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DYK for 2015 Chattanooga shootings
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2014 Pakistan Super League listed at Redirects for discussion
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2014–15 Pakistan Super League listed at Redirects for discussion
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 * Thanks for notifying me about the discussion. I have commented there. Faizan (talk) 10:50, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Infobox Location is only for Current Ground situation
If you want to give disputed location for Siachen then this rule applies to both Azad Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and same as Aksai Chin, Trans-Karakoram Tract, as these all are disputed. Infobox Location is only for Current Ground situation which is reflecting correctly as entire Siachen Glacier is under India's control. for dispute, there is separate page Siachen conflict same as Kashmir conflict.--Koodfaand (talk) 19:07, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Please stop making changes contrary to the RfC. At Talk:Siachen Glacier, we had an RfC that was closed with this result. There is no rule rather it's the RfC's result only for Siachen Glacier. For other articles, we will need separate RfCs. Faizan (talk) 19:13, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Even in thar RFc, there is no clear consensus and users like Call me maybe!!  have raised serious concern. So dont be in any illusion. The Rfc is closed by a non-admin --Koodfaand (talk) 19:18, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Did you even see the result? It does not matter that the closure is by an admin or not. Anyhow, is an administrator. Graeme, please have a look? Am I not getting the things straight? Faizan (talk) 19:25, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I closed the RFC, and it did have a clear result. Also note that Siachen Glacier has discretionary sanctions. This means that only one revert is permitted, and any editing to keep what you want results in a block.  Consider that you have been warned about this situation.  This editing restriction also applies to User:Koodfaand and me. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:18, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your input. However, in my knowledge, discretionary sanctions do not automatically that a revert restriction is in place. Can you please double check? (I don't mind 1RR. I normally practise it anyway. But many people would be shocked if this were the case, because all India-Pakistan-Afghanistan pages are under discretionary sanctions.) - Kautilya3 (talk) 23:33, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

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September 2015
Hi Faizan. Thank you for your work on patrolling pages and tagging for speedy deletion. I'm just letting you know that I declined your deletion request for Mawra Hocane, a page that you tagged for speedy deletion, because the criterion you used or the reason you gave does not cover this kind of page. There is a claim of notability. Please take a moment to look at the suggested tasks for patrollers, criteria for speedy deletion, and particularly, the section covering non-criteria. Such pages are best tagged with proposed deletion or proposed deletion for biographies of living persons, or sent to the appropriate deletion discussion. Thanks!  Jim Car ter  11:15, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. What was wrong with my tagging under A7? Or non-notable articles about persons cannot be tagged for speedy deletion? I saw that you declined that speedy deletion request. I tagged the article under WP:A7, which includes the provision for CSD of a non-notable person under . Regarding PROD, the article was already tagged for PROD due to lack of assertion of notability and was deleted three times before (the latest one being half-an-hour ago by ) under A7 and Expired PROD.  Faizan (talk) 11:23, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello Faizan, please read through WP:A7 once again. You are definitely right that non-notable articles (with some exception) can be tagged with A7 but you can tag them with A7 only and only if the article makes no credible claim of significance or importance. Even if the claim is not supported by a reliable source or does not qualify on Wikipedia's notability guidelines. In this case, I found credible claim of significance at once (Pakistani actress) in the article so I declined. However, I think WP:AFD is the only way for you now, PROD no longer applies to it now. Cheers,  Jim  Car  ter  11:48, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, Thanks. Faizan (talk) 13:21, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I used Twinkle in my edit to Mawra Hocane. I got your point, while nominating the article for speedy deletion, I just relied upon the twinkle's summary of A7 : "Unremarkable person". The article had been deleted thrice before and I concluded that the user is trying to recreate it for the fourth time with a new username. That latest sock account, has been blocked indefinitely and that draft has been deleted too. Faizan (talk) 18:51, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Help needed
Plz check talk page of Paniala Ilyaskhorasani (talk) 13:00, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Bhagat Singh - GOCE Edit
Hello Faizan: I am working on your GOCE request for a copy edit of the article on Bhagat Singh and have come across a sentence that does not make sense. In the Special Tribunal section: you/or someone wrote “…and to accept death of the persons giving evidence as a concession to the defence.” The meaning of this is unclear to me – can you explain? I will continue to work on the copy edit s time allows. Kind regards. Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:21, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for picking this article. There is a backlog at GOCE requests mostly. That text was not added by me. The Book that is being used after this text as reference is not available online, I am trying to access the reference somehow. Faizan (talk) 12:13, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

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Baghat Singh Copy Edit
Faizan: I have now pretty much finished the copy edit of Baghat Singh and archived as many citations as possible. Along with my query of several days ago, I have some additional comments for your consideration.

In the “Assembly case” trial section it was not clear what the outcome of this trial was and what, if any defense, Singh offered. In the ” Hunger strike and Lahore conspiracy case” section it refers to Singh’s life sentence in the Assembly case. I have noted that he received a life sentence in the” Assembly case” section but this could use some elaboration.

There is no mention made of Singh’s defense, if any, in either the ” Hunger strike and Lahore conspiracy case” or the “Special Tribunal” section. This should be discussed. It is mentioned that they had no opportunity to defend themselves in the “Criticism of the tribunal trial section”. If that is the case then what they proposed as their defense in each case needs to be explained with a note that they were not allowed to present their arguments (if that was true in each case).

Please let me know what if any changes you make so that I can complete the c/e and advise the GOCE that i have done so.

Kind regards Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:27, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

DRN
I filed a DRN as Human 3015 was becoming increasingly nonsensical in his statements and making me laugh and he did not seem to get the point, anyway, it ought to be a simple open and shut case. Please give your input here. FreeatlastChitchat (talk) 05:20, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi . My regrets, I could not contribute to the discussion due to some real-life task. I am glad that your version got agreement on the talk. Faizan (talk) 15:07, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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Battle of Chamb and Dogra
I'm processing a report at WP:RFPP. reverted you on this article a couple weeks ago. Is the current version of the article acceptable? --Neil N  talk to me 12:51, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I have no problem with that version as protection is meant to stop further disruption. WP:WRONGVERSION (As you quoted it to D4iNa4 earlier). I am a bit busy these days and as soon as I find some time, I will look for some reliable sources to be put in the article. Several tasks to do. Faizan (talk) 13:37, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

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Request for page assessment / rating
Greetings sir,

Since you are a senior member of both the Islam and Pakistan projects, I'd like to ask if you can assess the page Ideas of Ghulam Ahmed Pervez. If you are busy with other tasks, please let me know if you know someone who I can ask. Thank you. c Ө de1+6  LogicBomb!  03:01, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, yeah I am a bit involved these days. I will take a look later. Faizan (talk) 11:10, 10 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you, take your time, no rush. c Ө de1+6  LogicBomb!  11:23, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

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VisualEditor News #5—2015
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WikiCup 2015: The results
WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is. All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. , a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to. Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

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 * wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
 * wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
 * wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
 * wins the prize for fourth place
 * wins a final 8 prize.
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 * wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
 * wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
 * wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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Articles for deletion/Capture of Kishangarh Fort
This is Request for comments on Articles for deletion/Capture of Kishangarh Fort. HIAS (talk) 19:44, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

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Do you know there is an SPI against you? Sockpuppet investigations/TopGun. HIAS (talk) 21:10, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

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VisualEditor News #6—2015
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If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want: The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

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The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

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WikiCup 2016: Game On!
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VisualEditor News #1—2016
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Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features. If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes
You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Future changes
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The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers would like to know how well the visual editor works in your language. They particularly want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect the following languages: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic and others.

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 * Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Language engineer David Chan needs help from people who often type in these languages. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing if you can help. Report your results on wiki (Korean – Japanese – all languages).
 * Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.

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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter


That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by, and two each by , , , and. Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by. Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with completing nine.

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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. ,, and .--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

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Monuments destroyed by war listed at Redirects for discussion
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Welcoming
Hi Faizan, I am not sure why you pinged me here or even what you are trying to say. Anybody can welcome new users, but somebody should. The point of welcoming is to make them aware of Wikipedia policies. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 17:02, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi. I don't think there was a need for this separate thread while you could have replied where I pinged you. Anyhow, I am not asking you not to welcome the new users, in fact, I am also a part of the Welcoming Committee of Wikipedia. It is a good thing to guide the new users. But these two concerned IPs, and, both of which belong to the same user with a static IP (with the same IP range of a telecom carrier), edited the same article and removed the referenced text. As you welcomed them twice, you must have gone through their edits, which you ignored. You did not give them any awareness regarding policy for removal of referenced text? If you wanted to make them aware, You could have used specific welcoming templates like "  ". But you gave a wrong impression. Faizan (talk) 18:56, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I can't assume a priori that they are the same user. LX produces a new IP pretty much every week, and each of them gets a welcome message from me if it comes to my notice. And, these particular IPs wrote clear and detailed edit summaries for their edits, at least when I first ran into them. So it is not an instance of welcome-anon-delete, if you have ever read that template. If you have a content dispute, please feel free to follow it up, but I don't see any violation of policy. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 21:54, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * But I do suspect policy violation. Anyhow, I started a thread at the article's talk already. Owing to the content dispute, I had requested temporary semi-protection too, which was declined. Faizan (talk) 10:40, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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Do you want one Edit tab, or two? It's your choice
The editing interface will be changed soon. When that happens, editors who currently see two editing tabs – "Edit" and "Edit source" – will start seeing one edit tab instead. The single edit tab has been popular at other Wikipedias. When this is deployed here, you may be offered the opportunity to choose your preferred appearance and behavior the next time you click the Edit button. You will also be able to change your settings in the Editing section of Special:Preferences.

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WikiCup 2016 May newsletter


Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by and one by ), four Featured Lists (with three by ), and 53 Good Articles (six by  and five each by, , and ). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by and five by ). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. scored 265 base points, while and  each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, and, broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

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Balochistan conflict
Hi Faizan, that statement by a Balochi leader does merit mention in the article in my view, mainly for the sake of maintaining a NPOV (i.e., in order to balance the official line of the federal government). Hope you don't mind I reinstated it by reverting your deletion. Kind regards, — kashmiri  <sup style="font-family:Candara; color:#80F;">TALK  23:00, 25 June 2016 (UTC)