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Wikipe-tan
Is there a way you can incorporate File:Wikipe-tan pointing at the TV.png into a humorous essay? I'm asking this because there should be a criteria to deter against anybody uploading their fan made images on Wikipedia. My worry is this gives another reason for those against Wikipe-tan to want the information deleted from the encyclopedia. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:30, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there is probably something I can throw it in, although today I am otherwise busy. jp×g 21:11, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 54
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Indentation
Hey how goes, wanted to bring to your attention WP:INDENT and WP:THREAD. With the new automated reply system it is all the more important to use the canonical indentation. —DIYeditor (talk) 20:21, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

No worries Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/2008 Board election et al
Was easy to fix! Thought I'd give you a quick note to thank you for self cleaning it up vs waiting for it to get randomly found at some point in the future. -- Tawker (talk) 01:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Citation templates now better at flagging free access content


A tag has been placed on Citation templates now better at flagging free access content, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do.

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Speedy deletion nomination of DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity


A tag has been placed on DYK, or proudly displaying incorrect information on the Main Page with alarming regularity, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do.

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 * Your bot appears to be creating a few articlespace pages instead of modules with alarming regularity. Would appear to be a good idea to tweak the code pretty much right now.User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 09:40, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Shit!!!!!!!!!! Sorry about that. I see on Xtools that it created two mainspace pages. I was running a null-edit script, which should not have been modifying page contents at all. Something stupid must have gotten into the purge list, I guess. Two out of 8,000 isn't bad, but this is still pretty embarrassing. I will make it throw errors if it retrieves nonexistent page contents. jp×g 10:32, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * This appears to be something to do with a Haitian syncretic religious practice (for those listening to radio station WSHIRT58, of course I've read Wide Sargasso Sea and Havana Bay) and... oh, crumbs. Lua, not Loa. --User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 11:05, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * lol Mccapra (talk) 12:11, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * And of course I've read The Madwoman in the Attic. ( I've not actually read Jane Eyre. Shh, let's just keep this a little secret between the three of us, OK?) --User:Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 13:17, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Time for some JWB Linter error work
I have made about 650 edits to Signpost pages to fix a few thousand Linter errors. In order to be able to make more progress, there are a couple of systemic problems with unbalanced tags that need to be tidied up on a few thousand pages. I do not have AWB or JWB to be able to make those edits, and my sanity will not survive that volume of editing with other tools. I left you a couple of notes at the Signpost/Technical page. If you have time to make these div-tag-related edits, that will help me find and fix additional remaining errors that are essentially hiding behind the div tag noise in the error reports. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:26, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

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your bot working the module
Is ? I'm not sure what this edit accomplishes. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 00:47, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm not sure what our lives on this Earth accomplish, but this specific edit is part of a campaign to eliminate some of the redundant tags in the module. For example,  → ,   →  ,   →  ,   →  , et cetera. Some of them, like  , I removed because they only existed on one article. In this specific case, the tag was kind of strange: it was only on one article (Wikipedia Signpost/2020-05-31/In the media) which was about COVID, Larry Sanger, top editors and French SPI cases, and does not contain the word "judaism", "jews", "jewish", et cetera anywhere.
 * I'm being a little aggressive with it because it's easy to reverse. I have records of every tag removal, and I have written a separate script that can add multiple tags to multiple articles from the command line (https://github.com/jp-x-g/wegweiser/blob/main/mass_tagger.py ). jp×g 02:17, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually the bot's edit altered tagging Wikipedia Signpost/2020-04-26/In the media which has a section entitled "Jew-Tagging". You may have read about this issue as Wikipedia's biographies discuss or mention a subject's Jewishness. Signpost doesn't cover antisemitism or this biographical issue often, but I think the point of meta-tagging is supposed to help us identify coverage along these lines. I suggest you revert and re-consider your methodology.  Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 02:41, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I apologize if I have fucked up some of the tags. It is pretty slow going with this, since there are still about 596 articles with no tags at all, and I am more or less working alone on most of it. I have written an improved search, which [ looks like it could turn up some more articles]. Hopefully I will be finished with the series templates and pages in time for the Feb 1 issue. jp×g 05:46, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

DCGAR
JPxG, the effort at User:Iazyges/Doug GA Rewrite Claims had to be archived, as not everyone was following instructions. Could you have a look at the now more complete information and FAQ at Good article reassessment/February 2023, with new instructions and a new place to post intent ? Thanks, Sandy Georgia (Talk)  19:40, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of GPT-4


The article GPT-4 has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "per WP:CRYSTAL. The whole article is based on 'rumors'"

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User:JPxG/All essays by size/Transcluded
Hello, JPxG,

As you can see by looking at User:SDZeroBot/G13 eligible, your User page is showing up on our list of pages to delete because they are eligible for CSD G13. The editor who was tagging pages for deletion this morning when it became eligible skipped tagging your user page but it showed up on tonight's list.

I see three solutions here:
 * a) Tag your User page for deletion, CSD G7
 * b) Review the content and find the code that indicates that this page has been submitted to AFC. I tried unsuccessfully to locate this content/tag but it is an enormously long page and you might have more success locating what it is causing it to show up as an article draft.
 * c) Make an edit to the page every 6 months so that it is no longer eligible for speedy deletion, CSD G13. This seems like the simplest solution if you want to retain this user page but you will have to remember to do this by February 3rd and August 3rd of each coming year.

I'd appreciate it if you could take some action regarding this page because otherwise it will continue to show up on the daily G13 eligible list. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 00:40, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what is going on with this page, but I will try to figure it out. If I can't figure it out I will just g7 it -- I don't want to clog up the cats! Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for letting me know. jp×g 02:17, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

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Template:Inflation/FR/dataset
Hi. I presume in edit for the year 1540, the trailing UK is a typo? — DaxServer (t · m · c) 11:20, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I have no idea what the hell happened there. That is an error. Fixing whitespace should not have done that. Feel free to revert if you haven't already. jp×g 11:39, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

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Byline changed
Hi JPxG. Sometime between my last edit of the last issue's Special report and publication, my name was removed from the Special Report. Hopefully this was a mistake and it can just be restored. Would you mind doing so? ☆ Bri (talk) 20:38, 17 February 2023 (UTC)


 * This was a fuckup, sorry. jp×g 08:52, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

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Signpost
Hey JPxG! A random thought came into my mind and i was thinking about possibly contributing to the Signpost (yes I know I had decided to work on the WPVG newsletter but that's currently on hold indefinitely until I decide what to do with it). I looked at the stuff that has "Help needed!" and I'm considering possibly doing a "WikiProject Report" but given my limited availability due to things in real life I"m not sure if it would be a good idea since I think I read in a previous issue that the Signpost is now published fortnightly which would severely limit the time I have to work on it. What are your thoughts on this? Also I noticed on your userpage you have this: "It seems today that all you see is violence on the talk page and edit wars in the history. But where are those good old-fashioned sources, on which we've come to rely?" which I believe is a reference to Family Guy? ― <b style="background:#0d1125;color:#51aeff;padding:1q;border-radius:5q;">Blaze Wolf</b>Talk<sub title="Discord Username" style="margin-left:-22q;">Blaze Wolf#6545 20:33, 21 February 2023 (UTC)


 * This is a fairly late reply, but yes, it'd be good. How has the WP:VG newsletter gone? jp×g 08:59, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

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Dead link
FYI, es:Wikimarketing has a link to a Signpost thing that you moved without a redirect, Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Paid editing. Probably the es.wiki article should be updated, or a redirect should be created. Do you think so? ☆ Bri (talk) 20:54, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Looks like someone took care of it in April ("elimino links rotos o no seguros"), proving once and for all that ignoring problems is the best way to deal with them (?). jp×g 09:00, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023
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Signpost activity
I confess to being confused by [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=prev&oldid=1144053894 this comment]. The general community isn't going to make you party to a case as a result of decisions you didn't make, and text you didn't write, edit, or review. The group that might apportion some degree of responsibility to you is the Signpost team... but you chose to post to the incidents noticeboard first instead of the newsroom talk page, and were critical of the decisions made in your absence. If you were trying to find a humourous way to take responsibility, I don't feel it was effective. isaacl (talk) 18:16, 11 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I mean, that's what I signed up for. If my writers and editors get shitcanned or sitebanned or whatever for writing an article, and I'm unable to intercede to prevent the incident from happening or to take the blame onto myself, I might as well resign because so much for my integrity as an editor in chief. jp×g 09:07, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * To be able to intercede effectively, you have to be involved in the preparation of the issue. Otherwise, when you say an article needed more oversight, then you are criticizing those who were involved, which excludes you. Furthermore, by not participating in the corresponding discussion on the newsroom talk page, you seem to be leaving the Signpost editors to fend for themselves, without providing overall editorial guidance.
 * Note there have been discussions about the importance of sticking to deadlines and the need for the editor-in-chief to co-ordinate production, such as . Of course, unexpected changes can occur, but as much as feasible, availability to perform the necessary tasks ought to be forecast, and alternative plans be put in place if an absence is unavoidable. isaacl (talk) 17:27, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * When I said the article could have used more copyediting, I meant that I should have been around to participate in it and help out more than I did. This was a rather embarrassing incident I hope not to be repeated. jp×g 23:05, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Censorship attempts
Please read how Holocaust studies was started by the Israeli embassy in a secret meeting. Then please read about the recent initiative of Grabowski to censor Wikipedia:,. Wikipedia shouldn't censor Polish scholars who cover the heroic efforts of the Poles to fight Germany and rescue Jews. 188.147.175.5 (talk) 09:28, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55
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