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Hello TYelliot. I wanted to let you know,that you removing my recent contribution to Kosovo Security Force is wrong,and heres why.Kosovo and the Illiran people have a long millitary tradition of employing Goats in suicide charges straped with 50KG of plastic explosive (In ancient times urns with oil that had a fuse light on fire woud work),and that you are currently activly guting the history of my people.Heres a tale recounted by a Kosovo war veteran(From the Serbian side):"Let me ask you something,reporter.Have you ever been charged by a rabid goat?Beacuse untill you have you will never know the true horrors of war.My entire family was slaughterd by suicide goats.Over the hill they came,madness and hatred gleaming in their soulless eyes.There was nothing that coud stop them,before we coud turn and flee they were upon us,bleating and stamping,they ravaged us without mercy,i only escaped to tell the tale,as one of the goats detonated setting a chain reaction,that killed my family while i was at a safe distance.

Kachhi caste

Hello TYelliot. I wanted to let you know you are removing my changes related to Kachhi caste. It has been suggested that this article be merged with Kushwaha. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2015. It is wrong and and there is no proof for this yes they do marriges but not same caste so please maintain the same changes they are not related with Kushwaha.

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello TYelliot,

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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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 TYelliot,

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!

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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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