User talk:Iazyges/Archives/2018/September

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:53, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 September newsletter
The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:


 * Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
 * Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
 * Other contestants who qualified for the final round were 🇲🇭 Nova Crystallis, Iazyges,  SounderBruce,  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack and 🇺🇸 Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to 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. 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. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for improving article quality in August! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Tetricus I
This seems to have picked up a new reviewer. Let me know if you would still like me to review it. I have looked at your FAC Aegidius instead. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:16, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes please do; although I should tell you that Tetricus is the FAC ;) (although I myself got that mixed up a few times, given the similarities of the two). -- Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  15:56, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Now working on Glycerius. Which I am making some minor copy edit changes to, please check. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:08, 1 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Tetricus and Glycerius both supported, although an outstanding late action for you on each. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:05, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg None
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
 * Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says . An example is   which is now.
 * Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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Your GA nomination of Eucherius (son of Stilicho)
The article Eucherius (son of Stilicho) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Eucherius (son of Stilicho) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 11:41, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLIX, September 2018
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) 22:20, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

CCI request backlog
Hi! Thank you so much for clearing that backlog, which has just been getting worse and worse for as long as I can remember. Of course, we all know that opening the investigations doesn't actually mean they'll (ever?) be dealt with, but at least the first block has been removed. So thank you again! That said, I'm less than comfortable about. That matter has been surrounded by a lot of denial, "oh-I've-fixed-it-now", and pointless copy-editing of material that needed to be removed. I thought it was perhaps a storm in a teacup, but when I came to look in detail at one of the articles, I found some quite serious problems – as I noted in the request. I don't think this is one that can just be brushed under the carpet; would you perhaps reconsider your decision there? Thanks again, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:56, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I had declined that case as there appeared to be some progress on their user talk page; that said, I do believe a comprehensive review would be more beneficial. I've reversed my decision and opened the case. Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  03:17, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The main problem article, American Bucking Bull, was blanked, revdeled and redone from scratch. This is becoming something of a personalized attack on the editor in question, who has had five other editors helping fix her work. If we can at least mark as cleared all the articles that third party editors have reviewed, which is well over half the list that JLAN posted in the original CCI request, so that we don't have to repeat all the effort made to date.   Montanabw (talk) 03:20, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Constantine (son of Leo V)
The article Constantine (son of Leo V) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Constantine (son of Leo V) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of KAVEBEAR -- KAVEBEAR (talk) 19:02, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced
G'day everyone, voting for the 2018 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC) Note: the previous version omitted a link to the election page, therefore you are receiving this follow up message with a link to the election page to correct the previous version. We apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

A thing I'm planning to do

 * @Iazyges, I would like to ready some of your articles for FAC. I was reading some of them and I think they could become FA's. I would like to coord with this project. I am now reviewing some of your articles. Regards, Clikity (talk) 16:39, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * A noble goal, although I will say that getting them to FAC is exceptionally hard to do (hence why I haven't succeeded [yet...] ). Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  17:43, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * @lazyges Thanks for the input, I will see if I can find someone who can help our cause a bit. Clikity (talk) 19:56, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * @Iazyges Also, what article of yours should I look at first? I have some sort of reputation at WP:GOCE, so I could work on a copy edit with some fellow guild members, then peer review to prepare the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clikity (talk • contribs) 20:02, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * @Iazyges I am in the process of preparing to promote Iazyges right now. I hope it goes well! Clikity (talk) 00:50, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


 * Project news
 * The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
 * As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.


 * There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See New pages patrol/Coordination for more info to see if you can help out.


 * Other
 * A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.


 * Moving to Draft and Page Mover
 * Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
 * If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
 * Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
 * The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
 * The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Fold3
Hello! I requested access, and was accepted, but I was unable to actually gain access to the full website. I was emailed with instructions to give account info (username); I did, and nothing has happened since. The Fold3 system indicates that I only have a Basic Free Membership account. Is that it? Am I supposed to have premium, or something else? -Broichmore (talk) 11:22, 20 September 2018 (UTC)Thanks, Broichmore (talk) 11:22, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Have your say!
Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that voting for the WikiProject Military history coordinator election closes soon. You only have a day or so left to have your say about who should make up the coordination team for the next year. If you have already voted, thanks for participating! If you haven't and would like to, vote here before 23:59 UTC on 28 September. Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:29, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

A review
Nick-D has done an informal review on Marcian. I'm starting to address some of the things he brought up. Clikity (talk) 22:41, 20 September 2018 (UTC)