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Lorma
Please see here. I hope that is okay. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:31, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Hopefully your additional actions will have resolved the matter. North America1000 01:45, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Brenda Allison
Heya as the closing admin on today's Brenda Allison I was hoping you could help. The author keeps re-creating the article despite warnings, with the same content (including the speedy tag!). Can we salt this article, and/or block her account? Every submission she's made has been reverted, which isn't necessarily a vand-only account (which is why I didn't simply submit a report to AIV), but it's disruptive. Cheers! - super &beta;&epsilon;&epsilon; cat 22:40, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I have deleted a recreated version of the article. Since User:Ankhsn has only received one warning on their talk page about the potential for a block (that you sent), which was sent in regard to the most recent version they created, this may be all that is necessary at this time. North America1000 23:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * In other words, the user may not have been aware (up and until the point of the most recent notification on their talk page) that repeatedly recreating a deleted articles could be considered as disruptive. North America1000 23:41, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * That's reasonable, thanks! super &beta;&epsilon;&epsilon; cat  00:41, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Brenda Allison
She's at it again, can we please salt this, and block her? - super &beta;&epsilon;&epsilon; cat 05:13, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I've been away. Other admins performed the deletion and blocking of the user. I have salted the title. North America1000 00:38, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Velveeta Shells & Cheese
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Chowder
Hello, Northamerica1000 -- I don't know about "corned" with salmon, but your version sounds better anyway. However, I've got to ask you whether you really meant to leave the sentence this way:


 * In 1830 an English baked dish made with salmon blended and potato was called a chowder.

"With salmon blended and potato"? Wouldn't this make more sense if it said "salmon blended with potato"? If so, then, to avoid two "with's", perhaps change the first one to "from" or "of":


 * In 1830 an English baked dish made from salmon blended with potato was called a chowder.


 * In 1830 an English baked dish made of salmon blended with potato was called a chowder.

If not, then I don't know what kind of dish this is. Corinne (talk) 02:42, 10 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi – Actually, I prefer the present content in the article, " In 1830 an English baked dish made with salmon and potato was called a chowder." (diff). I don't think the "blended" part is particularly necessary in the article. North America1000 02:46, 10 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Oh, I'm sorry. I had been away from editing for a few days, and I forgot that when a word is highlighted in salmon, it means that word has been removed. Of course it reads fine now. Sorry about that. Corinne (talk) 02:58, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
 * It's all good, and thanks for your concern. North America1000 03:03, 10 February 2016 (UTC)


 * The word "salmon" is highlighted in salmon? No wonder I'm so confused.   — Mudwater (Talk) 03:11, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
 * North America1000 12:14, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

100DYKs - A well deserved Award

 * Congratulations!!!! :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:20, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Wow! Well done, and thanks for all you do here! --MelanieN (talk) 15:30, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks all. DYK is just something I have incorporated into my process when creating new articles. North America1000 15:32, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Waterstart
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DYK for Ted Stanley
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DYK for Cafe Barbera
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DYK for Hotel Bora Bora
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KushaGra AsaTi
Please reconsider your decline. As indicated in the edit summary, the content that claimed he was the founder was copied from the page of the real founder. The anon also vandalized that page to copy his fraud. —teb728 t c 08:30, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. I just nominated it for speedy deletion as a likely hoax, per WP:G3. I'll let another admin analyze and decide, since I have performed some minor edits to the article. North America1000 08:33, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks —teb728 t c 08:35, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Chowder
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Your GA nomination of Pizza cheese
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Crab dip
Hi, NA1000 - I was considering doing the GA review on Crab dip but with all those mouth watering pictures things got messy. Atsme 📞📧 21:30, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Pizza cheese
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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2016)

 * Probably this could be nominated for DYK today, if you feel like it. Thanks.-- Nvvchar . 07:20, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Climate Action Plan for deletion
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Template: should be removed from within template
Hi Northamerica1000

== Invitation to the Google Doodle task force ==

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Should be:

== Invitation to the Google Doodle task force ==

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Putting the word Template: within a template is redundantly redundant. Ping me back. Cheers! 05:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * It would have been better if I had sent it using, which would have substituted it verbatim on user talk pages. In related matters,  edited the page to improve matters (diff). North America1000 08:09, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Northamerica1000. I apologize if my post here was dry as toast. Did not mean to be curt. Sounds like y'all are on top of it. Carry on. Cheers!  08:14, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I didn't mind your post at all, and nice rhyme! North America1000 08:22, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

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Signpost publication manager needed!
Thought this might interest you. It is basically the Managing Editor position. I thought about it, because it does not require creating content on a regular basis, but encouraging the continued, scheduled content, putting together the publication and making sure it is published on time with all the proper bot work checked; Help wanted.--Mark Miller (talk) 04:07, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I saw this at the recent Signpost. I have been reducing my time in the management of various Wikipedia projects, (e.g. TAFI), so I'll likely pass on this prospect. North America1000 05:51, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Please help
Hi Northamerica1000! Thank you very much that in January 22 you relisted the AfD article that I am working on. I am new here and this is a 6 years old article that was not properly sourced, however, I found more than 40 secondary sources that I have now built in. My problem is that almost no one controls what I am doing, and I should like kindly ask you, that if your time allows, just take a glance to the article and tell me your advices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Deme and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Zolt%C3%A1n_Deme My other problem is that this tag "Find sources: "Zoltán Deme" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images" proved to be useless for reaching the sources of the 1960-1980 decades, especially the sources of the past communist countries in East Europe where most of the libraries very poorly digitized. For example "Scholar" gives 1 citation, though just with 10 minutes research I got immediately 20 citations! [] page 65 [] p.2 [] p.23 [] p.1 [] p.289 [] p.5 [] p.2 [] p.353 [] p.35 [] p.1 [] p.46 [] p.75 [] p.63 [] p.84 [] p.64 [] p.1 [] p.48 [] p.317 [] p.196 [] p.101. (Plus I got many items, as "required reading" in the universities, like [] p.1 [] p.1 [] p.48 [] and so on). For other example, Books, Google Books gives 3 items, while this site (and others) show the pictures and data of more than 20 items! [] [] [] This misleads almost everyone, presents the subject non-notable with only one citation and three books, thus, I had to go over this problem and collect printed material. Would you kindly investigate the improved article, is my work now sufficient? I saw your contributions, so any proposal or any suggestion would be highly appreciated! Thanks for reading this message, sincerely yours, Norbert. 89.133.187.29 (talk) 20:57, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I may not become involved with this article. You have presented your rationales for retention of the article at the deletion discussion, and the community will decide about the notability of the subject at the discussion. North America1000 08:39, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your time and reply! Please be sure that I fully understand you, and agree. Have nice weekend and good health. Yours sincerely, Norbert. 89.133.187.29 (talk) 09:56, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Crab dip
The article Crab dip you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Crab dip for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. <span style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em,#F4BBFF -0.2em -0.3em 0.6em,#BFFF00 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#A2006D"><span style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em,#F4BBFF -0.2em -0.3em 0.6em,#BFFF00 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#A2006D">Atsme 📞📧 01:56, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review and for your suggestions to improve the article in the process. Much appreciated! North America1000 03:10, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I feel guilty, NA1000 - I purposely picked what I knew would be an easy one to review knowing your outstanding editing abilities. Regardless, it still feels good to be appreciated.  You're very welcome!  <span style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em,#F4BBFF -0.2em -0.3em 0.6em,#BFFF00 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#A2006D"><span style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em,#F4BBFF -0.2em -0.3em 0.6em,#BFFF00 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#A2006D">Atsme  📞📧 03:25, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. North America1000 03:51, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Big oops - not sure how this got passed us. . IP fixed it with a bit of sarcasm. <span style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em,#F4BBFF -0.2em -0.3em 0.6em,#BFFF00 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#A2006D"><span style="text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em,#F4BBFF -0.2em -0.3em 0.6em,#BFFF00 0.8em 0.8em 0.6em;color:#A2006D">Atsme 📞📧 01:16, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I saw that edit near the time it occurred. North America1000 01:19, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Donald Lavoie
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(Untitled)
Block user:92.40.248.38 please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3357:BA0:2DCC:2A84:9C2E:FBB3 (talk) 00:17, 20 February 2016 (UTC) Please do it. 2602:306:3357:BA0:2DCC:2A84:9C2E:FBB3 (talk) 00:20, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

✅. IP blocked for 12 hours. North America1000 00:24, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * In the future, you can report such matters to Administrator intervention against vandalism. North America1000 00:25, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks for the star, which is appreciated. North America1000 10:02, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Little Pine (restaurant)
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Ocarina of Time
Hello.

I've received a talk page comment about a userspace page I nominated at the MFD, which you've deleted. I believe that you should read it. Please see here:

Thank you. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:59, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * N.b. Userfied to User:Ally2good/The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. North America1000 03:00, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Chestnut cake
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What do you want to do now? <b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b> (<b style="color:#000">☎</b>) 02:16, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * N.b. Replied at the discussion, and notified 7&6=thirteen about the response there using talkback and ping. North America1000 02:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Pizza cheese
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How to link thumbnail images to portal implementations
Hi NA1K. Since you're a portal wizard I thought I would run this by you. Can you explain to me how the portal template calls up the thumbnail image on an article page that is associated with the portal?

If a portal comes up red then I know I typed it in wrong, and if the image comes up as a puzzle piece I know I have hit an alias for the portal.

Why don't aliases display the germane portal thumbnail instead of the puzzle piece?

What got me off my duff today is that the (now a redirect) was moved to   but the new version shows the puzzle piece while the old version shows the germane thumbnail.

So two things:
 * 1) Can you teach me to make the germane thumbnail show up on the cell page?
 * 2) Can you teach me to make germane thumbnails show up even if a redirect version is used?

Right now on Molecule the redirected version is in use so the germane icon shows up instead of the puzzle piece that would show up if the DAB version of the cell portal was implemented. BTW, do you use wikEd as your Wikipedia text editor to edit Wikipedia (and its taqalong pal wikEdDiff to view Diffs)? Right after I edited Molecule a vandal came along and blanked much of the page, but MaterialScientist pounced on it and reverted the vandalism. Cheers! 03:07, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll try to follow-up on all this later... working on other stuff right now. North America1000 15:58, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear NA1K. OK. Thanks. Since portals do not display on Talk pages I have set up a demo in my sandbox for you to see: User:Checkingfax/sandbox. Cheers!  20:02, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

(the main portal name) renders this:
 * The matter has been fixed per what you have on your sandbox page, part of which I have copied below. The image now appears for the Molecular and cell biology portal link on pages. North America1000 03:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

(the redirect portal name) renders this:

Ideally, both would show the correct portal thumbnail, but as a workaround the main portal name should show the correct portal thumbnail.


 * In response to your second question above, "Can you teach me to make germane thumbnails show up even if a redirect version is used", it seems that the only way to ensure the image is displayed it to add an entry at Module:Portal, which requires admin or template editor permissions to edit. I added an entry to Module:Portal/images/m to create the image for the Molecular and cell biology portal link. North America1000 03:16, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear Northamerica1000. What I have concluded from your efforts is that an edit to an images subpage has to be made for each portal redirect added. I poked around and here is the page to add portal redirects so the redirect can make a call to the image. You have to scroll to the very bottom of the image alias page to see the section that has to be changed for each redirect added: Module:Portal/images/aliases


 * The primary portal goes on the left side, and all the redirect names for the portal go on the right side. The problem is that page is locked to editing so edits can only be made by "protected edit request".


 * The way you did it is a good workaround, but evidently they want us to go to that alias page. I shall take care of an edit request there. Thank you for getting me off the ground with this. I could never have figured it out without your efforts. Cheers!  05:46, 23 February 2016 (UTC)


 * ✅. I added an entry at Module:Portal/images/aliases and removed the entry I initially added to Module:Portal/images/m. North America1000 06:30, 23 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Northamerica1000. I forgot you were an admin and could make the /aliases edit yourself. Right on. Cheers!  07:29, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
Newsletter • February 2016

This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

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re: Invitation
Thank you for inviting me.  Gunkarta  talk 16:30, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for joining WikiProject Food and drink! North America1000 14:53, 24 February 2016 (UTC)