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Asking why you would revert content which is from sources which are clearly WP:RS. Lightburst (talk) 19:37, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
honey may be useful for controlling the many side effects of radiation therapy or chemotherapy,
honey was found to have health benefits for Chemotherapy patients,
The honey was also found to lower the possibility of fatal thrombocytopenia (low platelets)are quite clearly medical claims and require reliable medical sourcing. Anyway, further discussion of this would be better had on the article's talk page. Spicy (talk) 21:20, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
Wow, so much deleting and salting. I don't understand putting in all that effort when you know they're all going to get deleted? In any case, I also was able to block (6 months) a few ranges they were using, so hopefully that will help a little bit. Thanks for sending those my way. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:35, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
Ok, so plz change the page as you want it RMAerospace (talk) 23:58, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Spicy. Hope you're safe and sound. I recently wrote an article (my first Wiki article actually!) on Lisa Von Tang, which is my favourite fashion brand. Unfortunately the article was deleted because Wiki thought it was "unambiguous promotion" of a product or service. Um, I don't understand how people could arrive at that interpretation, because nowhere at all in that article did I encourage or push people to buy the brand's products. I hardly even described the products. What I did do was tell the STORY of the brand: how it started, who its founder is, the rationale for it doing certain things, and how it has evolved from past to present. So yeah, it would be greatly appreciated if the Lisa Von Tang article could be restored. Thank you! IreallyreallylikewritingUser:Ireallyreallylikewriting (talk) 09:58, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
Spicy, thanks for looking at my Caroline Wiseneder article. I usually try to include links from other articles but couldn't find a link for this one - would appreciate any suggestions you may have. I'm working off the Women in Red Composers List - T. E. Meeks (talk) 11:04, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar | ||
Please accept this little non-twinkling star for replacing the image at Cleavage (breasts) and leaving such thoughtful comments on the talk page. Thank you. Aditya(talk • contribs) 04:44, 22 July 2020 (UTC) |
If possible, can you also take a look at the comments left on the talk page for you? Aditya(talk • contribs) 02:53, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
I had given some sign of notability in the reception section before some user randomly emptied it. See the history. Thank you. the ultraUsurper 11:39, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Dear Reviewer,
I was not aware that there was a separate English and Swedish Wikipedia. I produced the text both in English and in Swedish. I have now replaced the Swedish text with the English one. But I did not know how to change the title from Swedish to English i.e. from "Krympt-por-syndrom" to "Shrunken pore syndrome". I would be grateful if you could help me to do that. I have never submitted an article to Wikipedia before.
Best regards, Anders Grubb
Anders Grubb (talk) 14:55, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for reviewing the page about Margery Knight. I appreciate it. --MerielGJones (talk) 16:26, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Despite continued tumult in the real world, the show–and the newsletter–must go on at WP:MED. As always your comments, concerns, and ideas are welcome at the newsletter talk page (and at WT:MED). Here is what's happening this month:
Buruli ulcer nom. Ajpolino, reviewed by Tom (LT) |
Parkinson's disease At featured article review. Discussion here |
News from around the site
Discussions of interest
For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
Also, a reminder to see Article Alerts for a list of medicine-related AfDs, CfDs, merge discussions, and more!
Under the Wikimedia Research Spotlight
This month's Wikimedia Research Showcase was on the topic "Medical knowledge on Wikipedia". It featured two presentations from invited academics (link).
First, Denise Smith (Mcbrarian) at McMaster and Western Universities received a WMF grant to review the academic literature on "Wikipedia as a health resource". She found 89 papers on the topic, most of which aim to assess our health content's accuracy, comprehensiveness, or readability. Findings vary, but are complicated by poor comparators (e.g. Wikipedia vs. a surgery textbook), the fluidity of content (research becomes dated quickly), and attempts to generalize to "health content" with no discussion of how our content is a patchwork of articles in vastly different states. The remaining papers fall into one of three categories: the use of Wikipedia as (1) a general medical resource, (2) a tool for health education, or (3) a tool for research. Interesting papers in each group, but I'll leave further exploration to the reader. There's a general trend of more papers on this topic over time; Smith is hopeful the stigma towards Wikipedia in academia and healthcare could be eroding. With any luck, her review will help orient academics as they consider studying our content. For more, see her paper in PLoS ONE.
Second, Giovanni Colavizza at the University of Amsterdam sought to assess the reliability and comprehensiveness of our covid-19 coverage by studying our citations. He collected the ~3k citations in our covid articles and compared them to the ~160k total papers on covid/coronaviruses. He found we disproportionately cite articles in more reputable journals, as well as articles that are highly cited, mentioned on Twitter, downloaded on Mendeley, etc. We disfavor citing preprints. To investigate the comprehensiveness of our citations across topics, he used the titles and abstracts of all covid papers to cluster them into five broad topical groups. He finds our citations to each group largely match its proportion in the total literature, with some exceptions (we overcite molecular biology and epidemics papers relative to their proportion in the literature, and undercite clinical medicine and public health papers). One might assume this means our coverage of covid-19 is fairly balanced to the broad topics of the literature. For more, see Colavizza's slide deck and biorxiv preprint.
For the time/interest constrained, see summaries from the authors and from WhatamIdoing.
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Ajpolino (talk) 20:42, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Are you sure you placed the right link in the rvdel request Self-esteem, and not a paste from the other one? I got an ((ec)) placing a revdel moments after you did. I ended up adding mine as well, so now there are two of them. I suspect you may have placed the wrong one, though. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 06:54, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello. Many thanks for your note re. Pharoah's First. I didn't even know the page existed, as there are no links to it from the main Pharoah page. In any case, I'll do what you suggested and merge my changes into it. Again, thank you!Helen Puffer Thwait (talk) 11:22, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi I resubmitted it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OliverDeBriz (talk • contribs) 06:17, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
Spicy, I'm copying Ajpolino on this, as it should serve for his promising Buruli ulcer as well.
There are several things to know going in to WP:FAC. The first is that there is a serious shortage of reviewers, so that your article can sit there for as long as two months, where FACs used to pass in two weeks or less. And considering the reviewer shortage, it is important to sell yourself and your article in the FAC blurb, in ways that will entice reviewers to engage ... and for medical articles ... to encourage reviewers to not be intimidated. In the case of complete blood count, you can find a way to remind people that everyone has them, and lots of people turn to the internet to understand their lab results, so you've worked hard to make sure the article is accessible to the lay person. Put a lot of thought into writing a blurb that will convince reviewers they should want to engage ... have a look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Dementia with Lewy bodies/archive1 for a sample (I tried to hook them with Robin Williams).
Next. Since you aren't a repeat FA nominator, you should hype right up front that the article has been well vetted before coming to FAC. Cas is FAR Coordinator, both Graham and I are former FAC coordinators, and Ceoil is a long-time and well-known FA writer, so you should mention in your blurb that all have helped out, and that Nikkimaria (also FAR coordinator) checked images, while RexxS checked accessibility. Be sure to ping these people from your blurb in case they want to do any re-checking.
The other thing to know is that all first-time nominators are subject to a more stringent sourcing check-- someone has to go through and make sure there is no copyvio, close paraphrasing, and that sources are accurately represented, so first-time noms can take longer as you sit and wait for someone to do that.
And finally, the most important is ... how to handle reviewers. There have been unfortunate past medical FACs, where the nominator became combative, and That Never Ends Well. Reviewers are volunteers, and treating them poorly is just never a good idea. It is OK to disagree with a reviewer, but think long and hard about whether a Hill Is Worth Dying On (I added content to DLB I didn't really want to add, but finally decided, what the heck, no big deal), and phrase any disagreement extremely carefully. What you seek to avoid is having a FAC become contentious and grow very long, so that other reviewers will be put off and won't engage. If anything starts to look tricky, move a response to the talk page of the FAC and continue there (see the image discussion in the DLB FAC), in the interest of keeping the length down. Often, reviewers raise concerns that they aren't that tied to in terms of whether you adjust something, so explain, and stay open to ideas for change without ever becoming combative. You will have plenty of experienced FA writers watching, so if someone asks for something unreasonable, others can speak up if needed.
ANd lastly, never use done, not done checkmarks etc at FAC. Keep your responses as brief as possible, and well threaded. I think that's everying ... I'll head over for another readthrough at CBC today ... Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:08, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Spicy! I made edits to the PlexoBoy Pesh submission and resubmitted. Thanks so much for your notes, the submission now includes reliable sources which also show significant coverage. Your notes were very helpful and clear - it is ready to be reviewed when your time permits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenyathomas.nyc (talk • contribs)
Hello Spicy and thanks for the comments. Looking at it again with fresh eyes, I can see why it was removed. I've re-read the introduction tutorial and contributing to Wikipedia pages, will do a major revision and try again. Many thanks Goldfinchshuffle (talk) 16:17, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravipalli_Venkata_Ramana_Murthy
Hello Spicy, thank you for your indirect help (marked it for Speedy Deletion) to tone down the article. Based on the gathered data, the subject in the article is noteworthy, as the subject has been acknowledged/ recognized by various Indian and Global notable and neutral bodies. This page is not unambiguously promotional, because, the facts mentioned in the profile has documented evidence provided with online links. All the original documents and information are available in references. Few phrases/ words which might have lead to CSD G11 needs to be removed, and that shall be done right away. ) --Nishantbhushan3 (talk) 12:49, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Contested deletion This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (words which were making proclamations have been deleted now. Content is based on facts, for which supporting evidence has been furnished through reference links. Also, if you could further help me with specifics on wordings which are present in the current version of the article which lead to CSD G11, it will be a great help. Those words will be removed immediately once you advise.) --Nishantbhushan3 (talk) 13:11, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Further, help me to improve the article and request you to clear the article from the "Speedy Deletion" tag. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nishantbhushan3 (talk • contribs)
Spicy, Thanks for your comments re keeping the Mary Wiggins article! I really appreciated your input. T. E. Meeks — Preceding unsigned comment added by T. E. Meeks (talk • contribs)
Spicy - With regard to the proposed deletion of the article about William “Corn Pop” Morris - Mr. Morris and his life and background have now been discussed hundreds of times in national and international television, print and radio reports spanning more than a year. His relevance and notoriety is similar to another individual who is the subject of a Wikipedia article and only became known when his name was brought up in the 1988 Presidential campaign. That individuals name is Willie Horton. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton
There are many similar examples I will share. It would be inconsistent to delete this article and not those articles. It would seem to be biased censorship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Number9060862 (talk • contribs) 14:06, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi Spicy, thanks for your feedback. How can we get the entry approved? There's no NYT or Guardian reporting about Haven yet. But it's listed on Bittrex (10th largest Cypto Exchange) and listed on Coinmarket, Coingecko and 2nd largest customer of Chainlink. Market cap is around 20 mio USD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bowzr (talk • contribs) 14:57, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Spicy! Catching up on the Complete blood count FAC; you are pretty well over the hump now, but will just have to wait for someone to agree to do a source review. As I told you earlier, those are more stringent for a first-time nominator-- we have to make sure you don't plagiarize :) :) I would offer to do it myself, but I am already "too involved". Now that Laser brain has returned from a break, maybe he or Ealdgyth will get to it themselves if no one else does, but source reviews are quite backlogged right now and it could be a while. I wanted to move forward for the next step, that you might not be aware of ... thinking of WP:TFA.
So, while you wait for a source review, you can think about preparing your blurb and putting it on the talk page, and whether there is any date connection that you want to request, or if you'd rather leave it to the Coords. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:50, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Greetings! A relatively quiet month yields a shorter newsletter. The featured section is taking the month off, but please continue to drop comments and ideas at the newsletter talk page. Here is what's happening this month:
Willis J. Potts nom. Larry Hockett, reviewed by Ajpolino |
Complete blood count nom. Spicy |
News from around the site
Discussions of interest
For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
Also, a reminder to see Article Alerts for a list of medicine-related AfDs, CfDs, merge discussions, and more!
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Ajpolino (talk) 02:34, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Draft:Gladys Maestre. Just the way to do it!! There are unfortunately thousands like it. . DGG ( talk ) 09:47, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
There are unfortunately thousands like it.- no kidding... it's a shame, I hate seeing articles on notable topics get declined and eventually G13'd, but AfC reviewers don't have time to clean up all of these puffy promotional drafts and no one else is going to notice them while they're in draftspace. I've been thinking that something like the Article Rescue Squadron, but specifically focused on improving notable but poorly sourced/written drafts, might be a good idea and would help to ameliorate some of the complaints that draftification is just backdoor deletion. But I'm not sure if anyone would actually be interested in doing that, often tedious, work. That sort of thing only seems to be successful when there is some additional motivation for it (e.g. WiR).
The Barnstar of Good Humour | ||
That was funny indeed. You beat me to the revert too. Aditya(talk • contribs) 05:11, 25 September 2020 (UTC) |
I have no idea what you just did, but thank you for undoing it! Bilkis Bano is a borderline acceptance. I have no objection if you offer it for AfD and will not take part in the discussion excet, perhaos, to leave a comment. Fiddle Faddle 19:52, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
The Quarter Million Award | |
For your contributions to bring Complete blood count (estimated annual readership: 420,000) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:56, 14 September 2020 (UTC) |
Based on 2019 readership, you just missed the half million award!. Congratulations on a truly fine article on a topic that matters to everyone! My apologies for falling down on the job! Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:56, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
Dali ... beautiful ... I would give you another barnstar, but it is getting redundant from me! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:43, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
The Featured Article Medal | ||
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears, and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 14:15, 28 September 2020 (UTC) |
Thanks, I've fixed this now :-) Aussie Article Writer (talk) 14:25, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Greetings! This month celebrates our second (I think) new medicine FA in 2020, a handful of newly reviewed GAs, and of course another month without major on-wiki disaster. The newsletter's featured section is off again, but please continue to drop comments and ideas at the newsletter talk page. Here is what's new this month:
Complete blood count nom. Spicy, his first FA! |
Parkinson's disease now a featured article removal candidate. Discussion here |
News from around the site
Discussions of interest
For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
Also, a reminder to see Article Alerts for a list of medicine-related AfDs, CfDs, merge discussions, and more!
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Ajpolino (talk) 00:47, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Message understood Fiddle Faddle 22:32, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey Spicy. Wanted to check-in to see if you've given any more thought about doing an RfA. It seems like the tools might be helpful for you. Ping SandyGeorgia. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:55, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
thank you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:08, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.
The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.
Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:38, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Get well, keep us posted, and I hope it's nothing serious!! Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:55, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Greetings. This month marks the return of the project's long-dormant collaboration of the month! With some luck and effort, perhaps we can keep it going. I hope you're all finding ways to remain sane during another tumultuous month. Ready or not, here is what's happening around the project:
Seminal vesicles nom. Tom (LT), reviewed by Berchanhimez |
Parkinson's disease now a featured article removal candidate. Discussion here |
News from around the site
Discussions of interest
For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
Also, a reminder to see Article Alerts for a list of medicine-related AfDs, CfDs, merge discussions, and more!
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Ajpolino (talk) 20:56, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Hey Spicy, just wondering if you have a time-frame for when you can revisit the Movie World FAC. No rush at all. Your insightful commentary insofar is very much appreciated. Courtesy ping SandyGeorgia as well. — CR4ZE (T • C) 06:26, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey Spicy.
Thank you for your review of my article about Kyle Hill. I have a couple of questions:
- first of all, you say "Most sources are his self-written bios on various sites, his own articles, youtube and facebook etc." but that's actually the point. If you read what I wrote, you know that I wasn't referencing what he said but the very fact that he wrote those things at all. Are they valid sources then?
- Secondly, you talked about "silly stuff" and reading today what I wrote back in June I actually agree with you and I removed what you pointed out and a couple more subjective qualifiers. Could you give it a quick look again so I know I've fixed that issue?
- This is my first Wikipedia article and I know it is relevant, I just lack encyclopedic writing experience. Could you point out specific things I should change, please? I know this is beyond what reviewers do but I would really appreciate it.
Regards
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for December 12, 2020. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 12, 2020. Congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 23:01, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Walidou47 is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI! |
--MER-C 18:56, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
The Reviewers Award | ||
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this barnstar in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:02, 23 November 2020 (UTC) |
I wanted to stop and thank you for the suggestions for that article on Tim Grayson (poet). I was struggling to see what the others wanted but you taking the time to lay out exactly what is needed was a breath of fresh air. The issue I'm having is that there are many deleted references - some of which are still available via wayback machine, but this is hard to navigate without accurate links - and offline archived publications (I'm not too sure how best to reference these). I'll try to find more references in the areas you mentioned for the moment though, and then ask some other editors to assist with the correct formatting - thank you again for the guidance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blackjackm1990 (talk • contribs) 16:38, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello. I hope this newsletter finds you well. For those struggling to focus on writing articles during these tumultuous times, you are not alone. For those stuck at home with more time and energy to dedicate to the encyclopedia, all the more power to you. There is – as always – lots to do. Here is what's happening around the project:
Intramuscular injection nom. Berchanhimez, reviewed by Bibeyjj |
Buruli ulcer nom. Ajpolino |
News from around the site
Discussions of interest
For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
Also, a reminder to see Article Alerts for a list of medicine-related AfDs, CfDs, merge discussions, and more!
Backlog of the month
This month I'm trying out a new element of the newsletter – a backlog of the month. The WikiProject Medicine template is on the talk page of 44,944 articles, of which 18,111 have some kind of maintenance tag on them, indicating problems large or small. Each month, I'll highlight some small task to get you out of your normal editing focus and chip away at the project's massive maintenance backlogs. I'll aim for tasks that can be worked on in small chunks, perhaps on days when you can't focus on big problems, or have 15 minutes to burn at your computer.
The first backlog of the month will be the 410 medicine articles that cite no sources. These tend to be lower-traffic topics. Some just need verification that the topic actually exists, along with a quick reference. Others are best redirected to more substantial pages, or even brought to AfD. Feel free to scroll through the list for topics that interest you, or just start at the top. This feature will last as long as folks are interested enough to engage with it. If you see backlogs that would be a good fit, post them here. Thanks all, and happy referencing!
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Ajpolino (talk) 01:34, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
... that's very useful! :) --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:53, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello Spicy,
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
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1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271
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The article Blood culture you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Blood culture for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Graham Beards -- Graham Beards (talk) 19:41, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Complete blood count is today's featured article. Awesome! Isn't it great to see your own insides on the front page? It's weird, but fun to brag about.
"ayo guys my blood is on Wikipedia"
"bro thats sick in more ways than one"
Le Panini [🥪] 01:56, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, and all involved, for the article, about "one of the most commonly performed medical laboratory tests. Most people have had a CBC done at some point during their lives, but they probably have not learned about the vast amount of information that can be gleaned from examination of the blood, the technology that makes it possible, or the test's long and interesting history"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:28, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
bloody medical new articles
Thank you for quality articles about medicine, such as Complete blood count, White blood cell differential, Blood typing and Ludvig Hektoen, for working in collaboration, new page patrol, the more decent image but peppers spicing your user page, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2496 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:38, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Well done on main page!! Ceoil (talk) 14:09, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've reviewed the article and have passed the GA nomination. I look forward to seeing it at WP:FAC. Graham Beards (talk) 19:27, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey again Spicy. Just wanted to let you know that the FAC for Warner Bros. Movie World has had a lot more input since you last commented, including some commentary from WP:APARKS, and it now has 3 supports. Gog the Mild and I are wondering if you might have time to revisit. Thanks! — CR4ZE (T • C) 01:22, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Spicy,
When I declined that speedy, the draft had not been approved. I thought that an AfC reviewer would accept the draft and then the page could be deleted and the draft moved into main space. It seems odd that the process of approving a draft causes it to be moved but I believe you, I just didn't know that this was how the process worked at AfC. I hope you found another admin who was more wise to the ways of AfC that was able to help you out. Liz Read! Talk! 02:01, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
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