User talk:JPxG/Archive15

Your GA nomination of First Wikipedia edit
The article First Wikipedia edit you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:First Wikipedia edit for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of ProcrastinatingReader -- ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 10:41, 17 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. jp×g 22:38, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Russ Island
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tinsley Island
The article Tinsley Island you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tinsley Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 01:21, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg A  variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example,  will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the  URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like  or .
 * Octicons-tools.svg At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees.
 * The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed.
 * Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows.
 * The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

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

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 18:00 UTC to  18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Deaths of anti-vaccine advocates from COVID-19
I think this draft is ready for mainspace, and based on your objection to list articles on this subject (which this is not), I would like your opinion as to whether you would find this objectionable to have as an article. There was a list in a previous version of the draft, but I have moved it to the talk page for now, to develop a specific consensus as to its inclusion. BD2412 T 02:40, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Feedback request: Wikipedia style and naming request for comment
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Your GA nomination of Island No. 2
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Island No. 2 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 Cerebellum -- Cerebellum (talk) 12:21, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Atlas Tract
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Atlas Tract 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 Bryanrutherford0 -- Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 16:01, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Island No. 2
The article Island No. 2 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Island No. 2 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cerebellum -- Cerebellum (talk) 16:41, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Skepticism and coordinated editing arbitration case opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Skepticism and coordinated editing. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Skepticism and coordinated editing/Evidence. Please note: per Arbitration Policy, ArbCom is accepting private evidence by email. If in doubt, please email and ArbCom can advise you whether evidence should be public or private. Please add your evidence by January 31, 2022, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Skepticism and coordinated editing/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. You may unsubscribe from further updates by removing your name from the case notification list.

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Your GA nomination of Bull Island (California)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Bull Island (California) 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 AryKun -- AryKun (talk) 12:41, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
 * You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies.  This is available at most wikis.  Go to your Preferences and turn on "".
 * When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

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

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 18:00 UTC to  18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kimball Island
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Kimball 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 Eviolite -- Eviolite (talk) 03:01, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Joice Island
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Joice 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 AryKun -- AryKun (talk) 14:21, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

"West Elm Caleb" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect West Elm Caleb and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 24 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. valereee (talk) 14:48, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04
 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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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
 * You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page.

Events
 * You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
 * You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on.

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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions topic area changes
In a process that began last year with WP:DS2021, the Arbitration Committee is evaluating Discretionary Sanctions (DS) in order to improve it. A larger package of reforms is slated for sometime this year. From the work done so far, it became clear a number of areas may no longer need DS or that some DS areas may be overly broad.

The topics proposed for revocation are:
 * Senkaku islands
 * Waldorf education
 * Ancient Egyptian race controversy
 * Scientology
 * Landmark worldwide

The topics proposed for a rewording of what is covered under DS are:
 * India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
 * Armenia/Azerbaijan

Additionally any Article probation topics not already revoked are proposed for revocation.

Community feedback is invited and welcome at Arbitration/Requests/Motions. --Barkeep49 (talk) 16:59, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

No deletion report in the next issue of the Signpost?
Hi JPxG,

I was wondering if you were planning to publish another Deletion Report column in the Signpost in January. I really enjoy reading those, as an occasional contributor to AfD. Thank you for your great work on the Oracle by the way: I use it to comment on uncommented AfDs once in a while. Cheers, Pilaz (talk) 05:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I've learned to wait until the last day for those. Whenever I try to be diligent and get it done ahead of time, I end up having to re-write half of the feature anyway! I'm glad you are enjoying them -- you'll have something good this month. jp×g 05:35, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 January 2022
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:20, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Brewer Island
The article Brewer Island you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Brewer Island for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eviolite -- Eviolite (talk) 06:21, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg If a gadget should support the new  URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify  in the gadget definition (documentation).

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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 * A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
 * The user group  will be renamed  . This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

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 * You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Page mover granted
Hello, JPxG. Your account has been [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3AJPxG granted] the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving a redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when  is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:
 * Requested moves
 * Category:Requested moves, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Primefac (talk) 19:48, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Your comment
Re systemic bias and what you said here. After some reflection, I could beef up that para into a contribution with a title like "Upstream and downstream: AfD and impact". For me downstream includes Wikidata and the machine audience, but that would be at most an aside about SNG. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:28, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

 * I hate to break it to you, but lots of these dates say 2020? :D  ·addshore·  talk to me! 23:30, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh my, wait, this is intended! this is indeed news from 2020! Wow! :)  ·addshore·  talk to me! 23:32, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there wasn't a newsletter for a few years. There should only be a couple more of these before we're up to the present day, and then it'll be back to breaking news ;) jp×g 23:35, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I just saw the bot newsletter on another user talk page and wanted to come over to say it certainly caught my attention! I can't say whether the idea of doing several historical installments of the "news"letter is a great idea or a dumb idea but it's definitely got spunk :). Cheers! KevinL ( aka L235 · t · c) 07:45, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I quite enjoyed this entry "Cydebot, an adminbot operated by Cyde since 2006, was blocked after going berserk on categories"  ·addshore·  talk to me! 15:50, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Mass message sender granted
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Books & Bytes – Issue 48
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Comment measurement tool for The Signpost
You made this These are great metrics for understanding The Signpost. Do you have ideas for where and how in documentation for The Signpost we can share this link? Is it already there somewhere? If you have no ideas, I will try to find a place. Thanks.  Bluerasberry  (talk)  17:40, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
 * User:JPxG/Largest Signpost comment sections


 * No, but I think it would be good to link to from somewhere. Or the Quarry query itself, which will stay up-to-date better than a page which has to be updated manually. jp×g 22:40, 21 June 2022 (UTC)