User talk:Ged UK/Archives/2018/February

Doug Ford Jr. protected under false pretenses
Hi, Please unprotect this BLP you just protected. The editor who requested protection has been edit warring and his claim of vandalism is baloney as you can see by the fact that no editor has been even warned of vandalism. This is a Subject who just a few days ago joined a major party leadership race governing a population of 16 million and there are likely to be many citizens who will be attracted to read and maybe some to edit the BLP....it is not nice for the newly attracted to editing be discouraged based upon no evidence at all of vandalism....especially when the request was made by an engaged editor. Nocturnalnow (talk) 19:42, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The vandalism is clear; removal of sections that are fully sourced. If you don't like the section, find sources that rebuff the current one and write it in. That's how you can produce a balanced article. Ged  UK  11:08, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 5 February 2018
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Passing by to say hi
I had not seen your response on Dlohcierekim's wall, but now I see. (Im working on Commons and Wikibooks). Wanted to ask, am I worth the page mover right? i've a bunch of subpages in my userspace and will finish up some time later. Artix Kreiger (talk) 02:06, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi there! I've had a glance over your contributions and they look OK to me. However, I don't do user rights very often, so I'm not 100% sure of the standard. The place to ask is Requests for permissions/Page mover, looks like it's handled pretty quickly there, one way or the other. Good luck :) Ged  UK  08:43, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

White-breasted nuthatch
Hi, there was an edit conflict with White-breasted nuthatch. I undid my action - since you were first would you mind protecting it again?– Gilliam (talk) 15:41, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Ged  UK  15:46, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Dennis Wise
Thanks for protecting Dennis Wise. Pepper Gaming (talk) 15:37, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem! Ged  UK  15:40, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

CSD U1 Request
Hello Ged UK! Requesting you to please delete the following user redirect pages too. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (reason- db-u1/u2) Thank you! Ivec os (t) 11:38, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Done I think. Cocked it up the first time and deleted both yours and Shivamsetu's, not noticing the redirects! Hopefully I've restored all of yours now. Let me know if I've missed any. CHeck the deletion log!. Ged  UK  12:00, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah! pages have been restored. Actually, I think I'm more at fault, I should have given URLs (with redirect=no) instead of giving wikilinks of redirects, for e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Doreen_Reinders&redirect=no which I only realized after shutting down the system! Sorry about that and thanks again. Ivec os (t) 14:24, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018
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If you're interested
I decided to enter that Arabic that was added to Juande Ramos page on google translator to see what it went to and this was the result! (Turki Sheikh  Advisor and Chairman of the Board and the coach and president of the club and the head of war and playmaker and professional Plut and a member of the distinguished Twitter and Krendizer).

That's some weird shit for sure! Govvy (talk) 12:03, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Corvette Grand Sport
I'm confused as to the deletion of the Corvette Grand Sport Collector Edition page.

There was discussion started as to why it had its own page. I put in that discussion that there was a bit of content so I thought it might be appropriate to not clutter the main Corvette C7 page with it. No one ever commented back on that so I thought it was good at that point, then I see the page is gone. I'm happy to include that content in the main page, I think I implied that, but now the content has been deleted which makes me have to re-create it. I'm happy to add more content to the C7 page if that is the right thing to do, just looking for guidance there. I don't think it was promotional, if you have more info on that I'm happy to discuss. Just seems a little strange to just whack the page out without discussion.

Sorry, just seeing your message to that you tagged it for deletion, I'll contest through that channel as well, somewhat new to this wikipedia stuff :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kpauley (talk • contribs)
 * Hi there. I see that you've contributed to the discussion on the talk page, so I'll leave it at that. Ged  UK  09:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Which talk page are you referring to, the one on the C7 page? 'Cause that doesn't explain the deletion or anything like that. I've been bouncing around to a few pages trying to find out what is going on here, worst case I want to get the content back in someway that I wrote so I can mass insert it into the C7 page if that is where people think it should be. It is still relevant information about that model.

Editing News #1—2018
Read this in another language • Subscription list for the English Wikipedia • Subscription list for the multilingual edition Did you know? Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?



Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.



This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence. An arrow indicates that the paragraph changed location.

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 Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

 * The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools.  The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments.  They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing.  The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January.  Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor.  Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits.  More information will be posted at Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
 * The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor.  When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs.  You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs".  The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges.
 * Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor.
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Let's work together

 * The team is planning a presentation about editing tools for an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
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—User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)