Jump to content

User talk:DBD/Archive 36

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

December 2019 – June 2020

[edit]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Robert Moline, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Sudbury (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:20, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

[edit]

A graph showing the number of articles in the page curation feed from 12/21/18 - 12/20/19

Reviewer of the Year

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.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank Username Num reviews Log
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)

Redirect autopatrol

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.

Source Guide Discussion

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.

This month's refresher course

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.

Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Io Saturnalia!

[edit]
Io, Saturnalia!
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:23, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unlikely, I'm ADHD! XD DBD 19:38, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Long time no hear

[edit]

You OK? Bashereyre (talk) 11:36, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just bumbling along, thanks. Yourself? DBD 15:28, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
[edit]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Martin Gorick, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Diocese of Worcester (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 14:53, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

[edit]

Hello DBD,

Source Guide Discussion

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.

Redirects

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.

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

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.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here

16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)


Kenyan dioceses

[edit]

Hi Bash. Do you think there's enough content to make articles for every Kenyan diocese (e.g. Diocese of Makueni) viable? I've painstakingly created these 'regional' lists of diocese & bishops because I thought that's probably the level of content that makes for a viable article. Aren't individual articles with such little content as Diocese of Makueni likely to be deleted? What guidelines are relevant to this? DBD 21:41, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dan good to hear from you

[edit]

As far as I know every link you made is still your excellent work. With some dioceses in Tanzania I did create a biography of the current Bishop. It should be statutory for every Anglican diocese to do so, I feel. I am quite happy for you to redirect any small alterations I have made. I retire next year and would love to visit one diocese in every province, apart from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Europe and the USA which I have already done. BasherBashereyre (talk) 11:19, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This chap has not yet got his bottom on the episcopal bench

[edit]

[1] Interesting! Bashereyre (talk) 11:39, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Naughty, naughty! DBD 12:46, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
[edit]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Bishop of Derby, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Matlock (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 10:26, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[edit]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Bishop of Derby, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Bishop of Rockhampton (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 13:15, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:Assistant Bishops of Leicester 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 01:04, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Question on Richard the 1st

[edit]

Hi! I noticed that Richard the 1st is still a class c article, with the rest of the Plantagenet monarchs being good or featured. Is there a reason for this? As in, is this the result of a lack of nomination(s) or are there some issues with the page? I'd love to edit and improve the page but it seems pretty thorough already. So if you could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.

Aza24 (talk) 03:05, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

George Robert Wynne

[edit]

Hi, I see you moved George Robert Wynne to Robert Wynne (Archdeacon of Aghadoe). I wondered what your reasons were. As far as I can see, he seems to have published a mix of devotional stuff and children's stories, for which he used several variations of his name (see worldcat, Loeber et al, A Guide to Irish Fiction, p.1381): G. Robert Wynne, George Robert Wynne, George R. Wynne, G.R.W. But I can't see him anywhere dropping the G. entirely. Best, Dsp13 (talk) 23:17, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dan, great to hear from you

[edit]

Hope you are well, and do not do this deliberately I assure you.Bashereyre (talk) 17:34, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

[edit]
Wishing DBD a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 21:10, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Birthday!

[edit]

Fifteen Years on Wikipedia!

[edit]
Hey, DBD. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!
Chris Troutman (talk) 19:47, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

[edit]

Dear DBD/Archive 36,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 19:55, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

[edit]

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

[edit]

Hello DBD,

Your help can make a difference

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.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

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.

Discussions and Resources
  • A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
  • Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
  • A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
  • Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:52, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]