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Please comment on Talk:Impact of the privatisation of British Rail

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Your Newspapers.com account

Your account has been activated and you should have access to Newspapers.com now. Please note that our accounts do not include Publisher Extra content. HazelAB (talk) 16:19, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

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Can you verify this page?

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Wikidata weekly summary #229

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
    • Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
    • Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
    • Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
    • Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
    • Made it possible to use the bzr and cvs protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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Tech News: 2016-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [1]
  • <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [2]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Infoboxes ARCA

The amendment request in which you were involved has been archived at WT:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes#Amendment request (October 2016). The motion to open a case did not pass. For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 20:01, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Donald Trump

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Wikidata weekly summary #230

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (phabricator:T146271)
    • More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
    • More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
    • Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
    • Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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Tech News: 2016-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [3]
  • The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [4]
  • Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [5]

Changes this week

  • Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [6]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [7]

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20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

st anger

look at the history, im not the vandal. Norschweden (talk) 23:44, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

@Norschweden: You're edit warring, plain and simple. You've reverted other people three four times in the past 24 hours, which is a violation of WP:3RR. You should undo your last revert and make your case on the talk page. clpo13(talk) 23:46, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
i just revert to the former status quo, the other guy is a vandal who deletes genres with a source and put a unsourced genre there Norschweden (talk) 23:49, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Morris B. Belknap

You have removed the notability tag from Morris B. Belknap I am curious to know HOW you think he meets the WP:GNG. Happy to be persuaded but I'm not seeing it. Theroadislong (talk) 16:22, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

There are a multitude of sources reporting on his run for Kentucky governor, including an article in The New York Times. Of course, gubernatorial candidates aren't inherently notable, but given that he's discussed in at least 9 independent sources, some quite in-depth, I think GNG is well-satisfied. clpo13(talk) 16:28, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Ok thank you...I remain unconvinced and as you say gubernatorial candidates aren't inherently notable. Theroadislong (talk) 16:34, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

RE:Highly inappropriate prodding and speedy deletion requests

And I refer you to WP:NOREFS. Me-123567-Me (talk) 23:14, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Which says Simply having no references on the page may not be grounds for deletion; you will have to demonstrate that none can ever likely be found. clpo13(talk) 23:23, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016

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Please comment on Talk:Al Jaffee

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Tech News: 2016-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Problems

  • Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [8]
  • Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [9]

Changes this week

  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [10]

Future changes

  • The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:43, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #231

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:56, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #232

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.


Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.

Birthday events

Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them or create an event in your own town!

Online

A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat or the mailing-list every day to see what happens!

You can also participate by posting a story (more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page.

If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template to your user page.



  • Development
    • Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub). Thanks, 0x686578!
    • Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880).
    • Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements.
    • Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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Tech News: 2016-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [11]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
  • The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [12]
  • About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [13]
  • Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Weight and Mass

Thank you for choosing to remove your commentary on the Science Reference Desk. I hope I did not offend you; my biggest concern was to prevent other readers from getting even more confused, because this stuff can be really tricky. Clearly, the question posed by the OP indicated that their understanding was already a bit upside-down, so I didn't want them getting even farther off-track.
I'm sure I've made some egregious errors in my own day... hopefully after your snack-break you'll be back contributing at full strength!
Nimur (talk) 18:31, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
It was an awful brain fart, and I can't believe I forgot all my basic physics already. It seemed like such a simple question, too... clpo13(talk) 18:38, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Donald Trump

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Wikidata weekly summary #233

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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Tech News: 2016-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [14]
  • Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [15]
  • The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [16]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
  • Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [17]
  • Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [18]

Future changes

  • New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [19]

Miscellaneous

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Just so you know

The Nice attack category is also categorized under the same categories, and the Wave of Terror in Europe article still has it included in its list, courtesy of the IP user. Parsley Man (talk) 18:31, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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Please comment on Talk:Mumtaz (actress)

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Wikidata weekly summary #234

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Map of the birthday parties

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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Tech News: 2016-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation. [20]
  • First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available. [21]
  • .gitreview for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using track=1. [22]
  • Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability. [23]

Changes this week

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Discretionary Sanctions

This message contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Discretionary sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimize disruption to controversial topics. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to the topic that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behavior, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. This message is to notify you that sanctions are authorised for the topic you are editing. Before continuing to edit this topic, please familiarise yourself with the discretionary sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.


Please note that United States presidential election, 2016 is under a 1RR as part of those sanctions. Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 23:20, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

@Ks0stm: Did you perhaps mean to leave a notice for Spacejam2 (talk · contribs)? I've only reverted once on that article. Never mind, I see they were notified as well. Carry on. clpo13(talk) 23:22, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for saving my ass on AfD I totally didn't realize i actually saved that edit :) Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk) 22:33, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

No problem! And in the process I learned that User:Cyberbot I/AfD report tracks when that category is manually added, so that's cool. clpo13(talk) 22:36, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Physicist

Thanks for notifying (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:117.213.18.84&diff=748887328&oldid=748880895) if you can takeover, it would be a kind gesture. What you have posted here (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:109.78.9.237&diff=748887312&oldid=748879174) has been posted back on the article page for further disruption.(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Physicist&diff=748887183&oldid=748886066) and now adding on circle links, unrelated links without engaging in ongoing discussion in article talk page. If possible revert 109.78.9.237 disruptive actions and block the article.117.213.18.84 (talk) 23:59, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #235

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.

  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
    • Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
  • Development
    • More work on federation (phabricator:T76007)
    • Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T148139)
    • Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
    • Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
    • Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
    • Analysed queries used with Listeria
    • More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
    • More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
    • Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
    • Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
    • Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (phabricator:T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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Tech News: 2016-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use meta + shift + k to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key. [28]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
  • In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation. [29]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Marriage

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Wikidata weekly summary #236

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
    • Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
    • Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
    • Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
    • Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (phabricator:T149598)
    • Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
    • Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
    • Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
    • ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
    • Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
    • Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
    • Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone. [31]
  • You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has. [32]
  • The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems

  • A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication. [33]

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later. [34][35][36]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this. [37]
  • Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page. [38]

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Clpo13. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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Wikidata weekly summary #237

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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Tech News: 2016-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

  • When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a cookie. This means their browser will be blocked even if they change their IP address. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals. [39]
  • When you use Content Translation to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon. [40]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
  • Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using [rights=hidden]. You should now use [hidden] instead. [rights=hidden] in old gadgets should be changed to [hidden]. [41][42]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

This will introduce me as the Registerd AGENT for The World Tomorrow (radio and television); President and CEO of The World Tomorrow Evangelistic Association, and President of the Church of God Worldwide, both registered as nonprofit religious corporations, in the state of Tennessee.

THE WORLD TOMORROW (and its corresponding show title card uploaded here as part of this discussion) is registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office - Registration Number 3,209,903 - which servers as conclusive evidence, of the registered copyright and trademark owners right to use that name and images therein, (including images of our deceased presenter's Herbert and Garner Ted Armstrong). I, Earl Timmons, AM listed as the sole trademark, copyright registered user of the title card upload, discussed for speedy deletion.

The history of use of our title, THE WORLD TOMORROW, by our Church of God, began with our predecessor name, the Radio Church of God. We changed our program name from the RADIO CHURCH OF GOD, to THE WORLD TOMORROW, on May 30, 1942. We continued our first use production from 1942 until 1994. Our producer's (and former President Joe Tkach, Jr., and our church attorney Ralph Helge) then TRANSFERRED the archived television and radio broadcast rights into my personal name, EARL TIMMONS, and our producer's RESUMED PRODUCTION in 2004 under the renewed sponsorship of the broadcast by the church and evangelistic association. Our copyright and trademark was reassigned to the sole entity, under my personal name, and THE WORLD TOMORROW EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION branch of our church on July 1, 2011. Again, our current registration is ACTIVE for this Christian out-reach television and radio program and our name THE WORLD TOMORROW, has been such since 1942, with the same message to preach the true Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. This has made our logo, depicted here and used as current FAIR USE over numerous television, radio and social media outlets, widely known throughout the United States, and indeed in many parts of the world.

I, Earl Timmons, the electronically undersigned do hereby swear under penalty of perjury that the above stated use of the above listed title card in the manner depicted is AUTHORIZED, as the copyright and trademark owner, acting as it's agent, and under United States Law.

Thank you for your valuable time, assistance and consideration.

Earl Timmons, President The World Tomorrow (Telecast and Radio Broadcast) The World Tomorrow Evangelistic Association Church of God Worldwide 1965 Chapman Highway Sevierville, TN 37876 (865) 774-4600 www.TheWorldTomorrow.TV ----dollyparton7 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dollyparton7 (talk • contribs) 21:24, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Edit warring on Tariq ibn Ziyad

Goes for you too, Clpo13. Drmies (talk) 01:06, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Pan Am 103

You reverted an edit I made to this article, asking how the source cited was erroneous. I explained this in detail in the talk page for the article. Please read what I wrote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morag Kerr (talk • contribs) 01:02, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

My apologies. I didn't see the extended rationale on the talk page. clpo13(talk) 16:20, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
I thought I had added "see talk page" to the edit summary, but no worries. I added a wee bit to squash the long-standing (but wrong) tale that the plane was late, with references for that.
I'm actually thinking of doing a complete re-write of this page because it's a mess and doesn't serve the needs of someone just beginning to look at the Lockerbie issue at all well. I probably have a deeper knowledge of the nuts and bolts of the basics of the affair (not the associated middle-eastern terrorism/politics though) than anyone else on the planet, possibly not even excepting John Ashton. But it's a huge amount of work so I'm a bit reluctant. Morag Kerr (talk) 13:09, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John E. Corbally

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article John E. Corbally you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 18:42, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John E. Corbally

The article John E. Corbally you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:John E. Corbally for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 19:41, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

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