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DYK for Memory: The Origins of Alien
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

To review a new page
Kindly review this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhanush_Babu ( Shubham Ghodke ) 13:37, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ✔️. Also a nice signature.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:38, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Dear thanks for appreciating and also for your valuable reply, but help me fixing this tag - This article needs additional citations for verification because i am not able to fix this one. Thanks ( Shubham Ghodke ) 14:31, 5 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Dear i haven't received notice saying, the page Dhanush Babu has been reviewed?.  can you please completely review this page.. Thanks  ( Shubham Ghodke ) 16:10, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Review this page
Review this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_skaters ( Shubham Ghodke ) 16:11, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Review for Blue Pilgrims
Hi I am sorry for making you wait. The copyedit has been done at the article. You can now proceed with the GA review. Thank you. Dey subrata (talk) 00:22, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I will take a look on Monday.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:34, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

"Apni Apni Love Story" listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Aik Aur Sitam Hai" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Requests for page protection
Hi Captain Medusa, you recently made several requests for page protection to WP:RFPP, all of which I declined. Protection is only placed if the vandalism is a problem. One instance of vandalism that has been dealt with does not mean the page requires protection. Please can you read Rough_guide_to_semi-protection before making any further requests. Thanks, Fish +Karate 11:33, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you for reviewing my article on Dov Hertz
I'm not sure how to add more context without editorializing. There are a few things interesting about Dov Hertz - he's rich. He's mysterious (his company has billions liquid capital, and there's no phone number, website or address available). He's buying up the Brooklyn waterfront. His plans to build complexes speak to trends in ecommerce changing cities and gentrification in Brooklyn. If you have any direction as to how I can enshrine this without using original research or editorializing, please let me know.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.222.164.162 (talk) 06:25, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey, Welcome to Wikipedia. I suggest you should expand the article. In the article, talk about his life, and career. Add more reliable sources. Which will get the article accepted. If you have further queries let me know. Thanks.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  06:30, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Re-review This page
Dear admin please re-review this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_skaters we have added new entity and source to it. Thanks ( Shubham Ghodke ) 05:42, 12 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Dear admin Please reply to messages. Thanks ( Shubham Ghodke ) 10:50, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , ✅  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:59, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks for reviewing, but i request you to remove that wikitable its looking very odd, can you please make it like before. ( Shubham Ghodke ) 13:20, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , it is a common format in enwiki.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:21, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * i am sorry i re edited it, i hope you understand, i usually make pages look like elegant and decent. ( Shubham Ghodke ) 13:25, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , no worries.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:27, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your love and support. ( Shubham Ghodke ) 13:45, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Jung Yun-seok
Thanks,. Now, please revert the page as before on Indonesian Wikipedia. Can you revert it? -St3095 (talk) 15:18, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , ✅  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:01, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

thank you St3095 (talk) 15:35, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

, can you please revert page title in two languages, i.e. Italian and French?

Thank you if you already done. -St3095 (talk) 05:21, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , ✅ for French. I am not able to move the page in Italian.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  16:35, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 * why? Why can't you move the page in Italian? -St3095 (talk) 02:04, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , The wiki has disabled autoconfirmed users to move a page.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:54, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Hyde (musician) Page Edit
Hello,

I'm new to Wikipedia and I attempted to edit the article of the musician, Hyde. Much of the content needed to be changed and now after a significant of time spent correcting the information, I cannot publish my changes due to some "false/positive" error, whatever that means. I followed the instructions on submitting a report, so how will I know when I can publish my changes? Thank you in advance for your time/assistance with this matter.

Sincerely, An Annoyed User — Preceding unsigned comment added by HaidoPotter (talk • contribs) 22:32, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , Sorry about the late reply. Can you provide me sources?  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:54, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

It’s that time of year!

 * Woah! . What a precious art. Merry Xmas to you too.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:04, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much. Can you link Dhanush Babu to List of Indian skaters. ( Shubham Ghodke ) 12:09, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  16:29, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Re-review this page
Dear Please check this page Dhanush Babu as i have made some changes in sentences. Thanks ( Shubham Ghodke ) 17:12, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , I have requested a copy edit at WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:59, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * No its okay now, Don't do any changes to it.( Shubham Ghodke ) 13:03, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh. Ok.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:15, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

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Rubideum Coin
Why you deleting my article about rubideum coin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hari.vattoly (talk • contribs) 08:12, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , because you were advertising.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  10:40, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Kink.Page
References are now provided to the Kink.Page wiki. I am acquaintances with the owner of the company, Brandon Myers, and can confirm all of this is true. He's hired me to write several of their gay review articles and I do think the site deserves a wikipedia so that readers may understand what and who is behind it. I've never done this type of thing before, but the company has quite the untold story. That's why i'm taking the time to put it on wiki.

Is there a way I can submit the company logo to the page? I have the original file and am allowed to use it.

Thanks! Blowfish Blowfish90 (talk) 13:51, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , For the article to be published. You'll need some sources from News, Book, etc. Not LinkedIn and Alexa.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:55, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

I'm a bit strapped for resources here. The site has its own Reddit subforum which would technically count towards being a third party. Many of the issues cited here will be talked about there as well. I also have citations for other websites on the DDoS (porntrial.net and okpornpics.com each did a story), but they're blogging in nature and I wouldn't consider them news sites. This is a tough position for a site of this category. Blackballing among other things make it difficult for it to get mainstream media coverage, especially since the sites content is SFW by design.

Given the site now ranks in 175 countries and for over 20k keywords, I'd say it's getting to the point where it does need some sort of coverage. If this site is supposed to have value, you would hope it would include an article like this. I'll get the owner to cite if that is what's needed. Not sure what other options are here for us.

I'll make the edit given the 3rd party sites. Hopefully it meets standards. I'm trying here.

Blowfish90 (talk) 14:05, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , Site ranking don't matter in Wikipedia. We need to verify the claims you've made not from the company employer directly. We need some kind of interview or reliable news source claiming it. Thanks  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:06, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Noughts and Crosses (TV series)
CAPTAIN MEDUSA, you misread the consensus at the WP:RM for this article: the consensus was to leave the article now at Noughts and Crosses (TV series) at Noughts and Crosses (game show), and to move Noughts and Crosses (2019 TV series) → Noughts and Crosses (TV series). Please fix this! Thanks. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 15:03, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , ✅  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  15:52, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Season's Greetings


Hello there! Shearonink (talk) wishes you & yours the very best of the season!

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus (for the rest of us!) or even the Saturnalia, here's to hoping your holiday time is wonderful and that the New Year will be an improvement upon the old. CHEERS!

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 * Thank you . Winter Is Coming.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  11:24, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Howdy
Howdy, I saw your message on my talk page, I'm a bit new to Wikipedia, I mean I've been a reader for years but never took seriously becoming a more heavily involved Wikipedian and want to help out the community and remove vandalism. For some reason I can't get my signature to have a link to my talk page :/ anywho, hope you have a good... evening? morning? night? day? You decide ;) --NearMiddayNight (Feel free to come talk with me). 12:38, 18 December 2019 (UTC) 201912180038Z

nvm apparently my signature is working, guess it was lag? caching? either way it appears to be working... --NearMiddayNight (Feel free to come talk with me). 12:40, 18 December 2019 (UTC) 201912180039Z



NearMiddayNight (talk) Feel free to come talk with me Produces: NearMiddayNight (talk) Feel free to come talk with me
 * Thanks  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:45, 18 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Also, to change your signature visit Special:Preferences. Then scroll down to the Signature section where you will have a box. In the box, you can place the code and hit save. Which will automatically produce your signature when you type ( ~ ). Thanks.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:50, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, check the option (Treat the above as wiki markup).  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:51, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I think this is what I'd prefer... --NearMiddayNight (Feel free to come talk with me.) 201912180056Z aka 12:56, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Brackets puts me off. Maybe like this --NearMiddayNight Feel free to come talk with me.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:58, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I agree that looks better --NearMiddayNight Feel free to come talk with me. 201912180104Z aka 01:04, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * also remove the time (201912180104Z). The signature automatically adds time.   CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:09, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Alright --NearMiddayNight Feel free to come talk with me. 13:24, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , much better. Also, enjoy your anti-vandalism work on Wikipedia.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:26, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Cheers

 * , Merry Xmas. Also Who delivers presents to cats? Santa Paws!  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  10:23, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * lol, Captain... I'll let my daughter's cat, Bruce Wayne, know who to expect.  Onel 5969  TT me 10:46, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of On Her Shoulders
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Your GA nomination of On Her Shoulders
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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.
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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.
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Question about warnings
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Your GA nomination of On Her Shoulders
The article On Her Shoulders you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:On Her Shoulders for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 16:01, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays text.png Hello CAPTAIN MEDUSA: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers,  D Big X ray ᗙ Happy Holidays!  17:57, 24 December 2019 (UTC)


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Good luck
 豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune. このミラPはCAPTAIN MEDUSAたちのメリークリスマスも新年も変革と幸運の豊かな十年をおめでとうございます！ フレフレ、みんなの未来！/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE! ミラP 03:42, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Churia Tunnel
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 * Hi, I added more information from one of the sources and suggested a new ALT. Yoninah (talk) 15:53, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter – December 2019
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Stalk messages handling
Hi. I saw you undid my csd request. I'm not adequately familiar with enwiki's policies and was wondering how to properly clean that page created by the LTA? As I see the same "I'm still here" stalk message was reverted on existing talk pages, and it is odd if we cannot do the same on page creations. If the page cannot be deleted, might the content be removed? Thanks, WhitePhosphorus (talk) 09:35, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , The best way would be to blank/remove the message. I have gone and blanked the message. We generally don't delete talk pages. If the LTA is harassing another user best option would be revdel .Thanks.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  09:39, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

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A quick bit regarding your TEST subpage and WP:RAUTO
Hey there Captain Medusa! Thanks for adding the link to easily add a request at WP:RAUTO! I figured I'd let you know that currently when you click on the link, it creates a template for requesting the page mover permission. I get that it's a test, but it's something that I wanted to bring to your attention, because creating a submission through that link doesn't present the correct links. See WP:RAUTO for the results. Utopes (talk) 19:20, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Tadeusz Sielanka
Dear Captain Medusa,

You have rejected my article on Tadeusz Sielanka baceause of "lack of reliable sources". All the statements in the article come from two published (with ISBN numbers) sources. One source is listed in references (Antagonizmy kontrolowane. Rozmowy i eseje o muzyce współczesnej. Sacrum Profanum 2018, edited by Jan Topolski and Krzysztof Pietraszewski, Krytyka Polityczna Publishing / The Krakow Festival Office, Warsaw 2018. ISBN 978-83-65853-92-9, s. 80-81), another one is covered by English Wikipedia itslef (Sławomir Rawicz’s book The Long Walk).

Have You considered these sources unreailable for some reasons? How can I improve the article? Will bringing information of CD release with works by Tadeusz Sielanka be helpful? The first CD with his works has just been published.

Regards,

MM — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mm810629 (talk • contribs) 12:29, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Online-listing.com page was deleted!!!
I like to have a little more time to convey my article to the readers without it being promotional. If you can guide me a little bit it would help me a lot.

Thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirkj00 (talk • contribs) 11:27, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , All articles should be written in a neutral language. An article should never be written to promote certain people, brands, etc. You must provide citations for every claim you have made in the article. I highly recommend going through Article wizard; which helps new users about creating articles. Thanks.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  11:32, 29 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Can you undo last submission I like more time to work on previous article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirkj00 (talk • contribs) 11:44, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , Go through Article wizard. It will let you create an article.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  11:46, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for you help I understand now!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirkj00 (talk • contribs) 12:00, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, CAPTAIN MEDUSA!
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Happy New Year! CAPTAIN MEDUSA, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

- <b style="color: White;">Nahal</b> (T) 22:54, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Mike Wallace Is Here
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Your GA nomination of Mike Wallace Is Here
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Happy New Year!
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CAPTAIN MEDUSA, Have a great 2020 and thanks for your continued contributions to Wikipedia.

– 2020 is a leap year   – news article. – Background color is Classic Blue (#0F4C81), Pantone's 2020 Color of the year Send New Year cheer by adding     to user talk pages.

– Utopes (talk) 04:42, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
Hello! Your submission of Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:47, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:A Story About My Uncle gameplay.png
Thanks for uploading File:A Story About My Uncle gameplay.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:22, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mike Wallace Is Here
The article Mike Wallace Is Here you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mike Wallace Is Here for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 15:41, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to the 2020 WikiCup
Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The 2020 WikiCup began at the start of January and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you are interested in joining, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Creative editors like yourself seem to enjoy taking part, and many return year after year. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup are, , and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:43, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background-color:#E6E6FA; border: 1px solid #7D00B3; margin: 0.5em auto; padding: 0.5em; width:90%; text-align: center"> Happy First Edit Day! Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:27, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Time flies.   CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:29, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nischal Basnet
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Nischal Basnet 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 Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 23:01, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 868-HACK
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 868-HACK 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 Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 01:21, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nischal Basnet
The article Nischal Basnet 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:Nischal Basnet for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 02:02, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 868-HACK
The article 868-HACK 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:868-HACK for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 02:02, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Ae Watan
Hello! Your submission of Ae Watan at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 12:30, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nischal Basnet
The article Nischal Basnet you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nischal Basnet for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 17:41, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 868-HACK
The article 868-HACK you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:868-HACK for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 17:41, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-02
<section begin="technews-2020-W02"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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DYK for Churia Tunnel
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:01, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of A Story About My Uncle
Hello! Your submission of A Story About My Uncle at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:13, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Ways to improve List of accolades received by Joker (2019 film)
Hello, CAPTAIN MEDUSA,

Thank you for creating List of accolades received by Joker (2019 film).

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

"Shorten the Lead to be consistent with standards, and move the removed content into a new section to introduce and explain the background of this article."

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with. And, don't forget to sign your reply with. For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

FULBERT (talk) 18:58, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

DYK for A Story About My Uncle
--valereee (talk) 12:02, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

hi
i love you. i am a 70 year old man from Manchester. i want to be your sugar daddy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.89.243 (talk) 14:24, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-03
<section begin="technews-2020-W03"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations.
 * Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "" section.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are and . If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes
 * Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead.
 * You can use  to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad was shown outside the  tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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Orphaned talk page
G'day, Captain - you moved a talk page to Talk:AD 119/122 Street, Edmonton today, but that move has made the page an orphan - there's no related article. If it had instead been Talk:119/122 Street, Edmonton it would make more sense, from what I can see. 119/122 Street, Edmonton exists as a redirect. Can you please move Talk:AD 119/122 Street, Edmonton ? Thanks in advance!  PK T (alk)  15:27, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅, Move tool was thinking this was subpage of 119.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  18:29, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

Jay Shephard
Hello, I just edited the Jay Shephard bio page. I tried to use the sources I could find. My first time using Wikipedia so I hope I improved that page. Do you have any pointers or suggestions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cre8tiveIQ (talk • contribs) 07:41, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * At Draft:Jay Shephard — You made a lot of claims about a living person but none of the sources support your claim. I will leave this one for another editor to review (if this is accepted it's likey to be deleted). If you want to expand this article I recommend that you look for reliable sources. For example, Newspaper articles, book etc.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  07:50, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Whoops!
As you appear to be online, you mind triple-checking my review at Durand_Line? I think I tripped over my own foot, and made a mistake, so a second opinion (armed with the undo tool) would be appreciated. --moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 11:30, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , the edits made by sock should be reverted. Looking at the page history the socks keep on adding the same info which has reverted multiple times.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  11:36, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , Yep, I noticed that afterwards and rollback'd my readdition. Just making absolutely sure i'm didn't fumble something. Thanks. moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 11:38, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Will be more careful in the future, would be nice if the review tool also showed edit history so I could crossref with it in the same page. moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 11:40, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , Use the "Browse history interactively" feature whenever you are reviewing pending changes.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  11:43, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I may or may not have a habit of not seeing things directly in front of me. Whoops. Thanks for pointing that out. moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 11:46, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * That content has repeatedly been removed only by socks and IPs belonging to the same long term abuser Hassan Guy (see the LTA for all the IP ranges that have been attributed to him). The content was not originally added by a sock and the IP that recently removed it again (citing a sock) is ironically most likely the LTA himself. As for the content itself, it is definitely fine, as we do international disputes and claims. I have thus reinstated it. Gotitbro (talk) 12:29, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , I should've poked you for a third opinion, sorry about that. Thanks for pointing this out. moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 13:54, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Jay Shephard
Hello, I didn't know how to respond to your reply. All of my references came from different articles on the person and the awards came from the awards website. I found his book but Wikipedia said not to use the person's own work. I've seen bio pages with less verified information. I even edited one on The Prime Minister of The Bahamas. Finding information was extremely daunting and took me all night. I would not want it to get deleted, so can you give me pointers? I literally looked at numerous articles to see what information they used to create bio pages. Surely it wouldn't be fair to people in smaller countries where there aren't big publications. I really do appreciate your critics, I just want to get better so as to avoid this problem when I edit other pages. I I deleted some things and found 2 attentional new sources. I hope these are more reliable. Thanks again for your input — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cre8tiveIQ (talk • contribs) 22:50, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Regarding EFFPR
Hi, couple of notes from your actions at EFFP:
 * (vandalism) is only for obvious bad faith users, not for (assumed) good faith users.
 * It's not necessary to use (blocked) when the report has already been dealt with.
 * Also, if you use (provide sources and ask in talk page), there is no need to add not done or closed with

Thanks, Majavah (t/c) 08:34, 21 January 2020 (UTC) (please WP:PING when replying)
 * , Thanks for letting me know. Which edit are you referring to (to help me understand this better)? Thanks.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  18:32, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi and sorry for the delay. The following are just examples: Edit filter/False positives/Archive 111 (talk and others), Edit filter/False positives/Archive 110 (blocked) Thanks, Majavah (t/c) 06:43, 23 January 2020 (UTC) (please WP:PING when replying)

DYK for Ae Watan
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Beauty Pageants


A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Beauty Pageants requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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 "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 deleted 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. UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:29, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Unreferenced Beauty Pageants articles


A tag has been placed on Category:Unreferenced Beauty Pageants articles requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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 "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 deleted 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. UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:32, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Gratitude
Thanks for responding & attending to my request swiftly. You really are a life saver I had thought it may have taken weeks but alas you assisted in delivering my message immediately I requested it. Kudos!!! Celestina007 (talk) 19:32, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , If you have further messages to be delivered let me know. Thanks.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:29, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Mail Notice
Celestina007 (talk) 23:31, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , Replied.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  23:39, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 January 2020
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:09, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Lion King close
I'm wondering why you closed this RM as "no consensus" when there was a clear consensus to oppose the proposed move? Ribbet32 (talk) 14:44, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , I closed the RM per not having enough consensus to move the page.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  17:46, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-05
<section begin="technews-2020-W05"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at T232688.

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Password
Dear Captain Medusa! 6 months later after release of movie Password (2019 Nepalese film) starring Sunny Leone, can you make an article about this movie and who sang song "Aajako", but I can’t find audio version in Apple Music and Gaana? Thank you! --95.54.103.156 (talk) 19:20, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok. I will create this article tomorrow. Thanks.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  19:21, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

February with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:31, 28 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

DYK for 868-HACK
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of A Story About My Uncle
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article A Story About My Uncle 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 Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 01:41, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of A Story About My Uncle
The article A Story About My Uncle 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:A Story About My Uncle for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 02:41, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Tum Hi Aana
Hello! Your submission of Tum Hi Aana at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Paparazzzi (talk) 07:55, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of A Story About My Uncle
The article A Story About My Uncle you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:A Story About My Uncle for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 13:21, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06
<section begin="technews-2020-W06"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

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Growth team updates #12
Welcome to the twelfth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

General news

 * A training for mentors has been published. The training was first tried with the Czech community, and went well.
 * Growth team features have been deployed to Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Armenian Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together whether your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.

Productive edits from newcomer tasks
We deployed the basic workflow for newcomer tasks to our target wikis on November 20, and the early results are exciting.




 * About 1.5% of newcomers who visit their homepage complete the workflow and save a suggested edit. So far, this has amounted to over 450 edits, on all wikis, coming from both desktop and mobile users.
 * When we look at the edits that newcomers make, we see that they are largely positive! We are pleased to see that this feature does not appear to encourage vandals.
 * 75% of the edits are productive and unreverted.
 * 95% of the edits appear to be in good faith.
 * Most of the edits include copyedits and adding links, with some newcomers also adding content and references. Copyedits are suggested most strongly.
 * Click here to learn more specifics about the results so far.

Topic matching deployed
The results from our user tests showed us that newcomers are likely to do more suggested edits if they can choose articles related to a topic that they're interested in, such as "science", "music", or "sports".


 * On January 21, we deployed topic matching on our pilot wikis. Newcomers are now using it. We expect it to cause more newcomers to try suggested edits, and to keep making more of them.
 * In the coming weeks, we will be making improvements to the accuracy of the algorithm used to topic matching, which is part of the ORES project.

Next steps for newcomer tasks
Because we are seeing positive results from newcomer tasks, the Growth team plans to concentrate our efforts on improving the workflow and encouraging more newcomers to use it.


 * Guidance: next, we will be using the help panel to provide guidance to newcomers as they do suggested edits, and to prompt them to do another edit after completing their first one. In user tests for this feature, demo videos were one of the favorite features, and we will think about how these might be added.
 * Starting the workflow: only about 20% of newcomer who visit their homepage begin the newcomer tasks workflow. We are going to be trying out different layouts of the homepage to encourage more newcomers to try newcomer tasks.
 * Additional task types: we are researching methods to recommend more specific tasks to newcomers, such as specific links to add, or images that could be added to articles from Commons.

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Draft:Aerocool
Hello, you have just declined my creation of the page Aerocool, stating that there are no reliable sources. Unfortunately there is no other sources other than I have cited, and they are the official pages of the company. What can I do about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slh7477 (talk • contribs) 18:49, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , It appears there are plenty of sources available online.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  19:12, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

False Positive Report
Hi there, I filed a false positive report earlier and you marked it as 'NOT DONE' does this mean the edit was not implemented or that the possible vandalism was settled. Just asking because you commented a few minutes after stating it was because I put the word Fortnite into my edit.

StewySphinx69 (talk) 19:23, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , there is a filter which catches people who try to add the word "Fortnite".  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  19:28, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);;" class="plainlinks"> 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:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg XFDcloser (now a gadget) is this issue's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Suffusion of Yellow's mark-reverted* Majavah's unslashifier
 * 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
 * expand a diff until it covers all contiguous edits made by that user
 * highlight which content (in the HTML) comes from which template
 * hyperlink "per X" to the last comment X made
 * show a pop-up section preview when you hover over its TOC link



Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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Regarding Kitboga article name
Hi there; I made the move request that you closed on the Kitboga (streamer) page. I think, although you closed it on no consensus, it seemed like everyone was set on making Kitboga a disambiguation page. I would also not mind doing such. What do you think, and if you agree, how should we proceed? -- zaiisao (talk 20:45, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of List of accolades received by Deadpool 2
Hello! Your submission of List of accolades received by Deadpool 2 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! – Rhain  ☔ 00:42, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07
<section begin="technews-2020-W07"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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DYK for List of accolades received by Deadpool 2
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello ,

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
 * Source Guide Discussion

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
 * Redirects


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 * There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
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DYK nomination of The Night We Met (Lord Huron song)
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DYK for Feels Good Man
Captain Medusa, there's something wrong with this nom -- when you click Review or Comment, it takes you to a blank page. I can't figure out what the trouble is, but it has to have something to do with the article title I think. --valereee (talk) 18:09, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Copy edit of Jennifer Aniston performances
I finished copy edit on List of Jennifer Aniston performances. Some notes: Let me know if you have any questions. – Reidgreg (talk) 17:50, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Are there any sources which discuss the roles she's taken as a whole? It seems she has played mainly comedic roles (sitcoms and comedy films – everything except Cake (2014 film) in the lead), perhaps it could be stated in the lead sentence that she is mainly known for her comedic roles?  Do any sources call her a comedian?  Also, could perhaps note that Cake was her most successful/best received/most notable dramatic role?
 * I noticed that the article for The Morning Show (American TV series) calls it a satirical drama. I'm not familiar with it, but maybe you could check where sources place it on the comedy–drama spectrum, if it should be called a drama, comedy-drama, satirical drama, or something else.
 * Apart from acting, Aniston has directed three films including Room 10, Burma: It Can't Wait, and Five. – is this outside the scope of the article? I don't especially mind it.
 * I tightened up some of the descriptions of nominations and awards, though I think these do highlight her more-notable performances.
 * The tables all look good. Nice use of.

DYK for The Night We Met (Lord Huron song)
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DYK nomination of Tum Hi Aana
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 * Please also check my editing on your article. Though the quotes are from English-language sources, the grammar is terrible, but I didn't change it. Yoninah (talk) 01:16, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-08
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Recent changes
 * Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).

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DYK for Goucher College
--valereee (talk) 00:03, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Teahouse Hosts
Dear CAPTAIN MEDUSA, thank you for volunteering as a host at the Teahouse. Wikipedia is a community of people working together to make knowledge free. You are an important part of that effort! By joining as a Host, and by following our expectations, you are helping new users get a hold of the ropes here at Wikipedia, and helping experienced users who just have a question about how something works. We appreciate your willingness to help!

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 * the question forum itself.

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 * Belated thanks for signing up to assist others. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 15:55, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09
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Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

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Discussion on the Draft namrespace
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DYK for Past Cure
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Cobaltcigs's DiffPreviewFindLine is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amorymeltzer's History button links* Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector
 * Interstellarity's Semi-protected edit requests and Extended-protected edit requests


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Amorymeltzer's Crat Highlighter now has separate colors for each user access level
 * Opencooper's IPtoEmoji has been updated

Pending requests
 * A script to help administrators handle proposed deletions
 * A script to hide newsletters when viewing another user's talk page
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --DannyS712 (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2020 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
 * 🇺🇸 Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
 * Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
 * Pirate Flag.svg CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
 * The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included 🇺🇸 L293D, 🇻🇪 Kingsif, 🇦🇶 Enwebb, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski and 🇳🇵 CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit 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. 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 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), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 March 2020
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WikiCup newsletter correction
There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; 🇺🇸 L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, 🇺🇸 Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:29, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-10
<section begin="technews-2020-W10"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.

Changes later this week
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
 * When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security.
 * On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback.
 * There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list.

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$¥100
give it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.126.56.85 (talk) 15:31, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Edit Filter
I am trying to archive old edits on a talk page. The edit filter blocked me. How do I proceed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports#210.6.209.89 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.6.209.89 (talk) 08:08, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11
<section begin="technews-2020-W11"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new search word called . You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
 * The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.

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DYK nomination of Dick Johnson Is Dead
Hello! Your submission of Dick Johnson Is Dead at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:49, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Monsters (James Blunt song)
Hello! Your submission of Monsters (James Blunt song) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Hawkeye7  (discuss)  09:19, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * There's an issue with the QPQ that needs to be addressed. Please take care of it as soon as possible. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:18, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-12
<section begin="technews-2020-W12"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use  to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface.
 * You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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DYK for Tum Hi Aana
--valereee (talk) 00:01, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

DYK for 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Nepal
Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 00:01, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Mail Notice
Celestina007 (talk) 00:30, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Feels Good Man
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13
<section begin="technews-2020-W13"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
 * There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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DYK for Monsters (James Blunt song)
--valereee (talk) 00:02, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Jennifer Aniston filmography FLC
Hey CAPTAIN MEDUSA, hope you are well and safe. I should get around to adding some comments for the Jennifer Aniston filmography FLC either tonight or tomorrow. Thank you! --   LuK3      (Talk)   22:21, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020
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Tech News: 2020-14
<section begin="technews-2020-W14"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed.
 * There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Danski454's code-link is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg RealFakeKim's pageInfo* Guywan: InsertShortcuts* ConfirmLogout


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector has been updated to include more sources
 * Evad37's rater script is now on version 2.5. New features include:
 * No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
 * Making use of Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta to detect templates
 * Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class
 * An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates. See a full list of changes here
 * For users of Enterprisey's easy-brfa script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
 * Guywan's RefCruncher has had minor updates

Miscellaneous
 * For any scripts that previously made use of the  API to change a page's content model, a new API module is available: use   to specify the new content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: mw:API:ChangeContentModel.
 * The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using and  . See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js

Pending requests
 * A script to help file movers process requests, including
 * renaming the file
 * updating file links
 * removing the Rename media template (when relevant)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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Hello! Your submission of Camp Jened at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! --evrik (talk) 16:30, 6 April 2020 (UTC) I have recently review your submission and found concerns about the hook. Please review those comments, and consider a different hook or a reference that supports the hook.Gulbenk (talk)

OrphanReferenceFixer: Help on reversion
Hi there! I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. Recently, you [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=949471702&diff=prev reverted] my fix to A Story About My Uncle.

If you did this because the references should be removed from the article, you have misunderstood the situation. Most likely, the article originally contained both  and one or more   referring to it. Someone then removed the  but left the , which results in a big red error in the article. I replaced one of the remaining  with a copy of the  ; I did not re-insert the reference to where it was deleted, I just replaced one of the remaining instances. What you need to do to fix it is to make sure you remove all instances of the named reference so as to not leave any big red error.

If you reverted because I made an actual mistake, please be sure to also correct any reference errors in the page so I won't come back and make the same mistake again. Also, please post an error report at User talk:AnomieBOT so my operator can fix me! If the error is so urgent that I need to be stopped, also post a message at User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/OrphanReferenceFixer. Thanks! AnomieBOT ⚡ 18:07, 6 April 2020 (UTC) <small style="color:#888">If you do not wish to receive this message in the future, add  to your talk page.

Tech News: 2020-15
<section begin="technews-2020-W15"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user . This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.

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Moving the title
Hello! I want to request moving the title of a page. Kindly guide me where/how can I do that? Thanks, Мастер Шторм (talk) 14:29, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , Go to a page you want to move and go to its talk page, and use NewName.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  14:56, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Мастер Шторм (talk) 14:59, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Would I need to start a new discussion, I mean, a new section at the talk page; or, should I simply put the above suggested command at the bottom of the last discussion on that page? Thanks, Мастер Шторм (talk) 15:04, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, start a new discussion.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  15:06, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your advice, Мастер Шторм (talk) 15:06, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * If the move is not a contoversial. You can simply go to a page, and click more (at the top of the page near edit). Then move the article.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  15:08, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.



The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Crip Camp
Hello! Your submission of Crip Camp at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! feminist (talk) 14:20, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal

 * Thank you!.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  17:54, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Loot (2012 film)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Loot (2012 film) 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 The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 08:41, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Laia Manzanares
Just a heads up. The above referenced article has (with a little help) been expanded past the 1,500 character threshold. As to whether the article met that standard within the required time frame, is your call. Gulbenk (talk) 15:58, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , Replied.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  20:30, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Good to go. Best wishes. Gulbenk (talk) 20:46, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thanks.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  20:47, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Loot (2012 film)
The article Loot (2012 film) 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:Loot (2012 film) for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 11:41, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

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Instant GAN fails
CAPTAIN MEDUSA, when someone makes an out-of-process GA nomination, the thing to do is to remove the nomination from the talk page, not to fail it. You cannot fail because the nomination was problematic, only if it doesn't meet the criteria. I'll take care of the rest of these. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:36, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , Ahh, I see. Thanks for letting me know.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  18:37, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * For future reference, the relevant passage on the GA nomination instructions page reads, Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article on the article talk page prior to a nomination. So if they've consulted on the talk page and there's consensus to go ahead, it's perfectly fine that they haven't previously worked on the article, so long as they intend to make the necessary fixes in the course of the review. If they haven't consulted, though, removing the nomination is the way to go. I usually post to the nominator's talk page with the instructions quote to let them know why the nomination was removed. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:48, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

When was asking permission to nominate it a requirement? I had every intention to make any and all necessary changes but instead the nomination gets thrown out before I even get chance to work on it. Rusted AutoParts 19:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)


 * You did it twice? Both Gladiator and Logan? What a waste.  Rusted AutoParts  19:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Did you even read the message above?  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  19:22, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * From the exact same instructions page:"Anyone may nominate an article to be reviewed for GA, although it is preferable that nominators have contributed significantly to the article and are familiar with its subject and its cited sources". May not have a sizeable contribution to some of these pages but I am familiar with the content and the sources. That's how I've operated. I make the necessary edits when they are raised on the review. I had every intention to fulfil the needs of a review. Rusted AutoParts  19:28, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Request for the closure of the account
Good morning, today 15 April 2020 I've saved a request for the closure of my user account on it.wikipedia. I've followed the instructions that some administrators gave me on my user talk page which now has been deleted, according to the website rules and to what I've asked.

My request isn't yet visible on it:WP:RA. I would like to do the same on en.wikipedia: I mean to have my user account permanently blocked with the deletion of the related user talk page. I don't know the specific rules of en.wikipedia about that and then hope someone can help me in this issue. Thanks in advance for your eventual collaboration.Micheledisaveriosp (talk) 12:00, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I can't help you with that because I am not an admin yet. can you help?   CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  15:03, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * there is no method to "close" an account, what I suggest is that you request a Courtesy vanishing. You may place speedy on your userpages to have them deleted. As noted on the vanishing page, we don't delete "user talk" pages, though they may be blanked. —  xaosflux  Talk 15:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * With that being said, nothing else to do here - this account has been globally locked (meta:Special:CentralAuth/Micheledisaveriosp) so there won't be any more requests from it now. — xaosflux  Talk 15:29, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Ways to improve Dayouth
Hello, CAPTAIN MEDUSA,

Thank you for creating Dayouth.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

"Hi - as far as I can see term as described is accurate. However, the it is rather difficult to match the material added to the sources provided. For example, in Atigehetchi (2007) the pages cited refer to an entire chapter on artificial insemination, with the word dayyuth mentioned once in passing. In Hamamra (2018), the word is also mentioned once in passing. I don't have access to the other two, but one concerns 18th Century Syria so I do not think provides much insight into contemporary usage."

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 * , the captain only created a redirect; someone else did the expanding. Best, Usedtobecool ☎️ 19:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I did see that...and then sent this to them in error.--Goldsztajn (talk) 19:40, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Genda Phool
Hello! Your submission of Genda Phool at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 15:07, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Dick Johnson Is Dead
— Maile (talk) 00:05, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Binod Chaudhary
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DYK for List of Ayushmann Khurrana performances
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DYK for Crip Camp
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Move template
Please help rename Template:East Rukum District to Template:Eastern Rukum District. I am confused how to start a discussion for moving templates. ~SS49~  {talk}  10:55, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , ✅  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  11:38, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I thought templates and categories should be moved only after discussion so that bot does the post-move clean up. Thanks so much. ~SS49~   {talk}  12:15, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

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GAR Binod Chaudhary
Hi - I completed the review faster than I expected. Thank you for working on the article and making time to nominate it; it definitely is a topic which should have good article status. Unfortunately it is a fail at this time, there really is too much work to be done for me to leave it on hold. I'm going to leave a set of sources on the talk page which would be helpful in improving the article and which I think would be able to bring it to GA status. Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 23:09, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Binod Chaudhary
The article Binod Chaudhary you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Binod Chaudhary 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 Goldsztajn -- Goldsztajn (talk) 23:21, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Genda Phool
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
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Your GA nomination of What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
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Your GA nomination of What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
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Your GA nomination of Swastima Khadka
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DYK nomination of You Go to My Head (film)
Hello! Your submission of You Go to My Head (film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Ykraps (talk) 13:57, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Swastima Khadka
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Your GA nomination of Swastima Khadka
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DYK for Ude Dil Befikre
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DYK for Camp Jened
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Your GA nomination of Tum Hi Aana
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WikiCup 2020 May newsletter
The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

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 * Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
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The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! 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.

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User:CAPTAIN MEDUSA/TEST
Hi greetings, I'd like to inform a problem on this in Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist. When we add requests using this that is adding in "Removala" section instead of leaving request in "Requests" section. Please rectify this. Thank you.-- PA TH  SL OP U  08:52, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * This created a new section. Which is now occupied by Removals section. That's why it adds it to the section. I have removed it.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  18:37, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * The same response by Usedtobecool applies.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  19:32, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of page
You can delete it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luke Lovas (talk • contribs) 19:03, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
 * ❌  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  19:35, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg SD0001's find-archived-section, now a gadget, is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey:
 * link-deleted-revs (On error pages for deleted revisions, show a link to the Special:Undelete page)
 * undelete-backlink (On Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions)
 * Epicgenius's sortcategories (sorts categories in an article alphabetically)
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * addmylinks (adds a customizable area for links and/or text to the sidebar)
 * editrequest (tool that allows for processing and answering edit requests)
 * DemonDays64's Dumb quotes (replaces smart curly single and double quotes with "dumb" quotes)
 * Guywan's FileMoverHelper (move files and replace their uses in one action)


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Enterprisey's reply-link has been updated to fail less, especially around template transclusions.
 * Twinkle released new features, including a new option to disable individual modules, support for stub template nomination at CfD, and integration with the PageTriage extension used to patrol new pages. (See full list of changes)

Open tasks
 * The  resource loader module was deprecated and is no longer needed; its functionality is now available by default. See mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users) for more. Any dependency on it should be removed.

Pending requests
 * A script to reload feeds automatically
 * A script to mark templates in the TFD holding cell as ready for deletion
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Miscellaneous
 * User scripts/Most imported scripts now also shows the number of active users for each script. It will now be updated by a bot periodically.
 * Twinkle's Morebits library added a new  class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using   or   with   objects, those have been deprecated and should be updated.
 * User:SD0001/find-archived-section was made a gadget. You can enable it from your gadget preferences, in the Browsing section.

Hope everyone stays safe. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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The article Tum Hi Aana 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:Tum Hi Aana for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kyle Peake -- Kyle Peake (talk) 12:21, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tum Hi Aana
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Your GA nomination of Taruni Sachdev
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Your GA nomination of Taruni Sachdev
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Your GA nomination of Taruni Sachdev
The article Taruni Sachdev you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Taruni Sachdev for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 12:41, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

De Niro tv filmography
Why would u delete De Niro's tv show appearances from his filmography just because they didn't have sources? He was in all of those things I added, finding sources just takes ages and I thought I 'd finish it off later but I got bored. You even deleted one that did have a source attached. 2001:8003:22E4:CD00:D965:B59E:68F2:8EEA (talk) 12:57, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Correcting notification templates
Hi there, hope you're well!

I saw you corrected a notification template on the RfA currently ongoing, and just thought I'd drop by to let you know that, whilst your intentions are admirable, it won't actually do anything

If you take a look at the technical manual for Echo, the system that powers MediaWiki notifications, you'll see that the requirements for a ping to be successfully parsed through it are quite strict and limited - and one of them is that "the diff chunk must be recognised as an addition of new lines of text, not a change to existing lines", so if a user's ping is broken when they first post it, unfortunately it's not fixable without adding another comment separately (perhaps in small text below) to fix the ping yourself.

All the best, Naypta ☺ &#124; ✉ talk page &#124; 14:55, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

FL Review
Thank you for the FL review. Can you please take a look at Featured list candidates/List of Washington College alumni/archive1 -- Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  19:16, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , Please see my comments.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  13:33, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/George Pechell Mends
CAPTAIN MEDUSA, when you get the chance to stop by, the nominator has responded to your most recent review comment. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:39, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , ✅  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  14:36, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for List of awards and nominations received by Awkwafina
— Maile (talk) 12:03, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Swastima Khadka
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Review of my User Page
Hi - I got a notification you completed the review of my page? What is that about if I may ask? Thanks, Galendalia CVU Member \ Chat Me Up 00:48, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hey, I see you are new here. The notification you got is part of new pages patrol. The whole purpose of this is to keep bad pages out. Hopes this answers your question. If you have further queries let me know. Thanks.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  11:34, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Loot (2012 film)
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Message by a Pastafarian
I am quite surprised to find a fellow Pastafarian on WikiNepal. Take care, stay safe! R'Amen. Prashant Shahi 05:07, 9 May 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolboi567 (talk • contribs)
 * R'Amen. Stay safe!.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  12:12, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-20
<section begin="technews-2020-W20"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.

Problems
 * Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via  or  . You can use   or   to check one at a time instead.

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DYK for You Go to My Head (film)
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Gillian Genser
Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 23:07, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Taruni Sachdev
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Minecraft Multiplayer Fun
Hi! Thank you for the edits over at Minecraft Multiplayer Fun. I do have a question though. You italicized the title of the video and I was wondering if that is correct? I don't think there has been a standard for YouTube videos (at least there doesn't seem to be one that I've seen). I know song recordings are in "this format", and films, novels, and music albums are in this format. But should all YouTube videos be in that latter format? And what about YouTube channels? I figure YouTube series (like The Philip DeFranco Show) are italicized, but for example I think channels should be akin to TV channels and have no formatting (i.e. Nickelodeon/PewDiePie). How do we go about setting a potential standard on Wikipedia? Soulbust (talk) 00:47, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , I have followed the same style as the first YouTube video. I can change it back if it is incorrect.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  11:05, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , Yeah I think what YouTube video articles do is they get the Film infobox which I believe automatically italicizes the title, which does apply to some videos that are short films (like Humans Need Not Apply) but I don't know if it necessarily applies to all videos. Like if the video is an episode of a YouTuber's series, I would assume the episode/video proper would follow the conventions of say like: Ozymandias (Breaking Bad). I'm wondering if it'd be possible to get a YouTube video infobox with parameters that'd be YouTube-specific/exclusive like the channel and maybe the external link to the video like how songs have the music video linked in the infobox. Soulbust (talk) 00:02, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , By using " | italic title=no " fixes the title issue.  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  14:37, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thank you for the tip. I appreciate it. Soulbust (talk) 02:27, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Nepal 10,000 Challenge
<div style="color:#c9c6bd; box-shadow: 0 20px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.900); border-radius: 20px;"> <div style="text-align:center; font-size: 36px; margin-top: 15px;margin-left: 26px; font-family: 'Verdana'; line-height: 1.5em;">Namaste, ! You are cordially invited to join the new  Thank you for your contributions to articles related to Nepal. You are invited to join the new, a challenge which aims to see 10,000 article creations. Articles on all related topics are welcome. We need numbers to make this work and do something extraordinary for Nepal on Wikipedia! Sign up on the page if interested and start contributing! If you know someone who might be interested, please invite them by using:  ~ Thanks.

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Yu (surname 余) Page move
Hi! I've seen that you've moved the page Yu (surname 余) to Yu (surname). Unfortunately, I disagree with this move. This article is about a specific Chinese surname, Yu that uses the Chinese character, 余. The current title, Yu (surname) is too broad, as there are many other Chinese surnames translated as Yu that do not use the 余 character, as well as other languages (such as Korean) that use the surname, Yu. Either the page should be moved back to Yu (surname 余), or the article should be merged into Yu (Chinese surname). Thanks for your time. CountHacker (talk) 01:32, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
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DYK for Minecraft Multiplayer Fun
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #13
Welcome to the thirteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Join the conversation: structured tasks
We are looking for community input on a new project to make it easy for newcomers to make real article edits.

In our previous newsletter, we talked about the productive edits coming from the newcomer tasks feature. Those good results have continued: about 900 newcomers made over 5,000 suggested edits so far. We've learned that newcomers are interested in receiving suggested edits.

Now, we are thinking about how to supply them a feed of easy edits that will help more of them be successful quickly. We have a new idea called "structured tasks". This would aim to break down edits into steps that are easy for newcomers and easy on mobile devices.

In the past, certain kinds of editing tasks have been structured. For instance, adding categories through HotCat. Now, we are thinking about how to structure the editing of articles. The goal is to allow newcomers can make large content additions, especially from their mobile devices.

Please visit the project page and respond to the discussion questions listed on the talk page. You are welcome to show this project to others in your community. You can help by translating the materials to your language so that more voices can join in. We will be having this conversation until June 18.

Expanding to more wikis
We have expanded to six new wikis, and are looking for more interested communities.

In the last two months, we deployed Growth features to six new wikis: Ukrainian, Serbian, Hungarian, Armenian, and Basque Wikipedias, and French Wiktionary. Newcomers from these wikis have already contributed over 600 edits through Growth features.

We want to expand to more wikis in the coming months, and we are looking for interested communities. French Wikipedia already agreed and will be the next one to join the experiment. We will contact several other wikis in the coming weeks to offer them to participate.

Do you think the Growth Team features would be a good addition to your wiki? Please see this translatable summary of Growth features. You can share with your communities and start a discussion. Then, please contact us to begin the process!

Other updates


Work continues on improving newcomer tasks and the homepage.


 * In March, we deployed an upgrade to the topic matching in newcomer tasks. The current version offers 39 different topics using new ORES models.
 * In April, we completed an A/B test of two homepage configurations. We learned that more newcomers will attempt suggested edits if the module is made more prominent. We are implementing those learnings in our next test.  See the full results here.
 * We are currently working on guidance for newcomer tasks. It will use the help panel to guide newcomers through completing easy edits.
 * Our next step is to create new configurations of the homepage. The goal is to encourage more newcomers to begin doing suggested edits.

As usual, we are still welcoming your feedback and questions about our features. Please contact us on the project talk page!

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Tech News: 2020-21
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Recent changes
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Problems
 * There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,   and  . They will have to remove  . You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects ,  ,  ,   and  . They can no longer use  . You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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DYK nomination of Robert De Niro filmography
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DYK for It's Not Just You, Murray!
Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  00:02, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for List of awards and nominations received by Scarlett Johansson
-- Guerillero &#124;  Parlez Moi  00:01, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Bir Bikram 2
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I have sent you a note about a page you started
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DYK for Robert De Niro filmography
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22
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Changes later this week
 * The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice
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Sunny Leone
Dear Captain Medusa! I liked your contributions of article of some newest movies include Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi, but when will make article of movie Password (2019 Nepali film) starring Sunny Leone and who sing Aajako? and thank you very much --217.66.158.153 (talk) 13:01, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅  CAPTAIN MEDUSA   talk  19:13, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * You're too nice! I can't believe you actually did it on demand. Usedtobecool ☎️ 20:40, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for List of awards and nominations received by Natalie Portman
—valereee (talk) 12:01, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2020
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Tech News: 2020-23
<section begin="technews-2020-W23"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May.
 * The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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DYK nomination of Senti Virus
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DYK nomination of Aama (2020 film)
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DYK for Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-24
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Recent changes
 * Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting.
 * Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them.  is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work.   can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect   or.
 * There is a banner called . It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on   so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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DYK for Bir Bikram 2
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Begging (Prohibition) Act, 1962
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DYK nomination of Gaja Baja
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DYK for Mr. Virgin
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for recognising my contributions to Robert De Niro. Glad someone noticed! <b style="color:#FF4500">L150</b> 20:01, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25
<section begin="technews-2020-W25"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems
 * There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed.
 * Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help.
 * The selectors  and   will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts.    should be replaced by  .   should be replaced by.

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DYK for Gaja Baja
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Editing news 2020 #2
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 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "".  The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
 * New requirements for user signatures : Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
 * New discussion tool : The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard/Issues/Summer 2020
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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
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NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference. In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
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 * A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
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DYK for Begging (Prohibition) Act, 1962
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

RFC/N discussion of the username ".edu.edits"
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Tech News: 2020-26
<section begin="technews-2020-W26"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors.  should be replaced with   to fix this.

Changes later this week
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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Featured list candidates/Robert De Niro filmography/archive1
I've reviewed the above nomination. <b style="color:#009900">SNUGGUMS</b> (<b style="color:#009900">talk</b> / <b style="color:#009900">edits</b>) 03:29, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 June 2020
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Senti Virus
Hi Captain,

I've concluded my GOCE review of the article.

I know it says that the conclusion was rushed and cut, but I'm still not sure what even the truncated version has the ending being.

Other than that, nothing in particular seems to need adding. Nosebagbear (talk) 23:24, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Bandana Nepal
—valereee (talk) 00:02, 29 June 2020 (UTC)