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CfD nomination of Category:1917 in the Palestinian territories
Category:1917 in the Palestinian territories has been nominated for. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. GreyShark (dibra) 17:37, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Please also see the merge proposal of category:1920s in Syria -> category:1920s in Mandatory Syria.GreyShark.GreyShark (dibra) 20:32, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Taham


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 * and one of the 119 municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. The city of Villa Corzo the municipal seat is located at (16 ° 11'N 93 ° 16'W / 16,183, 93,267 and 580 meters.)

updating info on Mexican population centers
Thanks for doing this... lots of articles still with 2005 info... and lots with none at all. Id love to work out a project someday that allows for automatic updating of population figures when INEGI releases a new census.Thelmadatter (talk) 22:07, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

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Wiki Loves Pride 2014
Hi Carlos. In case you are not aware, there is an upcoming campaign to improve coverage of LGBT-related topics on Wikipedia, culminating with an international edit-a-thon on June 21. See Wiki Loves Pride 2014 for more information. If you are interested, you might consider creating a page for a major city (or cities!) near you, with a list of LGBT-related articles that need to be created or improved. This would be a tremendous help to Wikipedia and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you have any questions! --><span style="color:navy"Another Believer ( Talk ) 16:10, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Mexico
Thanks for going through the municipalities and adding population data. I created most of them a while back and a lot of them don't even have data yet. I see you haven't worked on Iran for weeks now, how far did you get? You've certainly earned a break from it! I do hope that you'll continue at some point of course. Mexico is an excellent choice anyway.♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:34, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Please don't give up Iran. You've come this far, it seems a shame to stop now. My worry on this was that you wouldn't complete the task and then in the future people will create them haphazardly and things will be inconsistent and a mess again.♦ Dr. Blofeld  08:32, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Dargu Shomali for deletion
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Nomination for deletion of Template:USCensus-2010CA
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Speedy deletion nomination of Lirik


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Re:The Mote and the Beam
"One of the central goals of the categorization system is to categorize articles by their defining characteristics." Read Non-Defining and tell me if you think it is one. Editor2020 02:08, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Interwikis
Hi, I noticed that you added some Farsi interwikis - thank you. Did you know you can add these directly into wikidata, at least in the cases for which there is already a pencil icon at the foot of the menu bar on the left? This is more helpful still, as it works both ways. I think a bot will eventually migrate the links that you added anyway, but the option is there to do it now. – Fayenatic  L ondon 08:37, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Guinea
Hi, as you're good with population figures and prolific edits any chance you could update the Sub prefectures of Guinea with population like this. It's all available here.♦ Dr. Blofeld  11:42, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Smoking out Somnolent Socks
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ANB discussion
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No Grounds the Band
Why AfD when it is a clear case of CSD A7, NN band, auto-promotion, and no references? -- Alexf(talk) 18:58, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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Navarrese deputies to Cortes Generales, 1879-1923
Hi there

I am here not to protest, as you seem to suggest on top of your talk page, I am here to ask for clarification.

BTW, hope you don’t mind if I note that I find your suggestion provocative, impolite and generally incompatible with the spirit of settling disputes in a friendly and conciliatory manner. If I might venture to submit a humble proposal, I would suggest to rephrase your statement, maybe as ''If I've deleted an article you created and you are here to investigate, please clearly state the name of the article in the header of your note on the bottom of my talkpage. Remember to sign your posts with'' etc etc.

I have the following questions:

a) You have deleted my entry with no flagging for deletion and with no discussion allowed, so I guess you applied a speedy deletion procedure, approaching this as a most obvious case. However, I can not find a “contest speedy deletion” button, which should normally be left inside the speedy deletion tag. If it was a speedy deletion indeed, how can I find the “contest” button? If it was not a speedy deletion, why there was no flagging and no discussion allowed?

b) The A1 tag description you quote says that this applies only to very short articles. The entry in question contained lots of data, namely a table with 140 cells. Does it count as short article?

c) The A1 tag description says that If any information in the title or on the page, including links, allows an editor, possibly with the aid of a web search, to find further information on the subject in an attempt to expand or edit it, there is enough context that A1 is not appropriate. My entry did contain an indication what the source is, and it also contained a link allowing an editor to find further info. Could you clarify please?

d) The entry is formatted as an annex. I found no information on any wiki policy or annexes (though maybe there is one I failed to find). I created this annex to avoid stuffing another of my articles with data; besides, maybe someone else would like to take advantage of this annex. Annex is usually a raw data piece, and there are many scattered across wiki with no context provided, the related one is for instance elecciones generales. Does the A1 tag applies to annexes as well?

Regards, Dd1495 (talk) 11:03, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello again,

Thanks for a prompt response. It has already occurred to me that I had to wait a month to get a response from wiki admins, so I appreciate your answering the following day very much.

Your response has left me puzzled, and it is for 3 reasons.


 * First, I am puzzled because I am not sure why, when replying to the note I have left on your talkpage, you wrote on my talkpage. The only reason I can think of is that you did this out of courtesy, so that it is easier for me to find it. If this is the case, I am very grateful. However, my impression is that splitting a discussion between two talkpages makes it very difficult to keep track of it, so for my convenience (hope you don't mind) I copy your response here: The article was no more than a transclusion of a file already on Wikipedia. the article added nothing by way of content. Articles need some content, not merely a picture already on the site. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 16:52, 17 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Second, I am puzzled because you answered the question which I did not ask, and you ignored 4 specific questions I did ask. You seem to answer the question “why did you delete my article”, which I did not spell out. I did not, because when deleting, you provided a justification already.


 * Third, I am puzzled because the justification for deletion you provided on my talkpage (“simple transclusion”) is different than your original justification (“no context”). What appears to be your inconsistency might create an impression (120% false, I am sure) that you simply wanted to delete the article does not matter the reason (I would hate to sound confrontational, this is by no means my intention and please accept my apologies if this is the case).

Anyway, since you left my previous request unanswered, I would be grateful if you could clarify points A, B, C and D raised before. I could now add also point E:

Indeed, the article was a transclusion of an image. Is it incompatible with the wiki policy? I thought transclusions are welcome and indeed recommended, instead of copying data from master source. I have created an image titled Deputies Navarre Restoration.JPG with the sole intention to place it as the only part of a wiki article, formatted as an annex. This image contains a table with structured data, a table that a standard wiki table technology can not produce (I think so?), with different colouring keys and patterns, so inserting an image is the only way I found to present the data the right way. Of course, following your deletion I can now add this picture in full-size to an article to which it was intended as an annex, but the disadvantage would be that the others, possibly willing to take advantage of the data only, would have to point to my article. Does this make sense?

friendly regards,--Dd1495 (talk) 17:56, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

If you want me to respond here, fine.

A. Speedy deletion, correct. B. The cells are not lost, the article was, as you say a simple transclusion, and not more. C. The cells remain - if you want to write an article that's more than a transclusion, I will restore it - will you do that. However you say "I have created an image titled Deputies Navarre Restoration.JPG with the sole intention to place it as the only part of a wiki article, formatted as an annex." see answer to D below. D. We don't have Annexes on the English-language Wikipedia. We have files. Files are to be used to illustrate features in an otherwise stand-alone sourced content article. The article that was deleted was no more than the transclusion of the still-existing file.

I hope that answers your questions.

Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:04, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Another idea: why don't you write the article on Navarrese participation in Spanish Government where you can use the File:Deputies Navarre Restoration.JPG to illustrate the participation. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:09, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

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Dear Mr/Mrs Carlossuarez46

Thanks for your prompt answer. I appreciate your speedy responses very much.

Your kind response answers most of my questions, or sort of answers them. I realize you are very busy so I will not investigate details which might seem like splitting hair.

However, since you mentioned it was a speedy deletion, I would still be grateful to learn what happened to the “contest” button.

I would also be grateful for info whether it was “no context” or “simple transclusion” the reason for deletion. You see, I intend to create a wiki article with its only content a table (not an image) with another list of other deputies. If the reason for deletion was “simple transclusion” I guess this new entry would not quality for deletion. If the reason for deletion was “no context” it would qualify for deletion anyway.

Cheers,--Dd1495 (talk) 10:15, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

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Dear Mr/Mrs Carlossuarez46

I appreciate you are quite busy, though given there is a month gone when two of my questions (as above) have been awaiting response, would be grateful for your note.

cheers,--Dd1495 (talk) 12:36, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

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Article deletions
Have you been notifying the authors of the articles you have nominated for deletion? It's not required, but it seems like the best practice. Thanks, Altamel (talk) 01:51, 18 September 2014 (UTC)


 * It's worse than that. You filed 51 AfDs in the course of five hundred edits and two days, and it's obvious -- with as little as three minutes between AfDs -- that you failed to make the cursory checks for sources that WP:BEFORE requires BEFORE you file an AfD. It would be the best thing for you to do to pull ALL these nominations, until the point where you have the time to take the required steps before filing an AfD. I'm afraid the alternative to you doing this within a day is to take this to WP:ANI for further action.   Ravenswing   09:07, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I have to agree here. The first few nominations I've looked through recently, have been pretty far off the mark. You've been here a long time...what's going on? Sergecross73   msg me  12:55, 18 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Which ones are those? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:17, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Your Articles for deletion/Pepsiman (video game) and Articles for deletion/The Kominas (2nd nomination) nominations are what I was referring to. Since then, I looked over some of your other video game-related nominations, and I was having a harder time finding sources for them, so those ones may have been more on target at least... Sergecross73   msg me  18:18, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * (blinks) You're claiming to have done searches for sources on them all? On this one? On this one? Or this one? Or this one? Or this one? Or this one?   Ravenswing   18:24, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Pepsiman has little beyond the mktg campaign with which it was linked, no independent coverage. As for the Kominas, I don't think that the coverage is significant. See WP:TRIVIAL coverage of nearly any band. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:30, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Have you read the AFD for Pepsiman since creating it? As I pointed out, you actually indirectly linked to an independent third party reliable source in your nomination. It's that sort of thing that is making people question some of these sloppy nominations. Sergecross73   msg me  19:23, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Err: you are completely mistaking WP:TRIVIA for something else -- what that guideline refers to is the use of trivia sections, and has nothing to do with the notability of subjects. I don't doubt that your personal view as to how long a source has to be is what it is; it just bears no resemblance to current consensus on the subject (as reflected in unanimous consensus against you in the articles I cited above), nor to the pertinent footnote of the GNG on the subject, and I strongly urge you to better familiarize yourself with that consensus.   Ravenswing   03:54, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

I grimace at the thought of going through any more of your AFD's, however, I've closed several as speedy/snow keeps. I urge you to reconsider some of your nominations or give me the ok to go ahead and speedy close all of them so you may format better nominations and check WP:BEFORE - otherwise, as said, this is odd and disruptive behavior and will be taken to AN/I.  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 01:22, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I went through most of them. Not all were so desperately flawed as the ones I cited above: some I agreed with and voted to Delete; others I disagreed with, but wouldn't have found the nominations egregious if they'd been done singly. But I am troubled: troubled that someone with so terrible a grasp of some important guidelines nonetheless cited them to support his POV, someone who doesn't scruple to cite guidelines that have nothing to do with his point, someone who doesn't have a grasp of current deletion consensus and someone who filed 51 AfDs in a row without paying any attention to WP:BEFORE ... is an admin, someone with the authority to enforce Wikipedia policies.  That's several shades of Not Good.   Ravenswing   02:36, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I started to go to AN/I but stopped thinking it might be best for you considering you're the one who combed through the edits and discovered the 51 some odd AFD's - lord knows if there's any addition recent.  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 02:42, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Any thoughts on all of this, Carlossuarez46? You haven't really engaged me much in discussion other than very vague claims of "no, its not notable or significant". If you'd acknowledge some of these concerns, it'd probably save everyone some time at ANI. Sergecross73  msg me  13:31, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

I've been busy with my dad after his surgery - so I haven't really been on WP for a few days. If you have issues with the nominations, please comment in the AFD's. That the forum for whether or not articles are kept. I'm here to build an encyclopedia - if you want forum shopping and drama, you know where ANI is, but I'm really too busy to do much responding in the next few days. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 15:04, 23 September 2014 (UTC) I'm back after the worst few weeks of my life. Are we to continue where we were or just reflect that there are higher priorities in life than editing WP, we should be nicer to each other, and we all make mistakes. I'll leave it to you. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:19, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, it wouldn't be forumshopping in this situation, considering it'd be the first place where they were being discussed collectively. (Outside of your talk page, where you haven't exactly been very receptive. And people have been bringing it up at the individual AFDs, many of which are being closed as keep.) People are more concerned with the overall picture here - how/why you made so many bad nominations, in such a short period, without any remorse or ownership, with having so much experience with Wikipedia.
 * I really am sympathetic to bigger things taking up your time in real life. It happens to me plenty too. And by all means, take care of that first. That's what matters, this is just a hobby. But when it happens to me, I try to be a little more...I don't know...apologetic? Not for "real life responsibilities", but that you you made here mistakes here along the way. Or maybe you still feel you're not wrong? Fine. But you haven't really articulated yourself very well. You've given more of a "Just deal with it" type vibe, which makes it sound like you don't care.
 * It'd just be nice to have a little more insight. When you get the chance, of course. So you don't end up returning to ANI or admin recall discussions. If you can't even do that much, well, I'd have to start siding with the people who are so upset with you right now... Sergecross73   msg me  16:46, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
 * This isn't a matter of making mistakes; it's pervasive ignorance of several Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Honestly, I endorse Sergecross73's statements: the degree to which you refuse to address these serious questions is very troubling. It's incumbent on you as an admin to know the rules, to learn the rules, to not make them up as you go along and to be responsive to those who have problems with your actions.  If you don't have the time, mental energy or willingness to do so, then do the project a favor and quit as an admin.  Seriously.   Ravenswing   02:39, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what is animating your vehemence. I've addressed your comments - you can choose to ignore my comments. All I can do is promise to do better and forgive your mistakes as well. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:23, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * What "animates" our concern is that you have not addressed these concerns. I state above that you completely misunderstood WP:TRIVIA, and stated so in the applicable AfDs.  You have made no answer to that, either there or here.  I listed above AfDs on which you not merely made no attempt to find sources, as WP:BEFORE requires, but some of which you ignored the sources already listed. You have made no answer to that, either there or here.   Ravenswing   01:20, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:TRIVIAL, a typo. You mentioned 51 Afd's, many of which are already closed, some deleted some kept, others despite 2 weeks no one has piped up with any sources. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:02, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late response, I hadn't noticed being pinged. Anyways, I never intended any harm or Ill-will, I was just trying to get you to talk a bit more, to keep this out of ANI, because of how crazy things can get there. I hope all is well. Sergecross73   msg me  20:49, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Guild of Fine Food
You've tagged this article for deletion because 'nn organisation' - am I right to take that as meaning that you view it as a non-notable organisation? Geopersona (talk) 18:25, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

That isn't so friend
All I'm doing is high.lighting the psychological, sociological and physiological consequences. All of then information on here is unsourcable in regards to accuracy, as it is based on flawed human judgement, not objective fact. Also, current events are relevant and a knowledge of pain is regarded as important in the suicidal community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redzimus (talk • contribs) 18:11, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Edmund F. Brennan deletion -- please undelete
This deletion appears rather clearly inappropriate. US magistrate judges are generally notable under WP:NPOL, and a quick check of the Google cache shows a reasonable stub with an inappropriate sentence tacked on about a third party. Rather than deleting the article entirely, the inappropriate text should have been removed, perhaps RevDel'd. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:25, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Taken to DRV. The comments you placed on my talk page were grossly inappropriate. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 22:15, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Liberty in North Korea
Hi Carlos, I noticed you made a couple changes to the categories section for the Liberty in North Korea article. I'm not sure if you noticed, but I have a peer review request for this article. If you wouldn't mind peer reviewing it, I'd greatly appreciate it! Tonystewart14 (talk) 19:15, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Recall
Did you place yourself open to recall, or do you have recall criteria?  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 15:10, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

nope. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:19, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Safdar


A tag has been placed on Safdar, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Hoax based on the article of actor Fawad Afzal Khan.

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CSD
For things without at least one source? Interesting idea. I'd go with it, but I doubt it would get past the participants at Talk:CSD - especially those who talk a lot but are never actually seen (at least by me) at the CSD operational area, or in patrolling even. It's very like the gentry discussing how the peasants can improve their diet without actually having experienced scratching for a living or knowing what the beggars actually eat anyway. Me, I worked in patrolling edits by recent accounts (not NPP) for three years before getting my mop and going on to delete 38000 pages in three and a half years. My hands are not only dirty, but blood stained. I think some of them have never even deleted a U1 or tagged a G7. Back to your idea, it would have one thing that would upset them - they object to admins 'deciding' on things, making value judgements, etc. No sources is no sources is no sources. As clear cut as a one editor only G7 or a U1. But would you allow Facebook or an own site as the one source? Peridon (talk) 12:48, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Dispatch News Desk
You have deleted a page names "Dispatch News Desk" link to the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatch_News_Desk Its a news agency from pakistan and one of the most famous as its the first online news agency which has started working in Pakistan. The legal authorization can be found on their webpage with the Government of Pakistan. They are also into google news from where i found them and added their name in wiki. For more info you can see this link http://www.dnd.com.pk/about/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.189.64.83 (talk) 06:45, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Every corporation in the US is "registered" with the government and can be found on the state of incorporation's website. Claiming it's on a government website is no more than an a claim that it exists. That it exists does not make it notable. Our WP:GNG does not state that all corporations are inherently notable - articles on non-notable corporations are deleted regularly at WP. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:24, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Deletion: American International Motorcycle Expo (AIMExpo)
Hello, I am following up regarding the American International Motorcycle Expo page you have marked to deleted. For reference, the page may be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_International_Motorcycle_Expo I would greatly appreciate some clarification on why the page should be deleted as I have cited multiple, credidbile and objective/third-party media sources that support the information contained in the listed. Is the request to have the page removed due to a lack of cited articles, the credibility/content of the articles, or something else?

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Philae
Strange thing I just ran into at Philae. Ever since more than eight years ago, the following statement has remained in the article:
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Ébène CyberCity
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Changes are being proposed to this manual of style, and I'm trying to get some background into the history of this paragraph.

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Panama
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Hi Carlos- I'm contacting you about an edit you made way back in 2008. I've just redirected Pipis to the dab page Pipi, and I was wondering if the mention of any Armenian village was appropriate (see your edit from the time). Is that one village known by three different names? I have added it to the dab page at this time, but I'll leave it with you! Josh Milburn (talk) 20:59, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Welsh-speaking people
Given the centuries of persecution suffered by Welsh-speakers (just read the history - it makes for shocking reading), the fact that the Welsh language still exists as a living language is nothing short of a miracle. Naturally therefore, it is of much interest to those interested in the Welsh language, those interested in Welsh current affairs, those interested in minority languages as well as to many members of the public in general, for it to be acknowledged that certain notable public figures e.g. politicians, sportspeople or musicians have the ability to speak Welsh. Indeed, failing to do so seems to suggest that the Welsh language is of no significance, to anybody. Whilst some may argue that the language that one speaks is not actually significant, this viewpoint is likely to be prevalent in individuals with a limited understanding of minority languages/cultures. Put another way, whilst the fact that a notable person can speak English may not be necessarily of interest - mainly due to the fact that English is the third most widely-spoken language in the world - by contrast, when a notable person who happens also to speak Welsh is not acknowledged as a Welsh speaker this is missing a very important point, simply because Welsh is much less prevalent than English. Yes, defining a cohort of Welsh-speaking people is of interest to many people, even if that does not happen to include the person(s) who instigated the deletion of this category in the first place. Therefore, just as the section 'Notable people with the name Prabhu', or 'Category:Black British people', for example, may not be of interest to a certain individuals, the fact that these Categories/Sections exist confirm the fact that they are of interest to at least some Wikipedia users, and the same is true for 'Category:Welsh-speaking people'. I hope that the majority of Wikipedia users/editors wish to build a more informative and inclusive encyclopaedia, and not an encyclopaedia that projects an Anglo-American bias whereby smaller cultures and languages are dismissed. I therefore call upon those who instigated this deletion to see beyond their possible prejudices, and remain true to Jimmy Wales' Statement of Principles by re-instating this category without further delay please as many useful links have been lost with the current deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haul~cywiki (talk • contribs) 19:26, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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2015 Thalys train attack

''The obvious problem is a content dispute and many the participants are behaving substandardly. Best to protect the article for a time''

Advice requested.

Q. Some articles in Wikipedia don't have much editor participation. This can lead to distorted and substandard behavior. Can you think of a way to improve on this?

Possible A. Difficult question. The concept of editors presenting a view and having a moderator decide on the merits makes sense but there is no such mechanism in Wikipedia, however, wise that might be.

Your answer:

Q. Why not act on your suggestion of full page protection? Instead of empowering some editors that behave badly, why not randomly pick a page protected version such as the version in effect on 8:30 on September 11, 2015 (approximate time of 9-11 attack), or 00:01 September 11 2015, or, if you really want a fresh start then 00:01 on September 1, 2015. I have not looked at the version at that time.

Q. How to make editors stop behaving substandarly. I am starting a program to act better than those other people. Can you be my unofficial advisor and resource? I even offered a cookie to a bad user and he just yelled at me for it.

Sandra opposed to terrorism (talk) 15:05, 17 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't usually like to take 'squabbles' onto other user's pages, but this is 'the bad user's yelling'. and this is the 'cookie' Pincrete (talk) 16:50, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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Disruptive tags
Don't tag figures as 'citation needed' when the citation is already there and can be checked by anyone, as you did at Andarum language. If you can't be bothered to confirm the citation, then don't edit at all. — kwami (talk) 19:53, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

FYI, an article like Yele language should not have a DEFAULTSORT template at all. Those are intended solely to alphabetize articles in categories when the categories cannot do that properly, e.g. due to strange characters in the title. If you add DEFAULTSORT to an article and it is moved, it will no longer sort properly in its categories. (Yes, I know, there are thousands of articles with unnecessary DEFAULTSORT templates. We should get a bot to remove them all, just haven't bothered yet.) — kwami (talk) 19:56, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

And please stop removing the categories from unclassified languages. It's disruptive. — kwami (talk) 20:10, 16 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The citation was not cited; no one need go looking for a figure without a footnote to a slew of references to see if ANY support it. Second, why did you have Yele sorted to "Yeli Dnye Language", some WP:OR on your part. That's the dreadful condition in which you left it, if you cannot clean up after yourself, please don't edit. And third, if the language is "unclassified" then your putting it in a language family category is vandalism: "a deliberate attempt to damage Wikipedia." As I've told you on your talk page - you cannot place items in mutually exclusive categories. If the best and equally reliable sources conflict, the safer route is to put them in neither category. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:36, 16 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Okay, you're either a troll or clueless. Either way you shouldn't be editing articles. Nothing you just said was true. Well, technically it was true that we didn't cite the citation, but since when do we ever cite citations? Second, why did you kill your mother? (I.e., if you add a category to an article that contains an error, should you no longer edit because you didn't fix the error?) Finally, following sources is not "vandalism", and if you're incapable of grasping that, then by WP:competence is required you really shouldn't be here. As for deleting all categories so as not to have to choose, that would be a deliberate attempt that damages Wikipedia. — kwami (talk) 22:13, 16 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Read WP:CIVIL because I think you're WP:NOTHERE. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:09, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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Deletion of Erdős number information
Hi! I noticed that in the past you've been involved in discussion of the significance, or lack thereof, of Erdős numbers. There's some guy going around deleting Erdős number information from Wikipedia articles; I recently reverted one such deletion. Your point of view on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

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Translation/identification question
Blessings brother!! I am interested in this 1838 book -- Il legato di un vecchio ai giovani della sua patria

I am especially interested in understanding this passage on page 28:


 * Il selvaggio Nomado ex lege arrestato nelle spelonche dallo spavento, e dall'ammirazione con l'imponente spettacolo delle meteore, per la prima volta rivolse sopra se stesso lo sguardo della debole ragione, conobbe un potere fuori di lui più colossale della sua erculea brutalità, e per la prima volta concepì un culto.


 * La robusta immaginazione gli fe ravvisare gli effetti come causa, quindi deificando i fenomeni naturali divenne un Pandeista, un istitutore della Mitologia, un sacerdote, un Augure.

Can you tell me what this means in English? Would this be good as a source for this project? I can not quite figure out if authorship is disclosed here. Blessings!! Pandeist (talk) 23:47, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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Proposal to rename/upmerge category
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Towns and Villages in Armenia
Hi,

I listed 66 settlements that doesn't have any articles in Armenian wiki and others wikis

For Examples Nerkin-Chambarak, Verin-Chambarak are not towns and I Think must be merged to Chambarak

According to this page > Պատմություն (Ճամբարակ քաղաքը ձևավորվել է երեք բնակավայրերի միացումից. դրանք են Կրասնոսելսկը, Վերին Ճամբարակն ու Ներքին Ճամբարակը) Chambark it is consits of three parts

What do you think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Modern Sciences (talk • contribs) 08:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)


 * The sources seem to be mixed on whether they are separate or merely part of a single settlement. Merge as you see fit. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:04, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

I listed of theses 66 settlements province by province For example > Tavush province : Akhbrak, Akhkikhli, Akhum, Geyarchin, Agdan, Turdzhan, Papanino, and Akhsu, Armenia

that have the same problem. I think you used old sources for creating these articles that some of these settlements that exists before Independence of Armenia in 1991. It is Ok that I merged them in correct towns or villages after I will compare them with Armenian Wikipedia and other Sources Modern Sciences (talk) 21:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:52, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

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your assistance please...
You closed Articles for deletion/Byron Hyde, in 2007. Hyde is a figure of import for those who consider they have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and, more recently, for those who suspect routine vaccinations trigger auto-immune disorders.

I agree with those in the delete camp, that IF all the coverage of him was in unreliable and non-authoritative publications from within the groups who consider him a leading figure he wouldn't come close to measuring up to our criteria for notability.

On the other hand, WP:Wikipedia is not censored. When mainstream publications start to cover him, then he does start to have factors that add to his notability. If mainstream publications cover him, we shouldn't hold back from covering him, merely because we think his work is questionable.

I don't have a dog in this fight. I don't currently know anyone who thinks they have CFS, or who doesn't believe in vaccination. But I spent some time yesterday looking to see whether Hyde did have some measure of wikipedia notability. If he does have enough for an article I think we should cover him. I don't think there is any topic that can't be covered from a neutral point of view, with enough effort. I think the draft I prepared, at User:Geo Swan/Byron Hyde, is neutrally written, but falls short of our current notability criteria.

I am going to make two requests of you. Could you graft the previous revision history of Byron Hyde to User:Geo Swan/Byron Hyde? My second request? Could you graft the previous revision history of Byron Marshall Hyde to User:Geo Swan/Byron Hyde?

Byron Hyde has been protected. If I decided my draft was ready for the main article space I'd have to get it unprotected. I'll cross that bridge if I come to that point.

Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 13:55, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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1966
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A page about an Iranian village
Hi, noting that there are several contribs by you on pages and navboxes about Iranian villages, I report this "fact". Half an hour ago i marked as patrolled the new page Seirgah (this version) first contrib of a new user. Searching for the eventual article in Farsi (fa:سیرگاه), to update the link on Wikidata, I noticed that it was created by you as Sirgah. The strange thing was that an anon (12.247.217.42), some hour before the creation of "Seirgah", changed the text on Sirgah and on the Template:Chalus County (both edited by you). Btw, I reverted both anon edits and transformed Seirgah in a redirect to Sirgah. Btw, the Talk:Seirgah, previously created by me for wikiprojects, and after transformed in a redirect to Talk:Sirgah, has been tagged for speedy deletion by me (it's IMHO redundant and is not a "redir from move"). I reported this to you just to ask if, in your opinion (due to your contribs on that pages), the page Seirgah is plausible as redirect. On Google I found at almost nothing (differently from "Sirgah"), but I'm not an expert of transliteration from Farsi to Latin alphabet (so, it should be valid). Just to be sure that Mapmeister's and anon contribs are not a joke/vandalism. Regards, and sorry for the length of the message. --Dэя-Бøяg 23:36, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice. Transliteration schemes differ, because we are an English language encyclopedia, we ought to follow that used by the UK and US governments that transliterated the character "ي" as "i", not as "ei", as is done in French, e.g.. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 02:32, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for explaination and attention. Btw, because of this 2nd edit by Mapmeister (reverted), I added a standard rename request in the talk, and voted "oppose" after your explaination above. I'll notice it to Mapmeister too, so he can vote and explain the reasons. I thin you too will vote there. Regards. --Dэя-Бøяg 22:52, 3 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the efforts to keep the integrity of the name. However, a quick google search will show that both spellings are used. Therefore, this is not a joke or vandalism. The mistake is that while it's written in Farsi that way (typed digitally), the actual written word has an extra character (mark) that is not included because of technical reasons and brevity. These marks indicate a different quality of the vowel. An example of this is with German umlauts. Sirgah, the way it is currently transliterated means place of garlic, when it should stand for place of traveling as in the town's meaning (pronounced Seirgah). The native readers understand how it should be pronounced when reading the simplified Farsi version, and the more accurate transliteration is Seirgah, even if previously spelled differently by other people or governments. The point of this is to make it more accurate, not follow what others did previously en mass without understanding full details of another language. I have also asked google maps to update, but I don't think they will since they are citing Wikipedia. This is my first wiki edit. Regards. Mapmeister (talk) 16:15, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:32, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Targawar


A tag has been placed on Targawar, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. (See section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Wikipedia has standards for the minimum necessary information to be included in short articles; you can see these at Wikipedia:Stub. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
 * It is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. (See section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Wikipedia has standards for the minimum necessary information to be included in short articles; you can see these at Wikipedia:Stub. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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 removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here.  Spike789    🇺🇸   01:30, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Altamirano, Guanajuato
Hello! While looking through old orphaned articles I stumbled upon Altamirano, Guanajuato which you created long ago (2008) and has been tagged as an orphan since 2009. I'm having some trouble verifying the villages existence and finding a place to de-orphan it. The listed reference on the page is dead and isn't archived. The listed coordinates seem to point to Ciudad Manuel Doblado. Any chance you could take a look? If you could find a ref and maybe even de-orphan the article that would be excellent! I suspect the issue is partially that I don't speak Spanish and know nothing about Mexico. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks a bunch! Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 05:39, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Redirect Balangu listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Balagu. Since you had some involvement with the RedirectName redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. I don't have any particular preferred outcome, but on cuisine of Nigeria Balagu is a meat dish, and this should not wikilink to a place in Iran ;) Elinruby (talk) 19:41, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Skynorth talk2me! 13:42, 28 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skynorth (talk • contribs)

Your contributed article, Baba Meydan-e Zir-e Rah


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Baba Meydan-e Zir-e Rah. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Baba Meydan-e Zirrah. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Baba Meydan-e Zirrah – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, 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 removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. MohammadtheEditor (talk) 06:51, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Baba Meydan-e Sofla


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Baba Meydan-e Sofla. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Baba Meydan-e Zirrah. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Baba Meydan-e Zirrah – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, 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 removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. MohammadtheEditor (talk) 06:54, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Two different places?
Hi! While trying to untangle redirects and hatnotes, I ran across two articles, Bibiheybət and Xanlar, Baku that seem to locate to the same place in Azerbaijan. You created both of these back in 2008. Plus, an alternate name for Xanlar is given as "Bibi-Eybat". Are they really separate places that have been conflated by subsequent editors? Or old and new names of the same place? Or...? Unfortunately, the link for Bibiheybət in GEOnet doesn't work, so I can't compare that way. I'd appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to check them out. Thanks. — Gorthian (talk) 06:13, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Altamirano, Guanajuato


The article Altamirano, Guanajuato has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * I can't find any evidence this place exists. The listed reference on the page is dead and isn't archived. The listed coordinates seem to point to Ciudad Manuel Doblado.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. hated
 * I mentioned this farther up on your talk page and at WP:Mexico but haven't heard anything from either. If you can find a source verifying the village exists, or would prefer the broader input of a WP:AfD discussion, feel free to remove the PROD tag. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 04:39, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Iranian Places
Hi.

I have long admired the numerous articles you have created using Iranian census data.

I wish to recreate this for India. As I am sure you are aware, India is second only to China in the number of citizens using Internet and is leading the way with low cost mobile internet. There are also a variety of initiates to give people free Wikipedia access and so I think Indians could benefit from something smilier to what you have created for Iran. In the short-term, this will hopefully curb Indians with poor English creating pages for unremarkable villages without sources; which is a chagrin of many Wikipedia editors including myself.

I have the publicly available Indian census data for the year 2011 which includes: population of the place, literacy, caste makeup and whether the individuals are long-term or short-term workers.

How were you able to do this for Iran? How could I do this with Indian census data?

I appreciate your advice.

Failosopher (talk) 22:54, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Is there some sort of automated software I could use. Sorry to trouble you again, Failosopher (talk) 17:09, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this. Would you pointing me in the direction of some more information regarding how to implement this.

Failosopher (talk) 21:55, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Wow I am very impressed. That must have taken you a long long time. Wikipedia 'tis truly a labour of love.

Merging Lake Parishan and Dasht-e Arzhan
I am thinking about merging these two articles, because this whole area is of ecological importance, indeed, it is called "Arzhan and Parishan Protected Zone." Leo1pard (talk) 04:42, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Maybe by putting them together as a new article called "Arzhan and Parishan Protected Zone." Leo1pard (talk) 06:22, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Or maybe redirecting Lake Parishan to Arzhan and Parishan Protected Zone, and leaving Dasht-e Arzhan to be an article on the town. Leo1pard (talk) 06:41, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Kavirat Rural District (dismabiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Kavirat Rural District (dismabiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Kavirat Rural District (dismabiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Thryduulf (talk) 18:15, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Request for Comment on the guidelines regarding "joke" categories
This is a notice that a discussion you participated in, either at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents or at Categories for discussion/Log/2017 February 8 has resulted in a Request for comment at Wikipedia talk:User categories ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants   Tell me all about it.  20:39, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

Guideline and policy news
 * A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
 * AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
 * Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
 * The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

Technical news
 * A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
 * Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
 * A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Genze


A tag has been placed on Genze, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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 removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the.  Quasar G  t - c 20:35, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Elizabeth Shown Mills
As a professional genealogist, I was surprised that there was no lemma for one of the leaders in our field, Elizabeth Shown Mills. When I tried to search for her page, I found that it had existed at one time and was deleted after some confusion. I was referred to your page to discuss this before ading it again. Could the deletion be reconsidered? She is one of the foremost writers, presenters, and researchers in our field and undoubtedly is well-known enough to warrant her presence in Wikipedia. Yhoitink (talk) 21:31, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Xnuala • CJ • Oldelpaso • Berean Hunter • Jimbo Wales • Andrew c • Karanacs • Modemac • Scott

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
 * The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
 * An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
 * After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news
 * After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
 * Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

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Iran's Cites
HI, I collected a list of cities which don't have Interwiki to enwiki would you please help to create or connect them? without article in enwiki and full list Yamaha5 (talk) 17:39, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. CopernicusAD (u) (t) :) 17:51, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
 * Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
 * There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
 * Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous
 * Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
 * Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
 * An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news
 * Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Happyme22 • Dragons flight
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Zad68

Guideline and policy news
 * The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news
 * Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
 * A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous
 * A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
 * A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
 * Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
 * A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
 * An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news
 * LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
 * The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jtrrs0 (talk) 04:29, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Nakon • Scott
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news
 * ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
 * Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news
 * You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
 * Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
 * In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration
 * Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

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Invitation to Admin confidence survey
Hello,

Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

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Revolutionary War listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Revolutionary War. Since you had some involvement with the Revolutionary War redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Appah Rao (talk) 05:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
 * Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news
 * You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration
 * Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
 * A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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Kachi in Azerbaijan
Hi, a few years ago you added hatnotes to Kachi (now moved to Kachi, Haripur) and to pointing to Qax (city) and Katex respectively, both being places in Azerbaijan. Reading the articles I don't quite get why. Do you happen to remember? – Uanfala 21:04, 4 October 2017 (UTC)


 * When the article was at Kachi, someone looking for another place with that name needed to be notified where that article was. Now there is no need since Kachi has been moved to an unambiguous title. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:20, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * But Kachi is now a dab page which does not have a link to either of the two places in Azerbaijan. I haven't addded a link because I didn't find any mention in those articles that the places are known as "Kachi" and a cursory google search didn't seem to reveal much. That's kind of what I'm getting at: is "Kachi" an alternative name for either of the two places in Azerbaijan? – Uanfala 09:09, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Category:Italian medical doctors has been nominated for discussion
Category:Italian medical doctors, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 18:15, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017). Administrator changes
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Arbitration
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Obituaries
 * The Wikipedia community has recently learned that (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as . Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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Kohal, Iran (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Kohal, Iran (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Kohal, Iran (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 13:53, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Manesh


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

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Berek (talk) 07:02, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

ANI Experiences survey
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news
 * Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
 * A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration
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Seasons' Greetings
...to you and yours, from Canada's Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:03, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Sheykh Rash


A tag has been placed on Sheykh Rash requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

"page does not meet notability criteria"

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Benevmull (talk) 04:01, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * As a side note, I have declined this speedy deletion request per WP:GEOLAND. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 14:07, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017). Administrator changes
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Bureaucrat changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
 * The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration
 * Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.

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Goft listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Goft. Since you had some involvement with the Goft redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. – Davey 2010 Talk 22:51, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
 * Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news
 * A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Mangoe (talk) 21:51, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
 * Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
 * A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
 * A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news
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 * The edit filter has a new feature  that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards:, , , ,.

Obituaries
 * Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Quality vs. Quantity?
Would you like to take a moment and describe your views on the topic of quality vs. quantity at User:Eddie891/sandbox/Quality v. Quantity for a Wikipedia Signpost Report? Eddie891 Talk Work 18:17, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

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

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

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Train accidents and incidents
I have closed this CfD discussion, so you can go ahead nominating the subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:32, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
 * Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
 * The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
 * The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news
 * There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous
 * A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
 * The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Your article Zagh Marz
Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Zagh Marz to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:50, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * billinghurst, the original page that Carlos submitted was in English. Perhaps there's an option available to manually uncheck warning the original content editor in Twinkle in cases like this. Killiondude (talk) 22:07, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Apologies Carlossuarez46 for that message ending up here. Thanks dude, that now makes sense of the message on my talk page. There is a check box and I thought I had checked it. So I either I missed it, or it didn't function, presuming the former, not the latter. Geeze that is an ugly templated message, why do we do such messages? — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:31, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
 * A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news
 * AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new  function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
 * When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
 * The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
 * There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries
 * (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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some years ago
you made a comment at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Petojo_Utara,_Gambir - I am curious as to whether you still support unreferenced low level stubs that havent been touched since the 2012 querying of the status of the stubs - I have no problems if your ideas are the same or have changed at all - it is just the low level village stubs in the Indonesian project have not been touched - and as there are some very slow evolutionary aspects of the Indonesian project - I would be genuinely interested to know your opinion at this stage. JarrahTree 10:34, 23 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I think the way is to make sure what another editor at the old afd, and one has said today at the Indonesian noticeboard, to name them in the next order above in the adsministrative framework... perhaps might be a resolution. JarrahTree 12:20, 23 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for you considered response - appreciated that you took the time to response. The following is said in AGF.
 * Yup so the Indonesian project has had many many over the years random fly by editors who create a vast array of UNDUE issues by unrepresentative globs of low level never ever to be edited again crap, technically the crap remains untouched and unsightly due to the principals you expound. And it is not as if I havent noticed even the more astonishing edits of large lists of names of villages by editors who should know better.  Oh well, as I have said thanks, I mean it, but hey the legacy the principle leaves makes the place look like a very unthought out mess.  JarrahTree 00:04, 24 May 2018 (UTC)


 * your responses are much appreciated. There are indeed some aspects of this collussus which have features that make some people leave, some people go crazy and muck about, and other things where they grind into passive aggressive responses.  Most longer term existing editors obviously have pet peeves, only some of which eventually get resolved. I supposemy disconcerted askew glance at that which the outreach/glam people have very disorganised information on wikipedia english and seem quite disinterested in cleaning up after themselves.. or a whole range of other peculiar quirks.  Your consideration to respond is much appreciated.  Lets live in hope that somehow in the fullness of time (there I have said it), some aspects of every village on the planet is addressed, somehow. JarrahTree 08:40, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ab Yad


A tag has been placed on Ab Yad requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

"Yad different with Bad. Ab Bad (disambiguation) is there"

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Fatemi ♪ 22:11, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018). Administrator changes
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 * Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
 * Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news
 * IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
 * There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
 * It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration
 * A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

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 * In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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Central Mackay Coast
Central Mackay Coast is an IBRA biogeographic region in Australia. When plants and animals are found in the region, they often contain a (red) link to it. I have been trying to subset the IBRA page so that people wanting to know about each bioregion don't have to scroll through all 89 bioregions plus their subregioms. I would prefer to write an article on Central Mackay Coast (biogeographic region) so that people would be less tempted to add extraneous and irrelevant stuff to it, but I am stuck with the fact that the author(s) of the [IBRA]] page called it Central Mackay Coast and there are already many links to this bioregion.... So at this point I am going  ahead, and like you I hope there will be no self-promotional stuff added to it.. MargaretRDonald (talk) 07:24, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * If it will be duplicative, I would suggest writing in the current article and pruning the non-biogeographic stuff. The current article is the one that shows up in the template for all the IBRA's. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 16:55, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The current article is the one I just wrote and contains nothing which is not about the biogeographic region. I couldn't find the old article. MargaretRDonald (talk) 01:07, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Then it should be fine. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:17, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Arshag Chobanian
Armenians are "people from Armenia, or of Armenian descent". All Armenians are Armenian, some just happen to be nationals of Armenia. Arshag was not a Turkish writer, so the category should be "writers of Turkey" if you want to include him. --RaffiKojian (talk) 16:42, 19 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you, that would be quite helpful. --RaffiKojian (talk) 04:40, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
 * A request for comment closed with a consensus that the promising draft template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news
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 * Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon (Codemirror-icon.png) in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Outingdale
Hi.

Do you have the Durham book that cites Mars as the former name for Outingdale (i.e. have you verified the cite)? It's not available online or in a local library, so I spent some time trying to find an alternate source. I don't remember exactly why, and should have done a better job documenting my research, but I felt that it was unlikely to be true.

Thanks, —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 07:10, 25 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes, I do; and yes it does. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:02, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Does he cite his source(s) or give any more details? —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 21:27, 25 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I'll check when I get home. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:29, 25 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Durham cites a map from a 30' Placerville quadrangle map of 1893. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:55, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. I found the map and see Mars on it. I added a reference to it, since it's the only freely available online source. "Outingdale Resort" seems out of place, though, based on articles from the local paper here and here, which says it's a subdivision in the area (i.e. a tract or two, probably some cabins at the river, either outside the townsite or within it), not really an alternate name for the whole settlement. I suggest removing it. —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 23:04, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Durham has that name. I will look to find that source when I'm home this weekend. Durham uses lots of USGS maps as sources and may have misinterpreted a name for a portion for a name for the whole. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:12, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
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 * Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

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outdated sources
There are modern sources available for the geography of the ancient world, that take into account the many discoveries and reinterpretations since the 1850's. I;m not sure the old sources can really be considered reliable.  DGG ( talk ) 01:09, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2018
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Arbitration
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Northern California census figures
Hello. Where are you getting the additions you are making to Northern California census figures, and why aren't you using WP:Edit summaries? Thanks for responding. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
 * You answered on my Talk page instead of here. Please stop all your additions until you get WP:Consensus for these changes, which are (in my opinion) petty and ungrammatical. Thank you. I will file a WP:Request for comment to get more eyes on your changes. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 19:26, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018). Administrator changes
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 * Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
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Arbitration
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 * The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
 * Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
 * A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news
 * Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
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Arbitration
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Alea
Hi, your addition of Alea (Thessaly) is a duplicate of Alea (Arcadia). It comes from a mistake in Stephanus, because the correct city is the one in Arcadia. You quoted Hansen & Nielsen (p. 678), but they say there that "A number of toponyms are left out of consideration here, since they cannot be shown to denote historical settlements in existence in the Archaic and/or Classical periods or because they are incorrectly ascribed to Thessalia. They include Aiginion, Alea, etc.". Can you therefore delete the page? T8612 (talk) 00:07, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

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Pepsiman (video game)
I noticed that you nominated it for deletion a few years ago. Coincidentally, I'm going through old gaming mags from the era, and have noticed that Pepsiman got a preview in the Spanish gaming magazine Superjuegos #87, p. 28. Pretty much all officially released console games are going to be notable, but for the JP only ones, the sources might be a bit more obscure, like Euro gaming mags. Harizotoh9 (talk) 10:45, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018). Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
 * A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
 * A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news
 * Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
 * To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
 * Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
 * Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries
 * (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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