W
Active Editors
Back to Profile

User Talk: Montell 74

Server-side rendered snapshot of this editor's Wikipedia talk page discussions.

Old website links



Hi Montell. In the case where old competition websites have expired (like here ↗) you can search out an archived version of that website via Archive.org's "Wayback machine ↗". Official websites can be very very useful for historical study. The problem is that it becomes very difficult to locate the old addresses because nobody links to them when they have been removed.

The archive machine can be immensely useful in other cases too. For example this website ↗ has all the information about the old International Cross Country Championships ↗, should we decide to create results pages for those competitions (not readily available data!). It is a tool well worth remembering for the future. SFB 21:46, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

== An award for you ==
{{award2|image=Goldenwiki 2.png|size=100px|topic=Golden Wiki Award|text=In recognition of all the work you’ve done lately! 66.87.7.141 ↗ (talk) 23:20, 5 April 2012 (UTC)}}

A barnstar for you!



{| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;"
|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px ↗
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Tireless Contributor Barnstar'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For your continuous work in maintaining countless sports-related articles, and record lists in particular, I hereby award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar. GregorB (talk) 14:53, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
|}

A barnstar for you!



{| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;"
|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px ↗
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Tireless Contributor Barnstar'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For your continuous work in maintaining countless sports-related articles, and record lists in particular, I hereby award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Trackinfo (talk) 18:24, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
|}

I'm going to go further than just sending a backatcha. I am constantly going through the nit-picky details of wikipedia postings of athletic records. Without fail, Montell74 has already been on the page, fixed the page and will be watching to correct any edits I make. This is the kind of cooperation that makes wikipedia great. I don't know who he is, but he shares the same passion for correctness that I do--a passion thousands, perhaps millions of other fanatics might share. But they are only the readers, the beneficiaries of the information posted here. Editing takes work, those readers don't appreciate. We don't always agree, but out of the edit note discussions, I think everyone wins. Of course, there are several of us who have to watch these highly visible articles, because they seem to attract the loonies of the world. Several times a day, someone thinks they can insert their name into a claim for a prestigious world record. Who is there correcting and protecting the truth? Most of the time, it is Montell 74. His diligence is certainly respected by me and I would say vicariously by the people who care about the information posted and about wikipedia's reputation for accuracy in general. Thank you for your efforts. Trackinfo (talk) 18:24, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!



{| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;"
|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px ↗
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Special Barnstar'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thank you :) Elham burger (talk) 19:11, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
|}

A barnstar for you



<!-- Template:WikiProject Swimming barnstar begin --><div class="barnstar" style="margin:auto;max-width:600px;"><div style="background-color:#DBFFF2;padding:0.5rem;border:1px solid #7199F4;border-bottom:none;"><div style="position:relative;padding-right:0.5em;display:table-cell;">100px ↗<div style="position:absolute;top:6px;left:6px;">45px ↗</div></div><div style="vertical-align:top;display:table-cell;width:100%;"><p style="text-align:left;font-size:x-large;font-weight:bold;margin-top:0;padding:0 0.5rem;text-align:left;">The Swimming Barnstar</p><p style="padding:0 0.5em;">Awarded to Montell 74 in recognition of an exceptional amount of high-quality work on creating, improving, and maintaining national and international swimming record lists over the past six years. Thank you. Gap9551 (talk) 15:18, 5 December 2015 (UTC)</p></div></div><div style="border-top:10px solid #7199F4;border-left:10px solid white;border-right:10px solid white;"></div></div><!-- Template:WikiProject Swimming barnstar end -->

A barnstar for you!



{| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;"
|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px ↗
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Original Barnstar'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thank Germanium960 (talk) 09:53, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
|}

can not defend or help me?



New page reviewer granted



right|80px ↗
Hello Montell 74. Your account has been added to the "<code>New page reviewers</code>" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled ↗, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed ↗. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you '''must''' read the new tutorial at New Pages Review ↗, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria ↗. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at '''page reviewer talk''' ↗.
The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. '''<span style="color:#003153">Malinaccier</span> (<span style="color:#003153">talk</span>)''' 18:37, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

he delete medal table and past version in some of article



Decathlon


Hello

Regarding winds in decathlon, rules have changed in 2010...

See for exemple the "IAAF Statistics Book – IAAF World Championships London 2017", page 580: "A combined event performance is regarded as wind-assisted if the average assisting wind velocity for the three affected events exceeds two metres per second."

In the case of Lindon Victor ↗ in the List of Grenadian records in athletics ↗, the sum of the three winds is 7.5 so the average exceeds 2.0. So, Lindon Victor's 8539 pts are indeed wind-assisted.
Alas, this rule os often ignored.

Miruts (talk) 18:38, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

National records



First of all, thank you a thousand times for editing the lists since a lot of time. Recently another user asked me not to edit any of these lists (he wrote me on my page: “Dear, Please do not touch world, area and national records lists, ok? Your edits are extremely low quality, useless in fact. You deleted current, ratified record, left wrong venue and did not give reference. Do not delete old records until new records have been ratified. Track1News (talk) 18:02, 21 May 2023”. It looks like a topic ban, decided only by him. Of course he was not completely wrong (I had updated a new WR without being accurate and perfect), but of course nobody is perfect and I do not pretend to. By the way, because I edit record lists since 2004, nearly 20 years ago, what do you think about the events that are in these lists? When I remark events like 55m, 150m, 300m, 2000m, 2hours and so, I don’t think they should be on an “official” record list. Only the events which are officially recognized as WR by IAAF/WA (including the Mile) should be on the main list, all other events should be separated from the “official” events as most federations consider them as “best times” not records. But it is a huge work to “clean” the lists from those awkward events. Have you an opinion on that? Thank you for replying here, I will check, Arorae (talk) 15:59, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

:Hello Aroae, Thank you for your questions and by the way for your good work.
:First of all I would like to say that imperfection should never be an argument for personal flaws. That sounds like a general excuse for all sorts of nonsense that you do in your life.
:Anyway, basically it's important not to prematurely erase any records that are still valid until the ratification procedure of new record is done. I always find it good if someone just add (!) new information. Since I monitor many lists, I can correct erroneous new entries.
:I have a different opinion about the unconventional records/bests. In the case of world records, it is clearly and adequately separated. In my opinion, a new list in national record articles makes things less clear. With the corresponding colors it is sufficiently explained that these are not official records kept by national federation.
:In addition, national associations sometimes set records in disciplines that are not classified as record-breaking by the world association. For example have a look at the Estonian records ↗.
:To "clean" such a list would provide insufficient information. Montell 74 (talk) 17:39, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 10



An automated process has detected that when you recently edited List of Turks and Caicos Islands records in athletics ↗, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Pittsburg ↗<!-- ([//dispenser.info.tm/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py/List_of_Turks_and_Caicos_Islands_records_in_athletics check to confirm]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[//dispenser.info.tm/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py/List_of_Turks_and_Caicos_Islands_records_in_athletics?client=notify fix with Dab solver])-->.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:03, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

South american records in swimming



User Maelstrom2 is vandalizing a bunch of pages, changing descriptions from the South American record to the national record giving the reason that "this record doesn't exist in FINA", like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swimming_at_the_2024_World_Aquatics_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_400_metre_freestyle&diff=prev&oldid=1206449572 . There have been users in the past who have been blocked here for this vandalism. Can you do something to help? 2804:214:817F:6343:6112:D26A:5938:22CF ↗ (talk) 20:12, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

High School T&F Records Color Key



Hi, Montell74. I am just curious about the color key for the national high school T&F records. There are two records, Tara Davis's 100 hurdles and Addy Wiley's 1600m, that have a reddish-pink color. They are the only records that are listed this way. This color is not in the key and I am curious what the meaning of it is. Thanks. CooperRiverRunner (talk) 00:56, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
:Hello CooperRiverRunner, thanks for the question. I changed the colors because the previous pink color code meant that these marks were not ratified. But that is basically the same meaning as the green color code.Montell 74 (talk) 11:27, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 7



An automated process has detected that when you recently edited List of United States junior records in athletics ↗, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Middletown, New York ↗.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 18:05, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!



{| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;"
|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px ↗
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Barnstar of Diligence'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | It looks like you haven't received a barnstar in seven years. You've been doing a fantastic job lately updating athletics records (including linking to the year-specific meet pages where available, which I really appreciate).

Thanks for your hard work to make sure all of these pages don't go out of date, the encyclopedia is much better because of it. Habst (talk) 16:54, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
|}

A barnstar for you!



{| style="background-color: #fdffe7; border: 1px solid #fceb92;"
|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px ↗
|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Tireless Contributor Barnstar'''
|-
|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I wish to dedicate you the "Tireless Contributor Barnstar" hereby, along with my best wishes, for your continuous work in maintaining countless sports-related articles, and athletics record(s) lists in particular. — Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
|}

Disambiguation link notification for May 17



An automated process has detected that when you recently edited List of Bahamian records in athletics ↗, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Alonzo Russell ↗.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 17:55, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on List of Paralympic records in athletics ↗


25px|alt=|link= ↗ Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have '''automatically detected''' that this edit ↗ performed by you, on the page :List of Paralympic records in athletics ↗, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:
Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive ↗, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=User:Qwerfjkl/Botpreload&editintro=User:Qwerfjkl/boteditintro&minor=&title=User_talk:Qwerfjkl&preloadtitle=Qwerfjkl%20(bot)%20–%20Montell_74&section=new&preloadparams%5b%5d={{FULLPAGENAMEE:List of Paralympic records in athletics}}&preloadparams%5b%5d=1257821611 report it to my operator].
Thanks, <!-- User:Qwerfjkl (bot)/inform -->Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 20:42, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of :List of Oceanian under-23 bests in athletics ↗ for deletion


<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">48px|alt=|link= ↗</div>A discussion is taking place as to whether the article :List of Oceanian under-23 bests in athletics ↗, to which you have significantly contributed ↗, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines ↗ or if it should be deleted ↗.

The discussion will take place at '''Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Oceanian under-23 bests in athletics ↗''' until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by ''SDZeroBot'' (talk) 01:01, 8 December 2024 (UTC)<!-- User:SDZeroBot/AfD notifier/template -->

you deleted my nonsens. Then explain yours



"Usain Bolt ran for 9.58s (2009). Olympic record 9.63s (2012). Its speed is 10.38 m/s. What do the numbers in the table mean? If this is speed, then it is higher than Usain Bolt. If this is the time, then how to understand (+0.1 m/s)? Faster than whom? Why put time and speed nearby? Add units in the table header."
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AList_of_Paralympic_records_in_athletics&oldid=prev&diff=1282585460

you deleted my nonsens. This means that everything is crystal clear to you. Is this logical?
I ask you what the numbers in line 3 mean:

10.42 (−0.1 m/s)

My mathematics and physics are fine. How are you doing with this? Feel free to give more numbers. many people can delete with a button. Few people can explain their actions. Seregadu (talk) 13:52, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

List of Kenyan records in swimming



That looks like an error from my side, my apologies. <span style="border:1px solid green; padding:0 2px"><span style="color:green">The&nbsp;Banner</span>&nbsp;<i style="color:maroon">talk</i></span> 07:25, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Triple jump ↗


Please do not revert me. The ancillary marks in the top 25 were incomplete and affect WP:OR ↗. Furthermore, the indoor rankings are limited to the 25 best athletes, not the 25 best performances. PenultimateStride (talk) 08:16, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
:How it affects WP:OR ↗ when marks sourced by alltime-athletics.com ↗?Montell 74 (talk) 08:21, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
::Then at least make the list complete and accurate. Also, the indoor rankings only list the best athletes, not the best performances. PenultimateStride (talk) 08:23, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
:::Indoor table: Thats exactly the reason, why the notes exist!Montell 74 (talk) 08:24, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
::::It is still not accurate and therefore useless. PenultimateStride (talk) 08:26, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Your edits to List of Cayman Islands records in swimming ↗



I noticed you have made significant deletions of content in the article List of Cayman Islands records in swimming ↗. Please explain your edits in an edit summary when publishing each edit. People might accuse you of vandalism if your edits have no explanation. NextGenStudent (talk) 08:44, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

List of indian records in atheltics



Hi Montell74,

In the 64th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships 2025, the Athletics Federation of India has listed the latest ratified national records. The source is here: https://indianathletics.in/64th-national-inter-state-senior-athletics-championships-2025/

My edits with these updates were reverted, but since they are officially documented, could you please review the link and revert to my original edits? I’m unable to undo it myself as only manual editing is showing.

Thanks! Rfakjunkie (talk) 07:10, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
:Ok, thank you for your information!Montell 74 (talk) 07:14, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
::Please go through it and undo your edits. Thanks in advance! Rfakjunkie (talk) 07:15, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
:::Is it possible for you to undo it and should I manually redo it myself if it's not possible from your side? Rfakjunkie (talk) 07:51, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
::::Wouldn't it have been possible to simply wait until the official ratification was published on the Federation's website?Montell 74 (talk) 06:53, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::Hi Montell74,
:::::Thank you for your note. The Athletics Federation of India unfortunately does not maintain or publish an updated list of ratified records on their website, nor do they release such updates in a timely manner. Instead, the governing body lists the official national records within the meet documentation of the championships they conduct.
:::::The 64th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships 2025 (held just a week ago) includes these documented records, which is currently the only authoritative way to track the latest ratified marks. That’s why I added them to the article, to ensure the page reflects the most recent official information.
:::::Hope this clarifies the context, and thanks again for your vigilance.
:::::Best regards Rfakjunkie (talk) 06:57, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
::::::Thanks for the context. I will follow the next release, the old status is November 2024. In my experience, an update is made once every year. I'm curious to see whether all new records will be shown as ratified. Montell 74 (talk) 07:02, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::::Unfortunately, since the federation leadership has changed hands, while they have improved on the athletes’ performance side, they seem to give very little attention to documentation and “in-office work.” Because of this, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll see any formal record updates being published on the website in the near future. For now, tracking the meet documents remains the only reliable way to stay updated, at least until the next intra-federation elections bring any changes. In any case, I really appreciate your engagement on this, and I’m looking forward to more collaboration with you on improving the athletics pages.Best regards Rfakjunkie (talk) 07:08, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion ↗ of :Georgian records in track cycling ↗


left|link=|alt=Notice|48px| ↗

The article :Georgian records in track cycling ↗ has been proposed for deletion ↗&#32;because of the following concern:
<blockquote>'''WP:NOTSTATS ↗.'''</blockquote>

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary ↗ or on the article's talk page ↗.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process ↗, but other deletion process ↗es exist. In particular, articles for deletion ↗ allows discussion to reach consensus ↗ for deletion based on established criteria ↗.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion ↗ of the article at any time.<!-- Template:Proposed deletion notify --> Let&#39;srun (talk) 02:04, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion ↗ of :List of Turkmen records in track cycling ↗


left|link=|alt=Notice|48px| ↗

The article :List of Turkmen records in track cycling ↗ has been proposed for deletion ↗&#32;because of the following concern:
<blockquote>'''WP:NOTSTATS ↗.'''</blockquote>

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary ↗ or on the article's talk page ↗.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process ↗, but other deletion process ↗es exist. In particular, articles for deletion ↗ allows discussion to reach consensus ↗ for deletion based on established criteria ↗.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion ↗ of the article at any time.<!-- Template:Proposed deletion notify --> Let&#39;srun (talk) 02:05, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion ↗ of :List of Bruneian records in track cycling ↗


left|link=|alt=Notice|48px| ↗

The article :List of Bruneian records in track cycling ↗ has been proposed for deletion ↗&#32;because of the following concern:
<blockquote>'''WP:NOTSTATS ↗.'''</blockquote>

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary ↗ or on the article's talk page ↗.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process ↗, but other deletion process ↗es exist. In particular, articles for deletion ↗ allows discussion to reach consensus ↗ for deletion based on established criteria ↗.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion ↗ of the article at any time.<!-- Template:Proposed deletion notify --> Let&#39;srun (talk) 02:06, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

National Record information



Hey @Montell 74, thanks for your work in adding national records to various swimming event pages such as in this ↗ edit. May I ask though that you add citations to these in the future? Not only for verifiability, but because I really want to know where you get this information from so I can add them myself. IAWW (talk) 09:48, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

:Hi IAWW. Thanks for your question. In most cases, like the one you noticed, World Aquatics is a good citation, f.e. https://www.worldaquatics.com/athletes/1679260/djenabou-jolie-bah ↗. I should add these additional to the official result resources, but it's a lot of work. Montell 74 (talk) 13:56, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks Montell. You are one of the most familiar faces on my watchlist full of swimming articles, so thanks again for your work. IAWW (talk) 16:29, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion ↗ of :List of Cambodian records in track cycling ↗


left|link=|alt=Notice|48px| ↗

The article :List of Cambodian records in track cycling ↗ has been proposed for deletion ↗&#32;because of the following concern:
<blockquote>'''WP:NOTSTATS ↗.'''</blockquote>

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary ↗ or on the article's talk page ↗.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process ↗, but other deletion process ↗es exist. In particular, articles for deletion ↗ allows discussion to reach consensus ↗ for deletion based on established criteria ↗.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion ↗ of the article at any time.<!-- Template:Proposed deletion notify --> Let&#39;srun (talk) 20:36, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Ratified or not ratified national records


Hi Montell74,<br/>thank you for your edits in the List of Icelandic records in athletics ↗.<br/>In that table you have marked some records as light blue meaning that these records are not ratified. But according to the World Athletics website, none of these results in that table is pending. So why do you consider some records there not ratified? For example yesterday you marked the 71.41 m by Guðrún Karítas Hallgrímsdóttir ↗ light blue, but on her World Athletics site ↗ this record is not pending. I could of course change it to grey (= ratified) myself, no problem, I just wanted to know first the reason why you want to have it light blue (= not ratified).<br/>Keep up the good work.<br/>Stillbusy (talk) 00:57, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

:Hi, thanks for question. Icelandic records in athletics are ratified by Icelandic Athletic Federation, not World Athletics. Montell 74 (talk) 07:59, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

::Hello Montell74,<br/>thank you for your prompt reply.<br/>Where is it shown whether an Icelandic national record in athletics is ratified or not? On the official website of the Icelandic Athletic Federation ↗, they celebrated in recent articles some national records (examples: Elísabet Rut Rúnarsdóttir ↗, Júlía Kristín Jóhannesdóttir ↗, Hilmar Örn Jónsson and Guðrún Karítas Hallgrímsdóttir ↗). These articles are, of course, in Icelandic, but with the browser translation function they can be read in other languages. Anyway, these articles say nothing that these records still have to be ratified. So, where can this be found?<br/>Best wishes<br/>Stillbusy (talk) 17:28, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
:::... okay, I've found it (here ↗). I just added that link to the List of Icelandic records in athletics ↗ under General References. It's extremely useful and more detailed than the link that was there already. The question even is if that older link could even be removed there now. But that may others decide.<br/>Stillbusy (talk) 00:26, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

???



I’m confused on why an obvious record on world athletic website was reverted??? And no reason?

https://worldathletics.org/athletes/south-africa/akani-simbine-14417763

https://worldathletics.org/athletes/botswana/letsile-tebogo-14883897 Obinna Tony (talk) 14:01, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026



<div style="border:2px solid #90C0FF; background:#F0F0FF; width:99%; padding:4px">
<!-- do not use ;Header to make bold headers per H:DL ↗, causes errors for screen readers -->
Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

thumb|400px|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'''

74px|left ↗{{no ping|JTtheOG}} was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.
{{no ping|Hey man im josh}} and {{no ping|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.

{{no ping|BoyTheKingCanDance}}, {{no ping|Rosiestep}}, {{no ping|SunDawn}}, and {{no ping|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 {{no ping|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.

{{refbegin}}
'''Reminders:'''

{{refend}}
</div>

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:37, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
<!-- Message sent by User:Novem Linguae@enwiki using the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers/Newsletter_list&oldid=1353812553 -->