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User talk:Tamzin/Archive/Old/8Remember this one? :) Drmies (talk) 04:57, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge with elephantsI went back and rewrote the bit about the elephant test, and included a cite from Eads Bridge while I was at it. Please check this out and let me know if you feel there's a problem. Or feel free to revert me or modify, as usual. - Denimadept (talk) 07:24, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for putting some foreign links on the 87th Academy AwardsI did add a couple more I found, but yeah thanks again! Wgolf (talk) 04:35, 27 February 2015 (UTC) Nomination for deletion of Template:Main article interwiki
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editshello. You got it backward. Provably so. If someone is lying saying something is "duplicated" elsewhere in the article when there's literally NO mention anywhere else in the article the name "Terminate the Republicans" it's hard to "assume goo faith" when it's obvious that that's NOT what's really going on here. But more like suppression of sourced facts, per lefty agendas maybe (??) against WP policy. This is ALL OVER THE NEWS, on TV and on the Net. What's valid argument ot remove it?? And no, the only ones truly "edit-warring" and violating WP policy are the suppressors that I'm undoing, and what's to "assume good faith" when they're flat-out LYING when they say "duplicate" when that's simply not true. This is a wiki. No one person owns any article, and no "opinion" is needed to include the sources fact that this perp was part of that FB club. Anyway, I'm not edit-warring, I'm restoring sourced referenced facts THAT EDIT-WARRIORS AND SUPPRESSORS KEEP IDIOTICALLY REMOVING, with literally zero sound argument or rationale for it. There's no mention of this sourced fact anywhere in the article. What is going on now is just SUPPRESSION OF FACTS that you don't like to be revealed. He was part of a FB club called "Terminate the Republicans". Nowhere is that mentioned. Restored. Namarly (talk) 16:41, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
ReplyYes, my talkpage has several complaints about my adherence to our MOS. Be a pal and figure out how many of my edits are to capitalization issues (it's a lot), then show the complaints on my TP as a % of those edits. It may cause you to re-evaluate how clever you think you are. Point taken re:Capitol Police, but to say that representatives is a "shared title" and not descriptive is off the mark. There is no title of "Representatives", only "Representative". This is not a shared title because they all represent different things. Further, the does not suddenly make common nouns proper. The Alexandria Police Department is a specific department and is thus capped. The Alexandria police are the police in Alexandria and if that ain't descriptive...well... Primergrey (talk) 03:26, 15 June 2017 (UTC) ArbCom 2017 election voter messageHello, PinkAmpersand. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC) Your signaturePlease be aware that your signature uses deprecated You are encouraged to change
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Your creation of the Disambiguation page House Resolution 1There are a few inaccuracies with the page you created today:
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AdminshipHave to ask, I've seen you around for years and you always seem to have an abundance of clue ... have you thought about running for RfA? You'd then be able to take a look at the edit filters and manage them without having to wait for somebody else to jump to it. Okay, you could just ask for the Edit Filter Manager right directly, but I'm sure there are other things you could do as well. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:27, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
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Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
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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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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. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC) New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020Hello Tamzin/Archive/Old,
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. 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) "H'w'd" listed at Redirects for discussion A discussion is taking place to address the redirect H'w'd. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 2#H'w'd until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesomeHwyh 20:51, 2 May 2020 (UTC) New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020Hello Tamzin/Archive/Old,
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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