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Question from IsadoraPenn (11:35, 6 April 2026)

Hello! I have spent days just perusing Wiki and have learnt so much from this platform. I am so glad to finally be able to help out by editing. Where do I begin really?, what do I have to read/learn before I begin? I have already made some test runs through some minor edits. My goal was to make an edit on article because what was being foretold has already happened and so it needs restructuring. It's all a little daunting. --IsadoraPenn (talk) 11:35, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Glad you asked! I advise you to edit some articles by using wikitext (wikipedia's own language), you can find how to use wikitext here. Choose any topic that you're interested in. You can start gradually by fixing grammar mistakes, etc. By time, if you achieve consistency, you will learn most of the things here. If you need any other advice, feel free to ask! ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 11:50, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

2027 Philadelphia City Council Election

Hi Vortex Phantom,

Thanks for your detailed feedback on this article! I've gone ahead and added verifiable sources to all the claims you listed, including the election date. If you could review again, or provide any feedback in the meantime, that would be most appreciated. Thanks! Yojo98 (talk) 14:18, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

I appreciate your work and glad that you followed my advice. If you believe that your draft can now qualify as article, then be patient, any other reviewer will review that, and give rationale if decline, which areas to work. Currently, I am busy at other projects and will be free in some days, then I will review your draft. Thanks for reaching out. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 15:13, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

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Question from TheEditorForFreeEncyclopedia on Pottsville Maroons (22:00, 10 April 2026)

Hello Vortex. I have a question on how to create a citation. As you can tell I am just starting and I don't fully understand the format for editors. --TheEditorForFreeEncyclopedia (talk) 22:00, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Mainly there are two editing methods that allows to cite:

• Source
• Visual

in source editor, you can add citation by using ref tags and a template that is used according to what source you are using. See WP:REFB for details.

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visual editor is most easiest way in which you click " this double quotes mark, and paste the URL to cite, all the rest is automated and citation is created.

If you can't even create cite, fee free to contact.

✓ortexPhantom (talk) 07:31, 11 April 2026 (UTC).

Appeal to reconsider deleting the page Dachung Gyang

While I understand that additional citations are required to keep to Wikipedia's rules, I also wish to appeal to the team that Dachung Gyang is a well recognised local chief of the early to mid-20th century of the Berom peoples (predominant tribe) of the Jos Plateau; their first ruler in the contemporary world. To take down the page might be misconstrued by many followers of the bearer as unfair and somewhat condescending. I, as creator of the page therefore advise that the team exercise prudence in their decision and patience for members to collect more sources and content for onward addition to the article at least to upgrade it from stub status.

Regards,

Abraham Abrahamvwi7 (talk) 13:42, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

This will be discussed, that is why I have nominated it for deletion. The rule is simple, if subject isn't notable, article can't be made, even as a stub. I think you misunderstood the meaning of stub, stub indicates that subject is notable, but article has to be cover all aspects of subject, not brief mention and subject is notable when if either fulfills WP:GNG or WP:NBIO (in you case of biography). ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 14:44, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Question from DJLeamen (10:49, 12 April 2026)

Hi there, mentor! I'm a long-time Wikipedia reader but have only just decided to create an editor account and help contribute where there's gaps. The issue is, as a newcomer, there's a lot of information here to absorb and I'm a bit intimidated. I'm sure it becomes easier as I continue, but in the meantime, do you have any general advice for where to start besides the obvious auto-link suggestions & spelling/grammar fixes? Or even where to start to understand the core rules and complexities of this platform? Thank you for all the work you do! --DJLeamen (talk) 10:49, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

hi there! Firstly I want to thank you for joining wikipedia with aim to contribute. Many people reads wikipedia, out of readers, 1% join wikipedia, and out of joiners 1% contribute constantly. You are very rare, 1% of the readers. Wikipedia may look complex, but is very simple. Since you are new, I advise you to choose one field, where you want to contribute, there fields are writing and editing article on Wikipedia (most common), reviewing new edits that are mades across platform and choose that it doesn't disrupts purpose of Wikipedia (harassments, edits that are not sourced, test edits, deleting large section without any appropriate reason.

creating article that doesn't exist on wiki and you think it should be. Note: there are many, but these are most beginner friendly. Once you gain experience, you can move on to areas where advanced thinkings and knowledge of policies required. Out of fields I suggested, choose one of you like and msg here, I will tell steps that you should follow (for that particular area) ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 13:46, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Kadri Bistrica

Hi there, and thank you for you help with NPP! I wanted to let you know that I have declined your G4 speedy deletion nomination of Kadri Bistrica because the current version is not sufficiently similar to the version deleted via discussion in 2016. One clear indicator is that the article includes two sources published after the deletion discussion, with one published in 2022 and another published in 2023. If you think Bistrica still does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines, feel free to renominate for deletion via AfD. Thank you! Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 14:05, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

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Kadri Bistrica

I don't know what happened, but the deletion log accidentally listed an old nom from 2016 instead of your second nomination. Might wanna go in and fix that. Ten Pound Hammer (they/them) • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 14:09, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Is it fixed now?, I can currently see 2nd nomination at log. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 14:20, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, looks like it's fixed now. Ten Pound Hammer (they/them) • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 14:33, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Question from BenzShiesty (15:51, 15 April 2026)

I need help to put my name on an intro that I did with Bhad Bhabie on a song called OG crashout https://genius.com/34838742 --BenzShiesty (talk) 15:51, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Me talking about her for two minutes turns into 11 second intro OG CRASHOUT. Danielle hit me up in DM‘s on Instagram after I tagged her on my story https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKZvSUZxFD6/?igsh=cmUxM29yNnlsczBy

she asked me can I use your voice on the next intro and I said yes I got your back months later. I go up to the text messages and she delete what she said. So personally, she got a freebie from me. Last year i actually seen her in Providence, Rhode Island at Kulture and there should be videos on there May 31, 2025 on TikTok or other social media I would like to get some type of credit in reference where it’s due on Wikipedia about me as Andrew M Bencivenga best known as (Benz) BenzShiesty BenzShiesty (talk) 16:01, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

The Draw-Back (1927)

FYI: I came across The Draw-Back (1927) today. I see that it has just been moved to mainspace after you declined it. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:50, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for informing, I will look into it. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 15:53, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

PROD on Banjarkemantren Railway Station

Hi @VortexPhantom, I saw you proposed Banjarkemantren railway station for deletion citing WP:GEO. Since this is a translation from the Indonesian Wikipedia, could you let me know what specific improvements would help this and future station articles meet English Wikipedia standards so that I can remove the one you've put and so that they can avoid PRODs in the future? Thanks! HPG01 (talk) 15:41, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for citing WP:GEO, it's WP:NGEO, I have corrected it also on the PROD tag. See WP:NTRAINSTATION, which clearly states that train station doesn't automatically be notable since they are train stations, it should be covered under multiple reliable source, which I don't see in this case. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 10:17, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Deletion of LegaSea Article

Good morning @VortexPhantom, you have cited "Doesn't meet WP:NCORP, probably written to advertise company and relies heavily on primary sources." for the LegaSea article. How should I fix the tone or structure to meet the standards on the article? It is my first article and I am not affiliated nor paid to write the article, it is simply creating a new article for an organisation in New Zealand that isn't featured on Wikipedia. If you can give me any suggestions it would be appreciated. ThomasNiuNiu (talk) 01:47, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

I assume that you are not connected to it, but even it doesn't follows neutral tone, it covers deeply about objective and activities of company, just like when written to promote it's ideology, products etc. Also, the article lack published books and article, or other materials from secondary reliable sources that have covered ORG with significant coverage, not just trivial mentions. You have added reference of company's own website which is classified as primary sources, which is not enough to establish notability. If you want to stop deletion, you may add reference of secondary reliable sources and improve tone, it may be saved. If only you establish notability, it will be saved, and even if other aspects are not good (such as tone), you will be given time to do that, so it is not a big concern. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 10:05, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Question from Heather Pierson (14:51, 20 April 2026)

I would like help with adding a COI disclosure before attempting to publish an article. How can I do this? --Heather Pierson (talk) 14:51, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

See this this page for disclosing COI, moreover you should not submit your userpage to review as draft, consider it to your sandbox, hence I am cleaning it. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 15:02, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

If you want, I can move your sandbox to draft space, move correct location for drafts and it's reviewing or you may do it yourself. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 15:05, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

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Question from Berthamp on Minneapolis Miracle (16:20, 22 April 2026)

Does Minneapolis have iPhones? --Berthamp (talk) 16:20, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

It seems that your question doesn't related with how to contribute to wikipedia. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 10:32, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

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Question from Aranylat on User:Aranylat (10:30, 23 April 2026)

Hello 👋

I'm a new editor here, could you help me with creating my user page and explain me how the wikitext in Wikipedia editor works? --Aranylat (talk) 10:30, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

See Help:Wikitext for how to use wikitext, even if you are facing problem, ask here. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 10:32, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Oh ok, and what about user pages? Aranylat (talk) 10:34, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

You want to create your user page? ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 10:36, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

I have changed my mind now, I'm not making a user page now. Thanks for the help! Aranylat (talk) 15:49, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

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Question from TheJamesCycleContinues (18:12, 26 April 2026)

Hello someone keeps reverting all of my edits even though I have added plenty of sources and have edited in good faith. Some of these edits have taken me a decently long time to make. What should I do? --TheJamesCycleContinues (talk) 18:12, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

This is a banned editor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Thejamescycle Woodlandscaley (talk) 01:39, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

That isn’t me TheJamesCycleContinues (talk) 06:09, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

@TheJamesCycleContinues @Woodlandscaley I have reported to ANI and there is ongoing sockpuppetry discussion on both of you. Thanks for reporting it to me. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 12:43, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Question from 4hgoat (12:37, 27 April 2026)

Hi Vortex. Very excited to join you here, and start editing on Wikipedia. How exactly do I get my article I created approved? --4hgoat (talk) 12:37, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

If you are very new, I suggest you to complete some coyeditng task and improving a article, as it will make you more aware about editing using wikitext, citing reliable sources, as this will give you skills you will be needed on Wikipedia and getting your article approved. ✓ortexPhantom (talk) 12:48, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

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G5 declined

Hello! I wanted to let you know I just declined a WP:G5 you placed on an article. It's easy to make mistakes with that criterion. It requires the user to have been blocked or banned at the time of article creation. The sockmaster was only blocked a few days ago, while the article was created in January. Hope that helps! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 09:10, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I will take care of it from next time. PhantomVortex (Contact here) 09:12, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from 987.btw (07:54, 3 May 2026)

Hi Vortex! I've edited a page before, to make a song title accurate, but it got taken down, any reason as to why it might have? --987.btw (talk) 07:54, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Can you clarify which page you edited before? PhantomVortex (Contact here) 09:30, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

I edited the "Lets start here" album name by Lil Yachty, just to see and test if Wikepedia is actually editable, i noticed the name of the songs on the website were not accurate with the actual name of the song on some of the streaming sites, so naturally I changed it (with an anonymous account at the time). So I went back the next day to check and the edits were gone. 987.btw (talk) 11:18, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

To be clear, it was the name of one of the songs, not the album name. 987.btw (talk) 14:23, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

It may be removed because it was not adequately cited. PhantomVortex (Contact here) 14:31, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Idris12344556 on Pakistan Military Academy (09:49, 3 May 2026)

hey dude just wondering on this page there's a lot of Pakistani words and the their not popping up in a online Pakistani dictionary so just wondering what should i do

also there's lots of place names that don't pop up on a map so I'm thinking it might be made up. --Idris12344556 (talk) 09:49, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

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Question from The Puppeteer520 (18:36, 7 May 2026)

hello i would love to get to know u --The Puppeteer520 (talk) 18:36, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Looks like your question isn't related to wiki.. PhantomVorteX (Talk) 10:20, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from AllLantern (02:15, 8 May 2026)

Hi mentor! It really does feel like I just became a green lantern and I have to earn my ring. Can you give me some advice as I’m starting out? --AllLantern (talk) 02:15, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Help:Introduction to Wikipedia See this page PhantomVorteX (Talk) 10:19, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

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Small issue with your user page

Hi there. I was looking at some user pages and found yours and I noticed one of the images there is massive. I wasn't sure if you intended for this to happen but I thought it would be nice to give you a heads up!

(by the way the image would be "File:Skyline Frankfurt am Main.jpg") Glamerous23456 (talk) 16:53, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

That may be a problem in desktop web view, since I am a mobile editor, I haven't given it attention. I will try to fix it. PhantomVorteX (Talk) 04:06, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

I am in fact on mobile right now and it does look normal. So for your info this is a desktop issue. Not too sure how this can be fixed but I thought this is good info to know. Glamerous23456 (talk) 04:09, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

 Done, you can check I have fixed it. PhantomVorteX (Talk) 15:16, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Chrisdamizzy (23:27, 8 May 2026)

What is algebra --Chrisdamizzy (talk) 23:27, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Algebra PhantomVorteX (Talk) 04:07, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Anarulkhaled69 (14:35, 9 May 2026)

Hello! I want to learn how to properly create a Wikipedia page for a politician. Could you please guide me on the notability requirements, reliable sources needed, and the correct process to avoid deletion or conflict-of-interest issues? Thank you. --Anarulkhaled69 (talk) 14:35, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

See WP:NPOLITICIAN, and check if your candidate meets that criteria, this is is first step. PhantomVorteX (Talk) 15:15, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Chibueze Success on Talk:ReCAPTCHA (15:41, 12 May 2026)

Waiting I want to ask that my phone will not be great too much email I need my phone to be upgrade so that I every week my phone supposed to create five women but if they create only one why --Chibueze Success (talk) 15:41, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 9

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• Community Protection: Wikimedia Foundation secured Indonesian government’s commitment to user safety, privacy, and content integrity ahead of administrative registration in Indonesia.
• Stronger protections against bots: Wikimedia Foundation is replacing our CAPTCHA with a new approach to detect bad-faith activities without making things harder for users.
• Transparency Report: The Wikimedia Foundation has published its latest Transparency Report. This provides an overview of the work to protect Wikimedia projects and support the volunteer communities who handle the majority of content requests. Our users trust us to protect their identities against unlawful disclosure, and we take this responsibility seriously, granting only 1 of 30 requests for disclosure we received from July to December 2025.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

Mock-up of the Wikipedia app reading challenge.

• Reading Challenge: As part of the 25th birthday celebrations, Wikipedia Mobile Apps launched a limited-time feature, the 25-day reading challenge with Baby Globe. This challenge encourages a daily habit of reading one Wikipedia article. The goal is to motivate users to come back to the app regularly.
• Latest experiments: One upcoming experiment is introducing the Incident Reporting System (IRS) to help contributors easily find the right place to seek help when facing harassment or other issues. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Change in how new users are autoconfirmed: The account age for autoconfirmed users will now start from their first edit, not the registration date. This is to avoid exploitation by vandals. This change will only apply to wikis that require at least one edit for autoconfirmation.
• Organized Reading lists: All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the “automatically enable most beta features” option can now use the reading lists beta feature. This lets you save articles for later reading and keep it organized in one place for easy access.
• Thumbnail size preferences: Default thumbnail size preference for article content is now limited to three sizes: Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px). This change aims to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. Current preferences will shift to the nearest new size.
• Wikifunctions: To make the development of Abstract Wikipedia visible, the Foundation is requesting your input: which metrics about Abstract Wikipedia pages do you deem important?
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 18 and 19 include improvements on Global Watchlist. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Annual Planning: We welcome your feedback on the main talk page for the 2026–2027 draft Annual Plan and many other places for the coming fiscal year.
• Wikimania: Wikimania is a joyful event. It is a chance to celebrate our community and projects, share ideas and information, build connections among Wikimedians, and inspire and develop future projects. If you and your community are interested in hosting Wikimania in 2028 and 2029 submit an expressions of interest.
• Community Conferences: The Foundation is supporting 15 strategic, diverse, and critical convenings taking place in 2026 and 2027, bringing together approximately 1800 Wikimedians across various regions, themes, and language communities.
• Don't blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Wiki Loves Monuments: The winners of the 2025 Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest are announced.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Enterprise: How CivicLens Uses Wikidata APIs to Make Civic Data More Accessible.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Wikinews closure: All Wikinews have been closed and switched to read-only mode. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.
• Affcom News: Read the latest issue of AffCom News (January-March 2026) to learn more about the latest news about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.
• Model for affiliates to support contributors through tools: The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space.
• Grantmaking: The Global Resource Distribution Committee closed their request for feedback on three initial questions about grantmaking, and published their monthly update for April.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

The voting phase of the May 2026 administrator elections has started and will continue until 19 May 2026 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase (we are here)
• Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote has a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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RFC closure at Talk:Harry Potter (character)#Request for comment on infobox image

Hi, would you mind reverting your closure of the RFC at Talk:Harry Potter (character)#Request for comment on infobox image? I am having a hard time reading your summary of the closure, and I think, as written, it shows a slight misunderstanding of the issue. As well as that, I think you are saying that the free image should be kept, but conclusion would contradict the actual discussion. The ‘yes’ !votes clearly outnumber the ‘no’s, but also make better arguments, raising issues with the image that have gone unaddressed by those commenting ‘no’. — HTGS (talk) 02:00, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

It's only not about vote but wp:consensus, where arguments matters. Can You specify what arguments you see that can override my decision by yes !votes? PhantomVorteX (Talk) 08:40, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

For instance: Ladtrack raised the point that the image conveys none of the important visual characteristics of the character, and so does not fulfil the encyclopedic purpose that the infobox image is there to convey, per WP:NFCCP.

I don’t want to cause offence, but I have concerns that your level of English is not adequate to properly judge on this complex subject. The number of votes is not my primary concern, but it surprises me that you were not swayed by either the weight of arguments or the number of votes. — HTGS (talk) 10:02, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

I apologies for not meeting your expectations. If you were judging my English proficiency on the basis of conversation, please note I generally allow minor errors only when any other person can understand it easily despite some errors because I feel much lazy to

meet high quality standards every time. However I don't do the same at articles. You are right to question my decision as I have no prior experience handling these kind of stuff. Since, non-admin closure is only intended for non-controversial closures I feel happy to reopen this RfC and let other experienced editor take over. PhantomVorteX (Talk) 07:41, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello VortexPhantom,

New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

May backlog drive

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.

PageTriage

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket if you're interested in following along.

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Question from Raqiya Hamadn (05:39, 15 May 2026)

كمية المعلومات لموضوع واحد كثيرة ومتعبة للقراءة ويصعب على المستخدم أو الباحث بأن يأخذ ملخص في وقت قصير يأخذ وقتا ليقرأ عن الموضوع الذي يبحث عنه بسبب كثر المعلومات التي تظهر متعبة للقراءة ..لذلك أنصح من المحررين بأن يختصروا في نشر وتحميل المعلومات وتحرير المعلومات الضرورية النقاط المهمة فقط والرئيسية ....لأنه متعب حقا إعداد التقارير منه للمتصفح عيلنا التدقيق أكثر في المعلومات وإختصارها ...... --Raqiya Hamadn (talk) 05:39, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Raqiya Hamadn (05:47, 15 May 2026)

Why not load little information because here when the user search about any information is a lot of information and a huge number of word then the user feels tired from searching about some information he need to take short and the important information . So we need to less the word and the informatiom becauese is too booring for reading. --Raqiya Hamadn (talk) 05:47, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Your signature...

...hurts my eyes and the red border green body is on the edge of triggering a migraine. Please come up with something more subdued. Thanks Spartaz ^Humbug! 06:00, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

If you meant my old signature. I have already changed it and using new one. PhantomVorteX (Talk) 11:42, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Raqiya Hamadn (05:29, 19 May 2026)

Adding treatment for the article is have to be from advisers am right ? Am new in wiki --Raqiya Hamadn (talk) 05:29, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

If you are new to Wikipedia. This page Help:Introduction to Wikipedia may be useful for you. PhantomVorteX (Talk) 07:36, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for May 19

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Citation Question for Declined Article

Hi! Thank you for the note on the citations of my current draft, Draft:The New Blue of Yale. I actually wanted your advice on if I correctly formatted a part of this page, as I sourced the alumni records from a physical archive. I live in Connecticut, so I was able to go to the library where these records are stored to access them. I am pretty sure I linked everything correctly after the first declined request, but I am still getting my footing with Wikipedia formatting and I would love any help! --AtheNa1419 (talk) 10:55, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. But I apologise to say that I can't help you with your draft as I am not longer engaged in reviewing drafts and not a AfC reviewer longer. Please be patient with your draft, someone will eventually review your draft and leave feedback. Thanks! Hope your understand. PhantomVorteX (Talk) 07:35, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Chizuine (08:55, 20 May 2026)

Hello! I saw a few articles here and there which have whole paragraphs in them without sources aswell as sources from the same website the article is off. Is that allowed? Which sources should I use and which are prohibited? Thanks in advance --Chizuine (talk) 08:55, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

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