User talk:Rsjaffe/Archives/2023/January

Need your help

Hi sir, I want to contact you. I need some help for wikipedia articles. Pls reply Monty.9801 (talk) 15:49, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi sir, Really I need you support sir,Can you tell me how to contact you.? Please reply Rahu2023 (talk • 23:49, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

@Rahu2023: It's much easier to contribute to Wikipedia by adding well-researched information to current articles. Writing a new article is hard. And when you have a relationship to the subject, it is nearly impossible to write an objective article. Also, not everything is notable enough to belong in Wikipedia. It must already have been written about in reliable objective places. If you want specific help, one of the best places to go is the Teahouse. I've put a note on your talk page with information on how to use the Teahouse. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 00:58, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you sir Rahu2023 (talk) 15:45, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hello, Rsjaffe,

I do a lot of work with expiring drafts and you probably know from your work as a patroller that many drafts are actually rudimentary autobiographies written by new editors. I often see that you have posted the template warning about writing autobiographies and you seem to be one of the few editors who posts this particular notice. Most notices I see posted on the talk pages of these young editors are generic warnings when what they really need to know is that Wikipedia is not a social media platform that encourages personal profiles. It's a matter of misunderstanding the purpose of Wikipedia, not vandalism or even self-promotion.

I find that in 99% of the cases, once editors are informed about this, they don't try to do it a second time. I wish more patrollers would use this specific template about autobiographies through Twinkle but perhaps they don't know that it exists. Any way, I appreciate you alerting newbies to the fact that it's not appropriate to write an article about oneself on the project, even in Draft space. Thanks again for all of your work and have a great New Years! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:52, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank for your kind words. And happy New Year’s to you, too. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:34, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Rsjaffe/Archives/2023,

New Page Review queue December 2022

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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Thanks

From, BloxyColaSweet

BloxyColaSweet (talk) 06:42, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Question

I saw you note on Draft:Matt Coffy Band My page got immediately rejected, you mentioned that someone like yourself or another person can edit and can you repost it "neutrally"? do you have a suggestion of anyone who may want to help Mattguitar99 (talk) 21:55, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Read and follow the Wikipedia conflict of interest guide. That should help you rewrite this article in a more neutral tone. Also, you need to address the issues listed in the rejection. Specifically, finding and footnoting significant independent reliable sources. You can clink on some of the highlighted terms in the rejection message to get more info. Ultimately, only certain topics merit inclusion, and if you cannot establish the notability of this band, it should not be included in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a place to get noticed; it is a place to be discussed once it has already been noticed. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 22:56, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

User:Rsjaffe ⋅ actions ⋅ user · new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer, 45001 edits

Saw this in a popup when I mouse-overed your name. Congratulations on 45k! jp×g 06:15, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:44, 26 January 2023 (UTC)