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A barnstar for you!
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| For your valued work in the July 2021 GAN Backlog Drive, which, in a single month, helped to reduce the backlog by nearly 50%. --Usernameunique (talk) 04:56, 19 September 2021 (UTC) |
Four Award
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| Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Short Symphony. — Bilorv (talk) 17:23, 22 September 2021 (UTC) |
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Promotion of Short Symphony
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More congratulations! I thought of you when I read about the Carillon of the Cologne Town Hall playing Tierkreis melodies! - Today, I enjoy Fidelio mentioned on the Main page, - I saw it and took pictures. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:43, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks again for the kind words Gerda! GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 19:54, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
- More congratulations for the promotion of Beethoven's Piano Sonata! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
- Today: a woman in red, two who died under "in memoriam" and LouisAlain missed - my first editnotice read: "Every editor is a human being" which is quoted from a comment by Geometry guy in a 2012 discussion on WP:AN. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:34, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Woodland Sketches
The article Woodland Sketches you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold 
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Your GA nomination of Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)
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Your GA nomination of Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)
The article Symphony No. 4 (Mahler) you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Symphony No. 4 (Mahler) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ErnestKrause -- ErnestKrause (talk) 00:41, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
Tornado over Kansas scheduled for TFA
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Autopatrolled granted
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Promotion of Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven)
- You have incredible work ethic and dedication—truly admirable! Congrats! Aza24 (talk) 22:52, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
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- Congratulations! A great Christmas gift! - I uploaded new pics (click on songs), including "our" concert (after exactly two years without) and a cow sunset --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:56, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'll be sure to take a look. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 21:11, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
- Today: #1700, and I uploaded more images, mostly blue and green, for hope. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:46, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
- Today, mostly black&white, and standing upright as Psalm 15 says --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:30, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
- Today: see yourself, read about a hymn praying to not be on earth in vain, about a comics artist whose characters have character (another collaboration of the "perennial gang", broken by one of us banned), and in memory of the last prima donna assoluta, Edita Gruberová. I had to go to two grave sites last week, one who died now, one who died 10 years ago, so standing upright and in black seems appropriate. More colours - but subdued - can be had on hikes, - updated. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:50, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
- Today: memories in friendship --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks! The article was a very interesting read. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 14:38, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you! I'd to take it to FA, - informal comments and improvements welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:03, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks! The article was a very interesting read. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 14:38, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for December 25, 2021. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 25, 2021. Congratulations for your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 14:34, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
DYK for Self-Portrait with Cigarette
On 4 November 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Self-Portrait with Cigarette, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1895 painting Self-Portrait with Cigarette (pictured) by Edvard Munch was met with criticism of his amorality and "degeneration"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Self-Portrait with Cigarette. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Self-Portrait with Cigarette), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for this article! (and your other work) Whiteghost.ink (talk) 23:54, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
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theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 05:17, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
Ref in music article
@GeneralPoxter: Hello! I just wanted to ask something regarding a ref you added in Short Symphony. Is one allowed to use scores of pieces as refs for explaining its structure? I'm doing a similar thing with a suite of piano pieces. Wretchskull (talk) 12:22, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, but only to a certain degree. For example, for instrumentation, tempo markings, and matching which instruments play which themes from Hilliard's analysis, using the score should be perfectly fine. However, this usage is limited to WP:PRIMARYCARE and WP:ORIGINAL (i.e., any further analysis than what is evident in the score alone - such as "this theme was inspired by Mexican music" - needs to be backed up by a reliable, scholarly source). In general, any structural analysis depending on the score alone should be entirely limited to what is explicitly stated on the score, and which even an amateur musician can verify. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 16:26, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Grant Wood
Congratulations on yesterday's TFA. I see you have been working Parson Weems' Fable in your sandbox and Template:Grant Wood. I hope you keep it up ... Wood is a troubled person, but who isn't? Let me know if I can be of assistance in these areas - I only know of Arnold Comes of Age (it made me weep the first time I saw it), but others are just as important for improvement, so I'd be happy to help where I can. Urve (talk) 09:54, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
short symphony
hello, GeneralPoxter! i had a quick question regarding this article and the associated blurb. i am wondering if it is appropriate to refer to chávez as the symphony's conductor in the caption. i am admittedly unfamiliar with the practice of ascribing a musical composition to a conductor unless the conductor and the composition are indelibly linked, but i do not have enough relevant expertise to know if they are either sufficiently linked or if such a link is not necessary. if neither is the case, would "the symphony's dedicatee and conductor at its premiere" or something similar be an improvement? the phrasing suggested resembles that used in the caption on this page from this source (for a different symphony). dying (talk) 21:51, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think premiere conductor should be used. Even better, I think just keeping it "dedicatee" would be clearer for the blurb. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 23:18, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- oh, shortening the caption like that was a great idea, GeneralPoxter. thanks for addressing the issue! dying (talk) 23:59, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
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The Affair of Epidamnus has been nominated for Did You Know
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A cheeseburger for you!
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Have a cheeseburger! For reverting my mistake. Severestorm28 (talk) 15:57, 23 November 2021 (UTC) |
DYK for Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)
On 25 November 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Symphony No. 4 (Mahler), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony was premiered to boos, anger, and confusion in the audience? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Symphony No. 4 (Mahler) (second nomination). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Short Symphony scheduled for TFA
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Precious anniversary
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It's just amazing what you did in that year! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:25, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Do you think you could take a look at the FAC for Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 soon? I'll look at the Mahler, promised ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:09, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
- Sure thing. I'll try to take a look sometime before this Friday. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 13:25, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
- Lovely, thank you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:21, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
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- Thank you for looking, - I woke up with a new idea for the table. - Thank you today for Tornado over Kansas, "about a 1929 Regionalist painting by John Steuart Curry"! - I am happy to have three articles on the same Main page, sadly Aga Mikolaj (listen!) and Gerd Ruge, and a song about the hope to meet again when separating. As if that wasn't almost too much, the next set will have a painter for the perfect match with the Tornado, painting to be pictured, of Brahms ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- Brahms now ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:57, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you today for the article "about Aaron Copland's second symphony", and valuable comments in the FAC of my song of defiance of the old dragon and arbcom. I have guests, so am a bit slow in making changes, and reviewing Mahler's Fourth (heading for DYK and FA). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:32, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
- Thanksgiving music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:09, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
- Very nice! Thanks for the updates. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 03:12, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Promotion of Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)
DYK for Affair of Epidamnus
On 8 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Affair of Epidamnus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that two years after the small Corinthian navy was defeated during the Affair of Epidamnus, their navy became the third largest in all of Greece? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Affair of Epidamnus. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Affair of Epidamnus), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Linking
I had to revert your edit on Armenian genocide denial because extant countries generally shouldn't be linked. See MOS:OVERLINK. Thanks for all your contributions! (t · c) buidhe 03:29, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
- Is there a consensus on whether Turkey is considered a majorly-recognized country that shouldn't be linked? For example, on FLs List of Turkish football champions and List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey is still linked in the lead. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 03:40, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
- There's a lot of overlinking in many Wikipedia articles, even FLs (and FLs are more like GA than FA). I don't think there are any hard and fast rules, but Turkey is in the top 10% of countries by population which is enough for me to think of it as a major country. (t · c) buidhe 04:07, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
Dream of the Red Chamber
Thanks for careful oversight at Dream of the Red Chamber, though I'm wondering if you're annoyed at "you guys," who "don't want this stuff." (diff) The thing is that the MOS for Chinese articles is that the Chinese characters are not put in the lead sentence if they are already in the info box. Likewise for links to articles. But keep up the good work. We need all the help we can get! ch (talk) 15:25, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
- Nope not bothered at all -- sorry it came off that way. Thanks for the work you've put in for Chinese Literature! GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 15:36, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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Some assistance
@GeneralPoxter: Hello! Thank you for your previous help on citing PhD theses! Knowing that you are one of the most prolific contributors to compositions, I'm asking you for assistance (if you have time). I'm about to copypaste this sandbox content to a draft, and hopefully, take it to mainspace and GA from there. My question is, what should I name the article? Does it have to be capitalized or italicized every time I mention it in the body? Does it matter? Do I only have to be consistent? Wretchskull (alt) (talk) 11:58, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
- Hm, not entirely sure. Maybe something along the lines of "Six pieces for piano (Respighi)"? GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 13:13, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
Symphony No. 4 (Mahler) scheduled for TFA
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- Great to see on the 25th and well done. Ceoil (talk) 00:13, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
TFA Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven)
Congratulations and thank you for all of your work on Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven) to make it today's featured article. — AjaxSmack 05:03, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- Its really great to see it on the main page! Thank you for your work! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 06:11, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Triple Crown
Congrats on the Triple Crown! You might be interested in a userbox I made, {{User crown|Napoleonic}}:
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— Bilorv (talk) 21:40, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks! GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 13:44, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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- Congratulations, great to see more exceptional music ready for the Main page. - Could you perhaps go over BWV 227 again? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:59, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Are there any outstanding issues in the FAC you want me to address during my reread? GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 19:41, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- No, fine, thank you! - vacation greetings from Munich, rich in culture, culinary events and meeting dear people. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:38, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
- today, an Italian opera, my second ever, as the TFA written by two dear people, and a park where I went with dear people, as pictured DYK --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:55, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
- on Beethoven's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:27, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you today for Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven), "about the penultimate Beethoven piano sonata"! - A great Christmas gift, leading a spectacular Main page. The picture of the day was on the poster for a Christmas Oratorio I sang, DYK? My second card has a link to the Main page history. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:48, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- Sure thing. Are there any outstanding issues in the FAC you want me to address during my reread? GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 19:41, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- Congratulations, great to see more exceptional music ready for the Main page. - Could you perhaps go over BWV 227 again? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:59, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
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- music once more, Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen, BWV 248 III, shown on the Main page, and here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:28, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
WP:AFC Helper News
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- The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Epiphany
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Happy new year, in friendship! - Epiphany seems like a good day to say so, after a Bavarian peasants' mass (sorry, on the train home, no recent pics of that - just keep watching), and two DYK, even with a pic I took. I enjoyed meetings with friends in real life, and wish you many of those. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:59, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you today for Symphony No. 4 (Mahler), "about Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony -- not his most famous symphony, but certainly a brilliant work", - Brilliant work! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:15, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
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now my turn: my joy - more on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:29, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you! I have been quite busy lately, but hopefully I'll be able to get back into editing this spring or summer. GeneralPoxter (talk • contribs) 18:39, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- that's fine! - extra thanks for your FAC help! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:11, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Valentine's Day edition, with spring flowers and plenty of music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:20, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- stand and sing --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:56, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- I took a pic in 2009 that was on the German MP yesterday, with the song from 1885, in English Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
March songs
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Thank you for looking at Nabucco. I saw yesterday that it looks fine at a glance, written mostly by Viva-Verdi but also many others (just not myself), and want to see if that's true. My first GA was for someone else who couldn't because he was blocked, and about people in oppressing conditions, which matches the opera nicely. Listening to the charity concert mentioned here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:22, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Now, you can also listen on YouTube, and more music, the piece by Anna Korsun begins after about one hour, and the voices call "Freiheit!" (freedom, instead of "Freude", joy). Music every day, pictured in songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
St. Patrick's Day, more music and today's sunset --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
thank you for Nabucco on Bach's birthday: the places where I sang his Dona nobis pacem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:29, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
The Prayer is on the Main page, finally + new flowers, and btw: the TFA is a young writer's first --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:01, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Bach's No. 1 today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:00, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
Sunday flowers and sounds, don't miss the extraordinary marriage of the beginnings of the theme of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, and Prayer for Ukraine - here! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello GeneralPoxter,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 804 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 851 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello GeneralPoxter,
- Backlog status
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
- Backlog drive
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- TIP – New school articles
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Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 13724 articles, as of 02:00, 27 November 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
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(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello GeneralPoxter,
- Backlog status
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
- Coordination
- MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
- Open letter to the WMF
- The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
- TIP - Reviewing by subject
- Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.
- New reviewers
- The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
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NPP message
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For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
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FAC again
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You kindly supported a FAC, Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227, and I now I have another Bach work there, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, in its third round. Would you like to look there also? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:05, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
Actually you can wait for the next ;) - new pics and thoughts on 13 August --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:58, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Look at the church where I heard VOCES8. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:44, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations opening soon
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Board of Trustees election
Thank you for supporting the NPP initiative to improve WMF support of the Page Curation tools. Another way you can help is by voting in the Board of Trustees election. The next Board composition might be giving attention to software development. The election closes on 6 September at 23:59 UTC. View candidate statement videos and Vote Here. MB 03:25, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting opening soon!
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Correction to previous election announcement
Just a quick correction to the prior message about the 2022 MILHIST coordinator election! I (Hog Farm) didn't proofread the message well enough and left out a link to the election page itself in this message. The voting will occur here; sorry about the need for a second message and the inadvertent omission from the prior one. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:41, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting closing soon
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Precious anniversary
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The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.
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New pages patrol newsletter
Hello GeneralPoxter,
Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!
October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.
PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.
Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.
Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.
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Precious anniversary
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November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello GeneralPoxter:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
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Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello GeneralPoxter,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
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Voting for coordinators is now open!
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:40, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!
Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open! A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. Register your vote here by 23:59 UTC on 29 September! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:34, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
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