User talk:MainlyTwelve/Archive 3

Follow up on your comment on page I created

Thanks for the feedback on notability and citations. The subject is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of digital media, and the companies he built provide the basis for the Internet in Europe. He is cited in more than a dozen books (I cite a few) and many articles (I cite some, and I see that another contributor added some).

I am new to Wikipedia editing (last two months), and I am trying to be very diligent about what I add to the knowledge base. Happy to have guidance on what I am not doing well.

JanaSanchezTX (talk) 18:03, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for your edits to Armpit fart

Hashar (talk) 20:26, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Feb 27 WikiWednesday Salon + Mar 2 MoMA Art+Feminism and beyond

February 27, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Saturday March 2: MoMA Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon
Art+Feminism’s sixth-annual MoMA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 4 West 54 Street, on Saturday, March 2, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. People of all gender identities and expressions are encouraged to attend. And on Sunday this weekend: March 3, 2019 Art+Feminism with Kickstarter & Black Lunch Table, Brooklyn, NY Stay tuned for other Art+Feminism and related edit-a-thons throughout the month!

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Categorization

Hey, I noticed your recent edits to change categories from "[X year] in New York (state)" to "[X year] in New York City". While your edits are much appreciated, I think you can do it much faster with the Cat-a-lot gadget rather than HotCat. The script is here if you're interested. epicgenius (talk) 01:06, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: I'd love to install it, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do so despite the guides. Do you have any tips?--MainlyTwelve (talk) 14:53, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

You just need to put {{subst:iusc|User:קיפודנחש/cat-a-lot.js}} on a blank line at your common.js page. Or just insert this code directly (on a blank line):

importScript( 'User:קיפודנחש/cat-a-lot.js' );

epicgenius (talk) 15:31, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: Thanks so much for your help. I've added that code to my personal .js page, but for some reason it's not activating? I don't see it listed under my "gadgets" preferences. Thanks again for your patience and help!--MainlyTwelve (talk) 15:53, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: Never mind, got it to work! Looking forward to using it starting today. Thanks for everything.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 17:20, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Non-existent categories

Before adding a category to an article, as you did to 1993 establishments in Pittsburgh, please make sure that the category page actually exists. In some cases, it may be appropriate to create a new category in accordance with Wikipedia's categorization guidelines, but it is usually better to use the most specific available existing category. It is never appropriate to leave a page categorised in a non-existent category, i.e. one whose link displays in red. You may find it helpful to use the gadget HotCat, which tests whether a category exists before a change saved.Thank you.

Special:WantedCategories is filling up with entries resulting from your edits. Please slow down, and take time to figure out howto correctly parent any new categories which you create. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:51, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks!--MainlyTwelve (talk) 17:51, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@MainlyTwelve, let me be more direct.

You have created many dozens of categories with red-linked parents, contrary to WP:REDNOT, inclusing establishments categories and philosophers-by-century categories. Dozens of the entries in Special:WantedCategories have been caused by you.

I have cleaned up dozens of such entries in the last week, but this can't continue. You need to clean up after yourself, and not edit in a way which requires a full-time cleanup crew after you.

So please, before you go creating new categories, please fix those which you have already created. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:06, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Sounds good, I'll be more mindful going forward.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 18:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@MainlyTwelve, I'm not asking you just be more mindful going forward. I'm asking you to cleanup the errors which you have already made.

Here's another example. Today you have create ~15 subcats of Category:Establishments in New York City by year. Except that you didn't give them a proper set of parent cats or any navigation, and you didn't create the container Category:Establishments in New York City by year.

I have fixed that lot. Now please, will you go fix all those philosopher cats in Special:WantedCategories? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:15, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

I imagine I'm missing something, but I only saw one philosopher-related categ on that page.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 18:32, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Ah, I see there was only one left. There were dozens a day or so ago; I must have fixed more of them than I remembered.

Anyway, thanks for doing the Syrian one. -BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:41, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@BrownHairedGirl: Sure thing, always happy to help. If it's any consolation, I was not aware I was creating empty categs and so creating problems as I've never been confronted about the issue during mass-recat efforts in the past. As I said, I'll be more mindful going forward.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 18:43, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

And will keep an eye on Special:WantedCategories.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 18:43, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Category:1999 establishments in Pittsburgh has been nominated for discussion

Category:1999 establishments in Pittsburgh, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for merging to its parent category. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you..

The nomination includes about 30 similar categories. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:28, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:21st-century Colombian philosophers

A tag has been placed on Category:21st-century Colombian philosophers requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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. Richard3120 (talk) 19:58, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Request for help to improve an article

Hi, MainlyTwelve, I welcome your advice on improving Anne Steele Marsh so that it merits a grade higher than C-Class on the quality scale of WikiProject Biography. Delabrede (talk) 12:39, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

• @Delabrede: The article looks good! I gave it a B-grade instead of a C upon re-reading. Nice work!--MainlyTwelve (talk) 15:33, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks very much, MainlyTwelve -- Delabrede (talk) 18:36, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Request for help to improve an article

Hi MainlyTwelve, I noticed that you created the 10x Management page, thanks for that. I'm currently working on a page dedicated to one of the co-founders, Rishon Blumberg which as you will see has been nominated for deletion. I welcome your advice on improving the page so that it can be optimized by the time an administrator makes the final call (which I'm expecting to be on or around next Wednesday 10 June). Kbaker121 (talk 18:21, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

@Kbaker121: Thank you for reaching out. I have no advice and I do not anticipate you will succeed. Best of luck. — Mainly 21:32, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Page Reviews

Thank you for reviewing several of my new pages. Kitoba (talk) 17:29, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Kitoba Of course!--MainlyTwelve (talk) 17:31, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello MainlyTwelve,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

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March 20: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC + March 23: Asian Art Archive/New York Public Library

March 20, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. Wednesday March 20 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan (note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! This month, optional post-meetup drinks afterward at 9pm!--Wikimedia New York City Team 18:47, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Saturday March 23: Asian Art Archive/New York Public Library Art+Feminism Editathon
Organized by Asia Art Archive in America]and Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library and in collaboration with Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, the Art+Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Women in Art in Asia helps participants edit Wikipedia to create and improve articles about women artists and practitioners in and from Asia, including architects, designers, filmmakers, curators, and art historians. Books and research materials—as well as refreshments—will be provided. Also check out other Art+Feminism and related edit-a-thons throughout the month!

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Project tagging

Hi. When you come across articles for albums and songs, could you tag them with {{WikiProject Albums}} and {{WikiProject Songs}}, respectively, instead of {{WikiProject Media}}? Thank you. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 22:52, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Yes, for sure.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 22:56, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

A Star of Gratitude

Dear MainlyTwelve, I appreciate your swift work on curation of my newly created paga within minutes! This star is for you:) --Marina Melik-Adamyan (talk) 19:40, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Marina Melik-Adamyan Of course!--MainlyTwelve (talk) 19:42, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Non-free content use

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload files. However, it appears that one or more of the files you have uploaded or added to a page, specifically User:MainlyTwelve/fraserbackup, may fail our non-free policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted file of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free criteria. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:06, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

"Nice work"?

Hallo, I know we ought to be encouraging new editors, but to say "nice work" on this version of an article without any comment on the many ways in which it could have been done better doesn't help the editor to improve. This editor has created quite a few new articles but seems to be finding it difficult to learn some of the basics, although they do give good sources. The most glaring problem with the version you reviewed was that the person's middle name "Dorothy" was used throughout, which might have been worth a mention. PamD 09:36, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

PamD I'll be more diligent going forward.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 13:29, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Avoiding link rot on cite references

MainlyTwelve Hi, you left me a message on Walt Richardson's page on how i could improve my cite references by avoiding link rot. I thought I was thorough on my cite reference links but if you can show me by example on one of my cite references how I might improve it I would greatly appreciate it as was not clear what I could futher add to improve the link. Thank you for your assistance, Pennyframstad (talk) 22:50, 30 March 2019 (UTC)pennyframstad

Pennyframstad Hi, all that tag means is that you inserted bare URLs as your sources. It's not an evaluation of the source's quality. It only serves to say that you never added information such as author, or the site the information came from, etc.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 14:00, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

MainlyTwelve Thanks so much! I will go back and list the authors and site info. came from. Pennyframstad (talk) 16:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)pennyframstad

April 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC + April 4 and 5: LaGuardia Community College Translatathon 2019

April 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. Wednesday April 17 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan (note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 21:06, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
Thursday April 4 and Friday April 5: Translat-a-thon NYC 2019 @ LaGuardia Community College
Translat-a-thon NYC 2019 @ LaGuardia Community College is hosting the second annual Wikipedia Translatathon! At this event on Thursday evening and during the day Friday this week, anyone from the public is invited to LaGuardia to join students, professors, and CUNY faculty in translating Wikipedia articles among any languages which attendees understand. Themes for this event include public health and the history of New York City. New York City has a large immigrant population and great diversity of speakers of various languages. Among all schools in New York City, LaGuardia has the highest percentage of immigrant students, the highest percentage of students who speak a language other than English as their first language, and the greatest representation of language diversity. It is a strength of LaGuardia that it can present "Wikipedia translatathons", which are Wikipedia translation events.

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm EggOfReason. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Helen L. Koss, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

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Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich

I see that you added a short description, but it doesn't show up anywhere, such as in the infobox. What is the matter? Bruce leverett (talk) 00:13, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello Bruce leverett, I believe they are for display on mobile. The short descriptions are distinct from the infobox.--MainlyTwelve (talk) 16:39, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Please consider...

Thanks. Drmies (talk) 21:25, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

I assure you I will consider it for a long, long time. MainlyTwelve (talk) 21:33, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Talk:R. Iris Bahar

Thank you for wikignoming. Please keep in mind that {{WP Bio}} has an important and easy to assign parameter 'living=' yes or no. Staszek Lem (talk) 18:41, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Sounds good, Staszek Lem. I'll incorporate that tag going forward. MainlyTwelve (talk) 18:43, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Joseph C. Fegan Jr.

Hello, I would like to ask you for reasons, why you had rate an recent article about Joseph C. Fegan Jr. as Start. The article has a lot of references, it is quite comprehensive, it is not in development, there are several good quality photos and it took several hours to write it. Let me know please. Thank you AntonyZ (talk) 17:33, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

I've removed it. Mainly 17:34, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Okay, but now it is without Quality scale. Maybe you are right, but I just asked for reasons. If you used rating as Start, you obviously had reason. This is about improving an article. Let me know. Thank you AntonyZ (talk) 17:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Okay. It's probably a B. Are you okay if I give it a B rating? Mainly 17:42, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Alexander Culbertson

It didn't take you more than 30 seconds to rate the article about Alexander Culbertson. It looks like a rather slipshod job. What do you know about the West? Why isn't my sources good enough? Can I appeal your rating? Creuzbourg (talk) 19:16, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

What is your issue? With the "Start" tag? Or the importance tag? If you think the article is higher than Start class you're welcome to change it, and if you think he is of "mid" or "high" importance to the Bio Wikiproject, you can also change that. Reference other biographical articles and their talk pages for more. Mainly 19:20, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

The quality assessment explicitly notes that sources "might" or "might not be" of quality. Your sources seem fine. Take a look at the example articles included on the assessment matrix for Bio to see more. Mainly 19:22, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

My problem is not the "importance". My problem is first that it is impossible for you to make a prober quality assessment in the time available. The article was entered at 18:30, your assessment came at 18:32. My other problem is general; I do not know what to improve. You should assess the article, as follows:

1. Referencing and citation
2. Coverage and accuracy
3. Structure
4. Grammar
5. Supporting materials

Creuzbourg (talk) 21:23, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

That sounds good. I hope you don't mistake my brevity for insincerity but I will seriously reconsider the way I assess articles. For proof, consult here and note the drop-off in patrolled pages after March 28th, which occurred after this interaction. Mainly 22:58, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Creuzbourg, seems my first link there didn't work, but it should have taken you to see the list of articles I've patrolled. Mainly 01:31, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

May 22: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

May 22, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Featuring this month a presentation by Interference Archive guests, and a group discussion on the role of activist archives and building wiki content based on ephemeral publications and oral histories. To close off the night, we'll also have Wikidojo - a group collaborative writing activity / vaudeville! We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. Wednesday May 22 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan (note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 17:10, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello MainlyTwelve,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

• Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
• Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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Your draft article, Draft:Financial performance of Facebook

Hello, MainlyTwelve. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Financial performance of Facebook".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 03:23, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

June 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (stay tuned for Pride on weekend!)

June 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. Wednesday June 19 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan (note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 05:37, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Stay tuned for details om next event! Sunday Jun 23: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Category:20th-century Soviet sculptors has been nominated for discussion

Category:20th-century Soviet sculptors, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Russian Rocky (talk) 11:08, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Sunday June 23: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

June 23, 12:30pm: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side. Togethe, we'll create new and expand existing Wikipedia articles on LGBT artists and artworks with LGBT themes in the Met collection! With refreshments, and a special museum tour in the afternoon! And there will be a wiki-cake! Open to everyone at all levels of experience, wiki instructional workshop and one-on-one support will be provided. See also the global Wiki Loves Pride photo contest, as well as the Met's online LGBT Art Writing Contest, and also the LGBT Health Writing Contest. Sunday June 23 Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 12:30pm - 4:30 pm at Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art (81st Street entrance) at 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (note this is just south of the main entrance) This is the fifth annual Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon supported by Wikimedia NYC! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 16:31, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
Stay tuned for details on next event! Sunday July 14: Great American Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island

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Thank you

Thanks for the nice review.Dogru144 (talk) 02:54, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello MainlyTwelve,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Category:20th-century Czechoslovak painters has been nominated for discussion

Category:20th-century Czechoslovak painters, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Russian Rocky (talk) 10:00, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Sunday July 14: Annual NYC Wiki-Picnic @ Roosevelt Island

July 14, 2-7pm: Annual NYC Wiki-Picnic @ Roosevelt Island

You are invited to join us at the "picnic anyone can edit" in the lovely Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck. This year the Wiknic will double as a "Strategy Salon" (more information at Wiknic page), using open space technology to address major questions facing our social movement. Sunday July 14 Annual NYC Wik-Picnic (RSVP) (also on meetup.com) 2–7pm - come by any time! Our picnicking area is at Southpoint Park, south of the tram and subway, and also just south of the Cornell Tech campus. Look for us by the Wikipedia / Wikimedia NYC banner! Celebrate our 13th year of wiki-picnics! We hope to see you there! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 21:36, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:21st-century Icelandic philosophers

A tag has been placed on Category:21st-century Icelandic philosophers requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:01, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Created Page Question

So I have a question that's a little hard to explain. I created the page Hell (Davis novel), but it doesn't appear on the list of pages I created. Looking back through my contributions, I noticed that the line which shows I created the page now has a Strikethrough line. Are you familiar with this happening? Looking back through the pages edit history I did notice that some had moved it, my original article title was Hell (novel), and they changed it to Hell (Davis novel) to differentiate between a book with the same title. Would this possibly be the reason my creation line would disappear? Not that this is a big deal, I'm just still getting used to the quirks of Wikipedia editing. And, also, I'm a little vain towards pages I created, haha. ANDROMITUS (talk) 15:32, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

August 28: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (+editathons before and after)

August 28, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Featuring this month a review of the recent Wikimania 2019 conference in Sweden! We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. Wednesday August 28 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan (note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 17:58, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Edit-a-thons at Interference Archive and The Met
Also check out these editing events, before and after our WikiWednesday Salon: Tuesday August 27: Resistance Radio Edit-a-thon @ Interference Archive, 5:00 - 9:00pm Saturday September 7: Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12:30 - 4:30pm

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A kitten for you!

cheers!

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Saturday Sept 7: Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sept 7, 12:30pm: Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side. Together, we'll expand Wikipedia:WikiProject Fashion topics for basic clothing types that can be illustrated by the Met collection, and also past Costume Institute exhibitions! It's the last weekend for Camp: Notes on Fashion, and we will have an intro talk to the exhibit by a guest from the Costume Institute, and participants will then be able to visit it on their own. Galleries will be open this evening until 9 pm. With refreshments, and there will be a wiki-cake! Open to everyone at all levels of experience, wiki instructional workshop and one-on-one support will be provided. Saturday Sept 7 Met Fashion Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 12:30pm - 4:30 pm at Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art (81st Street entrance) at 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (note this is just south of the main entrance) Galleries will be open this evening until 9 pm, and some wiki-visitors may wish to take this opportunity to see Camp: Notes on Fashion together after the formal event. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends, colleagues and students! --Wikimedia New York City Team 19:37, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello MainlyTwelve,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
• Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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Cargill

Can you visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Anne_Pedrero-MacMillan and weigh in on notability? Hawerchuk (talk) 15:24, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Sept 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

September 25, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday September 25 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan (note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team ~~~~~

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AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Diversity winner
• Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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Oct 23: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

October 23rd, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday October 23 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan (note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 05:33, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

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Free the dolphins!

I'm going to name mine Kennedy! He'll wear hip glasses! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.254.152.32 (talk) 02:03, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello MainlyTwelve,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 806 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

• It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
• It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

• Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
• Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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Saturday Nov 16: Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saturday November 16, 12:30 pm - 4:30pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon

The Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met will be hosted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday November 16, 2019 in the Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (81st Street entrance) at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. The museum is excited to work with Wikipedia Asian Month for the potential to seed new articles about Asian artworks, artwork types, and art traditions, from any part of Asia. These can be illustrated with thousands of its recently-released images of public domain artworks available for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse Asian collections onsite and remotely. Asia Art Archive will host a sister event in Hong Kong next week. Saturday November 16 Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm in Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Uris Center for Education 81st Street entrance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue And there will be sandwiches and Wiki-Cake! Thanks, and hope to see you there! --Wikimedia New York City Team 16:45, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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Disambig WikiProject template

Seeing as you're more experienced than I am, I won't be so WikiLawyery on this: but to get to the point, I saw you created Talk:Susan Owens (disambiguation) with only the {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} template, even though the documentation expresses that talk pages should not be created with solely that template. It's just might be a nitpicky point, but I just happened to eye that little detail. Thanks! –eggofreason^{(talk · contribs)} 16:22, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

EggOfReason Thank you for letting me know! I will avoid marking disambig talk pages with the tag alone in the future. — Mainly 16:38, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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Nov 20: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

November 20, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday November 20 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 16:16, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

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Dec 18: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

December 18, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday December 18 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 02:49, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill (talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 (talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG (talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 (talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 (talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn (talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter (talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth (talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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Happy New Year!

George Bellows, North River (1908), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.		Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous 2020.
		Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 12:28, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Converting Bare URL to Full Citation

How do I convert a bare URL to a full citation?--Eastview2018 (talk) 18:44, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Jan 22: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

January 22, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday January 22 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 20:07, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

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Saturday Jan 25: Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jan 25, 12:30pm: Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for the Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side. Together, we'll expand Wikipedia articles on American history and art, and the understanding that all communities bring to American culture, as reflected in the Met collection up until ca. 1900. With refreshments, and there will be a wiki-cake! Open to everyone at all levels of experience, wiki instructional workshop and one-on-one support will be provided. Saturday Jan 25 Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 12:30pm - 4:30 pm at Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art (81st Street entrance) at 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (note this is just south of the main entrance) Galleries will be open this evening until 9 pm, and some wiki-visitors may wish to take this opportunity to see exhibits together after the formal event. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends, colleagues and students! --Wikimedia New York City Team 21:01, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello MainlyTwelve,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources

• There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
• A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
• A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
• A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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Feb 19: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

February 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday February 19 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 21:00, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

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March 18: First ever ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

March 18, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday March 18 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm online via Zoom We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 04:37, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

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April 22: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

April 22, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month, we've invited Esther Jackson of the New York Botanical Garden to join us for an Earth Day focused conversation. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday April 22 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 23:25, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

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Deletion review for Singapore Miracle

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Singapore Miracle. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.

I am not the person submitting the DRV but merely fixing the nomination on behalf of 192.38.10.18. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 13:19, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Not going to ping you but if you ever see this message you will know I was thankful. — Mainly 17:08, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination

Hi,

I noticed you left a message on my talk page about a speedy deletion nomination for Tabitha Brown (Influencer) but also removed it. Are you still marking it for deletion? As per the edit summary, I was planning on expanding it later to show that she passes WP:ENT #2 (edit summary for reference: "starting stub on social media influencer with cult following, will expand later").

Thanks, originalmess^{busta rhyme} 16:12, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry I don't plan on deleting it. Didn't mean to mark it either. — Mainly 16:15, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Got it, thanks. originalmess^{busta rhyme} 16:17, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Cat order

Hi, thanks for this edit. I wanted to ask you about cat orders so that I can get it right the first time and create less work for people in the future. Where can I read about why category orders matter and what the correct order is? I can't figure out why order is important or find any manual of style information about it. Thanks. - Astrophobe (talk) 19:11, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Hey @Astrophobe, it's mostly a preference of mine to have "Living person" and birth/death dates first. After that I don't think there's any guide. I generally only rearrange when it's a person. — Mainly 00:52, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

not sure if that ping worked. sorry if not. — Mainly 00:53, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh gotcha, OK, thanks for letting me know! I'll keep that in mind, it should be very easy to arrange it that way. Thanks! - Astrophobe (talk) 00:59, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Sat May 9: Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19

Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19 (May 9)

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19, which aims to answer questions the public may have about Wikipedia's coverage of the pandemic. The event includes four speakers, all of whom are active contributors to the topic area on Wikipedia, but bring different perspectives, backgrounds, and interests. The event is free and open to the public, broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook, and questions taken from viewers on these platforms. Abstracts and speaker bios are available on the event page. Symposium on Wikipedia and COVID-19 Saturday May 9, 6:00PM - 8:00PM EST (22:00 - 24:00 UTC) online via YouTube and Facebook

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May 20: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

May 20, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month, we'll focus on WikiProject New York City and our favorite local articles, as well as Wiki Loves Pride past and future. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday May 20 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30) We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

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Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice

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Proposed deletion of Jabari Brisport

The article Jabari Brisport has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Lack of notability. Jabari Brisport has never held elected office, and every news source mentioning him that is cited is just a local paper discussing the upcoming election that he lost

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Brooklynpedestrian (talk) 00:48, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

June 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

June 17, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month, we'll check in on the global WikiCup race and have as featured speaker our local champion and frontrunner, who is trying to win it by writing as many new New York City articles as possible, as well as other local and global topics. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Wednesday June 17 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30) We especially encourage folks to add your 3-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello MainlyTwelve,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources

• A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
• Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
• A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
• Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

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Nomination of 10x Management for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 10x Management is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/10x Management until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.   Kadzi   (talk) 18:04, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

a request

You added a {{notability}} tag to Harvey Rishikof.

Do you still think his notability is in question? Geo Swan (talk) 05:19, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Looks better now! — Mainly 15:20, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Friday Saturday Sunday

The article Friday Saturday Sunday has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of notability

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Rusf10 (talk) 04:30, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Friday Saturday Sunday for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Friday Saturday Sunday is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Friday Saturday Sunday until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Rusf10 (talk) 21:12, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Sun Aug 16: Great American Wiknic NYC & Beyond

August 16, 3pm: Great American Wiknic

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our annual summer Great American Wiknic, this year being held virtually. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! Featuring artist-Wikimedian Sara Clugage's "Picnics: An Outside History" for a cultural exploration of picnicking, knowledge and society during the national panel in the first part. We encourage you to call in for the second part from a local park or natural site and share it on the video stream, as well as sharing your favorite picnic grub or other special foods with us. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. The Wiknic is taking the place of "WikiWednesday" this month, so we will also include salon and knowledge-sharing workshop aspects. Sunday August 16 Great American Wiknic NYC. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm online via YouTube (watch our national panel's livestream, and participate by text chat) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm online via Zoom (participate by videoconference with NYC community) We especially encourage folks to share your parks and foods on screen, and add your 3-minute lightning talks to our roster for the Zoom portion, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Greetings Mr.Karmi (talk) 14:35, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! — Mainly 15:12, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Review

Please review: Chetan Dudi, Deedwana (Rajasthan Assembly constituency) and R Nait Indian Viki BKN (talk) 09:39, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

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Sat Sep 26: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up

September 26, 12:30pm: Met Fashion Virtual Edit Meet-up

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for our The Met x Wikipedia Virtual Edit Meet-up: Met Fashion. This is a follow-up to last year's successful MetFashion 2019, and will follow a similar theme optimized for a remote online experience. We will be partially coordinating with the international Wiki Loves Fashion campaign. Watch and join the livestream! The Metropolitan Museum of Art event on Saturday Sep 26 will host a tutorial and question-and-answer session live on YouTube and other social media platforms. 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Presentation 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm - Guidance and Q&A Chat about improving articles! Support will be provided to help guide new editors in this area at Wikimedia Fashion Chat for the duration of the campaign. The Met x Wikipedia Virtual Edit Meet-up: Met Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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October 21: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

October 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! In honor of Wikidata's 8th birthday earlier this month, we especially encourage lightning talks related to Wikidata and Wikidata adjacent projects and tools. We'll also discuss the recent proposal to change the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws, including the Statement of Opposition from Wikimedia NYC. Wednesday October 21 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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Cyclone Rhonda

I will expand the article along with SMB99thx extremely soon. CyclonicStormYutu (talk) 15:17, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Sounds good! — Mainly 15:34, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)

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Nomination of Goosefoot (Chicago restaurant) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Goosefoot (Chicago restaurant) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goosefoot (Chicago restaurant) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. MB 02:11, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

October 18: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC (plus weekend editathons)

October 18, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month we've invited the creators of instagram accounts @depthsofwikipedia and @wikipediapictures to chat with us about their Wiki* appreciation accounts. If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or responding to this message. Wednesday November 18 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30) Editathons this coming Saturday You are also invited to join thse two editathon on Saturday November 21: NYC COVID-19: Environmental Justice in Public Health Edit-a-thon - Sat Nov 21, 11am-1pm Wikipedia Asia Month Edit-a-thon on Exhibition Histories - Sat Nov 21, 12pm-5pm

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Jack Settleman

Hello, I hope you are doing well. I was just recently notified that Jack Settleman's page was flagged. I am curious why he does not count as a "person of interest", and how the page is written like an advertisement. I reviewed all of the guidelines, so I went on with making his page. Also, it was all independent research. I am just a little bit confused why my work was tagged because I worked extremely hard on his page. Thank you. A. Julian 06:30, 25 November 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by A.JulianEditor (talk • contribs)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	I appreciate you trying to make the Wikipedia community a better place. A. Julian 06:39, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello MainlyTwelve,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	Patrol Page Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	Patrol Page Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	Patrol Page Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	Patrol Page Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	Patrol Page Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	Patrol Page Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	Patrol Page Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	Patrol Page Curation
10	Utopes (talk)	3,958	Patrol Page Curation

Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:21st-century Lithuanian philosophers

A tag has been placed on Category:21st-century Lithuanian philosophers requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:41, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Sounds good, no objection here. — Mainly 15:53, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

December 16: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

December 16, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! This month will include a discussion of the sixth annual Community Wishlist Survey, an opportunity for editors and other community members to submit proposals for fixes and features you'd like the Wikimedia Foundation's tech team to address. As always, it's the agenda anyone can edit, so please feel free to add any projects you'd like to share. Wednesday December 16 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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--Wikimedia New York City Team 01:54, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Walter Elmer Schofield, Across the River (1904), Carnegie Museum of Art.		Best wishes for a safe, healthy and prosperous 2021.
		Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:24, 26 December 2020 (UTC) Oneupsmanship: This painting turned the friendly rivalry between Edward Redfield and Elmer Schofield into a feud. Schofield was a frequent houseguest at Redfield's farm, upstream from New Hope, Pennsylvania, and the two would go out painting together, competing to capture the better view. Redfield served on the jury for the 1904 Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute; at which, despite Redfield's opposition, Across the River was awarded the Gold Medal and $1,500 prize. It was not until a 1963 interview that the 93-year-old Redfield revealed the painting as the cause of the 40-year feud between them. Schofield may have painted it in England, but a blindsided Redfield knew that it was a view of the Delaware River, from his own front yard!

Friday Jan 15: ONLINE Wikipedia Day NYC

January 15, 6pm: Wikimedia NYC celebrates 20 years of Wikipedia

Wikipedia Day is always a big day for Wikimedia NYC. While we cannot meet in person, we still have something special planned. We will begin the event with the debut of a new video celebrating our community. This will be followed by a panel discussion with some of the people you'll see in the video talking about Wikipedia's 20th anniversary, Wikimedia New York City, and the amazing work they do on Wikimedia projects. The event will be broadcast live via YouTube. Feel free to ask questions for the panel through the chat! We will also have some NYC wiki trivia you can participate in, with confectionery prizes. Friday January 15 ONLINE Wikipedia Day NYC. 6:00pm - 7:00 pm online via Wikimedia NYC on YouTube

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--Wikimedia New York City Team 14:49, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of KELT-21b for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:14th-century Italian lawyers

A tag has been placed on Category:14th-century Italian lawyers requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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RIP — Mainly 16:31, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Task Force

Funny to find out there was a GOP version earlier last year. Thanks for your help by the way! -Darouet (talk) 16:29, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

@Darouet: Of course, happy to help! — Mainly 16:31, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

February 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Discussion at Talk:List of tallest buildings in New York City § RfC about list inclusion criteria

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Louisville skyscrapers

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March 17: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Wikimedia Community Ireland for St Patrick's Day

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Fons

Thanks for your Fons - I've linked the commons cat we have to see it in all its temporary gloriousness No Swan So Fine (talk) 09:10, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! It still needs work, I need to get back to it at some point. The photo looks great! — Mainly 13:49, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Res Ipsa (Philadelphia restaurant) for deletion

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Nomination of Randy Bryce for deletion

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Bold

HI. Was this a mistake, or intentional? I Have never seen bold used like that. --- Possibly (talk) 03:34, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, meant to make it italicized. — Mainly 03:37, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Mary Wollstonecraft Award

		Mary Wollstonecraft Award
		With appreciation from WP:WPWW for the articles you created regarding novels written by women. Rosiestep (talk) 16:05, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

@Rosiestep: Thank you, I appreciate this award! — Mainly 16:23, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Celestina007. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Felix Hummel, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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Thank you! I think it was "patrolled" as a byproduct of the tag I added, not intentional. — Mainly 15:07, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Oh! thanks for the clarification. Celestina007 (talk) 15:15, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

April 21: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with with Environmental focus

April 21, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC with Environmental focus

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Category:16th-century Belgian lawyers has been nominated for renaming

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May 19: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive

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Talk:Luna Solomon

Thanks for creating this, but you labelled her as "living=no", although she's heading for the 2020 Olympics. Please take care when adding the WP Bio template. Thanks. PamD 18:59, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

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Sat Aug 14: Wikimania Wiknic NYC

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August 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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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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September 29: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon + Annual Members' Meeting NYC

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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Sunday: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference NA, Oct 8-10)

Sunday October 10, 12-5pm: Wiki-Pavilion Picnic NYC (part of WikiConference North America 2021, Oct 8-10)

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A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for updating malaria vaccine with new information shortly after news media published it. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:00, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: Thank you! Though I can't take too much credit, I copied (and modified) the information after it had already been added to the RTS,S article. Mainly 00:45, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

1914 Lubin vault fire

Thank you, MainlyTwelve, for your kind comment about my new article concerning the tragic Lubin fire. We can now only imagine what other cinematic treasures were lost in that disaster and in so many other incinerated collections of nitrate film in both the silent and early sound eras. Still, given the "demonic" traits of celluloid, I guess we are mighty lucky to have what we have! Thanks again. Have a nice evening.Strudjum (talk) 19:54, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Any thoughts?

Hey, MainlyTwelve, thanks again for your comment the other day about my new page on the 1914 Lubin vault fire. I really worked on it and refined that article, and I thought it was thorough, well-documented, and insightful. I was surprised it got only a "C" grade. I have had far less in-depth, less documented pages that got "B's". Any thoughts as to why this Lubin piece rated a C grade? Thanks again.Strudjum (talk) 04:45, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

• Hello! @Strudjum: I am not sure what the thought process of the editor in question was (Dthomsen8). I would suggest asking them directly, or, instead, nominating the article for "Good Article" status. I'm not very familiar with the process behind that as it's not something I've ever done for an article I've written, and while I also can't guarantee "1914 Lubin vault fire" will succeed at GA I think it stands a very good chance. Let me know if this answer was helpful. — Mainly 17:52, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your prompt reply and suggestion. Where exactly do I go and nominate the article for a GA review or reconsideration? Geez, it's so frustrating to work so hard on an article and get a "C", when really inferior, much less informative pages I created have "earned" a higher grade. Mucho thanks again.Strudjum (talk) 18:12, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

• @Strudjum: Let me take a quick look and get back to you. I have never gone through the process myself. — Mainly 18:23, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

@Strudjum: So looks a bit tedious but straightforward, head to this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations/Instructions for instructions! Please let me know if I can help at all. — Mainly 18:28, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks again! Strudjum (talk) 20:36, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

@Strudjum: Hi, new person here. I re-rated the article B-class. I can't speak for the original reviewer's reasoning, but in my view your article meets the B-class (and not C-class) criteria. Some WikiProjects (including WikiProject Film) require a reviewer to include a quick evaluation based on stated criteria to qualify as B-class (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Assessment/B-Class); this is a hurdle that can inhibit editors from dishing out B-class ratings and incentivize more conservative C-class ratings (which do not require assessments) to be on the safe side, even when an article may meet the B criteria.

I agree with Mainly that the article looks ready for a GA nomination. I have some GA review experience under my belt (both giving and getting), and I'd be happy to review it if you choose to nominate it. Be sure to ping me on my talk page. —BLZ · talk 20:55, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Mainly, thank you once again for your initial comment about my new article, for your feedback has led to my contacts today with BLZ, who, like you, is a supportive, encouraging "Wiki kolleague". Strudjum (talk) 22:11, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Of course, happy to help! And BLZ is great...no better guide to help with the GA process! — Mainly 22:27, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MfD nomination of User:MainlyTwelve/Big box

User:MainlyTwelve/Big box, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:MainlyTwelve/Big box and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:MainlyTwelve/Big box during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Vitaium (talk) 00:16, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Dionys Mascolo

Hi, I saw the quote on your user page and got curious, so Dionys Mascolo exists now.-Ich (talk) 15:52, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

@Ich: Wow!!!! Fantastic work, thank you for letting me know, I've always thought it was criminal he had no article. I also had no idea he was married to Marguerite Duras. — Mainly 15:59, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Succession

Hi. I removed a section of your edit that said Josh had left Waystar and joined Sandy and Stewy. That isn't necessarily true: https://tvline.com/2021/11/07/succession-adrien-brody-season-3-episode-4-josh-aaronson-kendall-logan/ Abbasjnr (talk) 17:06, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

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Dec 15: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

December 15, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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David McCormick

Hi MainlyTwelve, my name is Lauren. Nice to meet you. I noticed that you recently edited David McCormick's article, and was hoping you might be willing to come take a look at my edit request on the Talk page. Hope to chat more there. Thank you, Lauren at L Strategies (talk) 13:18, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

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A somewhat premature New Year's greeting

John Vanderlyn, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos (c.1812), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts		Best wishes for a safe, healthy and prosperous 2022.
		Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:31, 26 December 2021 (UTC) Moral lesson: John Vanderlyn was an American painter who studied in Paris, and his life-sized Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos was one of the first large nudes exhibited in the United States. Peddling the poison as well as the cure, this overtly sensuous work was presented to the public as a moral lesson on the consequences of lascivious behavior. Visible in the distance is the ship of Princess Ariadne's secret lover, Theseus, for whom she has betrayed her people by helping him to escape the Labyrinth and slay the Minotaur. Ariadne's bliss will come to an end when she awakens from her post-coital reverie, only to discover that the faithless Theseus has sailed away without her.

2021 China tech crackdown

I created 2021 China tech crackdown without realising you created 2020–2021 Xi Jinping Administration reform spree (which is excellent). Do you think we should rename your article to something closer to mine, per WP:COMMONNAME? In any case, I'll have to join mine with yours because you've already written a lot. LondonIP (talk) 02:08, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@LondonIP: Hello! I really appreciate your reaching out. Personally, I think "crackdown" has a POV charge to it, and "reform spree" is a bit more encyclopedic, a more neutral description. Not to denigrate your choice, of course. I actually considered "crackdown" when I was writing the initial drafts. How would you feel about a redirect from your article to mine? — Mainly 02:42, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I will redirect it, but I was hoping we can discuss the name a bit more. Almost all sources refer to it as a crackdown, so it took me a while to find your article, and I think others may have the same problem. What's the particular POV concern that you're concerned about with the "crackdown" phrase. From the accounts I've read, the reforms are really quite drastic, and I think they can be described as a crackdown per WP:NDESC. LondonIP (talk) 02:48, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

I think that sources like Bloomberg, FT, etc. refer to the tech crackdown narrowly and in somewhat sensationalist terms, treating the individual efforts as individual efforts, rather than as a relatively slow process of reform that has rolled out over the course of more than a year. I think at enWiki we can afford to have a more descriptive title. Also, the article I've written describes a raft of reforms that go beyond tech. I think a redirect — maybe even a few redirects? — will guide more people to the overarching article. — Mainly 02:55, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

I hear you. Let me do a media analysis and come back to you on this. I am reading more about this topic every day because it effects some partnerships my company had with certain Chinese companies. LondonIP (talk) 03:38, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Ève Paul-Margueritte

Thanks for taking a look at the article I just created, Ève Paul-Margueritte, which includes the {{Construction}} template at the top as a hint that I'm working on it. I'm curious why you, 12 minutes later, you nonetheless put a {{stub}} template on it. Oh, well. Happy editing. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:34, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Palestine-Thailand relations‎

Hello, I noticed that you reviewed the article when I am already autopatroller. What is the reason?--Sakiv (talk) 17:14, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Saturday Feb 5: ONLINE Met Afrofuturist edit-a-thon (and monthlong campaign)

February 5, 12-2pm: ONLINE Met Afrofuturist edit-a-thon

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a virtual Metropolitan Museum of Art edit-a-thon Saturday afternoon (12-2pm) with partners AfroCROWD and Black Lunch Table. To join the livestream from your computer or smartphone, just watch at this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. Our focus will be on the exhibition Before Yesterday We Could Fly inspired by Seneca Village, and featured art, artists, history and culture of the African diaspora. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! We are also running a Met Afrofuturist chat channel on our Wikimedia NYC Discord server for the whole monthlong campaign. Saturday February 5 ONLINE Met Afrofuturist edit-a-thon (optional RSVP on-wiki) + monthlong campaign. 12:00pm - 2:00 pm livestream via YouTube Join our Met Afrofuturist chat channel

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Adding DEFAULTSORT?

Hallo, I see you added birth and death categories to Andrew J. Kelley. Do you know that you can add these and also the DEFAULTSORT (so he sorts under "K" not "A" in any list) by using the template {{L}}? It has to be substituted, but typing {{subst:L|1845|1918|Kelley, Andrew J.}} does the lot. For a living person, leave the second field empty; if even the birth year is unknown, leave that one empty: {{subst:L|||Kelley, Andrew J.}} would produce Category:Living people and Category:Year of birth missing (living people), as well as the DEFAULTSORT. It's a useful little template and you get a lot of value for your keystrokes. PamD 16:02, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

@PamD: Thank you for the tip! — Mainly 21:50, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia NYC: Strategic Planning Survey for our community

Wikimedia NYC: Strategic Planning Survey for our community

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Feb 23: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

February 23, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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Mar 27: Wiki-Tent Brunch in Brooklyn

March 27, 11am-2pm: Wiki-Tent Brunch in Brooklyn

Wiki-Tent Brunch location, Sahadi’s – Courtyard 3/4 in Industry City. You are invited to join us for a planned outdoor gathering between the local Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation at Sahadi's tent in Brooklyn's Industry City. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Sunday March 27 Wiki-Tent Brunch (RSVP on-wiki / RSVP off-wiki). 11:00am - 2:00 pm (Industry City, Brooklyn)

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WikiWednesday tonight + Sunday Wiki-Tent Brunch

Online and in-person events
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Nomination of Talk:Robiul Islam Jibon for deletion

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Coriannakox (talk) 18:01, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello, @Coriannakox: Thanks for your message, but why did you ping me? It doesn't look like I have any connection to that article. — Mainly 18:08, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

@Coriannakox: [replying to deleted comment] Oh, looks like I created the talk page, yes. I didn't create the article though. — Mainly 18:21, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Category:2020 establishments in Michigan for Depths of Wikipedia page?

Hi, I noticed you added Category:2020 establishments in Michigan to the page Depths of Wikipedia. I wasn't sure how or why that's an applicable tag, so I thought I might as well ask you! If it was a mistake, no worries, I just don't want to delete it in case there's a good reason for it being there :) Yitz (talk) 21:42, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

@Yitzilitt: Hello! I used it because the page was first established in 2020, and I believe in Michigan, by Rauwerda. I believe "establishments in X year" categories tend to capture anything established in a given year for which there is no more specific category (for instance, "Restaurants established in x year"). There's no Instagram accounts founded in X year category so this seemed the most appropriate. Look at the categories on Diet Prada for an example of similar classification. — Mainly 23:32, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the informative reply! I tend to associate "establishments" with businesses, and most instagram accounts are more personal in nature (and when they are business accounts, tend to be created a while after the establishment of the business), so it does still feel weird to me. Maybe we should add a category, something like "Social media accounts created in [year x]"? Yitz (talk) 06:04, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Apr 24: Wiki-Picnic and WikiSeder in Brooklyn

April 24, 2-5pm: Wiki-Picnic and WikiSeder in Brooklyn

Fort Greene Park. You are invited to join us for a planned outdoor gathering with the local Wikimedia NYC community at the barbecue area of Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Sunday April 24 Wiki-Picnic and WikiSeder (RSVP on-wiki). 2:00 - 5:00 pm (Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn)

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Apr 27: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

April 27, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

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