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Enter 'Mohan Bhagwat' on google's page, and it suggests 'Mohan Bhagwat wife'. Looks like people are trying to find out who his wife is. So I added a correct bit of info that he is a bachelor. And Chandrapur was NOT in Bombay State in 1950 when he was born. Please do not roll back changes if you lack knowledge. There is a question on quora : Is it true that Mohan Bhagwat's daughter has married a muslim. I am afraid wikipedia is full of left-leaning anti-Hindu editors like you who are suppressing proper info about people like Mohan ji Bhagwat. No wonder people from RSS camp are issuing public appeals to people not to donate money to wiki.

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Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla. You are invited to join the new WikiProject India 10,000 Challenge, a challenge which aims to see 10,000 improvements, destubs, and creations for Indian articles, covering every state of India and topic. Articles on all related topics are welcome. We need numbers to make this work and do something extraordinary for India on Wikipedia! Every 100 articles submitted will be copied into the wider Asian challenge. Sign up on the page if interested and start contributing! If you know someone who might be interested, please invite them by: {{subst:WikiProject India/The 10,000 Challenge Invite|~~~~}} Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:47, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Padavalamkuttanpilla - Thank you very much for your work on reviewing the Plastics Institute of Thailand article. I have been trying to support the Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand by expanding articles on government organizations. I believe information on these organizations will be extremely helpful additions to the encyclopedia for wikipedia users. I have submitted some other articles of sister organizations to this one to AfS that are waiting for review. I am specifically having trouble with Draft:Thai-German Institute to which I have far more citations for but continues to get rejected. For a benchmark of notability for these articles, I used their parent organization article, Ministry of Industry (Thailand), and made sure I went much further with the number and quality of citations and quality text. I noted all of this here Draft_Talk:Thai-German Institute. Any further help with Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand articles would be greatly appreciated. Kudos to your help with creating a great encyclopedia with a wide range of quality articles. --Ian Korman (talk) 00:52, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Anarchyte (talk • work) 16:15, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Sobha Surendran, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page NDA.

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Hello, I have made changes regarding the use of references as per your feedback. I have removed 3-4 references making a passing mention of Ratnakar and not providing any substantial coverage. I have also added another reference article from a reliable news media source that provided comprehensive coverage of Ratnakar. You still might find a couple of references that do not cover significant information about Ratnakar, but they offer a piece of unique news about Ratnakar that could not be found anywhere else. So, I hope that is okay. I would request you to suggest specific issues if there are any remaining. Looking forward to the acceptance of the article. Thank you.

On this article, you have restored my changes stating I removed content without providing reason. I have given reason in edit summary. What is the source for "Panicker is widely criticized for his insensitive comments in Facebook."? What is the source for "He often post misogynistic and derogatory posts in his Facebook page. He replies to the comments in uncivilized manner."? What is the source for "Also he has sparked controversy by posting a facebook post which has communal slur in it about the marriage of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's Daughter."? 202.83.37.25 (talk) 06:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

If you want to delete any content from the article, discuss it on the talk page and delete it once a consensus has been reached. Padavalam🌂  ►  08:18, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Guess you have not seen the Talk page yet. [1] 202.83.37.25 (talk) 08:44, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Correct me if I'm wrong. Have you reached a consensus on the talk page? Padavalam🌂  ►  08:54, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla:

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Hi @Padavalamkuttanpilla:,

Have proposed a New Tag & Assess for WikiProject India here. Do let us know your view. :)

Happy editting! Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin) (talk) 06:02, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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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.

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• FalconXFalcon (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Sulli Deals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi, my article on "[deals]" was rejected for the topic not being "notable" enough but i would like to argue against the opposite.

Sulli deals was similar to gamer gate wherein women of the gaming community faced targetted harassment. Sulli deals was even more notable in Indian context in that it involved politicians of the highest ranks. More than 800 woman rights activists signed a statement against the app and only few weeks ago there was a protest in Jamia over the issue.

Please rethink about the event not being notable as the wounds of many women are still fresh as ever with new articles on sullideals coming every week or so.

FalconXFalcon (talk) 17:32, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,You can re-submit the Draft by adding more in-depth sources -- Padavalam🌂  ►  18:31, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi User:Padavalamkuttanpilla! Could you kindly review my submission - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ruwanthi_Gajadeera and give some feedback to further improve it. In your initial feedback, you have asked to include more references to be notable enough. However, I have cited only independent and reliable sources national and international news outlets. Moreover, I have now included a mix of references where the source states that the subject has won an award and another source is discussing her (e.g. press release from governmental office and a news article regarding it). Could you kindly clarify for me whether this is sufficient or should I remove the press release from the government as it’s only stating that she is the winner without discussing her? Please let me know whether there are other issues as I’m happy to fix them. Sorry to bother you with all the questions this is my first article. Liyamu21 (talk) 03:08, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Padavalamkuttanpilla, did you manage to find some time to look at this draft? I will be much grateful for your valuable feedback on it! Thank you! Hope you have a great day! :) Liyamu21 (talk) 00:09, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[2] You draftifyed an obviously notable article (WP:NPOL). For future reference, don't do this; instead tag it with maintenance tags. Curbon7 (talk) 10:19, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

After further review, the subject actually passes NPOL on multiple accounts (1. provincial governor, 2. member of the Duma, 3. member of the State Council of Russia). This tells me you completely failed to conduct a proper review before pressing the draftify button. Curbon7 (talk) 10:50, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Curbon7, I am very Sorry for the mistake, The article probably notable but there’s no reliable sources and needs to be clean up. So I thought it would be better to come via AFC. As a reviewer you can move it to the main space any time...Thanks-- Padavalam🌂  ►  19:03, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I am really puzzled about your note suggesting the B7 Media page should be targeted for deletion. B7 Media is an award-winning British company - the page now noted to indicate this - with a range of titles on a par with that of a similar company, Big Finish Productions, which also has a page on Wikipedia. Surely the information supplied and the creative cast involved in some of its productions alone should have indicated this?Johnfreeman96 (talk) 15:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article was moved from main space to draftspace because of the unrelease of it and suggested me to submit after the film released, The film was released weeks ago. Could you review the draft? Regards Onmyway22 talk 20:41, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:Onmyway22,..let me check

Hi Padavalamkuttanpilla. After reviewing your request, I have temporarily enabled rollback on your account until 2022-12-27. Keep in mind these things when using rollback:

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Hi Padavalamkuttanpilla, I'm not satisfied with the reviews of the given articles

• Thinkalazhcha Nishchayam
• Kaanekkaane
• Jan.E.Man
• Anna Ben
• Nimisha Sajayan
• Roshan Mathew

Can you please Re-review those articles and make necessary changes if you feel to do so.

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		For the quick action on reviewing pending draft Onmyway22 talk 15:28, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you! Please share your point of view about Draft:upGrad. It is a properly stated WP:COI about an Indian education company. upGrad is one of the five unicorn companies in India (companies with a capitalization over $1 billion). The draft was declined at the AfC with the comment from the reviewer that it doesn’t pass WP:NCORP. Specifically, the reviewer noted that none of the references are independent and reliable. I wonder if this has to do with an attitude to some particular Indian media. Could it be that coverage at some sources (Business Standard, The Economic Times, Mint and etc.) are not in the list of reliable sources (WP:RSP)? Thanks! Peter. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 19:59, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Padavalamkuttanpilla you nominated my article on Ashwini Kumar Upadhyaya for deletion. Can you help me understand more on this? Amitized (talk) 09:32, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Padavalamkuttanpilla. Was there a reason you tagged Inna Bulkina as needing more citations for verification? All of the information is currently sourced in the body of the article.

If this was a mistake, will you please remove the tag? Thank you. - Whisperjanes (talk) 19:08, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla,

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 817 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 861 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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Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Altar'd State, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. Thank you. BangJan1999 20:01, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Missingfundamental (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Beni Giles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi - thanks for reviewing my draft article entitled 'Beni Giles'. I wanted to query the conclusion that they don't qualify for a Wikipedia article. The Wikipedia:Notability page says people are eligible if:

The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews, or of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series.

Beni Giles produced the album that won Best Album at the Ivor Novello Awards in 2021. That album - Lianne La Havas - has been the subject of multiple independent reviews. Does this constitute having played a major role in co-creating a significant work? I would have thought that it does. If so, can you offer any advice as to the changes I should make to the submission?

Thank you!

Missingfundamental (talk) 12:04, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please add more reliable sources ,then re-submit Padavalam🌂  ►  12:07, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla,

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).

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Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 14536 articles, as of 22:00, 23 April 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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An article you recently created, Shivani Menon, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.  DIVINE  17:57, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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(t · c) buidhe 20:26, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The film is released yesterday, still not reviewed. Could you? Requesting as you reviewed one of my last articles. Onmyway22 talk 05:59, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done ! Padavalam🌂  ►  16:56, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The film released last month, but article not in google search. There is an old film with same name and the article shows up with new film’s posters, but no article. I think the article is not reviewed yet! Could check that also? Onmyway22 talk 04:18, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination

MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

Open letter to the WMF

The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

TIP - Reviewing by subject

Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.

New reviewers

The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.

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Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:24, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Padavalamkuttanpilla,

Invitation

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here!
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(t · c) buidhe 21:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla,

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.

Suggestions:

• There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
• Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
• Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
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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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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:31, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla,

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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New Page Patrol | May 2023 Backlog Drive
On 1 May, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of redirects patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive. Article patrolling is not part of the drive. Sign up here! There is a possibility that the drive may not run if there are <20 registered participants. Participants will be notified if this is the case.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:12, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla,

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla,

The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

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Sent by Zippybonzo using MediaWiki message delivery at 06:59, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Shirley Town F.C., a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. Thank you. BangJan1999 16:58, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol | October 2023 Backlog Drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Articles will earn 3x as many points compared to redirects. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla,

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2400 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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New Page Patrol | January 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 January 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Padavalamkuttanpilla I've updated the article with relevant news articles. Could you please review it again? Here's the link Draft:Blaze_News — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sibipaul (talk • contribs) 18:51, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Padavalamkuttanpilla,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
On 1 May 2024, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]