The tutorial at NPP is comprehensive and easily readable, it just needs a bit of time to study. To help you master it, the New Page Review training program is designed to help new and/or inexperienced users who wish to assist with maintenance tasks to understand the basic principles of reviewing new pages on Wikipedia, and to provide one-on-one help in the use of the New Pages Feed and its curation toolbar.

Reviewing new pages is more than simply tagging them for maintenance or deletion – reviewers are detectives too!

Experienced Wikipedians (or trainers in this instance) can "adopt" newer users, mentoring them along the way as they learn how to review new pages. It is hoped that this program will be able to inform new users about the ins and outs of deletion and notability and steer them away from making errors in the use of the tools and tags. If you are looking to contribute to Wikipedia but do not intend to remain active on New Page Review, then this program is probably not for you.

Users who are less experienced, but who would still like to help maintain the quality of the encyclopedia, might like to consider Patrolling Vandalism instead – an essential function that requires less knowledge of Notability Guidelines and Deletion. For training on counter-vandalism, see WP:CVUA.

1. Check that you have already made sufficient mainspace edits (generally around 500) and that you have addressed any previous advice or warnings about your general editing.
2. Read WP:NPP first, and then all the pages in the section Further reading below.
3. Go through the Curation Tool tutorial and its video.
4. Find a user who is in your time zone and leave a message on their talk page to request training. If you don't receive a reply within 48 hours, please choose another trainer.

Participation

Students

Learning about reviewing new pages is easy and fun. If you'd like an experienced user to show you how, simply choose an active trainer from the list who is in your time zone and leave a message on their talk page.

Your chosen trainer should share your interests so that they can comfortably assist you while you learn under their tutelage. For more information on what you will be expected to learn, first visit the pages at WP:NPP and WP:DELETION.

Trainers

If you are an experienced user and have time to devote to being a trainer, visit the Trainers' resources section where you will find the minimum requirement for trainers, recommended practice, and teaching suggestions and examples. You may then wish to add yourself to the list of active trainers taking note of the page source comments.

You will be interested to know that occasionally some candidates for training may be university professors taking part in the Wikipedia Education Program.

Goals

If you're new and/or inexperienced, before embarking on a New Page Review training programme, you should be able to demonstrate that you have already mastered the basic principles of editing the encyclopedia and contributed at least 500 edits to MAINSPACE.

When you have shown through training that you have mastered the principles of New Page Review and can apply them with accuracy, and are able to communicate correctly and effectively with new users of all kinds you will be contributing to what is one of the most important maintenance tasks on Wikipedia, while understanding that speed alone is not essential – the target is accuracy. When you have achieved these goals, you can display the User New Page Patrol userbox on your user page.

List of former/inactive trainers

Trainer Current students Student slots available Graduates trained Time zone Comments Barkeep49 ( talk · contribs) 1 0 5 Feel free to ask on my talk page. When asking please include a little bit about yourself as introduction and why you want to do NPP School. A caution: my time is currently occupied with other wiki activities and so I might have to turn down even very promising students. Rosguill ( talk · contribs) 1 0 1 Currently not taking on new students Atsme ( talk · contribs) – – 20 ( list) US – EST On a 60 day breakIndef break effective 2023-06-08 I truly enjoy helping aspiring new page reviewers, and watching them grow to become an integral part of our excellent team of patrollers. Please post your request for training on my user talk page. An example of my course is at User:Atsme/NPP training, keeping in mind that what you will be expected to do and learn is contingent upon your present skill level. Remember, some of our best admins have been hatched from NPP school. Onel5969 ( talk · contribs) 3 0 1 US – Arizona Willing to help out any new potential reviewers. Lord knows we need some more. My talk page is here. My time zone is a bit different, AZ doesn't use DST, so during the summer and fall we're the same as Mountain Standard Time, and during the winter and spring we're the same as Pacific Coast Time. Joseywales1961 ( talk · contribs) 2 0 0 Ireland (UTC+1 Summertime, UTC Wintertime) Please contact me on my usertalk page, glad to help anyone get started in this important role. I will be available to coach up to 2 students at a time.

• Field guide to proper speedy deletion
• Wikipedia:Speedy deletions
• Ten Commandments for Speedy Deletion
• Common A7 mistakes
• Wikipedia:Over-hasty Speedy Deleters

The Counter Vandalism Unit How to effectively recognise and remove vandalism from Wikipedia.

Adopt-a-User A mentorship program for new users who are interested in learning more about Wikipedia.