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Hello PamD,

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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Backlog:

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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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:15, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A tag has been placed on Margaret Parker (Q18762034) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a recently created redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.

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. Fram (talk) 09:58, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

So, just checking, @Fram and @Deb Was creating that redirect the right thing to do? I found her as a red link in Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Temperance worker, and discovered that she already had an article as Margaret Eleanor Parker. I reckoned that creating the redirect would save other WiR editors from wasting time thinking about, or making, a duplicate article for her. I think I checked that she was already linked as a hatnote from the article which was then at the base name of Margaret Parker, and I also did what I could to get the two Wikidata entries combined. See discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Another redirect, Henrietta Brown (Q115787698). Was it correct to create this redirect as a temporary measure? PamD 15:19, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I think this needs to be solved at Wikidata level, by merging/redirecting the duplicate entry to the existing one, not by "polluting" enwiki (I mean it less accusatory than it probably sounds, I don't mean to claim that you were vandalizing or anything similar). Take for example Ida Henrietta HydeWD entry and Ida HydeWD entry. At Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Inventors, we have a redlink for Ida Hyde (Q122841752), but what needs to be done is not the creation of this redlink, but the removal (as a separate entry) of the duplicate Wikidata entry: when this is done, the next run of Listeriabot should remove the entry from the WiR list. Until that next run, you could also edit the WiR list to point to the right article on enwiki of course. Fram (talk) 15:43, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sorry, I hadn't looked at the history carefully enough. @Fram is right, of course. Deb (talk) 15:52, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Deb@Fram Thanks, both. So another time I should fix the WikiData duplication, and then pipe the redlink in the table to the existing article, because the next run to produce an updated table will not include an entry for this person because the duplicate WikiData entry which was creating it will no longer exist. I think I've got that clear now! "Every day a school day" when it comes to editing Wikipedia (especially in the somewhat baffling territory of Wikidata). I hope I can remember it next time I find one of these. PamD 16:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Keyserzozie/Archive I don't think this is a fair record of what you did. I'm logging out now and staying out. NoorStores (talk) 10:56, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@NoorStores I don't think I harassed them, and nor does the SPI report suggest that I did. I'd have liked to see a reply to my question as to whether they had been a paid editor while doing their earlier work on the JH etc articles, but I asked it three days after their last edit (under that editor name!), so no surprise to get no response.

I've replied to "logging out now and staying out" at User talk:NoorStores#Goodbye or .... PamD 15:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Welcome, welcome, welcome! Thank you so much for joining the drive. When I perform a scan of articles belong to Category:Women writers and Category:All articles lacking sources using PetScan, I found that there are 52 articles:

Since you are a member of the WP:Women in Red project, I think you might be interested in these articles and you might want to practice your citation skills on them. Anyways, I wish you good luck on the drive on February 1! You'll need it. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 13:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@CactiStaccingCrane Dipping into a couple of those at random, I think I'm going to need to brush up my knowledge of what is and isn't a WP:RS for people like SF writers! I might have a go at some of these, in Feb, or I might go for the random approach or pick a chunk of the alphabet of the general listing. I've not used PetScan but had a go at changing your "Women writers" to "British women", still intersecting with unsourced, which produces an interesting batch of 56 articles ... including the baffling Scotland's Forgotten Valour. I can only think that the category Category:Victoria Cross books got interpreted as "Books by the (female) writer called Victoria Cross"! Several of the others need access to "Debretts" or similar: I might even make a list of those and pop it on the talk page of a relevant Wikiproject. I'll enjoy doing something with these, in Feb. Makes a change from fractious discussions about spats between twittering writers. PamD 15:48, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm very glad that you enjoy the drive, indeed it is also an excuse for me to not joining any AfD and getting suck into nasty debates. There's another more convenient way to find articles than using PetScan, which is [search term] incategory:"All articles lacking sources". It's pretty interesting what you can found on there. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 00:57, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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A tag has been placed on Category:Deserts of Greece indicating that it is currently empty, 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 it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:11, 31 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Welcome, welcome, welcome PamD! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)15:39, 2 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

Did you mean to title this without the "h"? The Ordnance Survey and all 3 sources in the article call it "Clach-bheinn". Should it be moved without redirect at WP:RMT to Clach-bheinn, Highland or just Clach-bheinn? Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Crouch, Swale Thanks for spotting that! I've fixed it, I think. Have spent too much of this afternoon sorting out another pair of confused Scottish mountains, going off at tangents from WP:FEB24. All very satisfying, filling in bits of the jigsaw. I see you noticed my new parish article yesterday and gave it an infobox, thanks. PamD 17:42, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I finished with the available categories for Great Lives. You can proceed with updating the text. Dimadick (talk) 14:13, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dimadick Thanks! I'll load up the rest of the current series ... which may leave you some more categories to add. PamD 14:53, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dimadick Done. PamD 16:02, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A tag has been placed on Eleonara Amalia Maria Adelborg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Misspelled. --DaizY (talk) 22:36, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. DaizY (talk) 22:41, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A tag has been placed on Eleonara Adelborg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Misspelled. --DaizY (talk) 22:34, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. DaizY (talk) 22:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, @PamD, just alerting you to an AfD discussion I've started at an article you created. All the best, Emmentalist (talk) 20:31, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It's currently just a blank page – would you like it deleted or as a redirect? DanCherek (talk) 22:59, 18 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Deleted, please: I created another redirect at Knockbrack (Dublin) in line with other Irish mountains. Thanks. PamD 23:04, 18 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Okay, done. Thanks! DanCherek (talk) 23:13, 18 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 19 § Category:Zoos by year of disestablishment on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –Aidan721 (talk) 18:31, 19 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]