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🥂🍾🎉🥳 Atsme Talk 📧 12:19, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Red Phoenix, I have closed your request for adminship as successful. Congratulations for both your successful, landslide nomination and for your place on WP:RFX200 - excellent achievements! As always, the administrators' reading list is worth reading and the new admin help pages are most certainly available if you feel that you might require some practice with the tools in a safe environment prior to applying them elsewhere on the project. Good luck! Acalamari 16:06, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Thanks everyone. I appreciate all the support - I was actually rather surprised the RFA went as smoothly as it did. I will do my best to make sure I don't let you down, and I'll try to get to that celebratory beer after my work week. Red Phoenix talk 02:53, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
Congratulations on your successful request for adminship. Well deserved. —Nnadigoodluck🇳🇬 16:11, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Following my question here & your solid reply I’m confident you’d do a good job with the mop. Common sense is a trait I look for in any individual & from your reply it’s indicative you have that in abundance. Congratulations dear colleague & a bottle of cold beer 🍺 for you. That is, if you drink. Celestina007 20:14, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Mind deleting this, there are to many drafts on this subject. Cheers Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 12:27, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Red Phoenix, will you please block this account. There is a report at AIV but they are doing rapid vandalism, currently at Ocala, Florida. S0091 (talk) 22:21, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
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Hi Red Phoenix,
I notice that you have blocked a new user who tried (very clumsily) to improve Wikipedia by making their very first edit on a page that I watch, namely International Bomber Command Centre. I totally agree that the username of User:IBCC Market should be considered promotional under Wikipedia's Username policy, WP:ORGNAME, and should be changed. But that very same policy says that "Users who adopt such usernames, but who are not editing problematically in related articles, should not be blocked. Instead, they should be gently encouraged to change their username."
Given that the user did not understand how to upload a photo to Wikipedia, it seems likely that they will also not understand how to respond to the template that you posted on their talkpage.
I would offer to help them change the username, but of course I can't add to their talk page because they are now blocked. Are you willing to reconsider and unblock them for say a week, so that one of us can talk to them as recommended in the policy WP:BADNAME?
All the best
Hallucegenia (talk) 21:33, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
an award winning interpretation centre. The article goes onto use subjective phrasing in various places like
one of the most comprehensive recordsand
interactive and immersive exhibition. These phrases were added by same user who created the IBCC Market account, see Special:Contributions/2A00:23C6:61B9:DB00::/64. It seems quite likely that the interests of this user are not entirely to contribute to this encyclopedia, but rather to promote their own organization, and in general we should be discouraging editors from editing articles with which they have a conflict of interest. Mz7 (talk) 18:32, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
User:Red Phoenix Official? Maybe a coincidence? Jerm (talk) 17:11, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Escape Velocity Nova you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of David Fuchs -- David Fuchs (talk) 17:44, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
Blocked user Cedille Records (talk · contribs). Or meat puppetry by ChitownJuCat (talk · contribs). Thanks, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:06, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Please. Overt123456713131 (talk · contribs). Much appreciated, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 02:34, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
Dear Red Phoenix,
Over the course of my time here on Wikipedia, no user has ever inspired me more than you. You have countless articles that have been featured and recognized as some of the best, you are still active on the site to this day, and you have even stayed chill in pretty heated times. People like me that grow up on Wikipedia and watch others inspire them throughout the time that they are active on here. You had so many supporters for the admin nomination, it was unbelievable (about 200+)! I hope you won't stop creating good articles and monitoring the evil, dirty, and disgusting vandals in this website.
Thanks, luke loves editing (chat) 18:51, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
@LukeLovesEditing: I've read over your draft, and I know where you need to begin. Let's start with notability - the core of whether or not a subject actually needs an article or not. Whenever you're looking to establish whether a work of intellectual property is notable (books, music, movies, video games, and the like), what will establish the notability is, in at least 90% of cases, the critical reception. How much have people who have an influence in the industry commented on it? So, for an album like this, none of the ratings on Amazon, Discogs, or eBay are relevant. User ratings people posted online don't count for anything. What counts? Opinions from professional critics or are influential in the industry. Articles about the subject by reputable people or publishing companies with editorial oversight are good, too.
For a music article like this, examples of notability-conferring coverage might come from:
I'm not truly a music editor, though, so I might contact a WikiProject or I'd also recommend Ritchie333 as someone who knows much more about music articles and sourcing than I do. That being said: I hate being the bearer of bad news, but compilation albums rarely get articles. Why? They usually don't have coverage of themselves critically. That Louis Armstrong is notable himself does not necessarily mean a compilation article of his works is notable, as notability is not inherited. The master key is this: Always base your articles on the sources you find first, not the other way around.
On promotional tone - WP:TONE would help here. Phrases such as "Many people enjoyed this album as most of the critical reception was great. As you'll see below, there were good sales and many positive reviews surrounding this album." are immediate red flags. How can you say the critical reception was great, and how do you define great? You can say it received positive reviews, but we've already discussed what "critical reception" needs to be. "As you'll see below" is also a red flag as not encyclopedic tone, and again, "good sales" and "many positive reviews" are subjective terms. That's what makes it sound promotional - keep the tone objective.
Hopefully that will be a good start. I would start with finding some new sources first on your draft, and see if an article could be made from it. I can evaluate any sources you want if you want me to have a look. Put in some research, let me know how it goes, and how I can help you next. Red Phoenix talk 18:56, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Super Monaco GP you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Namcokid47 -- Namcokid47 (talk) 05:01, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for dealing with this Pakistani obsessed vandal! Here's some coffee for you. Go-Tsumaroki (chat) 14:25, 24 September 2020 (UTC) |
Hey Red,
I just started a new section of my user-page (not talk page) where you can sign my user-page (kind of like an autograph book). It would be an honor to have you as my first person to sign it (excluding me, who already signed it Lol). If you don't want to, that's okay, I just wanted to do something fun around here.
ありがとう,
Go-Tsumaroki
22:31, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
P.S. If you are wondering what "ありがとう" means, it roughly translates to "Thank you."
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The article Escape Velocity Nova you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Escape Velocity Nova for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of David Fuchs -- David Fuchs (talk) 20:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
The article Escape Velocity Nova you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Escape Velocity Nova for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of David Fuchs -- David Fuchs (talk) 20:22, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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I see you blocked User:119.235.251.172 for vandalism -- thanks for that. I think the user may be evading the block, given the edit and edit summaries of these two edits, which both edits insert the word "The" before the subject name on Early modern warfare.
... to an encyclopaedia you must be descriptive or else
... to an encyclopaedia you must be descriptive or else!
This new editor has just repeated their edit while I've been composing this, so this is ongoing.
What do you recommend? --A D Monroe III(talk) 18:35, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
As you did the GA review, I am curious of your opinion here. Should not anything salvageable from that article be put on the article for the massacre? That's the reason anybody cares to know their name. Most of the article is just copy-paste from there. Frankly, I would say anybody who knows anything about the case knows the purpose of that needless additional page for the perpetrators is because of the anti-hero worship surrounding them. It's on par with having an article arguing for OJ's innocence rather than incorporating that into the article on the trial (in fact, copied from that article), with additional trivial pursuit facts about his childhood by endearing fans. Or giving Adam Lanza a page. Cake (talk) 19:45, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Sonic X-treme, introduced: "Sonic X-treme is more than a canceled video game for the Sega Saturn - it's also in many ways a cautionary tale of corporate politics and the effects they have on a company. It's a captivating story of game development, I believe, whether you are a video game fan or not."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:00, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
The article Super Monaco GP you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Super Monaco GP for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Namcokid47 -- Namcokid47 (talk) 19:01, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
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The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by
Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points.
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All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. 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 in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.
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Can user:2.89.35.17 please be blocked ASAP for vandalism. CLCStudent (talk) 13:54, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
Did you see this? You'd probably score high easy. TarkusABtalk/contrib 11:27, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hello Red Phoenix,
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
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This year has been too long that I forgot you are an admin now. I had to make sure I voted for you to remember that. What a year. GamerPro64 04:47, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. 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. Any questions on the rules or on 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. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
this is entirely incorrect. CSDs are not subject to IAR except in the most exceptional cases, and WP:G11 is not listed at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Pages that have survived deletion discussions. Even assuming for the sake of argument that you were correct in characterizing a page that had survived its most recent AfD as purely promotional, administrators are not free to bypass speedy deletion criteria at will. For you to have doubled down when I pointed this out is inappropriate and not consistent with good administrator conduct. Even if your statement was just intended as hyperbole, it's both unnecessary to the discussion in which it was posted, and paints your willingness to apply CSD properly in a poor light. Such cavalier disregard for process--again, even just in a statement without actual misuse--can be a sign of admin burnout, which is a terrible thing that the encyclopedia can ill afford. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 08:11, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the quick help with that [insert pejorative here] that was vandalizing Ronald McDonald (and all those other pages)! Happy New Year! — UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 03:38, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for taking swift action to hide the offensive comment at Talk:Black Lives Matter. Just FYI the offensive edit summary / username are still visible in the talk page history because they appear in SineBot's subsequent edit summary. Maybe hide that too? Best, Generalrelative (talk) 04:21, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Red Phoenix, thank you for the prompt response on 03:10 4 February 2021, for the deleted page Draft:MILDEF International Technologies. I am not paid in any way for the content creation, so it is fine if I recreate the page to not include any unambiguous advertising or promotion for the organization? MQ Consultant (talk) 06:50, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Can user:The Road to Paradise please be blocked ASAP. CLCStudent (talk) 21:25, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi
I saw you blocked NathanQuessy6969 (talk · contribs). You might want to also look at NathanQuessy69 (talk · contribs). Knuthove (talk) 01:44, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
Hi
I saw you blocked Tokyointernationalschool (talk · contribs). You might want to also look at Tokyointernationalschool5484 (talk · contribs).--Renat 01:10, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
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Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.
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Hey Red! Not sure if you knew about this, but parts of a Japanese oral history with former Sega employee Masaharu Yoshii (who's credited as the director of Sonic 2) from last year has been translated and an excerpt about Sonic 2 and STI has been posted on Sonic Retro. There's some great info, but I wanted to let you know that Yoshii mentions that Mark Cerny actually quit halfway through Sonic 2's development (not at the end) and Yoshii temporarily ran STI until a replacement was found, which the STI article doesn't mention. JOEBRO64 15:31, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
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The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in Round 2 were:
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Hi there Red Phoenix ... I hope you are well. I finally have the revised version of Helen Pickett's Wiki submission. If you would be so gracious, may you please look it over for me and let me know if this version is ok to post? I would be so grateful. Thank you so very much. Be well. Jackiespina777 (talk) 22:17, 3 May 2021 (UTC)Jackiespina777
Red Phoenix I tried to find where it says to email you and was unsuccessful. I apologize that I am so unskilled at the WikiLanguage. If it's possible, may I please email this to you. It wouldn't let me send it through here. Something to do with an external link or something and I don't know how to fix it. UGH, asking for help again! Jackiespina777 (talk) 22:17, 3 May 2021 (UTC)Jackiespina777
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Hi RedPhoenix it’s Jackie Spina needing help with Helen Pickett’s page again. I am at a loss as to how to enter the content with the hyperlinks included. And if you’re still willing, I would really love it if you may please take a look at the content I’d sent you before. If you can’t find it, I can try to resend. It would be so much easier if we could please correspond through email just until we get things going. If you are up for this, I will happily give you my email and we can go from there. I just really, really need help. Thank you so much. I hope I’ve done all this correctly. Jackiespina777 (talk) 20:43, 13 June 2021 (UTC)jackiespina
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The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:
In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; 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 (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian_politics. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian_politics/Evidence. Please add your evidence by August 6, 2021, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian_politics/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI guide 18:42, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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Hey Red Phoenix! :) It's been over a full year, and I have dilligently and patiently waited exactly as you asked for people to edit the Soma Games page so we can remove the peacock words and instances of informal tone, and hopefully see people start adding new information after that. Unfortunately, after more than 12 months, we still have had nobody find the article organically, nor have had almost anybody help to edit it. I have promoted the article on the Video games Wikiproject three times over the past year as you suggested, but unfortunately those received nearly no replies and only resulted in one edit over the year.
I've continued to monitor the page and resist editing any of it, but after waiting for more than 12 months under our original strategy, I am wondering if you think a new approach may be necessary and helpful for this page? Taking a long break from improving the page has definitely helped me to identify instances of unencyclopedic tone throughout the article, and to more fully recognize the overuse of primary sources. I've got lots of info or even just small tidbits that I would love to add to the article which are coming from exclusively third-party sources. There are even just small updates that would keep the page's information current instead of having its content stuck in the past. Let me know if you think we should re-evaluate our strategy for getting the page improved and updated.
Thanks so much! Hope you are doing well! 😃 Emitewiki2 (talk) 19:09, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and
Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being
Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are
Gog the Mild,
Lee Vilenski,
BennyOnTheLoose,
Amakuru and
Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; 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 other contestants, 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.
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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
In the open Iranian politics arbitration case, the proposed decision has now been posted. Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. You were notified as you made comments in the case request. For the Arbitration Committee, Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI guide 01:49, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Red Phoenix,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:32, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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