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While it is "best practice" to develop articles outside mainspace until they meet minimum standards, some editors start new articles directly in mainspace. Policy has always been not to propose deletion of articles being "actively edited" and said to wait at least 15 minutes and "often longer". Following this is sometimes neglected and has led to complaints at project noticeboards. To give more time for fixes to be made, "15 minutes" has been updated to "at least an hour since the last edit (that added or improved content)". This does not apply to serious CSD issues like spam/attack pages/copyvios. But for content issues like notability and sourcing, don't CSD/AFD/Draftify/Redirect immediately; waiting an hour or more gives a much better idea if improvements are forthcoming. The Draftify script now gives notice of recent edits (see next section), as does the |
While it is "best practice" to develop articles outside mainspace until they meet minimum standards, some editors start new articles directly in mainspace. Policy has always been not to propose deletion of articles being "actively edited" and said to wait at least 15 minutes and "often longer". Following this is sometimes neglected and has led to complaints at project noticeboards. To give more time for fixes to be made, "15 minutes" has been updated to "at least an hour since the last edit (that added or improved content)". This does not apply to serious CSD issues like spam/attack pages/copyvios. But for content issues like notability and sourcing, don't CSD/AFD/Draftify/Redirect immediately; waiting an hour or more gives a much better idea if improvements are forthcoming. The Draftify script now gives notice of recent edits (see next section), as does the Page Curation tool. |
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{{noping|Rosguill}} has pulled back from feverishly reviewing redirects and consequently the backlog there is up to 9,000+ / two months deep, so we could also use a few more people doing redirects. If you are interested and need any help, review [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirects|this guide]], [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol#Redirect_checklist|this checklist]], and spend some time at [[WP:RFD]]. |
{{noping|Rosguill}} has pulled back from feverishly reviewing redirects and consequently the backlog there is up to 9,000+ / two months deep, so we could also use a few more people doing redirects. If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, review [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirects|this guide]], [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol#Redirect_checklist|this checklist]], and spend some time at [[WP:RFD]]. |
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Revision as of 17:29, 2 January 2023
Hello New pages patrol/Newsletter/Archive,
- Backlog
In the October backlog drive, 9,700 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell (momentarily) to 0. Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. Since the drive ended, we have slowly crept upwards to 1,600. Although that is historically low, it would be great if <2,000 is the “new normal”. If you haven’t been that active since the backlog drive, please consider coming back.
- 2022 Awards
The 2022 cup went to Onel5969 for leading with 28,302 article reviews last year. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. For redirects, Rosguill, with 49,294, led for the fourth consecutive year and six others did 2,000 or more redirects earning the “Redirect Ninja” award. Congratulations to everyone. More details are at the Awards page and the Hall of Fame.
- Minimum deletion time
While it is "best practice" to develop articles outside mainspace until they meet minimum standards, some editors start new articles directly in mainspace. Policy has always been not to propose deletion of articles being "actively edited" and said to wait at least 15 minutes and "often longer". Following this is sometimes neglected and has led to complaints at project noticeboards. To give more time for fixes to be made, "15 minutes" has been updated to "at least an hour since the last edit (that added or improved content)". This does not apply to serious CSD issues like spam/attack pages/copyvios. But for content issues like notability and sourcing, don't CSD/AFD/Draftify/Redirect immediately; waiting an hour or more gives a much better idea if improvements are forthcoming. The Draftify script now gives notice of recent edits (see next section), as does the Page Curation tool.
- Draftify script
Updates have been made to the Move to Draft script. In response to feedback from AFC, the script now steers the user to leave specific reasons for the author about what needs to be changed rather than a default message which was often not customized. The script also warns if the article has been edited within the past hour, so articles being actively improved are not immediately moved. This update require you to switch to the newer version of the script. The "Evad37" version is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js file from Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js
- Redirects
Rosguill has pulled back from feverishly reviewing redirects and consequently the backlog there is up to 9,000+ / two months deep, so we could also use a few more people doing redirects. If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, review this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.
- Reminders
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