Hello Saff V.,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 809 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

• It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
• It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

• Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
• Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.

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Hi, I'm Barkeep49. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Bridge21, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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Barkeep49 (talk) 16:46, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Saff - I didn't intentionally unreview this page you had done. I had been looking at reviews of someone who was doing UPE and grew alarmed when I saw a crypto related topic. So sorry about that. But I am skeptical, after having now looked into it, that this is a notable topic. What did you find that led you to mark it reviewed? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:15, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi @Saff V.: I am contributing to Wikipedia Asia Month and also combining it with the Women in Red campaign. I have been writing a biographical article on Puah Rakovsky and she was a 19th century feminist. The references I have tagged are from journals and libraries and the person is notable. Can you review the references once again and help me understand why you think the article lacks notability? Thanks!--Parul Thakur (talk) 10:26, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ParulThakur:, Thanks for the description and creating the article. Yes, the used sources seem to be independent and credible, but they are all sources belongs to Jewish. I wonder if you try adding some neutral sources to the article?Saff V. (talk) 06:49, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you add a notable tag ?? Bivash Maji (talk) 13:33, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bivashmaji: which article?Saff V. (talk) 06:26, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Women in the Quran has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:48, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm Arthistorian1977. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Puja Sharma, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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Arthistorian1977 (talk) 09:23, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Saff V., I should tell you there was a sizeable copyright violation in the article and much of its history has been revision deleted. Some of the text was directly copied from copyrighted sources and because of earlier rev-deletions, I couldn't pinpoint the editor responsible. Since you're a prolific editor there, please report any further copyvios you might detect to an administrator and ask for revdel of the relevant material. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 03:26, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Baffle gab1978: I really appreciate for efforts, the article definitely looks much better. I thought the article could suffer from copyvio, Do you investigate this issue during doing copy edit? As well as did you removed the unrelated content of the article? Saff V. (talk) 06:29, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article Iran Action Group has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Doesn't seem notable enough for stand-alone page. Simply warrants mention on United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran–United States relations, etc. Loksmythe (talk) 17:49, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Loksmythe (talk) 17:49, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Iran Action Group is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iran Action Group until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Loksmythe (talk) 17:50, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]