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Proposed deletion of The Innovation Institute

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The article The Innovation Institute has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:NCORP

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Nomination of Bishop Outreach for deletion

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Redirecting page:Biswapati Sarkar

A page you created, Biswapati Sarkar, does not seem to have enough reliable third party sources to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia in itself. It has been redirected to The Viral Fever which is related to the subject of the article, per WP:NOPAGE.∯WBGconverse 09:40, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Tanvi Hegde for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Shudh Desi Endings

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Fails WP:NWEB; no sustained significant coverage.

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Nomination of Ankita Tiwana for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ankita Tiwana is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Nomination of Anushka Khanna for deletion

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Nomination of Shudh Desi Endings for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Shudh Desi Endings is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Nomination of The Innovation Institute for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Innovation Institute is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Innovation Institute until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Harshit Saumitra for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Harshit Saumitra is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Orphaned non-free image File:Women Card Logo.png

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Nomination of Tanmay Bhat for deletion

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Hello Mr RD, I see you have disclosed your paid editing status on your userpage, but you missed to disclosed link(s) to all active accounts at websites where you advertise paid Wikipedia-editing services. Please do so before making any further edit per WP:PAID to comply with full disclosure guidelines. Thank you. GSS 💬 09:00, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi GSS, I have left paid editing for about a year. However, to comply with the guidelines, here are my accounts from which I used to get Wikipedia related work: Fiverr Username- hihimanshu70, Freelancer.com,PPH. Please let me know if I need to disclose anything else. Mr RD 17:52, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, is there anything else you want to disclose? GSS 💬 18:34, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
GSS, I think this summarizes everything. I am a graduate from IIT Dhanbad, presently teaching students high school physics in India and am associated with IOU Foundation. I have already disclosed that on my page. My primary interest is in reviewing newly created pages (access denied recently due to my disclosed edits history however none are related to my review activities), editing company pages and Indian articles but as of now, I do not get enough time to contribute much to Wikipedia. I'm planning to contribute more this year but none in a paid way. I will not make any edits which have a conflict of interest directly to Wikipedia. For that, I prefer going through WP:AFC and talk pages only. Mr RD 18:49, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
I don't think it summarises everything, does it? "Solution to your online presence sustainability. Construct your Wikipedia page, Renovate your website & Cement your Email marketing strategy." Your website could use a bit less lorem ipsum, but it's out there advertising your services; so once again - are you saying you have disclosed everything, or do you want to rethink that statement? Yunshui 雲水 09:29, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Yunshui, I do not understand you. Can you please be specific about what you are referring to? I have left paid Wikipedia editing for about a year. My website is under construction for a very long time. Mr RD 09:39, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
I did wonder whether that was the case, but the fact remains that your website (and its LinkedIn Twitter entry) still advertise your services, and you have not disclosed them as required under WP:PAID (Paid editors must also provide links on their Wikipedia user page to all active accounts at websites where they advertise paid Wikipedia-editing services. If an advertisement is removed, any corresponding links on the Wikipedia user page must remain visible for at least one week.). If you're no longer engaged in paid editing that's great - good for you! - but those ads are still out there, and need to be either disclosed or removed. Yunshui 雲水 09:48, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Yunshui, which websites are you referring to? Mr RD 09:54, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Yunshui 雲水 10:29, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Yunshui, I have removed about Wikipedia from both the places. Further more I will disclose about it on my user page as well. Is there anything else I need to do? Mr RD 15:45, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Nope, you're good. Thank you for sorting that out. Yunshui 雲水 08:23, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Mr RD,

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.

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

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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.

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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.
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  • A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
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AfC notification: Draft:Bremley Lyngdoh has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Bremley Lyngdoh. Thanks! —Unforgettableid (talk) 17:35, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Bremley Lyngdoh has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Bremley Lyngdoh. Thanks! —Unforgettableid (talk) 17:38, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bremley Lyngdoh (July 21)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Unforgettableid was:
Please see comments below.
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Nomination of Irish Car Rentals for deletion

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Bremley Lyngdoh (October 26)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Snowycats was:
The article is still very wordy, and many statements are not properly sourced. Please correct these issues.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Snowycats (talk) 04:09, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Mr RD,

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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Biswapati Sarkar

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A tag has been placed on Biswapati Sarkar requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://m.facebook.com/IIMATRBS/photos/a.429480463770746/2033759800009463/?type=3. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Bremley Lyngdoh (April 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:
This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Theroadislong (talk) 07:55, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
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Concern regarding Draft:Bremley Lyngdoh

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Mr RD,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.

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November 2021 backlog drive

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Your submission at Articles for creation: draft 18 (December 25)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:
This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Theroadislong (talk) 17:46, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sami-Sabinsa Group (February 26)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by S0091 was:
This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
 The comment the reviewer left was:
Interviews are not independent so cannot be used to establish notability. Also, generally, trade publications are weak sources because they exist to promote an industry and do not meet the reliable source guidelines (editorial oversight, history of fact checking, etc.).
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
S0091 (talk) 19:19, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Mr RD,

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 813 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 859 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.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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