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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello J947,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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Regarding your reverting my edit

@J947:

Regarding your good-faith reversion of my equally good-faith correction of your close, I thought of discussing it with you first, but figured since you and I had a good rapport, that you would not mind.

Nevertheless, I still feel that it is not a "speedy disambiguate." I'm not sure there is such a thing, but logically, it would be the same as a "speedy keep" when the nominator withdraws their nomination except they concur with the unanimous recommended outcome of the participants (as we do with "speedy retarget"). Since you were neither a participant or the nominator, it is not, technically, a "speedy disambiguate," but can still be closed early per WP:SNOW. Thus, I believe "WP:SNOW disambiguate" should be the result.

Cheers,
Doug Mehus T·C 00:17, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

• Dmehus, you don't need to ping me; it's my own talkpage.
  The nominator supported the disambiguation, as did many others, so I felt there wasn't a need for further bureaucracy. It was speedy as it was unanimous; being a participant in the discussion isn't a required prerequisite for speedy closure. J947 ^(c), at 00:53, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

  J947, I know being a participant in the discussion isn't a prerequisite for closure, but I also know, like me, you are a stickler for details, and, while I have no problem with you closing the discussion early, I just think that "WP:SNOW disambiguate" reflects our current guidelines. There are speedy redirects, but that seems to be related to drafts from Draft: namespace and typically the outcome over at MfD. Yes, I guess, you could've noted in your close, "closing for nominator," which would make it a "speedy disambiguate," but at the same time, Uanfala specifically requested that it be closed as WP:SNOW closure (presumably, because "speedy keep/disambiguate/retarget" has a different meaning in that it was withdrawn by the nominator). Doug Mehus T·C 01:04, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

  See also WP:SPEEDYKEEP and WP:SNOW. In the past, I used to get the terms confused, but essentially, "speedy" results are either from the nominator's withdrawal or early closure by anyone when the nomination is out of process or made in bad faith, etc. So, like I say, no concerns with the early closure whatsoever—thank you—but just thinking it should be "WP:SNOW disambiguate." I know the "speedy" checkbox makes it easy, but what I did is just type WP:SNOW disambiguate/keep/retarget into the "result" box of the "other" option (similar to how you have to use the "other" box to enter "delete" when closing as "speedy delete" for a processing administrator). Doug Mehus T·C 01:09, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

  Okay, there were two closures that you closed as "speedy"; the one for disambiguation can probably stay as "speedy disambiguate," but I would add to your closing rationale, "Withdrawn by the nominator. Closing for her." That way, it's clear. With regard to nautical units, which I didn't amend as you closed that afterward, that one should be amended to "WP:SNOW retarget" because that's what it was—you came along as a non-involved editor and closed it early, and Uanfala wasn't withdrawing the nomination. Hoping you won't mind making those minor changes with this added clarity. Doug Mehus T·C 01:27, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

  Involved SNOW closures are generally frowned upon; it was unanimous so I was being unbureaucratic about it. J947 ^(c), at 01:42, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

  J947, no one had any objections to Uanfala even doing an WP:INVOLVED WP:SNOW closure, including me. So, at minimum, I do think that one should at least be updated. No one is going to mind. After all, we're not a bureaucracy, as you say, and have no rules. ;-) Doug Mehus T·C 01:48, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

  If you are still not wanting to do an involved WP:SNOW closure, could you at least revert the closure of the nautical units RfD and let a non-involved participant close as "WP:SNOW retarget" since that's what Uanfala and I were wanting? I personally have no issues with your involved closure, but since the terms "speedy retarget" and "WP:SNOW retarget" have different meanings in the context of subsequent deletion discussions (think about it at AfD or MfD; an article withdrawn as "speedy keep" or "speedy retarget" can influence future deletion discussions were an article closed early per WP:SNOW). I get the desire to avoid bureaucracy, and that's why I have no issues with the involved closure, but it's key that we get the closing rationale right. Doug Mehus T·C 02:28, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining

Yeah I do agree it is possible for the articles to be kept or retargeted. But since it is almost midnight UTC Gesus is the only one that looks like it might not get deleted since it is the only one that someone asked to keep. 71.34.25.253 (talk) 23:44, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

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Cobaltcigs's DiffPreviewFindLine is this month's featured script

Amorymeltzer's History button links • Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector

Interstellarity's Semi-protected edit requests and Extended-protected edit requests

Amorymeltzer's Crat Highlighter now has separate colors for each user access level

Opencooper's IPtoEmoji has been updated

Pending requests

• A script to help administrators handle proposed deletions
• A script to hide newsletters when viewing another user's talk page
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I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --DannyS712 (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:20, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Be careful when editing for format

In this edit, you removed part of another editor's comment. Please be more careful in the future. Thanks for fixing the formatting, though. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:49, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

• Oops, thanks for noticing. J947 ^(c), at 21:13, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
  • No problem. Happens to everyone at some point. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 00:35, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

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Danski454's code-link is this month's featured script

RealFakeKim's pageInfo • Guywan: InsertShortcuts • ConfirmLogout

Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector has been updated to include more sources

• Evad37's rater script is now on version 2.5. New features include:

1. No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
2. Making use of Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta to detect templates
3. Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class

• An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled
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Pending requests

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• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

User:J947/Old watchlist

By the way, you could have just “edited raw watchlist” and copy that list. It would have looked less messy, probably. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:00, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks, that is a good point. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 19:09, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion about categorizing redirects!

J947, I was just wanting to thank you for the suggestion of adding categories to my redirects. I never knew that this is done with redirects as I've never seen a redirect with categories in it. From this, I guess you opened up another "frontier" for me to build infrastructure for the redirects. Since the redirects are meant to support the main pages, it could be said that this is the infrastructure to support the infrastructure. Another quick thing, I have a bot assigned to me that reviews redirect pages for me since I was creating so many in the past and up to this point.

Thanks for the pointer! --Skim

• @Skim127: No worries. :) Also, thanks for telling me that you are in the redirect whitelist, it may save me quite a bit of time manually reviewing. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 20:02, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Thanks! — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 01:16, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Special:Diff/948935465

Hello, actually, Category:Redirects with old history is a subcategory of Category:Redirects from moves. However, I'm not sure if this categorisation is correct and I think I've seen some of the redirects being not from moves; also, I've only noticed this categorisation right now and have myself tagged some of the categories as redirects from moves as well. I'll probably start a discussion on the redirect project talk page. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 15:42, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

• That's interesting, I think it is best to initiate a discussion on that. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 20:12, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Had forgotten about this; done. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:12, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

have a good evening :)

Thanks for the help. Have a Happy Easter.   :)    DMBFFF (talk) 06:15, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Special:Diff/950434517

How is this an R to list entry? 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 12:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

• @1234qwer1234qwer4: Chiswick Chap has made a lot of edits to that article after I categorised the redirect. See this revision. — J947 ^[cont] 20:00, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Sorry, I didn't notice. I've also corrected Andúnie. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 11:12, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Teahouse

Dear J947, thank you for volunteering as a host at the Teahouse. Wikipedia is a community of people working together to make knowledge free. You are an important part of that effort! By joining as a Host, and by following our expectations, you are helping new users get a hold of the ropes here at Wikipedia, and helping experienced users who just have a question about how something works. We appreciate your willingness to help!

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Sandbox

I cannot move my sandbox or edit the request for move page. What do I do? Wynn Liaw (talk) 08:56, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

• @Wynn Liaw: The histmerge has been done. In the future, the safest thing to do when you are editing an existing article in your sandbox, is to provide a link to that sandbox in your edit summary. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 21:38, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Like, in the existing article? Wynn Liaw (talk) 01:52, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
    • @Wynn Liaw: If you are improving an existing article in your sandbox, link to the sandbox when you add the content to the existing article. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 01:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
      • What happens when I move on to another page? Wynn Liaw (talk) 02:42, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
        • @Wynn Liaw: The history of your sandbox will still be there. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 02:49, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
          • But what happens when I get autoconfirmed and can move the page? Do I request it for deletion? Wynn Liaw (talk) 03:01, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
            • @Wynn Liaw: You do not have to list it for deletion, a redirect will be automatically left behind. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 03:05, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
              • But all my old drafts will be visible. Wynn Liaw (talk) 03:22, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
                • @Wynn Liaw: Yes, if you move content to an article the history can be legally required for attribution reasons. What you can do is what I do: have multiple sandboxes. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 03:26, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Can I request for history merge instead? Wynn Liaw (talk) 04:46, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
    • @Wynn Liaw: You could – but as only one person frequents that venue, the best thing to do is to link to where you drafted changes in your edit summary when you add the content to the article. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 05:09, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
      • If I may butt in; a history merge is something that gets done after a stuff up. You don't cause the need for one deliberately. Schwede66 05:42, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
        • I will do that until I am autoconfirmed, which will arrive very soon. Wynn Liaw (talk) 06:14, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
          • @Wynn Liaw:, the best thing to do is to link to where you drafted changes inside the edit summary of your addition to the article. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 06:18, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
            • @Wynn Liaw: forgot to sign my post, repinging. — J947 ^{(user | cont | ess)}, at 06:18, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

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SD0001's find-archived-section, now a gadget, is this month's featured script

Enterprisey:

1. link-deleted-revs (On error pages for deleted revisions, show a link to the Special:Undelete page)
2. undelete-backlink (On Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions)

Epicgenius's sortcategories (sorts categories in an article alphabetically)

Awesome Aasim:

1. addmylinks (adds a customizable area for links and/or text to the sidebar)
2. editrequest (tool that allows for processing and answering edit requests)

DemonDays64's Dumb quotes (replaces smart curly single and double quotes with "dumb" quotes)

Guywan's FileMoverHelper (move files and replace their uses in one action)

Enterprisey's reply-link has been updated to fail less, especially around template transclusions.

Twinkle released new features, including a new option to disable individual modules, support for stub template nomination at CfD, and integration with the PageTriage extension used to patrol new pages. (See full list of changes)

Open tasks

• The mediawiki.notify resource loader module was deprecated and is no longer needed; its functionality is now available by default. See mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users) for more. Any dependency on it should be removed.

Pending requests

• A script to reload feeds automatically
• A script to mark templates in the TFD holding cell as ready for deletion
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

• Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts now also shows the number of active users for each script. It will now be updated by a bot periodically.
• Twinkle's Morebits library added a new Morebits.date class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using getUTCMonthName or getUTCMonthNameAbbrev with Date objects, those have been deprecated and should be updated.
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Hope everyone stays safe. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

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• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

K4 at RfD

At this point, it may be worth starting an RfC to discuss whether it's an acceptable/worthwhile use of resources to nominate trivial misspellings at RfD. RfD is naturally going to attract editors that want to delete random misspellings, so it's entirely possible that the current status quo of you being the lone keep vote is just a local consensus. As it stands, the consensus in each of these individual discussions is strong enough that my hands are generally tied as far as closures are concerned, but if there was an overriding consensus that hunting down minor typos is a waste of time these discussions could be procedurally closed. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 23:57, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

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Re: RfD log pages

Ah, I wasn't aware. Thank you for telling me. Scrooge200 (talk) 20:49, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Userpage of I'm Aya Syameimaru!

Hi, I am I'm Aya Syameimaru!. I designed a professional userpage for myself here. How do you think of it? Check it out, then you'll get an idea. «ias!|,,.|^usbk» 06:32, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

• @I'm Aya Syameimaru!: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a userpage showcase. I strongly recommend that you leave your userpage alone and focus on building the encyclopedia instead. — J947 ^[cont] 20:06, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Okay. I«ias!|,,.|usbk»I 02:26, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

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Arbitration

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June 2020

Hi J947, I'm Ezhao02. I'd like to ask for your advice if you have time. Currently, I'm involved in an edit war with an IP editor on Progressive Slovakia over whether the wording in the lead should state "that" or "which". I've created a section to discuss this at the talk page, but the editor in question will not respond after repeated requests for him or her to do so. (Note: there are actually 2 IP addresses; I'm assuming that they're the same person because the editing on one stopped before the editing on the other started and because they edit the same types of pages [Slovak political parties].) What would be the best way to proceed? Ezhao02 (talk) 01:08, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

• @Ezhao02: firstly, it's best to stop edit warring on the change as it barely matters at all. If you wish to pursue your preferred change, then don't revert the IP(s) any more. Try to see if they can communicate on a talk page – and if they don't, then my advice is to just disengage from the conflict as it doesn't really matter. — J947 ^[cont] 01:32, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for the advice. Ezhao02 (talk) 02:06, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

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NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

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• A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
• Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
• A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ed6767's redwarn is this month's featured script

Enterprisey: abusefilter-diff-check • abusefilter-hide-search • live-reload • quick-vand-block •

abusefilter-mass-test • simple-notifs • User:Enterprisey/rc-thanks

• DannyS712's RemindMe • Majavah's Aligner
• BrandonXLF: ShowUserGender • ReferenceExpander
• Awesome Aasim: oneclickdelete • noeditredlinks.js • editrequest
• TheTVExpert: searchForSection • scriptDocumentationTabs
• Alex 21: script-categoriessort.js • script-imageres.js
• Ed6767's redwarn

Twinkle released new features, including a rollback links on history pages and Special:Recentchanges,

the ability to rollback-in-place on Recent changes and Contributions, a new option autoselect warning

level, and an XfD log. (Enable in your prefences; See full list of changes)

• Headbomb's unreliable source detector script now allows users to add their own custom rules. See the documentation at User:Headbomb/unreliable#Custom rules.

Open tasks

• Recent changes to the vector skin may have broken some scripts and gadgets. Uses of the .vectorTabs selector

should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs. Additionally, .menu should be replaced with <ul>, and .vectorMenu

should be replaced with .vector-menu. See phabricator:T255718 and phabricator:T254797 for more.

Pending requests

• A script to simplify the process of nominating articles for good article reassessment (request)
• A script to help create navboxes (request)
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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