User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2023/March

Your GA nomination of 2022 New York City Marathon
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2022 New York City Marathon you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Harrias -- Harrias (talk) 15:41, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-10
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 * The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
 * On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed.

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Tech News: 2023-11
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 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

WPL
Someone vandalised 2023 WPL article by deleting most of the material from Broadcasting sub, will you revert vandals edits.Rock Stone Gold Castle (talk) 08:13, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The broadcasting section is still on there- looks like someone accidebtally removed it yeterday and then reverted themselves a few minutes after. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:38, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

No, not at all the vandalism was done by user PrashantSahu1177, he today lifted material from Women's Premier League Final and pasted it on Women's Premier League (cricket) Final, there is discussion going on earlier page name move to Women's Premier League (cricket) final. He was the one who removed Brod'er table from 2023 WPL article. He should be warned for doing this without discussing on talk pages or E]Rock Stone Gold Castle (talk) 17:51, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

I think you messed up a signature
In this diff, you ended up using (5 ~) instead of ~ (4 ~), I think. This added just the timestamp but not a signature alongside. Just informing so you can quick fix. I think (3 ~) will add just the sign without the timestamp. Soni (talk) 15:14, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'm bad at doing the wrong number of ~s. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:16, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-12
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2022 New York City Marathon
The article 2022 New York City Marathon you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:2022 New York City Marathon and Talk:2022 New York City Marathon/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Harrias -- Harrias (talk) 17:03, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-13
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 * The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000.
 * Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects.
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