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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

A graph showing the number of articles in the page curation feed from 12/21/18 - 12/20/19

Reviewer of the Year

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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Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

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Source Guide Discussion

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Brandon Academy, 1970

Brandon Academy Private School, founded 1970 in Brandon, Florida. I can't find information about the founding of the school, but it looks like a seg acad. to me. Can you find anything? Thanks! Jacona (talk) 16:59, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

 Done @Jacona:BillHPike (talk, contribs) 02:09, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks! Jacona (talk) 20:03, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello BillHPike,

Source Guide Discussion

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.

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Refresher

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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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Another one

George Walton Academy seems like another article that might interest you, when you have time.Jacona (talk) 22:08, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

As a promotional brochure, it interests me, Jacona. Wondering if you (Bill) want me to hold off on de-adveretising it till you look it over? John from Idegon (talk) 23:12, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
I added some cited facts. — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 02:56, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

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SP Accusation

I am not a sock. Feel free to have my account run through CU process. But please don't make accusations without evidence. I have made many edits including the ones you have listed. Feel free to go through the Wikipedia:Sock puppetry processMr. Awesome, PhD (talk) 17:48, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

See wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MmoatesBillHPike (talk, contribs) 18:15, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

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Central Private School Page Updates Made Today

Hi Mr. Pike, I work for Central Private School and earlier today I made some updates to the Central Private School Wikipedia page. It shows that you reversed the changes. I would like to know why you did that? I will be making the changes again. I would appreciate it and am politely asking you to please let the updates remain and do not reverse them. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Sincerely, Cpfan1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cpfan1 (talkcontribs) 22:15, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

For discussion/ or when you have time.

I've told you before how important (IMO) your work on segregation history of US schools is, so I should hope you aren't surprised by this post.

How do you think we should go about covering segregation in the North? It certainly was, and I dare say still is, defacto segregated. Segregation is worse in the Rust Belt than anywhere else in the country. I'd guess it's a combination of the economics of the Great Migration and redlining. Diversity has always been greater on the East and West coasts, simply due to location.

Also, I want to just toss out a thought: Is the locus of discrimination shifting, albeit slowly? Or instead, are we as a society finally starting to mature past it? My feelings: just like all other sins, it will be forever, but hopefully dwindle. I think in specific areas, we're seeing a loci shift. To Hispanics and Arabs. John from Idegon (talk) 23:28, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

@John from Idegon: I think our best approach would be expanding articles like Boston desegregation busing crisis. For most northeastern American cities, there are enough sources to construct a strong article School segregation in City. Sorry for the delayed reply, but the current crisis has kept me rather busy in real life. — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 22:53, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
It's keeping me at home. Luckily, I work for a wonderful man, and he's giving me a stipend to get by on till I can work again. Just be safe, my friend. John from Idegon (talk) 23:07, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

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Trinity Presbyterian School

Your edits on that school are outdated and do not present the actual conditions of the school. You are pushing a racist agenda by stating information from 1986 as current status.

Why are you pursuing this in such a way?

Thank you for your time Charles Lowry (talk) 15:01, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

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Southwest Georgia Academy

Please stop posting false information about this school. My family started it and you are 100 percent incorrect as to why it was started. Your "source" was even an opinion piece. Come on. What is the point in doing so, I would love to know?

Kelhaddock (talk) 17:36, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Southwest Georgia Academy

How do I take down my "legal threat." And why can't we at least add the history that is true to this school? Kelhaddock (talk) 18:08, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

@Kelhaddock: To retract your legal threat, please post a message to that effect at WP:ANI#Legal threats at Southwest Georgia Academy. If you would like to discuss the content of the article, please post at Talk:Southwest Georgia AcademyBillHPike (talk, contribs) 18:13, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
Here is a link to the 'continued on' part of the article referenced, in case it would be helpful. Jacona (talk) 18:18, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Just adding a "thanks" for your calm handling of this, including placement of the Welcome message at the user's talk page. Also: not sure if my edit summary ping got to you, so just in case: I modified your post at ANI (a technical TPO violation) because your diff links were not working. I used Special:Diff (which I find simpler) but you can switch it back to the template if you want; see the doc at {{diff}}, which requires arg1=article_name. Mathglot (talk) 19:19, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

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NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

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Rober E. Lee Academy

Hi, BillHPike! i do not object "Confederate general" definition for Robert Edward Lee because it is a FACT. But I still have concern about some content in the page - it looks it has undue weight content toward the school policy in the past. I think it should be balanced if there are new articles or information about the school. Let me know what you think. --2601:1C0:CB01:2660:8196:7DE9:B182:3551 (talk) 21:18, 1 July 2020 (UTC) @2601:1C0:CB01:2660:8196:7DE9:B182:3551:

Providence Day School

Hi Bill - I think this may be of interest to you. In my research on Charlotte independent schools, I have discovered quite a bit of information regarding Providence Day School. The page's history section makes no mention of their founding as a segregation academy (hastily thrown together in the summer of 1970 and opened with 5th and 6th grades that fall.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Day_School

I have taken a stab at a more accurate version of their history. The draft is in my sandbox page. Before I made the edit to the PDS page, I would your thoughts on my draft if you have time. Feel free to improve/change/post to the main page as you see fit. You seem to be the expert on this topic, your input would be appreciated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jiffy.morton/sandbox?action=edit


Best Regards,

Jiffy.morton (talk) 00:20, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

@Jiffy.morton: That is a nice writeup. I would support adding the content to the article. — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 02:35, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

thanks! one question for you - do you think in the opening sentence calling PDS an "SA" is too harsh...should it just read "independent school" ?

Jiffy.morton (talk) 01:32, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

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A source

You might be interested in this, maybe not. Jacona (talk) 21:08, 4 September 2020 (UTC) And likewise, this. Jacona (talk) 21:13, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks JaconaBillHPike (talk, contribs) 19:59, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
This is interesting.Jacona (talk) 14:07, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
@Jacona: Looks like our contributions led to real world reckoning. — BillHPike (talk, contribs) 14:41, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 40

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