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Hi Animalparty, thanks for your great work as always. I just noticed in Oliver Bell Bunce the source used is The University of Literature. This is a fine source. My question is does it make sense to use the Google Books version? The reason is, in my experience anyway, Google Books is not a reliable host. Links stop working or get put behind a paywall. This is because Google Books is a commercial book seller, and if one of their partners brings the book back into print (even though PD) they will take the free version down. And for inexplicable reasons books just stop working. Meanwhile we have quality non-profit hosts at Internet Archive[1] and HathiTrust [2] whose mission is to keep links alive forever, operating like libraries/archives rather than commercial sellers. -- GreenC 15:39, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

@Green Cardamom: It does makes sense to link to the non-profit and more stable versions on Internet Archive or HathiTrust. I believe I used the Google version because it was the first source I found, and/or I used the Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books for convenience. I've changed the url to an Internet Archive version. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 18:57, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Great! I used to use Google Books in creating articles and years later found many links broken and had to find new sources. So far no trouble with IA and Hathi. -- GreenC 18:13, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Stanley B. Mulaik listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Stanley B. Mulaik. Since you had some involvement with the Stanley B. Mulaik redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Narky Blert (talk) 02:38, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4

Hello Animalparty,

Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 448 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!

But do remember: Rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. Do not over-tag. Make use of the message feature to let the creator know about your maintenance tags. See the tutorial again HERE. Get help HERE.

Stay up to date with recent new page developments and have your say, read THIS PAGE.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Animalparty, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
• Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.

Technology update:

• Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Wikipedia:Page Curation/Suggested improvements
• The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js adds a link to the new pages feed and page curation toolbar to your top toolbar on Wikipedia
  • User:The Earwig/copyvios.js adds a link in your side toolbox that will run the current page through

General project update:

• Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Noticeboard has been marked as historical. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers is currently the most active central discussion forum for the New Page Patrol project. To keep up to date on the most recent discussions you can add it to your watchlist or visit it periodically.

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