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The Signpost: 31 January 2019
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Tech News: 2019-06
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Nomination of Sabina Fluxà for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sabina Fluxà is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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

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This Month in GLAM: January 2019
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A barnstar for you!

 * You are too kind, and still a net donor at the monthly collectibles exchange. Edwardx (talk) 22:59, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * P.S. An inspection of the book table on my return journey revealed most gone already. The Art of Conversation was still there, surprisingly since it was an almost new hardback, but perhaps thats because it's not done to talk to strangers on the tube. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:52, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07
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Request for your advice
Hi Edwardx, I have seen on your user page that you publish a lot of articles of American businesspeople, so I figured maybe you can give me advice on how to fix my problem. I am trying to publish an article of an American CEO here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Rice_Powell. However, Wikipedians have repeatedly declined the article for missing reliable sources and notability. As you can see, every single fact is verified by a reliable source in the references and I do not see insufficient notability speaking of a CEO who runs a world leading firm that has 114,000 employees in around 50 countries worldwide. Perhaps you can help me, since I am feeling a little stuck here. Your opinion on this would be much appreciated, thank you. --Stefanie at FMC CorpCom (talk) 15:38, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Ref Fill tool
Careful with that tool; occasionally domain squatters will grab abandoned domains and redirect them to the most interesting of places. Kuru  (talk)  03:21, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Unexplained content removal?
Hi. You asked why content was removed in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soren_Kaplan. Seemed redundant since the content and citation was exactly the same as in the section below it. Verbatim002 (talk) 08:05, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08
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 * When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident.

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Meetings
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Future changes
 * There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback.

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Amit Munjal
Request: Hello, edward. you recently had made a request for deleting the Amit Munjal Page. I am impressed by your glorious history with wikipedia and will appreciate if you could take a second look at it. I am not connected to him but do read about him and watch his interviews in media. i think people like him definitely need to be covered on wikipedia as many readers are interested in knowing about them. Nevada2020 (talk) 08:35, 19 February 2019 (UTC)Nevada2020

Talk to us about talking
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Tech News: 2019-09
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Recent changes
 * There is a new version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions.

Changes later this week
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Meetings
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Future changes
 * The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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Books & Bytes, Issue 32
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27 Feb
Hi, Can you please explain why did you undo my last edit on this article? HBM Iqbal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Papyrus cyrus (talk • contribs) 01:33, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
 * You need to stop removing properly cited content. And stop adding uncited or hagiographic content. If you are not happy with the article, please raise your concerns on that article's talkpage, not here! Edwardx (talk) 01:58, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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The Signpost: 28 February 2019
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Remo Ruffini
Hi Edward, since you've created the article about Remo Ruffini, would you give me an opinion about the updates I recently proposed in the talk page (here)? --Cristiana Napoleone (talk) 11:43, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Grange Hotels


The article Grange Hotels has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Fails WP:GNG and WP:NCORP, fail to find any reliable independent sources with significant coverage of the hotel chain (rather than the owner)."

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Proposed deletion of Raj Matharu


The article Raj Matharu has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Fails WP:GNG and WP:BASIC. No significant coverage in any reliable independent secondary sources - only trivial coverage about his brothers as a whole."

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Tech News: 2019-10
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This Month in GLAM: February 2019
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Tech News: 2019-11
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Recent changes
 * Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the  Lua function or the   parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using  mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
 * There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems
 * Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
 * Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed.
 * Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
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NPR Newsletter No.17


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 * News
 * The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.


 * Discussions of interest
 * Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
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DYK for Karen (orangutan)
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:35, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12
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Changes later this week
 * When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
 * Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. <b style="color:#00FF00">MB</b> 20:52, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13
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Recent changes
 * The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version.

Problems
 * There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed.
 * The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon.
 * Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings
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"strong and stable"
I've decided this might be notable after all, and have expanded it out of a redirect. Feel free to chip in. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  13:33, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. To the efforts of you and, it is looking much better. Can't have anyone calling it "weak and wobbly" can we? Edwardx (talk) 15:38, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It's rock solid, no need for any indicative votes. Philafrenzy (talk) 19:19, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Hear, hear. Edwardx (talk) 19:25, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * P.S. There would certainly be enough sources to develop Brexit means Brexit from a redirect on the same basis. Philafrenzy (talk) 20:42, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I can't believe somebody would say that no DYK is better than a bad DYK though. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  12:45, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * TRM? Those two hooks are both fine, yet there might be something stronger we could think up. Edwardx (talk) 13:38, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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Proposed deletion of Victor Vescovo


The article Victor Vescovo has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Does not meet WP:GNG"

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

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

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. John from Idegon (talk) 06:18, 31 March 2019 (UTC)