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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Enjoy the star! ReaperDawn (talk) 07:37, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Things seem going smoothly in the Sasuke Uchiha review. Is it possible if you could do a source review there one of these days? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 19:40, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello ZappaOMatic, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!
The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
  • We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

  • We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

  • ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
  • Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Backmarker

A tag has been placed on Backmarker requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

The article meets criteria G6 for speedy deletion; see WP:CSD.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Centibyte(talk) 18:54, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry; just realized that the article shouldn't be deleted. My bad. :) Centibyte(talk) 18:57, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You've got mail!

Hello, ZappaOMatic. Please check your email; you've got mail! The subject is Newspapers.com Account - The Wikipedia Library.
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--Cameron11598 (Talk) 19:21, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Table talk (again!)

This came up after a user changed the IndyCar tables a bit without explanation, and it led to another user making this case for another table change. It makes sense to me (the Formula One tables are formatted like this, just without a collapsible option), but of course, it would be extremely tedious to make this change for all of the IndyCar and NASCAR drivers and their results tables. Do you feel strongly enough to make a case one way or the other? --Bcschneider53 (talk) 23:22, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

  • United States Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
  • Germany FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
  • India Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
  • United States Ceranthor, India Numerounovedant, Minnesota Carbrera, Netherlands Farang Rak Tham and Romania Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Day LA, March 31

Wikipedia Day LA 2018

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello ZappaOMatic, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also

ACTRIAL:

  • ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

  • Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

  • While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

  • The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.
To opt-out of future mailings, go here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:06, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Chad Finchum

Hi Zappa, I was poking through the edit history of Chad Finchum recently. I was surprised to see that there was another iteration of the page before the one I created because when I created the page, I didn’t get the “this page has been previously deleted” message, as I did (four of them) when I created Austin Hill. Looking through the different versions, I saw that the PROD tag was placed but I can’t find at all when the page was deleted. I also couldn’t find Draft:Chad Finchum or a user sub page by the creator. Since you have vastly more experience than me, I was wondering if you could shed some light on the situation. Thanks, Willsome429 (talk) 15:45, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Willsome429: Looking at the page log, looks like it was deleted on January 31, 2017 for failing WP:BIO at the time (after all, he hadn't made a national series start yet). When you recreated the page, the original article's history was merged back a while later. Zappa⚡Mati 16:06, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Never thought to look in the logs, thought it would show up in the edit history. Thanks again.Willsome429 (talk) 18:17, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Hello. Help expanded article by Maureen Wroblewitz from [1]. Thanks you.Kim Mai 13 (talk) 03:06, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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