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Hi Herpetogenesis! Following the discussion on the COI noticeboard talk, I wanted to point you at a really useful tool, Twinkle. Among its many features, it helps you quickly tag pages for deletion (speedy deletion, proposed deletion, or deletion discussion) if you come across promotion. Of course, you should make sure to familiarize yourself with the applicable policies before using it, but I make extensive use of it. We're glad to have you here, and please feel free to ask me (or any of the other editors who chimed in on the discussion) if you have any other questions or need advice. creffett (talk) 01:18, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to remove speedy deletion notices from pages, as you did at Wikiletters, you may be blocked from editing. You are not supposed to remove them. It will be done by an administrator. ~Amkgp ✉ 08:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
If an editor other than the creator removes a speedy deletion tag in good faith, it should be taken as a sign that the deletion is not uncontroversial and another deletion process should be used. I'd expect the removing editor to be reasonably uninvolved (that is, if they contributed to the page too I'd expect them to contest the deletion), but it's absolutely allowed. creffett (talk) 12:43, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Please don't continue to template new accounts that have not made any edits at all. There are a number of reasons why we don't do this and it is expressly noted that the templates should not be used for zero edit accounts at Wikipedia:Welcoming committee.-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 20:50, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Good written with well source Md Mahfuzur Rahman Bsl (talk) 00:18, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Herpetogenesis, 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! – Joe (talk) 14:27, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for reviewing the Sam Maggs page!
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Thank you too my bro, I like Greece and people Greece very much! But I want to ask you one question, Are the tribe of Cadusii belong Scythian ? or are Cadusii tribe of Scythian ? Thank you very much for you help bro! FaradzhoffEma (talk) 21:10, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
In response to your message regarding the article "Bhartiya City( company)" .No I am not getting paid by the employer as of now.Do we have the option to do that as well?
Currently I just wrote this because I mostly write and edit on Real Estate Articles.Do you suggest any changes? :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by VidhantMonga03 (talk • contribs) 08:46, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. In response to your message regarding the article "Gideon Ikhine(individual)" .No I am not getting paid by the employer.
Currently I just wrote this because I am trying to get acqainted with the wikipedia space and i intend to write and edit on local political Articles. I have also made all changes and edit to the articles as i request that the article be approved. thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidchijioke10 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
@Herpetogenesis . I sincerely apologize for the inconveniences caused. Proper edits and changes have been made to the article according to wikipedia guidelines. I am also open to any contributions you might want to make about it. Iis there a way i can make more ammends ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidchijioke10 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I just completed that. Please Kindly confirm. Thank you so much for your patience
Please what other next steps can i implement ?
Great ! Thank you so much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidchijioke10 (talk • contribs) 19:06, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Thank you so much @Herpetogenesis. Your contribution are of immense help. it however appears that the page was deleted already as I cant find the draft at the link above. Please can you look into it or am i required to start all over again ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidchijioke10 (talk • contribs) 19:18, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Herpetogenesis
Thank you for creating Mental health in Singapore.
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Hello Herpetogenesis -- I've declined your A7 speedy on Lara Abrash because there were clear claims in the article. Please be more careful in future! Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 08:18, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello Herpetogenesis -- I've declined your A7 speedy on Lara Abrash because there were clear claims in the article. Please be more careful in future! Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 08:18, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
Umair (talk) 20:03, 27 November 2020 (IST)
Hi, can you clarify the differences between Porcelanosa, Ceramiche Refin and RAK ceramics pages?
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Hello Herpetogenesis,
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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4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
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Hi, it seems you were right about the page lacking valid references.. The page has been updated to contain independent valid resources.. I urge you to please re-read the article and re-consider your vote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LoggingOnto (talk • contribs) 16:31, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
Hello! If i am not mistaken, you added a template to Shakir's page (that i created) which said the following: "This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification." I agree that the page itself needs more information (which is why i added the stub -tag), but what i don't understand is, why does the template say "living person"? Shakir died in 1975, as it says on the page. If i misunderstood something, i apologize. Muokkaus55 (talk) 16:11, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Herpetogenesis! Thank you for reviewing the St Paul's Lisbon page!
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Just a friendly reminder to check for copyvio prior to draftify-ing things. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 17:21, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
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Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
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I'll go you one better --Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:10, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I removed the personal essay style and rewrote the article in a encyclopedic style, please review Client-facing, thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mruanova (talk • contribs) 16:45, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
I just read Wikipedia:No sorcery threats pedantically and I laughed uncontrollably. I don’t see it as an attack on my fellow Nigerians, it’s a humorous essay after all. You do possess a healthy sense of humor. Furthermore I see you have barely 2000 edits and possess both Autopatrol and NPR and have only been here for two years, all I can say you are a genius and a prodigy please if you have any questions don’t forget to ask me be it wiki related or not, I’m happy to see a young prodigy and even more happy to watch them grow. Thanks once again for that essay, it really cheered me up. Celestina007 (talk) 18:52, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
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I didn't really know how to reply to your message on my talk page, so I'm replying here instead. Thanks, I try to put my best effort, especially in finding sources for historcal articles. I always create & edit articles under the topic of Indian history. And do you like my username? 😀 Pls I dank memer (talk) 15:00, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you for creating Astolfo's rail.
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Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi — Can you possibly provide a little more insight into why you thought it was a good idea to promote Polynomials calculating sums of powers of arithmetic progressions from draft space to a new article when it had AFC comments from three separate editors all concluding that it should not be a separate article? —David Eppstein (talk) 22:35, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello Herpetogenesis, Yesterday I made the translation from French of the article "Convent and church of Saint Francis, Pontevedra" (English name) that you reviewed, to expand a stub that was on Wikipedia that consisted of a few lines. The thing is that the stub is still on Wikipedia with the name "Convent and church of San Francisco, Pontevedra": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent_and_church_of_San_Francisco,_Pontevedra and it is necessary to delete it since the other page created is the one that is complete and with all the references. After the necessary check, could you delete this page with the stub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent_and_church_of_San_Francisco,_Pontevedra, please? Thank you very much in advance Kind regards --MJSB73MP (talk) 10:18, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
please check and see to it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pushhkar (talk • contribs) 08:47, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
Validity of above statement, the current "About' section of the Somali National University is exactly a copy of what I and other had recorded on Wikipedia 12 years ago. The case would be the same for Lafole University, Somalia's teacher training university is yet to be rescued from 1991 destructions. Baardheere (talk) 16:13, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hello Herpetogenesis,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 803 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 856 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
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Hi, I noticed you have just reviewed the article Labor (magazine), however I have found several magezines using the same name (i.e. one magazine edited by Heber Blankenhorn in US), I'm wondering whether I should move the article. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 07:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello Herpetogenesis,
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).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
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Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 13698 articles, as of 20:00, 15 July 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
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(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi @Herpetogenesis,
I need your guidance to create the draft according to Wikipedia policy, I was trying to add reliable sources, but still, some editors do not give some space to work on the wiki.
I am here to work and contribute my effort in the right direction, but there is no one to guide and correct my mistake.
Please guide me and let me know where I am wrong.
Regards
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Hello Herpetogenesis,
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, I wrote an article for Speda TV, But this article does not appear in Google search. Please help me to solve this problem. Thanks Mr-MohammedAzeez (talk) 18:10, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi Herpetogenesis,
For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
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Hello Herpetogenesis,
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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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 Herpetogenesis,
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 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
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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.
Hi,
I noticed with this edit [1] that you tagged a TV series with a "Film" notability tag. TV series have their own tag, please use "TV" instead of film when tagging a TV series for notability. Thanks! DonaldD23 talk to me 21:18, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for checking the article, City Transformer. I have deleted some parts that read as promotional as per the guidelines of the banner you added. Are you able to check again and tell me other areas I can improve on to make it better? Regards Hass mm (talk) 21:13, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
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On June 2nd, I responsed to Herpetogenesis on the Talk page as follows:
5 June 2023
TO: Herpetogenesis
From: Stephen C Bosworth
Thank you for welcoming me in my first attempt to offer a new Wikipeadia Page: Draft: Evaluative proportional representation.
I thoroughly agree that each page has to be notable, neutral, verifiable, and based on reliable sources. I understand that the reason you gave for declining my May 30th draft is that it “reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article.” In response, I’ve tried to make some improvements to the current June 1st draft. I removed some repetition, attempted to clarify five sentences, but most importantly I added more exact page references for the strong sentences which perhaps sounded as if they were only my personal opinions, rather than merely reporting facts and reasoned conclusions that the reliable sources offer.
What do you think? I look forward to hearing from you.
Steve
Please advise on what I should do next?
Stephen C Bosworth (talk) 19:48, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Herpetogenesis, thank you for your review of the draft. Can you please share with me what exactly your concerns are? I have tried to comply with all of Wikipedia's policies about providing neutral content. My relationship with the subject is to help with social media accounts. I have worked only briefly with him and do not know anything about what people before me had done. I do not necessarily agree with everything that he says or does, but I do at least think that a biography about him should be notable enough. You can edit or improve the draft if you see anything that you think does or does not belong there. Thank you for looking into this. Please post your reply on my talk page. Danthemedguy22 (talk) 20:01, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Herpetogenesis, Thanks for the observations, I have reviewed and increased the references, I hope everything is in accordance with the requirements. Please indicate if anything else is required to approve the article. I would like to continue collaborating, because I see that there is a lot of content from Peru that needs review. Greetings Silves3.peru (talk) 23:26, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Herpetogenesis Thank you for reviewing the Draft:General Catalyst. I took your notes and have made the changes. Would you be willing to review the current version? I also have a Draft:Frank (company) out there that I would love to hear your thoughts on. Thank you! Justwatchmee (talk) 18:21, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
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thank you much buddy for helping me creating the article. im such a fan of P!nk and i discovered this video in these days, it make me fall in love more with her. you're the goat, you should help me with article of this kind, thank you!
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Hello, Herpetogenesis,
I was looking at this draft because it was due to hit CSD G13 today. The page creator submitted it for review and, according to the edit summary you left, you accepted the draft but then turned the page into a redirect. And you didn't inform the editor who submitted the draft what was going on. Your actions might not have been typical for a AFC reviewer and it would help if you posted a notification on the draft submitter's User talk page informing them of your actions and why you chose those actions.
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Hello. You moved the draft "Draft:Naturism in the United States" into mainspace by copypasting the text instead of moving the page. Because of that, the attribution history of the page before the draft has been omitted and I'm not credited as an author of the page that is in the main space (as it should have been according to the Creative Commons License). If there was a redirect, you should have RfDed it and then move the draft into the main space, or having merged both pages. --Onwa (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
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