User talk:3family6/Archive 17

My first FAC
If you have any time, would you care to take a look at my first FAC attempt? It's about Fightstar, a British post-hardcore/alt metal band.  danny music editor  Speak up! 17:32, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll try and take a look.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 18:47, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Togashi Masachika


Hello, 3family6. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Togashi Masachika".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the  or  code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Boomer VialHolla! We gonna ball! 22:30, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

A few thoughts
Re this: Thanks for checking my Reviews and also for all the heavy-hauling you've been doing for the most-recent GA Cup, greatly appreciated. I did have some thoughts re: dead links & referencing & GAs/GA Reviews:

When I do a GA Review, one of the things I do is check all the references with the Checklinks Tool, this then brings up all the various issues the references might be having including dead links/invalid redirects/dead websites/etc. I ask the GA nominator to adjust any invalid links for online refs, either to find another reference that is valid or to use the Wayback Machine to find a valid web-archived version of the URL.

The reason I ask for a valid & up-to-date URL is GA Criteria 2B -
 * all in-line citations are from reliable sources, including those for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines

which has to do with references and therefore the WP cornerstone of Verifiability. Having online references with invalid URLs/sourcing makes checking & verifying the information virtually impossible. I do not remember demanding that references be removed, I think I ask that they somehow be made (completely) valid. In general when I am doing GA Reviews my philosophy is that it is not my job to impose my personal writing style onto someone else's work. I try to stay away from being arbitrary and from making word & phrasing choices unless I think they could probably interfere with our customers' - the readers of Wikipedia - comprehension. I do agree with the common-sense opinions in the essay WP:GACN regarding the various GA parameters and think the main thing about being a Reviewer is to not to be a gate-keeper - keeping articles out of GA - but to rather be a facilitator, letting appropriately-written & referenced articles  in . Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 18:21, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

GA Cup judges thank you

 * Thank you!-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 20:03, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

I'll drink to that!...

 * Thank you.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 20:18, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

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Question about the GA Cup
I know that the Cup is over, and all the Reviews have been scored but since I am the winner this season am I supposed to lift the cup image from the Submissions page or wait for something official? (Like do the judges place it on my user talk or maybe I "pick it up" after the Wrap-Up Newsletter goes out etc). Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 15:45, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * One of us judges will award the Cup to you.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 19:18, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Heh, ok - I'm not used to being a prize-winner. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 19:42, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Images in infobox
I know (remember, I also contribute with Tropical Cyclone's articles). But within the Heavy Metal Project, adding images on infoboxes isn't a usual practice, and since that practically all Heavy Metal's articles don't have one, the Extreme Metal one shouldn't have one for reasons of standardization and usefulness. If other articles start having images in infoboxes, so I wouldn't object for the Extreme metal having one too, if the image is pertinent to the whole article. ABC paulista (talk) 22:03, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The Viking metal article has one now - but that doesn't mean that other heavy metal genre articles need one.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 22:10, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanking me will ...
... not help very much. There are 1RR discretionary sanctions on India-, Pakistan related articles, which this page might be, as the medal has been awarded most for India-Pakistan wars. I suggest that you self-revert your edit and instead try to post why you would like to remove the templates at the discussion in Talk:Param Vir Chakra. Fowler&amp;fowler «Talk»  22:19, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry I didn't know about the sanctions. I'm an outside editor, on wikibreak, who looked at the article to see if the issues with it were still a problem. Can you show me a link to those sanctions? I couldn't fine them.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 22:32, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Well I know there are sanctions and the ARBCOM decision that is often cited is Requests_for_arbitration/India-Pakistan. Like I said, I'm not sure they apply to this page, but they might since it is a medal which is given for bravery in combat and most of India's wars have been fought with Pakistan.  The reason why I have templated the article is that it is very poorly written.  I keep offering criticism, the editor attempts to correct the issue, but introduces new ones.  I obviously can't keep doing this forever.  He has by no means solved the problems I objected to.  He has claimed a statement is cited ot a book and given a page number.  I have the book, but I couldn't find that citation anywhere, let alone just on the page number.   Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  22:50, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Request on 03:50:11, 3 May 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by SunnieSkye
I hope I'm doing this right because this format is a bit confusing and I'm more of an infrequent editor than a new-page-creator but I just need someone to "sign off" on the changes I made. I was told there wasn't enough citations to the episodes so I added some and now hopefully it's good to go live. If it's still incorrect please tell me what exactly I need to do to get it from draft to published.

SunnieSkye (talk) 03:50, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * If you could provide more citations about the episodes, that would be good. Even primary sources from the show or the network will be fine.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 04:00, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

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2017 GA cup - prizes?
Hey there, 3family6! It looks like you spearheaded the 2016 GA cup, so I thought you'd be the best person to approach. Will there be a 2017 GA Cup? If so, I'd like to put up some prize money for it - is that ok? I can put up $600 (US), broken up however you like, presumably as Amazon vouchers (like the WikiCup). Let me know if there's anyone else I should talk to! --Cerebellum (talk) 14:55, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * We're not sure - I'm going to graduate school next week, so I've retired from the cup. I'll ping, she runs the project. Thanks for your offer!-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 16:20, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * and fam, I just returned to active editing (like, last week) after kind of a sabbatical for a couple of years, due to RL busyness. Bunches of time just opened up for me, so I was able thankfully return, which makes me happy because I love editing for WP.  I've thought about starting another round of the GA Cup, since it's been wildly successful, but I haven't yet had the motivation to do anything about it.  I have some work goals that I need to accomplish (i.e., sitting for my clinical license in Nov.), so I'll probably take it on afterwards.  Thinking out loud, perhaps we should continue our break for the rest of the year and start things up again in early 2018, when I (and probably others) can devote the time it deserves.  Will your generous offer still stand at that time?  And fam, good luck with the grad school, I know you'll do great! Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:42, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Of course, whatever timeframe works for you. Just hit me up on my talkpage when you need to get ahold of me.  Best wishes to you with your clinical license and to fam with grad school! --Cerebellum (talk) 23:28, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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Assistance On Halloween Wars episodes page
Sorry if I'm posting this incorrectly but last time I posted was around May and I don't remember what I did to get to this page so I'm going off what others are posting. If there's a way to do Private Messages, please feel free to tell me but I finally got around to editing the Halloween Wars episode draft. I am not sure what specific citations you wanted and where you wanted it so I looked up a related article per season, some are about contestants, some are links to the official show blog with season episode lists. The series overview chart links to the official page on the website for each season and while I couldn't find posts about specific episodes, I looked at other similar cooking show wikis and based my choices of ref links on that.

Overkill? Still not correct? Hopefully I'm close, if not done, because a new season of this show is upon us and I've put off this editing for too long hoping someone else would take a crack at it. SunnieSkye (talk) 22:25, 20 September 2017 (UTC)SunnieSkye
 * I will take a look at things. It would be could to contact an editor in a related WikiProject, as I am not on Wiki regularly due to my upcoming graduate studies (that, and limited internet access).-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 13:45, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * , it looks good, go ahead and resubmit, and ping me when you do.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 13:57, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Resubmitted. Hope this note here counts as a "ping". SunnieSkye (talk) 05:23, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Halloween Baking Championship page removal/editing
I'm going over some Food Network show pages and trying to tidy them up. I need someone's help trying to change the title/link of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Baking_Championship_(season_1) preferably to something like "List_of_Halloween_Baking_Championship_episodes"

I want to make that into an episode list page for the main article Halloween Baking Championship. Once turned into an episode page, this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Baking_Championship_(season_2) will be redundant and I need someone to delete it (I don't know if I can do it; I think only a higher up editor can do that.)

Thanks. SunnieSkye (talk) 04:12, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Only admins can delete pages.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 09:15, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I've posted somewhere else that I think might get some admin attention.

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 * Thank you kindly, same to you!-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 23:49, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor.  When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs.  You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs".  The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges.
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor.
 * The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. This tool has been used at the English Wikipedia for a long time.  It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be tricky for admins to set up.  Other wikis can have this service, too.  Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

 * The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
 * Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
 * The  block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens.  This makes footnotes easier to read.  This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia.  If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either   or the plain (no parameters)   template.  If you edit a different wiki, you can request multi-column support for your wiki.
 * If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

—User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive
G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
 * updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
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New Page Reviewer Flag
Hi,. I've noticed that you are an AfC reviewer but don't yet have the New Page Reviewer flag. Would you please consider heading over to PERM and requesting it? (check the flag requirements HERE)

As part of a larger plan to increase cooperation between New Page Patrol and Articles for creation, we are trying to get as many of the active AfC reviewers as possible under the NPR user flag (per this discussion). Unlike the AfC request list, the NPR flag carries no obligation to review new articles, so I'm not asking you to help out at New Page Patrol if you don't want to, just to request the flag. Of course, if it is something you would be interested in, you can have a look at the NPP tutorial. Please mention that you are an active AfC reviewer in your application. Thanks. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  06:09, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 27
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 * User Group
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 * Wiki Indaba Wikipedia + Library Discussions
 * Spotlight: Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
 * Bytes in brief

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The Signpost: 26 April 2018
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