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DYK for Sam Darnold

On 20 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sam Darnold, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that quarterback Sam Darnold's high school footage submitted to college football coaches consisted of his basketball highlights? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sam Darnold. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sam Darnold), 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) 00:01, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2016

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 9, No. 3 — 3rd Quarter, 2016
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New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello ZappaOMatic,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 827 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:11, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Josh Reaume Page

Hey Buddy,

I'm not sure how all of this stuff works but on my wiki page, josh reaume, under personal life there are some allegations that I was asked to partake in criminal activities. The reference or source for that section does not mentioned any of this... it was been altered... I was wondering if you could assist me in getting it removed.

I appreciate your help.

Thanks,

josh

josh@joshreaume.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Upgradejrrn (talk • contribs) 16:21, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

@Upgradejrrn: Hey Josh, looking at the source, it appears you were right about that. It's been removed. Zappa24Mati 00:26, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help with that. Now on another note how can I go about getting some of the aspects of my page improved? I understand that a lot of this has to do with quality sources but is there a way that I can supply you with links to specific things such as the fact I'm a degreed engineer not a 'mechanic'... or possibly adding a picture of myself?

Any help or direction is greatly appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Upgradejrrn (talk • contribs) 17:48, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

@Upgradejrrn: If you have the sources available, you can place them either here or at Talk:Josh Reaume with what content you want to be changed. As for pictures, they must meet the image use policy, meaning it can't just be a picture taken from a website (because of copyright). Zappa24Mati 00:21, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

Your last chance to nominate yourself or any New Page Reviewer, See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. Elections begin Monday 20 February 23:59 UTC. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.3

Hello ZappaOMatic,

Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.

Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 827 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.

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Question NBA vs NFL playoff comparison

@ZappaOMati: Which NBA playoff run would you compare the 2016-17 Green Bay Packers deep playoff run to? --Michael Grunewald (talk) 04:41, 25 February 2017 (UTC) Michael Grunewald (talk) 04:41, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Agil/Egil

> Actually, "Agil" comes from his real name: (A)ndrew (Gil)bert Mills.

That may be the case, but his Japamese name uses the romaji character for 'E' wiktionary:エ, thus is meant to be rendered as 'E' in English. 76.69.77.203 (talk) 09:15, 28 February 2017 (UTC)