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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello Julietdeltalima,

Backlog status

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

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

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

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

Backlog drive

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

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

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

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 15516 articles, as of 10:00, 27 December 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

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

Reminders

• Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
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Notes

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:02, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Priti patel

Hi, the change I made to the Watford Girls Grammar page regarding Priti Patel was correct and I would like you to restore it please. I was a pupil at the school in the same period and have checked my school year books, which include every pupil at the time and confirm the fact that Priti Patel never attended the school. The wiki page for the school cites a newspaper article which was itself incorrect. Patel's own wiki page no longer mentions Watford Girls because she has been called ip on the fact this was incorrect. 146.200.230.190 (talk) 09:19, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

No.

Read Wikipedia's guidelines regarding original research; your review of your secondary-school yearbooks is not encyclopedic. See Wikipedia's guidelines regarding deletion of information emanating from reliable sources. If you have questions, go to WP:TEAHOUSE and post this issue on the article's talk page. Do not continue this conversation here, please. I am a volunteer, like everyone else on this website, and I will not be able to respond to you. Best regards - Julietdeltalima (talk) 15:52, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

New Page Patrol | July 2022 Backlog Drive
On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 July newsletter

The third round of the 2022 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 180 points, which is a lower figure than last year when 294 points were needed to progress to round 4. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• BennyOnTheLoose, with 746 points, a tally built both on snooker and other sports topics, and on more general subjects.
• Bloom6132, with 683 points, garnered mostly from "In the news" items and related DYKs.
• Sammi Brie, with 527, from a variety of submissions related to radio and television stations.

Between them contestants achieved 5 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 51 good articles, 149 DYK entries, 68 ITN entries, and 109 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article nomination, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. WikiCup judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:51, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:26, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Turkish Crescent edit

Nice work! (I've forgotten how to thank you directly.) That thing is not even a proper Turkish Crescent. You might want to delete the mention of it. Lou Sander (talk) 16:21, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

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Girth Summit _(blether) 14:33, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi

If this isn't a crowdsourcing site then what is it?! Wikipedia is crowdsourced encyclopedia. Without a crowd there would be no Wikipedia. Matcha Match Man (talk) 18:02, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

There’s a difference between “crowdsourcing” and “the encyclopedia anyone can edit.” Content contributions are different from an ability to edit.

Please read the Wikipedia policies at WP:RS (regarding reliable sources) and WP:V (regarding verifiability of the encyclopedia’s content).

Your contributions are a good example. Coming up with a good recipe is a fine thing, but if it’s not verifiable or reliable, it doesn’t belong in the encyclopedia. It's just a cool idea you had that you should take to a blog. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 19:43, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

reliable source

Hi Julietdeltalima! thank you for your comment regarding mu addition. the source of my contribution is variable and is coming from sources in English and translated from others in Arabic. please tell me if I am required to mention them anyway.

Yes. You must. Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:17, 2 August 2022 (UTC) Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:17, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Julietdeltalima,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination

MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

Open letter to the WMF

The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

TIP - Reviewing by subject

Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.

New reviewers

The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.

Reminders

• Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
• If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
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NPP message

Hi Julietdeltalima,

Invitation

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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WikiCup 2022 September newsletter

The fourth round of the WikiCup has now finished. 383 points were required to reach the final, and the new round has got off to a flying start with all finalists already scoring. In round 4, Bloom6132 with 939 points was the highest points-scorer, with a combination of DYKs and In the news items, followed by BennyOnTheLoose, Sammi Brie and Lee Vilenski. The points of all contestants are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

At this stage, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For the remaining competitors, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and importantly, before the deadline on October 31st!

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. The judges are Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:44, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

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

A kitten for you!

I love kittens

Lillybootsy (talk) 05:52, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

A main coon for you

Funny

Lillybootsy (talk) 05:55, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Cute

Lillybootsy (talk) 05:55, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Adorable

Lillybootsy (talk) 05:56, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

So so cute

Lillybootsy (talk) 05:57, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Adorable

Lillybootsy (talk) 05:57, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

So cute

Lillybootsy (talk) 05:58, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Love it

Lillybootsy (talk) 05:59, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Possible sock

Hello! A couple of months ago you and I both noticed issues with edits by User:Anotheroneuser, mainly adding a lot of extraneous and ungrammatical detail to US political figures' articles, especially Janet Yellen. Anotheroneuser stopped editing altogether after you warned them. Recently, however, I’ve noticed a new editor, User:LordTort, making very similar edits to the Janet Yellen article, with edit summaries very similar to those used by Anotheroneuser (e.g., "accurate info"). Any thoughts on the similarities? Wallnot (talk) 12:49, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

@Wallnot Hello, may i ask you why u mentioned me on conversation with the other users? What is wrong with my edits and their grammar? and why u think this edited information 'extraneous'? LordTort (talk) 13:31, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

@LordTort: This edit, this one, and this one, among many others, are ungrammatical. You also have a tendency to use inaccurate edit summaries, as you did here and here. You share all these tendencies, together with your focus on Janet Yellen, with User:Anotheroneuser, who stopped editing shortly before your account was created. Is that your other account? Wallnot (talk) 13:45, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

@Wallnot Sorry for that, I do edits primary on mobile and English not my native language. No that account is not mine and I don't have fixation on Yellen (as you suggest) nor other pages with my contribution just thought to add some things. I don't see that info as insignificant. LordTort (talk) 14:07, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Regarding grammar, LordTort, as just one example, you wrote, "Subsequent confirmation of Alice Rivlin to seven-member board, brought the number of sitting female governors to three." Your syntax and punctuation are wrong. "The subsequent confirmation of Alice Rivlin to the seven-member board brought the number of sitting female governors to three" is correct. It's possible to argue that the initial definite article "The" could be omitted, but there must absolutely be a definite article before "seven-member". The comma after "board" is wrong as well.

Regarding significance, though: So what? Is there a secondary source opining that this development is in some way important? If it's just your personal observation, it's superfluous. You can make an argument at the article's talk page that the information should be included, per WP:BRD. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 15:24, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

So you think that adding another woman to Board for the first time in about 100 year-old institution's history it's not significant (female up to 45% of full membership for the first time and she was part of it, along with Phillips and Rivlin, which pages also should be updated on the topic). To this day no more than 3 women at once served at the board. And the Wall Street Journal, which wrote about it, is very much respected publication in the field of politics and finance. Why so much articles dedicated to information about women and minorities representation and it's improvement if this doesn't matter? Also why u so negative to my contributions while other users (including you) don't have time or desire to add this facts and I do. You have prejudice about me? I contributed probably about a month and ALWAYS bring verified secondary sources to info which i posted so why it so much problem for you while I don't see your contribution on pages that i edit and u think that i violated in some way? Honestly u are the first user who did I talk to and i have a feeling that u did it in some negative way (Sorry) LordTort (talk) 16:10, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

I am not "u" and won't respond to that. I am only here to make a better encyclopedia.

Please do not post to this page again. If you have any further issues, depersonalize them and discuss them at Talk:Janet Yellen. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 16:14, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

I'm deeply sorry, don't mean it such passive aggressive like Julietadeltalima took this, sorry still don't know how to address users on internet. Thanks for warm welcome and explanation about local rules here. I appreciate your dedication to this project and it's improvement. No further responses (this be the last one), thank you for your time. LordTort (talk) 16:35, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2022 November newsletter

The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is

• Lee Vilenski (1752 points), who won in 2020 and was runner up in both 2019 and last year. In the final round he achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on cue sports. He was closely followed by
• Bloom6132 (1732), who specialised in "In the news" items and DYKs, and who has reached the final round of the Cup for the past three years. Next was
• BennyOnTheLoose (1238), another cue sports enthusiast, also interested in songs, followed by
• Muboshgu (1082), an "In the news" contributor, a seasoned contestant who first took part in the Cup ten years ago. Other finalists were
• Sammi Brie (930), who scored with a featured article, good articles and DYKs on TV and radio stations,
• Kavyansh.Singh (370), who created various articles on famous Americans, including an FA on Louis H. Bean, famed for his prediction of election outcomes. Next was
• PCN02WPS (292), who scored with good articles and DYKs on sporting and other topics and
• Z1720 (25) who had DYKs on various topics including historic Canadians.

During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or the overall leader in this field.

• Lee Vilenski wins the featured article prize, for a total of 6 FAs during the course of the competition and 3 in the final round.
• Kavyansh.Singh wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 2.
• Adam Cuerden wins the featured picture prize, for 39 FPs during the competition.
• Z1720 wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 35 FARs in round 4.
• Epicgenius wins the good article prize, for 32 GAs in round 1.
• SounderBruce wins the featured topic prize, for 4 FT articles in round 1.
• Lee Vilenski wins the good topic prize, for 34 GT articles in round 5.
• Sammi Brie wins the good article reviewer prize, for 71 GARs overall.
• Sammi Brie wins the Did you know prize, for 30 DYKs in round 3 and 106 overall.
• Bloom6132 wins the In the news prize, for 106 ITNs in round 5 and 289 overall.

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January and possible changes to the rules and scoring are being discussed on the discussion page. You are invited to sign up to take part in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to have a good turnout for the 2023 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners and finalists, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:28, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Oops

Bad revert on my part. Somehow misread the diff on my mobile that you were removing the hyphen, not adding.—Bagumba (talk) 12:59, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Brain flatulence happens! I appreciate the explanation; not remotely an issue. Take care! Julietdeltalima (talk) 08:49, 26 November 2022 (UTC) Julietdeltalima (talk) 08:49, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Wednesday

Damn, go easy on us. Kidding aside, I appreciate the copy editing. Throast ^{{{ping}} me!} (talk | contribs) 07:12, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! I assure you that I never say anything online that I wouldn't say to a colleague in person. I wish I could show up with a choice of room-temperature or refrigerated Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in the Wikiverse, as I do in real life, when necessary, to emphasize that no character-based criticism is involved!

I had a college professor 35 years ago whose vanity license plate was "GW", which he'd scrawl in red Sharpie on submitted writing assignments that were full of "garbage words." I don't ever want to go there. People never set out to write "garbage words." Nobody has ever copy-edited them honestly. Less is more! It's hard, though, when interactions are online and the writer can't see that the editor is just an older dorky person with a bunch of cats who likes editing as both job and hobby, because productive chiseling is joyous.

My relationship with my most significant professional colleague (notably senior to me then; now less so) since December 2005 emanated from his recognition that "cumbersome" is entirely prose-focused criticism and not a diss on his professional competence. I use "diss" there because, however colloquial, it is the best word. I guess I could have said "awkward", but that implies inexperienced incompetence, as does "clumsy". "Cumbersome": "you did everything right, but did you need so many words, arranged like that?"

I have the flu and am going back to sleep now, but this was truly a nice way to start the week. Take care. Julietdeltalima (talk) 13:22, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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Shab deg

[1] Again you reinstated the version made by the same banned account they are the ones introducing political views points and claiming a disputed territory when the article was neutral before also believe we are able to revert a Sock Puppets according to policy ? As they made the initial edit. ShivaHanuMAN (talk) 17:47, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

User:ShivaHanuMAN: Please raise these issues on the article talk page, not my talk page. Other editors should be able to comment. I will not do so here. Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:59, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Rogan Josh

Julietdeltalima (talk · contribs) Hi thank you for the message the reasoning on the Rogan Josh is clearly explained the sources do not refer it to as Indian what so ever the initial edit [2] was made by a banned account who has a habit of claiming everything as Indian hence the removal to the neutral version this is why it was removed as they tried to sneak in their political view point please respond on your view. ShivaHanuMAN (talk) 17:43, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Please raise these issues on the article talk page, not my talk page. Other editors should be able to comment. I will not do so here. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:54, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

I messaged you since you claimed it was "political" it was clearly not and based on the fact I was removing a sock puppets edit and the Rogan Josh article has remained relatively stable before the arrival of the sock account I mentioned above and since you reinstated unkowingly the socks version it was important to address you directly.ShivaHanuMAN (talk) 18:01, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Issues regarding article content need to be addressed on the article talk page. End of discussion. Please do not reply again here. Julietdeltalima (talk) 18:04, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

You should garner an award

God I hate "garnered". GA-RT-22 (talk) 23:03, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy new era

Bishzilla and all her socks wish you a happy new Jurassic era! bishzilla _ROARR!! pocket 16:39, 31 December 2022 (UTC).

Welcome to the 2023 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2023 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023

Much obliged, but I'm not a beginner :) I actually wrote more than 1.900 voices in it.wiki. Here You can notice that the real Yorkshire dish Is the Meat and potato pie. If You write Meat and pot pie on the Internet You can't find It anywhere. That source is impossible to find. So probabably that word was mispelled or, if that dish exists someone has to demonstrates It exists. AnticoMu90 (talk) 19:00, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Please look at the edit history before reinstating a socks edits

Please be more careful before you eagerly restore content made by banned users [3] look at the diff provided you should know wiki policy regarding sock edits they need to be removed and none of those edits are sourced. 2A02:C7C:6782:7A00:8C09:4582:4024:842B (talk) 17:52, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

[4] Here is the other sock who was vandalising the very same articles take a look at their edits as you are unwittingly assisting a sock. 2A02:C7C:6782:7A00:8C09:4582:4024:842B (talk) 17:55, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

[5] This is the specific edit made by the banned user which I am simply removing nothing problematic about that there edit itself is unsourced and reeks of contentious claims. 2A02:C7C:6782:7A00:8C09:4582:4024:842B (talk) 17:58, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Follow my instructions to discuss this on the talk page. Do not ever post here again. Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:08, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

French fries or french fries

Hi, thanks for your contribution to Gatsby (sandwich). In case of interest, the jury is out on whether to capitalize "French" in "French fries". A couple of places that tackle the question are: Stack Exchange [6] Readers Digest [7] , but there are plenty more. In the absence of a definitive answer I suggest that both variants are fine. Life goes on! :-) regards Guffydrawers (talk) 11:36, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

I see MOS:CAPS mentions fries explicity: "Cultural terms may lose their capitalization when their connection to the original culture has been lost (or there never really was one). Some fairly conventionalized examples are french fries...". Make of that what you will. Regards Guffydrawers (talk) 11:43, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

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Hillsborough Memorial revision

I have undone your deletion of my revision of the Memorial Ceremonies heading as it adds additional information pertient to the permanent memorial following the recognition of the 97th victim of the tragedy and how that is being marked. I am not sure what your connection to the tragedy is but if you have knowledge of the event you will know how important it is to remember the 97 people who were unlawfully killed at Hillsborough. My edit is to ensure that Andrew Devine, the 97th victim is also remembered. AnfieldSouth (talk) 16:35, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

That is not what an encyclopedia is for. Please read WP:NOTMEMORIAL and gain consensus on the article talk page. I will not address this further on my talk page, as all communications regarding the article should be kept with the article. The revision is not neutrally phrased and is far too sentimental in tone for this objective reference work. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:08, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Andrew Devine was not a friend, acquaintance or relation, he was a victim of a criminal event which has been extensively covered by national and international news since 1989. The tone matches the preceding paragraph written 7 years ago. AnfieldSouth (talk) 17:56, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

How is that responsive at all to my comment? Please take this to the article talk page, as requested, and remove the content, per Wikipedia's procedures for resolving article content conflicts, until consensus is reached to include it (which will have to include copyediting; we do not ever refer to people by their given names in articles, as only one example). You must also provide a reliable source. This is not negotiable. Do not respond to me here on this page; this discussion should be readily accessible to followers of the article. Thanks. Julietdeltalima (talk) 18:12, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Telugu/Andhra cuisine page

Hi, I have seen your message on my talk page. I have clearly stated why the page should be named Andhra cuisine instead of Telugu cuisine in the edit summary. It is a straight move as per Wikipedia:COMMONNAME. First off, Telugu cuisine consists of Andhra cuisine and Telangana cuisine. The latter already has a separate page. So, this article is particularly for Andhra cuisine. I have provided a link to Google Ngram Viewer in my move comment. As can be seen, the word Telugu cuisine is NON-EXISTENT in the scholarly literature. Even popular sources use the term Andhra cuisine more widely. I will keep the punctuation issue in mind for the future edits. Please move the article to the title Andhra cuisine. Thank you. Nikh Nori (talk) 10:43, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

I will not. It is not my job to follow your orders. Gain consensus on the article talk page, which is where all discussion on this subject should reside so that everyone following the article is aware of it. Leaving your rationale in an edit summary is not sufficient. Do not respond on my talk page again; this is a content dispute. Take it to Talk:Telugu cuisine. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 15:36, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Why are you rude?? I only wrote here because you explicitly mentioned on my page to comment here if further discussion is needed. Good bye. Nikh Nori (talk) 13:24, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Negative Adoption Language

It's a real thing. Saying "given up for adoption" is an extremely harmful term and it's incredibly inaccurate. It makes assumptions on the situation around an adoption, whereas 'placed for adoption' is completely neutral. And thus more appropriate for wikipedia. Zeieg (talk) 03:54, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

The article is about a television character from decades ago. Have you watched these episodes of the show? I'm asking that sincerely because I can't remember off the top of my head what language various characters used in the episode (it's way past my bedtime in my time zone) but if memory serves, the character's guilt, and other characters' reaction to her decision, and the language used, was a significant plot point.

It is important not to revise language from entertainments of a prior age without acknowledging the context. "Extremely" and "incredibly" in your message demonstrate to me that this is a significant issue for you. If you've seen this storyline from the show, that is one thing; if you are reacting to the language in the Wikipedia article without knowing the context, that is another.

I kindly advise you to open this very reasonable discussion on the article's talk page where it belongs, so others who follow this and other ER articles can contribute (nobody would likely ever go looking for such a discussion on my own random personal talk page; content discussions need to stay tied to their articles). Thank you for your thoughtfulness. Have a good weekend. Julietdeltalima (talk) 05:46, 1 April 2023 (UTC) Julietdeltalima (talk) 05:46, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for responding and for your advice. I'll raise the issue on the article's talk page.

However, I will add that the character having guilt and struggling over her decision is precisely why 'given up' is an inaccurate (in addition to offensive) thing to say. 'Given up' is something people say outside of our community and it communicates the idea that birth parents give up children without care or concern. No one 'gives up' a child. The decision to place a child is extremely painful and requires a lot of thought and planning. Saying 'given up' stigmatizes birth parents. It also stigmatizes adoptive kids.

This is not meant to be an attack on you. I'm just taking the opportunity to spread awareness on a subject that is indeed important to me (I am in an adoptive family). Zeieg (talk) 12:05, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

I appreciate your feelings, but in an editorial environment, the importance is the editorial tone of the publication, not one's personal feelings. Please read WP:SOAPBOX. "Spreading awareness" is not what Wikipedia is for. I am personally very offended when people say "passed away" instead of "died"; fortunately, that language preference is congruent with Wikipedia's editorial objectives. But it is not my employer's, or in this case my volunteer-time recipient's, concern what I think. I am here to do an entirely voluntary unpaid job a few minutes a day. I am not going to be able to take any more time to talk about these issues with you. Please discuss them at the article talk page or, probably better yet, WP:TEAHOUSE. Thanks for your understanding. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 15:40, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Dryshield spam

Hi! Where have I seen that link before? I'm sure I've blocked several accounts for adding it. I tend to just block spammers then move on and forget them but these guys seem persistent! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:59, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Ah yes, I indef'd Alianaalisa (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) earlier today. Do you know how far back it goes? We'll need to demonstrate some history for blacklisting. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:00, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

It has showed up periodically in DIY and home-renovation-type articles, but the past week or so has been remarkably bad. Great minds, though: apparently Ohnoitsjamie added it to the spam blacklist based on MrOllie's good report about four minutes before I reported that latest account to AIV, so let's hope we're rid of it! It's apparently part of some pay-to-spam scheme, but why basement waterproofers from Hamilton, Ontario would find this the most likely effective use of their promotions budget will now likely be a mystery forever. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 21:08, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

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Revert edits for sympathizing with a country

I made a correction to the Argentine food articles, deleting Uruguay because it's listed as the country of origin and it's not, Argentine dishes are eaten there but they are not from there, I also put the countries mentioned alphabetically, Juliet deleted my corrections because sympathizes or is from Uruguay, all I was doing was informing people with the truth CAMPEON12CAMPEON12 (talk) 23:13, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

What makes you think I “sympathize with Uruguay”? Do not ever make personal assumptions like that. Your edits made no sense and you didn’t explain them. Please ask the editors at WP:TEAHOUSE for further explanation and do not bother me here again. Julietdeltalima (talk) 16:27, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

What's your opinion?

Hi, and thanks for your edits on the University of Dallas. I myself try to reduce puffery and inadequately sourced materials on university and college pages. So I would like to ask your advice. First, do you think it is generally true that a reference to the university's information is inadequate? I tend to think so. But what do you do, if a lot of academic institutions are exclusively self-referenced? Second, is there not perhaps some value in listing the names of student publications, even if the referencing is poor? Simply having the names online could help future researchers. Third (if I may take so much of your time), do you think it is ok to delete Greek life listings without vetting the move on the talk pages first? Most of the time I start on the talk page, but no one has ever objected to my deletions. Thanks for your help! -- Melchior2006 (talk) 06:28, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Just EDIT. If somebody doesn't like it, they'll revert it, and that's when you go to the talk page if you feel strongly enough about the change. This discussion really belongs at Talk:University of Dallas, though. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 14:18, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany

Thank you for your interest in today's featured article, British logistics in the Normandy campaign. I have a sequel up for review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany/archive1. If you could drop by with a few comments, this would be greatly appreciated. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:40, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Dim Sim

I did some sleuthing and turns out there was some leftover vandalism on Dim sim after you reported it on the page protection request page. "essentially a spring roll nICK" in the intro and "spring rolls" on the little box thing instead of "dimsim" were the two offending lines left by those people.

I've gone and cleaned it up for you, as I was meaning to put some more information in. Draco Centauros (talk) 04:11, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

thanks! Julietdeltalima (talk) 16:22, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Cobalt Lead Sapphire content

Its found in pretty much all Sapphire, both natural and lab made. Adulterou (talk) 04:54, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Adulterou, please read the message I left on your talk page, including the linked pages. This message suggests to me that you have not done that. It is important for people who want to make good, serious contributions to the encyclopedia to be ready, willing and able to: (a) take every opportunity to learn the encyclopedia’s policies and important guidelines (like our verifiability policy), and (b) read and understand messages you receive from people who have reverted your edits who tell you specifically why they did so, and be responsive to those specific concerns.

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deleted edit : Coleraine Academical Institution

Hi, Thankyou for correcting my mistakes. Can you please elaborate further my major mistakes please in this edit for notable alumni Mehreen125 (talk) 07:37, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for 2003 Chicago balcony collapse

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Precious anniversary

Precious

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Thanks for cleaning up our school's wikipedia page

I appreciate it! Jtchen26 (talk) 02:12, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

92.40.196.0

I declined this report at AIV because as a mobile IP it's incredibly likely they're no longer on that IP address rather than any issue with the report. Your diligence is appreciated. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:26, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Word used as word

Hi there! I saw you have reverted my edit on maize, citing the reason that my 'changes that created typographical errors and eliminated appropriate Wikilinks'. Can you tell what you meant by 'typographical errors'? I may delete some Wikilinks accidentally, but these can be added back. But my edits should be reasonable and were made according to the MOS of wikipedia. Can you please let me know what you meant by 'typographical errors'?

Thank you in advance for the discussion!

Salt (talk) 17:00, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

You mistyped some words without all their letters, like spelling "corn" as "cor" or "con". - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:06, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Deleted my edit.

Why have you deleted my edit? My update to the page was factual and correct. I suggest you check the facts before deleting other people work. Paulmlaforge (talk) 17:08, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

I suggest you read WP:RS and WP:V and conduct yourself accordingly. If you can't take a more collaborative tone, particularly as a newcomer, you are not welcome to post further on my talk page; please take further questions to WP:TEAHOUSE. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:11, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

You will see that two of us took independent issue with the now deleted message to you from this editor, I have pinged you in my reply to them on their talk page. I am sure you will not wish to join in, but you are more than welcome to do so. Thank you for your considerable restraint in your handling of this. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 07:09, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

I appreciate it. "Hell" is very much a curse/swear word in my view when directed to another person in this manner. I was entirely objective and this user's response was unreasonable. All of his work is still available in the article's page history to be revised and recontributed. Thank you for your support, User:Timtrent. Julietdeltalima (talk) 16:13, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

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Brown Stew chicken

I provided credible sources on all information stated in my edits and even explained the statement that brown stew chicken is not stew chicken, however it is used interchangeable among other Caribbean countries, whom have adopted some Jamaica Patois way of speaking. Stew chicken is also apart of Jamaican cuisine with a different recipe, the same as what is known throughout the Caribbean as stew chicken. Why did you undo my edit? Thinkerbell22 (talk) 19:09, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Because Wikipedia doesn't publish recipes. As I asked, please read WP:NOTRECIPEBOOK. Please ask the editors at WP:TEAHOUSE for further help. Julietdeltalima (talk) 19:26, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

I did, i also corrected the information, and moving forward i will edit accordingly to these guidelines. Thank you for the assistance, really appreciate it Thinkerbell22 (talk) 19:38, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

NPOV fail?

Hello Julietdeltalima,

You removed my change. I can definitely see your point that my edit expressed a personal opinion. I do plan to re-add at least the factual part of my entry (In <year>, <restaurant> was started by <founder> in <town>) I hope that would be acceptably NPOV?

Beyond that, let me try to make my case. If you still feel my opinion was out of line, I'll restrict myself to the facts.

Two points: First, arguing over "beef" is a Chicago tradition and seemed appropriate in a discussion of that topic, even here on Wikipedia. (Not sure if it's appropriate to cite my source heres, but see [8]https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/alton-brown-chicago-italian-beef-blind-taste-test/2004841/ ) But I accept that while it might be appropriate in other contexts, it's less so on Wikipedia. Would it be better if I expressed the opinion of an expert like Alton Brown or other food reviewers rather than my own opinion?

Second, many Italian beef producers now try to accelerate the process (and raise the output) by cooking the beef more quickly and then adding MSG and other artificial enhancements to compensate. (Sorry, can's quick find my cite for this, but I'll dig it up later today if you need it.) I think drawing a distinction between "mass produced" beef and food produced in the original manner is legitimate and can be done while maintaining a neutral point of view.

Thanks for your guidance. I hope you'll consider this response and let me know your thoughts. DaBunny42 (talk) 21:00, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

I'm sorry you've chosen not to respond. I am reposting, hopefully better representing a NPOV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaBunny42 (talk • contribs) 22:56, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

This edit solves all the problems (although I'm not sure why it matters that they also sell Italian ice; is that unusual?) I have been sick (with an even sicker, hospitalized partner) and dealing with an office move this month and have not had the wherewithal to dive into content questions versus proofreading. You hit the nail on the head here, though. Thanks for your work. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 23:28, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

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Correction on Tiffin School

Why did you revert the changes,I was factually correct: the headmaster did change this year. People can have the same names. Additionally, if you go to the school website it says G. T. Williams as the headmaster. I will link the website: https://www.tiffinschool.co.uk/about/. Please do some research before going all out (not meant to be taken personal)

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Plague of Justinian

Why did you revert all of my edits? 'School essay', the information, which i clearly cited was from Peter Sarris's new approaches to the 'plague of Justinian.' Nickmartin101 (talk) 10:05, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

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The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

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Nasi goreng

The punctuation may be wrong, alright. But tell me the damn problem about adding info to a column like 'Condiments' which in its whole does not cite ANY sources. Rubenaf16 (talk) 10:43, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Do not curse at me or any other editor; do not post here again. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:03, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

You still haven't answered the question. Alright then. Rubenaf16 (talk) 18:07, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 February newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Professional volunteer?

...and who view this volunteer work as a professional endeavor and communicate with fellow editors the way we would communicate with professional colleagues in real life

Professional? You mean, one can put their Wikipedia experience in their CV, ther résumé, right? 2A00:1FA0:2CF:194E:0:2D:9ED7:4701 (talk) 04:30, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

No?

Screw you, then. 2A00:1FA0:4134:474D:17B5:DC17:FA3E:6310 (talk) 11:32, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

"No; Italian book titles don't use title case"

Hi. Thank you for the revert (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Spaghetti_alla_puttanesca&diff=prev&oldid=1215755561), I've corrected the errors on all the other pages. I have a question: should this paragraph also be included? There are some book titles; Il cucchiaio d'argento#Coverage. JacktheBrown (talk) 00:48, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Sally Lunn.

Hello.

Please could you say why the in ' Popular Culture ' items in the ' Sally Lunn ' page which now remain, (including those where for some time Citation needed , and one where no reference is given, are still included in the article, but the linked one I made to Our Mr. Wrenn didn't meet the criteria which they, (unreferenced and still without a citation) do ?

Thanks. Heath St John (talk) 13:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Please address this on the Talk:Sally Lunn bun page. The issue isn't sourcing: the issue is triviality. Just because a thing was mentioned doesn't mean it needs to be recounted in the encyclopedia. We would have an encyclopedia full of every time somebody mentioned the name of any particular foodstuff in, e.g., any episode of The Big Bang Theory. The remaining examples were more substantive. Please read WP:IPCEXAMPLES, and, again, do not respond here: respond on the article's talk page. Thanks - Julietdeltalima (talk) 15:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Julietdeltalima,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Miso

Hello and thank you for drawing my attention to avoid using expressions such as “extraordinary” as it does not go well with a neutral point of view. I have not included the sentence that has this wording but I have added a few more health benefits with references. Hope this is ok and I am sorry for not considering the neutral point of view aspect well enough. Thank you for your work and have a nice day!! Also hoping that I am using Talk page correctly as I am quite new to Wikipedia editing. 🙏 Lepke99 (talk) 22:58, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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On 1 May 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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