User talk:Adam Cuerden/Archive 6

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Émile Bertrand - Jules Massenet - Cendrillon poster.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 24, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-05-24. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:31, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Featured article for 20 May Signpost
Hello, I did not know where to put this. This was promoted 14 May, so I think it goes in the Signpost coming out next week.


 * Camas pocket gopher (nominated by Gaff) Said to be "one of the most vicious animals known for its size", the camas pocket gopher of Oregon in the United States is born toothless, blind and hairless before growing to become a fearsome rodent. Fortunately the animal is herbivorous so its purring or twittering should not indicate danger to humans.

 Blue Rasberry  (talk)  15:23, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CX, May 2015
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Featured picture candidates/SG-1000
It would be nice, if you could close this one for me. Regards, 14:45, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Illustrated War News, Dec. 23, 1914, page 38, left side - Darwan Sing Negi.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 24, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-24. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 4 June 2015 (UTC)


 * The image has been rescheduled for the 26th. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:22, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Potential FPs from Yorkshire GLAMwiki partnerships
Hi Adam, could I get some advice about the featured picture process. I'm running the Yorkshire Network GLAMwiki Project and I'd love to see some of the images get featured but am a little wary of COI issues and how to go about the process. Here's a gallery of just a few files that might be worth a shot but I'd appreciate your thoughts and perhaps you'll find more appropriate images in the relevant Commons Categories?

The commons cats are: What do you think? Cheers PatHadley (talk) 11:42, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Images from the York Museums Trust Online Collection
 * Images donated by York Museums Trust
 * Images from Harrogate Museums and Arts
 * The first thing to do is to get them into all appropriate articles that they should be in. For example. the Franz Snyder would be an excellent candidate, but needs to be in an article for seven days. They may benefit from having suitable crops taken from them - for example, the map might benefit from cropping out the wood holding it down at the bottom and the black around it - these should, of course, be uploaded as separate files. Link the variants together: You say that there's a tiff available of the game stall, but that's not linked. An example of one I've restored and how I like to link things is File:Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman_c._1900.jpg - note the "Other versions" field; it doesn't matter exactly how you do it, though, so long as it's all linked.
 * These are clearly valuable resources. I can give some thoughts:
 * I don't think we've had a flythrough at FPC before. I suspect one with such credentials pass easily, one might want to add it to some articles on archaeological reconstruction, and consider an article on flythrough, but probably not necessary. User:Crisco 1492, any thoughts?
 * The strata map is excellent. Restoration is possible, though this will strain my computer a little bit. It may be unnecessary outside of an appropriate crop. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:50, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I think a flythrough would probably have a chance. Still finishing up an article, though, so I haven't had time to look at it in detail. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:58, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Cracking. Thanks for all the advice. I'll get them on more relevant articles and do some tweaked versions of some of them. Cheers PatHadley (talk) 14:31, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * File:Coppergate Helmet YORCM CA665-1.jpg would be an excellent candidate as well. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:47, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, it strikes me as oversharpened. If there's access to the RAW files, I'd love to work with them. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:11, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all this help folks!
 * I suspect that the Coppergate Helmet image is actually a scanned slide but I can't be sure. I'll have more of a poke around. I remember seeing some really good detailed shots of the filigree work too. (personally I'd love the excuse to pop it out the case and snap it again with the new kit at YMT.
 * I've had a quick go at adjusting the Smith map but have limited photoshop access. The current version in use on the article (File:Geological map Britain William Smith 1815.jpg) is much punchier and usable at small sizes but obviously lacks the resolution or authenticity/provenance of the Yorkshire Museum's copy. As can be seen from the Geological Soceity's recently rediscovered copy (here on Flickr but watermarked) the original colours were much brighter.
 * I'll also play with the Snyder. I'll see if I can get some info from the curators in order to be adding cropped details more informatively.
 * Cheers all! PatHadley (talk) 09:55, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * If there's a chance at retaking it, that would be great... shame I'm too darned far away to help. I'm ... somewhat handy with a camera myself. — Chris Woodrich (talk)


 * Right, here's a quick and dirty reworking of the map. Probably not good enough for FP but might be better for the article and inspire a more competent restoration attempt. Thoughts? We'd love to have you, but at least I can now be confident that the skills in-house will do things justice! PatHadley (talk) 12:54, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * That seems to have changed the colours of the ink, amongst other issues. I'm not quite sure what you did to it... Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:02, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Like I said, quick and dirty. I mostly used the automatic tools in GIMP (free and handy) and used the Geological Society's copy as a guide. Far too much scope for error but no more than the other versions on Commons? I'm more than happy for that to be over-written with a better version. PatHadley (talk) 10:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)


 * @PatHadley: Yes, the ones I've seen look very good. Have you been editing to correct for lens distortion? I took a look at A Game Stall, and I note that the frame seems to bend. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:12, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, there are slight parallax errors on the top of the frame. I'm curious as to whether or not you are using a panoramic head with your tripod. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:20, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * That image was taken by moving the tripod laterally on a trolley and then stitching with Microsoft ICE. It was a test that we were reasonably pleased with but perhaps for FP it'd be better to supply the calibrated single image? PatHadley (talk) 10:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, that explains it. I tried working with ICE for a while, but there were issues. It's a very fast and dirty program with room to modify the output. I believe Photoshop would work for a trolley shot (it's similar to scanning a work in multiple portions, after all, which I know is supported), but it can consume a lot of resources. PTGui works pretty well, too, and is less of a processor/RAM hog. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:23, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
 * We actually tried PhotoShop first and ICE was far better. Both have settings for tracking rather than panning. I'll have a crack with PTGui. We're looking into kit or a home-made rig that will enable us to move orthogonally sideways and up/down to get gridded stitches (that is just 3 shots in portrait). GigaPixel here we come! PatHadley (talk) 13:08, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Interesting. If you use PT Gui, you may want to use the SmartBlend plugin. It handles parallax better. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:16, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015
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Ping
Hi Adam,

I don't know how closely you’ve followed the research project about VisualEditor, but since they will be moving into the data analysis phase before long, I wanted to personally ask a few "regulars" at WP:VEF to let me know if they’d seen anything unusual during the last week or two. (It's been a while since you've posted much there, but you're still in the top 10 all-time editors at WP:VEF.) Anyway, if you've seen anything or have any thoughts on it, then please let me know. There's a thread open at VisualEditor/Feedback if you want, or you can always leave a note at my talk page or send me e-mail. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 06:19, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Strobridge & Co. Lith.- Ben-Hur - Klaw & Erlanger's Stupendous Production.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 30, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:59, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Jeeves

 * You enjoy literary images; was wondering if you wanted a go at File:My-man-jeeves-1sr-edition.jpg. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:01, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Good to see you back
I hope your downtime was restful, or fruitful, or both. Tony  (talk)  08:16, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Ideas
Hi, Adam.

I saw your comment at VPPR, and it looks like you might not have finished. (You seemed to be starting a numbered list, but there’s only one item in it. ;-)  Anyway, I thought you might like to know that they're working on a GuidedTour for VisualEditor (read up on it at T89074 and T101481). They're also currently working on some animated tutorials, like this one (a few other ideas listed at T101211). If you've got more ideas, then leaving a note at WP:VEF or directly on the Phab tasks might be good. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 06:32, 20 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Adam, and thanks for the note. I'm dubious that experienced editors would accept yet another button cluttering up the upper right.  Name, Echo, Talk, Sandbox, Prefs, Beta, Watchlist, Contributions, Log out (and the UTC clock for me) plus "Show/Hide VisualEditor" might be wider than some people's screens, especially if the screen is small and the fonts need to be large.  The team has been looking at other options for asking editors if they want to opt-in, like a small pop-up note (try going to el:Special:Random – that might trigger the big pop-up that the Content Translation tool is using).  It's complicated, though:  if a notice is big enough (or bright enough, or whatever) to be noticed by most people, then it's big enough to be very annoying to some people.  There are no options that are both "effective" and "unnoticeable".  I've been thinking about another watchlist notice, or maybe a sitenotice (maybe one set to display only on 1% of page views or only once per account).  I suppose that the current discussion is likely to have an unintended side effect as a sort of 'opt-in reminder', too.
 * I've talked to the team in the past about help buttons, and the goal is to include in-context help where it's needed, and otherwise to omit it. You can see an example of this in the Media dialog.  Add or edit an image, and then look for the (?) icons next to the caption and alt text fields.  They have several tasks on their list related to this idea, and the Design Research team is testing different components to see which need help.  However, in the study, the people who had VisualEditor were able to successfully make just as many unreverted edits as those who didn't, so there's no logical reason to delay access over these improvements.  I also watched the usual on-wiki help forums during the test, and I saw no problems related to VisualEditor.   If you have suggestions for specific places to add in-context help, then please leave a note with details at WP:VEF.
 * There are plans to eventually integrate the editing environments, with the ability to switch back and forth at will. It'll look more like what they do in Mobile – first you open the editor, and then you switch to VisualEditor if/when you want to.  (It's supposed to remember what you used for the last edit, so if you like VisualEditor, you won't have to switch every single time.)  But this is a couple of years out.
 * You can make links in VisualEditor without taking your hands off your keyboard. I made this link without taking my hands off the keyboard until I needed to click the final "Save" button.  Control opens VisualEditor.  I typed the sentence, selected a word, and typed Control to open the link tool (I'm told that 'k' matches the shortcut in Google Docs and Microsoft Office).  I used arrow keys to select the link target, and Enter to close it.  Control opens the Save dialog, where I typed the edit summary.  The only thing I can't do from the keyboard is click the final "Save" button – and that's planned at T98105. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Carl Nielsen
Thanks, Adam, for taking an interest in this article and adding a new photograph of Carl Nielsen. Unfortunately it cannot be included until we have established its first date of publication. We went through a series of problems with photographs of Nielsen when the article was under examination for FA. I have in fact identified a number of early illustrated publications on Nielsen and will obtain them from the library when I return to Denmark in a couple of weeks time. Until then, I think it is safer to keep those that have been approved.--Ipigott (talk) 08:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXI, June 2015
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Portrait of ASTP crews - restoration.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 15, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:56, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

FPs for FC
Hey Adam, I was just checking in to see whether you would be able to get the FPs done for FC this week -- we would like to publish in 24-36 hours or so. If you could let me know either way, that'd be great. Thanks --  Go  Phightins  !  03:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Vertigomovie restoration.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 18, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-18. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:16, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Spelling
The word is "occurrence".

This service is brought to you by Anal Pedants International Inc. --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  11:45, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Dagnabbit, I'm usually better about that. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:49, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Help needed
Hi Adam, are you interested in helping out with this? Labels/VE experiment edits Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Kue

 * Thank you for your nomination and support for the kue jajan pasar image. I do really appreciate it, this is my first featured picture, terima kasih.  Gunkarta  talk 06:15, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Question
You've done an outstanding job on the restoration on the linking of the first transcontinental railroad image, and for that I owe you some thanks, however before I give it I have a question for you: since you are much better at locating and restoring images than I am, would you be interested in taking on another D&R nomination from me existing FP stock? TomStar81 (Talk) 19:54, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The image in question is File:USS Pennsylvania moving into Lingayen Gulf.jpg (my very first FPC success story, incidentally :) Nommed by me back in August of 2005, the photo is coming up on 10 years as an FP but is below the current size limit for FPs, and to complicate matters there are two versions floating around, the featured version and a derivative linked from the page that shows the radar mast (apparently that got altered due to WWII censorship). I'd like to get the current FP switched to the version with radar mast included, but unless a higher resolution photo with the radar mast can be located the only success I'd have at FPC would be obtaining consensus to delist and replace with File:USS PENNSYLVANIA and battleship of COLORADO class followed by three cruisers move in line into Lingayen Gulf... - NARA - 520627.tif, an image with the need resolution but in need of a little TLC. If you know where we might find a version with the need resolution and the radar mast it would be the jackpot, but I'd settle for the second linked image restored to have a classic image updated to to meet current FP guidelines. Can you help? TomStar81 (Talk) 05:37, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Here's the one with the radar mast. TomStar81 (Talk) 05:43, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll defer to your judgement on that one then, although I did notice (having finally looked closely at both versions) that every other ship in both photos save but for Pennsylvania (the lead ship) has radar masts regardless of which version is used. In either event, would it be possible to restore the hi-res version for a delist-and-replace FP nomination? I would like for this one to remain an FP, but to do that I need some help. TomStar81 (Talk) 03:43, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Henry Atwell Thomas - Franz von Suppé - Fatinitza.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 23, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-23. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:26, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Nice memories when seeing it on the Main page, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 23 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Preview: I used your FP of Rossini for a DYK, and it was chosen, naturally ;) - more nice memories, of singing his work this time, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:30, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Really glad I could be of use! Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:50, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

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Image at Ray Charles discography
Hi, can you maybe tell me why the image is not working in the infobox at Ray Charles discography? Thanks in advance, Coldbolt (talk) 19:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Westerlund 2
Could you close this for me? Armbrust The Homunculus 20:24, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Bird's eye view of Detroit, Michigan, 1889 - . Calvert Lithographing Co..jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 30, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:26, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Signpost Featured Content
Hi, Adam, I have been organizing the Signpost archives and have gotten through almost all 10 1/2 years of issues and I just wanted to say how beautiful the Featured Content page has become. If you look through older issues (Category:Wikipedia Signpost Featured content archives), you can see how the Featured Content page used to be a list of articles that had reached FA status and a few thumbnail images. But now it is just visually gorgeous. I know it takes a lot of work and several editors each week to produce such a high quality article. But having seen what the page used to look like has just made me appreciate the current state of the page even more and I wanted to tell you that. Liz Read! Talk! 21:04, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Family Quarrels
Adam, you may like the image I have included in this new article. Best, --Smerus (talk) 18:11, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Fixing
Hey Adam,

While creating the FP nomination of Featured picture candidates/Shrinika performing Abhinaya, I got missed something, the caption is not showing the direct link to the page, could you try fixing it ? I tried but again it was getting confused. DreamSparrow Chat  20:44, 15 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much. I have added the image to the article Abhinaya. How is it now ? DreamSparrow Chat  20:54, 15 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Adam, kindly have a look at this. I have requested Criso also to check this out. Am not that confident but still, feel to keep, check it out once and either way comment please. DreamSparrow Chat  21:16, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

FA review
Hi Adam,

A couple of weeks ago you posted a helpful image review at Featured article candidates/Hu Zhengyan/archive1, for which I posted some requests for clarification. I hate to pester, but would you mind looking them over and replying? The review's been up for over a month now, and I'm concerned about it getting archived. Much obliged, Yunshui 雲 水 08:20, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Adam. Sorry to bother you again, but if you could at least find time to comment on the letter image at some point I'd be very grateful. Yunshui 雲 水 09:32, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't know if you've seen this or not, but the article's now been promoted and the FA review closed. However, if you'd like to further discuss the images or help out in improving them, please do feel free to post to the talkpage there; I'd be glad of your help. Yunshui 雲 水 08:47, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Talkback
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Thank you very much :-)!
It's a nice thought to remember a friend, and it's very useful :-). Thanks! Dryopterisery (talk) 17:08, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
thumb|100px|right|[[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2015#Aug 8 - Sat|POTD]] thumb|100px|right|[[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2015#Aug 8 - Sat|POTD]] Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Pictures File:Archibald Standish Hartrick - Rudyard Kipling - Soldier Tales 18 - The Taking of Lungtungpen 1.jpg and File:Archibald Standish Hartrick - Rudyard Kipling - Soldier Tales 19 - The Taking of Lungtungpen 2.jpg are due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 8, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-08-08/1 and Template:POTD/2015-08-08/2. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:17, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXII, July 2015
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Featured picture candidates/delist/A Negress
Could you close this delist nomination for me? (This isn't automated, it's enough if you do step 1. I can do the others, if you want.) Armbrust The Homunculus 13:13, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

GV GA
Oops! Looks like we inadvertently clashed with our edits (at 06:58) - I will stand back now until you are through - many thanks for your care- best,--Smerus (talk) 07:22, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

The relentless...
...march of technology! Sca (talk) 14:04, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Summerhill
Hi Adam, I'm a big admirer of your restoration work. Do you take requests? I use File:SummerhillSchool.jpg in a whole lot of articles and it would be great to have it fixed up to FP quality. (I'm trying to secure a few more images of historic figures in alternative education too, if you'd be interested.) – czar   04:53, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in an interview
Hi Adam, Ian Rose and I are hoping to run a group interview with some of the editors who have worked on military history-themed FPs in the next issue of The Bugle and we'd like to invite you to participate. If you have time, I'd appreciate it if you could post responses at WikiProject Military history/News/August 2015/Interview by 14 August. Please let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 11:27, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your responses Adam Nick-D (talk) 00:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

September and October Bugle
Hi Adam, Nick and I find what we'll both be travelling in September and October so was wondering if you'd be able to organise FPs for the Bugle for those months' issues. We should be able to organise the other parts of the Bugle through the MilHist coordinators but be great if you could handle FPs while we're away (of course happy for you to do them any time but September and October will be particularly helpful). Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 05:55, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I should be able to. If nothing else, today marks the end of what was a very stressful waiting game, and I can't help but feel that, good or bad, I'll be better in a month from today than I've been in any of the three stressful months prior. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:30, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * That's great to hear, Adam -- on all counts! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:32, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks also from me Adam Nick-D (talk) 08:41, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

LOUDER
Hi Adam. FYI, I found a bunch more audio files that are great except for audibility. Many of them have little or no static. However, instead of asking you or User:Graham87 to boost the volume, I did this. Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 21:06, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * In case you and/or User:Graham87 is interested, here's a link to updated information about this. Anythingyouwant (talk) 22:46, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Louder but now in very bad quality
Hi Adam. Thank you for handling our audio files. The sound is louder but the quality has deteriorated massively by your edit (original 102 MB, your edit with 38 MB). You cannot use a standard filter program to edit sound of shellac discs, because 78 rpm records have no RIAA curve (the most filter programs uses RIAA or DECCA). The linear increase of the mid frequencies make the music louder, but reduces the quality drastically! We digitize all gramophone records without the use of any filtering software in studio quality with professional audio equipment in 24-Bit/192 kHz. Files which we have digitized before August 2014 we will replace in the next months with a file in better quality. Commons users are warmly welcome to improve the quality. Can you please upload a new file in better quality? Thank you for your cooperation. Pdproject (talk) 22:50, 4 August 2015 (CET) - more infos: Sound/list#Pdproject
 * I know very little about restoring sound from old records. But I'm glad to learn.  There's a Wikipedia article about it here.  User:Pdproject, the original file that you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons is still available without any alterations, and Adam merely created a separate file.  If Adam does as you have requested, and replaces the separate file with one that has 102 MB, will it sound better or worse to us, or will we not be able to tell the difference?  In any event, you will be replacing the original file with a better one soon, and so any improvement that Adam makes now in the separate file he created will become insufficient once you replace the original file?  Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 16:28, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I have started a table here showing some very successful music restoration efforts here at Wikipedia. Adam, please feel free to add items to the list.  Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 17:27, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll
You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:09, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #4—2015
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania
The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince,  जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. Thank you to the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

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In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.

Future changes
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Flash Player image
Hi, Adam. Could you upload this one in full resolution to Commons? We currently have him from the same source, but this is noticeably cropped and the original seems to be absent. I've tried Dezoomify and View page info in Firefox, but neither worked for me. Brandmeistertalk  15:55, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Ethel Waters - William P. Gottlieb.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 1, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-09-01. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Copyright
Adam,

This has come to my attention while searching for some interesting things about Idukki Dam. Am not sure, but I felt this must be a copyrighted property of some other people, kindly have a look. DreamSparrow Chat  13:51, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXIII, August 2015
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File:General Winter.jpg
Could you check, whether this Gallica file has a higher resolution version than 1,024 × 1,540? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 18:41, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Most definitely. Adam Cuerden (talk) 05:37, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Urania's Mirror
Adam, I'm giving you a hard time on the FAC, but only because I like the the article and think that while close it is not quite there yet. My sence is that with a little more it should do. Ceoil (talk) 08:11, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Request for restoration
Adam, could you do one of your fine restoration jobs on File:Conestoga wagon on Oregon_Trail - NARA - 286056.jpg? I would be happy if you nominated it at FPC when you've finished. Thanks, --<b style="color:#01796F;">Pine</b><sup style="color:#01796F;">✉ 16:47, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Fairy
I was just going to ask if you'd had any time to do anything on that absinthe poster, but it looks like you are snowed under; do we have any other restorers that would be willing to do a restoration for a scantily clad beauty (not me; the poster model)? Belle (talk) 00:20, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Siegfried
Adam, could you please give me your opinion as to whether File:Siegfried - Heinrich Gudehus.jpg qualifies for PD status? It seems to me to be unclear. Thanks and best regards, --Smerus (talk) 13:48, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for helpful and incredibly speedy response. I'm trying to tidy up the individual Ring opera articles with a view maybe to GA/FA at some stage. At present they are not very well-written and they lean (too) heavily on Rackham for illustrations when I am sure there are many photos of historic productions around - as you've clearly demonstrated. The Paris set illustrations e.g. could be good. If you have time to sort out some good Ring photos over the near future I'd be very grateful. Also I'm seeking a good one for Lohengrin, where the infobox is currently using a snap from a not particularly special recent production. Best, --Smerus (talk) 16:42, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 September newsletter
The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:


 * , who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy.  A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
 * , second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
 * , first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany.  Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
 * , second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
 * , from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
 * , from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
 * , from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
 * , also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

, and  11:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

CSS crop for Götterdämmerung
I'm not a fan of the hard crop (which I learned from you). If this works for you, be my guest...--Godot13 (talk) 08:05, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Question about Wikinews
hello Adam, I found my self in trouble on Wikinews. Now i found your article Proposal for closing of Wikinews. Especially i am interested on on Paragraph Wikinews_actively_drives_users_of. It kind of describes my situation. Do you have any experience there?--85.94.172.236 (talk) 16:03, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Tomb of Bibi Jawindi.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 1, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-01. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:02, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

FC
Hi Adam, since it looks like the regulars aren't available this week, I was asked to do FC. I hope you don't mind if I experiment a little in this one edition. Thanks and looking forward to your return. Tony  (talk)  12:30, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXIV, September 2015
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Featured picture candidates/Arrival of the Hungarians
Could you close this one for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 07:32, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification (Agir)
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. Küstenpanzerschiff Ägir - restoration.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 15, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

ITN
FYI, I defended your honor here. Sca (talk) 15:49, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry I missed the debate - I would have supported if I'd seen it in time. Though I doubt it would have made any difference. &mdash; An  optimist  on the run! (logged on as Pek the Penguin) 12:17, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

FLRC notification
I have nominated List of major opera composers for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Giants2008 ( Talk ) 00:28, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

commons:Category:Media contributed by KITLV

 * If you're looking for new ideas for restorations, check out commons:Category:Media contributed by KITLV. I just found it. Images like File:Hamengkoe Boewono VII, sultan van Jogjakarta, in uniform - Kassian Céphas - KITLV 10001.tif shouldn't be all that difficult. I wish I wasn't so busy with RL work; I'd leap in with both feet. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:10, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor update

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The location of the visual editor's preference has been changed from the "Beta" tab to the "Editing" section of your preferences on this wiki. The setting now says Temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. This aligns en.wiki with almost all the other WMF wikis; it doesn’t mean the visual editor is complete, or that it is no longer “in beta phase” though.

This action has not changed anything else for editors: it still honours editors’ previous choices about having it on or off; logged-out users continue to only have access to wikitext; the “Edit” tab is still after the “Edit source” one. You can learn more at the visual editor’s talk page.

We don’t expect this to cause any glitches, but in case your account no longer has the settings that you want, please accept our apologies and correct it in the Editing tab of Special:Preferences. Thank you for your attention, Elitre (WMF) -16:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Signpost FC
Hi, Adam, I don't know if you are still like to work on the Signpost article on Featured Content but this week's edition has just been posted, if you would like to help with some descriptions or resizing photos: Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-07/Featured content. Thanks for your help! Liz <sup style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="color:#006400;">Read!</b> <b style="color:#006400;">Talk!</b> 16:35, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

ITN
I definitely agree with you that there are problems at ITN, especially with inconsistent criteria being applied to similar noms and then complete disregard towards others. I think we need input from more editors though, to fix it. We need to be actively trying to shape it to be the best it can be. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:35, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXV, October 2015
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Featured picture candidates/Renée Adorée
Hi, I would be much grateful if you could give your opinion about this. Regards, Yann (talk) 11:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Moenitarri warrior in the costume of the dog danse 0056v.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 10, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-10. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Irish WWI poster - Is Your Home Worth Fighting For? - Hely's Limited, Litho, Dublin.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 11, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:16, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #5—2015
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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets. Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements
Educational features: The first time you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the and  tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These  "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the " " tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use the visual editor on any size of device. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227 and T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes
You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "" and "" tabs into a single "" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

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Balanced scales
Hi Adam. I left a message for you here. (Please ping me.) --  15:54, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2015: The results
WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is. All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. , a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to. Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:


 * wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
 * wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
 * wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
 * wins the prize for fourth place
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
 * wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
 * wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

, and  18:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Restoration question
Hi Adam, about your proposed replacement on FP nom. of Nikola Tesla,. I am wondering if you want to restore it? If you are not particularly interested, I am interested in restoring it, hopefully with your input and feedback on the restoration. FYI, I use GIMP and I have more to learn about restoring images. Hopefully the final result will be good. And if you want to restore it, I understand, you have my FP support vote in advance. Bammesk (talk) 03:26, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. kleiner kreuzer Gefion - restoration, borderless.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 30, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

JSTOR cleanup drive
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The Bugle: Issue CXVI, November 2015
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ArbCom elections are now open!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:31, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Noel Coward Allan warren edit 1.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 16, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-12-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:24, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. Küstenpanzerschiff Odin im Salut - restoration.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 19, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-12-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:31, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

???
, what's up with the feral kitten? – Sca (talk) 14:21, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. Linienschiff Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm - restoration, border removed.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 4, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-01-04. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - Jeremia treurend over de verwoesting van Jeruzalem - Google Art Project.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 5, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-01-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXVII, December 2015
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Featured picture candidates/Georg Giese
Could you close this for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 22:46, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

inre: Articles for deletion/The Future of Food
THIS is the unsourced stub you chose to take to AFD. As truly decent sources were plentiful and as notability is determined through sources available, even if not used and even though improving was not required, I took a few of the many and addressed issues thusly.... taking the 1927 characters (320 words) start-class-needing-work and turned it into a quite decent and well-sourced 6872 characters (1112 words) B-class article... a 3x expansion.. Might you care to defend your strange assertion that there was only a "bare smattering of coverage" over at the AFD? Thanks,  Schmidt,  Michael Q. 20:16, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

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Notability and reliability
Hi Adam, hope your 2016 is beginning well.

Your idea that topics must have "notable sources" in order to be proven notable makes sense, but if you think about it it would run into problems.

For example, say I wanted to write about a topic, like "dogs". "Notable" means "has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Suppose we changed "reliable" to "notable". I found two books, What are Dogs? by Adams, and Canid Evolution, by Birch, which discussed dogs. If I had to prove those sources were themselves notable (not just reliable), I'd need to find two notable sources discussing What are Dogs? by Adams and two notable sources discussing Canid Evolution by Birch. Say I did find two sources discussing the first book. Well, then I'd just have to prove that they were notable in turn, meaning that they had been discussed by two notable sources.... the cycle would never end. That's why we rely on things like WP:Identifying reliable sources to decide that, if a source has been published in a peer-reviewed journal or published by a reputable academic publisher, it's reliable enough, and we don't have to go hunting down other people's reviews of the source. FourViolas (talk) 13:28, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Not asking it to descend all the way down. But neologisms are surely a special case, especially as the question we're asking is "Has the neologism gained independent notability from the book?" - no-one doubts the book is notable, it's whether the term it created is. And that, surely, deserves higher standards. I don't want to trivialise Joy's work - it seems a useful analysis, hence why there's lots of summaries of it - so, if you'll forgive jumping to fiction, take, say, terms created for a fantasy book like hobbit and Nazgul. Those kind of things need much better sources to spin off. We can't have articles on every term created by any notable book, we need to establish the term has notability independent of the book, and that needs notable sources. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:36, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, I think I see where you're coming from now. There needs to be particularly strong evidence to show that two articles should exist, one on the book that introduced the idea and one on the idea. But WP:NEO deals with that, and it doesn't say anything about "notable sources". As you pointed out, sources which happen to be notable themselves are not necessarily useful sources for encyclopedic coverage.


 * It comes down to the same question as before: does significant, reliable, independent coverage exist about the idea that is not simply about the book? This is the key, and it's a subjective question on which we disagree. We'll see what consensus decides. Thanks for being willing to discuss! FourViolas (talk) 17:28, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
 * (ec) Adam, this may all make sense to you (it sounds pretty arbitrary to me, but that's not the point), but it does not correspond to any guideline or policy that I know of, and quite clearly goes against the explanation of what notability is (and what it is for) at WP:NOTE. Josh Milburn (talk) 17:37, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Allah jang Palsoe

 * Question for you, one restorer to another: think it's worth the trouble of going through the whole book, or just cleaning up that (really messy) cover? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:10, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, cover's cleaned up. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:02, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * What else is in the book? It does seem like preserving Indonesian heritage would mean a scan of the whole book would be valuable, but I'm not sure restoration would be needed for every page, unless there's interesting things in the book worth having on Wikipedia. Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:28, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh, the book's on Wikipedia now (File:Allah jang Palsoe (1919).pdf). I was just thinking that having the whole book (with readable, copy-paste-able, accurate text) would make for an interesting FP. It's just a lot more work. Nothing as bad as the title page, but still. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:29, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd be inclined to run it by the FPC crowd first. Don't want to be in a situation where you do it - and then can't get it promoted. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:50, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll see what I can do. The cover itself was a pain. Fortunately most of the damage was outside of the design. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:52, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Request for trwiki
Hey Adam, hope all is fine since we last talked. We have a request for trwiki if you would be interested. Could you check your message page there? İyivikiler... ho?  ni!  06:30, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the guidance! I think it will help us have a user interested in restoration :) İyivikiler... ho?   ni!  06:33, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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Strayhorn
FYI, your image changes to Strayhorn broke the second picture (missing File:). I fixed it, but just a reminder to be careful :) —Luis (talk) 06:19, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Kaiserin Augusta verlässt Newyork, Chromo-Lithographie von C. Saltzmann 95, nr13 aus G. Wislicenus, Unsre Kriegsflotte - restored, borderless.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 2, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-02-02. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:54, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Delphinus, Sagitta, Aquila, and Antinous.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 4, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-02-04. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:59, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Composers
Thanks, Adam. The only other one that occurs to me at the moment is Čiurlionis (Choor' lee-ohn' is), in whom I have some personal interest due time spent in Lithuania years ago. I collaborated with Haffy on preparation of the article. It's mainly about Čiurlionis the artist, tho there's a section on his music, too, much of which I like. Enjoy. Sca (talk) 22:26, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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Enjoyed your restorations
Hi Adam. I enjoyed your before-and-after restorations at Jimbotalk. The issue of copyright and credit of such work is of course complicated by international boundaries and evolving case law, but of course in terms of general principles such work should be regarded as copyrightable and crediting should be done by reusers. This doesn't touch upon the issue of Commons categories, which I personally couldn't care less about.

This is actually written unrelated to that, I just wanted to share a restoration technique with you that you might find interesting.

From THIS image in a pdf of a journal article to more or less encyclopedia-ready image.

My technique is as follows: I run multiple Blur More filters, like 3 or 4 or 5 or 6, followed by brightness and contrast adjustment. Then the usual manual removal of artifacts with the cloning tool or by painting. Then I run an Unsharp Mask filter. Sometimes, as in this case, I repeated the process a second time, typically going lighter with the Blur More filters the second time around. I also sweeten things with color at the end, more often than not.

This technique is something for you to think about and to play with anyway, since you're obviously a world class digital restoration person. The theory is that with judicious filter use the process going from a photograph to a newspaper or magazine halftone can be largely reversed and the original greyscale image approximated.

Best regards, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 20:35, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Also working on individual channels (RGB, CMYK, LAB) can yield useful results- that's techniques I haven't been able to master . Fading the unsharp mask in luminance mode reduces the tendency to produce coloured fringes. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 08:53, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I tend to find coloured fringes are best dealt with with hue/saturation tools, at least, depending on the image. If it's more-or-less black and white (e.g. yellowed paper, brown ink would be fine) you can just drop the saturation of all non-yellow, non-red colours to nothing. If some of the colours exist on the image, you can often select them out of the area being adjusted.
 * As for Miller, your work on de-halftoning that image is almost as good as it's going to get, I think, from that source (try using either the "smudge" tool or a clonestamp tool to remove the obvious artefacts around the edges of the collar and I think you'll get some noticeable improvement fairly easily). I would encourage you to upload the original as well and link to it - it helps document the work. I will admit I tend to skip over that kind of work, but that's more because I have such a big backlog and I know others are capable of improving such things. May as well focus on the things I don't trust others to do. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:18, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

A request
Hi Adam, I uploaded a restoration in this nom, your input is appreciated, thanks. Bammesk (talk) 02:54, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Here's another...
Happened across this late 19th C. artist, who I'd not been familiar with. Thought you might be interested. Sca (talk) 12:51, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXVIII, January 2016
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Just to let you know, the Featured Pictures File:S.M. Linienschiff Kaiser Wilhelm II - restoration, borderless.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 16, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-02-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:12, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
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Women in Red Black Women's History
Hi Adam. Thanks for taking an interest in our editathon page. I see you altered the DYK section, adding nominations. I seem to be the only one actively maintaining the DYK sections on our main project page and in connection with the individual editathons. I am removing the nominations section as I simply do not have time to review all the nominations but I do look at the articles featured in DYK every day. If you are really interested in maintaining this section yourself, just let me know and we can work out a strategy.--Ipigott (talk) 09:53, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Johann Strauss II

 * PS.: Could you check the date in the description of the file. The current one is 5 years after the photographers death. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:35, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I believe that's the accurate publication date for this copy. I'm not sure of the creation date. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:13, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Ruby Margaret Rouss
I am working on a bio of Ruby M. Rouss. This woman is amazing and I cannot believe I can find NO photos of her. The only and I do mean only one I find is completely unusable. If she was the first VI woman to join the WACs and the first black to permanently serve under Eisenhower in SHAPE, *surely* there is a photo of her --- somewhere? Ideas? SusunW (talk) 20:09, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
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POTD notification
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FC
Are you ready to revert this edit yet? It seems the content is pretty well put together now, no? ɱ  (talk · vbm  · coi) 01:04, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Dewey restoration
Hi Adam, it's the centennial of John Dewey's Democracy and Education and I think I'll be writing about it. I wanted to ask whether there are any photos of Dewey that you would be interested in restoring—it'd make a nice and timely addition czar  00:14, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Davy and the Goblin book cover
I created the image for use in publishing the book, and I created the low-res file for use on the Wikipedia. What more do you want from me? -- Evertype·✆ 18:14, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Lynx and Telescopium Herschilii.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on March 12, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-03-12. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:38, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXIX, February 2016
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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter


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Maya Angelou image(s)
Adam, not being active in Commons, I just saw that they deleted the "Angeloupoem" image when the deletion notice arrived on my watchlist. I'm heartbroken! ;)

Since you're so knowledgeable about images, I thought that I'd ask you about it, and what you think about some possible solutions. Yes, another version of the same image (Angelou reciting her poem at Clinton's inauguration) exists; it's also at the National Archives site, and seems to be better attributed. It's not as good as the deleted image (her eyes are closed darnit!), but we may be forced to use it. Would we be able to use it? Also, if you scroll down on the NA website, there are other images of her speaking in 2007. Could you use those images, too, since they're from the U.S. government? Please let me know ASAP so I can fix all the Angelou webpages that have been affected. Thanks. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:34, 3 March 2016 (UTC)


 * So Adam, I have sent the email to the Clinton Library instead of the NA because they seem to own the image. And no, I made no jokes about other emails or any mention about Secretary Clinton's beleaguered presidential campaign.  I was tempted, but I refrained! ;)  We'll see what happens, but in the meantime, I'll think about how to solve the problem.  Any ideas? Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:56, 4 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Adam, good news to report: I got a response from the Clinton library and they donated the image we need! Whew and yippee. ;) I'm going to spend some time this morning replacing it in some articles, and will complete it in the next couple of days.  Thanks for your advice, encouragement, and support. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:53, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Perseus.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on March 22, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-03-22. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:54, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup report
Hi Adam, The Signpost's editorial board has decided that the WikiCup report, in its current state, is overwhelming and needs to be limited. We've agreed that cutting the gallery down to the top ten places would be the best option. Thanks! Kharkiv07 ( T ) 13:13, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
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POTD notification
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. Grosser Kreuzer Fürst Bismarck - restoration, borderless.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on March 31, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-03-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:51, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Indonesia
Following up on the BRdTj cover, if you're looking for something Indonesia related, I scanned this from a poster in my collection. I also have this, but I'm not sure if the design is simple enough to be PD (the photographs are, at least). No book covers as of yet, or anything with more artistic merits. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:21, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hehe, no, I didn't notice. I've been so busy these few weeks that my en.wikipedia editing is limited to mostly POTD and TFA. Looking good (though I could probably have mustered up a 600 PPI if you'd asked; the book is in my collection). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 08:24, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Would you care to? I don't mind redoing one, so this is a good time for it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:01, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Alright. If we don't end up doing anything for my birthday tonight, I'll get the book out and rescan those images. Otherwise I'll get it tomorrow. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:53, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Unrelated note. Do you remember the image of Dhalia I pointed out to you a while ago? A couple weeks ago I found a copy of the magazine I photographed it from back in 2013. Shame my attempts at removing halftoning were less than successful... I've just uploaded the original scan. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:36, 15 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Okay, all of the 600 PPI images are up. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:48, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

The Divine One
Thank you so much, that was brilliant. Gareth E. Kegg (talk) 22:09, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Image restoration question
Could I get some advice on image restoration, either direct or by pointing me to a good place to ask? I was wondering how much it would be possible to rescue and/or clean File:XXI OCTOBER MDCCCV (8636135413).jpg? I think the main problem is that the base file isn't really large enough, but was wondering whether a small amount of work would help improve it? Thanks. Carcharoth (talk)
 * Thanks for the advice. I wasn't aware that the source page on the National Library of Ireland (NLI) site had a larger file. There is an NLI watermark on that image. Also, I am not sure of the licensing status of NLI images. The NLI released a lot of images onto Flickr Commons in 2011, but the wording here doesn't fill me with confidence. FWIW, this image is from the Eason Collection. Would you be able to comment here or at the peer review on the restoration possibilities and licensing issues? There was something on Commons about the NLI images, but I can't find that again right now. One more thing: I raised the possibility of using a gallery in this article at the peer review - I remember you writing something (in The Signpost?) about the new gallery tags (that article was more helpful than Help:Images). Ah, found it!. Would you have views on what would work best here if the editors of the article agreed on the use of a gallery (though consensus might be against a gallery)? Carcharoth (talk) 12:19, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sarah Vaughan - William P. Gottlieb - No. 2.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on April 16, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-04-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:19, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon
Hi, I was wondering if you could help produce a few articles towards this in April? The idea is that people can use the Amazon vouchers to buy books for their future projects. I'm sure the getting articles to GA is compatible with the WikiCup too!♦ Dr. Blofeld  16:51, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Libra.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on April 18, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-04-18. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:27, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Dragon
Hi Adam, if you're still interested I'll put your name down for this. See the articles at the bottom, WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon. Anything you produce would join the list, so everything counts!♦ Dr. Blofeld  11:00, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Venting

 * Damn, I wish this had been released just four years earlier. Too complicated for the license I've used with the 1950s posters, and too new to have gotten past the URAA. But what a beaut... — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:10, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Torrijos
Hi Adam,

I would like to propose the handshake of Jimmy Carter and General Omar Torrijos (Panama) for restoration. The scan has some dirt and scratches. Thank you very much.--Kopiersperre (talk) 08:33, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Can you give a reason for your npov tag?
Hi,

I was reading The China Study but I see it's been tagged as NPOV and presenting fringe theories. But I can't find any justification for why it has these tags or what someone would have to review in order to remove those tags.

It seems you added the tags but there's no edit summary and I can't find any comments by you on the talk page.

That said, the Talk page got wiped twice by an archive bot, so maybe there was an explanation somewhere but it got wiped.

Can you add something to Talk:The China Study to explain the issues behind the tags? Without a reason, there's no way to justify keeping them or not keeping them.

Thanks. Great floors (talk) 00:58, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

FYI
I tinkered with the layout of your post at WT:MILHIST a little, to make it easier to read to read, and I also added your sig (via ). Feel free to revert if you don't approve. Also, your user page takes forever to load, have you considered splitting off some of your photos to user subpages, such as User:Adam Cuerden/photos 1? (and /photos 2, etc., or whatever you care to call them). Just a suggestion. Cheers - the <em style="font-family:Matisse itc;color:red">WOLF  child  19:29, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:E 003261 E Maoris in North Africa July 1941.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on April 25, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-04-25. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:41, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Book cover

 * Got any feedback on the cover here? I can write up an article without any issue (second short story collection in the Indonesian canon, lots of sources). Want the cover at FPC later. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:04, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

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POTD notification
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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. Linienschiff Baden - restoration, borderless.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on May 2, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-05-02. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:08, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Another notable woman

 * Might be worth queuing File:Portrait of Anne Sullivan, circa 1887.jpg. That's a beautiful portrait, and the subject is quite an important woman. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:38, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Can we have some help please?
Hello, I have seen your good work with images and wondered if you could help Worm and I. We found in a newspaper and wanted to add it to an article: Emilia Baeyertz. But unfortunately the image seems to become darker and less defined when in the article - is there any way to fix this to make it look better? ツStacey (talk) 21:54, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXXI, April 2016
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WikiCup report
Adam, is the WikiCup report ready to publish, or are you still looking to edit it? We're planning to publish shortly. Andreas JN 466 18:59, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah, have just seen the note in your diff (unfortunately, it didn't display on the page itself). Okay; next week then. Thanks. Best, Andreas JN 466 19:20, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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Honest opinion
Hey Adam,

Just wanted to hear your honest opinion about this photograph: File:Cathedral_(Parma)_-_Assumption_by_Correggio.jpg. You think it'll fly at WP:FPN? Looks like there's a lot of darkness around it, but I wonder if that'll cause some oppose votes. Étienne Dolet (talk) 05:28, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
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POTD notification
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POTD notification
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Photographing the O
Adam, thought you might be interested in this. Sca (talk) 13:50, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

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Images

 * Hi Adam, how are those Allah jang Palsoe images going? I got an actual print photograph of Roekiah (not halftoned). I'm thinking of trying to restore it, but it is dir-ty. Think it's worth the trouble? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:24, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Obviously I'd be cropping to the photograph itself. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:29, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Got a little frustrated with Allah jang Palsoe after accidentally restoring the wrong (low-res) image... twice. I'll get back to it soon. I think you shoul definitely fo Roekiah; the large stains are the only partcularly bad part. Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:54, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Alright, I'll try and do it in installments. Got a few translating jobs lined up, and I still have some papers to prepare for some conferences. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:10, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

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Hi. I noticed that you promoted my DYK hook for the article Plagioolithus to the prep areas, but you were also the one to approve the hook. Doesn't the promoter have to be uninvolved with reviewing? Ashorocetus (talk &#124; contribs) 17:19, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification (Pembroke College)
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POTD notification
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Possible FP?
What are your thoughts on the suitability of File:Charles Fryatt IWM Q 066269.jpg as a Featured Picture? Mjroots (talk) 16:51, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Way under the minimum resolution: 1500px on the shortest side is required, unless there's strong mitigating reasons, e.g. for things that don't really have a bigger size, such as the Trojan Room coffee pot featured image, which, dating from the early web, simply lacks anything larger ever being generated. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:11, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * But there's an exemption for historic images, is there not? Mjroots (talk) 17:26, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Not exactly. That image has far more detail in the original form. A low-res scan of a high-res original has no chance. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:30, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for your advice. Mjroots (talk) 17:36, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
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National Library of Wales quality images
Hey, thanks for reaching out. Here are some of the National Library's higher Res images on Commons. Let me know what you think. Jason.nlw (talk) 12:36, 22 June 2016 (UTC)


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Featured picture candidates/Hősök tere
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Gordon Tobing
Hi Adam. I scanned and restored File:Gordon Tobing (c. 1960), by Tati Studios.jpg earlier. Though the subject needs an article, I think the image is otherwise ready for FPC. One question, though. Do you think I should add some more space under his foot? It is awfully close. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:25, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, and maybe some left of his elbow as well. Also get the spot right of his foot. Cheers! Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:51, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Alright. Was doing some more work on Indriati Iskak. I don't how they were keeping this image, but there's mold everywhere. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:06, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Uploading then going to bed. Got a set of old pictures from Tati including Mieke Wijaya, Indriati, Gordon, Rima Melati (not sure that one's FP-able), A. Hamid Arief, Farida Arriany, Chitra Dewi (a different image, not going to FP that), Aminah Cendrakasih, and someone who may be Lilis Suryani. Needless to say, I've got a lot of writing to do. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:32, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed you do. Vassia has a solution to that.... ;) Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:18, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
 * LOL. I can't keep up the long term commitment. I should be focusing on getting my dissertation proposal accepted. But these pictures! Mieke and Farida are absolutely spellbinding. (BTW, Tobing's done) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:10, 28 June 2016 (UTC)


 * The picture of Farida. I'm going to let Gordon and Indriati go (at least partway) through FPC before nominating her. Any comments on touch-ups before then? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:05, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've burned the bottom of the image a bit to darken the glare (looking at the original scan, you can see why it was lighter there). I've also gotten the line — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:14, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * It looks fantastic - probably my favourite of the three. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:30, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Mine too. A fourth is up: Mieke Wijaya — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:07, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikimania followup
Just to let you (and your friend) know, I went down to the post office today and the package is on its way. My guess is it should be there by Monday or Tuesday.

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WWI directory
Hi there. Apologies for the impersonal nature of this post. I am sending this short note to a number of people who were involved (some still are) with World War I topics, letting them know about a WWI projects directory that I've started (in my userspace for now). Would you be able to look and see if there is anything you might be able to add or advice on what is most useful? If you want any follow ups, please put your name on the talk page. Many thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 22:21, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

A. Hamid Arief
Hi Adam. Do you think the detail in A. Hamid Arief's shirt is recoverable (or if we should even try)? A different copy (File:A. Hamid Arief, Peran Pemuda dalam Kebangkitan Film Indonesia, p111.jpg) shows that the highlights were pretty blown in the original, and thus the fading of the photograph I have (roughly 16R in size!) can't be blamed for all of it. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:09, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

"Orphan images"
I'm glad you noticed this problem, and it is a problem indeed. I'm reluctant to delete a template that can be used properly simply because it is not being used properly but in this case I probably will vote delete. I have raised the matter as a bot issue at WP:Bot owners' noticeboard where it looks as if heels are going to be dug in. I get the feeling that if the bot used  rather than   the errors would be prevented. I think Anomie (who in my experience is sensible and technically competent) may agree. Another approach would be to delete category:Wikipedia orphaned files or at least, as you have suggested, put proper explanatory text there. Thincat (talk) 09:14, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Promoting DYKs
Hi, your promotion of Template:Did you know nominations/Asparagusic acid was incomplete. You need to do these things to make sure it closes properly: I re-closed the nomination for you. Best, Yoninah (talk) 23:41, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * change to
 * change passed to yes
 * Add an edit summary, e.g. "Promoted to Prep 3", preview, and save
 * ...Oops. Knew about that, just forgot the subst: by accident. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:46, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXIII, July 2016
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. kleiner kreuzer Gazelle - restoration.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on July 26, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-07-26. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:10, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Photograph question
Do you think that this image is salvageable? It would do well in the Photographic studio article, or I could write an article on photography in Indonesia. The damage to the bottom and left side are too much for me to handle, by the looks of it. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:01, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I think this is a case for judicious cropping - we could possibly reconstruct to some extent, but the accuracy is going to diminish at some point. But there's certainly enough there that we can get something out of it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:55, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Agree. Cutting out the worst of it is definitely a lot more workable than trying to recreate the whole left and bottom. Still a fair bit of work. I'll probably save this for last. I've got images of Suzzanna, Farouk Afero, and (still confirming my guess is correct) Baby Huwae to go through. Suzzanna's profile shot is a relatively trivial restoration. For Farouk, I'd have to restore color to his shirt (water damage is pretty bad). The images I think are of Huwae are not in bad shape, though I'm not exactly crazy about either pose. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:22, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * They're not bad. I mean, the recent Betty Freidan image was a bad pose. They kind of remind me of someone playing dress-up, but I think that's because - appropriately for her name - she looks a bit too young for the outfits. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:28, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Exactly. They don't work for her. But, once I've confirmed her identity, it'll at least be a good illustration for the article. And those images are still miles better than pretty much anything else on the web. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:33, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Else Brems
Hi Adam. I was wondering whether you could help out by uploading the photograph of Else Brems as Carmen from here. It's the one from the newspaper clipping dated 1930 by hand on p. 3 of the PDF file. I think it could be uploaded to Commons in view of its early publication date.--Ipigott (talk) 11:16, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Valentin de Boulogne - Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats).jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on August 1, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-08-01. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:59, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Help with pictures
I have a weird situation and don't know how to fix it. Hoping that you do. This photograph as you can see from the source link  was identified as Odilia Castro Hidalgo. However, when INAMU moved their site, they corrected their error in identification of the subject. THIS is Castro's image.

The other photograph is María Teresa Obregón Zamora, which I have also confirmed since I wanted to be sure it wasn't still a mix up with this historic image from a newspaper. Is there a way to correct the name of the image and link for the image? Obviously, I would like to have both images uploaded as fair use for their appropriate files, but I don't know if the best way is to change the one that is incorrect or ask for it to be deleted and re-uploaded with the correct information. Can you help? SusunW (talk) 20:07, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

And if you don't know, maybe do? SusunW (talk) 20:14, 16 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Susun - I'm guessing these are all "fair use" - if they are then just load up new ones with different filenames. The orphans will be flagged up and after a short cfi to the image loader they will be deleted as orphans are not allowed on en:wiki. Victuallers (talk) 20:30, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks . Appreciate the help. SusunW (talk) 20:39, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Except that didn't work . Now it has both pictures as Castro. SusunW (talk) 21:00, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Since you uploaded over, we'll need an admin's help to get rid of the other image. Pinging ? Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:05, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm an admin, I will delete one if you tell me which. However if one is not included in an article then it will be deleted by a bot Victuallers (talk) 21:11, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * , Glad Roger and Adam are able to help as I'm a non-expert with Commons issues. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:42, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm still totally confused by the whole thing. The thumbnail is the right picture, but the image itself is the wrong one, as is he source. I changed the source document, but it doesn't show the correct link. I don't know what to do to fix it. SusunW (talk) 23:17, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I figured out the problem. Had to change the name of the image. Just left the original one which shows a different thumb and image hanging out there and assume it will go away. Thanks for your patience in walking me through this guys. SusunW (talk) 16:51, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Suzzanna

 * Adam, could I ask you to take a look at this and see if you can reduce the toolmarks in the background? They strike me as too prominent, but I'm not sure how to handle them. (And it turns out low-key is difficult to restore. Good to know). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:28, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Photo editing
Hey there, you recently touched up the photo of Gene Kranz that I have nominated. I was wondering if there is any process to get photos touched up beforehand. There are some really neat historical photos that need quite a bit more work than the one you did. I have been focusing on Space in the 60s and 70s, so the quality can vary. Let me know if there is any kind of process in place, thanks! Kees08 (talk) 14:49, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Cynthia Woodhead
Thanks, Adam. Does look better. Sca (talk) 18:09, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia and United Nations Women Project
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 * Are photographs of artwork at the Smithsonian automatically available for inclusion in WP as government property? I am working on an article for the UN collaboration on Verona Burkhard and found this link of six of her murals SusunW (talk) 17:54, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It's possible the underlying works could be copyrighted, so I can't make blanket statements about the entire Smithsonian collection. However, in this case, it says it's a New Deal work, so it's out of copyright, as PD-USGov Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:57, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Indigenous women & Polar women editathons
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Useable?
Can you do anything with this WPA post office mural study for Marion Gilmore Band Concert I hate that the door cut out is "grey" but it obviously shows it was supposed to go over a door. I also like that the controversial "Cannon and obelisk" are in the draft. SusunW (talk) 19:28, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:03, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Five years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:04, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:SMS Seeadler cropped.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on August 16, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-08-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:42, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

File:7IN D&BC 1950.jpg
As you do a lot of image restorations, I was wondering if you could comment on this. I think there's an exposure issue, but as I'm not a photo expert... Sfan00 IMG (talk) 17:22, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd say more fading than overexposure, but that's good: if it was overexposed, detail might be lost; here, there appears to be detail over the whole image, it's just it doesn't go very far towards black. A simple levels tweak can likely do a lot for this image. I'm going to be a bit busy for a couple days, though. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:37, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

File:Cassianto3.jpeg
Can you know, which software was used to create this picture. I asked Cassianto weeks ago, but he didn't answer. --Rainbow Archer (talk) 00:01, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It looks like the elements itself aren't ridiculously hard to get - just a nice use of layers. E.g. put the font over things, cut out from the textured layer and the glow layer, then blur the glow layer to make the glow under the textured layer, and so on. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:10, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Trojan Room coffee pot xcoffee.png is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on August 22, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-08-22. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:29, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXIV, August 2016
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Centreville, VA, Quaker Guns in the fort on the heights.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on August 27, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-08-27. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:47, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Magdalene College Dining Hall, Cambridge, UK - Diliff - sans lens flares.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on August 29, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-08-29. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:17, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Eurasian bullfinch
Could you close this one for me? (It needs a manual closure, so if you want I can make most of the steps except 1, 7 & 8.) Armbrust The Homunculus 20:48, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Argentine women
Hi Adam, Hope all is well with you. I've been working on some interesting women's bios for #100wikidays and wonder if you think any of the images in those articles are worth the time and energy for restoration? No worries if you're busy with other things. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:04, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Violeta Rivas
 * Cachita Galán
 * Mirta Arlt
 * Carolina Scotto
 * Elena Theodorini
 * Ofelia Nieto
 * Ángeles Ottein
 * Rosario Soler
 * Matilde Pretel
 * Lucrecia Arana

Ganna Walska
Is too far gone to be a restoration candidate? (Featured in today's German Wiki DYK.) Sca (talk) 13:20, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming editathons: Women in Nursing & Women Labor Activists
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FAC voluntary mentoring scheme
During a recent lengthy discussion on the WP:FAC talkpage, several ideas were put forward as to how this procedure could be improved, particularly in making it more user-friendly towards first-time nominees. The promotion rate for first-timers at FAC is depressingly low – around 16 percent – which is a cause for concern. To help remedy this, Mike Christie and I, with the co-operation of the FAC coordinators, have devised a voluntary mentoring scheme, in which newcomers will guided by more experienced editors through the stages of preparation and submission of their articles. The general format of the scheme is explained in more detail on Mentoring for FAC, which also includes a list of editors who have indicated that they are prepared to act as mentors.

Would you be prepared to take on this role occasionally? If so, please add your name to the list. By doing so you incur no obligation; it will be entirely for you to decide how often and on which articles you want to act in this capacity. We anticipate that the scheme will have a trial run for a few months before we appraise its effectiveness. Your participation will be most welcome. Brianboulton (talk) 16:48, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Luidia senegalensis
Could you close this one? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 13:59, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Close Wikinews Norway
Link : [] --Pitpisit (talk) 00:10, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Callum James Greens AfD
Hello Adam. I am notifying all the participants in the previous AfD for this article that it has recently been re-created and has been nominated for deletion again. The new discussion is at Articles for deletion/Callum James Greens (2nd nomination) if you care to participate. Voceditenore (talk) 06:01, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXV, September 2016
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Featured picture candidates/Elsie Leslie by Zaida Ben-Yusuf redux

 * This is absolutely beautiful, Adam! Too bad she's not an opera singer SMirC-smile.svg. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:12, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Opera Portal FPs
Hi Adam! Thanks so much for these! I've gone ahead and filled out 86–90 and added them to the portal rotation. Feel free to tweak the text if you think any of them need it. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 07:10, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Portrait of Henri Frenay, head and shoulders ppmsca.13371 edit.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on September 23, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-09-23. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:23, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Archiving?
Could you archive this page? It's very long now. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:00, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Photos Desperately Needed :)
Hi Adam - we spoke a while back about super-clarity of terms around early photography. Here is a link to an article that could really use your photo expertise. I know you're busy. If you get a chance. Thanks Ben https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Aim%C3%A9e_Crocker&action=edit&section=1 Billyshiverstick (talk) 01:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:C.M. Gilbert. - John Hay, c. 1904.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on October 8, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-10-08. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:49, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Eurasian blue tit
Could you close this one for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 20:12, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to 	 Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons
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A nominated picture
Hi Adam, In response to your vote here, this was actually my very first FA nomination ever (already thought that some issues might be raised), and therefore I was wondering whether you could tell me what steps in should follow in order to make the pic more eligible to get a FA status. Two concerns you raised were 1) the size 2) colour scheme. Could I, for example, ask the people at the Graphics Lab to fix both matters? Thanks in advance! - LouisAragon (talk) 23:03, 24 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Just in case ping doesn't work once again; I left you a reply on my talk page! Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 00:37, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Ruth Muskrat Bronson

 * Yay! Thank you Adam Cuerden! SusunW (talk) 18:19, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:C. Everett Koop, 1980s.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on October 14, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-10-13. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:58, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/National Library of Greece
Could you close this one for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 12:48, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXVI, October 2016
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Editing News #3—2016
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DYK for Élizabeth Teissier
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin, c. 1906.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 8, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-11-08. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:25, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Frederic Remington - Aiding a Comrade - Google Art Project.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 13, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-11-13. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:56, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Photo cleanup needed
Hey Adam. I was wondering if you could cleanup that is in the infobox for a featured article that is on the front page today. If you don't have time no worries, but I thought it would be nice since it is getting a lot of traffic today. Kees08 (talk) 18:57, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Mathew Brady - Franklin Pierce - alternate crop.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 23, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-11-23. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:13, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
 * Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
 * Featured List – produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
 * Featured Portal – produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
 * Featured Topic – and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
 * Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
 * Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
 * In The News – and, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
 * Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup
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WikiCup submission
Hi Adam, thanks for the submission on the WikiCup. It looks great, but needs just a little bit of work. We're just about to publish the next edition; if you can address this very soon, we might be able to squeeze it in. Otherwise, we'll run it mid-November. Two comments: (1) It needs a bit of context at the beginning. What's the WikiCup, why should a reader who might not know about it care? Maybe 2-3 sentences. And (2) After a couple reads, I understood what you mean about covering your own work; but the first time through, I thought you were saying that the WikiCup participant had written a Wikipedia bio about themselves. A comment about this is OK, but I'd de-emphasize it -- like, put a comment at the end of the image caption, not at the beginning. It's probably more significant to you than to the reader :) Good piece, glad to run it -- let me know when you can get to these.

Relatedly, do you know ? They have a draft article about the GA WikiCup, which looks good. But I've been trying to reach them for nearly a week about some edits, and have thus far been unsuccessful. -Pete (talk) 06:05, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'm a mess. I've been writing my thesis for the past few weeks in order to meet a deadline and completely missed all of this. I'll respond in the various places. Wugapodes [thɔk] [ˈkan.ˌʧɻɪbz] 09:27, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

November Bugle
Hi Adam, if you'd like to do the FPs in this month's Bugle, that'd be great but we'll want to despatch some time tomorrow, so I can do it if you don't have time. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:55, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd rather do it myself when possible: we keep missing ones, and once it's published, there's no point going back and adding them, since people have read it already and won't know it changed.


 * I've gone in and put all the missed ones from the last few months into December, with a note stating that it doesn't include any of the November ones that are the December article's main content. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:53, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Tks Adam. We've now got the Bugle on to a regular schedule of despatching on the 7th of the month, so we have a week to capture the last articles,  pictures, etc, promoted in the preceding month.  Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:17, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXVII, November 2016
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Soundurgent
Template:Soundurgent has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 23:13, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Signpost report on wikicup
Thanks for your report on the wikicup in the Signpost (Wikipedia Signpost/2016-11-04/Wikicup). Not a major issue but you used a caption to a picture of the King William Ale House in Bristol, which says "Given this list is visual, though his good articles are, indeed, quite good, I'm going to ignore them in favour of one of the new articles created by Worm That Turned (submissions): The King William Ale House in Bristol, England.". I actually started that article back in 2007 but it was added to by Worm That Turned.&mdash; Rod talk 19:43, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:John Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 5, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-12-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:16, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/The Immaculate Conception (Tiepolo)
Could you close this one for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 16:16, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

December 2016 at Women in Red
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:William Simpson - George Zobel - England and America. The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute - December 16th, 1856.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 16, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-12-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:47, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Chapel Royal, Dublin
Could you close this one for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 23:38, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Dec Bugle
Hi Adam, did you want finalise captions for this month's FPs? Let me know if you don't have time and I'll have a go -- like to despatch some time on the 7th (GMT). Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:13, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016
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WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017
On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
 * First place – $200
 * Second & Third place – $50 each
 * Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address. After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are, , and.

Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Editing WP:GAN directly
Adam Cuerden, I wanted to let you know that this edit to the GAN nominations page was overwritten by the bot the next time it ran. As a general rule, you should not edit this page directly, since its contents are bot-created, and come from the "GA nominee" templates on the various article talk pages and the preset top section of review pages. A comment such as this one generally is put on the GA review page to let the nominator know that the review will take a while—and for such a wide topic that shouldn't be surprising, especially given its review history—but I really don't think it needs to be added as a note to the GA nominee template. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:02, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

File:Maurice Ravel - Thérèse Dussaut - Pavane pour une infante défunte.ogg listed for discussion
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Element cell2
Template:Element cell2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 20:05, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Festive greetings!
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Buon Natale!
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May you have very Happy Holidays, Adam

and a New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music!

Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 13:32, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Christmas greeting
Design found on another talk page.

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Maull & Fox - Fanny Bullock Workman.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 8, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-01-08. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:18, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

January 2017 at Women in Red
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Your GA nomination of Élizabeth Teissier
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Élizabeth Teissier 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 Shearonink -- Shearonink (talk) 09:01, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy 2017!
Wishing good health and happiness as we start the new year! --Rosiestep (talk) 19:08, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

4th GA Cup - Round 2
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Apologies for the delay, but-
Hi Adam, I hope you're well. I'm awfully sorry, but I'd totally forgotten your Talk:Bonville–Courtenay feud/GA2. Sorry about that- it's sat there for a month now! However I've started work on it today, so hopefuly it's not too late for the review to continue? Hope Christmas, New year, and the one to come keep you well. Cheers, O Fortuna!  ...Imperatrix mundi.  19:27, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Levin C. Handy - General Robert E. Lee in May 1869.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 20, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-01-20. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:21, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

The WikiCup
I see you have added a GA reviews to your submissions page which is not eligible for this year's WikiCup because you did a substantial part of the review during 2016, before the WikiCup started. Please see this discussion on GA reviews on the WikiCup talk page. For this reason, as a WikiCup judge, I am removing your points for this review. Several other contestants have had their reviews rejected for the same reason. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:34, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Ping as original nominator
Hi, pinging you for the d&r for a picture you originally nominated. Featured_picture_candidates/delist/Agdam — Preceding unsigned comment added by KennyOMG (talk • contribs) 15:49, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

February 2017 at Women in Red
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4th GA Cup - Round 3
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DYK for Bahubali
— Maile (talk) 00:23, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sir Paul Fildes by Sir (Samuel) Luke Fildes.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 10, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-02-10. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:36, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXX, February 2017
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Boris Kustodiev - Shrovetide - Google Art Project.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 12, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-02-12. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:42, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Pine,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Fromental Halévy, L'Éclair score cover - Restoration.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 16, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-02-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:32, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Élizabeth Teissier
The article Élizabeth Teissier you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Élizabeth Teissier for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Shearonink -- Shearonink (talk) 17:41, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Bad links fixed by Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 12:51, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Einstein 1921 by F Schmutzer - restoration.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on March 14, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-03-14. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:25, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

March 2017 WikiCup newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
 * 🇪🇺 Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
 * 🇯🇵 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
 * Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

4th GA Cup - The Final
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXI, March 2017
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Talkback
I didn't realize it would be so long before your return to WP-ing. I understand that other responsibilities are on your plate at the moment. However, I want you to know that I think I will probably fail the article if you can't fix/adjust/correct its issues before March 29th, and, that when you are able to come back and start editing again, I will be glad to pick up this Review and work with you to improve it and hopefully get the article to GA status. Shearonink (talk) 16:06, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Élizabeth Teissier
The article Élizabeth Teissier you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Élizabeth Teissier for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Shearonink -- Shearonink (talk) 16:21, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Larabanga Mosque Ghana.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on April 4, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-04-04. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:21, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Good article reassessment of Alkaline diet
Alkaline diet, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  03:39, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Cassiopeia (image right side up).jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on April 19, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-04-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:49, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

File:U.S. Navy Band, Advance Australia Fair (instrumental).ogg Comment
Hi, just thought you might like to know that I've tagged the file you made modifications to, File:U.S. Navy Band, Advance Australia Fair (instrumental).ogg as media of the day on Commons for 19 April (next Wednesday).  Seagull123  Φ  14:29, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Thaddeus M. Fowler - Penn'a R.R. Car Shop's, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 1895.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on May 5, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-05-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:26, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Cepheus.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on May 12, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-05-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:57, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

May 2017 WikiCup newsletter
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
 * 🇯🇵 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
 * Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
 * Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:William H. Seward portrait - restoration.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on May 16, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-05-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:00, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIII, May 2017
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Illustrated War News, Dec. 23, 1914, page 38, right side - British Gunners in Action at the Front.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on May 19, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-05-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2017
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When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "". In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.



Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.



The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes
A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences to enable the.

A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. 

The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The  block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. 

Other changes:
 * You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this.
 * The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow.
 * The item has been moved to the top of the  menu (from clicking on the  VisualEditor - Icon - Menu.svg icon) for quicker access.  There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.
 * You can now create   tags (sometimes used as  ) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
 * Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.
 * The menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) .  The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt.
 * A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed.  The team are sorry for the disruption.
 * There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:  + +  on a PC, or  + +  on a Mac.  It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is  +  on a PC or  +  on a Mac.

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 * The VisualEditor team is working with the Community Tech team on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of   tags and other types of wikitext syntax.  You will be able to turn it on and off.  It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
 * The kind of button used to, , and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI.  The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read.  The labels will remain the same.  You can test the new button by editing a page and adding   to the end of the URL, like this:  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1  The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
 * The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors.  See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use.

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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Mrs Mary Venetia James, née Cavendish-Bentinck, by Samuel Luke Fildes.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on June 4, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-06-04. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:51, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Capricornus.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on June 8, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-06-08. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:38, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Vivian Malone registering.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on June 11, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-06-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:19, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2017
You are invited to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects throughout the month of June as part of the fourth annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign. Feel free to add new and expanded content on the project's Results page. Happy editing! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 15:08, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:PlayStation-Vita-1101-FL.jpg
Could you close this for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 21:26, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Easter egg
Template:Easter egg has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:32, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Wilbert Robinson 1916.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on June 29, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-06-29. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:25, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Bootes, Canes Venatici, Coma Berenices, and Quadrans Muralis.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on June 28, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-06-28. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:46, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Alfred T. Palmer - Assembling the North American B-25 Mitchell at Kansas City, Kansas (USA).jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on July 9, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-07-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:25, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 July newsletter
The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Virgo.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on July 12, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-07-12. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:49, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Red Skelton 1960 rebalance.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on July 18, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-07-18. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:09, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXV, July 2017
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Ursa Major.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on August 10, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-08-10. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:30, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Jajan Pasar in Jakarta edit.JPG is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on August 17, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-08-17. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:43, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Cancer.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on September 5, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-09-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:50, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

September 2017 at Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:19, 28 August 2017 (UTC) via MassMessaging

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Thaddeus M. Fowler - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1902.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on September 15, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-09-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:37, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 September newsletter
Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:25, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVII, September 2017
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:The Miracle at the Grave of Elisha by Jan Nagel (d 1602).jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on September 26, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-09-26. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:22, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on September 25, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-09-25. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:01, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Keep local on File:Maurice Ravel - Thérèse Dussaut - Pavane pour une infante défunte.ogg
I've done a "deep dive" on France copyright law, and this song's copyright will expire no later than January 1, 2029 in France (though possibly earlier - I went conservative with my estimate). That counts their normal copyright term (life + 70) and both of the wartime extensions to copyright (6 years and change + 8 years and change for a total of a little less than 15 years). Would you object to this being moved to Commons in 2029, and if not, can I remove the "keep local" template now that we have a date the copyright will expire with strong certainty? ~ Rob 13 <sup style="margin-left:-1.0ex;">Talk 10:36, 22 September 2017 (UTC) I'm fine with this as long as it doesn't get moved before then. There have been incidents with people moving stuff to Commons only to have it deleted there, so I'm a bit cautious. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:29, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * , I think that you got it wrong. I think that 30 September 2022 is the correct copyright expiration date with a total copyright term of 84 years and 272 days. According to article 10.1 of Directive 93/98/EEC, you should use whichever is longer of the EU copyright term and the former national copyright term, in this case the former national copyright term (70 years for music + war extensions). --Stefan2 (talk) 02:01, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Whoops, simple mistake. I added 6 twice. Updated. ~ Rob 13 <sup style="margin-left:-1.0ex;">Talk 11:27, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:'One of the wards in the hospital at Scutari'. Wellcome M0007724 - restoration, cropped.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on October 9, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-10-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:53, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red October editathon invitation
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POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Frans Hals - Claes Duyst van Voorhout.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on October 14, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-10-14. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:11, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Adam,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Auriga.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on October 15, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-10-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:58, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017
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November editathons from Women in Red: Join us!
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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
 * Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
 * Featured List – and  both produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
 * Featured Topic – has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
 * Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
 * Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
 * In The News – had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
 * Good Article Review – completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

Regarding the prize vouchers - please send  an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017
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WikiCup 2018
So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? , and. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:58, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXL, December 2017
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New Year's resolution: Write more articles for Women in Red!
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The Bugle: Issue CXLI, January 2018
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The Bugle: Issue CXLII, February 2018
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Editing News #1—2018
Read this in another language • Subscription list for the English Wikipedia • Subscription list for the multilingual edition Did you know? Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?



Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.



This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

 * The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools.  The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments.  They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing.  The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January.  Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor.  Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits.  More information will be posted at Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
 * 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)

WikiCup 2018 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:


 * 🇺🇸 Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
 * 🇩🇪 FrB.TG, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
 * 🇮🇳 Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
 * 🇺🇸 Ceranthor, 🇮🇳 Numerounovedant, Carbrera, 🇳🇱 Farang Rak Tham and 🇷🇴 Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIII, March 2018
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The Bugle: Issue CXLIIV, April 2018
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WikiCup 2018 May newsletter
The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
 * Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
 * 🇮🇳 Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
 * SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
 * Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
 * Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIV, May 2018
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Women in Red June Editathons
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:15, 29 May 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Women in Red tools and technical support
We are preparing a list of tools and techncial support for Women in Red. I have tentatively added your name as you have provided assistance in improving images. Please let me know whether you agree to be listed. You are of course welcome to make any additions or corrections.--Ipigott (talk) 06:57, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVI, June 2018
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TFP
File:Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra first edition libretto for the 1881 revision of the opera - Restoration.jpg - lovely, thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:06, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 July newsletter
The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
 * SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVII, July 2018
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Needing your help
Hello Adam, hope you're doing well. There is a picture of a very important cultural figure in Persian/Hebrew literature that needs professional restoration. We at Persian Wikipedia were hoping if you could help us with your expert. Here is the picture. His signature from image has been already SVG vectorized and so we really care about the portrait part. Thank you so much and we sincerely hope you can help us with this regard. --Gnosis (talk) 20:51, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018
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File:Alphonse Allais - Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man.ogg listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Alphonse Allais - Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man.ogg, has been listed at Files for discussion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 01:33, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 September newsletter
The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:


 * Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
 * Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
 * Other contestants who qualified for the final round were 🇲🇭 Nova Crystallis, Iazyges,  SounderBruce,  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack and 🇺🇸 Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:30, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018
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The Bugle: Issue CL, October 2018
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Get ready for November with Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Talkback
Hi Adam, kindly let me know if you can take up this or not. Thanks in advance, KCVelaga (talk) 15:36, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.



Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

 * The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
 * The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles.  You can read the report.
 * The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
 * The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar.  You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
 * The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
 * The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images.  It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published.

Let's work together

 * The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website.  Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
 * The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
 * 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.

— Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:11, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:



All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:


 * wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
 * wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
 * wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
 * wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and.

The Bugle: Issue CLI, November 2018
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Signpost staff
Hi, thanks for volunteering to come back to The Signpost. Sorry I didn't recognize your name; I didn't used to be a regular reader. We will probably start issue 13 with negotiation over publication date ... I think Kudpung wants a late December issue. If you have any thoughts on that, get ready to put them down when I open up a discussion. ☆ Bri (talk) 20:49, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Opinion on FP
Hi Adam, I would like to nominate this picture to FP (still time is there to get it qualified)(No FP in the same page). It is actually a rare picture that both color in one frame. Also I feel good EV and quality. Please share your opinion in this regard. <font face="Old English Text MT">DreamSparrow Chat  04:58, 4 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for your valuable opinion. <font face="Old English Text MT">DreamSparrow Chat  07:42, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Photographic assistance
I found this site -today and it has 2 photos - those of the Murphys or actually the Cadiz sisters. But while I can occasionally improve a photo these are WELL beyond any ability to improve them that I might have. Of course if I can track down better images that would be best but in the meantime, would you be able to do anything with these to make them usable for the article Cadiz sisters??<em style="font-family: Kristen ITC; color:red">  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 18:32, 5 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Oh - found a better scan- here. Could this be put in the Commons since it was published over 100 years ago?<em style="font-family: Kristen ITC; color:red">  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 22:39, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The copyright for Ireland is more complex than the U.S. (or, at least, doesn't have the strict cutoff date). could be uploaded HERE - on En-wiki, NOT commons, with the En-wiki only licence tag PD-US-1923-abroad.  I think someone beat me to it, though: Cadiz sisters. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 03:56, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLII, December 2018
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