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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Pigsonthewing,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

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.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Little Mermaid (2023)

Please don't remove the Bulletin Awards and the Fido Award. Here are the links to show that these awards are real, not fake : WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Bulletin Awards 2023 — The Bulletin (onthebulletin.com)  ; Fido Awards 2024: ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ Star Messi Finally Gets His Oscar Moment (deadline.com) Rincemermaid (talk) 20:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rincemermaid: This is my talk page, where messages personal to me can be left. I suggested to raise your concerns on the talk page of the article; in other words, at Talk:The Little Mermaid (2023 film). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Andy, Question!

Is there any way for me to create a temporary page on Wikipedia, even under an “under review” URL or something like that? I wanted to make a page for my brother as part of his wedding for guests to look at as a kind of fun gag. It wouldn’t even need to be published or anything, I just wanted to make a small page that’s temporary - 24 hours or so - that is presented as an official page that wedding guests could go look at it. It would be temporary and deleted after, and doesn’t have to be officially published. Is there some way to do that? Mstanley92 (talk) 20:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mstanley92: Your question has already been answered, at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Temporary Page for Wedding. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:00, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

April thanks

Thank you for improving article quality in April! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

today a sad task - memory of Andrew Davis - turned into entertainment (yt at the bottom of his article, actually both) -- the latest pictures capture extreme weather --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:40, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

today you can look at the last three stories or "music" on my talk: the same topics, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Samuel Kummer and (pictured) one row of 8 double basses and another of 5 bassists ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:55, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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how to put calorgies on Template cause this is my 1st time doing it? Samchristie05 (talk) 21:17, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Gilles Dyan has been accepted

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