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I left some feedback on the Requests for Feedback page, and did some minor edits to your draft (described in my comments). Be aware that a couple of your sources will not be considered "Reliable Sources". For example, on the page WP:RS in a discussion of "self-published sources", it says, "blogs ... are largely not acceptable". The so-called blog of Glaudi's fellow sportscaster may in reality be an article, and calling it a "blog" just the publisher's way of sounding current. But it is possible you will receive negative comments about this, so be prepared. If you can locate additional verification of any of the facts recited in your article from an additional mainstream news source (obituary perhaps), you should include it in your article to stave off problems. Nicely done article in my opinion. Tkotc ( talk) 05:55, 20 March 2011 (UTC) reply

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Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 18:04, 27 February 2012 (UTC) reply

I was looking at the article on Adrien De Pauger -- good work, by the way -- and I compared it with fr.wiki's article on him, and they've got different dates for his death. You said June 9th, fr.wiki says June 21st. What's your source? DS ( talk) 14:58, 3 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Thanks. The source of de Pauger's date of death is the September 26, 1954 article about de Pauger in the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper, written by New Orleans historian Pie Dufour. Nolabob ( talk) 00:24, 4 April 2012 (UTC) reply

Ah, a reference! I don't suppose it has a title? DS ( talk) 03:00, 4 April 2012 (UTC) reply

The article is called "Designer of New Orleans", in Pie Dufour's "A La Mode" column. Nolabob ( talk) 23:50, 4 April 2012 (UTC) reply

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Thank you for your recent edits on Harry P. Gamble. As a graduate of Jesuit, you might find interest in Johnny Menville. If you are really interested on the broader subject of southern football during that time, William Lofland Dudley could use someone with a chemist's expertise, for my lack of sufficient chemistry studies makes an exhaustive account of his scientific contributions difficult. Cake ( talk) 15:52, 3 October 2015 (UTC) Thank you for your note. I'll keep the suggestion about Dudley in mind. Much as I like Tulane and Jesuit, does Menville really meet Wikipedia's notability criteria? Nolabob ( talk) 13:28, 4 October 2015 (UTC) reply

A fair question, but I would say so. The strongest and first point is laid out in brief on the All-Southern article; i. e. before the SEC in 1933, and certainly before the death of Camp, they were equivalent to All-American designation, as such was impossible for southern players (cf. John Tigert's or Hunter Carpenter's various HOF profiles). Second, even if we take it as just like an All-SEC selection today, that is usually sufficient for an article. Menville was also a very versatile athlete, the best at his school (won the Porter Cup). He punted and also played defensive end ( Jess Neely was another fellow I know more about who must've been regularly crushed when switched to DE). Cake ( talk) 18:06, 8 October 2015 (UTC) reply

I just made the article for William T. Daly who might interest you as an academic and athlete who gave his life to Louisiana. Cake ( talk) 16:46, 18 December 2015 (UTC) reply

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at User:ArchiTech28/sandbox. Thanks! SwisterTwister talk 15:32, 27 December 2016 (UTC) reply

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The warning template I used is unnecessarily harsh, but Wikipedia does take this matter quite seriously. You might not have known that the video was not an official upload so I could understand the confusion. Thank you for trying to improve Wikipedia. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 01:15, 2 January 2017 (UTC) reply

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I thought you might be interested to know that I have been working on a draft under this name for a long time - but it turns out that it is a different Charles E. Fenner. The draft is now at Draft:Charles E. Fenner (judge). Cheers! BD2412 T 19:40, 15 December 2019 (UTC) reply

@ BD2412 Thanks for letting me know! I look forward to the publication of your article. The two are cousins. We'll establish links between each of the two articles once you are finished. Best regards, Nolabob ( talk) 21:38, 15 December 2019 (UTC) reply

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@ Mary Mark Ockerbloom Thank you, Mary. I look forward to continued collaboration with you. Nolabob ( talk) 00:17, 7 January 2020 (UTC) reply

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Always interested to learn more about NOLA, so thanks for sharing info about Curtis & Davis today. There was another drawings collection from Curtis at SEAA, but the link I added seemed most relevant to your article as it was a collection of drawings of buildings. I remember well the Saigon building in the news. MssLibrarian ( talk) 22:38, 14 November 2020 (UTC) reply

@ MssLibrarian:. Thank you for the upgrade to the article. Do you have a NOLA connection? Curious the reason for your particular interest in NOLA. Nolabob ( talk) 01:15, 15 November 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Nolabob:. Yes, parents married in 52 and moved there when mother obtained MSW from Tulane, father was civilian engineer for the Navy. Never lived there myself, but visited college friend several times in the 70s and many times more for conferences in later years. Mother's shrimp creole is a family favorite and Confederacy of Dunces is one of my all-time favorite books. Much to admire about the rich, colorful history and culture of the Crescent City. Laissez les bon temps rouler. MssLibrarian ( talk) 17:47, 15 November 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hi. I note that St. Stephen Church in Uptown New Orleans was recently promoted to a basilica. We don't have an article for it; I think that might be a good addition. There's a category with a fair number of images existent on Commons

Wikimedia Commons has media related to St._Stephen_Church,_New_Orleans.

Cheers, -- Infrogmation ( talk) 00:44, 23 June 2022 (UTC) reply

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll definitely look into this. However, I'm distracted with some family matters at the moment, so it might be toward the end of the summer before there's significant progress. Nolabob ( talk) 10:38, 23 June 2022 (UTC) reply

Sure thing. You're good at such local articles. Depending on what else occupies my attention, I might create a starter article before then. Best wishes, -- Infrogmation ( talk) 14:55, 23 June 2022 (UTC) reply

Preference that I start the article, within my "sandbox" and then move it to article space when it is ready for public viewing. I hope that's ok with you. Incidentally, you've piqued my curiosity about this subject and I may start sooner than I thought. Nolabob ( talk) 15:01, 23 June 2022 (UTC) reply

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Incredible work on Jean-Louis Dolliole. Just stopping by to tell you that. Anwegmann ( talk) 15:06, 12 August 2022 (UTC) reply

@ Anwegmann Thank you! I much appreciate your saying so. Nolabob ( talk) 17:34, 12 August 2022 (UTC) reply

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Thank you for beginning the GA review of this article. David notMD ( talk) 12:51, 27 August 2022 (UTC) reply

Copyediting - I am, perhaps, too close to the article to do a decent copyediting pass-through. I would appreciate it if you would take on this task, either now or when all of the other to-do items have been addressed. David notMD ( talk) 15:24, 28 August 2022 (UTC) reply

I understand completely. I will take on the copyediting task per your request in a day or two as the review progresses. At this time, I'm working on the spot check of the citations. Nolabob ( talk) 16:10, 28 August 2022 (UTC) reply

I am addressing the last of the queries today. I will add a note here when done. If, on a final read-through, more questions arise, please leave a note on my Talk page so I can revisit. I appreciate your attention to detail and patience. On the former, looks like I should revisit the food allergy articles previously raised to GA, to improve those. On the latter, there have been some personal distractions - including a wildfire not too far from our daughter's place in California (happily now contained) - so I am glad that we are nearing the end of the process. David notMD ( talk) 14:06, 5 September 2022 (UTC) reply

All outstanding requests addressed. David notMD ( talk) 13:03, 6 September 2022 (UTC) reply

I will be incorporating the improvements made in response to your review of the Sesame allergy GA nomination to the Milk allergy, Egg allergy, Fish allergy and [[Shellfish allergy] articles I had previously raised to GA (different reviewers see different things). Including better Infoboxes. David notMD ( talk) 17:05, 6 September 2022 (UTC) reply

Very good! I'm glad the improvements to the Sesame allergy article will be extended to these other articles. Nolabob ( talk) 18:03, 6 September 2022 (UTC) reply

I'm planning a visit to LaPlace Louisiana next week, mostly to see the Woodland Plantation's reincarnation as the 1811/Kid Ory Museum. Letting you know in case you have any requests for me to photograph in that area. (I'm not expecting to go much further upriver nor to the West Bank.) Leave a message on my Commons talk page if so. Keep up your good work! Cheers, -- Infrogmation ( talk) 04:04, 28 August 2022 (UTC) reply

Thank you for thinking of me and for your positive feedback. I don't have any specific projects in mind related to LaPlace. One thing that comes to mind has to do with nearby Norco, Louisiana. Its Wikipedia page has little in the way of photographs. Maybe a few photos related to Norco, if that's not inconvenient? Thanks! Nolabob ( talk) 10:43, 28 August 2022 (UTC) reply

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Pay Toilets is an off-shoot of Draft:Great Toilet Battle which in turn is derived from Youtube Great Toilet Battle Great Toilet Battle (Deutsche Welle uploaded to YT) (2022-10-08)

This 42minute long YT film features some of the following actors, people and things and is deadly serious about lifting hundreds of millions out of third world unsewered filth, a worthy cause if ever there was one:

• Jack Sim founder of World Toilet Organization ( WTO)
• Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
• Logo of Pay Toilets consists of Mahatma Gandhi's distinctive round glasses.
• Modi announced his clean toilet project on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday of 2 October
• A leading Indian Bollywood actor who stars in the movie "Toilets" and becomes the Face of Toilets.

• Youtube Great Toilet Battle - World Toilet Organization - Mahatma Gandhi's glasses - Logo
  Youtube Great Toilet Battle - World Toilet Organization - Mahatma Gandhi's glasses - Logo
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  Deutsche Welle logo - "D" and "W" inside overlapping circles - Motto = Made for minds.
• no mention as yet of program "Great Toilet Battle"
  no mention as yet of program "Great Toilet Battle"

• I do not mind you moving Pay Toilets to Draft space..

Do I need to cite more? ---- MountVic127 ( talk) 17:38, 2 November 2022 (UTC) MountVic127 ( talk) 17:38, 2 November 2022 (UTC) reply

Here's a statement of the Wikipedia policy on citing Youtube. Considering what you said about this project, I suggest looking for other reliable sources beyond Youtube. A brief Google search indicates that there are New York Times and Wall Street Journal articles about Gates's effort to improving sanitation in the Third World. Nolabob ( talk) 19:16, 2 November 2022 (UTC) reply

Deutsche Welle (DW) is a reputable broadcaster like the BBC and Australia's ABC and SBS; the Great Toilet Battle happens to be an upload to youtube of this article. In hindsight I could have named the relevant files "DW GTB" rather than "YT GTB" but this is too late to change.

I searched DW and found an index of programs that have made and the nearest to GTB is "Great Barrier Reef"; clearly they have yet to update this index.

While much of youtube maybe trivial, rubbish, labourious, spam or worse, the "Great Toilet Battle" from DW is genuine and worthy of citation.

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Thank you for taking on this task. Nolabob ( talk) 00:32, 13 November 2022 (UTC) reply

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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 explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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On 22 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Edith Rosenwald Stern, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sears heiress Edith Rosenwald Stern organized a women's broom brigade against political corruption in New Orleans? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edith Rosenwald Stern. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Edith Rosenwald Stern), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 —  Amakuru ( talk) 00:03, 22 January 2023 (UTC) reply

Hi Nolabob. In case you'd not come across it before, I thought I'd message to ask whether there are any wikipedia articles that you'd be interested in creating/updating/overhauling and submitting for external, academic peer review.

The WikiJournal of Science (www.wikijsci.org) couples the rigour of academic peer review with the extreme reach of the encyclopedia. For existing Wikipedia articles, it's a great way to get additional feedback from external experts. Peer-reviewed articles are dual-published both as standard academic PDFs, as well as having changes integrated back into Wikipedia. This improves the scientific accuracy of the encyclopedia, and rewards authors with citable, indexed publications. It also provides much greater reach than is normally achieved through traditional scholarly publishing.

Note that we do have to publish under real names, so if you don't want your real name associated to your username, you may have to choose atopic that your username has not previously edited.

Anyway, let me know whether you'd be interested in putting an article through academic peer review (either solo, or with a team of coauthors).

All the best, T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) ^talk 10:14, 5 February 2023 (UTC) reply

I will let you remove your edits to Cemitério dos Ingleses, Gamboa (in Rio de Janiero) please add them to Cemitério dos Ingleses (in Recife) where he is actually buried. Will be good for the article to have reference. regards Richard Bruce Bradford ( talk) 23:25, 7 February 2023 (UTC) reply

I have removed the edits made in error. Thank you for calling this to my attention and allowing me to fix my own error. Regards, Nolabob ( talk) 13:37, 8 February 2023 (UTC) reply

Good day. I notice that the Langenstein's article is up for deletion. I'm not sure if it's notable outside of Greater New Orleans, but I'm sure more could be added to the article if you think it a worthy subject to save. I do know that there are pix of each of the locations on Commons. Red beans & ricely, -- Infrogmation ( talk) 22:45, 27 March 2023 (UTC) reply

OK, I'll have a look at it tomorrow. I'll determine if I can address the notability concern and also the ad-like tone of the article. On a personal note, my parents were acquaintances with the owners of Langenstein's, although ironically my parents did not shop there. My parents and their Langenstein acquaintances are long since past, so there is no COI. Thanks for calling this to my attention. Nolabob ( talk) 23:26, 27 March 2023 (UTC) reply

Great. I did a few quick additions. Cheers, -- Infrogmation ( talk) 23:29, 27 March 2023 (UTC) reply

I've done some work on the Langenstein's article. Please have a look to see if you have other suggestions for the article. Otherwise, I might remove both the stub tag and the nomination for deletion tag, and notify the user that nominated it for deletion. Thanks! Nolabob ( talk) 12:35, 28 March 2023 (UTC) reply

Good work. I just removed the deletion tag. Cheers, -- Infrogmation ( talk) 20:21, 28 March 2023 (UTC) reply

Thanks! I've removed the Stub tag as well. Nolabob ( talk) 22:42, 28 March 2023 (UTC) reply

• I notice I neglected to give you an appreciation award for your work before, so I'll do so now:

I hereby present you with The N.J.Clesi "I Love You, My New Orleans" Award for Excellence in New Orleans Related Articles. Congratulations, and keep up the good work! -- Infrogmation ( talk) 16:45, 27 January 2024 (UTC) reply

New Page Patrol | May 2023 Backlog Drive
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 17:12, 20 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Hello Nolabob,

Backlog

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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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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Good article nominations | August 2023 Backlog Drive
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Hello, Nolabob. Thank you for your work on New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club. User:Netherzone, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thanks for creating the article. There are a couple instances of copyvios/close paraphrasing which should probably be cleaned up. [1]

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Netherzone}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Netherzone ( talk) 23:49, 10 August 2023 (UTC) reply

@ Netherzone:, Thank you for your note and for your new page review. I believe that I have properly addressed the issues that you identified. Nolabob ( talk) 11:59, 11 August 2023 (UTC) reply

Perfect! They were minor, and it looks fine now. Netherzone ( talk) 15:29, 11 August 2023 (UTC) reply

New Page Patrol | October 2023 Backlog Drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Articles will earn 3x as many points compared to redirects. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Hello Nolabob,

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!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:46, 22 September 2023 (UTC) reply

Hello Nolabob:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
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.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2400 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC) reply

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New Page Patrol | January 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 January 2024, 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. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Good article nominations | March 2024 Backlog Drive
March 2024 Backlog Drive: On 1 March, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin. Barnstars will be awarded. Interested in taking part? You can sign up here or ask questions here.
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( t · c) buidhe 02:39, 23 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Hello Nolabob,

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.

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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC) reply

New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 May 2024, 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. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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