User talk:Billinghurst/Archives/2018

The Signpost: 16 January 2018
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The Signpost: 5 February 2018
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Crosswiki vandalism
Hello Billinghurst, I don't know exactly whom I could address for my request but I've seen that you've blocked several global accounts and IPs and maybe you could help me. I've noticed that there's a user who's going on since december changing identity while making vandalic or useless edits a lot of wikis (cross-wiki). He hid himself both behind open proxies (forbidden) and by creating sockpuppets (forbidden). In some wikis a few of his accounts and IPs were blocked, but this isn't a single wiki problem, so it should be dealt with as a global wiki problem. May I call on you and tell you the name of his socks and the IPs of his proxies? May you take care of the problem yourself or at least report this problem to a specific Wikipedian user who could take care of it? I'll wait for your reply, thanks! 151.48.201.42 (talk) 10:10, 6 February 2018 (UTC) There is no perfect answer nor one system that is going to resolve the issue that you identify: I hope that helps. — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:48, 6 February 2018 (UTC) Thanks, I'll try following your instructions, even if I'm not sure that admins on meta will listen to an anonymous user as me, I hope they will. 151.48.204.139 (talk) 10:55, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Reports about vandalism initially belong at the local wiki for local administrators to address—all local actions. Where you are seeing xwiki spam that can be reported to vandalism reports though those tools are lesser than local tools.
 * stewards can undertake global actions like account locks, global IP blocks, global abuse filters [I resigned that role a couple of years back so I am not able to assist.]  You can make reports and requests through Stewards requests then pick the appropriate page to your needs.
 * administrators and stewards are able to edit global blacklists (titles or spam)
 * stewards and global administrators are able to assist at individual wikis where local wikis don't have sufficient or active administrators. Those requests generally are still best made at the local wiki, though where there is not response then you can ask at steward requests/miscellaneous
 * If you adequately explain the issue, with examples, and suggested solutions, they should listen. Whether there is adequate resources, or need for action will be up for discussion; and that is always a dependent situation. — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:50, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I'll make an attempt... 151.48.66.10 (talk) 14:41, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018
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Help please.
Hi there, I've been reviewing the articles that I've made major edits to as I wish to add this information to my user page. Looking at the Pullman porter article I was surprised to find that you have been listed as a major contributor when I can only this edit with your user name. This seems to be in error - can it be fixed? Thanks. Gandydancer (talk) 15:34, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
 * No idea what you are talking about. I reverted an edit. Anyone listing me as a major contributor is in error, though that is their problem, not mine. If it is a tool reporting that, then talk to the toolmaker. — billinghurst  sDrewth  21:34, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
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The Signpost: 26 April 2018
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Zagh Marz
Your message on this subject is much mistaken. I expect an apology. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:04, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about? See subsequent edit Special:diff/838377670. As a sysop reading the history should be a requirement before commenting, especially if you think demands are the means to a resolution. — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:11, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, it pinged. Grr, I was sure that I clicked it off. For that an apology, now I see what you are saying. — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:14, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 May 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
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 * Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

 

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.

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 * 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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Happy Adminship
Kpgjhpjm ( talk ) 03:24, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

--- I have explained the reason for my addition on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:All_Saints_School,_Bhopal. Kindly explain your reasons of deletion there. Kind Regards Wiseparticle (talk) 15:29, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
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The Signpost: 29 June 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
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Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:21, 22 July 2018 (UTC)


 * You are too kind, and I wouldn't rate myself that highly as a Wikipedian, though I am more active as a generalist Wikimedian. At Wikipedias, compared to the edits and tasks that you make here, my stuff is predominantly mopping corners, and occasionally taking the bins out. Have a lovely day, and thanks for taking the time to leave a nice note. Appreciated! — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:29, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

merging user accounts question
I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. I discovered just now that I apparenrtly orphaned an old Commons user account and suddenly got a new one  about 3 years ago. Can these be merged? cOrneLlrOckEy (talk) 17:56, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * There is some limited scope, though I cannot say that I am fully current on what is recoverable, and what isn't. I would suggest that you take this to SRUC and see what they can manage. — billinghurst  sDrewth  21:55, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * thanks you! cOrneLlrOckEy (talk) 11:35, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018
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The Signpost: 30 August 2018
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MRSA 18 sept 2018
What was wrong with the Phage therapy section I added in MRSA? Why did you delete it with no explanation?

Thanks.

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Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
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The Signpost: 1 October 2018
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The Signpost: 28 October 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
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Paid editing by Frank07081975
Hi Billinghurst, as you are taking care of this cross-wiki case: Frank07081975 underwent a process at de:wp when asked for it, called user verification, according to which he is associated with Galerie Frank Fluegel (see here and 2018103010006573). Hence, he edited in violation of WP:PAID at de:wp and apparently here at en:wp as well. In the meantime, his account was indef'd at de:wp, see and ). Thanks for your cross-wiki support, this is appreciated. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 12:33, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi . I wasn't so much watching the user, more the link addition, and managing the matter that way, and you will know that I do keep a watching brief xwiki. I personally don't flog users over paid contributions declarations, though I will nag, and I will revert all egregious conflict of interest edits, and do it openly so that the community will be aware. I believe that even paid contributors where they enter our Wikipedia walls with the mind of editors and improving our articles can be valued editors, though as long as they acknowledge and manage their conflicts through our processes. I will give them enough rope to edit, if they choose to use to hang themselves after having the safety instructions explained to them, that will be their choice. — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:50, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Billinghurst, we do not handle this much differently at de:wp. This is one of the reasons why we have this user verification process in place which is refered to by Frank07081975 in his response to you. I just wanted to give you the background to that. Frank07081975 was not just indef'd for initially adding these links, unfortunately the situation escalated further at de:wp. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 07:53, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Mechanic's lien
I see you are payin' more attention than I. Thanks Jim1138 (talk) 10:59, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Nah, just coming to it from a different perspective. I started with the perspective of xwiki spam m:User:COIBot/XWiki/oppedisanoavocats.com so I started out just being suspicious. :-) — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:03, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

alox template
Work in progress at User:Charles Matthews/alox to create a unified citation template linking to digitised text of Alumni Oxonienses.

Relative to alox1, the example on Hugh Wyndham does work to link into the BHO online page. My pipe dream, certainly, is that that BHO version could at some point be converted into Wikisource articles, by around three weeks bot work. Well, not by me at present.

The HTML anchor points function, but I was once told that that they don't provide "real" identifiers. They seem to be good enough for this application.

Charles Matthews (talk) 11:17, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Re: Spam-blacklist
Thank you for your suggestion. I will add those sites. RaymondSutanto (talk) 04:03, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

blocked on id.wikisource?
Heya, I am confused by this indef block on id.wikisource (i've been tagging and deleting spam there) and can't discern the reasoning. Praxidicae (talk) 12:36, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Nah, I f'ed up. Working from RC, and clearly thought I was clicking the spammers block link. BTW I would prefer that you talk global matters at Meta. For me, this is a local page only. — billinghurst  sDrewth  23:19, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * No worries! I'm constantly afraid of doing that! Will do in the future. Praxidicae (talk) 16:05, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
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The Signpost: 1 December 2018
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December 2018
The earlier reference you restored in this edit is a permanent dead link since December 2017. Maybe you can find a replacement source, Wikipedia prefers sources that actually work and can verify the information. Thanks. Isaidnoway (talk)  06:38, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I was reverting link spam, nothing more. And ... umm, I think that I know how things work around here. — billinghurst  sDrewth  07:54, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Christmas wreath.png Christmas ! — Isaidnoway  (talk)

The Signpost: 24 December 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
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