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Hi Ingratis, thanks for your comments on the Jordan Hall AfD. In addition to your comments, you also wondered whether Statue of Louis Agassiz and Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Stanford University) were notable either. I thought that you might be interested in a rather stale discussion at Talk:Statue of Louis Agassiz#Proposed merge. There are suggestions on merging these articles into the Main Quad article and another to merge all Stanford sculpture articles into a single page covering the whole set of public art. Someone at a recent RM that I closed made a similar suggestion, and I thought you might be interested in trying to restart that discussion. Wug· a·po·des 03:44, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Ingratis!
I've been looking over the Typo Team moss work, and I wanted to address the article SCORE Lites, which you updated a couple of days ago. You provided a link on the word "venturies" to the relevant section of the Venturi effect article. Thanks for this!
But I think that the preferred spelling of this plural should be "venturis", probably because it stems from a proper name, rather than a plural of a word ending in 'y'.
I'd like to change this, and I think one way to do this would be to move your redirect page [1] from "venturies" to "venturis". There might be other ways. Does this sound reasonable? Jkgree ( talk) 20:14, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
@ Jkgree: Hi there - and thank you for asking nicely! You are right, of course, about the correctness of the plural but I created the redirect from "venturies" with the superfluous "e" because that was what I found - and not only in SCORE Lites. Rightly or wrongly (although I have not checked beyond Google searches) it is a spelling in use in the industry and in engineering alongside "venturis". How about creating a separate redirect from "venturis" and leaving "venturies" as a Redirect from a misspelling? Ingratis ( talk) 23:12, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
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Help me check the page Tambor (dance). It's too bad. Đông Minh ( talk) 13:12, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
Please teach me: what does the "expand" tag mean. It's so normal that articles that are translations from foreign languages are covered better in that language, - why mention it? Seen at Altenberg Abbey. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:42, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
hello, it seems you are also fixing typos. can you please create talk page on Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss/B and announce on it your desired section. i have announced my plan on Wikipedia:Typo Team talk page.
once again i sincerely apologise for suggesting or contacting you.
regards Leela52452 ( talk) 16:21, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
I hope you are well. I wonder if you are able to help me with an English language translation of "Klostersekretär" and of "Domstiftssekretär"? Here is where I got to so far with this, but "monastery administrator" is short on euphony, and does not look particularly "genau".
I am conscious that it says somewhere that you are wiki-retired, but that was somewhere else. You should in any event, and please, on no account reply unless you want to. I have no wish to get in your way. Either way, thank you for having thought about it, and I wish you all necessary strength and fulfilment for the year ahead Best wishes Charles01 ( talk) 17:21, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
@ Charles01: Happy New Year - and decade! and thank you for your good wishes for what may well turn out to be a difficult year. I'm very pleased to hear from you. I hope you are well too. I "retired" for a while and forgot my password, so when I returned I had to start again. In this incarnation I'm doing more gnoming and less article creation but am still interested in monasteries.
As to "Klostersekretär" and "Domstiftssekretär", your translation seems fine - "abbey [or monastery] secretary" / "chapter secretary" would be alternatives, but no real need for them. The post itself, which I hadn't come across before, is an interesting one. If you read Gothic print, this is a detailed account of how it developed at St Marienthal (coincidentally) from the earlier post of steward (Schulze) - an employed "man of business" or (as you say) administrator, mostly for nunneries, apparently. Skimming through google I saw a couple of other passages where the Sekretär was also the librarian and archivist. All best, Ingratis ( talk) 13:44, 7 January 2020 (UTC) (irl Andrew)
Good catch on the typo. Thanks :) ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 04:12, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on The Ash grove (Charyn ash forest summerhouse) Almaty region requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.
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I agree with you when you say that Italian church titles should not be different to titles for churches in other countries. But since 95% of Italian churches titles already uses the same standard, except for those with a clearly established English name, I referred to WP:CONSISTENT. I moved just a few compared to the hundreds Italian churches articles we have. If you are interested in starting a discussion involving other users it would be great, so we'll finally have a good naming convention for religious building articles and we can fix this chaotic situation. This generic proposal was written more than ten years ago when English Wikipedia didn't have this huge amount of minor churches from other countries, but it has never been approved and it's totally forgotten now. We can consider bringing it back to life and improving it.-- Alienautic ( talk) 13:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hello CrazyBoy826. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Oversimplified, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: It was not transwikied, and is not a dictionary entry, so it does not meet the criteria. Thank you. CrazyBoy826 ( talk | contribs) 16:20, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my misunderstanding at the AfD discussion, it's much appreciated. Cheers, -- puddleglum 2.0 05:22, 16 May 2020 (UTC) |
Hi sir/madam i had wrongly accessdated some of my links i had sited on my new article Chreso University and you listed if for some speedy depletion since now i have corrected my mistakes will it still be deleted? Joseph R Sumaili ( talk) 00:23, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for giving me the link to collect info about Peruvian VPs. Unfortunately my knowledge of Spanish is very little , beginner level only. So I could understand a few percent of the pdf file. Anyway I am learning Spanish during lockdown. Thank you. Ppt2003 ( talk) 19:51, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Will you be kind enough to comment on my articles on Peruvian Vice presidents, and the style in which they have been written. I have written many articles about Vice presidents of Peru, a significant portion of which have been translated from Spanish . With my limited knowledge in Spanish, I fear whether these articles are merely literary translations, or remain in complete. Another thing is that the Freddy Centurion thesis discusses on the need of the expansion of the powers of the Vice presidents, not necessarily their careers and political achievements. Ppt2003 ( talk) 21:38, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you, sir for taking your time and toils to engage in the perusals and revisions essential to the modifications of my articles. The precipitous attitude of mine compelled me to compose so many articles within a few days. I will rectify the errors according to your suggestions. Your kindness is worth commendations. Ppt2003 ( talk) 18:24, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Ingratis. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Griestal-Strauße, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article claims coverage in reliable sources. Thank you. So Why 08:43, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Ingratis! I noticed you put a notability tag on Savion Castro. May I ask your rationale? The article cites ample sources. Is it because a school board member, by definition, isn't notable enough for Wikipedia? (I note there is a category for Wisconsin School Board members). Thank you for your response! WondermentDaily ( talk) 13:40, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
@ WondermentDaily: Thank you for asking nicely! My reason for questioning notability here is based on the guideline for the notability for politicians, WP:NPOL:
"The following are presumed to be notable:
- Politicians and judges who have held international, national, or (for countries with federal or similar systems of government) state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels. This also applies to people who have been elected to such offices but have not yet assumed them.
- Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.
Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the general notability guideline."
I understand this to mean that something as relatively minor politically as membership of a school board is not enough by itself for notability.
On the categories, these will overwhelmingly be for people notable in some other way who also happened to be members of school boards. The numbers are interesting: the range is from Delaware and Nevada with 2 each, up to Illinois, which has 85, + 16 for Chicago, with the average towards the lower end of the range, but Wisconsin has 389. This seems to suggest something unusual in the way Wisconsin bio articles have been categorised formerly! Best wishes, Ingratis ( talk) 15:04, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for your note and assistance about M.S.Ö. Air & Space Museum. I will do that for the translated articles in the future. Tauslu ( talk) 08:26, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
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Ingratis ( talk) 03:58, 30 June 2020 (UTC)@ Ingratis: - Panama City Beach hosts 17 million + visitors each season - thats more than double the entire population of NYC. Your stated position, which was condescending and not factual, regarding Mark Sheldon's position, Mayor, and I quote you: "a small town (less than 13,000 inhabitants) with no trace of significant press coverage - fails".
The economic impact of this town is over $2 billion annually.
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@ Nd12052010: - thanks - much appreciated! Ingratis ( talk) 01:21, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
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@ UnitedStatesian: - not emptied until 9 July, when the only article in it was draftified. Ingratis ( talk) 16:26, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your welcome message / advice. I was under the impression that Wikipedia was supposed to use American spellings, so thanks for clearing that up! TheAwesomeAtom ( talk) 17:55, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hiya! Thanks for getting involved - that was an unusually civil and sensible conversation with a productive outcome! Cheers Alexandermcnabb ( talk) 15:02, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
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It includes part of the Spanish (but, the part in Spanish is extracted from WP Japanese), part of two pages referred to in Japanese (I use a translator; although I speak something, but in general it is factory language), a detailed view of the place on Google Map, other old plans of the place ( Katori Sea and Tokyo Bay, Jōmon period) and various articles. The first reference to its existence, I got it from the page in Japanese some time ago. I lived in Tsukuba City. I have been to Lake Kasumigaura, Tone River and Katori City, etc. My user, kasutoro is on rōmaji. Thank you.
I have used several IPs in Spanish WP, as the Internet provider changes them. That page in Spanish started by IP 190.107.18.84 on Febrary 15, 2014 about Puerto de Kashima, I did it myself. This year 2021 I was writing in Ibaraki Prefecture in English WP, and I didn't have a Port of Kashima page. Like others that I elaborated or expanded in Spanish, the primary source was Japanese WP, but I also used English WP. When I have written or expanded on Japan, I usually do it on Ibaraki Prefecture, there I lived and I know the environment. Thank you again.
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Hi, thanks for the prompt and hopefully straightforward page review. One question, I couldn't see Grindle on Special:NewPagesFeed, am I doing something wrong? TSventon ( talk) 12:14, 7 January 2022 (UTC).
TSventon - no problem - as you say, should be straightforward. You're not doing anything wrong - the page is on the NewPagesFeed under the date of creation, 15 April 2007. Ingratis ( talk) 18:51, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, I knew the redirect was creatyed in 2007 and pages are listed by creation date, but for some reason didn't put two and two together. TSventon ( talk) 19:24, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Thank you for the modifications on the article " Quartier Thiers". The geolocation at the beginning of the page is wrong because it points to the 7th district. I don't know how to modify and place the right geolocation which is on the equivalent article in French. Thank you for your help. All best. -- Parsedan ( talk) 10:55, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, the novel is not about Catherine the Great, and the quartet of novels deals with the early Romanov dynasty, which has not been treated at all in Literature. Catherine the Great was born as a German Princess and ruled at the end of the 18th century. M — Preceding unsigned comment added by Makkimekko ( talk • contribs) 11:34, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
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@ No Great Shaker: Great idea, and thanks for letting me know. I was sorry to see that the SPI came to nothing, but I think FWIW that there were enough grounds to raise the question. Ingratis ( talk) 19:15, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hello Ingratis,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 [a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size. [b]
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Thanks for help with Lucifera; I overdid the subject making separate '(name)' article. I don't know the original ancient name/goddess/epithet (mainly Diana/ Artemis) is large enough subject so can you say either way if should still be disambiguation (now stub) or just move back Lucifera (comics) as main with hat-note to Diana? I prefer articles start with history (like Boston should be about UK with hatnote to 'Boston (USA,)' and many similar cases) but maybe not always done. Luciferas certainly have citations/quotes/references for respective articles, which sounds like what cross-references are for.-- dchmelik ( t| c) 10:54, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
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Ingratis ( talk) 01:03, 28 July 2022 (UTC)I'm just wondering about this edit you made - is it really a pseudonym, or is it just a different spelling (Anglicization) of his name? What do the sources say? St Anselm ( talk) 19:44, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
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Thanks for the education. I admit to not knowing much about the order besides the song. I moved the article to "Dominican priory", which is what I think you were recommending. If not LMK Elinruby ( talk) 20:48, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
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Yeah, I translated the Swedish article. I modified a few words to make it better readable, but it's like 99% translation. Go ahead and do the attribution thing, because I have no idea about that, sorry. Thanks for your interest on the article in any case. 12qwas ( talk) 14:20, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Ingratis, thanks for your comments on the Jordan Hall AfD. In addition to your comments, you also wondered whether Statue of Louis Agassiz and Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Stanford University) were notable either. I thought that you might be interested in a rather stale discussion at Talk:Statue of Louis Agassiz#Proposed merge. There are suggestions on merging these articles into the Main Quad article and another to merge all Stanford sculpture articles into a single page covering the whole set of public art. Someone at a recent RM that I closed made a similar suggestion, and I thought you might be interested in trying to restart that discussion. Wug· a·po·des 03:44, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
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I've been looking over the Typo Team moss work, and I wanted to address the article SCORE Lites, which you updated a couple of days ago. You provided a link on the word "venturies" to the relevant section of the Venturi effect article. Thanks for this!
But I think that the preferred spelling of this plural should be "venturis", probably because it stems from a proper name, rather than a plural of a word ending in 'y'.
I'd like to change this, and I think one way to do this would be to move your redirect page [1] from "venturies" to "venturis". There might be other ways. Does this sound reasonable? Jkgree ( talk) 20:14, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
@ Jkgree: Hi there - and thank you for asking nicely! You are right, of course, about the correctness of the plural but I created the redirect from "venturies" with the superfluous "e" because that was what I found - and not only in SCORE Lites. Rightly or wrongly (although I have not checked beyond Google searches) it is a spelling in use in the industry and in engineering alongside "venturis". How about creating a separate redirect from "venturis" and leaving "venturies" as a Redirect from a misspelling? Ingratis ( talk) 23:12, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
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Help me check the page Tambor (dance). It's too bad. Đông Minh ( talk) 13:12, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
Please teach me: what does the "expand" tag mean. It's so normal that articles that are translations from foreign languages are covered better in that language, - why mention it? Seen at Altenberg Abbey. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:42, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
hello, it seems you are also fixing typos. can you please create talk page on Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss/B and announce on it your desired section. i have announced my plan on Wikipedia:Typo Team talk page.
once again i sincerely apologise for suggesting or contacting you.
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I hope you are well. I wonder if you are able to help me with an English language translation of "Klostersekretär" and of "Domstiftssekretär"? Here is where I got to so far with this, but "monastery administrator" is short on euphony, and does not look particularly "genau".
I am conscious that it says somewhere that you are wiki-retired, but that was somewhere else. You should in any event, and please, on no account reply unless you want to. I have no wish to get in your way. Either way, thank you for having thought about it, and I wish you all necessary strength and fulfilment for the year ahead Best wishes Charles01 ( talk) 17:21, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
@ Charles01: Happy New Year - and decade! and thank you for your good wishes for what may well turn out to be a difficult year. I'm very pleased to hear from you. I hope you are well too. I "retired" for a while and forgot my password, so when I returned I had to start again. In this incarnation I'm doing more gnoming and less article creation but am still interested in monasteries.
As to "Klostersekretär" and "Domstiftssekretär", your translation seems fine - "abbey [or monastery] secretary" / "chapter secretary" would be alternatives, but no real need for them. The post itself, which I hadn't come across before, is an interesting one. If you read Gothic print, this is a detailed account of how it developed at St Marienthal (coincidentally) from the earlier post of steward (Schulze) - an employed "man of business" or (as you say) administrator, mostly for nunneries, apparently. Skimming through google I saw a couple of other passages where the Sekretär was also the librarian and archivist. All best, Ingratis ( talk) 13:44, 7 January 2020 (UTC) (irl Andrew)
Good catch on the typo. Thanks :) ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 04:12, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Ingratis, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. However, you should consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors ( User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Chetsford ( talk) 15:32, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on The Ash grove (Charyn ash forest summerhouse) Almaty region requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.
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I agree with you when you say that Italian church titles should not be different to titles for churches in other countries. But since 95% of Italian churches titles already uses the same standard, except for those with a clearly established English name, I referred to WP:CONSISTENT. I moved just a few compared to the hundreds Italian churches articles we have. If you are interested in starting a discussion involving other users it would be great, so we'll finally have a good naming convention for religious building articles and we can fix this chaotic situation. This generic proposal was written more than ten years ago when English Wikipedia didn't have this huge amount of minor churches from other countries, but it has never been approved and it's totally forgotten now. We can consider bringing it back to life and improving it.-- Alienautic ( talk) 13:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I don't really do NPP work, so I'm not the person who could tutor you through their processes. Sorry, but good luck. Bearcat ( talk) 16:26, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello CrazyBoy826. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Oversimplified, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: It was not transwikied, and is not a dictionary entry, so it does not meet the criteria. Thank you. CrazyBoy826 ( talk | contribs) 16:20, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my misunderstanding at the AfD discussion, it's much appreciated. Cheers, -- puddleglum 2.0 05:22, 16 May 2020 (UTC) |
Hi sir/madam i had wrongly accessdated some of my links i had sited on my new article Chreso University and you listed if for some speedy depletion since now i have corrected my mistakes will it still be deleted? Joseph R Sumaili ( talk) 00:23, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for giving me the link to collect info about Peruvian VPs. Unfortunately my knowledge of Spanish is very little , beginner level only. So I could understand a few percent of the pdf file. Anyway I am learning Spanish during lockdown. Thank you. Ppt2003 ( talk) 19:51, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Will you be kind enough to comment on my articles on Peruvian Vice presidents, and the style in which they have been written. I have written many articles about Vice presidents of Peru, a significant portion of which have been translated from Spanish . With my limited knowledge in Spanish, I fear whether these articles are merely literary translations, or remain in complete. Another thing is that the Freddy Centurion thesis discusses on the need of the expansion of the powers of the Vice presidents, not necessarily their careers and political achievements. Ppt2003 ( talk) 21:38, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you, sir for taking your time and toils to engage in the perusals and revisions essential to the modifications of my articles. The precipitous attitude of mine compelled me to compose so many articles within a few days. I will rectify the errors according to your suggestions. Your kindness is worth commendations. Ppt2003 ( talk) 18:24, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Ingratis. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Griestal-Strauße, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article claims coverage in reliable sources. Thank you. So Why 08:43, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Ingratis! I noticed you put a notability tag on Savion Castro. May I ask your rationale? The article cites ample sources. Is it because a school board member, by definition, isn't notable enough for Wikipedia? (I note there is a category for Wisconsin School Board members). Thank you for your response! WondermentDaily ( talk) 13:40, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
@ WondermentDaily: Thank you for asking nicely! My reason for questioning notability here is based on the guideline for the notability for politicians, WP:NPOL:
"The following are presumed to be notable:
- Politicians and judges who have held international, national, or (for countries with federal or similar systems of government) state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels. This also applies to people who have been elected to such offices but have not yet assumed them.
- Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.
Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the general notability guideline."
I understand this to mean that something as relatively minor politically as membership of a school board is not enough by itself for notability.
On the categories, these will overwhelmingly be for people notable in some other way who also happened to be members of school boards. The numbers are interesting: the range is from Delaware and Nevada with 2 each, up to Illinois, which has 85, + 16 for Chicago, with the average towards the lower end of the range, but Wisconsin has 389. This seems to suggest something unusual in the way Wisconsin bio articles have been categorised formerly! Best wishes, Ingratis ( talk) 15:04, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for your note and assistance about M.S.Ö. Air & Space Museum. I will do that for the translated articles in the future. Tauslu ( talk) 08:26, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
@ Ingratis: Why do you keep unreviewing articles I review??? scope_creep Talk 22:56, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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Ingratis ( talk) 03:58, 30 June 2020 (UTC)@ Ingratis: - Panama City Beach hosts 17 million + visitors each season - thats more than double the entire population of NYC. Your stated position, which was condescending and not factual, regarding Mark Sheldon's position, Mayor, and I quote you: "a small town (less than 13,000 inhabitants) with no trace of significant press coverage - fails".
The economic impact of this town is over $2 billion annually.
{{subst:dtag|nowiki|}}Bell, Megan. "PCB sees record breaking year". wjhg.com. wjhg.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.{{subst:dtag|nowiki|}}
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@ Nd12052010: - thanks - much appreciated! Ingratis ( talk) 01:21, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:South African folklore 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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@ UnitedStatesian: - not emptied until 9 July, when the only article in it was draftified. Ingratis ( talk) 16:26, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your welcome message / advice. I was under the impression that Wikipedia was supposed to use American spellings, so thanks for clearing that up! TheAwesomeAtom ( talk) 17:55, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
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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.
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Hiya! Thanks for getting involved - that was an unusually civil and sensible conversation with a productive outcome! Cheers Alexandermcnabb ( talk) 15:02, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
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It includes part of the Spanish (but, the part in Spanish is extracted from WP Japanese), part of two pages referred to in Japanese (I use a translator; although I speak something, but in general it is factory language), a detailed view of the place on Google Map, other old plans of the place ( Katori Sea and Tokyo Bay, Jōmon period) and various articles. The first reference to its existence, I got it from the page in Japanese some time ago. I lived in Tsukuba City. I have been to Lake Kasumigaura, Tone River and Katori City, etc. My user, kasutoro is on rōmaji. Thank you.
I have used several IPs in Spanish WP, as the Internet provider changes them. That page in Spanish started by IP 190.107.18.84 on Febrary 15, 2014 about Puerto de Kashima, I did it myself. This year 2021 I was writing in Ibaraki Prefecture in English WP, and I didn't have a Port of Kashima page. Like others that I elaborated or expanded in Spanish, the primary source was Japanese WP, but I also used English WP. When I have written or expanded on Japan, I usually do it on Ibaraki Prefecture, there I lived and I know the environment. Thank you again.
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Hi, thanks for the prompt and hopefully straightforward page review. One question, I couldn't see Grindle on Special:NewPagesFeed, am I doing something wrong? TSventon ( talk) 12:14, 7 January 2022 (UTC).
TSventon - no problem - as you say, should be straightforward. You're not doing anything wrong - the page is on the NewPagesFeed under the date of creation, 15 April 2007. Ingratis ( talk) 18:51, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, I knew the redirect was creatyed in 2007 and pages are listed by creation date, but for some reason didn't put two and two together. TSventon ( talk) 19:24, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Thank you for the modifications on the article " Quartier Thiers". The geolocation at the beginning of the page is wrong because it points to the 7th district. I don't know how to modify and place the right geolocation which is on the equivalent article in French. Thank you for your help. All best. -- Parsedan ( talk) 10:55, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, the novel is not about Catherine the Great, and the quartet of novels deals with the early Romanov dynasty, which has not been treated at all in Literature. Catherine the Great was born as a German Princess and ruled at the end of the 18th century. M — Preceding unsigned comment added by Makkimekko ( talk • contribs) 11:34, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed you are an active person at AfC. I've helpe this draft /info/en/?search=Draft:Gohenry and filled it with reliable sources. Could you please take a look? -- 82.40.169.107 ( talk) 11:35, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
thankyou for redirecting the article on Irmintraut Schneider. The events that happened with this article make me very heavily question the justifiability of Lugnuts mass reverting my redirects. I feel that he is specifically trying to limit my ability to contribute to Wikipedia. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 14:03, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello. I've begun a deletion sorting page for articles about the Olympics which are nominated at AfD. Hope you find it useful. No Great Shaker ( talk) 14:01, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
@ No Great Shaker: Great idea, and thanks for letting me know. I was sorry to see that the SPI came to nothing, but I think FWIW that there were enough grounds to raise the question. Ingratis ( talk) 19:15, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
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At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 [a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size. [b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
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Thanks for help with Lucifera; I overdid the subject making separate '(name)' article. I don't know the original ancient name/goddess/epithet (mainly Diana/ Artemis) is large enough subject so can you say either way if should still be disambiguation (now stub) or just move back Lucifera (comics) as main with hat-note to Diana? I prefer articles start with history (like Boston should be about UK with hatnote to 'Boston (USA,)' and many similar cases) but maybe not always done. Luciferas certainly have citations/quotes/references for respective articles, which sounds like what cross-references are for.-- dchmelik ( t| c) 10:54, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
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Ingratis ( talk) 01:39, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
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Ingratis ( talk) 01:03, 28 July 2022 (UTC)I'm just wondering about this edit you made - is it really a pseudonym, or is it just a different spelling (Anglicization) of his name? What do the sources say? St Anselm ( talk) 19:44, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
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After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
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Hello Ingratis,
Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.
Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.
Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.
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Backlog:
Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
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Hello Ingratis,
The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)
New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly
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Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.
Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.
Thanks for the education. I admit to not knowing much about the order besides the song. I moved the article to "Dominican priory", which is what I think you were recommending. If not LMK Elinruby ( talk) 20:48, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
If you know: I am getting a disambiguation notice for "Phylactery" in that article. I have only previously encountered the word in the context of Orthodox Judaism, which is why I wikilinked it. Do you know which of those choices on the dab page, if any, is appropriate? Elinruby ( talk) 21:12, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Thank you for participating and helping out at WP:AFC/R. I thought I'd suggest that you utilize Enterprisey's script for processing requests which can be found here. I mention this because it looks like you're processing requests manually and, in doing so, you appear to have made a typo in a request that you processed ( here). No big deal, these things happen, but I wanted to suggest it since I've found it's made life easier for me. Hey man im josh ( talk) 11:49, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
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Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.
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You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.
Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).
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Hi Ingratis - did you intend to decline and then subsequently resubmit this draft? LittlePuppers ( talk) 13:55, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
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Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!
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PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.
Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.
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The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
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Yeah, I translated the Swedish article. I modified a few words to make it better readable, but it's like 99% translation. Go ahead and do the attribution thing, because I have no idea about that, sorry. Thanks for your interest on the article in any case. 12qwas ( talk) 14:20, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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Welcome, welcome, welcome Ingratis! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
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This award is given in recognition to Ingratis for collecting more than 100 points during the January 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,070 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh ( talk) 22:34, 8 February 2024 (UTC) |
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Much appreciated - thanks! Ingratis ( talk) 16:53, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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Thanks for the barnstar! I enjoyed working on the British Rabbit Council, but it's nice to have one's efforts noticed too. Best wishes, Tacyarg ( talk) 08:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello Ingratis,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
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Hi Ingratis :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:05, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Ingratis. I learned how to properly reference articles. I created a new article about the Roman consul Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Lupus of 156 BC. Please check it to see if I did it correctly. If it is insufficient by all means, please delete it and inform me. Thank you, Edgar Aetheling 25 ( talk) 17:50, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
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