User talk:Jon Kolbert/Archive 4

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I am a new user here. Could you please tell me how to add a picture using visual editor? Hradyansh 21 (talk) 10:38, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Jon Kolbert. Can I ask why you made this addition to this wikipedia approaching midnight one night last week? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Matheson and what your affiliation to Mr. Matheson is? This would appear to be harrasment. "Mr Matheson was arrested by Police for committing an indecent act, with another man who was not his partner, in a public place. The Police reported this incident to the Procurator Fiscal. In a further development Mr Matheson was not prosecuted by the Procurator Fiscal citing insufficient evidence a criminal act was committed. In January 2013 Mr Matheson issued a public apology to his partner for this transgression."

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HTTPS request for Maisfutebol links
As you can see, https://maisfutebol.iol.pt/ added encryption to their website. The only change needed to the links is the removal of www and the addition of an s to http. SLBedit (talk) 04:06, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

KolbertBot 4
Jon if I go through the bot diffs and find broken archive URLs due to indiscriminate search/replaces I will not be a happy camper. Partly because we already discussed it in the brfa and partly because it will create a ton of work for me my bot to clean up (it's not a fully automated fix). The solution to skipping archive URLs is trivial. -- Green  C  05:17, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

KolbertBot errors
Hi there, just wanted to let you know about errors caused by recent bot edits, at Scotch College, Adelaide (removed a useful part of a citation, including ref tag) and George Allen (American politician) (removed part of a sentence and a useful part of a citation, including ref tag). I've fixed the errors but thought I'd give you a heads-up. Cheers, Jessicapierce (talk) 20:52, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi there! Thanks for the message, that is definitely strange. I will re-run the bot on the page to see if the error reoccurs. Jon Kolbert (talk) 21:01, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, thank you for the reply and your expertise on these things! And just to update, I found similar errors at The Knocks and Heckler (ref tags removed); Massey Hall (ref tag and part of a sentence removed); and Paranoia (A Day to Remember song) (removed ref tag and part of section header, which broke a table). Jessicapierce (talk) 21:03, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I seem to have found the issue, which has been corrected. It had to do with the "abchannel" parameter and what string was expected after it. I will go through and correct those - if you see any feel free to revert them - I will do the same. Thanks again for the note! Jon Kolbert (talk) 21:07, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Soccerbase...
...support https (e.g. this external link when clicked on has the https at the beginning by default. Thanks, Iggy (Swan) 22:22, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note! I'm changing how KolbertBot searches and finds links, so the HTTPS task is out of commission for the time being. That said, I have added the article to the bot's list. Jon Kolbert (talk) 02:51, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Declined speedy deletion request
Just to let you know, I declined your request for G6 speedy deletion of 2017 New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election as being in the way of an uncontroversial page move. The only page I could see that might be moved there would have been New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election, 2017, and it is already at the correct title according to how all the other articles on that subject are named. If you had some other move in mind, ask again, and this time use the template to make it clear what you have in mind. -- MelanieN (talk) 01:23, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * , per the recent RfC on election titles, they should be renamed to year-first. Kolbert's G6 request was correct. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 01:58, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello! Yeah I was planning on moving it to the new title per that RfC - but it looks like it is all sorted now. Thanks! Jon Kolbert (talk) 02:52, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Man, they sure snuck THAT one through! :-( OK, Jon Kolbert, sorry for the misunderstanding. But in the future it would help if you would make such requests in the format I suggested above, which indicates what you intend to move there and why. In fact, if you do, the admin who closes it can do the entire move with a single click. -- MelanieN (talk) 03:54, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * For sure! Thanks for the note and have a good evening :) Jon Kolbert (talk) 03:58, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

KolbertBot breaking archive URLs
Jon, the bot is breaking archive URLs:


 * 1.
 * 2.
 * 3.
 * 4.
 * 5.
 * 6.

There are more possibly many more. I could spend hours trying to manually find and restore these (sigh). The problem now is even if they are restored, KolbertBot has free reign to break them again, undoing the fix. Can you provide a solution that does not damage archive URLs. -- Green  C  17:24, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I have taken a look at your diffs and the only page that seems to be affected was the 2018 Laos dam collapse which was later repaired with a WebCite link. Nothing has changed with the webcitation links and that will not change. Both and  are very functional. I have only very recently seen these "archive.today" links etc - why aren't we consistently using web.archive.org wherever possible? The regex is designed to accommodate archive links, and while hiccups may happen there are more bound to happen if we keep using archive services which switch domains every few months. I remember archive.is, archive.fo, archive.today - who knows how many more there are (or will be).


 * I think the more sustainable and reasonable approach would be to strip the URL of the unnecessary data BEFORE archiving to avoid this situation altogether. I can provide the necessary regex to you in order to accomplish this task - cleaning the URLs up before sending them to get archived. Jon Kolbert (talk) 20:21, 12 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Jon we have over 20 archive providers on Enwiki see WP:WEBARCHIVES. There are millions of non-Wayback archive links. They exist because Wayback doesn't have everything. And not everyone wants to use Wayback, people have preferences. Also, it's simple to avoid almost all of the archive providers by checking that "/" or "?url=" are the characters immediately preceding the URL with a regex lookback. This will avoid almost all of them, no need to hard code domain names. Archives are created by everyone -- manually, bots, scripts, tools, external systems, etc - there is no way to strip off codes before-hand.
 * #1 and #2 are webcitation, I accidentally included those. I know they work because in the URL https://www.webcitation.org/6CKWAdKBp anything after that code is ignored by Webite, all it needs is that code. The only reason the ?url= section exists is to satisfy internal Wikipedia requirements that a URL be part of the archive URL to avoid hiding blacklisted domains from the edit filters ie. web shortening is disallowed.
 * 2018 Laos dam collapse was repaired by my bot because it is processing all of the articles touched by KolbertBot in an attempt to discover and fix any problems. In this case it was able to find a replacement at Wayback, but that is typically not the case, thus all the other archive.is links are still broken and need to be fixed manually ie. the archive.is link restored. -- Green  C  21:15, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay. I have added the necessary adjustments. As a side note, I don't understand why GreenC Bot would remove an archive URL that redirects to a seemingly working archive. Thanks Jon Kolbert (talk) 22:01, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I do however think it's fair to require any bot-added archive URLs to remove any unneeded junk for the URLs before archival. It's a relatively simple addition that could help keep links clean and free of referral data. I understand there are manually-added archives as well, but between PrimeBot and KolbertBot actively removing that data from external links there should be minimal instances of archive links cluttered with referral data. Jon Kolbert (talk) 22:05, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I manually check every archive link before deleting, this one checked out OK to delete. When I manually checked it a few hours ago, there was no archive at that time. The archive was created about 15 minutes prior to your initial reply above. Good luck passing that requirement! Thank you for modifying your bot. Regards, -- Green  C  22:25, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * No worries! Just so I understand how your bot works, what "triggers" an attempt to archive a link using a service such as archive.is. Is that something your bot does or is that isolated to IABot? Jon Kolbert (talk) 22:28, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

KolbertBot breaking UTM parameters example
It's kind of ironic but this bot break the tracking url example on this page UTM_parameters — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dockurt2k (talk • contribs) 21:32, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Haha, the one page the bot shouldn't work. I've added KolbertBot to the nobots template. Thanks for your note!

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Article moves
Hi Jon. There is a bot run planned to move all the articles, so you don't have to do them manually! Cheers, Number   5  7  06:59, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually, given the speed you were doing it at, I guess you may have been doing them via a bot? You're welcome to continue if you like - any that have already been moved will just be ignored by the bot. Cheers, Number   5  7  08:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey there! I was using regex to move the pages based off of a list of articles I created. I wasn't aware a bot run was planned, so I'll leave it to the bot now. Do you have a link to the bot task and how it will be selecting which articles to edit? Thanks. Jon Kolbert (talk) 15:42, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's at Bots/Requests for approval/TheSandBot. It's using a list of election articles I created - this is linked to (in a few sections) at the bottom of the page. Cheers, Number   5  7  18:28, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The page doesn't load when I try to load it, I get a loading error saying it took longer than 60 seconds. I'm just going to run through the list I have because I may have articles not on that list. Jon Kolbert (talk) 22:13, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

I think the lists you're using may be incomplete as I noticed that you don't seem to be moving all the articles in a set (for example, see Category:Elections in the Falkland Islands, Category:General elections in Gibraltar or Category:Elections in the Turks and Caicos Islands). Cheers, Number   5  7  16:27, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I used the parent category Category:Elections in the United Kingdom by year - anything that didn't fall under that umbrella would have been missed, which would explain some inconsistent sets. Jon Kolbert (talk) 20:56, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Hello again. Any chance you could do a quick batch of moves using your regex method – those in Category:Local and municipal elections in Denmark that haven't been moved to the correct titles?

How does that work by the way? Number  5  7  22:11, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure thing! My method only works with simple renames, but here is the regex for it. I use (([A-z -.]{1,}), ([0-9]{4})) and replace it with $1\n$3 $2 . This puts it in the right format for movepages.py, so I can quickly move them as needed. Jon Kolbert (talk) 22:31, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Unfortunately I didn't understand any of the rest – I am not au fait with anything beyond normal Wikipedia editing and using AWB... Number   5  7  22:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem! If you feed me some more categories I would be happy to do some more moves and help finish the task. Jon Kolbert (talk) 22:35, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Jon. If you have time, I've found another batch that need to be moved at Category:Papal conclaves (about a third were moved by the bot, but the remainder not). Cheers, Number   5  7  10:01, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Done! Jon Kolbert (talk) 20:35, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! And sorry, I found another bunch here... Number   5  7  20:38, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem, finished those as well. Jon Kolbert (talk) 20:48, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Jon. Another batch listed here; these are all categorised redirects. Thanks! Number   5  7  18:27, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Done :-) Jon Kolbert (talk) 19:38, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! Number   5  7  20:10, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Collaboration request
Hey, you. I am planning to work on this entry but as you know my French is non-existent. When you have time, do you want to collaborate together? Alex Shih (talk) 08:43, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Bien sûr mon ami! (of course my friend). Let me see what resources I can find to start off with. Jon Kolbert (talk) 11:44, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

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Request for HTTPS and rescue of sources
Goal (website) adopted HTTPS. SLBedit (talk) 20:08, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Could you please change "footballzz.com" and "footballzz.co.uk" domains to "thefinalball.com" (English version of zerozero.pt)? Many articles, templates, etc link to sources using those expired/inactive domains. SLBedit (talk) 21:08, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Done the footballzz links and converted them to thefinalball. Thanks for the message! Jon Kolbert (talk) 21:35, 22 January 2019 (UTC)


 * As you may have noticed KolbertBot is operational again, regarding Goal (website) I just get redirected to "sportingnews.com" which does not support HTTPS - is this a new change? Jon Kolbert (talk) 02:31, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
 * No redirect for me (Goal.com loads with IP address 2.19.32.85). It must a problem with the DNS server you are using. SLBedit (talk) 02:35, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

As you can see here, the website has different domains for different languages. I have noticed that HTTPS is missing from many links to (m.)zerozero.pt, (m.)ogol.com.br, (m.)ceroacero.es, (m.)calciozz.it, (m.)leballonrond.fr and (m.)fussballzz.de ("m." is the mobile subdomain, as you know). SLBedit (talk) 04:22, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Bot: HTTP→HTTPS (v485)
I've found several of the edits created with the Edit Summary shown above have led to incorrect links, and I have reverted several of them in the past few days (eg edits to David Suzuki, North Star Hotel and Windsor, Ontario). I'm not sure what was intended with these edits, but please be more careful with them. Thank you,  PK T (alk)  14:19, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey there! Thanks for the note. I have gone ahead and adjust the external links in the aforementioned articles as necessary. I have done some testing and have gotten some inconsistent results, I will disable Postmedia links for the bot for now while I contact the Postmedia webmaster and see what's going on because their links are behaving a bit wonky at the moment. Jon Kolbert (talk) 14:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Nicely done, Jon! .... PK  T (alk)  14:46, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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Soccerbase...
...support https (e.g. this external link when clicked on has the https at the beginning by default. Thanks, Iggy (Swan) 22:22, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note! I'm changing how KolbertBot searches and finds links, so the HTTPS task is out of commission for the time being. That said, I have added the article to the bot's list. Jon Kolbert (talk) 02:51, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I see that KolbertBot has now gone back to the Http→Https task again, I wonder if the Soccerbase website has started yet. Iggy (Swan) 21:13, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

(Retrieved from older discussion)
 * Thanks for the poke! I will add it to the list. Jon Kolbert (talk) 04:21, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for Grande roue de Montréal
Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

HTTPS request
eu-football.info, which has tons of links to its unencrypted version, has also added HTTPS. SLBedit (talk) 20:00, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Your edit that erased a valid entry about Jason Kenny on that subject's talk page.
Name calling me as a propagandist spamming wikipedia is hardly an excuse to delete my valid contributions to that talk page. I provided a link to an actual historical press conference that Jason Kenny said exactly what I had claimed. I question your motivations for having done this destruction. Oldspammer (talk) 23:50, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Sockpuppet related to 142.179.58.226
You might be interested in Sockpuppet investigations/Bemben17 &mdash; the sockpuppet was using 142.179.58.226, which you blocked globally for being an open proxy. --Closeapple (talk) 10:48, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note - I have blocked the accounts on commons for abusing multiple account and opened an SPI there. Jon Kolbert (talk) 08:18, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17


Hello ,


 * News
 * The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.


 * Discussions of interest
 * Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
 * db-blankdraft was merged into G13 (Discussion)
 * A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.


 * Reminders
 * NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD  because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.


 * NPP Tools Report
 * Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
 * copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
 * The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828 Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review. Stay up to date with even more news – subscribe to The Signpost.

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Ottawa-Gatineau WikiClub mailing list
Hello Jon Kolbert,

You receive this short message because you are a member of the Ottawa-Gatineau WikiClub, and this is to announce that a new mailing list is available to interested Wikimedia projects in the greater Ottawa-Gatineau region.

Registration: https://discussions.wikimedia.ca/lists/listinfo/ottawa-gatineau

Looking forward, Benoit Rochon (talk) 21:22, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18


Hello ,

, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
 * Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
 * Reliable Sources for NPP

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.
 * Backlog drive coming soon


 * News
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.


 * Discussions of interest
 * A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
 * There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
 * What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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HTTP to HTTPS
Hi, I was pointed out to your bot that is changing HTTP addresses into HTTPS. Is it working on this list of replacements, right?

With my bot I have been doing a similar job on Italian Wikipedia, based on transformation rules from HTTPS Everywhere and Chromium HSTS preloads. It looks like those are complementary approaches (the data is collected in a different way). I've run the bot only a few days ago and I'm not planning another round on Italian Wikipedia shortly, but if I will run it again it may be a good idea for me to integrate also your list (or if you want to run it on Italian Wikipedia, I would welcome it!). - Laurentius (talk) 07:53, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to collaborate! I have been rather busy as of late, but I will contact you around the end of the month with more information. Cheers, Jon Kolbert (talk) 21:53, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:19, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019


Hello ,

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important. Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR. The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever. NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so  you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations. Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for  the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging. Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway. School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * QUALITY of REVIEWING
 * Backlog
 * Move to draft
 * Notifying users
 * PERM
 * Other news

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Remove fbclid=... from all links
Hi,

I happened to notice that links in 1700 articles include fbclid parameters. I asked about it and some very kind people told me KolbertBot 4 was supposed to be removing them. But maybe the bot has some minor hiccup?

I don't want to nag, probably you already know about it, or maybe you're busy with something else, which would be perfectly fine. This is just a tiny ping just in case something's wrong and you haven't yet noticed.

Many thanks for your time and efforts and best regards, Jens (84.173.225.148 (talk) 22:00, 30 June 2019 (UTC))

KolbertBot breaks archive.is / archive.today URLs
I just noticed this on something on my watchhlist, and I suspect it's a problem everywhere now. While performing "Task #2 : Remove link referral data", User:KolbertBot removes the referral information from the URLs. Which is fine for most normal URLs, but if the archive URL had referral data, it now doesn't work. Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese_People%27s_Liberation_Army_Support_Base_in_Djibouti&curid=54667043&diff=904972637&oldid=903790483

Replaced archive-url=https://archive.today/20181206171026/https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/chinas-djibouti-base-a-one-year-update/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ebb%2006.12.18&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

with

archive-url=https://archive.today/20181206171026/https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/chinas-djibouti-base-a-one-year-update/

Well intentioned, I'm sure, but the new link does not work. Which rather defeats the whole point of having an archive-url to begin with.

Could we consider disabling this feature on "|archive-url" for archive.is / archive.today for the time being? Or somehow preventing the bot from mangling them? PvOberstein (talk) 14:52, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Please follow up at Bots/Noticeboard. — xaosflux  Talk 15:22, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, given the difficulties discussed at WP:BON, I've blocked the bot. Of course I know it's a good bot that (generally) works fine, so when you believe you've repaired it, you have my permission to unblock it without discussion and without asking anyone else's permission.  Nyttend (talk) 18:28, 6 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the notice all, I have just seen this and am out of town this weekend - I will be able to take a closer look by tomorrow evening. Sorry for the trouble. Jon Kolbert (talk) 02:35, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated, thank you. PvOberstein (talk) 03:20, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Blocked IP
Can you tell me more about this IP range you blocked? I can't seem to find a detailed record.

This IP editor created the account DanWarpp which is an alternative account of user QuestFour

QuestFour has been warned several times for edit warring. 

Most recently they have been warned by, with whom they had also come into conflict while editing under the IP. Kolya Butternut (talk) 02:37, 29 August 2019 (UTC)


 * To me it looks like the IP range was blocked because it was an open proxy, open to abuse by anyone who wished to hide their location. But yes, it's absolutely provable from diffs that many of the proxy addresses were being used by the same person to do the same edit warring on the same articles, followed by sockpuppet DanWarpp who confirmed his connection to 190.2.144.131 by saying "created an account!" A related IP range was also blocked by Jon Kolbert, and was being used by the same persistent edit warrior: Special:Contributions/185.165.240.0/22. FYI. I don't think someone who has been using blocked proxies should be allowed to register a username. Binksternet (talk) 05:24, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello ,

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 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.
 * Backlog

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
 * Coordinator

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for  making  the occasional  mistake while  others can learn from  their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
 * This month's refresher course

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
 * Deletion tags

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
 * Paid editing


 * Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
 * Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent  enhancements to  the New Pages Feed and  features in the Curation  tool, and there are still more to  come. Due to the wealth  of information  now displayed by  ORES, reviewers are strongly  encouraged to  use the system now rather than Twinkle; it  will  also  correctly  populate the logs.
 * Not English
 * 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, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
 * Tools

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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