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AfC and NPP backlogs

Hi fellow Australian Wikipedians,

Just a follow up to this post from December. Now that ACTRIAL is over, we have the opportunity to clear out the backlog of draft articles needing reviewing over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Articles for Review. Anybody interested in helping out with reviewing can apply for access to AfC helper script over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants. One piece of advice I will give is to not be afraid to tag obvious promotional draft articles with CSD G11 and to send other draft articles with no prospect of publication (especially those which are continuously resubmitted for review, unnecessarily adding to the backlog) to MfD. If ACTRIAL is implemented permanently, it is important that we have a sustainable reviewing community to ensure quality draft space articles are published in a timely fashion.

For the time being following ACTRIAL's end, it is almost inevitable that the backlog at the Special:NewPagesFeed is going to blow out again. The community over at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers have done a wonderful job reducing the backlog of articles requiring patrolling down from 14,000 articles pre-ACTRIAL to under 4000 by its end. I have attempted to keep the number of unpatrolled Australian related articles close to zero, but in the 3 days since the end of ACTRIAL the number has already approached close to 30. To discover Australian related articles in the feed, the best method I have been able to find is by searching for the keyword "Australia" using the NPP Browser tool.

Any editors wishing to have access to the patroller rights and page curation tools required in order to patrol pages should apply at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/New page reviewer. Regardless of whether ACTRIAL is implemented permanently or not, page patrolling is an important process, as all articles except those accepted through draftspace or created by users with the autopatrolled flag do end up in the new pages feed, and are not indexed by search engines for the first 90 days until they have been patrolled. Also, if you come across any Australian editors with long histories of quality page creations, please feel free to nominate them for the autopatrolled flag as this is solely to aid new page patrollers by automatically patrolling articles by these users, keeping them from unnecessarily increasing the backlog.

The skills and workflow required for both AfC reviewing and patrolling are very similar, and simply require a decent understanding of Wikipedia's deletion policies, notability guidelines, and the use of maintenance tags. Any editor with a history of participation at AfD or who regularly uses the Twinkle tools for tagging articles would be a good candidate for both these user rights and should apply if they're interested in assisting.

At the moment only a very small handful of Australian users seem to be active at either venue, so it would be excellent if more could help out. Whether you review or patrol a couple of articles a day or just once in a bluemoon, any help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you. Kb.au (talk) 00:12, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Cricket ball tampering

I am surprised this issue has not brought about a standalone article, since it is commanding so much media attention. So far, it is all tucked away in Australian cricket team in South Africa in 2017–18. WWGB (talk) 11:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

As a lifelong test cricket fan, it's simply too depressing to write about. If only they'd used that sticky tape to stick to the rules. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 11:59, 26 March 2018 (UTC).

If the section in Australian cricket team in South Africa in 2017–18 becomes detailed enough, it can be moved into a separate article. I don't think this is likely, unless it has repercussions beyond the scope of the existing article. I just received an email from the CEO of Cricket Australia that they are "aiming to be in a position to fully update the Australian public on the investigation and outcomes on Wednesday morning AEDT." Doubtless this will be fully reported. I would wait until then, at least. There is no need to rush. Jack N. Stock (talk) 12:02, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

@WWGB and Lankiveil: to avoid WP:CONTENTFORKING, I started a discussion at Talk:Ball tampering#Australia vs South Africa, 2018 about whether the main content about the ball tampering incident and repercussions should be at Ball tampering#Australia vs South Africa, 2018 or at Australian cricket team in South Africa in 2017–18#Ball tampering. Jack N. Stock (talk) 14:29, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

@WWGB and Lankiveil: someone has raised the question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket#Australian captaincy situation of whether there should be a standalone article. Jack N. Stock (talk) 13:51, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Backlog of 30 articles at the Australian Articles for Review page

Please come here and help if you can. If you are not currently signed up as a reviewer, please start that process here. Thanks Kerry (talk) 07:21, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

mass upload of articles for NSW places

I see a lot of NSW articles are currently being mass uploaded. While NSW isn't my normal patch, I have to say they appear to be somewhat strange (probably generated without a human in the loop) and seem unusually obsessed with parishes and counties (not exactly how we normally refer to places in NSW where suburb/local and LGA are more important considerations). Kerry (talk) 17:12, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Many of these say rather misleadingly that they are "rural localities", but they are not recognised as such by the Geographical Names Board. They are civil parishes, generally with few people, but because they are not official localities, the ABS does not provide populations for them.--Grahame (talk) 00:58, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

3DB (Melbourne)

Whoever wrote this, needs to re-read WP:NPOV. Also, the way he takes a time-out in the middle of the article to rant about how minstrel shows weren't really racist, they were the the product of their time!... Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 09:07, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Any botanist biographers around?

Good morning. Is anybody interested in writing an article for Robert John Bates? He appears to be a living Australian botanist wikidata:Q6109468 with stub articles in Spanish and Wikispecies. He is now by far the highest-rated missing article for Wikiproject South Australia, and also on the lists for the 5000 challenge, Queensland, Victoria and Wikipedia:Most-wanted articles. Pinging @Casliber and Gnangarra: as possibilities. --Scott Davis ^Talk 02:20, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

I suspect we are going to struggle. Bob bates is well known in SA plant circles, through his work with the orchid society (https://nossa.org.au/about-us-2/) and other plant groups in the state, but I suspect that little has ever been written about him. Peripitus (Talk) 12:20, 3 April 2018 (UTC)