For the future, it's a good idea to check the available dates before making a nom; we generally schedule about 15 to 20 days in advance. Brianboulton (talk) 07:39, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for the inconvenience Brianboulton, I didn't know that. Thank you for the notice and for your work.--Earthh (talk) 21:09, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
No problem. Congratulations on getting the article promoted in time. Brianboulton (talk) 21:19, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I'm not following why "as well as music from the 1980s" is better in that sentence, which is already a bit long. - Dank (push to talk) 00:52, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Dank, I put the sentence in that way to avoid the uncomfortable repetition of "and".--Earthh (talk) 20:49, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Okay. Better now? - Dank (push to talk) 21:43, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
I personally prefer the previous version, but would not oppose over it.--Earthh (talk) 21:56, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Precious

Thirty Seconds to Mars
Thank you for quality articles on film and music, beginning with Hollywood High, such as Thirty Seconds to Mars and their song City of Angels, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:49, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda Arendt, I appreciate it! --Earthh (talk) 17:59, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1218 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
Four years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:43, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Boston Online Film Critics Association

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The article Conquistador (Thirty Seconds to Mars song) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Conquistador (Thirty Seconds to Mars song) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of IndianBio -- IndianBio (talk) 11:01, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

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DYK nomination of VyRT

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This needs your attention as soon as possible. The close paraphrasing has not been addressed, and needs to be taken care of very soon. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:02, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Sorry for the long delay BlueMoonset, I've been really busy with my final exams. I've just finished addressing all close paraphrasing, I hope everything's fine now.--Earthh (talk) 21:39, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Conquistador (Thirty Seconds to Mars song)

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DYK for Conquistador (Thirty Seconds to Mars song)

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Incomplete DYK nomination

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DYK for VyRT

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Your GA nomination of Up in the Air (song)

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Referring to this revert to reinsert contested material, I wish to remind you of WP:3RR, do not revert more than 3 times to reinsert contested material. The burden to justify and provide sources falls on the person who wishes to reinsert contested material. Kindly discuss on the talk page before reinstating contested material. Thank you, LK (talk) 15:46, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

I've been reverting your edits since this discussion was already settled a while ago, Lawrencekhoo. See my comment on the article's talk page. Thank you, --Earthh (talk) 16:54, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

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TFL notification

Hi, Earthh. I'm just posting to let you know that 1st Magritte Awards – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for April 4. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 23:18, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm glad to hear that. Thank you, --Earthh (talk) 20:26, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Up in the Air (song)

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There are new issues regarding this nomination. Please stop by as soon as you can. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:06, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Work will need to be done on the article and a new hook proposed. I hope you can do this soon. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:28, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
A new review has been done, and there are some requests for you there. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:22, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Reference errors on 23 July

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Re: Mr. Nobody gross.

Oops, I knew nothing of what has emerged in the past discussions on the talk page. Sorry for my carelessness and wish you a good editing. --Mauro Lanari (talk) 13:31, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Negative reviews

I just cited 6 articles that indicate Suicide Squad is receiving negative reviews. Metacritic is not the end all-be all. If you can find numerous other sources that indicate mixed, great. But I cannot. TropicAces (talk) 15:45, 5 August 2016 (UTC)tropicAces

Hey TropicAces, you have JUST added six sources, after adding unsourced claims multiple times. That's fine now (even if three of those sources are irrelevant).--Earthh (talk) 15:53, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Up in the Air (song)

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Your GA nomination of Tomo Miličević

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DYK for Tomo Miličević

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Proposed deletion of Jacques-Henri Bronckart

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Autopatrolled granted

Hi Earthh, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Widr (talk) 22:41, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Widr! --Earthh (talk) 22:44, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Su it.wiki

Ciao! Dovresti fare un salto qui :) --Melquíades (talk) 09:42, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

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Follow the Wikimedia LGBT user group on Twitter at @wikilgbt for news, photos, and other topics of interest to LGBT Wikipedans and allies. Use #wikiLGBT to share any Wiki Loves Pride stuff that you would like to share (whether this month or any day of the year) or to alert folks to things that the LGBT Wikipedan community should know. RachelWex (talk)

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Will do, thanks for the heads up!--Earthh (talk) 08:09, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Jacques-Henri Bronckart for deletion

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Confusing redirect

Hi Earthh, redirecting a film director for whom we have no article to a film of his, is rather confusing: Micha Wald. Please either create a stub or delete redirect page. Thank you. Hoverfish Talk 20:31, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

I've just created a stub, thank you for telling me.--Earthh (talk) 21:02, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Swerlk

On 11 July 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Swerlk, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Scissor Sisters and MNDR conceived the song "Swerlk" to commemorate the anniversary of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Swerlk. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Swerlk), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Jared Leto resolved

Hi. I've closed my comments on Jared Leto filmography and offered my support. Care to take a gander at my latest effort?: John Ford filmography. Jimknut (talk) 14:53, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Sure, Jimknut, I will review that later on. Thank you for your comments.--Earthh (talk) 23:13, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

DYK for To the Edge of the Earth

On 21 August 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article To the Edge of the Earth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the extended play To the Edge of the Earth by Thirty Seconds to Mars was conceived to raise public awareness about global warming and green politics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/To the Edge of the Earth. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, To the Edge of the Earth), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Talkback

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DYK for Walk on Water (Thirty Seconds to Mars song)

On 15 September 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Walk on Water (Thirty Seconds to Mars song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a lyric video for the song "Walk on Water" by Thirty Seconds to Mars features user-submitted footage depicting Independence Day in the United States? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Walk on Water (Thirty Seconds to Mars song). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Walk on Water (Thirty Seconds to Mars song)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Category:Jared Leto has been nominated for discussion

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AlexanderHovanec

Hi. I see that you left a warning on this person's Talk page. However, you started a new October heading, when there had previously been several warnings all in October. I've now consolidated them all, but it seems to me that this person needs some further advice about edit warring. In any case, you may wish to consider whether this person's most recent edits on the Shannon Leto page are appropriate. I don't have any interest in the subject, but one should not include a birthname field in the infobox simply to note the subject's middle name. -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:40, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for telling me, Ssilvers. I just checked AlexanderHovanec's edits on the articles Shannon Leto and Jared Leto and they are all inappropriate, since the user keeps adding content based on unreliable and bogus sources. I reverted his edits on both pages and also left a level-3 warning on his talk page due to his unconstructive work over the past month.--Earthh (talk) 11:48, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Muse Tour 2017

32 dates with the same but updated production as last years Drones Festival tour have been performed this year by Muse. I added the dates to the Drones tour to coincide with the previous editors themes of tours lasting 2 years, however this was deleted and I was told ‘this dates belong on a separate page’. I created a separate page with all the tour dates on it, and now I’m being told they aren’t worthy of noting? Can you stop being Wiki Hitler, these dates are worthy of belonging somewhere especially that of the request show. Either they have their own page or they go on the Drones one. Also, contrary to what you said, THEY ON THE SAME TOUR. Same setlist, same production, same year what else do you need. Just because it doesn’t have an official name doesn’t cancel out it’s existance. Kuriboh500 (talk) 12:59, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Kuriboh500, the coverage is not sufficient to justify this article passing WP:GNG and the more detailed WP:NM. Moreover, I already told you that you're mixing a co-headling concert tour by Muse and Thirty Seconds to Mars with other dates headlined by Muse. As a result, the title "Muse Tour 2017" is certainly incorrect and imprecise, and most important the article does not meet the guidelines at WP:CONCERT. I also warn you that statements like "can you wiki nazis go away" are considered WP:Personal attacks and may lead to a block from editing Wikipedia. Thank you.--Earthh (talk) 14:01, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Earthh I accept this may be not enough information for a page after your explanation and will delete the image accordingly, however Im not mixing up a co-headlining tour because a co headlining tour it was most certainly not. Thirty Seconds to Mars played max 8 songs while Muse played up to 19. Not to mention the Production rider details for 30STM were that of a support band. Further more on Muses website, the article about the tour specifically states ‘Headline tour’ and only mentions 30STM underneath the tour dates as the support act. You are wrong in this instance.
Kuriboh500, third-party sources (like Loudwire.com) called it a North American tour by Muse with special guests Thirty Seconds to Mars and Pvris as a supporting act. Since they made this distinction, it would be imprecise denoting both bands as supporting acts. However, this is not the main point of the discussion: the article, in its actual state, fails WP:GNG and WP:NM, that's why a redirect to Muse (band) was created. I also noted that you blanked the page; under normal circumstances, Wikipedia articles should not be blanked, and since the article in question is now proposed for deletion, you should wait at least seven days for the outcome.--Earthh (talk) 15:06, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewing

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Thank you for the invitation, Insertcleverphrasehere. I read the tutorial and will be happy to give new page patrolling a go. However, to be honest I am not a native speaker of English and I spend most of my time on article creation and improvement.--Earthh (talk) 23:27, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Being a native speaker isn't necessary as long as you have a thorough enough grasp of the language and basic reading comprehension (which based on your comments here and above, you seem to). Feel free to put in an application to WP:PERM when you feel ready. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 23:38, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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New Years new page backlog drive

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Joanne (single)

Dear Earthh! About the Joanne single release I'd like to point out that according to the source (http://www.earone.it/news/lady_gaga_joanne_radio_date_22_12_2017_26911449/) it says Joanne singolo which means, Joanne single in Italian. Please read the source carefully. As I stated before Madonna has a song called "Hold Tight" which has the same earone.it source. The community of Wikipedia editors decided that when a source from earone.it says a song is released as a single (singolo), it means an official single release not a promotional one. Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin') is also released now on Spotify (New Zealand) (https://open.spotify.com/album/3de9BQqCRA57tDlDLt8s3L) and it will be released worldwide in a couple of hours. They plan to release it on iTunes as well. The Spotify release also says its a single. She even teased on her Instagram, that an official music video will be released for Joanne (piano version) and she is scheduled to perform it at the Grammys on Sunday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5310139/Lady-Gaga-teases-music-video-song-Joanne.html (it says: music video for the piano version of her single titled Joanne)

Also here's the link for the Google Translation of the source article so you might understand it better: https://translate.google.com/?hl=hu#it/en/Ad un anno di distanza dall’uscita del quinto album in studio di LADY GAGA ‘JOANNE’, da questo venerdì sarà disponibile per la rotazione radiofonica l’omonimo singolo scritto da Gaga e Mark Ronson, tra i produttori del disco certificato Oro in Italia. Il singolo “Joanne” è il cuore pulsante di un album-omaggio rivolto alle origini della cantautrice e musicista di New York City, il cui filo conduttore è proprio in Joanne, la zia paterna scomparsa a soli 19 anni, figura emblematica nella famiglia e nella vita di Lady Gaga sin dai suoi esordi artistici nel 2008. Con “Joanne” Lady Gaga porta a compimento un altro capitolo fondamentale nella sua straordinaria carriera, iniziato nel 2016 con “Perfect Illusion” e proseguito con “Million Reasons” e “The Cure”, singoli certificati in Italia rispettivamente Disco D’Oro, Doppio Platino e Oro, e si appresta a concludere il Joanne World Tour che toccherà Milano per l’unica data italiana il 18 gennaio al Mediolanum Forum.

Absolutely no word about a promotional single status.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

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Backlog update:

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30 seconds to mars citations

I used the standard cite web template for the references. The formatting is done by the template. It is an accepted standard on Wikipedia. What do you feel is wrong about that? Alaney2k (talk) 18:02, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

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ACTRIAL:

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Hey! Do you know where you got the information regarding Russian Film Journalists Association handing out the award? I tried searching through the website but there was no mention of it: http://www.national-movie-awards.ru/eng/awards/. Thought I'd ask you since you created the article. Regards, Jiten talk contribs 08:59, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for the long delay Jiten D, I've been busy with my exams. I took that info from the IMDb page about the awards, which once indicated that Georges Awards were given by the Russian Film Journalists Association. I just noticed that they changed the name of that page to Russian National Movie Awards. I hope it helps.--Earthh (talk) 21:34, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the info! I've removed mentions of Russian Film Journalists Association and tweaked the content a little bit. Feel free to ping me here in case you disagree with the changes. Jiten talk contribs 12:19, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
It's okay, thank you for the notice and for your work! --Earthh (talk) 17:31, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

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ACTRIAL:

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Invitation to to review 89th Academy Awards for FLC

Hi Earthh, as you have participated in previous FLC nomination for the Academy Awards ceremony, I would like to invite you for the review or comment on the current nomination of Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/89th Academy Awards/archive1. It has already been two months and all of the content is reviewed but it has only one support. So please take sometime out and review it so it could be moved to FLC status. Nauriya - Let's talk 22:57, 9 June 2018 (UTC).

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Earthh, 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.

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Stargard (album) Copy Editing Template

Well i've just noticed that you've placed a copy editing template within the article Stargard (album) to my puzzlement. Can you please indicate the grammar, style, cohesion , tone or spelling errors which you've noted to exist within the article for greater clarity altogether? (User:Woojy88) (talk) 017:57, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Woojy88, try to follow the manual of style which you can find at WP:MOS-ALBUM. Album titles are italicized, while songs and singles are placed in quotation marks. Also, a track listing should generally be formatted as a numbered list.--Earthh (talk) 22:10, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Well i'll thus go along with your particular guidelines and thereafter remove the corresponding template.(User:Woojy88) (talk) 018:18, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Improving Soundeon page

Hi Earth Thank you for your interest in my page Soundeon. As you suggested, I may need more time to improve its tone and style. Therefore, I will appreciate that it be moved to draft space to help me work further on it. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LoveAtFirstWrite (talkcontribs) 22:21, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

LoveAtFirstWrite, I nominated the article for speedy deletion since it does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. Try to find reliable secondary sources which cover the topic, in order to verify its notability.--Earthh (talk) 23:02, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
Sure. I will try to do that from now on if you give this article a second chance. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LoveAtFirstWrite (talkcontribs) 23:33, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

See it.

Respected Wikipedian please visit Talk:Mamita DebbarmaThanks! Binamra Deb (talk) 09:01, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Konstantin Sidorov

Hello Earthh. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Konstantin Sidorov, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: claims significance and I cannot rule out that those sources are not reliable, Use WP:AFD instead. Thank you. SoWhy 09:19, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion Laurie Scott Baker

Hi Earthh. I am just starting to create the Wiki entry for Laurie Scott Baker, a British composer of experimental and electronic music. He was recently included in Tape Leaders: A Compendium Of Early British Electronic Music Composers by Ian Helliwell 16 June 2016. Other similar composers have Wiki pages, eg Dave_Smith_(composer), Howard_Skempton, and also the Scratch_Orchestra_(musical_ensemble) of which Baker was a member.— Preceding unsigned comment added by AndyScott (talkcontribs) 20:50, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

AndyScott, the article about Laurie Scott Baker has been deleted since it did not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject. I recommend working on the article in a user subpage. Try to find reliable secondary sources which cover the topic, in order to verify its notability. Then you can submit your fleshed-out article to Articles for creation.--Earthh (talk) 15:12, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Dick Harris was a NFL Player

HE was the Chicago Bears NUMBER 1 draft pick… wat is your problem with that

WHO are you PEOPLE

https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/nfl-draft-chicago-bears-best-picks-all-time/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.59.200.10 (talk) 00:03, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Check and remove tag on Davy Sage

Thanks for prompting me on the page Davy Sage. Additional biographical citations have been added, kindly verify and remove tag. Shammahamoah (talk) 01:00, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Brows Held High deletion

Got rid of the excessive IMDB & YouTube links (latter for the reviews of said films).— Preceding unsigned comment added by Espngeek (talkcontribs) 19:28, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

I thank you for correcting what you saw as a problem regarding link rot. Most just complain. I personally don't see what is called "link rot" as a problem, expressed here. Since it is not a problem, I don't make an effort to solve it. We have lots of other problems on wikipedia far more important than "link rot" and I spend way too many hours trying to address those.Trackinfo (talk) 05:16, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Trackinfo, as a new page reviewer, my job is to process, approve, or tag newly created pages to better control their quality. Since users should focus on what policies say and not on what they personally think, I tagged your article due to the fact that you used bare URLs for citations. As result of the tag, another user spent his time to solve the issue. Regards.--Earthh (talk) 15:43, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Sorry I gave you credit when credit was not due.Trackinfo (talk) 20:23, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Drive Appreciation

Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar
For completing over 100 reviews during the 2018 June Backlog Drive, please accept this Special Edition Barnstar. Thank you for helping out at New Page Patrol and keep up the good work. Cheers! — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 01:59, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Thank you!--Earthh (talk) 15:06, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Regarding Jared Leto edit

Please see my notes on the Jared Leto talk page. Songwaters (talk) 00:57, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

Hello Earthh, 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
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AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your username or portal was listed as a participant of a WikiProject that is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Earthh, 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
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.
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Moving to Draft and Page Mover
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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

  • Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
  • Country Winners
  • Diversity winner
  • High quality contributors
  • Gender-gap fillers
  • Page improvers
  • Wikidata Translators

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

Hello Earthh, 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
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

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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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Music video directors

Hi, I was wondering if you think Category:Music videos directed by musicians should be deleted. Since its only parent, Category:Music videos by director, doesn't even have 200 subcategories in it, there isn't a need yet to diffuse the category by occupation or some sort, especially since there is no other similar category. And since it does have only one parent category, it's not like anyone would be navigating to it from a different categorization scheme. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 15:44, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars, I reverted your edit since that category, as long as it exists, currently fits in Music videos directed by Jared Leto. I agree with what you said, anyway, so yes, I think it could be merged to Category:Music videos by director. Feel free to nominate it to WP:CFD.--Earthh (talk) 20:36, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Earthh,

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.


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NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Earthh,

News
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
Discussions of interest

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


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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

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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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revert on Up_in_the_Air_(song)

I'm new to editing Wikipedia entries so I think I understand your revert of my additions to Up_in_the_Air_(song) by Thirty_Seconds_to_Mars. I assume the problem is that I created a new category. I went back and made my additions to the category that made the most sense. I hope that's ok. Otherwise, I'm open to constructive criticism. Skullyface (talk) 14:50, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Generally, trivial content like the one that you added should not be placed in GAs. Also, Wikipedia has a rule on No original research which states facts with no reliable, published sources should not be included. Earthh (talk) 23:33, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Earthh,

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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AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

  • Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
  • Diversity winner
  • Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

In my opinion you should be considered as a Vandal and you should be blocked! My edition gives clear information about the vision and development directions. Originally it was a typical European award, and even at the very beginning, in 1994 prizes were awarded to local artists from Europe. After 2011, we can clearly see that the award is going to be global.--Spacejam2 (talk) 12:21, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Spacejam2, as I have already explained in your talk page, the tables you added are overlong, unreadable and unsourced. As such, they fail WP:V and MOS:TABLE. There's no need to have a timeline like that since the years in which each award is given is already included in the award categories section.--Earthh (talk) 13:48, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
Spacejam2 Earthh is not a vandal; there is no evidence to suggest that any of their edits are not trying to improve the encyclopedia or otherwise make it more presentable, readable and factually accurate. Please give it a rest. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 17:04, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Earthh,

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 804 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.
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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

A graph showing the number of articles in the page curation feed from 12/21/18 - 12/20/19

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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