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Your GA nomination of Easton Area Public Library

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Easton Area Public Library 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 SounderBruce -- SounderBruce (talk) 06:21, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Easton Area Public Library

The article Easton Area Public Library 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:Easton Area Public Library for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of SounderBruce -- SounderBruce (talk) 05:01, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted

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Your GA nomination of Easton Area Public Library

The article Easton Area Public Library you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Easton Area Public Library for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of SounderBruce -- SounderBruce (talk) 07:21, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Flint River Regional Library headquarters, Griffin

Wanted to let you know, I took a photo of the library in Griffin . --Mjrmtg (talk) 12:26, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you sir! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 14:25, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Rather than start a new subject on your talk page, I'll just add a photo here of the library in Reidsville . --Mjrmtg (talk) 16:16, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
I took my first photo of a "Library box" yesterday, it said LittleFreeLibrary.org Take a book, return a book. . Are you also on Wikimedia Commons? I'm not sure about category usage on there. I don't think this is a "Public library in Georgia (U.S. state)", is it technically a library? But, thought it was interesting enough to take a photo. --Mjrmtg (talk) 13:55, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

@Mjrmtg: That's a good question, I would assume it doesn't count as part of that category! I'm on the commons technically, but I don't really use it so I'm unsure where it would be better fit. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 14:42, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
The category is "Little Free Libraries in Georgia (U.S. state)" and it is the first photo in the category so far. --Mjrmtg (talk) 11:20, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

The main library in Valdosta was replaced with new library, newspaper article is here http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/business-roundup/article_732aceb6-878c-5bdd-9c10-e6440804673b.html Photos are here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Willis_L._Miller_Library I can take an exterior photo without the grand opening crowd if you think that'd look better. --Mjrmtg (talk) 12:40, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Easton Area Public Library

On 7 February 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Easton Area Public Library, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Easton Area Public Library holds the original Flag of Easton that is believed to have been flown in the town during the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Easton Area Public Library. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Easton Area Public Library), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:52, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Semmendinger, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!
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Rutledge Hazzard

Hi.
Could you please take a look at Rutledge P. Hazzard as well? —usernamekiran(talk) 19:23, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Sure thing, I'll do that now. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 19:25, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks a lot! It has remained unreviewed for days. —usernamekiran(talk) 19:39, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Where did you find his date of birth? —usernamekiran(talk) 19:42, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
@Usernamekiran: Found it here! Page is reviewed now :) SEMMENDINGER (talk) 20:03, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Hailu Mergia album

Thanks for reviewing Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument. I'm pleased you enjoyed the article. --TangoTizerWolfstone (talk) 15:45, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

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thanks for your work too! And it must have been strange to mark as reviewed a redirect with your own username (and your grandad's surname) on it haha DrVogel (talk) 19:28, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Haha, it was an entire coincidence I saw it the same day you made it, I wasn't even in New Page Patrol at the time! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 19:42, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

RE: A page you started (Plains Producer) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Plains Producer, Jabberjaw!...

Thank you for your support and feedback. I also recently created Eyre Peninsula Tribune, Let's Go (textbooks) and Adelaide Times. Any feedback regarding those would be appreciated too! JabberJaw (talk) 02:26, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
@JabberJaw: I've reviewed the others for you! Let's Go is the only page of yours still in New Page review, after looking at it I'm going to allow someone else to take it as it's not in my realm of specialty. Nice job with the article creations, let me know if you make more in the future that need a review and I'll be glad to help you out! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 02:34, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Ok - The next ones I am doing are Gibber Gabber. Thanks. JabberJaw (talk) 11:36, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Great!

Thanks! Which ones you are not sure about? --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 13:40, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

@ExperiencedArticleFixer: Mostly ones I didn't understand how they fit, like Philip VII of Burgundy (redirects to Philip III of Spain, but I see no reference to VII of Burgundy); Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (b. 1982) links to the same name with a different birth date, I'm guessing because he's mentioned in passing; Greek Orthodox Ochrid Archbishopric with the Pechka Patriarchy I don't see where that phrase is mentioned in the article; Fomenkoism same as before; and List of kings of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes because I don't see other pages named with the ending "Serbs, Croates, and Slovenes"]]. (In the meantime I just went back to some of the other ones I was having trouble with last night and patrolled them once I realized how they worked. I know all your links were made for a reason and are probably OK just to patrol, but those I just linked I wanted to follow up on specially. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 14:32, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Oh. Philip IV of Spain was Philip VII of Burgundy (I've just corrected it and added other redirects, you can see the list in Duke of Burgundy). Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (b. 1982) is the son and heir of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria (b. 1951) (not the same name!) and does not have his own article (maybe this is too much). Greek Orthodox Ochrid Archbishopric with the Pechka Patriarchy is the name of the Archbishopric as mentioned in one of the article's newspaper references. Fomenkoism looks like a "natural" neologism for Fomenko's position, I must have seen it somewhere. Peter I of Serbia and Alexander I of Yugoslavia held the title of king of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as mentioned in List of heads of state of Yugoslavia. Thank you for your work!! --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 15:20, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
@ExperiencedArticleFixer: Nice job, I've reviewed them all for you! One last thing now, Charles III of Burgundy is a redirect to a redirect, which should be fixed in my opinion. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 15:44, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
[Fixed!], my bad. Thanks! --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 15:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
@ExperiencedArticleFixer: Good deal, thanks for your work! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 16:18, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your revision! --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 17:32, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

thank you!

Hi Semmendinger, thank you very much for all your work and for your support. I've replied to your message in my own talk page to keep all the conversation in one place :) Dr. Vogel (talk) 17:05, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

tag

Please look into this article [1] which has more than 20 citations including reliable ones such as Business Recorder, Dawn, Express Tribune, BBC which are leading newspaper dailys. If there are one or two unrealiable sources as mentioned in the tags by a user who hasnt replied to on the page's talk page ever since applyinh these tags, the tags should be specifically placed at specific places where the problem lies. To generalise the whole article by placing tags on top of the article affects the credibility of the whole article itself which is unfair. (45.116.233.7 (talk) 02:07, 10 March 2018 (UTC))

Sorry, no. Not my specialty or interest. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 02:15, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

County Executives

As with Atlantic County Executive, I have created Bergen County Executive. Any edits there would be appreciated. There are three more counties in NJ that need to be covered. Essex, Hudson, Mercer. Willing to give it a stab? ThanksDjflem (talk) 05:58, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

@Djflem: Page looks good (not surprised about that big red box at the top though...). I'd be willing to make those pages but it will have to wait 2-3 weeks as I'm finishing up finals and then taking a much needed vacation so won't be on Wikipedia much except to check watchlists here and there. If the pages/drafts are made in the meantime let me know, and if not I'll take a shot at them in a couple weeks! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 12:41, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

"A Wikipedia editor who goes by the handle SEMMENDINGER shared a..."

The NYT, no less.[2] Congrats? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:00, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Ha, nice find! That's pretty fun, thanks for the heads up. :) SEMMENDINGER (talk) 14:54, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

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NPR Bronze Award

The New Page Reviewer's Bronze Award

For over 1000 new page reviews in the last year, thank you very much for your help at New Pages Patrol! — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 00:09, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Thank you! Happy to help!! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 00:12, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Portals

The Portals WikiProject has been rebooted.

You are invited to join, and participate in the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system and all the portals in it.

There are sections on the WikiProject page dedicated to tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too), and areas on the talk page for discussing the improvement and automation of the various features of portals.

Many complaints have been lodged in the RfC to delete all portals, pointing out their various problems. They say that many portals are not maintained, or have fallen out of date, are useless, etc. Many of the !votes indicate that the editors who posted them simply don't believe in the potential of portals anymore.

It's time to change all that. Let's give them reasons to believe in portals, by revitalizing them.

The best response to a deletion nomination is to fix the page that was nominated. The further underway the effort is to improve portals by the time the RfC has run its course, the more of the reasons against portals will no longer apply. RfCs typically run 30 days. There are 19 days left in this one. Let's see how many portals we can update and improve before the RfC is closed, and beyond.

A healthy WikiProject dedicated to supporting and maintaining portals may be the strongest argument of all not to delete.

We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.

Let's do this.

See ya at the WikiProject!

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

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Thank you very much

The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

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Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

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NPR Silver Award

The New Page Reviewer's Silver Award

For over 2000 reviews completed in the last year (3200 and counting!). Thanks for your help at NPP. Cheers, — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 21:10, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks!! Happy to help! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 21:19, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Name pages

Thanks for your review of Abbasi (surname). You were so quick I hadn’t even had a chance to add the template yet!

I just wanted to note that lists of people of a certain name like that are not disambiguation pages, so should not get the {{disambiguation}} template. They are actual articles about the specified name, and belong to WikiProject Anthroponomy. (Whereas dab pages are not articles, but navigation aids.) So a name article needs the {{surname}} or {{given name}} template.

Cheers! — Gorthian (talk) 00:52, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

@Gorthian: Thanks for the heads up! Since the dab template automatically can tell it's a surname or not I had no idea! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 00:53, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

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We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

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Help

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saumlaki&oldid=847044489 Can you revert the page back to this revision and have the ref fixed? Every time I try to do it now the page becomes all glitched. Hazax (talk) 14:55, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

@Hazax: How's that? Should be fixed :) SEMMENDINGER (talk) 15:03, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Odisha women's rugby sevens team

Absolutely! I think it would be more appropriate to write "as they have won the 5 last national championships" rather than "as they have dominated every competition they have played at national level." Thank you so much for your suggestion. I really appreciate that! (talk) 14:48, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

@SaUp2014: No problem, glad I could help! :) SEMMENDINGER (talk) 14:49, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Request for removal of tag on One Energy page

Hello! Thank you for adding the tag you did to One Energy. In my opinion, edits have since been made by other Wikipedians which improved the page's integrity and the tag

can be removed. Do you agree? I don't feel comfortable removing the tag due to my relationship with the subject, but I would appreciate it if you could! If you think there are still issues supporting that tag, please let me know so I can work on improving. Thanks again! Eileen at OE (talk)

@Eileen at OE: had another look and removed the templates. What I need for you to do is to go to the talk page and add a Template:Connected contributor template. This way it's acknowledged that you've read through WP:COI and understand how to keep edits to that page neutral and within the rules. Thanks! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 18:01, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
@Semmendinger: Excellent, thank you! I've added that template to the One Energy talk page. I appreciate your help. Please let me know if you notice anything else I should be correcting. Thanks again! Eileen at OE (talk) 18:47, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Before the vigil

All good, please delete away. I was part way in to the aritcle, and had to run off, but in fact, there looks like little RS to support it. Deathlibrarian (talk) 06:27, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Drive Appreciation

Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar
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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Onel5969. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again!, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Onel5969 TT me 11:08, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

@Onel5969:, Assuming this is a glitch in using the curation tools like last time this happened? (I say this because the page is currently marked as reviewed and want to make sure it wasn't a mistake my own). SEMMENDINGER (talk) 12:06, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi Semmindinger. Yeah, must be a glitch. When I "reviewed" it, I thought I had misclicked "unreviewed". When I went to the log to leave an apology, it said that Nightscream (the redirect's creator) had reviewed it. Which I thought a bit odd, but when I went to his talk page, there was no notice. So the notice must have come here to your page for some bizarre reason. Onel5969 TT me 12:41, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
No worries, that tool seems to have problems like this from time to time - thanks for clarifying! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 12:45, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

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

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

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

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Valdosta Library

The main library in Valdosta was replaced with a new library, newspaper article is here http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/business-roundup/article_732aceb6-878c-5bdd-9c10-e6440804673b.html Photos are here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Willis_L._Miller_Library I can take an exterior photo without the grand opening crowd if you think that'd look better. --Mjrmtg (talk) 19:28, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Hey thanks for the pictures! I think they're perfect, don't go out of your way to take a new one if it's far from you :) SEMMENDINGER (talk) 19:56, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

NPR Gold Award

The New Page Reviewer's Gold Award

Thanks for all the work you have done helping to review new articles and redirects. You are a valued asset to the project. Cheers, — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 01:28, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

from another David McCullough fan

Thanks for adding The Great Bridge (book) and The Johnstown Flood (book). I wish I had done that a long time ago. I read the Great Bridge shortly after the Burns film came out in the 80's and I re-read it a couple of years ago. I read the Johnstown book a few years ago. I have read several of his other books and enjoyed them all. Thanks again. --rogerd (talk) 17:32, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

@Rogerd: No problem! I was certainly surprised when I saw pages for those books had not yet been created - they have pretty extensive coverage past what I even included on the pages. Currently working my way through Mornings on Horseback, what a great read so far! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 18:32, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
I bought Mornings on Horseback a while back, but I have been on a civil war reading kick lately, reading a lot about Grant and Sherman (two great men that the Lost Cause of the Confederacy myth have badly maligned). It is in my stack of books "to be read". Also, I loved The Wright Brothers (book), I have been to Dayton several times and have read other books about the Wright Brothers, his is among the better ones. He brought out information that I hadn't heard before, and I am somewhat of a Wright Brothers enthusiast. Have you read that one? By the way, I have a t-shirt that says: "Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights make an Aeroplane" --rogerd (talk) 21:37, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
@Rogerd:, I have been meaning to read The Wright Brothers. I actually had it on my shelves at one point before gifting it to someone else who was interested - but I'll get there eventually! Also, sounds like a great shirt! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 22:55, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

WP DAB banner

Hi, talk pages shouldn't be created if all they're going to contain is the {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} banner, you can see its documentation for the reasons why. Of course, it's fine to put the banner on talk pages that already exist, and there's no need to worry about the ones you've created so far. Thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 14:06, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

@Uanfala: Thanks for the heads up, didn't realize the pages required a discussion first, but indeed that's what the wikiproject says! (Dang, wish someone pointed this out earlier I've probably tagged hundreds of pages like that...) SEMMENDINGER (talk) 14:11, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
A discussion or any other content is fine really. But yeah, that's a really obscure thing: I had been doing dab pages for a year before I found out about it. – Uanfala (talk) 14:47, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Semmendinger, 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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Regarding BCLS

Yeah, I was going to turn it into a disambig page with at least the library system and BC Liquor Stores but something came up—if you wanted to go ahead and do that, that'd be awesome! Thanks in advance, IceKarmaॐ 20:46, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

@IceKarma: Sounds good! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 21:31, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

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

Hello Semmendinger, 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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Opinion needed

Hello. Would you be interested to say your opinion about the issue raised here — Talk:List of heads of state of Angola#Requested move 2 November 2018? Thanks in advance. --Sundostund (talk) 01:52, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

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

Hello Semmendinger,

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

Hello, Semmendinger. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Move review: Paradisus Judaeorum

(sent out exact copy to all AfD participants - apologize if you are aware) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heaven for the nobles, Purgatory for the townspeople, Hell for the peasants, and Paradise for the Jews which you were involved in is in discussion at Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2018 December. Input there is welcome.Icewhiz (talk) 07:04, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads up. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 15:24, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Semmendinger,

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

Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minute video was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers.

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Francis March

I see that Francis March is nominated for GA status, according to Wikipedia:WikiProject Lehigh Valley, but I do not see anything else about the nomination. What more can you tell me?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 14:46, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

@Dthomsen8: I'm not the one who made the nomination, but from what I can see it's also listed on the Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations list, so it might take 6-12 months before someone comes around to review it. SEMMENDINGER (talk) 14:51, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
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