User talk:NorthBySouthBaranof/Archives/2019/March

Please participate to the talk pages consultation
Hello

Our team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on a project to improve the ease-of-use and productivity of wiki talk pages. As a Teahouse host, I can imagine you’ve run into challenges explaining talk pages to first-time participants.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis – to ask questions, to resolve differences, to organize projects and to make decisions. Communication is essential for the depth and quality of our content, and the health of our communities. We're currently leading a global consultation on how to improve talk pages, and we're looking for people that can report on their experiences using (or helping other people to use) wiki talk pages. We'd like to invite you to participate in the consultation, and invite new users to join too.

We thank you in advance for your participation and your help.

Trizek (WMF), 08:37, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Please participate to the talk pages consultation - link update
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Sorry for the inconvenience, Trizek (WMF), 08:48, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

United Daughters of the Confederacy
Dear NorthBySouthBaranof,

I am somewhat confused as to who you are and what specifically you are talking about with regard to the Wikipedia article 'United Daughters of the Confederacy' since I have not engaged 'NorthBySouthBaranof' in any discussion on your talk page.

That said; I strongly recommend, in the future, you take great care to not insinuate other Wikipedia editors are racist without proof (no matter how veiled and carefully worded your user talk page accusations might be) as this is nothing less than cyber bullying of the absolute lowest form. Lieutcoluseng (talk) 15:58, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I engaged because I watchlist the article in question, I similarly disagree with your edits and I wanted to offer a suggestion as to how you could constructively contribute. If you want to reject that suggestion, by all means, ignore it. I said nothing about you, only about the organization's well-sourced ties to white supremacy and slavery apologia which must be reflected in the article as per their prominence in reliable sources. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 16:01, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Camp Fire 2018
Concerning my reverted edit : Climate change is a factor in the wildfires, but the region in question was not currently experiencing a "statewide drought" as indicated by the NYT. Plenty of scientific references indicate the contrary. California's Mediterranean climate regularly experiences precipation free summers; it's low precipitation winters that lead to drought, and the region had a couple years of wet winters and normal precipitation levels. Perhaps the NYT is not such an "impeccable reliable" source when to comes to California's climate. I work as a hydrologist in the region; I didn't remove the comment because I disagree with it, I removed it because of if its innaccuracy. You thought you had one of those Flat Earth/Climate Change Deniers on your hands, didn't you? Crescent77 (talk) 16:26, 13 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.

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