User talk:Anasuyas/Archive 1

Welcome!
Hello, Anasuyas, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed that you made a helpful change to Beatrix Potter, so thank you for your contributions. Wikipedia is a community of volunteers who want to build a great free encyclopedia, and we appreciate your help. We have five simple rules, but other than that, we just need people like you to be bold and edit.

If you have questions of any kind, feel free to ask me on my Wikipedia talk page or by email.

Best regards, Steven Walling &bull; talk   01:44, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Beatrix Potter
You formatted the citation just fine, and thanks for adding it! Normally we prefer book sources to things like blogs or fan sites, but something is always better than nothing. Thanks again, Steven Walling &bull; talk   02:05, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
Hello Anasuyas,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Ireneshih (talk) 09:28, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Current
International Network of Women’s Funds: scrap the word "current" from your vocabulary on main space. Current means nothing at all. When is current ? Yesterday ? Today ? Tomorrow ? If no one updates the article in the future... the info will be incorrect. Always prefer putting a fixed date. Cheers Anthere (talk)
 * :-) Good point, Anthere, will fix it! thanks, Anasuyas (talk) 00:43, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Thanks for signing up for the Edit-a-thon. Drop us a line on the Talk section of the Event page if you want to chat. Don't forget to add your contributions to the "Outcomes" section on the page when you're done. Fluent Flux (talk) 07:05, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Fluent Flux! I've added my contribution to the 'Outcomes' section - looks like the event was quite successful (and continues to be). Congratulations :-) Anasuyas (talk) 07:12, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Susan Marie Frontczak


A tag has been placed on Susan Marie Frontczak requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Seahorseruler (Talk Page) (Contribs) 06:55, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Hooray! You created your Teahouse profile!
Thanks so much Anastasia &#91;Missionedit&#93; for the warm message and badge. I have always been really impressed with all the work Teahouse contributors do - thank you for all the support you offer newbies! Anasuyas (talk) 02:13, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Invitation
Thanks so much, The Vintage Feminist! I'm honoured by the invitation, but as I just messaged you offline, I think I can better serve the GGTF right now from the 'outside', as the occasional volunteer I am. I don't think I am prolific enough to count myself amongst the really effective and impressive editors you have together there: you're all incredible. Thank you for everything you do... Anasuyas (talk) 02:19, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Au Revoir
There will always be a spare bed for you in London. Jon and Deborah. — Preceding unsigned comment added by YellowFratello (talk • contribs) 12:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for the invitation, YellowFratello! We will certainly keep it in mind... and yes, the signs of rest, relaxation and peace are so seditious. :-) Anasuyas (talk) 20:21, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Gaiti Hasan for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gaiti Hasan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Gaiti Hasan until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Educationtemple (talk) 17:35, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Ajit Iqbal Singh for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ajit Iqbal Singh is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Ajit Iqbal Singh until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Educationtemple (talk) 09:19, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for being here
I just wanted to write and say I appreciate your conviction and passion for the work. Wikipedia needs more editors that bring passion to editing like you do. Bryce Carmony (talk) 19:58, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Bryce Carmony, thank you so much for this message! I very much appreciate the encouragement. It can sometimes be very demotivating to find myself spending so much time fighting notability for subject areas that are the core of critical content gaps on enWP, but support from editors like you make it all worthwhile. :-) Thanks for all you do, Anasuyas (talk) 04:58, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Gaiti Hasan
Citation NO 5 that you added is dead. Did you mean this link? Please correct in article, if yes. Educationtemple (talk) 01:44, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Ditto, here. Be careful, people regard this as "sloppy editting" & no one would like be so labelled. :) AshLin (talk) 09:39, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks both, Educationtemple and AshLin! Yes, I'm not sure how that happened - sigh, late night tiredness. :-( I'll correct it now. Anasuyas (talk) 04:04, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * And Educationtemple, my appreciation for the very difficult and important work you do as a patroller. I understand it can be frustrating on both ends - as a patroller and an editor - but I know the article is improved already because of your pointing out it needs more strength in notability. May I make a suggestion though, that the next time you see an article in good faith that has similar problems, your template also suggests simple things that might help improve the article if possible? For example, mentioning awards or membership in an important society... I know all of this exists in the longer articles on notability and BLP, but for newer editors like me, and those who don't get to spend much time on creating articles, a friendly and helpful tone would go a long way in not reducing our energy and enthusiasm for the work we share as Wikimedians. Especially if we are working in difficult issue areas, like content gaps on enWP. Thanks again, Anasuyas (talk) 04:49, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks so much, AshLin, you inspired me when I was feeling a little overwhelmed by WP:RULES. :-) I have such great respect for patrollers and their difficult work, but I do think we need friendlier ways to help newbie/relatively inexperienced editors who are working in good faith. Anasuyas (talk) 04:38, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Suzette Jordan for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Suzette Jordan is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Suzette Jordan until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 23:42, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Invitation
We would be happy if you joined us this morning for a short virtual edit-a-thon in a continued effort to raise the profile of Indian Women Scientists. Fluent Flux (talk) 04:01, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry I missed this kind invitation, Fluent Flux, but I'll certainly look at the edit-a-thon, and support it, even if belatedly! thanks, Anasuyas (talk) 18:56, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

That would be great! Thanks. Fluent Flux (talk) 04:57, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:54, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:00, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear Gerda Arendt, thank you for your generous words! Coming from you, and your tireless effort to improve quality, they mean so much. Yes, la luta continua. Anasuyas (talk) 13:15, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Gracias! - I looked up my conversations with Kevin in the archives, wish we'd had more time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:23, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
 * :-( I feel the same. Anasuyas (talk) 14:04, 1 August 2016 (UTC)


 * A year ago, you were recipient no. 1446 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:47, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * One of my most precious Wikipedian memories (and now on my user page!). Thanks again, Gerda Arendt! Anasuyas (talk) 03:07, 7 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for that, - two years now ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:58, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
 * <3 to you for the remembrance. Anasuyas (talk) 16:20, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Autopatrolled user right
Hi! I saw you mentioned in the & your unfortunate introduction to the speedy deletion-significance template. To help avoid moments like this from over zealous new page patrollers who have deletionist tendencies, I recommend that you apply for the Autopatrolled user right. As that page states, "This permission is granted only to accounts that have extensively demonstrated their knowledge of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and create articles often enough to make it more efficient to mark them as approved automatically." Since you have met the "suggested standard (that) is the prior creation of 25 valid articles" & have over 1200 edits, I believe that you should qualify. You can apply for this at Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled.

It may help to mention that you used to be the Chief Grantmaking Officer for WMF!

Than you for all your efforts!

Peaceray (talk) 18:36, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Peaceray, thanks so much for your support and your suggestion! I'll certainly think about it - I agree that one of the ways I could start supporting newbies on Wikipedia who might be bitten by over zealous new page patrollers might be to become a patroller myself (let me add, I think patrollers in general do yeo(wo)men service!).


 * I'd love to know, though, if you have ideas on how we can scale up awareness on the part of all new page patrollers, so that the first encounter is a warm and welcoming one, even as it might/should include suggestions to improve a newbie's style or substance of writing. I know it's not a new issue, but it's worth our continuing to think of possibly new ways to change the status quo. Again, much wiki<3 for your support and all _your efforts. Anasuyas (talk) 20:24, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Please support the Sustainability Initiative!
Hi, Anasuyas! Please allow me to follow up on a project that was discussed at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin a couple of weeks ago:

I am writing you to ask for your support for the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 250 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.

The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has recently passed a resolution stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Now, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation staff to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019.

In order to demonstrate that this is an issue that the community really cares about, I would like to ask you to sign the project page as well. Thank you! --Gnom (talk) 16:16, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I realised I never got back to you on this, Gnom, but ✅ a few months ago! Thanks for the nudge. Anasuyas (talk) 14:52, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Dalit History Month (DHM)
Really proud of Equality Labs and Whose Knowledge for doing Wikipedia Editathon for DHM. Hemalataeditor (talk) 21:46, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, Hemalataeditor we're so proud of being able to support this incredibly important effort on Dalit history and knowledge! Anasuyas (talk) 01:02, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!
Hi Anasuyas,

Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. There are currently over 350 supporters from all over the world – please encourage other community members to sign the page as well! You can also read an update from the Sustainability Initiative in the most recent edition of the Wikipedia Signpost.

Thank you, and kind regards, --Gnom (talk) 11:49, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
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The 100 Skins of the Onion
Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF. From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

Links
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus, CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
 * Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset
 * Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!, Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions
 * The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia, Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
 * Tracing stolen bitcoin, blogpost 26 March 2018 by Ross J. Anderson
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Event coordinator
Hi, the English Wikipedia recently created a new user permission for editors involved in off-wiki outreach work, event coordinator. This new permission allows users to mark accounts for confirmed for up to 10 days, and also allows them to create accounts for events without rate limits without some of the features of the account creator right that aren't used at edit-a-thons and other events. I have added the event coordinator permission to your account and removed the account creator permission, as you appear to have been using it mainly for outreach work.This should have no noticeable impact on your ability to create accounts, and will give you the extra ability to temporarily confirm accounts if you need to. For more in formation, you can see the information page on the right, or you can ask me if you have any questions. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:58, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
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ScienceSource funded
The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.
 * A medical canon?

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

Links
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. ScienceSource pages will be announced there, and in this mass message. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:16, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
 * d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data, Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going
 * Ordia tool, a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms
 * OpenRefine tool 3.0, May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata
 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians pushes ahead with data modelling and imports
 * #1Lib1Ref Returns for a Second Time in 2018, IFLA blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia
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Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
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