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Hi, you've reverted my edit on Xiamen. I don't have any reliable sources for my edit, but Amoy is evidently closer to the Zhangzhou pronunciation /ɛ mui/ rather than the Xiamen pronunciation /e mŋ̍/. See Amoy and 廈門 on Wiktionary. Justinrleung ( talk) 04:43, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
That explanation makes sense to me now. I have undid my undo. Thanks for explaining it. Its strange how it doesn't originate from the Xiamen pronunciation. Araratic ( talk) 05:02, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
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The information about Sky team being the second largest clearly conflicts the other airline alliance pages such as OneWorld and Star Alliance . I will change the sources if that is not enough. Araratic ( talk) 22:10, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
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I was just reviewing your request for rollback on WP:RFPERM and looking at your recent contributions to evaluate whether to grant the right. I have a small concern about one recent edit and thought it best to share it with you so you can get better at countering vandalism.
In this revert, you reverted an edit to the page Twin. You then added a warning here. The warning said that the user would be blocked for vandalising Wikipedia. The edit does not look like vandalism: it looks like a good faith attempt to improve the page. It lacked a source, and might be an edit that doesn't add much to the article, but it wasn't obviously vandalism. Please be careful not to bite the newbies by reverting edits they make as vandalism when they aren't. Good faith edits are not vandalism.
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Hi there Araratic. Our paths have crossed a couple times yesterday as we both seem to patrol NPP pages from the oldest side. I am writing to urge caution when choosing to draftify these articles in the face of persistent (inappropriate) creation. Since you draftified Tube8 it had the the G8 tag placed, there was a copy and paste move of the article back there, I did a histmerge request, which was then replaced once again by a G8. I certainly agree with you that this page is not appropriate for mainspace but with IPs in action I don't know that draftifying is the right way to solve this. Also two resources you might not be aware of: User:Evad37/MoveToDraft which automates several steps of the draftifying process and a workflow I made for patrolling the oldest side of the NPP queue. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 13:31, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Can you explain why you think the article for 2018 Van Morrison album "The Alternative Moondance" should be deleted and searches for that album should be redirected to Morrison's 1970 album "Moondance"? A Google search for "The Alternative Moondance" turns up very little of note as far as secondary sources. Predictably, AllMusic and Discogs have pages for it, since they have pages for just about every album, no matter how minor. The reason I object to merging with "Moondance" is less that I think "The Alternative Moondance" is a critically important album and more that, regardless of its significance, it is not "Moondance." The track listing is different, the takes are different, the album cover is different, the title of the album is different, etc. Anticipating that you will disagree and restore the redirect that I've removed, I'm adding a section in the "Moondance" article.
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I deleted most of D.Holt's addition to Moondance--repeating the original album's personnel served no purpose--but have restored the additional track listing and made a note of the release in the body's final paragraph ( [1]) Dan56 ( talk) 07:26, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hello yes that was an error also I am currently creating sub-categories within Category:Royal Navy appointments as there was nearly 600 and growing and not easy to find specific information hence why Category:Clerks of the Royal Navy was created.-- Navops47 ( talk) 08:08, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for drawing attention to the copyvio problem at Ron Tyson, which I hope I have now sorted out. Just for future reference: speedy deletion isn't usually a good choice of remedy for pages with a long history like this one. For those, blanking the page and listing it at WP:Copyright problems is usually preferable. There are instructions here, but please do ask if they aren't completely clear. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 09:07, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Araratic, you put a COI tag on a page I recently published. I want to declare that I have no conflict of interest with the biography I published. I am an employee of an academic institution and I take great care to be objective in my writing. All facts presented were supported by references and reliable resources as per wikipedia guidelines. The article is within the scope of the wikibiography project and adheres to all guidelines for biographies of living persons. All unsupported information were not included in the article. This was the first article of a series I am preparing on Lebanese scientists. Looking forward to your thoughts and advice! Lebsci ( talk) 16:43, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello Araratic! Indeed, I made a mistake when choosing a username. I thought that this will be the name of the draft. Later, when I found out that the name of the draft comes at a different stage, I requested the change in the username. I can see your point and where the confusion could arise. Sorry for that. I read a lot of instructions and policies on wikipedia before posting the article. I also have to thank other editors who helped me in referencing correctly. Thank you again for your help! Lebsci ( talk)
Hi please can you elaborate on why you removed the specs of the Pixelbook and reset the new Pixel Slate page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MattA Official ( talk • contribs) 10:59, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for reviewing West Virginia Route 78, Araratic.
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@ Insertcleverphrasehere: I don't actually remember clicking review on that. It may have been the curation tools automatically reviewing it when I tagged it for deletion. Is that a thing? ~ Araratic | talk 13:11, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Dear Araratic, I wish to inform you that I just contested your speedy deletion nomination for " Corin Depper" which I find profoundly unfair. Yours Faithfully. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4HcxdV9x ( talk • contribs) 20:34, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Dear Araratic, thank you for your prompt reply. Since you have nominated the page I added some referencing. Could you please have a look. Thank you very much in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4HcxdV9x ( talk • contribs) 09:09, 7 February 2019 (UTC) Well, I just ckecked and my last works on the page have been removed by user Bakazaka although perfectly referenced; I don't understand why there is so much biased hatred against this legitimate page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4HcxdV9x ( talk • contribs) 09:13, 7 February 2019 (UTC) Moreover, user Bakazaka who is only contributing on pages for women seem to be vandalising and diminishing pages about men.
I have written many pages, I know how to reference, thank you. These are independent and reliable. Over a dozen universities across europe; such institutions as The British Library. This is not a personal attack, I don't know this person, I am just stating that this seems to be gender-based censorship. Moreover, this user has full pages on Japanese actresses who just started their careers and barely appeared in few productions but you want to delete a scholar's page who has been working for 2 decades, impacted the work of many other scholars and supervises Phds. It is due to deletion nomination practices by administrators like you that less known Film theorists are actually absent on wikipedia, theorists who, unlike these actresses, do not benefit from the press impacted by publicists backed up by billionaire entertainment corporations and whose works need visibility. Their work is being consequently prevented from general access to knowledge on wikipedia while there are thousands of pages dedicated to reality or soap opera celebrities. How ludicrous. I simply find it detrimental that users opting for such postulates like you are given administrator power and there is nothing personal in this. ---------- 17:13, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
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Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
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This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
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Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
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1 | Rosguill ( talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
2 | Onel5969 ( talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
3 | JTtheOG ( talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
4 | Arthistorian1977 ( talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
5 | DannyS712 ( talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA ( talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
7 | DragonflySixtyseven ( talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
8 | Boleyn ( talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
9 | Ymblanter ( talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
10 | Cwmhiraeth ( talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
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A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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Hello BlueTurtles,
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
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