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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022
Hello Sam Sailor,
Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.
Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.
Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.
NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022
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Backlog: Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
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Thanks
Thanks for reverting my edit on Stapleton, Staten Island (the one that broke the image link). I try to take care not to tamper with filenames or source citations when I'm doing these repetitive mechanical search-and-replace routines, but sometimes I get careless and slip up. Cheers, Crawdad Blues (talk) 21:05, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hey! Thank you so much for your incredibly speedy review and assessment of Moirai (video game). Any feedback you could give on where to go with developing this page into a B-class article would be appreciated. Thanks again! Vrxces (talk) 01:33, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion
I noticed you declined an AFD deletion completion request with the words "AFDHOWTO was not followed" and doubled down with this.
Please respond to these requests politely and accurately.
It doesn't take a lot of time to explain which part of WP:AFDHOWTO wasn't followed. It doesn't take a lot of time to do it yourself. Please do not, when asked about the details of a problem, resort to WP:SFOD. If someone didn't understand a lot of policy text and you can explain the problem, please do it.Lurking shadow (talk) 15:21, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]