User talk:DannyS712/Archive 1

Welcome
Thank you so much for the warm welcome DannyS712 (talk) 19:52, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello
Hello DannyS712 and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your counter-vandalism work recently. When you become autoconfirmed, you may try out Twinkle, a great tool for dealing with vandalism and maintenance work. When you revert vandalism anywhere, you may warn the user by using proper templates in Template messages/User talk namespace. If you have any questions, you may ask on my talk page, at the Teahouse or help desk. Regards —AE  ( talk  •  contributions ) 07:27, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

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 * Thanks! DannyS712 (talk) 12:14, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Talkback
—  Newslinger  talk   09:41, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

פיטר מלץ
כדובר עברית תוכל לקרוא את המאמר בעברית ואני מקווה שתסיר את ההתנגדות ששמת לתרגום לאנגלית. --Yoavd (talk) 06:12, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Ways to improve List of TeX extensions
Hi, I'm Meatsgains. DannyS712, thanks for creating List of TeX extensions!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Consider providing reliable sources to strengthen the page's verifiability.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

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Article Maria Marshall
Hello, I linked the article for it not to be anymore orphan and removed your tag. All my very best, Philipe49730--Philippe49730 (talk) 17:19, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * thank you for your work, and for you prompt response. However, may I suggest that in the future, you remember to include an edit summary with your dif? If you want any help, feel free to reach out. --DannyS712 (talk) 19:45, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Special Counsel investigation navbox
Greetings ! I have expanded the navbox you created for Special Counsel investigation (2017–present), and included it in all relevant articles. Hope this helps. Thanks for your work. — JFG talk 11:18, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
 * thank you so much! I wasn't sure if I should put it on all of the pages, so I only put it on the core ones (main page, timelines, reactions, legal teams). Thanks for the help. I'll try to keep it updated as the investigation progresses, but any future help will be welcome. --DannyS712 (talk) 15:16, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Julius Scherzer has been accepted
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User talk:155.93.255.174
Hi Danny! You may just leave a standard level 1 vandalism template. Thanks ― Abelmoschus  Esculentus  09:24, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. --DannyS712 (talk) 16:27, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

CVUA
I will try to get to it tonight. From this point, what I help you with is really up to you. By that, I mean you can decide what field/type of anti-vandalism you want to focus on. Any thoughts? Vermont (talk) 18:12, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd like to get to the point where I would pass requirements for rollback rights, to more easily combat vandalism. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:13, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Alright. We’ll start with normal RecentChanges, manually. I will try to make an instructional video of sorts tomorrow, which should help efficiency in anti-vandalism patrolling. I also do cross-wiki anti-vandalism, so if you’re interested in that we can talk about it once this CVUA course is finished. Have you considered using IRC? Vermont (talk) 18:19, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer not to use it. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:40, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll go over your responses later today. Vermont (talk) 12:26, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Good ANEW report, by the way. Vermont (talk) 19:44, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Why was the previous edit not accepted?
Why have you not included most of Jennifer Winget's awards she's won through out the years. It simply means we are not including half of her acheivements on her page which is sheer injustice to her talent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adising (talk • contribs) 09:13, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * It was not, and with your newer edit request still is not, clear what you are adding and what your sources are. If you need help with formatting the table, feel free to ask for help, or try using the visual editor. --DannyS712 (talk) 17:06, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Your G13 tags
Hi DannyS712, WP:G13 speedy deletion does not apply to pages in the User namespace unless they have a AfC submission template on them. Many of your recent G13 tags are invalid for this reason. Do you think you could help in reverting your recent tags? Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 20:57, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't realize. Is there another tag for userspace drafts that are not AFC submissions but have likewise not been edited for a while? --DannyS712 (talk) 21:02, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, my understanding is that the current community consensus is that these drafts should not be speedily deleted, no matter how old they get. If there is a compelling reason to delete beyond just abandonment, I'm afraid WP:MFD is the only real option. I think it might be worthwhile to start a discussion at WP:VPP or someplace like that about what to do with these old drafts in the near future. Mz7 (talk) 21:10, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Would PROD apply? --DannyS712 (talk) 21:11, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * No, PROD only applies to articles in the mainspace and files. Incidentally, the first draft I looked at, User:Bbridgens/Kindred (novel 2010), I actually deleted per WP:G11 because it was clearly trying to advertise a book on Amazon. Mz7 (talk) 21:13, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ I think? Thanks for the help. Sorry for messing up. --DannyS712 (talk) 21:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Solid, thank you for your help! Mz7 (talk) 21:29, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Guayas (chief)
Hello DannyS712. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Guayas (chief), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: a chief of a civilization that existed more than 400 years ago is certainly sufficiently significant to pass A7. Thank you. So Why  12:41, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Push Up Records
Hello DannyS712. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Push Up Records, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Being part of a notable entity indicates importance/significance (WP:CCSI, WP:CCSI). Thank you. So Why  12:42, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Graph for the List of countries by GDP (nominal) section
Sadly I can't upload the file through the Upload Wizard because my account is not confirmed yet (I have less than 10 edits on it). Do I need to check an option to give you permission to use my file, or is a simple written confirmation enough? If so, then, of course, you can use this file as you wish. Thank you for answering me and have a nice evening. Nobody2017 (talk) 21:11, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I can upload it for you, but I just want to make sure you understand that you are okay with me selecting the option labeled "This file was given to me by its owner" and that you agree to the statement: "The copyright owner of this file has given it to me for uploading on Wikipedia. I can provide evidence that they have agreed to release it under a free license, for free use by anybody and for any purpose." --DannyS712 (talk) 22:24, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Ahah YES I agree with all of this, go ahead! Nobody2017 (talk) 08:46, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ --DannyS712 (talk) 17:56, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Rollback granted
Hi DannyS712. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3ADannyS712 enabled] rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback: If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! The SandDoctor Talk 22:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
 * Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
 * Rollback should never be used to edit war.
 * If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
 * Use common sense.
 * thanks! I'll test it out at Administrators' guide/Deleting/delete. --DannyS712 (talk) 00:23, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! If you have any questions, please do let me know. -- The SandDoctor Talk 00:30, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * will do! Thanks for being so responsive. --DannyS712 (talk) 00:31, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I just happened to be online at the time and checking PERM/RB . Have fun! -- The SandDoctor Talk 00:32, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Bad Bad Hats
Hello DannyS712. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Bad Bad Hats, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: '''They are real band which releases on a label with a Wikipedia article. Coverage in Rolling Stone and Pitchfork (website) indicates they might pass WP:BAND at an WP:AFD discussion. Apologies for this appearing in blodface, that's just how the script formats a speedy decline.''' Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 08:43, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the Avigdor Lieberman edit
I means a lot. I also apologize for an earlier edit I made, as I thought you were David Johnson. He made a typo in his edit to the Lieberman page.68.47.64.121 (talk) 20:25, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:54, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Tuskegee syphilis experiment
My edit to Tuskegee syphilis experiment was simply correcting the name of the link. The link goes to the page Unethical human experimentation in the United States. The judgement of whether this experiment was ethical is made in the title of that page and the inclusion of the link on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.203.125.56 (talk) 06:17, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
 * you were right. I shouldn't have reverted you. --DannyS712 (talk) 06:27, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: SunPy
Hello DannyS712. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of SunPy, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 cannot be applied to software. Thank you. So Why  11:08, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Estadio Los Manantiales
Hello DannyS712, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Estadio Los Manantiales, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 cannot be applied to towns or places. If you are interested in learning more about how speedy deletion works, I have compiled a list of helpful pages at User:SoWhy/SDA. You can of course also contact me if you have questions. Thank you. So Why  11:10, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: European Network of Councils for the Judiciary
Hello DannyS712. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of European Network of Councils for the Judiciary, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: '''was co-established by a notable person (Susan Denham), quite a few hits on GNews as well. Use WP:AFD instead if necessary.''' Thank you. So Why  11:15, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Imbellus
Please contact me about your deletion of this article. Keith Henson (talk) 18:10, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * You left a msg "If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator."


 * I am attempting to do that. Keith Henson (talk) 16:05, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I only requested that the page be deleted. The deleting administrator was GB fan. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:48, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Stale
Was it too late? I thought as much, but I decided to try. It doesn't matter--I hope our readers enjoy the article anyway!Zigzig20s (talk) 10:26, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
 * yes, it was. Sorry. Also, you commented here while I was posting on your talk page, lol. --DannyS712 (talk) 10:27, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * ✅ --DannyS712 (talk) 03:12, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Inappropriate close
This close at ITN was inappropriate and I've undone it. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates&diff=871525125&oldid=871523244&diffmode=source]. A discussion where most editors voted to Wait is certainly not resolved and it is too soon for a "no consensus to post" close - discussions at ITN are posted for the day the event happened, they are not posted again later when there have been more developments. Seraphim System ( talk ) 18:19, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry I undid it without asking you first, but I edit conflicted as I was posting my support rationale. Seraphim System  ( talk ) 18:20, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * thanks for the explanation. Sorry for the inappropriate close, I won't do so again. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:21, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Np, it hasn't even been 24 hours so I was waiting to see what others said before posting my own support rationale. It looks like the impact of damage is going to be downplayed, based on the tone of today's coverage, we may not receive more details about how it has impacted the effect families, but I would like to leave it open to see how things develop. Seraphim System  ( talk ) 18:29, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * you probably should have mentioned that you were the nominator for that ITN item. It's all water under the bridge now, and I won't try to close it a second time, but you support was expected as the nominator, and I took that into account. When I said that it could be posted later, I meant that it could be reopened if it was not stale by the time that damage and casualty figures were released. --DannyS712 (talk) 19:56, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok, but nominators may want to explain their support at some point in the discussion, which I was about to do when I found the discussion has closed. Anyway, it's not a big deal, but imo a discussion should be open at least 24 hours before it's closed (and at ITN usually longer). Seraphim System  ( talk ) 20:00, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Script
Hi Danny. I made a script here which can tag or untag pages. You may try it out. Thanks ― Abelmoschus Esculentus talk /  contribs 10:39, 2 December 2018 (UTC)


 * thanks! I'll test it out when I have time. --DannyS712 test (talk) 20:40, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

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G13
I appreciate your interest in working on the WP:ABANDONED project. WP:G13 does not apply to random abandoned userspace pages. They have to be be submitted to AfC. I wouod like it to apply, I think it should apply, but that is not current reality. There are other ways like WP:U5 and WP:G11 to action most of these pages. Legacypac (talk) 23:44, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * How could I propose that it apply to these random abandoned userspace pages. Since they aren't officially AfC, maybe pages created with the "Article Wizard" that haven't been edited in a year? Maybe a prod-like system to give the author time to respond? Idk, I'm just trying to help --DannyS712 (talk) 23:46, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

I don't think we need to go through the pain of an expanding G13 debate when we have other tools. I've improved the guidemce on how to process the drafts. If G11 or G12 or attack or hoax use those. If if was copied to mainspace or topic exists just redirect. If ready for mainspace move it or submit to AfC. If useful, plausibly notable topic consider moving it to Draft space for others to discover (use edit summary to say why the move). If in Draft for 6 months unedited it will get swept away G13 but we gave the page a chance. Every single abandoned user draft page can be handled via one of these strategies. Love the help, been doing those for years and it is a huge job. Sometimes I find a good topic which makes it worth it, and a lot of spam is killed in the process. Legacypac (talk) 23:54, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * so for abandoned pages, I can just move them to drafts without talking to the owner? Or, I can just submit them to AfC? --DannyS712 (talk) 23:55, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, with caution. If you can CSD them do it now. Only move or AfC submit decent topics, and only AfC submit ones that look ready for mainspace as we don't want to stuff up AfC with extra crap. We are generally dealing with creators (never owners) who are inactive so talking to them is pointless. I do like to check the editors controbution to make sure they are inactive first. We all release our contributions for use by anyone for any purpose. Legacypac (talk) 00:00, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * so for topics that are not decent enough for AfC or draft space, what should I do? Nothing? --DannyS712 (talk) 00:01, 4 December 2018 (UTC)


 * If you can't redirect or CSD consider using MfD. You can also just blank useless crap that is not worth having an MfD over. Legacypac (talk) 00:03, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

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forbes 2018
Vijay(actor) article no.26 indian actor 2018 salary http://www.forbesindia.com/lists/2018-celebrity-100/1735/3 try this in the article  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.196.5.222 (talk) 18:16, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * What? Can you please explain this? --DannyS712 (talk) 18:50, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Uthongathi F.C.
Hello DannyS712. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Uthongathi F.C., a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Playing in a notable league indicates importance/significance (WP:CCSI). Thank you. So Why  09:08, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Zalan FC
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Speedy deletion declined: Reem Kassis
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Revising proposed deletion of Transport in Rajahmundry
Hi, I've added some information and references to the article, can you please review it again.--IM3847 (talk) 03:13, 12 December 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅ I have de-prodded the article, it looks much better now and my problems with it have been dealt with. Nice job --DannyS712 (talk) 03:15, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Cardinal Pell has been convicted
Please include the edit. It admit my edit request was based on the front of the article rather than the edit section.68.47.64.121 (talk) 17:38, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Please include a reliable source, and make it clear what your edit is (eg XXX to YYY). In this case, it would be: Please add "has been convicted" to ____ Source: ??? --DannyS712 (talk) 18:33, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Alabama v. North Carolina
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 * Please see new notes on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 23:41, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Sharmeen Khan
Hey prick why did you revert my edit and start spouting on about living people? The thing I edited on is dead you idiot. Wikipedia has a cheek to beg for money if you can't edit what you want — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:4C8:140C:32B0:1:1:8EA5:64F8 (talk) 08:42, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:BLP (the relevant policy) which says that Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased). The source given in the article for Khan's death says that "Sharmeen breathed her last after battling with pneumonia", meaning that she was not, in fact, killed by a suicide bombed. If you believe that she was, please provide a reliable source that says so. --DannyS712 (talk) 08:48, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Dennis Ritchie
Re your edit summary at Dennis Ritchie, reverting a copyvio is an exemption at WP:3RRNO. I would use an edit summary referring to removal of copyvio. However, it might be safer to drop the matter (make no more reverts) because the material obviously will be removed in due course. I asked for protection of the article at WP:RFPP although that can take a while to occur. Johnuniq (talk) 09:40, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * thanks! --DannyS712 (talk) 05:39, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

New page reviewer rights granted
Howdy, I've granted you the "New page reviewer" rights you have requested. Please act admirably with your new rights and let me know if you have any questions. Best regards, Nakon  05:38, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * thanks! Will do --DannyS712 (talk) 05:39, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * A couple questions. I (think I) just patrolled my first page, North Atlantic Council Fifth Session! Can you check this was right? Also, I went to my log, and it doesn't list any patrolled pages. Did I do something wrong? --DannyS712 (talk) 06:05, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Cyclone Ada
Following your nomination of this storm at TFAR, I listed this to run as TFA on January 17, but I'm now deferring it because the main editor, has pointed out that January 2020 is the 50th anniversary of the storm, and it would be more appropriate to run it then.

Please note that the TFAR instructions say  Editors who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article before nominating it for TFAR.. That doesn't appear to have happened in this instance, thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me?  09:52, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't see that note. I'll do due diligence in the future. Thanks for pointing it out. --DannyS712 (talk) 10:07, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Thanks for reviewing Evertech Sandbox, DannyS712.

Unfortunately Insertcleverphrasehere has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

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Marquis d'Eguilles
Thanks for the review - I've been away but I've now completed this (more or less) :). Let me know if you have any comments.

Robinvp11 (talk) 16:54, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * no problem. It was really interesting. --DannyS712 (talk) 17:28, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Pirahã
I made a sassy change out of rage (whoops) on the Pirahã article, so I thank you for deleting it. However, I am not really good at editing Wikipedia, so I wanted to ask you to make an edit for me. Can you please revert the population estimate? It is currently listed as 800, but I do not find the source credible. It was 360 or 500 when I check the page about a year ago. I cannot find what that more credible source was in the edit history, otherwise I would do it myself. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.245.192.4 (talk) 03:26, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The lede includes the sentence As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. with the reference: "" Can you explain why this source is not credible? --DannyS712 (talk) 03:32, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

While the article may be valid, the number comes only from the man, Dan Everett. He is a controversial figure (as the article should show) who currently has no contact with the Piraha. I do not know where he got his number from, and I do not trust him. I believe an earlier number (420?) came from a government census or something. Rather than from a single man. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.245.192.4 (talk) 03:40, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * If you can provide the source for an alternative number, I can look into it for you. --DannyS712 (talk) 04:27, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

That's why I asked you to revert it to the previous number, because we can trust that moreso to be accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.245.192.4 (talk) 19:30, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Using this source is better than using no source for a different number. Without a contrary source, I can't just change it --DannyS712 (talk) 19:54, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Cool, found it. 592 in 2014. I don't think they had a 200 person population growth in 4 years. https://pib.socioambiental.org/en/Povo:Pirah%C3%A3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.245.192.4 (talk) 06:29, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't have time to investigate all of this (see below) now, but when I can I will. --DannyS712 (talk) 07:05, 20 December 2018 (UTC)


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&oldid=5332474
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=122278980&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=332674462&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=332675153&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=353613698&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=353943505&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=394688988&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=524053696&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=661403644&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=666421841&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=732842195&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=793275728&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=793275758&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=793290153&diffonly=1&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirah%C3%A3&diff=next&oldid=833102071&diffonly=1&diffmode=source


 * Hey. I looked through the links and the sources, and while I agree that the 200 person growth sounds high, I also don't know german, so can't see if there is any explanaition for that it the source given. I'm afraid I won't be changing this, but can I suggest bringing this up on the talk page? --DannyS712 (talk) 09:27, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * thanks for letting me know. ✅ --DannyS712 (talk) 02:48, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

O'Neil
I am Alley O'Neil, how much more of a reliable reference do you need? I would like to be recognized as such if I am mentioned. Is that okay? This is part of my resume. Can we please correct this issue? You can ask Kim and Edna over at the station.

Thanks Mary — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.201.255.17 (talk) 07:48, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * What is this in reference to? Also, you can't cite yourself, you need independent reliable sources. I'm moving this to my talk page, where this can be discussed further --DannyS712 (talk) 17:01, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Consensus not to move?
Danny, re your close at Talk:Stokes%27_theorem, it seems very odd that you see a consensus when there are 6 editors favoring going with the guidance of the MOS which was arrived at for this particular issue in a recent centralized RFC at WP:VPPOL. I could understand a close saying "no consensus to move", but how you can see a consensus to not move and to revisit MOS:POSS is beyond me. Dicklyon (talk) 22:22, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * there were a couple of reasons for this, including that the !vote was 6-15 (clear supermajority against the move, and yes I know that this isn't a democracy, so this wasn't the controlling factor) and the fact that the common name policy usually trumps the MOS guideline. I read through the entire discussion two times, and parts of it a third time, and I was on the fence between no consensus and consensus not to move, but it was the observation that since it was relisted (and when there was presumably no consensus to move) 5 days ago no new supporters have emerged, while four more new editors opposed it with well explained opinions that convinced me to go with consensus not to move. Hopefully this explains it. --DannyS712 (talk) 22:35, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Danny, if you believe the nonsense about "the fact that the common name policy usually trumps the MOS guideline" then you are unqualified to close this. Please revert and leave it to an uninvolved admin. Dicklyon (talk) 23:38, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I answered your question above because I thought you were just wondering. I read your comments at the requested move discussion, and read all of the points about whether or not common name should be taken into account. I don't appreciate your characterization of this as "nonsense". MOS explicitly says that exceptions apply, and WP:NOTBURO stresses that "Do not follow an overly strict interpretation of the letter of policies without consideration for their principles. If the rules truly prevent you from improving the encyclopedia, ignore them. Disagreements are resolved through consensus-based discussion, not by tightly sticking to rules and procedures." If you truly believe I have erred, you can go to WP:Move review, with this discussion qualifying as step 1 (discuss with closer.) Alternatively, any uninvolved admin may revert me, or convert this to "no consensus to move". --DannyS712 (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think I agree that a move review is in order, but I came here first as you suggested and as is normal. Dicklyon (talk) 03:47, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

See move review at Move_review/Log/2018_December. Dicklyon (talk) 05:32, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * COMMONNAME is not a style policy. Never has been, never will be. Every suggestion in Wikipedia's history to make any style issue of any kind into a policy-level matter has been overwhelmingly rejected, and style matters are left to MoS, at guideline level.  All of them.  Always.  MoS is cited every single day at RM.  Every. Day.  This would not be possible and these guidelines would not exist at all if COMMONNAME were a style policy. WP:AT and the naming conventions guidelines would not be crossreferencing MoS pages.  Style-related naming conventions like WP:NCCAPS would not be based on MoS, but vice versa. The actual fact is that MoS has standards for when to apply style, based loosely on the COMMONNAME principle, but more stringent: apply a style that disagrees with MoS's default when and only when reliable sources do so consistently. Thus we have an article at Deadmau5, because no pretty much no RS ever refer to him as "Deadmaus"; we do not have an article at SONY because RS routinely spell it Sony, recognizing that it is not an acronym and that the capitalization is just marketing.  This is not news. It is how WP operates and has operated for its entire existence. If you do not understand this then, yes, you are not competent to be making such closes.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:08, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I stand by my close, and for further discussion please go to Move_review/Log/2018_December. I don't appreciate just coming to my userpage and making personal attacks. Happy holidays. --DannyS712 (talk) 21:13, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You clearly also need to read WP:NPA, since criticizing your close doesn't come anywhere within an astronomical unit of being a personal attack.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:21, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * If you do not understand this then, yes, you are not competent to be making such closes. (bolding added) - we can disagree on the close without resorting to discussing my competence. --DannyS712 (talk) 21:49, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Whether you're competent at RM is an assessment of performance and judgement, not an attack on your character. Cf. the difference between ignorant and stupid.  Like ignorance, a competency fault is reparable.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  11:45, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay. Lets move on. Have a merry christmas, and a good rest of your year. --DannyS712 (talk) 11:48, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Forgot to ping you --DannyS712 (talk) 11:49, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You too. In that spirit, I'll clarify more explicitly that I disagree with the close rationale and direction, not with your editing in general.  Coincidentally, I addressed why over here; while that's about over-capitalization of "president" in articles on American politics, the reasoning is exactly the same. Closes need to be made with an eye to preventing further dispute, and cannot treat individual article titles as if they existed in a vacuum, because we have WP:CONSISTENCY policy.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:34, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm glad we got that cleared up. We disagree about my close, and nothing I say can change that, but I hope if we interact in the future we can do so on good terms. --DannyS712 (talk) 12:41, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Surely!  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:56, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Outlines update
Wow, I've been out of it. I didn't notice you joined the Outlines Project -- three months ago.

I've been preoccupied with portals since April, when they were all nominated for deletion.

Prior to that, I was immersed in the outlines and their precursors for over 10 years, and I plan to go back after 10,000 (completed) portals have been created &mdash; we're at just over 4600 portals right now, up from 1500 last April.

The main thrust of the Outline Project at the time of the portal distraction was to build scripts that can build outlines.

First and foremost, we need a way to pull the links from a category, and place them in an outline section as list items. Can you figure out a way to do that? If so, I will hail you as a genius JS scripter. That problem has stumped me for almost two years. It would make an ocean of data available for mining for outlines. The implications for outline development (and other navigation systems) are huge. Wow, I've been out of it. I didn't notice you joined -- three months ago.

I've been preoccupied with portals since April, when they were all nominated for deletion.

Prior to that, I was immersed in the outlines and their precursors for over 10 years, and I plan to go back after 10,000 (completed) portals have been created &mdash; we're at just over 4600 portals right now, up from 1500 last April.

The main thrust of the Outline Project at the time of the portal distraction was to build scripts that can build outlines.

First and foremost, we need a way to pull the links from a category, and place them in an outline section as list items. Can you figure out a way to do that? If so, I will hail you as a genius JS scripter. That problem has stumped me for almost two years. It would make an ocean of data available for mining for outlines. The implications for outline development (and other navigation systems) are huge.

HUGE.

Another very useful script would be to copy and convert a navbox template into outline format. That would also help pave the way for rapid development of outlines.

The third key to the kingdom would be a list item annotator, that pulls text out of the linked article's lead, and includes it as an annotation of the list item. We already do something similar for portals (excerpting leads via selective transclusion), so a fork of a lua module, in conjunction with a JS script that applied it using, might do the trick for list item annotations in outlines.

Besides building outlines, another area that scripts can enhance is viewing outlines. Outlines are tree structures, and they become immensely more useful if you can control the tree. More about that later. Enhanced viewing is almost moot without well-developed outlines (translation: "outlines with annotated entries"). And so, tools for building outlines remain the priority, for now.

You might ask, "why not just continue to build outlines by hand?"

Well, I've built around 600 or more of them. Good (not great) outlines take one to five days to make. Great outlines can take weeks. At my fastest, I built 100 outlines per year.

The outlines are one of Wikipedia's navigation systems. A robust number of subject pages for such a system would be 10,000 or more. But, at 100 outlines per year, that would take 100 years of building outlines full time. Unless they come up with the cure for aging, we'd never make it.

Based on what has happened in the portals department, great potential for outlines has been revealed. Portals used to take 6 or more hours each to make. Now, using scripts, they are down to less than a minute each (under the right circumstances).

The same principles can be applied to outlines, and makes the creation of 10,000 outlines within a year's time a feasible goal. That is, with the right tools, an editor could build 10,000 outlines in a year, spending about an hour per day.

I sure hope you can help make this happen.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   12:21, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: Let's rock!

Discussion

 * I have an idea. What is a category you want a list of pages for? --DannyS712 (talk) 12:44, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Category:Emerging technologies.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   12:56, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * see User:DannyS712/Emerging technologies --DannyS712 (talk) 12:59, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I was talking in the context of scripts. Did you use a script to do that? If so, I think I'm going to faint. May I see the source code?   &mdash; The Transhumanist   13:18, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Why use a script? How would that even work? That's so complicated... --DannyS712 (talk) 13:22, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you asked. By the way, that's the same question as "Why not build them by hand?" (For which I provided a preliminary response, above). Additional answers are... 1) Because every outline has many sections. If you had to pull one category per section, that could get very tedious very quickly. I know, because I've created over 600 outlines pulling lists of links from categories and other sources by various means, including by hand. 2) Also because outlines need to be updated from time to time. Let's say you wanted them updated monthly. Then you'd have to repeat that operation you just did for all the sections of all the outlines every month. That's many thousands of sections, and unfortunately, it would take you about as long as it took to build the outlines in the first place: over 10 years. I hope this provides some perspective as to why automation would be very useful to outlines. Sincerely,   &mdash; The Transhumanist  13:58, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I completely understand why automation would be good, but I question using a script. I created that list in 30 seconds using AutoWikiBrowser. Category ____ -> make a list -> save list -> copy past into wikipedia page. :) --DannyS712 (talk) 21:04, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * For one thing, it's an issue of time doing maintenance...
 * The source list changes over time, and in order for that to be reflected where you copied and pasted it, it would have to be done again every so often. 10,000 outlines could have between them, 800,000 sections. And so, if you wanted to update them all every month, you'd have to do that 30-second operation 800,000 times each month (which works out to 24,000,000 seconds, assuming you'd be working on the task 24-hours per day without sleeping, while a month only has 2,592,000 seconds in it). So, it's impossible for a human to maintain a set of 10,000 outlines in a reasonable amount of time.
 * Portals had the same problem: their material would be copied and pasted once, and would sit there and go stale and fork from the original sources. They became years out of date, because the editor who did a 30-second operation, never came back to do it again. Now, the material in a portal is grabbed by server every time the portal is displayed, and so the sources and their copies always match. Each portal is updated, not once per year, not once per month, not once per day, but in real-time, every time a person looks at the portal. Don't you think that should apply to the material in outlines as well?
 * For another thing, it's an issue of scalability...
 * Take a look at Outline of chess. It has about 80 sections with a list of links. At 30-seconds each to create, that's 40 minutes to create the outline. 40 minutes times 10,000 outlines is 400,000 minutes of editor time = 833 8-hour work days = 166 40-hour work weeks = about 3 years working full-time. In actual practice, outlines take a lot longer than 40-minutes to build by hand. They take days. Working full-time for an entire year, working on nothing else, I can build about 100 of them. So, 10,000 outlines would take 100 years of full-time effort. And that is without maintaining them.
 * I don't want to work on outlines for another 100 years. I don't even want to work on them for another year - I've already put 12 years into them. I'd like to see 10K in one month - after the programs to build outlines are ready. The question is, where am I going to find a programmer who can make category calls to pull the article titles out of them and deposit them into outline sections?
 * If you come across someone who can do this, please let me know immediately!
 * In the meantime, if you can figure out how to do it yourself, please let me know immediately!
 * Or if you read a thread somewhere that explains how to do it, please let me know immediately!
 * Thank you.
 * Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   08:45, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * P.S.: There's this concept floating around called "Quantum portal". It's the idea of clicking a menu item to see a portal on the current subject, generated from scratch by computer at that moment. We are getting pretty close to creating that already. By the way, we already have Quantum categories. Hypothetically, we could also have Quantum Portals, Quantum outlines, and even Quantum articles. {   &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:03, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

I've figured it out and have a draft. Before I show it to you, is the format you want: and so on? --DannyS712 (talk) 06:05, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * link
 * link2
 * link3
 * reminder ping? --DannyS712 (talk) 08:13, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Ooh. Yes. (Sorry for the delay in my reply.)  &mdash; The Transhumanist   08:51, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
 * take a look at User:DannyS712/Emerging technologies for the result. I'll publish the script soon, but if you see any issues let me know --DannyS712 test (talk) 23:55, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Did you place that there manually, or via the script?  &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:48, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * via script! Is that the format you want? --DannyS712 (talk) 07:49, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes. By the way, when do I get to try it?! {  &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:58, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * see User:DannyS712 test/in cat.js - its still in beta, but it should work --DannyS712 (talk) 08:01, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I installed it yesterday. The menu item doesn't show up.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:43, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I only tested it on the vector skin (the skin that I use) but I think it should work on others... --DannyS712 test (talk) 09:46, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops. Was looking in the wrong place for it (in the tools menu). Will try it out and get back to you.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:51, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Can you make it pull only articles? (not files or categories)  &mdash; The Transhumanist   10:02, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * probably, but I'm leaving for vacation in a few hours. I'll see what I can do for the next version --DannyS712 (talk) 10:03, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * User:DannyS712 test/in cat 2.js restricts additions to only articles, lists, etc (only things in mainspace). Happy holidays --DannyS712 (talk) 10:29, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * See User:DannyS712/Cat links. Also, can you make sure to add a backlink to your import, so I can see who has used my script? Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:31, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Nice icon! ― Abelmoschus Esculentus talk /  contribs 03:24, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * thanks. What do you think of the script itself. --DannyS712 (talk) 07:40, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It doesn't seem to work? I inserted "AfC submissions by date/27 December 2018" and "10" for the prompts and it showed "There are no pages in the specified namespace in that category." ― Abelmoschus Esculentus talk /  contribs 08:07, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Help AE
If you are using version 2 (or are importing cat links.js, which then imports version 2), it restricts links to mainspace only (namespace 0). To access another namespace: I'll hopefully come up with a better solution later, but for now this ensures that files, categories, etc aren't mistakenly added. See WP:NS for details on what numbers to use for namespaces. --DannyS712 (talk) 08:11, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) Input -1 for the number of pages to add
 * 2) Input the namespace number of the pages you would like to add
 * 3) Input the actual number of pages to add
 * I imported User:DannyS712/Cat links.js to my common.js ― Abelmoschus Esculentus talk /  contribs 08:13, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * then the above instructions should work. Hopefully version 3 will be more elegant - any suggestions for namespace choices are welcome --DannyS712 (talk) 08:14, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh it worked. I didn't look at the source code ― Abelmoschus Esculentus talk /  contribs 08:17, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * glad to hear it. Enjoy, and please let me know of any issues. --DannyS712 (talk) 08:19, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

What's your JS background?
I'm curious as to how familiar you are with JavaScript.

How long have you been a JavaScript programmer?

What are the most advanced things you've created with it? &mdash; The Transhumanist  12:21, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I've been really into computer programming for years (C++ -> html/css -> python -> java) but only started javascript a few weeks ago to create a script that I couldn't find. I guess I've just caught a coding bug itch. --DannyS712 (talk) 12:32, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Sounds like you are picking it up fast. Good. Because we really need you.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   12:54, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Portals
You've taken the plunge, I see.

Just in time too, because our JS guru is back!

Welcome to chaos (Wikipedia). {

At the WikiProject Portals, we're trying to organize it.

Welcome to the team. We have a lot of fun.

Some quick background...
A proposal was made last April to eliminate all portals.

It sparked one of the largest debates in Wikipedia history.

Initially, the discussion wasn't properly advertised, and it looked like portals were doomed.

So, I posted thousands of notices, and supporters came out of the woodwork.

During the debate, I restarted the Portals WikiProject, and some very interesting editors joined.

We immediately went to work automating the portals.

It had taken over 12 years to create the 1500 hundred portals we had. Since April, using some new custom tools, we've created over 3100 new portals.

We're far from done, and are still building portals and the tools to help build them better and faster. (And converting the old portals to the new design paradigm).

Welcome to the project.

I'm happy to meet you.

The New Year is gearing up to be very cool indeed.

Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   12:54, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

User scripts Newsletter - Invitation
Hi. Recently, I discovered a passion for created and understanding user scripts on wikipedia, and am planning to create a monthly newsletter about new scripts and related projects (created by anyone, not for simply promoting my own), as well as currently pending user script requests, Wikipedia-related JavaScript tips/tricks, and other related information. This message was sent to you because you are listed as a member of the user script developers category. If you would like to subscribe to this upcoming newsletter, please go to User:DannyS712/subscribe to scripts and add yourself. If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. --DannyS712 (talk) 05:22, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

 * thanks, and happy holidays to you too! --DannyS712 (talk) 21:05, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Help regarding artist page!
Hey Dan! Hope all is well with you.! So regarding the page for Nuckles, all that is left to do is add inline citations for it to be accepted? Thank you very much!)) Musiccollective97 (talk) 03:38, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I only pointed out the biggest issue, which was the use of citations. There are a few other problems, with formatting and other small things. If you want to message me when you resubmit the draft I'd be happy to take a look. --DannyS712 (talk) 04:30, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Sure! I will send it as soon as i resubmit it. Thank you Danny, i appreciate it a lot! Musiccollective97 (talk)

User scripts newsletter
Hi! Let me know if you want any help with writing the newsletter. Thank you for starting it! Enterprisey (talk!) 04:26, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * will do. Thanks for the offer. --DannyS712 (talk) 04:27, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Nice. When can we expect the first issue?  &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:11, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Either the start or, more likely, the middle of January --DannyS712 (talk) 09:21, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I can hardly wait!  &mdash; The Transhumanist   09:37, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * This is a good idea. New user scripts used to be reported in the "Technology Report" of The Signpost, but the December issues have not included it. I wonder if there's more value in reviving that than creating a new newsletter? The idea being that The Signpost already has a large volume of readers, that include non-techy people too, so the exposure new scripts get is quite large. Of course, there is the problem that The Signpost isn't always regularly published, so you'd have to wait on the other editors to finish writing the issue before your reports is sent out :/
 * I'd also like to see a way to report major changes to user scripts, and moreover, external tools such as those on Toolforge. For instance, new features that were added to XTools, or 's new YABBR tool. What do you think?
 * If you go the route of a dedicated newsletter, I'd recommend using a system like WP:ANEWS, where anyone can edit the upcoming issue. Similarly you might consider having it live in the Wikipedia namespace rather than your userspace, that way it is more inviting and inclusive to other contributors. Just an idea :)
 * Thanks for starting this! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  21:27, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * If you go the route of a dedicated newsletter, I'd recommend using a system like WP:ANEWS, where anyone can edit the upcoming issue. Similarly you might consider having it live in the Wikipedia namespace rather than your userspace, that way it is more inviting and inclusive to other contributors. Just an idea :)
 * Thanks for starting this! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  21:27, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for starting this! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  21:27, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Until it gets really up and running, I plan to keep it in my userspace, but then I'll consider moving it. I'll make it clear, though, that anyone will always be welcome to contribute. I intend to include some toolforge tools, and updates to major pre-existing scripts. I hope this meets your goals... --DannyS712 (talk) 02:48, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * p.s. You are welcome to subscribe here --DannyS712 (talk) 02:49, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

There is a draft of the first issue at User:DannyS712/SPP 01. Feel free to improve it, expand it, edit it, etc --DannyS712 (talk) 19:13, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Regarding Kalynn Campbell
Hi, thank you for having reviewed and approved the draft. Now that it approved will it show up in the Google search? At present when I am looking for it on Google, it is not showing up, so thought of seeking guidance from you. Thanks again, regards, --Vinvibes (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2401:4900:188D:7874:EC2F:124F:3249:DB74 (talk) 09:06, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * it should. I have added some wikilinks to it (I forgot to de orphan it when I accepted the AfC), but I think there might be a part of the software that says that new articles aren't seen by search engines for some specific length of time (I don't know). Sorry I can't be of more help. --DannyS712 (talk) 09:20, 24 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, no problem - will check it out after 24 hours or so and then it would probably be there. Thanks again & Merry Christmas, regards, Vinvibes (talk)

The Signpost: 24 December 2018
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:35, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
Happy Holidays text.png Hello DannyS712: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 06:38, 25 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message
 * you too! Have a great rest of your year --DannyS712 (talk) 06:43, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * you too! --DannyS712 (talk) 08:02, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

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Lutidiníc acid
You were too fast ... JWBE (talk) 13:12, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I couple of questions. I can understand that this may have been too fast, I didn't realize that you had started it just a few minutes ago. But, on your talk page, you say that the chemists will discover it very quickly. You are too fast and too "engaged". What do you mean that chemists will discover it? What do you mean that I am "engaged"? Happy holidays, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:16, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Just move it back an let me do my work without any further disturbances. Merry Christmas :-(( JWBE (talk) 13:27, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
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WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018
Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...

Portals status
We now have 4,620 portals.

And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...

Can we make it?

The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.

( New portals are created with  or   )

Evad is back!
After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.

Be sure to welcome him back.

Improved cropping is coming to Portal image banner
User:FR30799386 is working on making Portal image banner even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.

Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.

Upgrade of flagship portals is underway
Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).

So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.

Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.

Spotting missing portals that are redirects
In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.

Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.

The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.

Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.

To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.

What's new in portal space?

 * 1) Portal:17th century
 * 2) Portal:18th century
 * 3) Portal:Absinthe
 * 4) Portal:Abuse
 * 5) Portal:Academic degrees
 * 6) Portal:Acari
 * 7) Portal:Acipenseriformes
 * 8) Portal:Actas
 * 9) Portal:Actinopterygii
 * 10) Portal:Activision
 * 11) Portal:Aerobatics
 * 12) Portal:Aeroflot
 * 13) Portal:Aesop
 * 14) Portal:Afrosoricida
 * 15) Portal:Aichi
 * 16) Portal:Airlines
 * 17) Portal:Air traffic control
 * 18) Portal:Akon
 * 19) Portal:Alan Turing
 * 20) Portal:Alfred Nobel
 * 21) Portal:Alice Paul
 * 22) Portal:Allahabad
 * 23) Portal:Allgemeine-SS
 * 24) Portal:Allium
 * 25) Portal:Aluminium
 * 26) Portal:Alvarezsauroidea
 * 27) Portal:Alveolata
 * 28) Portal:Amazon
 * 29) Portal:Amino acids
 * 30) Portal:Ancient Greek philosophy
 * 31) Portal:Andalusia
 * 32) Portal:Andes
 * 33) Portal:Animax
 * 34) Portal:Antennas
 * 35) Portal:Anthrax (American band)
 * 36) Portal:Antibiotics
 * 37) Portal:Antidotes
 * 38) Portal:Antifungals
 * 39) Portal:Antimony
 * 40) Portal:Antivirus software
 * 41) Portal:Aquifers
 * 42) Portal:Arachnids
 * 43) Portal:Armadillos
 * 44) Portal:Armour
 * 45) Portal:Art movements
 * 46) Portal:Arvicolinae
 * 47) Portal:Asanas
 * 48) Portal:Association of Southeast Asian Nations
 * 49) Portal:AstraZeneca
 * 50) Portal:Asturias
 * 51) Portal:Asus
 * 52) Portal:Atoms
 * 53) Portal:Automation
 * 54) Portal:Aylesbury
 * 55) Portal:Aztecs
 * 56) Portal:Bags
 * 57) Portal:Banks
 * 58) Portal:Basalt
 * 59) Portal:Batgirl
 * 60) Portal:Bats
 * 61) Portal:Bay Area Rapid Transit
 * 62) Portal:Beijing Subway
 * 63) Portal:Belo Horizonte
 * 64) Portal:Ben Affleck
 * 65) Portal:Binondo
 * 66) Portal:Biodiversity of Colombia
 * 67) Portal:Biomes
 * 68) Portal:Blue Origin
 * 69) Portal:Board games
 * 70) Portal:Boca Raton, Florida
 * 71) Portal:Bruno Mars
 * 72) Portal:Budapest Metro
 * 73) Portal:Buffalo, New York
 * 74) Portal:Bullying
 * 75) Portal:Busan Metro
 * 76) Portal:Buteoninae
 * 77) Portal:C++
 * 78) Portal:Cairo Metro
 * 79) Portal:Canadian art
 * 80) Portal:Character encoding
 * 81) Portal:Character encodings
 * 82) Portal:Charity
 * 83) Portal:Chemical engineering
 * 84) Portal:Chemical synthesis
 * 85) Portal:Chickenpox
 * 86) Portal:Chili peppers
 * 87) Portal:Chongqing Rail Transit
 * 88) Portal:Climate
 * 89) Portal:Communication
 * 90) Portal:Community of Madrid
 * 91) Portal:Computer files
 * 92) Portal:Concurrent computing
 * 93) Portal:Conservation biology
 * 94) Portal:Containers
 * 95) Portal:Contract bridge
 * 96) Portal:Convicts in Australia
 * 97) Portal:Copenhagen Metro
 * 98) Portal:Crochet
 * 99) Portal:Cucurbita
 * 100) Portal:Culture of Albania
 * 101) Portal:Culture of Argentina
 * 102) Portal:Culture of Armenia
 * 103) Portal:Culture of Assam
 * 104) Portal:Culture of Australia
 * 105) Portal:Culture of Austria
 * 106) Portal:Culture of Azerbaijan
 * 107) Portal:Culture of Bahrain
 * 108) Portal:Culture of Bangladesh
 * 109) Portal:Culture of Belarus
 * 110) Portal:Culture of Belgium
 * 111) Portal:Culture of Belize
 * 112) Portal:Culture of Bengal
 * 113) Portal:Culture of Cornwall
 * 114) Portal:Culture of Djibouti
 * 115) Portal:Culture of England
 * 116) Portal:Culture of Kerala
 * 117) Portal:Culture of Somalia
 * 118) Portal:Culture of West Bengal
 * 119) Portal:Curitiba
 * 120) Portal:Databases
 * 121) Portal:Data mining
 * 122) Portal:Data storage
 * 123) Portal:Deforestation and desertification
 * 124) Portal:Delta Air Lines
 * 125) Portal:Demi Lovato
 * 126) Portal:Demography
 * 127) Portal:Desalination
 * 128) Portal:Development of the human body
 * 129) Portal:Disease
 * 130) Portal:Disney Princess
 * 131) Portal:Dmitri Mendeleev
 * 132) Portal:Dublin
 * 133) Portal:DVD
 * 134) Portal:Eating
 * 135) Portal:Electronic components
 * 136) Portal:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 * 137) Portal:Elizabeth I of England
 * 138) Portal:Ellie Goulding
 * 139) Portal:Embedded systems
 * 140) Portal:Embroidery
 * 141) Portal:Emmeline Pankhurst
 * 142) Portal:Emmy Awards
 * 143) Portal:Enugu
 * 144) Portal:Euro
 * 145) Portal:Eurostar
 * 146) Portal:Even-toed ungulates
 * 147) Portal:Executables
 * 148) Portal:Experimental aircraft
 * 149) Portal:Falkland Islands
 * 150) Portal:Fibers
 * 151) Portal:File sharing
 * 152) Portal:File systems
 * 153) Portal:Frankfurt
 * 154) Portal:Gaels
 * 155) Portal:Galicia (Spain)
 * 156) Portal:Gardens
 * 157) Portal:Gemstones
 * 158) Portal:Geotechnical engineering
 * 159) Portal:Geothermal power
 * 160) Portal:Glass
 * 161) Portal:Glass production
 * 162) Portal:GLONASS
 * 163) Portal:Guangzhou Metro
 * 164) Portal:Habitats
 * 165) Portal:Hall of Fame for Great Americans
 * 166) Portal:Helicopters
 * 167) Portal:Helmets
 * 168) Portal:Helsinki
 * 169) Portal:Hilary Duff
 * 170) Portal:Hiroshima
 * 171) Portal:History of computing
 * 172) Portal:Honey bees
 * 173) Portal:Honolulu County, Hawaii
 * 174) Portal:Hubble Space Telescope
 * 175) Portal:Hummingbirds
 * 176) Portal:HVAC
 * 177) Portal:Hymenoptera
 * 178) Portal:Intermodal containers
 * 179) Portal:International Council for Science
 * 180) Portal:International Space Station
 * 181) Portal:Interstate Highway System
 * 182) Portal:IOS
 * 183) Portal:IPv6
 * 184) Portal:Ithaca, New York
 * 185) Portal:James Webb Space Telescope
 * 186) Portal:Jammu and Kashmir
 * 187) Portal:JavaScript
 * 188) Portal:Jay-Z
 * 189) Portal:John Major
 * 190) Portal:Kabul
 * 191) Portal:KFC
 * 192) Portal:Khuzestan Province
 * 193) Portal:Launch vehicles
 * 194) Portal:Laundry
 * 195) Portal:Lenovo
 * 196) Portal:Leo Tolstoy
 * 197) Portal:Library classification systems
 * 198) Portal:Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
 * 199) Portal:Longevity
 * 200) Portal:Los Angeles International Airport
 * 201) Portal:Love
 * 202) Portal:Lyra (constellation)
 * 203) Portal:MacOS
 * 204) Portal:Macroeconomics
 * 205) Portal:Madrid
 * 206) Portal:Mail
 * 207) Portal:Malaria
 * 208) Portal:Malware
 * 209) Portal:Manhattan Project
 * 210) Portal:Mao Zedong
 * 211) Portal:Marrakesh
 * 212) Portal:Mathematics and art
 * 213) Portal:Mattel
 * 214) Portal:Mayotte
 * 215) Portal:Media culture
 * 216) Portal:Media manipulation
 * 217) Portal:Medications
 * 218) Portal:Men
 * 219) Portal:Metalworking
 * 220) Portal:Metropolitan Transportation Authority
 * 221) Portal:Michael Faraday
 * 222) Portal:Microeconomics
 * 223) Portal:Milan Metro
 * 224) Portal:Military aircraft
 * 225) Portal:Military deception
 * 226) Portal:Mixed reality
 * 227) Portal:Modern history
 * 228) Portal:Mood disorders
 * 229) Portal:Morpeth, Northumberland
 * 230) Portal:Moscow Metro
 * 231) Portal:MPEG
 * 232) Portal:MTR
 * 233) Portal:Multihulls
 * 234) Portal:Museums
 * 235) Portal:Music of Scotland
 * 236) Portal:NASA
 * 237) Portal:National anthems
 * 238) Portal:Natural language processing
 * 239) Portal:Neoplasms
 * 240) Portal:New Delhi
 * 241) Portal:Northern Cyprus
 * 242) Portal:Nuclear weapons
 * 243) Portal:Nuts
 * 244) Portal:Odd-toed ungulates
 * 245) Portal:Ores
 * 246) Portal:Organ transplantation
 * 247) Portal:Orthoptera
 * 248) Portal:Oslo
 * 249) Portal:Palmyra
 * 250) Portal:Pan-Africanism
 * 251) Portal:Panasonic
 * 252) Portal:Parrots
 * 253) Portal:Parties
 * 254) Portal:Peanuts
 * 255) Portal:Peanuts (comic strip)
 * 256) Portal:Perl
 * 257) Portal:Permaculture
 * 258) Portal:Pesticides
 * 259) Portal:Physical fitness
 * 260) Portal:Physiology
 * 261) Portal:Plant nutrition
 * 262) Portal:Porcelain
 * 263) Portal:Ports and harbors
 * 264) Portal:Pre-Columbian era
 * 265) Portal:Prehistoric Scotland
 * 266) Portal:Private transport
 * 267) Portal:Programming languages
 * 268) Portal:Programming paradigms
 * 269) Portal:Prostitution
 * 270) Portal:Protests
 * 271) Portal:Psychological manipulation
 * 272) Portal:P. T. Barnum
 * 273) Portal:Public housing in the United Kingdom
 * 274) Portal:Public transport in Helsinki
 * 275) Portal:Public transport in Istanbul
 * 276) Portal:Pueblos
 * 277) Portal:Pune
 * 278) Portal:Quilting
 * 279) Portal:Racing
 * 280) Portal:Radiation
 * 281) Portal:RAID
 * 282) Portal:Rail transport in Argentina
 * 283) Portal:Rail transport in Finland
 * 284) Portal:Rail transport in Germany
 * 285) Portal:Rail transport in Israel
 * 286) Portal:Rail transport in Malaysia
 * 287) Portal:Rail transport in Norway
 * 288) Portal:Rail transport in Singapore
 * 289) Portal:Rail transport in Spain
 * 290) Portal:Rail transport in Sri Lanka
 * 291) Portal:Rail transport in Thailand
 * 292) Portal:Rail transport in the United Arab Emirates
 * 293) Portal:Realism (arts)
 * 294) Portal:Recycling
 * 295) Portal:Religion in China
 * 296) Portal:Religion in Egypt
 * 297) Portal:Religion in Iran
 * 298) Portal:Religion in Israel
 * 299) Portal:Religion in Mexico
 * 300) Portal:Religion in Mozambique
 * 301) Portal:Religion in Myanmar
 * 302) Portal:Religion in Norway
 * 303) Portal:Religion in Pakistan
 * 304) Portal:Religion in Poland
 * 305) Portal:Religion in Portugal
 * 306) Portal:Religion in Romania
 * 307) Portal:Religion in Scotland
 * 308) Portal:Religion in South Africa
 * 309) Portal:Religion in Sweden
 * 310) Portal:Religion in Thailand
 * 311) Portal:Religion in Turkey
 * 312) Portal:Religion in Zimbabwe
 * 313) Portal:Republic of Artsakh
 * 314) Portal:Revolutions
 * 315) Portal:Reykjavík
 * 316) Portal:Rhythm
 * 317) Portal:Rocket engines
 * 318) Portal:Rodenticides
 * 319) Portal:Roofs
 * 320) Portal:Roscosmos
 * 321) Portal:Roses
 * 322) Portal:Rowing
 * 323) Portal:RuPaul
 * 324) Portal:Saint Helena
 * 325) Portal:Sales
 * 326) Portal:San Juan, Puerto Rico
 * 327) Portal:San Marino
 * 328) Portal:São Paulo
 * 329) Portal:Scottish art
 * 330) Portal:Scottish clans
 * 331) Portal:Sex work
 * 332) Portal:Shinkansen
 * 333) Portal:Shipbuilding
 * 334) Portal:Silk
 * 335) Portal:Simple living
 * 336) Portal:SkyTrain (Vancouver)
 * 337) Portal:South Ossetia
 * 338) Portal:Space Shuttles
 * 339) Portal:SpaceX
 * 340) Portal:Spike Lee
 * 341) Portal:SQL
 * 342) Portal:Starbucks
 * 343) Portal:Statue of Liberty
 * 344) Portal:Stem cells
 * 345) Portal:Stonehenge
 * 346) Portal:Street newspapers
 * 347) Portal:Stuttgart
 * 348) Portal:Submarines
 * 349) Portal:Suffragettes
 * 350) Portal:Susan B. Anthony
 * 351) Portal:Systems
 * 352) Portal:Tallinn
 * 353) Portal:Tashkent
 * 354) Portal:Telephony
 * 355) Portal:Tents
 * 356) Portal:Tigers
 * 357) Portal:Tobacco
 * 358) Portal:Tomatoes
 * 359) Portal:Toronto Transit Commission
 * 360) Portal:Tortoises
 * 361) Portal:Transnistria
 * 362) Portal:Transport in Afghanistan
 * 363) Portal:Transport in Barcelona
 * 364) Portal:Transport in Belgium
 * 365) Portal:Transport in Bristol
 * 366) Portal:Transport in Bucharest
 * 367) Portal:Transport in Buckinghamshire
 * 368) Portal:Transport in Cardiff
 * 369) Portal:Transport in Chennai
 * 370) Portal:Transport in China
 * 371) Portal:Transport in Edinburgh
 * 372) Portal:Transport in Glasgow
 * 373) Portal:Transport in Guyana
 * 374) Portal:Transport in Hong Kong
 * 375) Portal:Transport in India
 * 376) Portal:Transport in Ireland
 * 377) Portal:Transport in Israel
 * 378) Portal:Transport in Kiev
 * 379) Portal:Transport in London
 * 380) Portal:Transport in Somerset
 * 381) Portal:Transport in Tamil Nadu
 * 382) Portal:Transport in Tiruchirappalli
 * 383) Portal:Transport in Vietnam
 * 384) Portal:Transport in Warsaw
 * 385) Portal:Tuberculosis
 * 386) Portal:Twitter
 * 387) Portal:Umayyad Caliphate
 * 388) Portal:United States Armed Forces
 * 389) Portal:United States Congress
 * 390) Portal:USB
 * 391) Portal:Valencian Community
 * 392) Portal:Vijayawada
 * 393) Portal:Voting
 * 394) Portal:Washington Metro
 * 395) Portal:Waterfalls
 * 396) Portal:Weapons
 * 397) Portal:Weaving
 * 398) Portal:Web browsers
 * 399) Portal:Websites
 * 400) Portal:Wendy's
 * 401) Portal:Women's prisons in the United States
 * 402) Portal:Woodworking
 * 403) Portal:World Chess Championships
 * 404) Portal:Yangtze

Keep 'em coming!
And I'll see you next issue.

Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   08:07, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Regarding the references
Requires significant coverage in independent reliable sources

Could you explain what does this mean? What do I need to show in order for my article to be accepted by Wikipedia?

Aidar.bekmukhambet (talk) 07:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You can check Help:Referencing for beginners for the basics, but in a nutshell it means that the article's subject must be shown to be notable by providing evidence that independent sources (ie news, etc) have reported about the subject. --DannyS712 (talk) 07:07, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

"Statement misleading information"
The following statement is not true: " you can simply create a named account. It's free, requires no personal information, and lets you:" as it requires an email address that is as personal and singular as one's own name..2605:E000:9149:8300:8063:58D6:607C:BD3D (talk) 23:34, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * An email address is not required, it is merely recommended. --DannyS712 (talk) 23:37, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The create an account page explicitly says Email address (optional) --DannyS712 (talk) 23:38, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Alabama v. North Carolina
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

We can now crop the tops of pics to make banners
Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.

User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to Portal image banner...

So, this:

Becomes this:

Here's the code for the above banner:

To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.

About that end of the year goal...
We were racing against time to create 5,000 portals by the end of the year (just for the heck of it).

We made it. We've passed the 5,000 portals mark, with time to spare!

And the 5,000th portal is Portal:Major League Baseball, by Happypillsjr.

Congratulations!

What's next?
The 10,000th portal mark. But...

...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:


 * 1) The new portals need to be linked to from the encyclopedia.
 * 2) On those portals about subjects that are not typically capitalized, the search parameters need to be refined/expanded, to maximize the chances of Did you know and In the news items being found and displayed.
 * 3) A Recognized content section needs to be added to each portal that has a corresponding WikiProject.
 * 4) Addition of a category on those portals that lack a subject category.
 * 5) Implement the portal category system, adding the appropriate categories to each portal.
 * 6) Upgrade, and complete (as per the tasks enumerated above), the old-style portals that are not regularly maintained, which have not been converted yet (about 1,100 of them).
 * 7) Find and fix the remaining bugs in the underlying lua modules.
 * 8) Build portal tools (scripts) to assist in the creation, development, and maintenance of portals.
 * 9) Build a script to help build navbox footer templates, via the harvesting of categories, amongst other methods.
 * 10) Update the portal building instructions.
 * 11) Update the portal guideline.
 * 12) Refine the programming of the portals to reduce their load time.
 * 13) Design and develop the next generation of portals and portal components.

And whatever else you can dream up.

But most of all, have a...



Happy New Year! , thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.

Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   11:53, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Talkback
—— SerialNumber  54129  13:51, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I do? There aren't any there... --DannyS712 (talk) 17:08, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, there was one, but it was...removed nearly an hour later :)   ——  SerialNumber  54129  17:23, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh. Anyway, thanks for letting me know. --DannyS712 (talk) 17:24, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Think
If you cannot see what is needed you shouldn't be editing Wikipedia! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.118.163.234 (talk) 03:21, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I tracked down the requested edit, despite you not referencing what page or what edit you were talking about. Please consider making an account so that you can make such edits yourself in the future. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:54, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * For my own records: --DannyS712 (talk) 03:55, 31 December 2018 (UTC)


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Instagram&diff=prev&oldid=876082607&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Instagram&diff=prev&oldid=876095960&diffmode=source
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Instagram&diff=prev&oldid=876095982&diffmode=source

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 1
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2018).

Hello everyone and welcome to the brand new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Ale jrb's CSD Helper


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Danski454: Wikidata Q numbers *  Words to watch finder  *  Undo move


 * DannyS712: Logs link *  New pages link  *  Pending changes link  *  DYK claim


 * Opencooper's showKanji *  Abelmoschus Esculentus's Ajax Rollback with summary  *  Enterprisey's user-tabs-on-contribs


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Evad37's rater (released from beta) *  FR30799386's mobileUndo (now in 2.0.0)

Pending requests
 * List entry annotator
 * ISBN hyphenator
 * Automatic American English
 * Auto Copyvio checker
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Open tasks
 * WikiProject JavaScript shows a lot of red links - lets turn them blue
 * User scripts/Techniques should be vastly expanded
 * User scripts/Guide should be improved

Miscellaneous
 * Not all user scripts are listed at User scripts/List. We need a better way to keep track of all of them. Thoughts?
 * Please help publicize this new newsletter.

Wishing you a happy new year, --DannyS712 (talk) 20:01, 31 December 2018 (UTC)



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Mudisooda Manan
Just a friendly reminder that you might want to review the requirements for an A1 speedy deletion. No context means there's no possible way to know what the article is about, even with a google search. The article said it was about a film and listed the stars, so A1 didn't apply. Fabrictramp &#124;  talk to me  21:51, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * will do. Sorry, this was my first time using A1 (i think), and I though it was just based on if you could tell what the article is about just from what is written / in the history. I'll be more careful in the future --DannyS712 (talk) 21:52, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of XIX Army Corps
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Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 was just created, and I believe that it should be draftified. However, it has been previously draftified, both by me and others, after which the author requests that the draft be deleted and then recreates the article in mainspace. See a full timeline below. What should I do. The author has intentionally removed draftification notices, leading me to believe that, despite trying to AGF, they are intentionally seeking to "cover their tracks" before recreating an article. I don't, however, want to turn this into a create/move/delete war. Also, I can't see if there were any improvements made between drafts, but I believe that the current one is not suitable for mainspace.


 * 04:46, 08 December 2018: Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - created
 * 15:06, 14 December 2018: Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - draftified (redirect deleted)
 * 10:39, 15 December 2018:
 * 18:29, 15 December 2018: Draft:Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - deleted at author's request
 * 19:06, 15 December 2018:
 * 02:46, 16 December 2018: Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - created
 * 03:20, 16 December 2018: Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - draftified (by me) (redirect deleted)
 * 03:20, 16 December 2018:
 * 04:45, 16 December 2018: Draft:Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - deleted at author's request
 * 03:18, 20 December 2018: Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - created
 * 03:28, 20 December 2018: Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - draftified (by me) (redirect deleted)
 * 03:28, 20 December 2018:
 * 03:35, 20 December 2018:
 * 05:18, 01 January 2019: Draft:Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - deleted at author's request
 * 05:20, 01 January 2019: Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 - created

--DannyS712 (talk) 05:42, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Legacy Fighting Alliance in 2019 is salted. Ron h jones (Talk) 16:52, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

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DYK commas
Moved from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Main_Page/Errors&oldid=876378079

I have moved part of the discussion so that we can continue it, and refactored it slightly. I'd like to more fully discuss this. Please approve my slight refactoring if its okay, and then lets discuss. --DannyS712 (talk) 01:05, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK current

 * "that when creating the television drama Butterfly, the playwright..." - comma after Butterfly should be removed (or, less ideally, a comma should be added -> "that, when creating...") --DannyS712 (talk) 07:12, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * As the writer of the hook, I'm interested to know why this is wrong. I can see why your two suggestions are grammatically correct but not why the current version is grammatically incorrect. Can you explain it to someone who doesn't know much about grammar (or at least give me a relevant link)? — Bilorv(c)(talk) 13:24, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * "that in the Battle of the Hatpins, women protestors..." - comma after Hatpins should be removed (or, less ideally, a comma should be added -> "that, in the Battle...") --DannyS712 (talk) 07:13, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * in the above two hooks, you are advocating styles that have not been used at DYK for many years. The style is to put a comma after the first clause, including a year (e.g. "In 1973,". We do not put a comma after the initial "that". And we use "woman" or "women" as an adjective instead of "female", as weird as that looks. Yoninah (talk) 13:36, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It is a red herring that the commas follow "that". The point is that an adverbial phrase such as "when creating the television drama Butterfly" should either have matching commas either side of it, or no commas at all. It is wrong to include just one of these commas, with the minor exception that when such a phrase starts a sentence (e.g. "In 1973") the opening comma is of course omitted. (And similarly if the adverbial phrase is at the end of the sentence, we just use a full stop, not a comma followed by a full stop.) DYK cannot set its own rules about this standard aspect of English grammar. Jmchutchinson (talk) 16:37, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that explanaition.  It is grammatically incorrect to have only one of the commas. I understand that, at DYK, its undesirable to have a comma directly after "that," and so my first choice is just to remove the improper comma, which would then a) not have a comma after "that," and b) be grammatically correct. If you look at MOS:COMMA, no correct example uses just 1 comma for the delineation of an adverbial phrase --DannyS712 (talk) 18:12, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think I'm rather reluctantly agreed. When reading and writing the hooks, I view them as full sentences, ignoring the standard phrase—that is, I'm reading "When creating ..., the playwright ... to be 'trendy'", which is correct. But when prepending the "Did you know that" and appending a "?", it ceases to be correct. I'll try to refrain from making these constructions in future. — Bilorv(c)(talk) 18:53, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * you are bringing a fresh perspective to DYK. But our style is encoded in a rulebook (see WP:DYK). I suggest you bring this new issue to consensus at WT:DYK. Otherwise I will continue to edit the preps one way, and you will be bringing a lot of error messages. This long thread has already precluded someone from bringing up a real error on a hook in this set. Yoninah (talk) 19:15, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * There is no need for a consensus on DYK for the rest of the encyclopaedia to expect that project to use proper English grammar.
 * If admins at DYK know something is factually incorrect, they can do something about it without it having to be addressed here. Not sure why Yoninah should instruct EdChem to bring it to ERRORS rather than do so directly, or why EdChem thinks that because some issues are mentioned, others cannot be. But while others seem to be in some sort of Wikipolitics game, I'll post it. (see "Guêpe-class submarines" in Next queue)  Kevin McE (talk) 19:48, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yoninah, I could find nothing in WP:DYK, which you cited, as specifying your non-standard use of commas. Nor is there anything specified there about using "women" rather than "female" as an adjective. In the latter case you are entitled to have your own preference (which I share), but I think it is misleading to appeal to DYK policy to defend it, as you seem to be doing. Jmchutchinson (talk) 21:44, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * where can we have a discussion about this. WP:ERRORs isn't meant for "chit-chat," but this is an issue that should be discussed --DannyS712 (talk) 00:02, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

General discussion
[Above discussion questions added unsigned by DannyS712]
 * Question: Should introductory adverbial phrases in DYK hooks have
 * 1) Just a comma at the end
 * 2) Commas at the start and end
 * 3) No commas


 * As I have explained above, not 1, because it violates the standard rules of English punctuation. There seems no good reason to break the rules; non-standard punctuation makes it more difficult to parse the sentence, mildly annoys those aware of the rules, and is a poor advertisement for the quality of Wikipedia. Whether 2 or 3 is preferable is a matter of taste that should be decided individually rather than prescribed; usually neither alternative reads so badly that there would be a need to bring up the issue at Errors. It is probably unnecessary to add that occasionally it will be appropriate that an adverbial phrase is followed but not preceded by a comma—--when the comma is required to punctuate the part of the sentence following. Jmchutchinson (talk) 08:27, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * 3, slightly ahead of 2, but by no means 1. Preference for 3 above 2 is only because of the missing start to the sentence in the way that it is presented on the Main Page.  The flow of the sentence might sometimes determine 2 rather than 3. Kevin McE (talk) 15:41, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * 2 or 3 at the discretion of the writers, per Jmchutchinson. Personally I think that 3 generally looks better. — Bilorv(c)(talk) 00:44, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * 3, then 2, as "nom" or whatever. Also, general notes: great unsolicited copy edit that added a comma (1 -> 2) (this edit); I just posted more to wp:errors about commas in the next 2 updates but until this conversation is over I didn't want to look like I was going behind peoples backs, so this is an fyi. --DannyS712 (talk) 11:12, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Originally swayed by the discussion on errors towards 2 & 3, I did a little research on usage in similar content clauses ((S)he said that until/unless/while X, Y) and learned that 1) just a comma at the end is most common at publications like The New Yorker, Forbes, Times (ZA), Irish Times, government publications, etc. I do think, however, that it might be better to put adverbials at the end of the embedded clause unless there is a really strong reason not to.  Disclosure:  I always get commas wrong.  In that last sentence, since "unless" is contrastive, it can be introduced by a comma (though it does not require one according to the grammar rules I just read, unless it is strongly contrastive). ^^  SashiRolls t ·  c 14:10, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I am also familiar with the style mentioned by . I never used to put a comma after the introductory phrase, but then some people at WP:DYK started putting it in, so I've followed suit. I don't mind it being taken out, but sometimes a comma should be added to avoid a run-on sentence. I totally disagree with 2; putting a comma after the initial "that" looks downright cluttered. Yoninah (talk) 21:27, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

seasonn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921–22_Al-Mokhtalat_SC_seasonn

can you change it to season please — Preceding unsigned comment added by Libby Kane (talk • contribs) 11:26, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

oh and this shit can be deleted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yar_Taraky
 * Requested moves/Technical requests ― Abelmoschus Esculentus  ( talk •  contribs ) 13:26, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * 1921–22 Al-Mokhtalat SC season already exists. I'm deleting 1921–22 Al-Mokhtalat SC seasonn ― Abelmoschus Esculentus  ( talk •  contribs ) 13:29, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks for taking care of the first issue. As for the deletion, please see WP:AFD or, if you think it would be uncontroversial, use WP:PROD --DannyS712 (talk) 21:05, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

the dude who has been promoting himself will disagree probably

thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Libby Kane (talk • contribs) 08:56, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Well lets wait the 7 days and see DannyS712 (talk) 08:58, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Script tip
Just found out about a fun script tip from ResourceLoader/Developing_with_ResourceLoader. Instead of nesting mw.loader.using and $.ready, you can use $.when to wait for both of them at the same time, so that would be. Enterprisey (talk!) 18:11, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * thanks for the tip! --DannyS712 (talk) 21:03, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Geoff Harvey
Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 22:55, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I'll note that the source that is "closely paraphrased" is cited 8 times in the article --DannyS712 (talk) 23:55, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

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Brexit
Hi Danny!

I hope you are well. Under my request to edit the "Brexit" page (to add a subsection called "Mascot" under the "Cultural References" section) I noticed that you mentioned (19:17, 5 January 2019) that it is "not clear what changes you want to be made".

I was hoping to add the below text (in quotation marks) to the Brexit, Cultural References section. The reason being is that I came across this British company called "Brexit Bear" and I wanted to add it to the Brexit page, as it is in a time where very few British people are being positive about Brexit, would you be able to please approve the text? That would be very kind if possible, thank you!

"Mascot Continued division between "leave" and "remain" campaigners has sowed discord amongst the British population, however there are some who are trying to embrace the exceptional circumstances of Brexit by creating a positive mascot - a "Brexit Bear". A completely neutral mascot, the Brexit Bear looks to make light of the complexities of Brexit whilst encouraging a positive national dialogue that says "no matter the circumstances, the UK will be united and will continue to thrive"." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalia Karpoff (talk • contribs) 19:34, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Do you have reliable citations for the mascot? --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The quote at the end came from the website www.brexitbear.co.uk but can be removed - it is in reference to the bear quoting "Brexit Bear believes, come rain or shine, that this great country will thrive no matter what". Is this sufficient? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalia Karpoff (talk • contribs) 19:49, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
 * No, you need to have independent sources. Sorry. Also, please remember to sign your comments with ~ in the future! --DannyS712 (talk) 09:29, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

it is not "an example of positivity", it is just a scam to sell overpriced teddy bears. 20 pounds for a cheaply made teddy bear!! its not an official mascot its just some unknown company trying to make money out of misery. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Libby Kane (talk • contribs) 09:19, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I suggest you have that discussion with Natalia, as I know nothing about the company --DannyS712 (talk) 09:30, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Funeral of Churchill
Hello! Your submission of Funeral of Churchill at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Joseph2302</b> (talk) 12:18, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Trying to understand
Hi DannyS712, I created Nothing to fear but fear itself (disambiguation) because DAB pages that have a primary topic name (like Nothing to fear but fear itself) need a redirect to indicate intentional links to the disambiguation page (WP:INTDABLINK). I have created a lot of redirects like this and they have never had added to them. Since I'm still learning about the inner workings of WP, I'd be interested to know why this is an unnecessary disambiguation and if I should be adding it to every redirect that ends in '(disambiguation)'. Thanks, Leschnei (talk) 14:56, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I mis-clicked. Thanks for pointing that out. I have removed R from unnecessary disambiguation. Sorry about that, --DannyS712 (talk) 15:12, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I'm always running into new things that don't quite click in my brain, so I find it best to ask. Leschnei (talk) 18:39, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem --DannyS712 (talk) 00:52, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

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Duchess of Sussex
Hi, Danny! I've responded to your questions at Talk:Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/GA1. Surtsicna (talk) 20:39, 7 January 2019 (UTC)