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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

  • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
  • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous


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NPR Newsletter No.18

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Hello Alucard 16,

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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The Signpost: 31 May 2019

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 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Big Brother#Move Big Brother Canada (season #) to Big Brother # (Canadian season). Jayab314 23:46, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

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removed Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
  • An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
  • An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

  • The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
  • Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous


About Xbox 360 backwards compatibility: June 6th, 2019

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Despite YouTube being an unreliable source according to WP:VG/S, there is no other footage or imagery from official sources showing errors with Sonic Heroes, Half Life 2, and Call of Duty Finest Hour. Finest Hour has an undocumented issue that causes all UI elements to be poorly scaled. Willing to work something out about this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.198.94.121 (talk) 22:37, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@68.198.94.121: In this case what I would recommend is starting an discussion at Talk:List of Xbox games compatible with Xbox 360 with links to the video your wanting to use. This way a lot of regular video game editors can take a look at the sources and we can discuss them. While most YouTube videos are not suitable for use on Wikipedia some are if the information isn't available anywhere else. However starting a discussion on the talk page of the article and providing the reasoning for using those videos can help reach a consensus on that particular video. Alucard 16❯❯❯ chat? 07:32, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I sent you something which is important for me to say and ask. I see you are also advanced with technical tools, and would love if in the future I could also learn from you and ask you some stuff, for which I still don't have a hold on. Thanks for your attention. אומנות (talk) 06:34, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@אומנות: Thank you for reaching out! I sent you a reply. Sure I would love to help in anyway I can and in the event I don't know I sure can point you in the right direction of someone who's more technical than me . Alucard 16❯❯❯ chat? 07:28, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for the swift, understanding and kind response, here and further there! :-) I was still digesting the situation, with the gaining and consequences afterwards. Then I wrote to you and someone else until the little hours, and then from further thoughts about the whole situation and if my messages will be accepted well, got me to bit of nerving that eventually I didn't manage sleep til morning. This is also why I write you for now here, also as after last night it may take me some days now to just take a break and write you more also for technical advice; also the situation which cause kinds of technical actions in arguments, which I don't know how and when its right to use... But now I understand perfectly in regards to yesterday and I greatly thank you for your care and handle at this.
So yeah, if that's okay with you, I would love to turn to you about more situations, other stuff where I feel lost, and also to find the best ways from my side to explain communication and conduct. I'm really happy to know more friendly "face" on the field, someone like you which is active, and carrying also for healthy communication. You really cheered me up with that and in general, you have no idea... thank you אומנות (talk) 12:56, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Big Brother Newsletter – June 2019

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Sent by DannyS712 (talk) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 08:53, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Big Brother 21 (American season)#Day 1 Eviction. TheDoctorWho (talk) 05:00, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

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Hello Alucard 16,

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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The June 2019 Signpost is out!

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Eurovision Newsletter for June 2019

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Issue 48

Headlines

At the time of publication the project statistics were as follows
Number of articles Unassessed articles Good articles A-class articles Featured articles Number of members
7263 1088 33 2 54 40 1 0 5 2 109 9

HOMETALKNEWSDESKUNSUBSCRIBEARCHIVES
Published by the Eurovision WikiProject

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

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1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

  • In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

Technical news

  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous


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There is the user named User:Joshq1234 and he is reverting the housemates status for Bigg Boss Telugu 1 as I remember you converted and said this is better please could you talk to him and leave a message so he can understand and stop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.150.69.132 (talk) 08:14, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note this is just 86.168.118.213 evading their block. Not the first time, won't be the last time. Ravensfire (talk) 19:14, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Big Brother (U.S. TV Series) Logo.png

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If it is determined that the file does not qualify under the non-free content policy, it might be deleted by an administrator seven days after the file was tagged in accordance with section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.

This bot DID NOT nominate any file(s) for deletion; please refer to the page history of each individual file for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 01:00, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Can you mediate? :)

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Hello, Alucard 16. You have new messages at Talk:Pinoy Big Brother: Otso.
Message added 10:05, 15 July 2019 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

BB21 House Photo

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Just asking you since you saved the CBB2 Cast Photo from deletion would you mind checking out the deletion tag on the BB21 House Photo (File:Big Brother 21 House Photo.jpg)? I've already somewhat expanded the FUR and left a contested deletion message on the talk page. Thanks! TheDoctorWho (talk) 20:41, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Big Brother Newsletter – July 2019

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Sent by User:ZLEA via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:16, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Repaired fixes on ICSYV seasonal articles

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Hello Alucard 16, Can i please check these ICSYV seasonal articles for verification. I did it completely fixed those problems. You can proceed to this discussion. I'm waiting for your response and i'm removing those maintenance tags. Makoy Canlas (talk) 12:46, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 July 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
  • The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

    Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.


The Signpost: 30 August 2019

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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. --B-bot (talk) 17:30, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

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Oversight changes

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Technical news

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
  • The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Hello Alucard 16,

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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Neutral notice

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This is a neutral notice to all registered editors who have contributed to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Film over the past year (Sept. 15, 2018-present) that a Request for Comment has been posted here. --Tenebrae (talk) 14:51, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 September 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

  • As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television#Big Brother season article format on whether we should use, abandon, or rewrite Wikipedia:WikiProject Big Brother/Structure of series or season articles. Jayab314 16:34, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the note on bollywood highest grossing movies. Why despite being the highest grossing bollywood movie of 2019 and earning over 450 crore (citations and references already mentioned in article page as well as on highest grossing movies of 2019) is not listed? Seems some type of corruption in wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dharmendarm (talkcontribs) 07:04, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Clarity on Toriko

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Very early in the discussion with the renaming of List of Toriko episodes into Toriko (TV series). We've proposed that a separate article be created first into a draft . For some reason the editors of WP:TV disregard that proposal and are deadset into converting the list into a full-fledge article. KEep in mind that list was already split in the past from Toriko and creating an article again just to split the list twice would make its edit-history confusing. Who contributed to the list itself will be that much harder to verify.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 11:10, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm trying to help create a bridge between both WP:TV and WP:ANIME here with the recent conflict between the two. Clearly the issue is bigger than just Toriko. Reverting like you did Gonnym does not instill WikiPeace (while the whole RM and subsequent RfC they did also did not instill WikiPeace I admit). Let them develop the list with sections and see how it looks before reverting and throwing them into draftspace. List of Toriko episodes is a good test case for WP:TV and WP:ANIME collaboration even if the end result is a change to Toriko (TV series). We can always merge the edit histories later via WP:RMT if needed so all contributions are kept in tact. What we don't want is an all out edit war on various lists where WP:TV editors begin to delete things using other applicable manual of styles as justification like here. What we honestly need is more WP:TV and WP:ANIME collaboration when the two manual of styles conflicts not trying to one up each other in WP:RMs and RfCs and that's what I'm trying to start here. Alucard 16❯❯❯ chat? 11:21, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Blue Pumpkin Pie: Btw, I've seen the work you have done in both WP:ANIME and WP:VG and I think it is really good . Instead of fighting with WP:TV if we collaborate/work together with them we can be better together. Alucard 16❯❯❯ chat? 11:24, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It seems like you just want us to bend the knee to WP:TV anyways based on your discussion. I'm sorry, but if you want me to "collaborate" you need to meet me in the middle, not ask me to do all the work. WP:TV editors only created subsections and padded the verbiage, they didn't expand the list.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 20:43, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You mean that TV editors created actual content, fixed accessibility issues, followed general MoS guidelines on lead structure and citations and general cleanup, while only 1 anime editor, AngusWOOF actually contributed, while the rest of you keep acting like you WP:OWN the article and have contributed absolutely nothing to it? None of you, other than Angus, even edited the article once before my move request. The list was basically empty before he fixed it. What a joke. --Gonnym (talk) 22:50, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Because that's not what WP:ANIME editors wanted Gonnym it's that simple. We don't want to convert a perfectly solid list into a stub-class or even a start-class article with no hope of becoming anything a or higher. Why is that so hard to understand? We compromised, we offered the option to start the process in a draft, and no one in WP:TV budge when it was a more clean solution to the problem. It would've meant we were in a space that could collaborate together. But trying to convert a list into an article is not the place for that.
I've been doing my own personal research throughout this entire debate. There is practically zero production information that is easily accessible. I'm still searching for Japanese news as well, and maybe some interviews. But nothing in List of Toriko episodes doesn't exist in Toriko Except for the OST.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 00:59, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 October 2019

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

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Hello Alucard 16,

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 805 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.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
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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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration


Hi,

I moved it out of the draftspace because there is a rough consensus that some of old drafts started by me might need be continued to be edited outside the draftspace at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Topic_Ban_Request:_TakuyaMurata (i.e., I was merely trying to implement the consensus.) So, I'm thinking of it moving back to a subpage. Do you object? -- Taku (talk) 03:54, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Taku the reason I moved it to draftspace because the draft shows up as an article on the new page list and my understanding is drafts should be in draftspace. Can I move this to your userspace instead? Alucard 16❯❯❯ chat? 04:01, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I see. My understanding is that these drafts will be exceptions; i.e., they will be a sort-of non-draftspace drafts. I thought it was technically not in mainspace because it was a subpage. I prefer not move the draft to my user page because it is not meant to be my draft. Can we move it to a subpage of the talkpage Talk:Ideal_theory instead? Is it still problematic? -- Taku (talk) 04:10, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Also, if the problem is with the word "draft", we can remove it from the page name. -- Taku (talk) 04:16, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
To be honest Taku just because something is a draft in your userspace doesn't mean it would be solely your draft. Editors often put things in their userspace with the intent of other editors to help them. I'm not sure if the software will allow this draft to be moved as a subpage of the talk page where the draft also has a corresponding talk page. The software identifies all subpages of an article in mainspace as an article and places new pages into Special:NewPages and the subsequent page curation tool used by New Page Reviewers which we have to review. I'm not sure if this is correct but I went ahead and obliged and moved the page to Talk:Draft Ideal theory as per request. Keep in mind if this kind of draft is not appropriate any editor can reverse this and I can't help going forward. This also separated the associated talk page which is still left at Draft talk:Ideal theory. Alucard 16❯❯❯ chat? 04:28, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the explanations (I was unfamiliar with how NPR works). I think I figured out an alternative solution; I started User:Math-drafts (as an alternative account) and moved it to there. Hopefully, the username makes it clear the draft pages do not belong to me. -- Taku (talk) 04:35, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Taku just be sure to follow the policy on WP:ALTACCN to ensure your in compliance with the valid alternate account policy otherwise if your out of compliance other editors could say your committing sock puppetry. Alucard 16❯❯❯ chat? 04:47, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. It seems this type of the use of an alternative account is legitimate (I think I followed the policy, making it abundantly clear it is an alternative account). -- Taku (talk) 04:55, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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