Hi Ebe, welcome to your NPP tutorial!
Instructions
- Read through WP:CSD and WP:NPP. These are your new page patrol bible/ koran/ whatever religion you prefer.
- This is not a test. Take as much time as you need, and feel free to look up guidelines.
- We'll start with 8 pages to patrol. I've written a history at the bottom of each, in case that information is relevant.
- Edit each page exactly as if you found it at NPP, except if you want to delete it, don't actually tag it for deletion because this will confuse the admins, just make a note of which deletion tag you would use.
- Use the comments section, here to write about anything else you would do. If the page is already fine and you'd just mark it as patrolled, just write "patrolled" in the comments section here. If you're not sure what to do, it's best to leave the page unpatrolled - so write in the comments section of this page that you would leave it unpatrolled. If you have more comments or questions, you can write those too.
- When you've finished, let me know and we'll discuss them.
Round 1
- Comments
- Tag for Weasel words
- CSD for nonsense
- CSD for Unremarkable person
- Tag for Uncategorized
- Discussion
- CSD for unremarkable person is the right tag
. I wouldn't use CSD for nonsense here, because WP:CSD says it's just for: "Pages consisting entirely of incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history." The article isn't gibberish, it's a sentence that makes sense - it's just not remarkable enough for a wikipedia article 
. Can you see the difference?
- Comments
- Good article
- Mark as patrolled
- User that made it has a username that should be reported
- Discussion
- I agree it's a good article. Why do you think the username should be reported?
3. Sunday morning football in Kings park
- Comments
- Tag for Unreferenced
- Tag for Uncategorized
- Discussion
- Have a closer look at this one. Do you think the topic meets the notability guidelines?
4. AJ Angelique
- Comments
- Tag for autobiography
- Tag for Uncategorized
- Tag for Unreferenced BLP
- Discussion
- Well noticed about the autobiography. Make sure you put a note on the talk page to explain if you use that tag, as it says "Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page."
- This article is a tricky one because it's hard to tell whether she's notable or not. The article definitely hasn't demonstrated that she meets WP:AUTHOR, so I'd at least tag for notability. I'd also do a quick google to see if I could add references myself - in this case I didn't find anything useful. I just checked to see what actually happened to this article, and someone A7'ed it (unremarkable person). Personally I wouldn't have used A7 because WP:CSD says "The criterion does not apply to any article that makes any credible claim of significance or importance", and I'd take writing 3 books as a claim of significance. Maybe I'd being overcautious: A7 is the speedy tag that's hardest to judge.
- As you noticed, it's an unreferenced BLP. As unreferenced BLPs are very bad things there is the WP:BLPPROD tag, also known as the sticky prod, for all BLPS created after March 2010 with no references. Have you used it before? That's what I would use here. What do you think?
5. Ghjk
- Comments
- CSD for Nonsense
- Tag for Uncategorized
- Tag for Unreferenced
- Discussion
- Yep, total nonsense
. It's a bit of a waste of your time to tag for uncategorized and unreferenced here, as this one will definitely get deleted.
6. Camairco
- Comments
- Tag for wikify
- Tag for Uncategorized
- Tag for unreferenced
- CSD for unremarkable company
- Discussion
- This one is a bit of a favourite of mine, I came across it NPPing myself it a few days ago. It does look awful, doesn't it? But it's not unremarkable at all, just poorly written. It's Cameroon's national airline, and a bit of googling turned up plenty of coverage in African newspapers. I wikified it and added the references, and then some other editors worked on it, and now it's a perfectly respectable airline stub.
- Comments
- CSD for Unremarkable person
- Tag for refimprove
- Tag for Uncategorized
- Discussion
- I think this is one of these cases where it's better to be cautious. A7 is not for articles "that make any credible claim of significance or importance". The article claims he "had big success all over the world as the front figure of the Hip Hop duo, QWAN... signed a world-wide deal with Euteria Management Group." Maybe he's notable, maybe he's not, but it sounds like a claim of significance. The problem with CSDing is that the article will be gone before the creator has a chance to improve the references. After you've tried looking for reliable sources yourself, maybe this could be WP:PRODed with a message "This article needs references to reliable, independent sources to show that Marino meets WP:ARTIST"? That way if the creator comes back he has some helpful information about how to improve it.
8. Googleov.com
- Comments
- CSD for spam
- CSD for unremarkable website
- Tag for uncategorized
- Tag for refimprove
- Tag for No lead section
- Discussion
- Good choice, spammy and unremarkable article. Again, tagging for uncategorized etc is probably a waste of time on this one.
General discussion
If the problem is something you can fix yourself, like wikifying, or adding categories, or adding a couple of references, have you tried fixing rather than tagging? It takes a bit longer but it's much more helpful to the encyclopedia, and more satisfying too, to make the ugly but notable articles look like nice stubs.