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December with Women in Red[edit]
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Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open[edit]
G'day all, the nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject newcomer and Historian of the Year are open, all editors are encouraged to nominate candidates for the awards before until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2020, after which voting will occur for 14 days. There is not much time left to nominate worthy recipients, so get to it! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, December 2020[edit]
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Hi Jack!
Sorry to dig up very old diffs (2013!) but I'm helping out with an off-wiki project that mentions ABC's John Edmunds in passing. The piece in question mentions that Edmunds is gay, since the author(s) know him personally. But I need to double-source this, since the site is considered a reliable source by Wikipedia and all features there are fact-checked and peer reviewed (I'm doing the former).
Do you have a reliable third-party source for this edit? Again, I apologise that I'm raking up such old history, but... well, life, hey? :-)
Thanks in advance! ◦ Trey Maturin 19:36, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Jacob Marley[edit]
On 24 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jacob Marley, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after a visit to a ragged school, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, in which he uses the ghost of Jacob Marley (illustrated) as a mouthpiece for his own views on social responsibility? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jacob Marley. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jacob Marley), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year![edit]
Hello! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2021 on the behalf of Christmas task force of WikiProject Holidays.
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A New Year With Women in Red![edit]
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Congrats[edit]
Nice work on getting Heather Ripley shepherded through to a full fledged article. Again apologies for the edit summary - I had had to remove the red link several times over the years. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 18:32, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
February 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Army physical training[edit]
Thanks for the edit,[1] could be added to Exercise#History. Whizz40 (talk) 13:37, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
March 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Ghost of Christmas Present[edit]
Hi, did you realise that Ghost of Christmas Present and the other two ghost pages used to exist and were converted to redirects after consensus that was linked to all three pages - Talk:Ghost_of_Christmas_Past#Merge_to_and_integrate_with_Character_section_of_A_Christmas_Carol? All three were almost entirely overlapping and became mere trivia magnets, especially when every single appearance of each was noted separately on each page. Your proposed text appears to reinstate all those issues. Suggest you open a discussion on Talk:A Christmas Carol before doing too much work, as it may not survive without a new consensus. MichaelMaggs (talk) 15:44, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
Nope. Wasn’t aware of that or I guess I wouldn’t have started it. I’ve spent the best part of a day working on it and obviously I think it works as a stand-alone article. Jack1956 (talk) 15:54, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- I don't disagree! MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:27, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Jack. I'm writing to you about your Corney Grain article, more specifically Music à la mode.
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXIX, March 2021[edit]
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April editathons from Women in Red[edit]
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April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive[edit]
Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:24, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
Lila Field[edit]
Good afternoon, Jack! When reading up for other articles I keep running across the name of Lila Field (recte Schofield), who ran a children's dance or theatrical academy before (and after) WWI. Among her pupils were Noël Coward, Ninette de Valois and Micheál Mac Liammóir. She was, if you please, sent to prison for two months in 1923 for causing two girls between the ages of fourteen and sixteen to go out of the UK to perform for profit without a licence, which I daresay put an end to her academy. I'd rather like to put an article together, but without dates of birth and death it's really a non-starter. If you can throw any light on her it would be esteemed a favour. Best wishes, as ever, Tim riley talk 11:15, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXXX, April 2021[edit]
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May 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXI, May 2021[edit]
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June 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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July 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXII, June 2021[edit]
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August Editathons from Women in Red[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXIII, July 2021[edit]
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Requesting review[edit]
Dear Jack,
Would you please review the following page that I have created? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Donald_M._Lewis This is the first page I am trying to publish. If you are not the right person to ask, would you please let me know how to find reviewers on Wikipedia?
Thanking you, AReformedPastor (talk) 03:00, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
September 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXIV, August 2021[edit]
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open[edit]
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File source problem with File:Openshaw1929.jpg[edit]
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Precious anniversary[edit]
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nomination period closing soon[edit]
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WikiProject Military history coordinator election voting has commenced[edit]
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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021[edit]
Hello Jack1956,
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.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXV, September 2021[edit]
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October 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
Special event:
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November 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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November 2021 backlog drive[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXV, October 2021[edit]
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December 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, November 2021[edit]
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Survey about History on Wikipedia (If you reside in the United States)[edit]
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January 2022 with Women in Red[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, December 2021[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, January 2022[edit]
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February with Women in Red[edit]
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March editathons[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIV, February 2022[edit]
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April Editathons from Women in Red[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, April 2022[edit]
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May Women in Red events[edit]
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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022[edit]
Hello Jack1956,
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 810 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 857 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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The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022[edit]
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June events from Women in Red[edit]
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DYK for Hilda Hanbury?[edit]
Hi Jack1956! Thanks for starting the article on Hilda Hanbury. I enjoyed reading it & appreciate the pictures.
Are you planning to nominate it to DYK? If not, would you like me to do so on your behalf? = paul2520 💬 21:40, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022[edit]
Hello Jack1956,
- Backlog status
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).
- Backlog drive
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.
- TIP – New school articles
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.
- Misc
There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 10579 articles, as of 06:00, 16 June 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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Women in Red in July 2022[edit]
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The Bugle: Issue CXCIV, June 2022[edit]
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