User talk:JPxG/Archive13

DYK for Joice Island
 Schwede 66  00:02, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Empire Tract
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Atlas Tract
— Maile (talk) 00:03, 5 December 2021 (UTC)


 * theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/ she? ) 03:13, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Brewer Island
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

December 2021 GOCE Newsletter
Distributed via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

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 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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 * MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

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21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Randomly destroying Julius Evola content on caste
Excuse me, I'm writing to tell you that you randomly removed the item section on caste and class despite the fact this is directly mentioned in Julius Evola's own writings.

Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AverroesII (talk • contribs) 13:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * This diff seems to have removed a bunch of content, and this one added a bunch (but with all of the formatting and metadata stripped, i.e. the citations were all just bare text [1] and [2]). I don't know exactly what happened, but I don't think it was supposed to. jp×g 19:13, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

M 2018 films
Hi, thanks for reviewing my split of the M (2018 film) into the two films made that year with that name:


 * M (2018 Finnish film)
 * M (2018 Israeli film)

You edited it while I was trying to edit it - is there a way to see what links to M (2018 film) so I can link those pages to the correct films? When I try to go to M (2018 film) it now takes me to M (disambiguation).

Respectstherights (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I believe what you're looking for is Special:Whatlinkshere/M (2018 film). I think there is also some database report of page links that go to disambiguations, if you're interested in that kind of thing generally. jp×g 23:58, 7 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Perfect, the Special:Whatlinkshere page was what I wanted to clean up the links. --Respectstherights (talk) 00:06, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Tinsley Island
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Looking through my subpages I see.
Hey why did you mark my subpage User:CycoMa1/ delete this as reviewed?CycoMa1 (talk) 03:24, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I was going through the backlog of unpatrolled userpage redirects -- I took a little bit to decide whether I should nominate that one for speedy deletion (because you did blank it and move it to "delete this"). If you want, I can U1 it. jp×g 03:29, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of First Wikipedia edit
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article First Wikipedia edit you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ProcrastinatingReader -- ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:41, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

YG mail
Smallbones( smalltalk ) 18:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Test title, test date
Test — Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talk • contribs) 04:23, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

NPP for User:Haleth/Ichiban Kasuga
Hi JPxG, I noticed that you marked a userspace redirect to a mainspace article as reviewed. Thank you for your time and effort in doing NPP work, although I am unaware that userspace or draftspace articles are meant to be reviewed as part of the NPP scope of work. I originally moved the contents of the userspace page to Ichiban Kasuga in mainspace, which to my knowledge still has not been reviewed by any NPP editors 1 month after it has been moved there. Would you mind taking a look at this page and assess it? Haleth (talk) 02:05, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That article looks fine to me (the references check out, it's written well enough, etc) so I've marked it as patrolled. jp×g 02:24, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you! It is unusual that it's taken such a long time before it is reviewed. I have written a few other articles more then a month ago and none of them have been reviewed yet. I assume that there is a big backlog on the NPP queue for the time being? Haleth (talk) 02:59, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

 * Hi there! Could you please help me understand why this 2021 newsletter features info from 2019?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 04:32, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I wrote up a newsletter covering everything from August 2019 to the present, but this ended up being enormous; general consensus was that it should be broken up into a few separate issues and released one at a time (as to avoid spamming the hell out of everyone's talk pages). jp×g 04:35, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks - sorry for not reading the newsletter carefully enough. GoingBatty (talk) 04:45, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Lol what? Consensus was that bot maintainers would be interested in a detailed update on approved bot tasks from 2.5 years ago, 90% of which are probably irrelevant already? Where was that consensus discussion? I just want to read it for my own entertainment.  —&#8288;Scotty Wong &#8288;— 15:54, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Discussion was at Wikipedia talk:Bots/News. Two years of dormancy posed some interesting problems; including everything through the end of 2021 would have resulted in a newsletter so large it triggered talk page archivers on its own (yikes). Of course, it would have been possible to just skip 2019/2020 entirely, which didn't seem reasonable. I made a spreadsheet to plot out a release schedule and everything; the only thing that didn't result in massive newsletters ended up being somewhere between 6 and 8 months per edition; this one was a little under 10 kilobytes since it only had 4 months in it, but Jan - Jun 2020 is about 20kb. Currently, I am planning for the next five editions to cover six months each, after which point we'll be caught up completely; it would also be possible to cover a full year in each issue (2020 in January and 2021 in February) although this would be somewhere around 40kb. jp×g 23:28, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I guess I don't understand who the audience is. What is the set of Wikipedia editors who would be interested in a summary of bot activity from late 2019 or early 2020? Who would consider that information valuable? What type of actions do you think someone would take after learning this information, or how would it influence their future decisions? Don't get me wrong, I applaud the work you've done. I don't doubt that it was a substantial amount of work, and you seem to have done a very good job. But I don't see the value in this information.
 * Anyway, on an unrelated topic, I was snooping around your user page and came across WP:OFD. Pretty cool stuff. I made something like that once with the bot that I ran way back in the day, so I know what it takes to put something like that together. Nice work! I'll bet your mind was spinning with all the regex. Cheers.  —&#8288;Scotty Wong &#8288;— 06:34, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Kimball Island
M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  01:25, 11 December 2021 (UTC)


 * theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 01:31, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Chain Island
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:19, 11 December 2021 (UTC)


 * theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 01:31, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tinsley Island
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Tinsley Island you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 22:41, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tinsley Island
The article Tinsley Island you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Tinsley Island for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 00:41, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for First Wikipedia edit
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:13, 13 December 2021 (UTC)


 * theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 02:54, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Bull Island (California)
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 14 December 2021 (UTC)


 * theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 02:17, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Island No. 2
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 16 December 2021 (UTC)


 * theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 01:13, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Russ Island
Hello! Your submission of Russ Island at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 23:06, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Powder House Island
At Featured article candidates/Powder House Island/archive1, you replied to Sdkb, saying that you had messaged Nailhed to see if he "has anything to say about it or if he's interested in releasing photos at all". Its been over two weeks now, so I would like to know if he has/has not responded. Realmaxxver (talk) 22:03, 20 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Replied at FAC. jp×g 22:32, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51
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Tech News
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 * The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February.

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)