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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes
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 * An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

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 * Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

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 * The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
 * Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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The Bugle: Issue 210, October 2023
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 19:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Churchill chapter
Finally got this series done with Winston Churchill's address to Congress (1952) and I thank you again for pulling that chapter for me. Very helpful jengod (talk) 14:58, 12 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Happy to help where I can! Eddie891 Talk Work 15:05, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Anwar369sadat (07:47, 13 October 2023)
Hi, I want to create pages for some of living legends but they are not familiar with Wikipedia. to start this first I want to creat a page for myself, not a legend but want to understand the process. can you help and guide me how to do it --Anwar369sadat (talk) 07:47, 13 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Anwar369sadat! I wouldn't recommend writing an article on yourself, as you have a conflict of interest, and probably don't meet the notability standards we require of people to have stand alone articles. However, if you have other subjects here's the steps to take:
 * Ask yourself whether they meet our notability criteria (primarily, do they have significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources?)
 * if the subject does, I would begin by creating a draft through the articles for creation project. If you navigate to that link, there will be a blue button that says "Click here to start a new article". Click it! And you can create a draft page start writing your article, and submit it for review when it is 'done'.
 * Make sure the article is cited to reliable sources, written from a neutral point of view, and written in your own words.
 * For help with this, I would recommend reading this page, and looking at existing articles on similar topics to see how they are written. The Wikipedia Adventure is an interactive guide to the *basics* of editing, and if you have any further questions, feel free to ask them here or at the teahouse! There are a lot of friendly editors happy to help you out. You can also experiment with editing on the draft you create (in step 2) without any major repercussions, or at the sandbox. One of the best ways to learn how to edit is by doing it! We're here to help you through the inevitable mistakes
 * Happy editing, Eddie891 Talk Work 15:12, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

William Washington
Hello. I have an email set in my preferences but, if you’re like me, the familiar tools are easiest. You can send the scans outside WP to wiki@dants.ftml.net. It isn’t a secret but I’d rather not post it on the board. Thanks for your help. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 03:13, 16 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks, @Humphrey Tribble, the relevant pages. Eddie891 Talk Work 11:49, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Question
Hey just curious, why you change your mind here? - w o lf  03:38, 16 October 2023 (UTC)


 * See discussion a couple sections above. When an established user asks in good faith I'm generally pretty amenable to reopening discussion. If it means consensus can be found quicker, it saves the broader site a lot of time/effort (as opposed to DRV). Eddie891 Talk Work 11:42, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Just saw that now. Don't know about the 'good faith' bit, but's it's your call. Thanks for the reply. Cheers - w o lf  14:32, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I get what you're saying, and I obviously wouldn't have made the closure if I didn't think it was correct, but there's no harm in reopening. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:12, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of roles in the British Army
I think your close at Articles for deletion/List of roles in the British Army was incorrect, as none of the "keep" !votes were policy-based. I ask you to revert your close before I seek deletion review. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 02:33, 16 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I mean, sure. I can't see how any consensus besides keep or no consensus could have been found, but happy to let someone else close. It's worth noting that several of the !keep voters felt the list met notability criteria, and others alluded to why they felt the list fulfilled a valid purpose to be a stand alone list. Just because you disagree with them doesn't mean they are inherently not policy based. However, happy to see what another closer thinks. Eddie891 Talk Work 02:47, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Pointing to MOS does not satisfy N. An inclusionist admin claiming that they "don't see there's a problem with it" is not a policy-based argument. Someone else saying "These articles are common" is not a reasoned argument, either. Only one person thought the subject passed NLIST and they are mistaken. The editing community expects better from a closing admin than counting !votes on an equal basis; a bot does that. I'm trying to work the NPP backlog which is the only reason I got involved in this. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 13:19, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your work on the NPP backlog, and I’m sorry to hear you’re disappointed. That is certainly never my aim. However, you’re also misrepresenting the nature of the !votes. Necrothesp in a subsequent comment explicitly stated what's relevant at AfD is the notability of the topic — this, to me, is a direct invocation of NLIST with the implication that they have considered and feel the article meets that, as are !voters who said ‘per X’. We are also not in the business of discounting comments based on whether someone is an inclusionist (or not) last I checked. If we were, I would have to ask whether your record means any delete comments should be discounted (it doesn't). Eddie891 Talk Work 14:34, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Fair point. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 15:36, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Louise Fulton image
Sorry about that, I started looking for free images before you had uploaded a fair use one. Yours was certainly better quality. --GRuban (talk) 17:02, 17 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Good find on the free image, @GRuban! Eddie891 Talk Work 17:15, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
 * That one you uploaded kind of looks like the same one from the bowl.com website, except lower quality - doesn't it? If it is, what is done in this situation? BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:25, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
 * File:Louise Fulton headshot.jpg and https://bowl.com/usbc-hall-of-fame/hall-of-famers/louise-fulton ... it does look as if the first was cropped from the second, doesn't it? Well, if we knew for sure that second image was published in the US without copyright notice before 1978, it would also be public domain, and we should certainly use the better quality image. Honestly, if the newspaper image were even a complete copy, I'd use it; the newspapers.com scanner isn't the best we could wish for. But as is, there is some chance only the cropped version was published. Want to email bowl.com and ask them where their image came from? 90% chance they either won't answer or don't even know themselves ... but that does leave a 10% chance they'll say! https://bowl.com/usbc-hall-of-fame/information does say "If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact Dave Schroeder at dave.schroeder@bowl.com." so it's a real person which is somewhat encouraging. --GRuban (talk) 18:22, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
 * In fact, even that one isn't the full crop - see https://www.facebook.com/usbc/posts/in-celebration-of-blackhistorymonth-we-pay-tribute-to-a-bowling-pioneer-louise-f/10155930794965336/ which seems to be an even larger version of the same image. Maybe we should write those people. (And by "we", I of course mean you. )--GRuban (talk) 18:44, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

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Commander X16
Given that the project got materialized and started pre-sales, do you think Commander X16 article that was deleted 3 years ago can be rewritten now? VectorVoyager (talk) 12:03, 24 October 2023 (UTC)


 * The project may meet the notability guidelines (such as WP:GNG) now, yes, though that is not a guarantee. You'd have to look at the coverage it has gotten. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:31, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red - November 2023
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Question from Nnn edits on Article wizard/CreateDraft (21:48, 25 October 2023)
I have to delete a useless, incomplete and Empty misinformation page.How to delete this Page --Nnn edits (talk) 21:48, 25 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Nnn edits, what is the page, specifically? I can help you out a bit better if. I know what we're looking at. Eddie891 Talk Work 13:33, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 24 December 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Today's featured article/December 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/December 2023. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Main Page/Errors from two days before the article appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 18:51, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive
 Hello Eddie891:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Weaver FROG (13:41, 31 October 2023)
What is the minimum age you need to have to participate wikipedia --Weaver FROG (talk) 13:41, 31 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, @Weaver FROG! There is no minimum age. Anyone is welcome to edit, though you generally need a certain degree of maturity. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:32, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

October thanks
Thank you for improving articles in October! - Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:03, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Towards the end of the month, I thought of Brian Bouldton, and his ways to compromise, - with musings about peace there, - feel free to join. Hevenu shalom aleichem. Today is Reformation Day, and I believe that reformation is a work in progress. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:43, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Walt Whitman's lectures on Abraham Lincoln
What a fine piece of work, again. I'm looking at it, hoping to aid with the FA. Here's something I can't easily tweak or explain in an edit summary--a few things that are connected. I think "controversial by some" can easily do without the "some", if I understand it correctly: there was plenty, right? Plus I think "controversial" is pretty black and white: it's there or it's not, though it can be major or minor. A bigger things, for me, is the quoted "homoerotic overtones", which is of course a modern evaluation since that language didn't really exist. In other words, I think it needs attribution, or the statement should be made in a different way. Does that make sense to you? Drmies (talk) 16:32, 28 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking a look. I agree with what you're saying, I attributed and removed the 'by some', if that works? Eddie891 Talk Work 17:49, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Re: "culminating hour". I have to dig into the sourcing. Kaplan's citations don't include it (*angry face*) and Reynold's don't give enough context Eddie891 Talk Work 18:40, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Works for me! What a nice collection of articles you've been building. Ha, I'm on the other side, if you like; I've been working on Sidney Lanier, who was not as great a poet, but he was a fan of Leaves of Grass though he probably despised Whitman's classless ideas about democracy. Drmies (talk) 20:19, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Drmies: I found the source of the quote. Turns out it has been shortened and is from Whitman's friend John Johnston, who writes: "'Two hundred callers came and paid homage to 'The Good Gray Poet,' Walt afterwards told me it was 'the culminating hour of his life," Johnston doesn't even bother to close the quote, so it's hard to tell where his writing begins and ends, or even what's being quoted. I'm not sure what to do with this, but think I will remove it from the lead at the least. Need to think more about the best way to add context... Eddie891 Talk Work 21:32, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Shoot, I hope I'm not making you go through all the source material... I know how that feels. But thank you for your diligence. Drmies (talk) 21:34, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Drmies, no apologies at all! The source material needs digging, and your questions have led me to find a couple more mistakes in the scholarly record to put into the article. Eddie891 Talk Work 18:54, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Drmies, The sourcing doesn't really date either of his statements. So I've tried to not put either as later than the others. Eddie891 Talk Work 23:57, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Drmies, I think Whitman would just about roll over in his grave if he read this poem written 'in his memory'! Eddie891 Talk Work 01:52, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh I gotta teach and I have a few meetings, but I can't wait to look at that. Drmies (talk) 14:20, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter
The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-


 * BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
 * Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
 * Epicgenius with 1518 points
 * MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
 * BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
 * AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
 * Sammi Brie with 520 points
 * Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.


 * Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
 * BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
 * Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
 * LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
 * Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
 * 🇺🇦 Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Lefthandesign (19:57, 6 November 2023)
How do you credit a designer to their design? --Lefthandesign (talk) 19:57, 6 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, @Lefthandesign, could you be a bit more specific? What are you hoping to credit a designer for? Eddie891 Talk Work 20:50, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has strict guidelines against self-promotion or conflict of interest. I believe It’s generally discouraged to add information about own designs. However in terms of adding factual information to articles in Wikipedia, how do I add missing information to devices I've designed? Or do I inform others who could do this? Lefthandesign (talk) 21:02, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Lefthandesign, you are correct on your first point. The best thing to do would be to find reliable sources that discuss the missing information. Next, I would recommend post on the talk page of the article they want to change with your proposed changes and citations to reliable sources. You can then flag them with the edit COI template, or post a note at the COI noticeboard, so that they can be peer reviewed. Does that make sense/sound like what you're looking for? Happy to expand if you need clarification. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:32, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).



Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss · TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news
 * The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections.  is the reserve commissioner.
 * Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
 * Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
 * Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
 * Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
 * An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous
 * The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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 * Thanks, Gog. Am enjoying the reviewing I can get done with my time! Eddie891 Talk Work 23:38, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
Hello , Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by  and  with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of, and also some patches from , has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were


 * Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
 * Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
 * Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

The Bugle: Issue 211, November 2023
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 18:18, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Adammaurer (11:52, 9 November 2023)
Hello Eddie! I have edited a page that had a bare URL warning. It was my first editing attempt, so I hope it is OK.

Do you think I can now remove the warning myself? Or what procedure should I follow? --Adammaurer (talk) 11:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)


 * The page was Craig Tomlinson Adammaurer (talk) 11:54, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, @Adammaurer, and thanks for your your work so far! If you feel a warning has been resolved, you can feel free to remove the warning. In this case, I went ahead and did it for you, in this edit. If you look at the revision in the edit, you can see how some of the sources you added were still in the format of bare urls- a form that is not is when you use a citation template like cite web. Basically, you want there to be more information (ie author, publication, date of publication) so that if the URL ever goes down, someone can access it again. Another tool you can use for fixing broken links is a site like archive.today or web.archive.org, which stores copies of webpages forever. So, for instance, I was able to access this source (which you had removed) at this link. See this edit for an example of how to cite that. Removing a source should only be done as a last resort. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 14:38, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi @Eddie891, thanks for your helpful comments! I went to another page to try and get the citing right. Could you please confirm that what I did at David Braine (athletic director) is OK? Adammaurer (talk) 15:45, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, @Adammaurer, the formatting of that citation looks good! And your choice to change the phrasing is good. One point is the sentence you added to the article is super similar to the sentence of the citation ("David Braine was instrumental in helping the Hokies join the long sought-after Atlantic Coast Conference"). Because of copyright policies, Wikipedia has to be written in our own words. Can you think of any ways to rephrase this sentence? Eddie891 Talk Work 15:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, I thought it would have to as close as possible to the source! I have rephrased it, hope it is better. Adammaurer (talk) 15:49, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think your edit is fine. There's not too many different ways to phrase that sentence. Thanks for your dilligence! Eddie891 Talk Work 16:01, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

A librianic wonder!

 * Thanks for this kind note, ! Happy to be of assistance where I can, and I enjoy seeing the work users do with the sources I help them get access to. Eddie891 Talk Work 16:13, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * PS: I'm hanging on to the book until it's due (early December), so if you need any other pages or any pages re-scanned, just let me know. Eddie891 Talk Work 16:14, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Boulez
Hi there, you kindly made some comments on the Pierre Boulez page a while back. I've now nominated it for FA, if you happen to have time to stop by...Dmass (talk) 07:41, 16 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note, I will add it to my list, though I'm not quite sure what I'll have the time for yet. Eddie891 Talk Work 13:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

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FA
Congratulations for Walt Whitman's lectures on Abraham Lincoln! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:25, 17 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Eddie891 Talk Work 12:50, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Do you have TFA plans for it? Any day soon, or more specific? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:08, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * April would be nice, because it’s when the lecture was typically delivered, but no real preference. Eddie891 Talk Work 13:38, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * So perhaps a no specific date as soon as March is scheduled? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:40, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * In theory, April 14, as that's when it was most frequently delivered. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Then make a note on WP:TFARP, perhaps? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Time to say thank you for improving article quality in November! - Vacation pictures offered if you click on songs, and my story today is a DYK hook from 13 years ago OTD: about the great music at one of my churches. Mozart's Requiem to come on Sunday, coupled with Arvo Pärt's Da pacem Domine, - I guess you might come if it was a bit closer. Perhaps watch the video of our last production, our first on yt, ever. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1, Boston Braves 1 (26 innings)
If you have a chance, could you give the above article a review? It is languishing a bit at FAC. Many thanks. Wehwalt (talk) 14:27, 9 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I'd be happy to. I've got a six-hour train ride up to WikiConference North America tomorrow, so will try to take a look at it then. Eddie891 Talk Work 14:29, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Wehwalt, Sorry that I forgot to circle back to this one. Interesting article. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Not an issue. If I do another one of these individual game articles, I will give a lot of attention to the question of jargon. But right now I don't have a game in mind. Wehwalt (talk) 23:13, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Promotion of Walt Whitman's lectures on Abraham Lincoln

 * , any thoughts on running this at WP:TFA on April 14 or 15? - Dank (push to talk) 03:45, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Dank, I think either would be great, April 14 probably a bit better. Thanks for bringing up. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:30, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, it's on TFAP for April 14. - Dank (push to talk) 00:33, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red December 2023
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Question from Oh-rainworld-guy (13:49, 30 November 2023)
Hey! Would adding a source/multiple sources to an article be considered a minor or major edit? Thanks! --Oh-rainworld-guy (talk) 13:49, 30 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Oh-rainworld-guy, good question! That would definitely be considered a major edit. You should only use the 'minor edit' button when making really small changes, such as fixing a typo or changing a couple words. Here's an example of such an edit, where the user removed 'has'. Compare that to the edit immediately before it, which added new information, and a reference, and was not marked as 'minor'. Hope that helps! Eddie891 Talk Work 14:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Murali krishna bevara on Rajahmundry (15:46, 6 December 2023)
How can correct the name of the places --Murali krishna bevara (talk) 15:46, 6 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Murali krishna bevara! One of the great things about Wikipedia is that anyone can edit. To correct a mistake you can simply click the button that says 'edit' in the upper right corner of the article. Make sure that you provide an explanation of your change and a source that states the correct information. Best, Eddie891 Talk Work 17:52, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue 212, December 2023
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Happy holidays!
Happy Holidays text.png Hello Eddie891: Enjoy the holiday season&#32;and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

DYK for T. K. Jones
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Question from Leonorm2023 (22:42, 21 December 2023)
Hey Eddie! How can I go about deleting a draft that got rejected twice? For reference this is the Cinematographer: Sam Levy --Leonorm2023 (talk) 22:42, 21 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, @Leonorm2023, if you are the sole author of the page, you can tag it for deletion with db-g7. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!
Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023! The the top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Cast your votes vote here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2023. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:56, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

December greetings
Thank you for what you do and stand for! I wish you a good festive season and a peaceful New Year! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:30, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and the same to you! Eddie891 Talk Work 20:31, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:56, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you today for the timely Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, introduced: "One of the most famous editorials of all time, I think this article is comprehensive and otherwise meets the FA criteria. A nice Christmastime theme, if nothing else."! - My wishes - with a timely DYK (sometimes it works) - in today's story, and more to come if you keep reading. Silent Night. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Saurabhgarg01 (12:56, 24 December 2023)
Hi Eddie, Thank you for being my mentor. I would request you, if you can guide me the parameters to review while suggesting an edit. Once again thank you and looking forward forward to support you in all your endeavour. --Saurabhgarg01 (talk) 12:56, 24 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Saurabhgarg01, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "suggesting an edit". There are many different forms and edit can take, from writing a new article to fixing a minor typo. Could you clarify what you are hoping to work on? Best, Eddie891 Talk Work 13:08, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

A solstice greeting
 ❄️Happy holidays!❄️

Hi Eddie! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. It was great to meet you in Toronto! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb }&#125;  talk

&#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 06:33, 24 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks, @Sdkb, really neat idea! I really enjoyed Toronto, hoping to go to more meet-ups soon. And, best wishes for the end of the year! Eddie891 Talk Work 13:09, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Sharda23 (22:06, 27 December 2023)
Firstly, I would like to thank you for your service in helping me with my project. --Sharda23 (talk) 22:06, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Sharda23, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm happy to help in whatever way I can. Let me know if you have any questions I can answer. Eddie891 Talk Work 16:10, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from MarkDSF (15:09, 28 December 2023)
Hi Eddie, I'll plan to be active many years and am now a monthly donor after giving annually for several years. I've written a lot of refereed technical papers with refs, so I don't expect to have much trouble here.

But I do have a problem that I set up this new account today, but now I see MDNNM is also alive, with the same email address attached. Since that one has no content attached, can you kill that account and leave this one? I don't see a delete account feature available to me anywhere, so maybe I'm just missing it?

Thanks for the help, and we may talk more about content soon. --MarkDSF (talk) 15:09, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @MarkDSF! It's great to hear that you plan to contribute more. There is unfortunately no way to delete an account once it has been registered, but you should be fine just not editing on the other one, and it will be left inactive. If you want, you can disable email on that other account. Does that help? Eddie891 Talk Work 16:12, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * yes, that's what I'll do. all this started when I saw you blocked all the TMUS IP addresses, and we are FWA customers of them on Wi-Fi. Since there are millions of such accounts, perhaps WP would consider sending out a general advisory on how to fix that problem, as I also had to delete and reinstall my phone app, to make it drop the blocked account MarkDSF (talk) 16:17, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
 New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Cscr-featured.svg Featured script

 * RefRenamer by Nardog is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names in VisualEditor if we wish for it in the next survey. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418".

Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Updated scripts

 * Nardog: MoveHistory can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.
 * User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.
 * User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.
 * User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
 * AutoEd/unicodehex.js will no longer replace legacy MediaWiki dot-entities (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.



Ambox important.svg Improve a script

 * Many of our favorite scripts such as User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
 * User:Elominius/gadget/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
 * To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
 * We want...
 * ...a mark-as-read button for Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
 * ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to User:TheJJJunk/ARA
 * ...a fix/fork of User:DannyS712/SectionRemover.js to make it work

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 * A WP:3O requesting and responding tool, similar to Terasil's classic edit request tool
 * A "bytes removed"/"added" filter on the user contribs page
 * A review tool for WP:proposed deletions
 * Mass patrol new pages by a user for use in WP:RFP/A
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

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 * Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
 * Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
 * User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
 * Chlod:
 * Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
 * Attribution Notice Template Editor (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor and supports more templates than copied ones.
 * Infringement Assistant allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate Copyright problems noticeboard.
 * User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
 * Enterprisey
 * diff-permalink-2 allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink
 * archiver is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.
 * /parent-cats highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories.
 * User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet adds an access key shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by Nardog and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh.
 * User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay loads a bunch of fonts to add correct rendering supports for "esoteric" languages.
 * User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped will make piped links irresistible (or else).
 * User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js adds an WP:AutoEd function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! Configure away!
 * Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
 * User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
 * Nardog
 * /CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with to your search query. Happy to answer any other questions you may have! Best, Eddie891 Talk Work 17:24, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Osama Said (producer) to Osama Said
hello, it appears that without the unnecessary disambiguation, the Osama Said article is salted. the notability of this newly created article seems doubtful, but could you move it/unprotect Osama Said in order to move it per naming requirements? She was a fairy 09:19, 14 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Sorry that I missed this point. Yes, if there is a notable Osama Said, I would be happy to un-SALT, but this doesn't seem to be the case here so the point is now moot. Eddie891 Talk Work 17:30, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

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March flowers
in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this, and of Vami --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:13, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Rossini's Petite messe solennelle was premiered on 14 March 1864, - when I listen to the desolate Agnus Dei I think of Vami. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:22, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Vacation pics uploaded, at least the first day, - and Aribert Reimann remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:31, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:23, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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Administrator changes
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello ,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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The Bugle: Issue 216, April 2024
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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:


 * with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
 * with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
 * with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
 * with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
 * with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (,, and ) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

TFA (Walt Whitman's lectures on Abraham Lincoln)
I love when I see a TFA and immediately know who wrote it. Great job on an interesting and challenging topic! Hope you are doing well. DanCherek (talk) 05:28, 14 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note, @DanCherek! I'm well, just about fully recovered from a surgery last week and hoping to get some more serious editing in in a couple months (been quite busy irl recently). Extending the same wishes to you and yours. Eddie891 Talk Work 19:42, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, glad to hear you're recovering well! DanCherek (talk) 21:37, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the TFA, introduced: "After several months of deep diving and a couple years of tinkering, I am reasonably sure that this is the most comprehensive account that exists anywhere of Whitman's lectures."! - My story today is about a piece composed for the Second Sunday after Easter 300 years ago, and I just returned from a (long) opera about the same age. Best wishes for recovery! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:07, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I went to the Easter service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City just before my surgery, and the service reminded me of you and your work, Gerda. There was a haunting soprano saxophone solo which I reckon will stay with me for a while. It was beautiful to see the flowers, hear the music, and worship with several thousand others in the same building. I hope all is well. Eddie891 Talk Work 01:10, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

What DanCherek. Glad to hear you're doing well. Drmies (talk) 01:11, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

April thanks
Thank you for improving article quality in April! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:42, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
 * with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
 * with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
 * with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
 * with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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Question from Jansan72 (17:30, 28 April 2024)
Hello Eddie891, I have just now created this account but did some editing on Wiki around 5 years ago. I use the encyclopedia often but am retired and my usage is leisurely. I was reading the Human Migration page. While there's a lot of good information, the page needs a major revamping. There are contradictions between the sections, the logic is weak, and there's a jumble of conflicting definitions. The result is confusion. I checked the 'talk' on this page, and found that back in 2015/17 someone else made similar points. They suggested a "Merge". I suggest a reshuffle and cutting. The topic needs to be precisely defined, logical connection between sections made, and then the links to other Wiki pages clearly specified. The way it stands now, this page tries to do everything and ends up doing nothing. This is an important topic. Please have a look at it. I could help revise but it would mean a total reshuffle. Thanks for you consideration on this, Jansan72 --Jansan72 (talk) 17:30, 28 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, @Jansan72, thanks for the note. Unfortunately, I don't have the bandwidth to work on this article at the moment. I'd suggest leaving a note like this on the talk page and hoping someone picks it up as your best option. Cheers, Eddie891 Talk Work 15:45, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Eddie,
 * Thanks for your suggestion. I will do it.
 * Jansan72 2001:569:BF39:200:7474:E447:4B64:4878 (talk) 15:57, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Ayesha E Page
I am looking into creating a wikipage for Ayesha Erotica and see you attempted and either you deleted it or it was deleted. Just wanted any tips or advice and if you want to help hit me up. Daneyp00 (talk) 19:19, 29 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, @Daneyp00. The consensus at the last discussion (Articles for deletion/Ayesha Erotica (2nd nomination)) was that this topic did not meet our notability requirements, namely that the subject meets one of the criteria listed at WP:MUSICBIO. Before doing anything else, I would make sure that you feel you can establish how the subject does. Eddie891 Talk Work 13:57, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from King nashon.898 (13:22, 2 May 2024)
How to add image on your article --King nashon.898 (talk) 13:22, 2 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @King nashon.898. Can you be a bit more specific about what you are trying to do? What article? What image? Eddie891 Talk Work 13:58, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

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Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

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 * Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
Hi there! Phase I of the Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
 * Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
 * Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
 * Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
 * Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
 * Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
 * Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
 * Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

The Bugle: Issue 217, May 2024
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 20:19, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Question from RiyG (19:42, 5 May 2024)
Hello Eddie, I was wondering if I can write articles on Wikipedia not only about the things that already exist but also about creative projects, like perhaps an extend character from a series that I came up with. I will include information designed by my self on this character and introduce them to the rest of the world in my articles. Is that an okay thing to do? Thank you. --RiyG (talk) 19:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi @RiyG, I would say that think fictional things that haven't attracted a substantial degree of secondary commentary probably don't have a place on Wikipedia, which is intended to be a reliable, neutral encyclopedia. Eddie891 Talk Work 14:21, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Women in Green GA Editathon June 2024 - Going Back in Time
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WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in June 2024!

Running from June 1 to 30, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Going Back in Time! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 20 centuries by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

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Question from Wajihkhan4 on New York Civil Liberties Union (00:41, 19 May 2024)
hello what are errors in your article --Wajihkhan4 (talk) 00:41, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Today's TFA, Felix M. Warburg House, was written by Vami_IV and Epicgenius, introduced: "This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New York City. Although the Warburgs no longer remain, their legacy does: the museum is now the home of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the building largely survives as they left it. It's a beautiful building and I hope you will all enjoy it."! - in memory --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:13, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

today's story has a pic of a woman holding her cat, a DYK of 5 years ago - the recent pics show 2 orange tip butterflies --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:43, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for improving articles in May! - Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:29, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red June 2024
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Question from Ronrapice (16:40, 4 June 2024)
Hi! I'd like to create a page --Ronrapice (talk) 16:40, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

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Guideline and policy news
 * Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news
 * The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
 * The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

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