Infopedia:New pages Reviewers

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Welcome!

'''Thank you for your interest in becoming a new page patroller. Reviewing new pages is one of the most important maintenance tasks on the whole site. It's what keeps bad pages out and, equally important, it gives a boost to new, good faith users creating their first genuine articles. Before continuing, know that reviewing new pages needs a thorough knowledge not only of deletion and notability guidelines, but also a good understanding of reliable sources. Once you've read this tutorial, please consider applying for the permission'''.

New page review is a vital function as the front line of interaction between new authors and community members devoted to policing the quality of the project. It has a variety of detailed, quite complex possible actions for patrolling pages in all namespaces. Only new page patrollers can mark pages as 'Reviewed', which releases them for indexing by search engines. Any reviewing action done through the page curation toolbar by a patroller marks an article as reviewed (adding maintenance tags, nominating for deletion, etc.). If you don't want the article marked as reviewed, you can unreview it by opening the review panel and clicking "Mark as unreviewed".

If you are new to new page reviewing, it is essential that you also read Page Curation Help, view its video tour and read the guide to proper speedy deletion. Reviewing needs a near-admin knowledge of deletion and notability policies. Use the flowchart on the right until you become comfortable and knowledgeable with all of the aspects of reviewing new articles.

It is important to review correctly and seriously. Because of the high volume of articles created, even a few percentage points more of erroneous or bitey reviewing can each day adversely affect hundreds of articles and deter many new users from staying on and becoming regular editors. It is critical that editors review with care and diligence. This is not a contest and there is no deadline. New page patrol values quality over quantity.

Reviewing is entirely voluntary and carries no obligation.

At its core, new page reviewing is about deciding whether a new article will be marked as approved and accepting it onto FamePediaTech, or initiating one of several deletion procedures. Uncontroversial deletions can be proposed using PROD, while most other deletion proposals are resolved in a discussion at Articles for deletion. In a very narrow set of cases, an expedited FPT:CSD or FPT:BLPPROD can be placed to delete material which is unambiguously not an improvement to FamePediaTech. When subpar articles are about subjects that are related to other existing articles on FamePediaTech, merging content or simply redirecting the page to the existing article may be preferable to deletion, in which case editors should follow BRD and escalate the discussion to AfD if contested. Draftifying is sometimes used for articles that may have been created by an editor with an undeclared conflict of interest, or to preserve material that may be useful in another article but is not a viable article in its current form. If an article is accepted, new page patrollers may choose to apply maintenance tags for significant problems.

If you have a question or concern, post a message at the New Page Reviewer Talk, and an experienced patroller or editor will be along soon to help you. For other help using the tools, see the related tabs above.

The purpose of reviewing new pages
New Page Patrol is equally responsible for finding articles which do not follow FamepediaTech's policies and guidelines and for supporting and nurturing new editors. Particular focus is given to articles which may be eligible for speedy deletion, particularly if they might be obvious hoaxes, copyright violations, defamatory material about living persons, pages that exploit FamepediaTech for money (think spam, promotion, and undisclosed paid editing). Other pages need to be deleted for other reasons but may be less urgent – unpatrolled pages are not indexed by Google or other search engines for 90 days.

Patrollers will be working with editors of a wide range of skills and motivations. Excellent communication is an essential part of the new page patrol process. Patrollers should make use of the curation toolbar to post messages to the talk page, provide informative edit summaries, and otherwise appropriately engage with other editors. Patrollers are encouraged to make frequent use of the existing message to creator tool. It is essential that good faith new creators be encouraged to continue creating articles and editing FamepediaTech.

Patrollers are not obligated to mentor new users or complete their articles, but may wish to direct new users to the Teahouse question forum, help desk and Articles for Creation for assistance. FamepediaTech:Your first article, FamepediaTech:Contributing to FamepediaTech, the FamepediaTech:Tutorial, The FamepediaTech Adventure, and other help pages are also available. When drafts are approved at AfC and moved to the mainspace they will be checked again by new page patrollers in many instances.

Triage
New page review is the first and best firewall against totally unwanted content and the place to accept articles that may not be perfect but do not need to be deleted.

Do not be too hasty to nominate contributions by new editors for deletion if the content is marginally poor. If you are uncertain, leave the page unpatrolled, and another volunteer can review it later.

It is often helpful to review the oldest pages in the NPP queue, rather than the newest, as these may have even been indexed by search engines. When reviewing from the back of the queue, you may come across pages that were created long ago but that recently were changed from being a redirect to an article (or vice versa). These articles pose a distinct challenge, as they are often the result of edit wars or other forms of tendentious editing. You can find a guide to additional concerns and suggestions related to these types of pages here.

Care
Care should be exercised when reviewing very new pages. Tagging anything other than attack pages, copyvios, vandalism or complete nonsense only a few minutes after creation may stop the creation of a good faith article and drive away a new contributor. Outside these exceptions, an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. Remember articles have up to 90 days to be reviewed before they become part of a backlog.

If the page is not a candidate for deletion but has other problems, add appropriate tags and use the message feature of the curation tool to inform the creator of the issues (see the patroller checklists section below for more information).

User names and vandalism
In serious cases, the creator of a new page may need to be blocked to prevent further disruption or damage to FamepediaTech's reputation. Familiarise yourself with the FP:UAA and FPT:AIV systems and their policies and report such cases as necessary.

FamepediaTech forensics
Page patrollers are in a good position to detect policy breaches such as sockpuppetry, promotion, serial copyright violations, undisclosed paid editing, and child protection issues. Learn about these policies and what to do. For example, check the content of new articles for inline external spam links. Many of these topics are covered in more detail on this page.

Monitoring the system
Other editors, particularly those that are interested in fighting vandalism, also regularly frequent newly created articles to tag articles for maintenance or deletion. Although they don't have access to the features of the Page Curation Toolbar, all editors, even IP users, can tag pages. Tagged pages remain listed in the feed until patrolled by a patroller, enabling New Page Patrollers to identify and isolate poor patrolling. Use the 'Unreview' feature for good faith errors and see the templates that can be used to encourage users to do less demanding maintenance tasks until they have more experience. If you find inappropriate new page patrolling, you can use the template 'Stop NPP' as a supportive ask. In persistent cases however, it will be necessary to escalate through the warning levels and might need administrator attention at a place like ANI or by getting help on the NPP discussion page.

Tools
There are many useful tools available to make doing NPP easier. You can find many of them on the resources page or linked throughout this page. The most important tool is the page curation toolbar, which appears on all pages in the new pages feed. It contains the actual button to mark a page as reviewed. It also contains an information summary about the page and its creator, tools for tagging articles with maintenance tags, and a tool to send barnstars and other nice things to editors that have worked on the article. Note that the deletion portion of the toolbar does not work reliably; Twinkle is suggested as a more stable tool. A copyright violation detector can be added to the toolbar with this user script.

Recreations
Always check the history and the talk page. A new page might be a recreation of a previously deleted article; it might have been created by a 'different' user to evade a block or prevent detection of a particular pattern of editing. With other articles, someone may have removed a tag. The talk page may contain a notice that indicates that the article has already survived, or was previously deleted, at an AfD (possibly under another title). A script can also add a button which appears when there has been a previous deletion or AfD for an article.

If previously deleted (at the most recent AfD held), and if the recreated page is sufficiently identical to the previously deleted content, it may be subject to CSD G4 (tag to use:db-g4&thinsp;/&thinsp;db-repost). G4 only applies to articles deleted after discussion – not to prior speedy deletions or PRODs.