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Hello, Qwerfjkl,
While I appreciate you almost single-handedly handling this noticeboard, I would urge you to be discriminating and to turn down requests for redirects that might be soon nominated for deletion at RFD. There are some recently created redirects that are highly implausible that I deleted via CSD and others that have been nominated at RFD. You are acting as the redirect gatekeeper right now and I encourage you to turn down ones that seem flimsy, peculiar or implausible. If editors have a problem with you saying "No" you can refer them to the Teahouse or an admin. Thank you for your work. Liz Read! Talk! 04:41, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
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You have been trouted for: I made a reasonable request for admin support in unprotecting a page, Phi Sigma Chi, to allow creation of a redirect. The original admin who protected it is no longer active. You provided no clarification of your denial, while my request was in line with standard usage. My intent is to create a REDIRECT, not to write a new article. There are 24 other groups with such redirects at this school, essentially many-decades old fraternal groups most of whom do not have an article about themselves. A redirect back to the college article section is appropriate. All these I have enhanced with instructions for how to write a page that passes review. Qwerfjkl, if we are to grow Wikipedia, we need to nurture the newbies. And treat experienced editors with a modicum of respect. Jax MN ( talk) 15:35, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
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With what is "Weddin" ambiguous? If you have suggestions, I'll create a disambiguation page. 64.203.186.66 ( talk) 18:01, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
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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.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
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@ Qwerfjkl: I've rephrased the Garuda Linux Wikipedia page to sound less promotional, take a look any chance you get. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Galactic Cake ( talk • contribs) 06:58, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{ cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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User:Qwerfjkl, thanks for creating this, as requested at WP:VPT#doi citation tool down! I had some trouble with the first two methods (see my common.js) but finally got it with method 3. Nice! Mathglot ( talk) 18:19, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, it seems that you are the proposer for Wikiproject SpaceX. I have created a taskforce inside Wikiproject Spaceflight, so come and have a look! CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 18:58, 6 October 2021 (UTC) CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 18:59, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Qwerfjkl,
This editor has overwhelmed Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories with requests. As far as I know, you are the primary editor responding to requests on this noticeboard. I have forbidden them from making any more requests for one week and I just wanted to say you can choose how to respond to this deluge, respond if you like, refuse them or even revert them. I have no idea how much time & effort is involved in your work and I don't want you to feel like you have to spend all of your time responding to hundreds of requests, even if they are good ones. I trust your judgment. Liz Read! Talk! 03:09, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, Qwerfjkl,
While I appreciate you almost single-handedly handling this noticeboard, I would urge you to be discriminating and to turn down requests for redirects that might be soon nominated for deletion at RFD. There are some recently created redirects that are highly implausible that I deleted via CSD and others that have been nominated at RFD. You are acting as the redirect gatekeeper right now and I encourage you to turn down ones that seem flimsy, peculiar or implausible. If editors have a problem with you saying "No" you can refer them to the Teahouse or an admin. Thank you for your work. Liz Read! Talk! 04:41, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
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Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly. |
You have been trouted for: I made a reasonable request for admin support in unprotecting a page, Phi Sigma Chi, to allow creation of a redirect. The original admin who protected it is no longer active. You provided no clarification of your denial, while my request was in line with standard usage. My intent is to create a REDIRECT, not to write a new article. There are 24 other groups with such redirects at this school, essentially many-decades old fraternal groups most of whom do not have an article about themselves. A redirect back to the college article section is appropriate. All these I have enhanced with instructions for how to write a page that passes review. Qwerfjkl, if we are to grow Wikipedia, we need to nurture the newbies. And treat experienced editors with a modicum of respect. Jax MN ( talk) 15:35, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, thank you for creating the new HTML entity redirects, but I just wanted to let you know that you accidentally put Category:HTML entity redirects onto the target pages, such as Vertical bar, instead of onto the new redirects. I'm hitting "undo" on all of them but just wanted to let you know why I was doing it. 64.203.186.76 ( talk) 17:47, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
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With what is "Weddin" ambiguous? If you have suggestions, I'll create a disambiguation page. 64.203.186.66 ( talk) 18:01, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Qwerfjkl,
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.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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Hey, I noticed you recently filed some AfDs against Spokane Ball yt's articles. When a deletion is likely to be uncontroversial, as many of those are - can I suggest using WP:PROD instead? In situations like this, PRODing them would likely get them deleted a bit quicker and make less work for others to deal with. Elli ( talk | contribs) 06:45, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
@ Qwerfjkl: I've rephrased the Garuda Linux Wikipedia page to sound less promotional, take a look any chance you get. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Galactic Cake ( talk • contribs) 06:58, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Drive and Blitz reports
June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{ cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Terry McAuliffe VA political candidate wikipage edits seem to be strongly opinionated and biased against the candidate. I cannot determine if edits were made by a bot or individual. Please confirm. Reviewer3891 ( talk) 12:06, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
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16:29, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
User:Qwerfjkl, thanks for creating this, as requested at WP:VPT#doi citation tool down! I had some trouble with the first two methods (see my common.js) but finally got it with method 3. Nice! Mathglot ( talk) 18:19, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
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Enterprisey's script installer worked. ―
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talk 18:51, 4 October 2021 (UTC)Hi there, I've removed the recent bot edit at Line 2 (Shanghai Metro), which caused several "ref tags with nothing in them" errors. I couldn't quite understand why, so just reverted. Thanks, Jessicapierce ( talk) 14:54, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, it seems that you are the proposer for Wikiproject SpaceX. I have created a taskforce inside Wikiproject Spaceflight, so come and have a look! CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 18:58, 6 October 2021 (UTC) CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 18:59, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Qwerfjkl,
This editor has overwhelmed Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories with requests. As far as I know, you are the primary editor responding to requests on this noticeboard. I have forbidden them from making any more requests for one week and I just wanted to say you can choose how to respond to this deluge, respond if you like, refuse them or even revert them. I have no idea how much time & effort is involved in your work and I don't want you to feel like you have to spend all of your time responding to hundreds of requests, even if they are good ones. I trust your judgment. Liz Read! Talk! 03:09, 7 October 2021 (UTC)