User talk:Largoplazo

Thank you for participating

Just wanted to say thanks. Azeriking55 (talk) 21:19, 27 July 2020

New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello Largoplazo,

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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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello Largoplazo,

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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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Largoplazo,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

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Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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Lisp ancestry of JavaScript

I presume the claim of Lisp ancestry comes from, to quote JavaScript:

During these formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser. There was a desire in the flourishing web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a programming language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language.

The goal was a "language for the masses", "to help nonprogrammers create dynamic, interactive Web sites". Netscape management soon decided that the best option was for Eich to devise a new language, with syntax similar to Java and less like Scheme or other extant scripting languages. Although the new language and its interpreter implementation were called LiveScript when first shipped as part of a Navigator beta in September 1995, the name was changed to JavaScript for the official release in December.

with a derivation from Lisp through Scheme. Netscape management rejected Lisp syntax, but there may have been some structural ideas from Scheme. Guy Harris (talk) 23:33, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

References

Please read MOS:PBUH to the end before making changes based on it

Please note that the sentence whose beginning you quoted in restoring religiously biased phrasing to the article on Oman ends by not allowing "the prophet Muhammad" even in the first reference, only "the Islamic prophet Muhammad." Thanks, UrielAcosta (talk) 22:21, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:14, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Hey

Sorry for using disrespectful manners its just that I have anger issues about Caillou CoolBaljeetFan12 (talk) 23:03, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Notice of neutral point of view noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is The "prophet Muhammad" (lowercase 'p'). Thank you. ~ Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 09:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Deleting link

Why are you deleting my link? This is indeed a retail page but this is an article about the Grand Bazaar. If you would be consistent then you should take also the last link down then.... this is also a retail website. IDP de Jong (talk) 10:52, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello. Well: it isn't the bazaar's website. It isn't an academic or authoritative or journalistic account of it. It's mostly not the sort of material that external links should lead to: marketing ("The vibrant colors and intricate patterns captivate your senses and entice you to take a look") and visiting information, all of it leading up to an advertisement for shopping on the website.

You're right about that last link: I'd thought from its domain name that it belonged to the bazaar but on following the link I see it's just an on-line store. I've removed that link too. Largoplazo (talk) 11:54, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi thank you for your explanation. I thought as this website’s link was there that I could post as well. Otherwise I would not have even bothered. Have a good day. 78.190.145.141 (talk) 04:58, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

List of largest stars

I refer you to the discussions on the subject: [1] [2]. Note that the discussions are closed, and I didn't take part in them, I just thought it was a funny example to add. Tercer (talk) 16:53, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

@Tercer: Ha, I did see the discussion, and I thought the reasoning was surreal. (Yes, I know you aren't responsible!) The logic of many was that we obviously don't know about stars we don't know about, therefore obviously our list doesn't include unknown stars. Well, yes, the list doesn't include unknown stars, that's exactly why the title "List of largest stars", which implies we do know about all of the largest stars, is a falsehood. But, anyway, the fact that they made what I consider a misgotten decision about a title doesn't alter the reality, which is that the title "list of largest known stars" isn't a laughable example of poor writing such as we lampoon in that essay: it's what the source text should say. Largoplazo (talk) 17:26, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I think it's a clear example of belaboring the obvious. You don't believe it is possible to have a list about all the largest stars, and nor does anybody, so there is no point in stating that we are not doing the impossible. Tercer (talk) 17:36, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I continue not to see the logic whereby we correct misstatements all over Wikipedia all the time unless everyone knows they're misstatements, and then we cherish and protect them. I'm not seeing the appeal of having the title "List of the largest stars" so that everyone who sees it can think to themselves "No, of course it isn't a list of the largest stars, are these people idiots?" or else "Of course it isn't a list of the largest stars, but it warms my heart to see this blatantly false characterization of the list and I'd hate to imagine them correcting it." Largoplazo (talk) 22:01, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

It is only a falsehood if you interpret the title to mean "list of all the largest stars". But the title is "list of largest stars", it is ambiguous enough to allow the correct interpretation. Same logic applies to List of numbers.

In any case there is no point in arguing, as there is nothing at stake. Tercer (talk) 06:03, 24 May 2024 (UTC)