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Note that my table of contents is SUPPOSED to be titled. It seems every edit made either changes the tilt or removes it. Someone who knows what they're doing, can you please make it forever tilted?

Archive (won't really be used)

If I pissed you off by reverting your vandalism, you can try to take it out on me here, but you will obviously be reverted and warned and/or blocked. I myself don't care, I find if lulzy that I'm worthy of being vandalized. Means I'm doing well lel

vn-13This user talk page has been vandalized 13 times.


This doesn’t concern you ma’am — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:803D:9359:306D:CA83:4163:84AC (talk) 17:10, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious what an editor of physics data has a background in? Good work on this material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.186.7.178 (talk) 17:06, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Christie[edit]

Thanks for helping. I've requested temporary page protection, but hopefully they'll just call the election and have it be over with. The Sartorialist (talk) 02:52, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You DO Know I Was Joking... Right?[edit]

I couldn't have possibly made it any more obvious... *sigh*--66.177.73.86 (talk) 00:05, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those idiots seriously took it that far? WTF?!?!?! D:< Gatemansgc (talk) 15:33, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Just when you thought they couldn't possibly get any dumber...--66.177.73.86 (talk) 23:06, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Wow[edit]

Such caps, many exclamation point! In seriousness, though, could you tone down the edit summaries a little bit? I'm as much a fan of whimsical editing as the next editor, but the long rows of letters and exclamation points popping up in recent changes make my eyes hurt. Thanks! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 21:09, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note[edit]

[1] - the IP I reverted was a known vandal who made a huge mess of a lot of pages, and got that IP blocked, as well as a few others. They were not a "poor IP", at least, not in the sense you intended. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 08:07, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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SPI report for those IPs[edit]

I've reported them here. Jeh (talk) 01:53, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just FYI, reverts of edits by blocked editors don't count for 3RR. Sort of like a motion to adjourn, reverting edits of blocked editors is always in order. Jeh (talk) 02:02, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
p.s. - If anyone questions that, refer them to WP:NOT3RR Jeh (talk) 08:13, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Rollback granted[edit]

Hi Gatemansgc. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

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Sorry for the scare, I was using TW, and I thought I was choosing right one. I just wanted to let you know of the discussion since I saw you had been involved too. Reb1981 (talk) 01:51, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

173.76.103.95[edit]

Reported at ANI: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#173.76.103.95 --Guy Macon (talk) 02:05, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Very persistent, some of these... Gatemansgc (talk) 06:18, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lololol — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.177.225.145 (talk) 12:06, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar vs. avatara[edit]

To answer the question of your edit summary, there is a hindi (spelling and/or pronounciation) variant of avatar as avatara. However, in this article, the version we should use is avatar, so your revert was correct. I wanted to let you know in case you thought it was vandalism. Thanks. Hoverfish Talk 04:20, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thank you. I didn't leave any warnings on their talk page, just the edit summary. If I feel I've left a good enough summary, and it's not really vandalism, I sometimes don't template. Gatemansgc (talk) 04:27, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

bit trigger happy on the editing[edit]

maybe check before reverting — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.56.204.110 (talk) 07:42, 4 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewing[edit]

Hello, Gatemansgc.

I've seen you editing recently and you seem knowledgeable about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; currently Wikipedia needs experienced users at this task. (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 10:18, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that you have the "administrator someday" userbox. Reviewing new pages is one of the best ways to develop experience needed to successfully wield the mop. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 10:18, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Insertcleverphrasehere: I'm honored that you feel New Page Reviewer would be a good fit for me, despite having only created user talk pages for vandals! I hope the rights granters feel the same way, I think I'd enjoy being able to do help out Wikipedia in more than one way! Gatemansgc (talk) 22:34, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Content creation isn't the goal of everyone. However, I suggest that you fully read the tutorial page linked above, as you do have limited experience in some of these areas. An admin might ask you a question at PERM so that you can prove that you known what steps to take, follow the tutorial if you don't know (there is a flowchart that can lead you through the process with yes/no questions). Good luck. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 22:44, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Insertcleverphrasehere: I took my time reading all the requirements after I got your message, before actually applying. I'm the kind of person that will just leave something to more experienced people if I'm not sure, I greatly dislike doing anything wrong. If I was to see something that I couldn't judge whether it's worthy of Wikipedia or 100% blatantly deletable, I'd just not mark it so someone else can. Gatemansgc (talk) 22:52, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Which sentences need to be improved?[edit]

Hi, could you point out which sentences should be improved in Susan Gau? Because I am not a native English Speaker. I appreciate your time and attention. --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 22:00, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@It's gonna be awesome: Considering you aren't a native speaker, you did pretty well. However, parts like "Many researches she involved were" could read better like "Much of the research she was involved in was". I'm pretty bad at copyediting myself, but the use of "researches" reads awkwardly. I'm sure people who are better at spotting things than me would be better at this than I am, but I'm trying to expand on Wikipedia to help more than just checking Recent Changes. Gatemansgc (talk) 22:21, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I got it. Thank you a lot! --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 22:25, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@It's gonna be awesome: You're quite welcome! Never be afraid to ask for help. You may especially find that (and appreciation for your article!) in Wikiproject Taiwan and other similar places. Please keep contributing~ Gatemansgc (talk) 22:29, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! Have a fabulous rest of your week! ^_^ --It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 22:33, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate ya spending time on helping optimize this article! I learn a lot during this process. It's going to be a nice memory! Cheers friend!
ヘ( ^o^)ノ＼(^_^ )--It's gonna be awesome!✎Talk♬ 23:29, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

your edit summary[edit]

Per [2], you caught it 6 minutes later. Relax.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:45, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Kintetsubuffalo: I do get a bit dramatic on the edit summaries at times, lol. I'm just having fun in a way that's not harmful to the project, though. Gatemansgc (talk) 13:21, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Footnotes USS Wahoo[edit]

Can You fix the errors in the footnotes of USS Wahoo (SS238) ?


Cite error: A list-defined reference named "FOOTNOTELockwood1984" is not used in the content (see the help page). Cite error: A list-defined reference named "FOOTNOTEO'Kane1987" is not used in the content (see the help page). — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatrickGuadalupe (talk • contribs) 08:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks PatrickGuadalupe (talk) 13:27, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Ilikeunicorns[edit]

Going through their edits, it's highly likely they are not here to contribute to the encyclopedia. Could I get a second opinion, before I add them to AIV please? Thank you. Boomer VialHappy Holidays! • Contribs 03:08, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Boomer Vial: It seems they're only here to meme. And the meme isn't a funny one, either. Definitely WP:NOTHERE. Gatemansgc (talk) 03:12, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Reported to AIV[3] Boomer VialHappy Holidays! • Contribs 03:14, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New Years new page backlog drive[edit]

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Garrison and his Gender[edit]

I said Mr. Garrison did not changed his gender, because he did not, i watched all episodes of South Park and i not see he change his gender, 2004 and 2005. 61.193.123.128 (talk) 22:55, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Userpage code[edit]

Cool, I wanted to check if you've done anything with the code, and sure you did. =) A few suggestions, though - you don't need to do any of this, it's just something I probably would've done:

  • My signature has such small padding values because it has to be inline with other text on talk pages (as signatures usually do =)). Perhaps it would look better on your Userpage if you changed the padding to padding:8px 16px or something like that.
  • You can change the color values (those are the ones that follow the # sign). You can find a useful color picker on this page. Colors are usually 6 symbols after the initial #; I used only three to save space.
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I apologize if you already knew this stuff, just wanted to give you a few ideas if you want to customize it. =) BytEfLUSh Talk 02:04, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Philly Special[edit]

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A barnstar for you![edit]

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
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A kitten for you![edit]

Thank you for doing dat I'm still new /:)

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018[edit]

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Nice[edit]

WHY IS UNDOING VANDALISM SO ADDICTIVE?!?!? I usually thank the people that beat me to reverting (rV) vandalism, btw.

LOL this is fun. Abequinn14 (talk) 17:33, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summary[edit]

Can I ask what's up here? Home Lander (talk) 00:48, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Home Lander: I get a bit carried away sometimes. If a vandal's vandalism is funny, and IS NOT: a BLP violation, copyright infringement, personal attack, or other expressly forbidden thing; I paste it in the edit summary when I warn them. I think I pasted too much. Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 00:51, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I gotcha. Just wondered what exactly was up. Home Lander (talk) 00:53, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018[edit]

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

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  • Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
  • Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
Editathons
  • Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.
The Signpost
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A barnstar for you![edit]

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thanks for quick cleanup at 21 Savage. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:16, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

THERE ARE LIONS[edit]

YOU F UCKER — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.194.94 (talk) 23:41, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to get around the profanity filter that there isn’t one of, I see. —67.14.236.193 (talk) 01:40, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cat Creek Oil Field Sign[edit]

Since I'm guessing you weren't aware, that vandal you were dealing with on Cat Creek Oil Field Sign is a long-term abuser. I protected the page, but feel free to let me know if you see anything like that again. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 02:54, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@TheCatalyst31: Oh, thank you. I was afraid of violating 3RR, and I don't follow LTA cases at all until I've actually dealt with one. If they hadn't started with the immature attacks, I would have left it because I always want to be safe with 3RR. I should look to see if there's a "doesn't follow LTA" userbox. Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 04:14, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit banner[edit]

I’m not sure what parameters I was planning to use with {{copyedit}}, and I have no earthly idea how I didn’t notice I screwed it up, but thanks for divining what I meant and fixing it! —67.14.236.193 (talk) 01:33, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I love your tilted ToC, by the way. —67.14.236.193 (talk) 01:43, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You reversed my edit[edit]

Hello, you reversed my edit on the page of Daniel Haberman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:98.109.130.173) - it was not a joke. The name Ballin was in use. Here is the obituary for Daniel Haberman's mother - https://i.imgur.com/Scz3Na3.jpg Sorry if I messed anything up, I don't edit wikipedia often. - 98.109.130.173 (talk) 23:13, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Other
Moving to Draft and Page Mover
  • Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018[edit]

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

Hello Gatemansgc, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal
Project updates
  • ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
  • There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
New scripts

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018[edit]

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

Hello Gatemansgc,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
  • Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message[edit]

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Sodapoppin[edit]

He showed his wikipedia on stream thats why it died Sabool25 (talk) 23:38, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

FYI[edit]

This, if Google is any indication, appears to be no more than somebody's name. Home Lander (talk) 22:58, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.


Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.


Training video

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NPR Newsletter No.17[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc,

News
Discussions of interest
  • Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
  • {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
  • A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
  • There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
Reminders
  • NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
NPP Tools Report
  • Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
  • copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
  • The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
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Kids' Choice Awards Vandelism[edit]

Why is there so much vandalism regarding the 2019 Kids' Choice Awards article I do ask? I typically don't even work on that article. That type of article is not one I would erg to edit. After seeing all the rapid massive editing violations, vandalization and destructiveness on the article. It caused me to make minor adjustments. I hope you and other users that are in charge of editing that article work together to stop and prevent random editors. Prevent random violators from making obscene edits that disrupt the article.--Welcometothenewmillenium (talk) 02:52, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Virginia Beach edits[edit]

Hi Gatemansgc, Thanks for the thanks tag, and recognition of my edits. However you might be wondering why I didn't remove the vandalism completely. This is just because of my oversight, and going to fast. So thanks for finishing up. :) Zanygenius(talk to me!)(email me!) 22:35, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

NPR Newsletter No.18[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

  • Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
  • Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News
Discussions of interest

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

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TPWS[edit]

Hi, Gatemansgc. Thanks for reverting my edit to "TPWS". I did it to prove to my friend that wikipedia isn't all fake, and that not every bad edit, if any, gets through. 76.80.79.36 (talk) 20:36, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Academy of Engineering[edit]

Content removed as copyright violation. David notMD (talk) 10:32, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

Thanks for reminding me to use tildes! --CanadaEdits (talk) 17:03, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Stealing from my page[edit]

No problem ;) Didn't even have to write that! Lets go fight some more vandalism!--CanadaEdits (talk) 17:35, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism[edit]

😭😭😭 😭😭 You keep fixing vandal articles faster then I can get there 😭😭--CanadaEdits (talk) 18:51, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you![edit]

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
This is for your valuable efforts for countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 16:35, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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A puppy for you![edit]

Humorous1234 has given you a puppy!
Puppies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Your puppy must be fed three times a day and will be your faithful companion forever! Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a puppy, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
Spread the goodness of puppies by adding {{subst:Puppy}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message.
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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
  • Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
  • Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
Not English
  • A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 818 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools
  • It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
  • It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes
  • Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
  • Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks![edit]

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:59, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers[edit]

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry

This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true.

No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well G. MarnetteD|Talk 11:54, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review newsletter December 2019[edit]

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

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 Rosguill (talk) 47,395 Patrol Page Curation
2 Onel5969 (talk) 41,883 Patrol Page Curation
3 JTtheOG (talk) 11,493 Patrol Page Curation
4 Arthistorian1977 (talk) 5,562 Patrol Page Curation
5 DannyS712 (talk) 4,866 Patrol Page Curation
6 CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) 3,995 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 3,812 Patrol Page Curation
8 Boleyn (talk) 3,655 Patrol Page Curation
9 Ymblanter (talk) 3,553 Patrol Page Curation
10 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 3,522 Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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Happy New Year Gatemansgc![edit]

Happy New Year!
Hello Gatemansgc:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 00:07, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]



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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc,

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
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.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello![edit]

Wow you are fast at removing vandalism and i made my name in like five seconds. Just so you know i did expect to get this taken off and it was a reference to "Half Life But The AI Is Self Aware." Oh and did you say Wikipedia the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 22yeet22 (talk • contribs) 23:11, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc,

Your help can make a difference

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.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources
  • 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.
  • Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:52, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the edit you Regarding the revert you made on Resurgence![edit]

Hi, did you send an email to emergency@wikimedia.org? Thanks, Thanoscar21talk, contribs 22:54, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some bubble tea for you![edit]

^_^ Hey , Thanks for all your tasty contributions to 'pedia. Hope you'll enjoy this bubble tea ;) He@ven's Queent@lk 15:48, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please help with usability testing[edit]

Hello! The mw:Anti-Harassment Tools team is running a usability test to find out how and where IP addresses are used when patrolling wikis, particularly when patrolling RecentChanges. This could include New Pages or RecentChanges patrol. We want to see your patrolling process and get your views on some prototypes. Getting your perspective would be really helpful to us at this stage of the process. If you’d like to help, and have 30 minutes to spare, please fill out this Google form with your details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjYyRNGMkO4_TdNOgG4qmK9cp9YOKzM4GFO5pTd_bEcu23YQ/viewform


For the purpose of the tests we’ll be using Google Forms for recruitment, and UserTesting.com to conduct the actual tests. Please review the privacy statement and release form in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ijmwrIoNO0W1p_zfFU1LBf3_6mFF53kUUFy1L_DCUKc (Google docs link)

Thank you,

NKohli (WMF) (talk) and PSaxena (WMF) (talk) 03:45, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Skannerz[edit]

I have not made any edits to that article. I think you've got the wrong user.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.46.77.11 (talk) 20:30, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Personal messages in warning templates[edit]

Hi - if you're going to add personalised messages to warning templates, please ensure that they do not contain blatant and profane personal attacks. Whatever you think of someone, that sort of comment has no place on Wikipedia. Best GirthSummit (blether) 08:24, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Girth Summit: ...Calling vandalism immature is a personal attack to the editor? Since when?!?!? Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 16:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies if I wasn't clear. It was the other part of your message, in which you directed a profanity towards a public figure, which is not acceptable. I guess my describing it as a PA wasn't entirely clear, since it was not directed towards an editor, but nevertheless it's not the kind of remark thing that is permitted anywhere here, including the talk pages of IP addresses. GirthSummit (blether) 17:17, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter[edit]

Hello Gatemansgc,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

Year in review

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.

Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 DannyS712 bot III (talk) 67,552 Patrol Page Curation
2 Rosguill (talk) 63,821 Patrol Page Curation
3 John B123 (talk) 21,697 Patrol Page Curation
4 Onel5969 (talk) 19,879 Patrol Page Curation
5 JTtheOG (talk) 12,901 Patrol Page Curation
6 Mcampany (talk) 9,103 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 6,401 Patrol Page Curation
8 Mccapra (talk) 4,918 Patrol Page Curation
9 Hughesdarren (talk) 4,520 Patrol Page Curation
10 Utopes (talk) 3,958 Patrol Page Curation
Reviewer of the Year

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.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

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.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

User: 141.8.10.31[edit]

Hello, I noticed that you recently left a message on 141.8.10.31 (talk · contribs)'s talk page warning them about continued vandalism on Will Donkin. I have had continuous issues with this user on the same page, and even after you left your message, they made another unexplained, unsourced change. This user has already been banned for 36 hours and then again for a week as a result of the same activity. I believe further measures need to be taken. I appreciate any and all help you can provide. Anwegmann (talk) 00:01, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Anwegmann: I went right to vandalism4im due to previous blocks for the same thing, and it seems to be a static IP due to the only edits being to that article. Perhaps we can ping one of the admins that had blocked the IP previously or take it to WP:ANI? Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 00:40, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for doing that. I am pinging @Ohnoitsjamie:, who is the admin who dealt with this user on previous occasions. Anwegmann (talk) 00:58, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Dealt with, thanks! OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:31, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck[edit]

I know you can do this G! Do get up from the computer every so often and walk around your home. Your legs will thank you. Best wishes in this editing endeavor and for your 2021! MarnetteD|Talk 22:54, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@MarnetteD: Thanks! I'm trying to get to 1000 edits this month, which I haven't done in a while! Of course it's all vandalism fighting! Started examining the abuse filter under disallow too.
I'm also doing stuff on Gaia too! Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 23:01, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats and thanks for all of your work!! MarnetteD|Talk 23:03, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@MarnetteD: I'm still hoping to make admin one day, though I don't know if someone who ONLY fights vandalism would ever make it through a RfA. Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 23:04, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You are right G. Those who vote on RFA's usually want a variety in editing from a candidate. One suggestion I can send your way - take a look at the Wikipedia:Cleanup from time to time. You might find fixes that you can make to articles that will enhance your editing skills. Again, this is just a suggestion and if you don't find anything there that you like that is no problem. Please know that you are an asset to the 'pedia in any work that you choose do to. Cheers :-) MarnetteD|Talk 23:14, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@MarnetteD: Which is kind of disappointing, since sometimes it would be nice to have admins who are on just fighting vandalism and hand out temp bans to disruptive IPs. Sometimes there's no admins on and even after like an hour (with posts on AIV and RfPP) the IP is still vandalizing. As for my case, I'm not much a "big edit" person, the only things I really do are typo fixes, hanging refs, spell checking, and punctuation after the ref tag... Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 23:21, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yep you have stated the situation well. Cheers again! MarnetteD|Talk 23:24, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Someone help[edit]