Following up on our mail, I did a little digging and I found a thread on myself thrice and Twice on Twitter, I do enjoy constructive criticism, I’m indeed not an expert on MOS, but I do try my best thus I took that one in good faith but immediately I encountered a rather asinine comment by a Nigerian editor using a pseudonym there who I ensured did not use Wikipedia for promotional purposes, make comments like "Celestina is clearly unwell and has a poor command of the English language", I immediately logged off as that wasn’t constructive criticism anymore but pure hate speaking. It’s not my intention to be boastful but when it comes to written English, there are but a few on my level. Observing other entries, I saw a user there refer to me as a loser for being scared of sorcery and reporting Julie Conteh for threatening me. In the end I guess if i have three threads dedicated to me and two mention of me on Twitter, Invariably it means, I must be doing something right, which is negating unethical practices and it also means I’m Wikipedia famous Celestina007 (talk) 17:01, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
I had started a article for creation and submitted it for a review but i was not happy with the reviewer , the subject i have created have coverage in almost every reliable news of nepal ( i have also checked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Usedtobecool/PSN) the reference i have provided are , the Kathmandu post , the himalayan times , ekantipur , ngarik , my republica setopati . How can someone covered by all these reliable media doesn't pass notability guildline , please checkthe draft and suggest me your opinion . thankyou Khagendrawiki (talk) 12:49, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Thankyou for replying , i dont know who tried to publish the same article erlier , when i was doing research on the subject , i found the piece of draft some website stored from the deleted article of wikipedia , it was easier for me to shap that available article rather than writing it from starting , thats why you sense the similarity in articlr also , no way i am getting paid for this i dont even know the subject personally , about the news i am sure they all came at the time of his tour and that might be because of his availability in nepal , it was easier for news team to contact him . I am continuesly trying to improve the article and get it approved . I will certainly look into your suggestions and improve the article . Khagendrawiki (talk) 06:15, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello sir, I always use this Usedtobecool/PSN as reference while creating and editing this article. Thank You for available this.
Today I am going to mention 2 news site :
: http://radionepal.gov.np/
2. News Agency Nepal : https://newsagencynepal.com/
and, I recommend to add this two sites on Usedtobecool/PSN
what is your opinion ?
and last question: Is this sites give Reliable and Notable news? Endrabcwizart (talk) 05:27, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello Usedtobecool,
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 842 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 840 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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What's your purpose and intensions? You own wikipedia or you just rejected draft instead of declining it? We are not wasting here our time dealing with vandalism, contributing to wikipedia. Should i open the discussion? It really won't go well for you? DIVINE 📪 11:41, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
And are you well aware about the notability guidelines for WP:BIO and AFCH articles? DIVINE 📪 11:42, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
"I understand that you know too that the topic is notable."
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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Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
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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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(t · c) buidhe 20:26, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Hey there!
I want to first state that I am not a sock-puppet of any user. I have used Wikipedia a long time for personal reasons and I have started editing various different pages recently.
Secondly, I don't want to haggle with you or fight with you over the internet. As with all Nepali people, we tend to abuse our power when in any position.
I would like your constructive criticism regarding Kedar Narsingh KCs page so I can make it better. Instead of moving it into the draft space, I would have appreciated it if you had made the edits yourself in the mainspace. Another wikipedia user had already approved the page, so I don't understand why you would tag it for speedy deletion and move it into the draftspace. It seems like some kind of vendetta and I don't understand why you think your opinion is more legitimate than others.
I have used multiple different reliable sources for the article including The Kathmandu Post, The Himalayan Times, Swasthyakhabar and many other sources.
I am currently a MBBS student and I wanted to make Dr. KC's page after reading about his candidacy for the upcoming elections. I believe he meets the notability guidelines both in the medical and political community of Nepal. I am not a close connection of his.
@GorillaWarfare: Please help!
Khamba123 (talk) 20:11, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
This is not about one person or character, it's about the Nepali medical community having a bigger say in the policies of our country and having an all-in-all source for young generations to learn from
@Khamba123: Its me a researcher cum engineering student. I have brough a conclusion from your confession that you are a coms student most probably and linked somehow to KC family. This is your edit, your writing style and cohesion. [1] [2] I regret to speak @Usedtobecool: is a dead burnt plaster on wikipedia now, an eagle who can't see other's perform well. My contributions including this [3] were hinderance to his wiki career and hence he led a campaign of block against me else there was no reson to block a scholar like me on wiki community. I will continue @Usedtobecool, I am still cool and ccoperative than you. A proud democrat who judges to stay away from conspiracy theories of Marx, Christ. Continue your leftist nature. Regards!2404:7C00:43:C931:3DE1:A3EA:B4EC:661 (talk) 18:19, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. valereee (talk) 18:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
I saw your comments, which I am fine with. WP:BLP, WP:RS, WP:NPOV. If I remove the JK Rowling, that should address the BLP. The RS, I believe there is a few good sources including Harvard Business Review, as well as through here [4] . The NPOV, is going to be non neutral, as Male Priv isn't necessarily npov as well. It really gives the other dynamic to a perspective. I was also developing the white female priv that has an effect on black females. Is there anything else I should do? BlackAmerican (talk) 12:00, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
Please engage at Talk:Ex_Machina_(film)#On_deletion_of_paragraph_mentioning_Shaun rather than edit war. If everyone cited in an article had to be Roger Ebert, then you would need to delete some 48 other citations in Ex Machina (film) of sources that are not notable by Wikipedia's standards. Ironically, if that was how it worked, Shaun (YouTuber) would be one of the three we kept, since he is in fact "notable". The most sound tactic for justifying that we don't need this content would be if we expanded it to cite more, better sources with more significant interpretations. But in order to get to that point, less than perfect content needs to say, per WP:Editing policy. Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:08, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
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.
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Hi Usedtobecool,
Thanks for your input on the page. As stated I have removed all the external links, from the article body, despite that some references required to be there. I have cited all claims made in the article with the best of my knowledge and references. I have tried making the article concise, but some topics require short elaboration to provide better picture to the readers. I have thoroughly went through the COI, and confirm that I don't have any connections that would allow COI. Offline, I have been a close follower of the legal community in my country(India) for some years now and can affirm from my experience that Ms. Mahalakshmi Pavani, is a noted figure owing to her work in the Indian Judiciary System. Hence, I moved to penning an article about her on Wikipedia. Please help me with any further changes that might be required to move this ahead.
Thanks. Raghav1788 (talk) 10:27, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
Hey,
I’m interested in posting an article about the place where I work, Facilis Technology, Inc.
I can prove that I work there; I’m an admin for the website and a full-time salaried employee. What do I have to do to become a user with the ability to author an article?
Facilis Technology is one of Avid Technology’s main competitors in shared storage; specifically their storage products: ‘Isis’ and, ‘Nexus’.
Facilis (Facilis Technology, Inc.) has existed for over 20 years. Facilis servers over 10,000 companies and ranges from YouTube personalities like ‘Ross Creations’ to major Hollywood film studios like NBC Universal and Sony pictures.
I should add that I am helping to boost our (Facilis’) internet presence. For example, all of competitors have Wikipedia pages, including the aforementioned Avid Technology. It would go along way to validate our 20-year-old company if people could at least read a short bio on a page that is not owned by Facilis Technology, Inc. itself.
Thank you for your time I hope that I will have the ability to do this. If I am talking to the correct person, I apologize. You sent me a welcome message so I kind of figured you were an authority on all things Wikipedia.
:) Mldurban (talk) 07:45, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, Usedtobecool,
I wanted to ask you about your tagging of this draft. It looks, at face value, like a prominent company, but I'm not sure about evaluating sources in this country's media so I've untagged the article for now. I'd like for it to be looked over by an AFC reviewer. I usually trust new page reviewer's judgment when they tag pages for deletion but this draft article was just created yesterdat and is only in Draft space so I'd like for it to be reviewed by an editor use to evaluating new drafts. I don't know whether or not you have experience doing that AFC work. The draft could be promotional spam but I'm unsure and would like it to get a second opinion. I just didn't want to untag the page without providing you with an explanation. Thank you for your contributions. Liz Read! Talk! 02:52, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
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This change needs to be checked: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1141616502; "pop pop"? 151.82.124.238 (talk) 03:14, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! You are my mentor apparently. I was wondering how someone can become an administrator or overseer for new pages? --JohnDVandevert (talk) 17:41, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
hello mentor, once i created an article about a person but it was deleted, they gave me a reason that the person was not notable enough at that time but now, he fullfilled the criteria as he became the police chief of an indian state. can i re create the article ? --Jogesh 69 (talk) 12:29, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
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hello brother. may i know why did u removed the information related to dew sing? 2400:1A00:B010:8C7F:F03E:785D:47E4:A903 (talk) 15:23, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. Its clear to us that the last thakuri of nuwakot was dew sing. thakuri *= rulers. Their is no meaning of baru in nepali history. The name only indicates it is singh thakuri, including the local ethic peopls STATEMENTS. that it is dew singh and his clan brother who used to rule in nuwakot as their local king, prince. since thakury dynasty was founded by nuwakot thakuries we can see that >90% reason goes to point out that dew sing was final lineage of nuwakot thakuri who ruled their with his borthers. We can also see that during nuwakot gorkha war kantipur had sent theri army also in that battle. i.e final battle were fought by both dew sing and kantipur armies. Before chnaging again, defy my point of view, than u can do. 2400:1A00:B010:8C7F:F03E:785D:47E4:A903 (talk) 16:09, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
I found out that u have came nepal for only 2 year, and u have started to interfer in my countrys history? beofre chaning talk to me, if u win the debate, u can change them. else don't touch my countris history. i warn u. whoever u r, which country u'r from. u'll face concequences of trying to alter our history 2400:1A00:B010:8C7F:F03E:785D:47E4:A903 (talk) 16:33, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
What exactly is wrong information here? the information i put here are:
i'm giving wikipedia priority only cas in search enginehs the information of wikipedia comes at top and having this debate and investing my time here. if u can prove even my single content, u can change them. Dinesh.lama.rumba.333999 (talk) 17:57, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
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i wrote about uttam neupane and added very reliable cite links, which are already approved in many celebrities Wikipedia pages.
could you please let me know why this hasn't approved for publish and how can i correct it if there is problem in the writing? 27.34.13.164 (talk) 04:41, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
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There seems to be a misunderstanding in the recent ANI discussion. In your post at 18:20 you appear to think that you are disagreeing with me about whether or not I was "involved", or did I misunderstand what you were saying? I had previously said "I was not thinking clearly; I thought [past tense] I was not 'involved'..." and then "I do see [present tense], having read your comment, that it is reasonable to say that I was involved". JBW (talk) 20:49, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
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FYI, using the label "best known for" is acceptable in the lead of a biography when it matches the WP:RS. The reliable sources are clear that Lex Fridman is a famous podcaster [5]. Thanks Zenomonoz (talk) 23:09, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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The baleswar inscriptinon itself have mentioned that western malla viz khas malla belongs to buddhist jina family. Their are 5 jinas in mahayana/vajrayana buddhsim. Among those 5 only 1 is related to LOTUS. and that is ... Amitaba buddha, Avaleteswara, machindranath. So its conclusive evidence that both western malla thakuri and malla thakuri of valley belonges to same clan. Including both share Aringal royal title (bee: convinient for monarchci titles). Kirat dynasty, dynasty before liccahvi dynaty. This edits are dont for information, true information to people, specially nepali people so without Defying my references and reasons conclusvilty kindly don't revert them. Dinesh.lama.rumba.333999 (talk) 14:18, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
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I get where you're coming from. I had to think about this a bit. Would you agree with me that the article was also promotional? I felt it was, and I think an undeclared COI is also likely. Deb (talk) 09:14, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did at Suryapura, Rupandehi, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Avishai11 (talk) 11:30, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
I saw that they had posted a question, but I missed the fact that you had actually responded to it. It was all a bit cluttered, so I thought the best thing to do was pop their comment at the bottom and respond - didn't mean to leave you behind. Girth Summit (blether) 16:44, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
Hiya, very confused by your edit over at the Teahouse. Can you explain what you think I did wrong? I've noticed that in America people still use "race", but over here in Europe that is considered extremely outdated (and pretty racist ngl). Another cultural difference is that people seem to interpret directness as rudeness, which is very different where I live. I didn't start any unhelpful side-arguments, didn't shift any goalposts and I didn't double down on anything. If anyone started a side-argument it was Remsense, right? Note that the order as it appears on the talkpage is not chronological (which may be misleading), and that when I realised it wasn't something they made up I posted a screenshot from the source. Polygnotus (talk) 11:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
I consider all humans to be one race as well. It's the scientific consensus. I didn't make it up; I quoted Wikipedia.
But there's a time and place for that argument. And that wasn't it. They got confused by a HIPAA code, and believe(d) that it was their race. That is certainly the time and place to explain that in reality they are a member of the human race, like all living humans.
it's best to try and adapt to that than arguing "but this is what's polite in my country" Agreed, but I would argue that what you wrote is quite impolite and certainly not fit for the Teahouse which is supposed to be a more friendly place. It is fine to disagree with me, and you are always welcome on my talkpage, but to attack me like that is counterproductive. We are on the same team.
why didn't you strike your first comment that implied that it was? I sort-of did, in a friendly not very serious way. See what I wrote about timetravel? That was me agreeing with them.
Instead you doubled down, with how it was made up by somebody and how Race is a construct. No. They wrote: "You know that they were not referring...and that they did not make up..." and my response was: "I am a timetraveller, but only in one direction.". Back when I wrote the comment at 10:55 I could not know what OP was referring to. I cannot read minds. So first I agreed with Remsense, and expressed my regret at not being able to travel backwards in time, and then I nitpicked a bit and then I posted a short explanation for the benefit of OP, not Remsense.
you made a comment implying the OP was stupid This is where you are wrong again. I clearly did not. You seem to interpret things very differently than I would. If I thought OP was stupid I wouldn't be talking about social constructs and taxonomic significance.
That was not nice at all. Your comment and escalation was certainly not nice.
anyone who uses "we are all one race" to get out of addressing injustices I don't understand why you throw this weird (what could be perceived as an) accusation into the mix. I would appreciate it if you retracted that or clarified that you did not mean that as an accusation. Revert your comment and let's move on because arguing while we are on the same team and members of the same race is not a productive use of our time. We got an encyclopedia to write. Polygnotus (talk) 13:13, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
That is certainly the time and place to explain that in reality they are a member of the human race, like all living humans.
Why do you think that that is a "race"? It is not. https://i.imgur.com/ajn3v9k.png They also use "Non-Migrant Unknown". Do you think "Non-Migrant Unknown" is also a race?
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Dear sir, will you plz guide me how can I improve the article you recently reviewed (Dr. Om Foundation) and redirect it. I have gone through your user page and got enough information about authentic media sources we need to keep in mind during creating articles. I will keep this in mind for my future work. I saw you helping new comers and thereby expecting similar support. Thank you 🙏 🙏 CoolBoyMe (talk) 13:12, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
I only saw your ping after the thread was archived, and probably it doesn't need a response, but just for clarity (and because who likes being misquoted?): my position, expressed in that discussion and elsewhere, is not that "NPP should not check for notability", but that an NPPer does not have to check for notability, if they don't have a reason to doubt notability. 'Check' here meaning something along the lines of WP:BEFORE: searching for sources and assessing level of coverage, or evaluating it against an SNG. I agree with you that my position is not the "consensus position", but only insofar as there isn't a consensus on how much NPP needs to concern itself with notability. I recently summarised the what the various guidelines have had to say on the issue, which can be summed up as notability is a peripheral concern of NPP, far down the list of priorities and generally limited to checking for obvious lack of significance (CSD-level or near) and using notability tags to triage more complex cases, and WhatamIdoing added some useful historical context in the same thread. ICPH's flowchart is, incidentally, one of those guidelines: if you read it carefully, notability only enters the picture if a web search does not turn up any reliable sources. That is what Jeraxmoira was trying to explain in that thread.
peripheral concern of NPP, far down the list of priorities and generally limited to checking for obvious lack of significance (CSD-level or near) and using notability tags to triage more complex cases
Given the large and growing backlog, it is unfortunate that a small group of very vocal (but not actually very active) reviewers have recently been trying to tell stretched, jobbing NPPers that they need to do even more work than they already are. One thing you are absolutely right about is that highly effective reviewers---the people who have historically kept the backlog down---have not gone looking for sources for each article. Doing so at scale is completely unrealistic. – Joe (talk) 20:08, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
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What was the jist of the scam? - UtherSRG (talk) 14:46, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
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I have opened a discussion at Talk:Janata Dal (Samajbadi Prajatantrik) § Is this a real party? that I think could use your input. Thanks. Brusquedandelion (talk) 13:18, 14 March 2024 (UTC)