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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

New article John Neoptolemos not an orphan anymore
Thank you for your notification about the new article 'John Neoptolemos' being an orphan article. Now, the article has been linked in several other articles - do you agree to take away the ophan-notice? Best, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thmspausch (talk • contribs) 14:10, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks like someone has already done this while I was without intenet connection over the Christmas period. Keith D (talk) 12:17, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2022!
Season's greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a wonderful New Year surrounded by all your loved ones! Have a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! RV (talk) 07:39, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes
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 * Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.


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 * Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-02
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 * Octicons-tools.svg A  variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
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 * The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed.
 * Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows.
 * The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Date links on The First Take
I noticed your edit on The First Take with the edit summary "Fix cite date errors" because it created 54 links to disambiguation pages. Is a wikilink to the date needed or useful on the list?&mdash; Rod talk 17:56, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I cannot see how it created any links to DAB pages as it was just fixing typos and spacings in date fields of references. The references need date fields and should not be linked. Keith D (talk) 18:09, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * In the dates column the fourth entry has 2019/ & then "12/4" which is wikilinked. & there are loads of other examples. If you go to your "preferences" -> Gadgets & tick "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange" & then refresh the links to dab pages show in yellow.&mdash; Rod talk 18:13, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Having a further look it appears the links were already present in the version before my edit. The links should be removed and the date formatted as ISO dates with dashes rather than slashes. Keith D (talk) 18:15, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry I now see it wasn't your edit - the links were present before but Articles With Multiple Dablinks hadn't picked it up until now.&mdash; Rod talk 18:16, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03
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Recent changes
 * When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
 * You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies.  This is available at most wikis.  Go to your Preferences and turn on "".
 * When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

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

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

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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Please check recent  additions  and I hope you had a good break! thanks from T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.198.41.28 (talk) 03:32, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04
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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
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21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Are simple link-and-title citations OK?
Hi Keith. I am wondering if you could give me any general advice on the above. When I started creating articles years ago, I used this style of citation: e.g. National Portrait Gallery, home page. I don't think the Wiki cite templates were available then. After a few years some helpful editor said I should use the Wiki cite templates, and showed me where to find them, above the edit box. I have used those templates ever since, and have noticed other editors going through the entire reflist of various articles, replacing the simple citations with the Wiki template ones. All well and good so far. But when I tried to encourage a DYK creator-nominator on this template to improve their (occasionally incomplete) citations by using cite templates in their article, they refused on the grounds that citations should be consistent (presumably without regard to quality, url access dates etc.). Was I wrong to suggest that, or is there a WP policy or preference for using the Wiki templates as opposed to that simple link-and-title style? Storye book (talk) 14:48, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * There is nothing to force templates to be used in articles. The style should be consistent throughout the article and show all of the relevant details needed to locate the source, see Citing sources.
 * Also note -

"If all or most of the citations in an article consist of bare URLs, or otherwise fail to provide needed bibliographic data – such as the name of the source, the title of the article or web page consulted, the author (if known), the publication date (if known), and the page numbers (where relevant) – then that would not count as a 'consistent citation style' and can be changed freely to insert such data. The data provided should be sufficient to uniquely identify the source, allow readers to find it, and allow readers to initially evaluate a source without retrieving it."
 * from Citing sources. Keith D (talk) 16:33, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that. So I was wrong to encourage a change in citation style. I shall apologise. Storye book (talk) 16:48, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Lupton family
Please check latest edit - thanks again T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.139.240.20 (talk) 01:56, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Berney baronets
New source added to this site. but I think I got publisher wrong - Help please if you can - Thanks again T.

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Another source added - please check that publisher is correct. Thanks as always. T

Move a translation from Draft
Hello, I translated the page (already online) and wrote it in a DRAFT: I saw you reviewed it (thanks about that!). The problem is I'm trying to publish the page or move it from Draft to any othet places but I can't manage to do so. Can you help me to understand - or solve - this issue? Thank you, have a nice day,--Luca Litrico (talk) 10:44, 31 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, the reason for this is that you are not autoconfirmed, you need to have been a user for 4 days and have made 10 edits. You have only made 5 edits to date. You can do some tidy-up on your article for this. Suggestions
 * Tanslate Products in the infobox.
 * Move the "See Also" section above the "References" section and change to "See also".
 * Move punctuation before the tags.
 * Add accessdate to each reference to show when you accessed the website.
 * Hope this helps. Keith D (talk) 11:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, I will try this! --Luca Litrico (talk) 16:22, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Andy Wear


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Tech News: 2022-05
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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2022
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17:48, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Administrator changes
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Technical news
 * The user group  will be renamed   in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
 * The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration
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 * The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:01, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Berrien Springs COurthouse
Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex

Hi! Thanks for fixing the weird error in one of our citations. I thought I had corrected it. Sincerely appreciated!

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Tech News: 2022-06
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Recent changes
 * English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
 * Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month.

Problems
 * A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> should be updated to also check for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
I have added some Yorkshire - related info on this page. Please check. Thanks again, T.

Martineau family
Please also check above page if u have time. Thanks T.

Thanks for cleanup help!
Hi! Thank you for your help with Indonesian comedy cleanup. Kaylea Champion (talk) 16:49, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07
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Recent changes
 * Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the AbuseFilter extension, the  function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of   with   wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Please fix up ref number 42 - I cannot understand what has gone wrong - please leave in quote. Thanks as always T. PS - was everything OK with the

Headingley
and

Martineau family
and

Lupton family
(pages 158 - 175)

Kiplingcotes Derby
Keith D I have tried to correct an error on the Kiplingcotes Derby Page but it keeps reverting to the original error. I agree that the event was first held in 1519. The following link takes you to my website where I cover the race in full:- http://www.greyhoundderby.com/Kiplingcotes%20Derby%20homepage.html If it was held in 1519 and has been held every year since then, then mathematically the 500th race would have been held in 2018. The 501st would be in 2019 I do not mean to undermine your excellent work, but merely wish for the simple mathematical error to be corrected. By all means contact me; my direct contact is on my site Best wishes and thanks for all of your hard work John Slusar (dashingcustomer) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:EE07:FC01:FDF5:31DA:77B7:DCC3 (talk) 14:34, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I reverted as the calculation you make is original research, the figure does not match up with the reference. Keith D (talk) 14:38, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

Frances Lupton
Sorry Keith - can you check  a few new  newspaper archive refs I have added to this Yorkshire-related page -  please. thanks T.

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Can you also please check they latest newspaper archive refs I have added to this page. please and thanks as always.

Tech News: 2022-08
<section begin="technews-2022-W08"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown ) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change.
 * You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . For example,.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

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

Future changes
 * The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech.
 * Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Article s6 (init)
Good morning Keith D. You who have knowledge about init could you help with editing the article s6 (init) to get it accepted. Since I think init s6 is very important in Linux environment. Thank you very much --Rstmnq1000 (talk) 00:12, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, I do not have knowledge of this. Looking at the article it needs further references to support it. May be some of the External links could be used as references, otherwise you will have to locate more sources to support the text and show it is notable for inclusion. Keith D (talk) 00:32, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09
<section begin="technews-2022-W09"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The user group  was renamed  . This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems
 * The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed.

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

Future changes
 * Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
 * If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: ), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 2022
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23:02, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Modussiccandi
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
 * The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Tech News: 2022-10
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Problems
 * There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers.

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

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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Hi Keith. (usual Yorkshire stuff) - New newspaper refs - if you can check them please. Thanks again - you are vey professional. T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.70.23.77 (talk) 02:33, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Draft:West Wolds Radio
Thank you for spotting my draftified article about West Wolds Radio and for adding it to the Yorkshire and to the radio stations projects. If could provide me with any help regarding West Wolds radio to try to get it back onto Wikipedia I'd be most grateful. Rillington (talk) 16:15, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I have done some tidying of the article but it needs references to support its notability. Keith D (talk) 23:26, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for doing the tidy and any further help would be appreciated. I really do not understand why my references do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Rillington (talk) 15:52, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Sadgop
There is repeated changing of words on the page Sadgop. I have edited it again as per the source, but Some editors are repeatedly writing Shudra without evidence, while the sources do not mention Shudra, sir please look at. 2409:4053:2E08:9E6F:0:0:5BCB:6802 (talk) 13:21, 13 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, I have ask the wikiprojects if they can chime in on what looks like a content dispute and claims over reliability of sources on Sadgop. I have no knowledge of the subject to make a valid call on this. Many thanks. Keith D (talk) 14:22, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11
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Recent changes
 * In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
 * There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * When using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "".
 * Octicons-tools.svg Access to has been expanded to include users who have   and   rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the   right could access this special page.
 * On the pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
 * The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages.

Events
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Date format
User:Millstream3 also undid three of my other edits which set out to make date formats consistent within the article. To save me reverting and starting an edit war, please can you take a look at them and take whatever action you see fit? Diff1; Diff2; Diff3. Thanks. 10mmsocket (talk) 20:57, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I have reverted them all as it left the dates inconsistent and did not follow MOS:DATEUNIFY. Keith D (talk) 21:55, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'm glad you saw it my way. 10mmsocket (talk) 22:32, 15 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi both, I didn't mean to cause a problem here. I diligently use ISO dates in references. These are automatically formatted into whatever format the page specifies - e.g. "Use DMY dates" in this case. While the aim is for consistency, it also makes sense to me to follow the ISO standard for this very reason (and references can then easily be copied between WP articles). I won't revert your changes again, however I don't agree with the need to change ISO dates. Best wishes Millstream3 (talk) 09:56, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
 * No worries. And I do see your point so I'll give some thought to any changes I make in the future. Thanks. 10mmsocket (talk) 13:31, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Guy Alfred Wyon
Spring has sprung at this northern edge of the world (Yorks), and I hope this finds you well? I have just published the above article, which is sort-of-a-bit about Yorks but is maybe a grey area in that respect. Wyon only worked in Yorks in the last 4 years or so of his relatively short life, but he made a contribution there, his really-rather-good memorial is there, in a listed building, and I suspect that he was buried there (not listed in the find-a-grave-type sites, so I still have to check with the Council). So should his article have a Yorks Wikiproject tag on its talk page or not? Cheers. Storye book (talk) 10:25, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Update: He was cremated at Lawnswood Crematorium at Adel; I have requested the grave site (if any) from the Council. Storye book (talk) 11:11, 16 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, I am OK, thinking of Easter up in Yorkshire. I have added the Yorkshire project as seams to be relevant. I have done a couple of tweaks to article, hope you do not mind. I would suggest aligning the use of World War I and First World War for consistency. Regards. Keith D (talk) 12:11, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Oops, I should have remembered that - you said that before. Thank you. I had been thinking of using "The Great War" as that's what Wyon would have called it, but chickened out. And thank you for adding the project banner. Storye book (talk) 13:33, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Fabio Pammolli
Hi Keith,

would be great if you could help to clarify the points from the hint box. What I don't understand is that in the German version of the text (I'm German and wrote that piece) there are no such references at all, but in the English there are. There is a link from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobs_University_Bremen, where he is President , so it can't be an orphan. And I cant see which extra citations I could insert, the sources are all mentioned.

Thanks for your help, I am quite new to Wikipedia. Cheers, Rainsel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainsel (talk • contribs) 09:27, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, the orphan tagging by AWB is for articles with less than 3 links from other articles. The article only has a single link pointing to it, may be you could add links to it from other articles? The other tag was added earlier when there were less citations in the article, the only section needing references now is "Academic career". Keith D (talk) 11:25, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Keith,

would be great if you could help to clarify the points from the hint box above the text and, if possible, remove it. In the German version of the text (I'm German and wrote the piece) there are no such references at all, but in the English there are. Orphan: There is a link from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobs_University_Bremen, where he is President, so he is not a lonely orphan anymore Links: I cant see which extra citations I could insert, the source are all mentioned. Thanks for your help which is appreciated,

Cheers, Rainsel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainsel (talk • contribs) 11:09, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I have added a second link for him as an author link, so have removed the orphan tag. The other tag I have moved to section it applies to and changed to be more specific to indicate it is that section that needs the references. Keith D (talk) 21:12, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

Need help
Can you remove a new page that I added to wikipedia from the draft list and publish it? Heimusicfan (talk) 09:36, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, I assume you are talking about Draft:Emir Marlo. To submit for publication you just add   at the top of the article. Though you may have to use the standard text editor rather than the visual editor to perform that edit. Keith D (talk) 22:29, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12
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New code release schedule for this week
 * There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes
 * You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface.

Future changes
 * Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English.

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15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Casa Branca page edits
Dear Keith,

I am new to making edits on Wikipedia. I am a historian and very familiar with the history of the Casa Branca temple. Its current high priestess requested that I update the Wikipedia pages about it (in Portuguese and English). I finished making changes on the Portuguese one yesterday.

I was just working on the English version and when I tried to save my changes I received a message saying that someone else was also working on the page and my edits could not be saved. Checking the history button, your name came up. I see you are an administrator. I would welcome your input. Is there a way I can get my changes back? Also, I have added some new sources, and was hoping to remove some that are not very relevant. I have been able to add sources but something is preventing me from removing old ones.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Lisa — Preceding unsigned comment added by L E Castillo (talk • contribs) 13:36, 22 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, sorry that you hit an edit conflict problem with the page. When you get that message your edits are contained in the bottom of the 2 boxes shown. You can either save the edits directly from there or you can copy the whole box contents, open up a new window in edit of the article and paste it into the edit box. You will have to manually reapply my changes whichever way you go. Keith D (talk) 13:43, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Dear Keith, thank you so much for your quick reply. In the interim, I seem to have lost my way from the page that gave me the option of reviewing the edit conflicts, so I will just go ahead and redo my changes. Anyway I appreciate your fixing the problems in the footnotes!
 * I am still trying to understand how to remove references that were already on the list that are not terribly relevant, such as the PhD thesis of Carmin Monterssat Soler Cruz (currently note 16). L E Castillo (talk) 14:42, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

List of Jews from Kingston upon Hull
Hey, seems my split was sloppy, so wondering if any way to avoid that in future or just the nature of splitting an article so large?Slywriter (talk) 01:58, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, I do not think there is any way of avoiding this for large articles that use references multiple times or have all the references in the reference section and use named references in the text. The only way to catch it is to look at the reference section after the split and see that error messages are show. Keith D (talk) 20:06, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13
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Recent changes
 * There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on  at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-14
<section begin="technews-2022-W14"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the feed. This bug has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes
 * Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be  anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities.
 * Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

"Garena Free Fire(game)" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Garena Free Fire(game) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 6 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Steel1943 (talk) 19:00, 6 April 2022 (UTC)