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Request on 12:39:42, 17 November 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Ivor Speedwell
I would like help in knowing what kind of sources would be appropriate to make this draft article about Reginald Paul acceptable for publication. Much of the information I have about concert performances comes from concert flyers, posters or programmes, not published sources. The feedback from composers on his performances is in original unpublished letters. Some of the information could be referenced by the obituary of Reginald Paul written by his colleague Michael Head, and published in the Royal Academy of Music Magazine (No 207, Spring 1975). Apart from that, I have found a number of mentions on websites, for example in articles about other musicians with whom he played (Suggia, Forbes, Stratton, etc), or listings of concerts (e.g. the 1940s National Gallery concerts). There is also a mention of his Decca record of Walton's piano quartet on a Japanese website (the description and references of the record are in English). I'm not sure which if any of these would be appropriate as references. I would be grateful for any suggestions for making the article publishable.

Ivor Speedwell (talk) 12:39, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , my first issue was that there was in text citations, but no reference list with the full details at the end - see WP:ADR for information on how to do this.
 * The main rule for sources is that they should be verifiable, so should have been published. However, if they are published somewhere, how obscure the publication is doesn't really matter, unless more accessible alternatives exist for the same info. They also don't have to be in English.  Oxon Alex    - talk  16:24, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The main rule for sources is that they should be verifiable, so should have been published. However, if they are published somewhere, how obscure the publication is doesn't really matter, unless more accessible alternatives exist for the same info. They also don't have to be in English.  Oxon Alex    - talk  16:24, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Request about RfC closure
There is an RfC present here which needs to be closed as commenting time has been elapsed. I request you to please close it with a decision as its no closure is leading to the addition of the content under dispute by it. U1 quattro  TALK  18:12, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
 * . Apologies, I'm currently a bit busier than usual with uni work. Could you list it at WP:ANRFC please, or ask another uninvolved user.  Oxon Alex    - talk  16:29, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I will list it there. U1 quattro  TALK  17:29, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

AFC
Hi Alex,

You had moved one of the pages I created to draft space due to insufficient citations and references. I have now updated all the information which can be verified through the cited links.

I would be very much grateful to you if you could publish this page after you review it.

Draft : Rinosh George

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Rienzie06 (talk) 09:14, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

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Pending requests
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Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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Archiving test
Testing stuff Oxon Alex   - talk  18:19, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

THANKS!
Thank you for your help, and could you check my talkpage to see if i did it correctly? also have a very happy new year! James The Bond 007 (talk) 19:52, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , Looks right to me.  Oxon Alex    - talk  15:50, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you for the message! Happy Holidays! --Sir Bond 007 (James The Bond 007) (talk) 15:29, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

The Happiness Tour
The last two dates Dec 30th and Dec 31st are not part of the happiness begins tour as they said on their Instagram story 4 days ago that said "Thank you doesn't begin even cover it. We've had such an incredible time seeing you guys over the past few months!! Thank you to each and every person who's come to a show this run. It's felt amazing being back on stage together again and we can't wait to do it again in 2020! #HappinessBeginsTour (2A00:23C7:A088:3D01:A15F:F8A2:3090:E706 (talk) 14:02, 20 December 2019 (UTC))
 * I'd reverted this edit, as it was unsourced. We can't tell people to go and find a source themselves. Although citing social media is generally avoided, because it is not the most reliable of sources, but if you must, please use Template:Cite web to fill in a citation.
 * Also, no need to ping users on their talk pages, as they are notified when their talk page is edited anyway.
 * Thanks,
 * Oxon Alex   - talk  14:06, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks,
 * Oxon Alex   - talk  14:06, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

 * The purpose of a disambiguation page is to list all of our articles that could be reached by a certain term. For example, if someone enters an acronym into search, search can't know which article the user wanted, so a list of all the possible options is given. As the purpose of these pages is to direct users to actual articles, content that isn't a link and short description of an article isn't placed on them  Oxon Alex    - talk  17:10, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course

thanks for the speedy correction of the speedy deletion
It was too quick for me as I am moving material from main sandbox to this temporary sub-page, to make the main sandbox useable and easier to read. Thank you for fixing it to avoid me losing all the material collated.

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Would you be so kind and take a look at my recently removed and archived modification to the article A Short History of Nearly Everything. The required citations were internal Wikipedia links. Jonas B. 05:27, 25 December 2019 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonasBacelis (talk • contribs)

✅. Undid reversion. Oxon Alex   - talk  05:32, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Reverting off-topic posts helps our counter-vandalism effort, and we need your help.
I noticed an off-topic post, even noting that the prior message was a violation of WP:NOTAFORUM. You are correct in your assessment, but replying to the original poster causes problems per WP:TPO. We are free to simply revert off-topic posts, but once more than a single editor is posting the conversation has to be hidden or archived, but never deleted unless it was oversighted, which doesn't apply here. That talk page gets a lot of off-topic posts from new users that cannot read simple instructions. Our archives will overflow with such wasteful comments when we serve Wikipedia better by just reverting and issuing a warning, as I did. In the future, please nip the problem in the bud by stopping off-topic posts. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 15:58, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year OxonAlex!
Happy New Year! Hello OxonAlex: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 23:13, 27 December 2019 (UTC) Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks (static)}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

Page Still Under Review | Help
Hi Sir, As per your last edits on the draft page Roney Singh I have modified the contents. It's been resubmitted for review. It's been days since I've heard something. Can you please review the regarding article? I'm hereby attaching the draft link of the submitted article. url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Roney_Singh It'll be very helpful. It'll be really helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deepjoy66 (talk • contribs) 11:59, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Self Driving Cars
We should ban self driving vehicles. Long live human driving! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.202.177.234 (talk) 09:37, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * WP:NOTOPINION  Oxon Alex    - talk  09:42, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Invite to use WikiLoop Battlefield
Hi OxonAlex,

I found that you are a power user for the counter-vandalism tool STiki. First of all, Kudos! Thank you for help protecting Wikipedia.

Secondly, we are building a new web-based counter-vandalism tool, hoping to make it easier to use, and wonder if you would be interested in giving it a try here: http://battlefield.wikiloop.org, and kindly give us feedback at Wikipedia talk:WikiLoop Battlefield, thank you!

We currently started whitelist for DIRECT ROLLBACK features, if you are interested, ask us at Wikipedia talk:WikiLoop Battlefield too. User:Xinbenlv (talk) 09:02, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Untitled
Please i want you to help review my draft please

Naijafield (talk) 12:50, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for helping me in the Teahouse. I appreciate how nice everyone is here! King of Scorpions (talk) 17:15, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Ah, I see, thanks.
Thank you. I went back and edited it again, but this time only with the missing rotten tomatoes number. No words like "wonderfull" in the edits. Just one small update to the number.

I just have let my personal like for the movie accidentally influence the words, but don't worry, it's bias free now.

Thanks, Hælfden

. Hælfden (talk) 19:45, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

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 * Guywan's BulletSort and HistoryHighlight
 * BrandonXLF's QuickEdit and CompareRevisions


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Enterprisey's fancy-diff should now be able to handle everything the parser can throw at it.
 * Twinkle has a new update (more). It now supports partial blocks and includes the select2 library as a dependency. Select2 is available at MediaWiki:Gadget-select2.min.js for other gadgets and scripts to use.

Miscellaneous
 * Until now, this newsletter has been written primarily by me (DannyS712).
 * If others would like to contribute, help is always appreciated;
 * this was intended to be a community newsletter.

Pending requests A number of requests are listed at User scripts/Requests. Some of the remaining ideas include scripts to: ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests
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 * highlight which content (in the HTML) comes from which template
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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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