User talk:Jon Kolbert/Archive 3

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Request: Add fileformat.info
All links to fileformat.info can be changed to https. Example: to. Adys (talk) 08:34, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

http://www.expressandstar.com
This now supports https - e.g. http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/west-bromwich-albion/2013/09/02/west-brom-break-record-for-stephane-sessegnon/ when clicked now displays it as https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/west-bromwich-albion/2013/09/02/west-brom-break-record-for-stephane-sessegnon/. Iggy (Swan) 18:42, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Grants
Good day, I have sent you emails about the rapid grant. Did you get them? Amqui (talk) 12:35, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Ack, it appears as if it was buried along with other e-mails and I missed it. Response on the way. Jon Kolbert (talk) 16:44, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * No problem, just doing what I can :) Jon Kolbert (talk) 00:50, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Images for Commons...
You might find this of interest. :-

https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/25650

If there are more categories/ templates to be excluded Please LMK. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:24, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Missing information
https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/18892 Should be most items not in a self category that don't yet use information, given that the remainder probably need someone with more expertise in particular regions, I don't see it shrinking very quickly.

https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/18904 is a far as I can determine, all the media claiming to be self-published which lacks information and isn't already tagged for Commons.

You seem to know what you are doing and so any backlog reduction you can apply would be much appreciated..

As with the previous query, if you think the can be improved LMK.

21:30, 18 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the information! Jon Kolbert (talk) 21:32, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10
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Opps?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wave_Wash_3.jpg&diff=next&oldid=449605176

Did you mean to remove the license? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:31, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Complete accident - good eye. I've amended the file as necessary. Jon Kolbert (talk) 13:40, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

KolbertBot at Trump–Russia dossier
Hi Jon. Would it be a good idea for you to run KolbertBot at Trump–Russia dossier? -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 02:37, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey there! It should edit soon, it's just doing a large batch of links but the article is in the list of articles to be edited. Thanks for the note! Jon Kolbert (talk) 05:45, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Football Club Websites and Leagues
The following now supports https only when the http version is clicked on:- http://www.afcb.co.uk/ (AFC Bournemouth) http://www.nufc.co.uk/ (Newcastle United) http://www.swanseacity.com (Swansea City) http://www.hullcityafc.net/ (redirects to https://www.hullcitytigers.com/) (Hull City) http://www.cpfc.co.uk/ (Crystal Palace) http://www.leedsunited.com/ (Leeds United) http://www.brentfordfc.co.uk/ (Brentford FC) http://www.sufc.co.uk/ (Sheffield United)

Plus http://www.premierleague.com/ (Premier League) & http://www.football-league.co.uk/ (The Football League)

I've noticed that KolbertBot has made edits from HTTP to HTTPS on multi domains so it might do all these links in one run as some articles have more than one listed. Thanks, Iggy (Swan) 14:17, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey there! I've just had the change to start looking at these, and a I took a look at the LinkSearch for AFCB and it appears as if 95% of the links are deadlinks. I generally avoid including links where the majority of them are dead as that would barely pass WP:COSMETICBOT. I know I haven't specified a criteria for links yet, but I will make a central page with a form so it's easier to submit links which meet a specified criteria :-). Would you be able to re-check the links you submitted to ensure that there would be a substantive amount of live links that would be converted to HTTPS? I can do so as well, but I am very busy for the foreseeable future and won't be able to do so until a much later date. Thanks again for your help in making the wiki more secure! Jon Kolbert (talk) 18:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * That is bad news, I think the ones which begin with 'page' and 'news' are all dead links which IABot fails to archive them. It is probably a good idea to skip that set of websites. Thanks, Iggy (Swan) 20:37, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Also there is some more bad news from the hull city afc.net, most of them are dead links and are probably archived by IABot (or at least attempted). The same goes for the tigers.com version as well. Again, only a small amount if best are working. These club websites cannot keep the pages forever. Iggy (Swan) 20:53, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

One other thing I have noticed with some of the websites (e.g. the cpfc.co.uk website), when I clicked on one or two (e.g. http://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/crystal-palace-have-completed-the-signing-of-james-tomkins-from-west-ham-united-on-a-five-year-contract-for-a-fee-of-10-million.-3169117.aspx), it goes to a much shorter web address (https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/2016/july/tomkins-joins-palace/) while displaying the same content which supports the references. Is there an existing Wiki bot which can fix the web redirects or would someone may wish to create one to fix them - Iggy (Swan) 21:05, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think that would be quite beneficial. I'll see what I can put together as this could help combat linkrot. Jon Kolbert (talk) 22:26, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I think I've got a method that works pretty well now! See Special:Diff/834243259 for an example. If you have any other domains with a lot of redirects like this one feel free to leave a note and I'll do them too. I still have to send you that e-mail with instructions as well, don't worry, I haven't forgotten. Jon Kolbert (talk) 18:59, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

https request (group 2)
A new set of links are now going to be posted here - now that I have noticed the first group of https are now running.

The following are https compatible - http://www.svenskafans.com/ http://fotboll.expressen.se/ http://www.vi.nl/

http://www.sporten.dk/ http://www.fckrasnodar.ru/

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/ http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

http://www.highbeam.com/ http://en.paperblog.com/ http://www.thesun.co.uk/ http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/ http://www.mkdons.com/ http://www.wigantoday.net/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/ http://www.readingfc.co.uk/ http://www.rte.ie/

http://www.11v11.com/ http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/

http://www.bundesliga.de/ http://www.scfreiburg.com/ http://www.footballlens.com/

http://www.ok.co.uk/ http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ http://www.ascap.com/ http://www.comicrelief.com/

http://www.lcfc.com/ http://futbol.as.com/ http://www.irishtimes.com/

http://www.express.co.uk/ http://www.independent.ie/ http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/

http://www.pixar.com/ http://www.allmusic.com/ http://www.empireonline.com/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ http://www.sfgate.com/ http://www.gamespot.com/

http://www.bwfc.co.uk/ http://www.thenational.ae/ http://menmedia.co.uk/

http://www.thestar.co.uk/ http://www.mfc.co.uk/

http://www.avfc.co.uk/ http://www.birminghammail.net/ http://www.rte.ie/ http://www.mlssoccer.com/

Thanks, Iggy (Swan) 18:21, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Wow! Thanks for the collection of links :-). Would you be interested in being added to maintain the list of links changed? I'll send you an e-mail with details if so, it shouldn't take too long to learn the format/syntax. Jon Kolbert (talk) 19:45, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * It can help, interested. Iggy (Swan) 20:46, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Some of the domains on the chroniclelive.co.uk have got some minor redirects (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danny_Simpson&type=revision&diff=834357840&oldid=833430250 Danny Simpson) but some do not (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aimee_Kelly&type=revision&diff=834358059&oldid=829114769 Aimee Kelly). The MK Dons website (www.mkdons.com) has some redirect links as well a some of the wigantoday.net, the ones that begin 'http://www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-athletic/'. Club websites are a bit of a nuicance but I have checked them all (the ones on the talk page and future) carefully, and removed a couple of them. I was surprised that when I found out that when you did the cpfc yesterday, it was done very quickly. Iggy (Swan) 10:32, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Also I see that a lot of leicestermercury websites have a lot of dead links (through a random sample of 10 clicks). I have removed that along with a couple of duplicates from the above list. Thanks, Iggy (Swan) 09:06, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

April 2018
Special:Diff/834243519—Just wanted to let you know how excited I am to see the new football club "Chelsea Palace" taking the field soon. ;) Iago Qnsi  (User talk:IagoQnsi) 08:07, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * LOL whoops, that's embarrassing. Jon Kolbert (talk) 14:58, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Some redirect links but same content domains I have found with the method you've been doing.
These links, http://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/, http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/, http://www.theage.com.au/, http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/ , http://www.leytonorient.com/, http://www.exetercityfc.co.uk/, http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/, http://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/, http://www.millwallfc.co.uk/ and http://www.rochdaleafc.co.uk/ are the club websites which the original http versions have different web addresses to the https version with the same contents. Just make sure this time that you list the team names correctly otherwise there may be more trouts coming, like the Chelsea Palace F.C. team. Iggy (Swan) 15:21, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh man, I didn't even realize. A few hundred erroneous edit summaries isn't embarassing at all, haha. Maybe I'll stick to "Updating football club links" in the future instead of inventing new club names :-) Jon Kolbert (talk) 15:00, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

infobox album replacement
I watch several album articles and the edits you are making to improve the infobox (e.g.) add the superfluous  field to studio albums. Please don't add this. ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:31, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * That's what happens when you subst the infobox, if it's not desired then I'd suggest bringing it up on the infoboxs talk page. Cheers. Jon Kolbert (talk) 00:47, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Why can't you thank a bot in a Revision history?
I don't know, but thank you anyway for making/creating/coding Kolbertbot, which does one specific job particularly well. Hurrah. >MinorProphet (talk) 09:37, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Most of the credit to who helped make the bot much more efficient and easy to manage.  also did a lot of work with  to convert selected domains to HTTPS. We can all do our part to help make the web more secure :-) Jon Kolbert (talk) 15:10, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

https request (group 1)
I've took a couple of days rest to find which links on various pages on my watchlist are https compatible only. This first request group comes from "smaller pages" where up to 50 references are shown. Once I have noticed that the bot is running through this group of links, I will post the next group of links.

Request 1

http://www.digitalspy.com http://www.arsenal.com http://www.uwssoccer.com http://www.chelseafc.com http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/ http://www.shape.com/ http://www.cbsnews.com/ http://www.npr.org/ http://www.arsenalwomen.com/ http://www.mirror.co.uk/ http://full-time.thefa.com/ http://www.hartlepoolunited.co.uk/ http://www.thepfa.com/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ http://www.psv.nl/ http://www.onsoranje.nl/ http://www.shekicks.net/ http://www.ncaa.com/ http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/ http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ http://www.mancity.com/ http://www.itv.com/ http://www.loughboroughecho.net/ http://www.standard.co.uk/

Thanks, Iggy (Swan) 11:36, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Perfect! Thank you, I'LL add them once KB goes through this batch of pages. Keep up the good work - I really appreciate the help :-) Jon Kolbert (talk) 13:41, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes it's always useful helping others in this way. The telegraph.co.uk link seems to have more than 60,000 results when looking at the 'External links search' page. KolbertBot certainly gets the job done quickly, let the challenge begin. Iggy (Swan) 17:19, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I see that our friend KolbertBot has finished doing this set of links but some of them (e.g. arsenal.com) are still there on the External Links search, although I am aware that many of them are dead links. There should be a way for the bot to only modify https to the ones which are 'alive'. Also I see that the cbsnews.com have also altered web addresses while going to https too. Perhaps that's the reason the bot has skipped them. Iggy (Swan) 08:25, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello! I haven't added all of them to the list yet, I wasn't able to check them all. Once I have more free time I will be able to do so and KolbertBot will adjust them accordingly. Jon Kolbert (talk) 15:12, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing
Hello,

There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how infobox ship is parsed).

If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.

Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

"Not standard use of template"
I wasn't the user who originally added this formatting; I merely restored it after you substituted the template because there was no reason for it to be removed. There's nothing wrong with replicating the colour behind the "soundtrack" text. It's done on plenty of articles, and God knows how many you're removing when you're substituting the template. Not everything has to be "standard", so as I said in my revert summary, please discuss any concerns you have as you were already reverted. I don't wish to have a discussion about it here, just informing you. Thanks.  Ss  112   15:31, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Please read the usage of the template, namely : This is an auxiliary template used by the template, as well as other templates used in it and 's Jon Kolbert (talk) 15:45, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd say it's an acceptable use considering it's still in the colour field and in the album infobox. It's not being outside of such templates. I'd think if it was such an issue, the article for one of the most popular albums of all time (Purple Rain (album) would have had it removed before now. I didn't add it.  Ss  112   15:49, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * That is not what "never" means. The only acceptable usage as described on the template's documentation is when it is "called" by Infobox album. That is, when the type parameter is set to something like "live" etc, it calls on the /color template and assigns the corresponding background colour. The usage in articles such as Purple Rain (album) is exactly the type of usage this is advising against. Lastly, just because something slipped under the radar before does not mean it is OK to stay indefinitely. If you would like to widen the scope of usage of that particular subtemplate, please start a discussion on Template talk:Infobox album/color. Jon Kolbert (talk) 16:01, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * It's still being used inside infobox album, not outside of it. I don't care about other instances, and not everything has to be "standardised". It's stayed as it is on Batman (album) and Purple Rain (album) for a while. You are disregarding WP:BRD, and instead telling me to get consensus about the use of colours overall when I have just said I don't care about other examples. I'm maintaining the way the articles were. I'm not looking to start a revolution about colour usage, and that's not the way BRD works. The articles stay as is until consensus can be reached. The reverted user who wishes to make the change should seek consensus to make it, not the reverter, regardless of your interpretation of template documentation. Don't tag me again here; I will not check back. If you revert again, I will report you to an admin for disregarding WP:BRD, WP:CONSENSUS, edit warring and thinking your interpretation trumps all others. You can continue on your merry way substituting infobox parameters. Thank you.  Ss  112   18:09, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Infobox album
Why are you changing the infobox template? Has it been thoroughly discussed? What parameters have been deprecated and why? Do upper and lower case matter in the names of fields? Does the spacing between equal signs matter? All of this information needs to be made clear to many people because many people make changes to infobox album. Both infobox musician and infobox album see a lot of traffic, particularly IP traffic. Thank your for your response. Vmavanti (talk) 18:04, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello - thanks for your message. Specifically, the most common deprecated parameters are "Last Album" "This Album" and "Next Album". These have been replaced with prev_title, prev_year, next_title, and next_year. A lot of formatting errors occurred using the old parameters and the new parameters are much more user-friendly to edit. Namely - you don't need to add bold/italics/ page breaks because the infobox does it all for you using the new parameters. Uppercase/lowercase shouldn't matter, nor should the spacing (within reason). The substitution trick is used to get that cleaned-up infobox with the new parameters all set, and in doing so that would be what adjusts the spacing/capitalization. The spacing/capitalization of an infobox is not the issue, it's the old parameters. Any changes to the spacing/capitalization are a harmless by-product of substituting the template. Cheers Jon Kolbert (talk) 18:12, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response. Does this mean every infobox on every album needs to be changed?Vmavanti (talk) 18:16, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem! Not every infobox needs to be changed, but a good number of them need updating. Jon Kolbert (talk) 18:21, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

OFNC Annual Photography Night
Hello Jon. If you are still interested in attending the photo night it is now rescheduled to be held 7pm this Saturday at 480 Metcalfe St. (details on OFNC event listing). What do you think is the best way to get them to contribute images to Wikipedia/Wiki Commons? Loopy30 (talk) 17:27, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello! I wish I could join but unfortunately there's a conflict with another commitment I have at this time. If you'd like, I can prepare a short PowerPoint presentation describing ways different ways they can contribute their photos. Let me know if that is an option! Cheers. Jon Kolbert (talk) 20:37, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks Jon. I need some training myself on the details of image licensing/sharing etc. I think folks attending may be interested in contributing to iNaturalist as well, but the two projects are complimentary, and even more so if the licensing allows images to be shared. Loopy30 (talk) 20:42, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I see a few possible options.
 * Simplest option (more burden on Commons volunteers) Create a flickr "network", flickr has decent features and allows users to upload and organize quite easily. I would likely share my Flickr ID and ask the other members to join a group so all pictures can be kept track of. There is a tool that allows for easy transfer from Flickr to Commons, so that would reduce the burden on those who may not be so technologically advanced. Problem with this approach is that unless there are detailed descriptions on what is depicted, there's a lot of work on Commons volunteers who may not be familiar with the wildlife of the region struggling to categorize these images appropriately.
 * Advanced option (less burden on Commons volunteers) Ask them to upload directly to Wikimedia Commons, provide basic information about acceptable licenses and what they mean. Details about categorization, naming conventions, description etc. If done correctly, this would be the most effective way to contribute. If not done correctly, the files will likely just sit uncategorized for years, especially if there is no description on what is depicted in the image. I think a good way of 'keeping track' of these uploads is to ask the users to send us their username, so we can keep tabs on uploads and provide feedback as necessary so they can contribute effectively.
 * Provide information on both Give information on both of these options, letting the individuals choose which is best suited for them. My main concern with this option is individuals possibly mixing up steps from the two methods and getting frustrated.


 * I've never met anyone from the group, but if some are interested in contributing to iNaturalist it seems to me that the second option would be best suited to meet the tech-knowledge of the group. What are your thoughts? Jon Kolbert (talk) 21:00, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Part of the reason that I wanted to attend was to gauge what members abilities and wishes were. I think that being the photography buffs from within the naturalist club, they may be very willing to add meta-data such as date, location, species name, etc. I would like to offer a way that they can "donate" their images that can be usable/share-able by Wikipedia. Loopy30 (talk) 21:33, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * You've got mail! Jon Kolbert (talk) 19:51, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jon. Loopy30 (talk) 22:24, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
i love kittens

Killer Kid 57 (talk) 14:13, 25 April 2018 (UTC) 

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into your local language via meta

Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:48, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Please help
Can you please help me adding an image to my article. My article is about Eyu Kassa I am a great fan of him. Please help me writing a summary for the image Eyukasssa (talk) 09:07, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Tagging personal photos
Hello! I've been slowly going through files on English Wikipedia that have been released into the public domain by their uploaders and moving useful ones to Commons. I've seen a few files now that you tagged as Do Not Move to Commons with the reason "Personal file" (e.g. ). What is the rationale for this? My impression was that personal photos for use on userpages is within the scope of Commons, and so files are better off hosted there since that's what Commons is for (and if the user in question wanted to have those images on his/her userpage across multiple projects, having the image in Commons would facilitate that). That said, I'm no image expert. So I was curious if there's some precedent or norm that I'm missing here. I'd be happy to hear your thoughts. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 22:48, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey there! From my understanding, personal files that are only used locally are generally just kept there unless the subject decides they want to use it across multiple projects. That being said, personal files on commons only used on one project aren't deleted or "localised" for that reason. Does that sort of make sense? Jon Kolbert (talk) 05:45, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * That sort of makes sense. It sounds like you're saying they're fine either place, and you feel there is no practical benefit to moving them to Commons (or to forcing them to be retained on Wikipedia... but then again putting the Do-Not-Move tag kind of forces them to be retained here?). For better or for worse, I've already moved some personal files to commons over the last few months. If you feel this is a serious problem, let me know and I'll start the process of getting them deleted there and revived here. Otherwise, I'll just let the matter rest. Thanks for your input and a quick response! Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 00:19, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:
 * WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags
 * Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:
 * A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons
 * There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy
 * Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
 * The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

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 * A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.
 * Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
 * The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

KolbertBot toggling http->https->http
I noticed KolbertBot had toggled the URL for Marion Weed. This change to https, okay. Then many months later, changed it back. Is this just an occasional timeout which will get changed back again? Do you have article or destination site specific criteria for retries? Do you keep stats on this? Just curious. Thanks for the bot. StrayBolt (talk) 15:54, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello there, thanks for the message. It seems as NYT has since updated their link structure, as there previously were a few issues plaguing the query.nytimes.com subdomain. A portion of URLS for "query.nytimes.com" were changed because they were broken under HTTPS. I will look into sorting this out and updating the links accordingly! Cheers, Jon Kolbert (talk) 17:16, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you kindly! :-) Jon Kolbert (talk) 14:57, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

NYT archives
Just a note to express my admiration for your Herculean efforts in changing all the URLs. What a huge job! You truly deserve a medal.  Tim riley  talk    14:23, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Just trying to do what I can to secure the web and prevent linkrot. Jon Kolbert (talk) 14:34, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Any chance that while you're at it you might invoke Archive-It to ensure the sources remain freely accessible? NYT seems to now be paywalling some content that should be PD. LeadSongDog come howl!  20:18, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I think that's more of a query for . There was a discussion before about this - I am not sure where exactly it was located, and some articles that were previously accessible (seemingly unintentionally by NYT) were available just by copy-pasting a portion of the URL to a different format. A solution that may be an option to us is to bite the bullet and buy a subscription, download the public domain PDFs and upload them to Commons - could be better than a bunch of editors haphazardly trying to recover paywalled material. Cyber - thoughts on this issue? Jon Kolbert (talk) 20:26, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * IABot ignores paywalled domains, and considers them as paywalls. As such IABot will not attach archives to links that are still alive.— CYBERPOWER  ( Chat ) 20:28, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive! Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
 * As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
 * Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: NPPbarnstar SE.png. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: RR3217-0014 100 rubles USSR 1989 Gold avers.png, Swiss-Commemorative-Coin-1991-CHF-250-reverse.png, Coin of Kazakhstan 500Thinker averse.png, US-$1000-SC-1878-FR-346a-PROOF.jpg.
 * Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

iihf women's championships
the bot is making changes to urls that make them broken, for instance here, and here. Can you investigate or stop it please, I don't fully understand the problem.18abruce (talk) 22:11, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. The certificate configuration on the website is currently invalid. I have sent an e-mail to the webmaster and if I don't hear back in the next few days I will revert all IIHF links back to HTTP. Jon Kolbert (talk) 06:30, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Source code for User:KolbertBot
Hi, I need the source code for User:KolbertBot because I want to use it on Afrikaans Wikipedia, but I am having trouble locating it. Can you please provide a link here? K175 (talk) 09:18, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi there, already operates on a number of other wikis, namely the frwiki, commonswiki, and simplewiki. As the URL database is being constantly updated, I would prefer just going through a BRFA on the Afrikaans Wikipedia for KolbertBot. Are you familiar with the BRFA process on that project? Jon Kolbert (talk) 16:17, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for securing the web!
Hello! Thank you very much for running this KolbertBot to convert links to https! This is fantastic and a very valuable contribution. I appreciate you making the web more secure. Thank you!

wrong change
In this edit it changed 2 inlined code namespaces to 'https', but that's incorrect. (The actual URL it changed was correct, though.) -Pmffl (talk) 21:22, 20 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Actually, it was half-correct on the XUL namespace change. Only one of these URLs was an inlined code example (which should not be changed from 'http', per here.) But the other one was just a URL plopped down in the text, which was a reasonable bot change; I've now removed that altogether, though.
 * So it seems that the bot could use some more smarts for navigating inlined code blocks and not mucking with "xmlns=" items. -Pmffl (talk) 21:42, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for the note. This is a pretty isolated incident, I've added an exception rule to the bot. Jon Kolbert (talk) 03:40, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

HTTPS→HTTPS request
Portuguese websites:
 * abola.pt
 * cmjornal.pt (unsecure images)
 * desporto.sapo.pt
 * dn.pt
 * expresso.sapo.pt
 * fpf.pt
 * jornaldenegocios.pt (unsecure images)
 * ojogo.pt
 * publico.pt
 * record.pt (unsecure images)
 * rtp.pt
 * sapo.sol.pt
 * serbenfiquista.com
 * slbenfica.pt
 * sol.pt
 * visao.sapo.pt
 * zerozero.pt

Other websites:
 * bbc.co.uk
 * bleacherreport.com
 * exame.abril.com.br
 * globesoccer.com
 * kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl
 * realmadrid.com
 * socceramerica.com
 * thefinalball.com
 * thesportster.com
 * www2.deloitte.com

SLBedit (talk) 02:23, 19 June 2018‎ (UTC)

Are you not interested in this? SLBedit (talk) 16:36, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello, I am interested in this, I just have to run some checks on the subdomains to make sure they work before adding them to the bot's list. Thank you for your work in helping secure the web. Jon Kolbert (talk) 16:49, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Sequential proportional approval voting
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;Sequential proportional approval voting&mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Dhalsim2 (talk) 00:03, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Ghost Dance Removal
Why did you remove the Ghost Dance page, I have all rights to the image and cover. Really not helpful! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jungleboy65 (talk • contribs) 09:38, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello there, if you are indeed the copyright holder please forward a statement of permission using the instructions at the Wikimedia OTRS release generator. A volunteer will help walk you through the process so we can verify the license and host the media on the project. Thanks, Jon Kolbert (talk) 03:54, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

MB Salone
Hi Kolbert, I need help translating and publishing https://sw.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MB_Salone from Swahili to English. Hope you are able to do that Medialegendz (talk) 23:52, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello - unfortunately I do not speak any Swahili so I am not able to help with translations. Best of luck. Jon Kolbert (talk) 23:54, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Updated links to articles in The New York Times
As I've added many links to articles from The New York Times as source, i'm seeing many edits updating the links. I've updated many of these manually as I edit the articles, but I'm curious to figure out how you're doing the updates. Alansohn (talk) 13:21, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello - there's a short discussion on the topic here, but basically I've followed the HTTP status codes for all 20K select.nytimes.com links. Around 12% of them are dead URLs that need to be fixed using the method GreenC describes, and the other 88% can simply be easily fixed by replacing the old URL with the current link under the new format. I'm using pywiki to do the replacements, which is essentially a command-line AWB. It allows me to compare and accept each diff, and usually you can tell that the link is OK by the reference data beside it (article title matches the cite news data etc). Jon Kolbert (talk) 13:45, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation and all of the updated links. Alansohn (talk) 15:24, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

How does the bot handle target pages where HTTPS is unsupported?
--84.147.37.170 (talk) 20:38, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, could you elaborate a little bit? Is there a specific link or diff you are referring to? Jon Kolbert (talk) 21:01, 24 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Aw, thanks :-)! Still some work to go yet, hopefully I can get it done within the next few weeks. Jon Kolbert (talk) 06:17, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I do a lot of gnoming, but that looks brutal!  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  06:52, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
 * June backlog drive


 * New technology, new rules
 * New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
 * Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
 * Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.


 * Editathons
 * Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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 * The Signpost
 * The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

HTTP to HTTPS / new suggestions
Dear Jon, does KolbertBot edit links in all Wikipedia versions (for example nl, de, zh)? If yes, is it allowed to suggest new resources and where? Best regards, Reto 31.11.20.64 (talk) 23:52, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello there. KolbertBot is only active on four wikis at the moment, enwiki, simplewiki, frwiki and commons. If local communities desire to have the bot active on other wikis, they can certainly request it and I would be happy to expand the bots work to other projects. You can for sure suggest new resources or links right here. I periodically add them once I have the chance to do some checking on them to make sure they work properly with HTTPS. Thanks for the message! Jon Kolbert (talk) 06:21, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Dear Jon, I have to thank you for the offer. French is an asset and I for sure have omitted some links in the English version. I hope that https://www.organic-chemistry.org and subpages could be covered (once) by your bot! Best regards Reto 31.11.20.64 (talk) 08:18, 31 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Hello again, I have added the URL to the bot and run it through Wikipedia. Thanks for your contribution and feel free to make more suggestions for URL additions! Jon Kolbert (talk) 03:10, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Dear Jon, that's great! I have to thank you! I will contact you, as soon as I have a suggestion! Best regards Reto 31.11.20.64 (talk) 22:21, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

HTTP to HTTPS
Why is KolbertBot changing the HTTP link to HTTPS on this and the Simple English Wikipedia? Angela Maureen (talk) 17:01, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi there, KolbertBot modifies links for domains that supports HTTPS for a few reasons. It improves data integrity and user privacy. You can read a bit more about the reasons why it is done on KolbertBot's userpage. Thanks for your message. Jon Kolbert (talk) 17:30, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

web.archive.org
Why we need user privacy for web.archive.org? --Ans (talk) 05:54, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Having a secured connection on any website is preferable to having a non-secured connection. Jon Kolbert (talk) 14:23, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

cities in Somalia
Hello Jon Kolbert, You work is amazing, I see certain cities with wrong area Msquare.

Thanks. Farxanvip (talk) 16:06, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes it is Abhishek Bhatt0098 (talk) 13:18, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Michael Spink Reversal
Monday 03/09/18

Dear Jon,

I am getting in touch on behalf of our client Michael Spink at SPINK Property with regards to this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Spink

Michael Spink is Founder and CEO of SPINK Property, a London-based architectural firm https://www.spinkproperty.co.uk/

We handle the communications for the company and as part of our remit we need to update the existing Michael Spink page on Wikipedia.

On Thursday the 30/8 we edited/updated the existing page with factual additions on Michael himself and his company, and unfortunately our additions and amendments were removed and we received the following message from you. ''Reverted to revision 834425533 by KolbertBot (talk): Michael Spink is independently notable. If you want to, please start Spink as a separate article. (TW))''

We need to update the existing page, rather than create another page for the company SPINK, as it will effectively become confusing to have two pages. Spink is also a disambiguation page, so it would be very confusing for wiki visitors to differentiate. Please could you let us know what the next steps are as we are keen to update the existing page as submitted last week.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,

Alex Herlihy Account Executive LUCHFORD

Conradq (talk) 15:13, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Enjoy yourself!


Qwerty number1 has given you a goldfish! Goldfish promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day much better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a goldfish, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

Give someone a goldfish by adding {{subst:Goldfish}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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Blue's Clues
Hi do you know how to take off the Semi-protection lock off the Blue's Clues page?96.36.68.29 (talk) 03:13, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
 * The page is semi-protected because of persistent vandalism. It is unlikely to be removed, as such pages are often the target of ongoing subtle vandalism. If you have an edit request, please make it using Edit semi-protected on the talk page. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 03:22, 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.

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