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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).
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will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
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1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth (talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpretedrather than
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Brandon Academy Private School, founded 1970 in Brandon, Florida. I can't find information about the founding of the school, but it looks like a seg acad. to me. Can you find anything? Thanks! Jacona (talk) 16:59, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Many thanks! Jacona (talk) 20:03, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
Hello BillHPike,
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
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George Walton Academy seems like another article that might interest you, when you have time.Jacona (talk) 22:08, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
I am not a sock. Feel free to have my account run through CU process. But please don't make accusations without evidence. I have made many edits including the ones you have listed. Feel free to go through the Wikipedia:Sock puppetry processMr. Awesome, PhD (talk) 17:48, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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must notundo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than
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Hi Mr. Pike, I work for Central Private School and earlier today I made some updates to the Central Private School Wikipedia page. It shows that you reversed the changes. I would like to know why you did that? I will be making the changes again. I would appreciate it and am politely asking you to please let the updates remain and do not reverse them. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely, Cpfan1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cpfan1 (talk • contribs) 22:15, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
I've told you before how important (IMO) your work on segregation history of US schools is, so I should hope you aren't surprised by this post.
How do you think we should go about covering segregation in the North? It certainly was, and I dare say still is, defacto segregated. Segregation is worse in the Rust Belt than anywhere else in the country. I'd guess it's a combination of the economics of the Great Migration and redlining. Diversity has always been greater on the East and West coasts, simply due to location.
Also, I want to just toss out a thought: Is the locus of discrimination shifting, albeit slowly? Or instead, are we as a society finally starting to mature past it? My feelings: just like all other sins, it will be forever, but hopefully dwindle. I think in specific areas, we're seeing a loci shift. To Hispanics and Arabs. John from Idegon (talk) 23:28, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
Books & Bytes
Issue 38, January – April 2020
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
Your edits on that school are outdated and do not present the actual conditions of the school. You are pushing a racist agenda by stating information from 1986 as current status.
Why are you pursuing this in such a way?
Thank you for your time Charles Lowry (talk) 15:01, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
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Issue 39, May – June 2020
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Please stop posting false information about this school. My family started it and you are 100 percent incorrect as to why it was started. Your "source" was even an opinion piece. Come on. What is the point in doing so, I would love to know?
Kelhaddock (talk) 17:36, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
How do I take down my "legal threat." And why can't we at least add the history that is true to this school? Kelhaddock (talk) 18:08, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
Just adding a "thanks" for your calm handling of this, including placement of the Welcome message at the user's talk page. Also: not sure if my edit summary ping got to you, so just in case: I modified your post at ANI (a technical TPO violation) because your diff links were not working. I used Special:Diff (which I find simpler) but you can switch it back to the template if you want; see the doc at ((diff)), which requires arg1=article_name. Mathglot (talk) 19:19, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello BillHPike,
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
Hi, BillHPike! i do not object "Confederate general" definition for Robert Edward Lee because it is a FACT. But I still have concern about some content in the page - it looks it has undue weight content toward the school policy in the past. I think it should be balanced if there are new articles or information about the school. Let me know what you think. --2601:1C0:CB01:2660:8196:7DE9:B182:3551 (talk) 21:18, 1 July 2020 (UTC) @2601:1C0:CB01:2660:8196:7DE9:B182:3551:
Hi Bill - I think this may be of interest to you. In my research on Charlotte independent schools, I have discovered quite a bit of information regarding Providence Day School. The page's history section makes no mention of their founding as a segregation academy (hastily thrown together in the summer of 1970 and opened with 5th and 6th grades that fall.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Day_School
I have taken a stab at a more accurate version of their history. The draft is in my sandbox page. Before I made the edit to the PDS page, I would your thoughts on my draft if you have time. Feel free to improve/change/post to the main page as you see fit. You seem to be the expert on this topic, your input would be appreciated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jiffy.morton/sandbox?action=edit
Best Regards,
Jiffy.morton (talk) 00:20, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
thanks! one question for you - do you think in the opening sentence calling PDS an "SA" is too harsh...should it just read "independent school" ?
Jiffy.morton (talk) 01:32, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
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shoulduse the articles for creation process.
You might be interested in this, maybe not. Jacona (talk) 21:08, 4 September 2020 (UTC) And likewise, this. Jacona (talk) 21:13, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
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Issue 40, July – August 2020
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Issue 40, July – August 2020
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