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Antonio Merlo

I'm seeking an explanation for the below flags--the [[1]] has several contributors and the initial posting was done by a collection of Rice students posting under a single name (Cassiopeia) and operating independently of the dean. In addition, it's not clear how what number of "additional citations" would suffice. Any clarification would be helpful. Thank you for your time.

A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (August 2018) This article is an autobiography or has been extensively edited by the subject or by someone connected to the subject. (March 2021) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (March 2021) Jmdevitt24 (talk) 19:15, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Kostka Bojana

Dear GSS,

Hello. I am writing to you regarding my article "Kostka Bojana" that you have declined because of not enough sources. I have updated the article with more references from reliable sources. I have even sent a message to you on couple occasions because at this point I dont know what I am doing wrong. As this same article is published and live on Serbian Wikipedia. So this is the translation of the article that has been approved. I am asking you kindly to assist me. Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Dusan Rajic (talk) 16:58, 2 April 2021 (UTC)Dusan Rajic

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@Firestar464: Thank you so much for sharing the details. You made my day :) I guess @Winged Blades of Godric and Crystallizedcarbon: must also see. GSS ^💬 05:03, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Just wondering how it's related to them? :D --Firestar464 (talk) 05:12, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

@Firestar464: see their names in the post as my socks lmfao. GSS ^💬 05:15, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

I see. Remember to submit it via email. --Firestar464 (talk) 05:18, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

You can share the link with them privately or if you want I can forward your email. GSS ^💬 05:27, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

I am really intrigued now . --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 10:49, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

@Crystallizedcarbon: please check your inbox. GSS ^💬 11:09, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Wow, that was not what I was expecting. . --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 11:16, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Too busy I guess?

I haven’t been seeing you frequently on my watchlist compared to a 6 months ago so I decided to pay you a visit today, I hope real life isn’t being too stressful on you. Do ensure Stay safe always mate. Celestina007 (talk) 00:32, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

How to Submit a Draft

You are stopping me to submit a Wiki Draft for review with other Wiki editors, May i know Why? And what else i need to do to submit the draft.Randfiskin (talk)

See my reply on your talk page. GSS ^💬 16:26, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

User:Johnshade2

Hi. In the edit history of Rosamond Bernier, you make a claim of UPE, and say that there is off-wiki evidence. They have moved the draft back into mainspace. The tone of the article does suggest COI, but would you care to share your evidence, as long as it doesn't involve WP:OUTING? Thanks. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:38, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Inquiry SFA & More

Hi GSS - Following up to check in if you had any additional questions on our agency's approach to revising edits for SFA. Friendly reminder, I'm just not sure what I should do so I apologize if I got anything wrong. There's additional edit requests I'd like to make so I want to make sure all is cleared to not violate any wiki guidelines.

LeannaTruong (talk) 16:48, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

What is your problem

Why you've marked my article Apna Nawada for deletion ? Sumanrsb2 (talk) 13:20, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Please see it

Hello, I have contributed to Draft:Emiway which I got already made. Some of the sources in this were not reliable which was preventing the article from being published, which I have removed. Most of the sources were in discography and I think discography does not matter much source. Therefore, I will ask you to review it. Regards — 223.238.206.175 (talk) 09:24, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Karthika Adaikalam

Back in July 2018 you proposed deletion of Karthika Adaikalam. The article was deleted, but I have now restored it in response to a request to do so at WP:Requests for undeletion. JBW (talk) 14:33, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Which of the sources you did not find reliable?

This is regarding your recent revert of my edit on Avneet Kaur's page. You stated that my sources were not reliable so I wanted to ask you that from those mentioned sources which one did you find unreliable? as you directly removed all the information with citations and I do stand for my fact that not all of them were unreliable. Kindly go through the mentioned reference links and let me know which of these are unreliable, so that I could add the rest of the source links again. Thanks! Manalijain (talk) 06:59, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

References

Almost all you listed above. Please see WP:RS and WP:QUESTIONABLE. GSS ^💬 07:01, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Request on 17:03:42, 7 July 2021 for assistance on AfC submission by Mannitish

• Mannitish (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Kanchan Adhikari (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

RD Sharma is most prominent mathematics writer in Indian there are whole articles on him, still rejection reason given that only passing information. I believe TRD Sharma profile should get approval.

Mannitish (talk) 17:03, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

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Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

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Neha Disussion

Hi GSS, Sorry if that irritates you. I was discussing it just because I felt like it was passing WP:basic. Rest, its all right, if other editors don't think in the same way, I have no issue and I am accepting it. Please feel free to close the discussion as delete, non admin closure. Sonofstar (talk) 05:30, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

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Draft:Kamala Beach

Hi. Could you please specify what the COI concerns are that necessitated the page's draftification, as I enquired on the talk page? The topic is about a geographical location, so some clarification would be needed in order to properly review the issue. --Paul_012 (talk) 12:02, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

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New Page Review queue March 2022

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At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

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Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

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Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello GSS,

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.

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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 Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

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New pages patrol newsletter

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New Page Review article queue, March to September 2023

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November Articles for creation backlog drive

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Nomination of Dhuleta for deletion

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Deletion review for Satoshi Utsunomiya

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Deletion review for Lion of Oz

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Deletion review for Deanne Pandey

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ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Concerns about GSS. Thank you. Vickyfoxx (talk) 13:54, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello GSS

I think Draft:Aadish Jain, have the sufficient references it would be a great help that you approve that thank you Ipsaindore (talk) 14:35, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ipsaindore: The sources used do not meet WP:RS. I suggest citing reputable third-party sources that directly discuss the subject in detail. Please revise the draft accordingly and resubmit it for review. Thank you. GSS ^💬 14:42, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

I kindly seek assistance in ensuring the approval of the page. Your guidance and support in this matter are greatly appreciated. I eagerly await your feedback and approval. Thank you. Ipsaindore (talk) 14:53, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Ipsaindore: Please take a moment to review the guidelines outlined in WP:GNG and WP:N to familiarize yourself with the notability criteria. If you require further assistance, you can visit WP:TEAHOUSE. I can only help you with fixing issues or errors on the page. Thank you. GSS ^💬 15:25, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Draft: Christopher Ononukwe

Thank you for reviewing my draft article Draft: Christopher Ononukwe despite your tight schedule. I appreciate your efforts, time and resourcefulness. Unfortunately, the reason for the rejection which you gave does not seem to align with what the subject actually represents because most of the third-party, independent and reliable sources (e.g. sources 3,4,6,7,8, and 9) cited adequately treats Draft: Christopher Ononukwe, not just mentioning it in the passing as claimed. I will be glad if you could reconsider your stance and approve the submission. Thank you. Nwachinazo1 (talk) 17:51, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Nwachinazo1 The sources provided don't establish notability. They're either not reliable or only briefly mention the subject. Please include references from reliable sources that thoroughly discuss the subject. Once you've done that, you can submit it again for review by someone else. Thank you. GSS ^💬 18:05, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. However, the sources cited are reliable, even though few of them are local newspapers without an online presence. Again, I have added more third-party, independent and reliable sources to strengthen the subject's notability. Most of the references cited thoroughly discuss the subject. Your claim that sources cited are not reliable or merely discuss the subject briefly are unfair because you didn't adequate review the content of those sources provided but hurriedly did so. I appeal that you reconsider your stance concerning those online sources that treat and cover the subject sufficiently to establish his notability. Thank you. Nwachinazo1 (talk) 15:10, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

@Nwachinazo1: As I have previously reviewed the page, I will leave it to another reviewer to reevaluate the draft. Thank you for your cooperation. GSS ^💬 15:20, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay. I still believe you can review the draft in line with fresh references added and the explanations I have offered regarding your previous review. However, you may wish to leave it for another reviewer if you are too busy. Yet your opinion is likely to affect the review by others. I think you can assist me to strengthen the draft, giving the conviction that I have about the subject's notability. Nwachinazo1 (talk) 21:25, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

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Welcome back

It must have been. I see that you went inactive around the same time I stopped being active so much. It was not a big deal at all; I just said it to show I had a specific memory of you, cos our actual direct interaction was likely close to zero. I am happy to see you back. Regards! — Usedtobecool ☎️ 04:50, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate you sharing your memory, and I'm glad to be back and active again. If there's anything you'd like to catch up on or discuss, feel free to reach out. Thank you for your message and the warm welcome back. GSS ^💬 05:40, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I am sure we will have opportunity to work together to protect the encyclopedia. I look forward to it. Best, — Usedtobecool ☎️ 12:59, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Draft: Aran World

Hello, thank you so much for reviewing Draft: Aran World. As I'm starting with wikipedia i made sure to have reliable sources such as Phd thesis, MSc thesis and only 1st layer Newspapers and Magazine. All the sources seem to be reliable and threat the topic from a neutral standpoint, but I understand there may be something that's causing the declination. Could you point it out? I'll review that cause at the moment I'm not clear where the problem is Genk24 (talk) 18:18, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

The sources you referenced in the draft do not meet the criteria outlined in WP:NCORP. They only provide brief mentions. GSS ^💬 05:07, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Of course I wanted to make the content the best it could being in Wikipedia, so added many sources. Do you suggest limiting the number of sources, it's a lot despite being a short description so far. On top of that, I removed one reference and substitute with university these could you have a look? Genk24 (talk) 07:53, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

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Draft:Bhim Singh (Bihar politician) comments

Thank you for commenting your views on this draft. In response, this politician is a low-importance Bihar politician. The detail of his education and career is based on his profile at his official govt website (prior to state legislator). I can't guarantee you that this one has more reliable coverage about his education profile but I assured you that I exempted most of the info per WP:NPOV at the govt website and added the political post he assumed prior to his state legislator. CSMention269 (talk) 16:39, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

@CSMention269: If you're unable to locate any third-party sources, it would be advisable to temporarily remove the unsourced information, then add it back once there are sources for verification. GSS ^💬 16:45, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Request for help to make sure draft is approved

Hi GSS, Can you please explain on what needs to be added/modified to make this draft workable for resubmitting?

As of now, at least one of the sources did not meet the criteria (in-depth, reliable, secondary, strictly independent of the subject), but I don't know which one(s) that might be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:PetPair DanielMiyares (talk) 20:51, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello DanielMiyares, please see my comment on the draft. GSS ^💬 05:03, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Proposed page on songwriter Rob Milton

Thank you for your feedback on my draft page. I have now added a number of additional references which I think brings this up to the standard of many other published pages on other UK songwriters. Have re-submitted for consideration. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.254.224.38 (talk) 17:43, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival

What do you know about this article ? that you are assuming deletion and putting note to deleting admin? This article has nothing to do with previously created half baked misinformed ones.Fostera12 (talk) 14:05, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Just to clarify, it's not within your purview to make this decision, so that should be left to an admin to decide. I can see that you are engaging in an edit war with multiple users by reverting their edits, so please refrain from doing so. GSS ^💬 14:12, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Your email

Hi, GSS! Thanks for your email, I'd completely missed that aspect. I see that you've added a note about it to the SPI, so plan to leave it to bigger brains than mine to establish whether there's a provable connection. Anyway, thanks and regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:37, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Justlettersandnumbers: You're welcome! It's valuable to consider multiple perspectives on such matters. I had overlooked this interesting edit on simple-wiki earlier. GSS ^💬 05:11, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Concerns regarding draftifying Connor Dean

Hello @GSS! I reached out regarding Connor Dean, which was earlier moved to draftspace due to lack of resources however many other sources were added to the article and yet it was again moved to draftspace there are many pages on Wikipedia that may not even have 2 or 3 sources yet they are in mainspace however this page despite having many sources is getting moved to draftspace, all the available sources are already added to the article. Thank you Supercat9906 (talk) 09:52, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. The provided sources lack reliability and fail to establish the subject's notability, hence the move to draft namespace. Please see WP:RS to understand what kind of sources are considered "reliable." GSS ^💬 10:20, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi GSS, It shouldn't be moved into draftspace twice because draftspace isn't intended as a backdoor route to deletion. Typically, a page should only be moved to draftspace once, unless there are UPE/COI issues involved. If the author objects by moving it back into mainspace, it's no longer considered an uncontroversial move. In such cases, the page needs to be handled through other processes such as deletion, stubbing, tagging, and so on. I hope this helps. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:48, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

The page was moved per WP:DRAFTIFY #1 and #2, aiming to see better sources as the subject claims involvement in significant productions. GSS ^💬 10:55, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

AfC is optional, and it should not have been draftified twice per WP:DRAFTOBJECT. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:02, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

I regularly fix these types of drafts, and when I saw it, I thought I should send you a friendly reminder. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:06, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Why didn't you mentioned the deputy chief ministers who served in YS Jagan ministry ? need an explanation on this

Please respond Vara Naveen Reddy (talk) 10:33, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

UPE Sock farm

User:Dwaipayangreenreef -- This is a weird case but it's all connected through one set of UPE articles that have the same image from the original article and also mostly the same text. (I've deleted the remaining version of it, linked from an article created by one of the suspected socks I blocked today). I've only scratched the surface, there's probably a lot more stuff that I haven't seen, care to take a look? Two of the accounts I blocked haven't edited in years but the link is there. I'm not entirely sure but it could possibly be linked to another UPE farm I blocked 4-5 years ago -- Sandiprajbhar. —SpacemanSpiff 07:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Certainly! Count me in for checking it out further. GSS ^💬 13:22, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

You are right, this one is complicated and seems to be a major UPE sockfarm. Take a look at this one. I stumbled upon it while investigating a recreation of the same article by Wikieditorhans1 under a slightly different title. It appears to be intriguing. Additionally, there are two more accounts (Aasifrajput007 and Shikhergupta) that seem connected, but they haven't edited for a long time. GSS ^💬 14:29, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

I think they are creating a couple of accounts every time and then stopping usage once problems are found. I'll take a look at the deleted articles later to check deeper. —SpacemanSpiff 07:12, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Indeed, I've observed similar behavior from other users. When asked to disclose their involvement in paid editing, they simply cease editing and switch to another account. Please check your inbox for an interesting case that I encountered a few weeks ago. GSS ^💬 07:29, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

User:SpacemanSpiff, for your enjoyment, I confirmed User:Lazzy Crazzy with User:Amandanike and User:Paniram. Drmies (talk) 16:25, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

• And those are confirmed with User talk:Arnoldwera, User talk:Amanda5689, User talk:Offisapup, User talk:EstateOptionINDIA, User talk:Ajayrajuactor, User talk:Saralockkk, User talk:Kumaresh2498, User talk:Dalvir navnitgroup, User talk:Hermanarnold2, User talk:Mankishalberto. Spiff, there's a few older accounts in there and I will email you those names--these may be the masterminds, they may be completely innocent, but they are perfect CU matches and I will leave the decision up to you. I forgot to mention that the entire range is just full of spammers, some of really low quality, and I didn't tag them all as CU-blocks or mention them here. The ones here are, I think, pretty likely to belong to your farm, given their names and articles. Maybe not that EstateOption one and the Navit group but hey, they are confirmed. Drmies (talk) 16:43, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

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